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A sequential quadratic programming based strategy for particle swarm optimization on single-objective numerical optimization (2023)
Journal Article
Hong, L., Yu, X., Tao, G., Özcan, E., & Woodward, J. (2024). A sequential quadratic programming based strategy for particle swarm optimization on single-objective numerical optimization. Complex and Intelligent Systems, 10(2), 2421-2443. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40747-023-01269-z

Over the last decade, particle swarm optimization has become increasingly sophisticated because well-balanced exploration and exploitation mechanisms have been proposed. The sequential quadratic programming method, which is widely used for real-param... Read More about A sequential quadratic programming based strategy for particle swarm optimization on single-objective numerical optimization.

Quality of work life and job satisfaction among early-career pharmacists in Africa’s most populous country: A nationwide survey in Nigeria (2023)
Journal Article
Isah, A., Ofili, S. C., Aina, A. B., Ogbonna, J. E., Ibenekwu, C. S., Amaechi, V. C., …Ukoha-Kalu, B. O. (2023). Quality of work life and job satisfaction among early-career pharmacists in Africa’s most populous country: A nationwide survey in Nigeria. Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health, https://doi.org/10.1080/15555240.2023.2284698

This study examined the factors affecting the quality of work life and job satisfaction among early-career pharmacists in Nigeria. This was a cross-sectional survey conducted across the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria. We used the database of licen... Read More about Quality of work life and job satisfaction among early-career pharmacists in Africa’s most populous country: A nationwide survey in Nigeria.

New directions in fitness evaluation: commentary on Langdon’s JAWS30 (2023)
Journal Article
Johnson, C. G. (2023). New directions in fitness evaluation: commentary on Langdon’s JAWS30. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 24(2), Article 22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10710-023-09470-2

Langdon's paper emphasises the key role of fitness in GP, yet notes issues with current approaches to fitness: "In GP, as in most optimisation problems, most of the computation effort is spent on evaluating how good the proposed solutions are". The p... Read More about New directions in fitness evaluation: commentary on Langdon’s JAWS30.

Investigating the feasibility, acceptability, and appropriation of a socially assistive robot among minority youth at-risk of self-harm: Results of 2 Mixed Methods Pilot Studies (2023)
Journal Article
Williams, A. J., Townsend, E., Naeche, N., Chapman-Nisar, A., Hollis, C., & Slovak, P. (2023). Investigating the feasibility, acceptability, and appropriation of a socially assistive robot among minority youth at-risk of self-harm: Results of 2 Mixed Methods Pilot Studies. JMIR Formative Research, 7(1), Article e52336. https://doi.org/10.2196/52336

Background: Minority youth are at an increased risk of experiencing self-harmful thoughts and behaviors. However, there is limited evidence of successful interventions to support young people in the moment of their distress. Digital interventions are... Read More about Investigating the feasibility, acceptability, and appropriation of a socially assistive robot among minority youth at-risk of self-harm: Results of 2 Mixed Methods Pilot Studies.

Risk of mortality following surgery in patients with a previous cerebrovascular accident or acute coronary syndrome: a 10-year database linkage between Hospital Episode Statistics, Myocardial Infarction National Audit Project, and Office for National Statistics (2023)
Journal Article
Chalitsios, C. V., Luney, M. S., Lindsay, W., Sanders, R. D., McKeever, T. M., & Moppett, I. (2024). Risk of mortality following surgery in patients with a previous cerebrovascular accident or acute coronary syndrome: a 10-year database linkage between Hospital Episode Statistics, Myocardial Infarction National Audit Project, and Office for National Statistics. JAMA Surgery, 159(2), 140-149. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamasurg.2023.5951

Importance: There is a lack of consensus regarding the interval of time-dependent postoperative mortality risk following an acute coronary syndrome or stroke. Objective: To determine the magnitude and duration of risk associated with the time interv... Read More about Risk of mortality following surgery in patients with a previous cerebrovascular accident or acute coronary syndrome: a 10-year database linkage between Hospital Episode Statistics, Myocardial Infarction National Audit Project, and Office for National Statistics.

Investigating multi-level ontology to support manufacturing during demand fluctuation (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kazantsev, N., Niewiadomski, K., Martínez-Arellano, G., Elshafei, B., Mo, F., & Murthy, S. R. (2023). Investigating multi-level ontology to support manufacturing during demand fluctuation. In Low-Cost Digital Solutions for Industrial Automation (LoDiSA 2023). https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2023.1752

Responding to demand fluctuations represents a challenge for manufacturers, as they often face resource limitations and cannot assess all potential solutions. This paper presents a low-cost semantic engineering solution (ontology) to coordinate poten... Read More about Investigating multi-level ontology to support manufacturing during demand fluctuation.

Evaluation of Ammonia Co-fuelling in Modern Four Stroke Engines (2023)
Journal Article
Ambalakatte, A., Hegab, A., Geng, S., Cairns, A., Harrington, A., Hall, J., & Bassett, M. (2024). Evaluation of Ammonia Co-fuelling in Modern Four Stroke Engines. Johnson Matthey Technology Review, 68(3), 396-411. https://doi.org/10.1595/205651324x17005622661871

Ammonia is emerging as a promising alternative fuel for longer range decarbonised heavy transport, particularly in the marine sector due to highly favourable characteristics as an effective hydrogen carrier. This is despite generally unfavourable co... Read More about Evaluation of Ammonia Co-fuelling in Modern Four Stroke Engines.

Computational study of bubble, thin-film dynamics and heat transfer during flow boiling in non-circular microchannels (2023)
Journal Article
Municchi, F., Markides, C. N., Matar, O. K., & Magnini, M. (2024). Computational study of bubble, thin-film dynamics and heat transfer during flow boiling in non-circular microchannels. Applied Thermal Engineering, 238, Article 122039. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2023.122039

Flow boiling in multi-microchannel evaporators is one of the most efficient thermal management solutions for high-power-density applications. However, there is still a lack of understanding of the governing two-phase heat and mass transfer processes... Read More about Computational study of bubble, thin-film dynamics and heat transfer during flow boiling in non-circular microchannels.

Prospective case study of critical decision making for horses referred for treatment of colic (2023)
Journal Article
Burrell, K., Sutton‐Walker, G., England, G. C. W., Burford, J. H., & Freeman, S. L. (2023). Prospective case study of critical decision making for horses referred for treatment of colic. Veterinary Record, 194(12), Article e3615. https://doi.org/10.1002/vetr.3615

Background There is limited evidence on factors affecting critical decision making for horses with colic. This study's aim was to describe the assessment and decision making involved in horses referred for management of colic. Methods An in-dept... Read More about Prospective case study of critical decision making for horses referred for treatment of colic.

Co-assembling living material as an in vitro lung epithelial infection model (2023)
Journal Article
Wu, Y., Romero, M., Robertson, S. N., Fenn, S., Fisher, L., Willingham, I., …Mata, A. (2024). Co-assembling living material as an in vitro lung epithelial infection model. Matter, 7(1), 216-236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2023.10.029

Biofilms are robust living 3D materials that play key roles in nature but also cause major problems, such as tolerance to antibiotic treatment. Recreation of these living structures in vitro is critical to understand their biology and develop solutio... Read More about Co-assembling living material as an in vitro lung epithelial infection model.

Using a machine learning model to risk stratify for the presence of significant liver disease in a primary care population (2023)
Journal Article
Bennett, L., Mostafa, M., Hammersley, R., Purssell, H., Patel, M., Street, O., …Guha, I. N. (2023). Using a machine learning model to risk stratify for the presence of significant liver disease in a primary care population. Journal of Medical Artificial Intelligence, 6, Article 27. https://doi.org/10.21037/jmai-23-35

Background: Current strategies for detecting significant chronic liver disease (CLD) in the community are based on the extrapolation of diagnostic tests used in secondary care settings. Whilst this approach provides clinical utility, it has limitatio... Read More about Using a machine learning model to risk stratify for the presence of significant liver disease in a primary care population.

Assessment of variability of peat physicochemical properties, subsidence and their interactions within Selangor forests (2023)
Journal Article
Dhandapani, S., Evers, S., Boyd, D. S., Yesuf, G., Kinneen, L., Haughan, A., & Sjogersten, S. (2023). Assessment of variability of peat physicochemical properties, subsidence and their interactions within Selangor forests. European Journal of Soil Science, 74(6), Article e13431. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.13431

Tropical peat swamp forests are carbon-rich ecosystems both above- and belowground, which play a major role in the climate balance of the earth. The majority of the world's tropical peat forest cover is located in Southeast Asia and is increasingly t... Read More about Assessment of variability of peat physicochemical properties, subsidence and their interactions within Selangor forests.

Assessing the value of integrating national longitudinal shopping data into respiratory disease forecasting models (2023)
Journal Article
Dolan, E., Goulding, J., Marshall, H., Smith, G., Long, G., & Tata, L. J. (2023). Assessing the value of integrating national longitudinal shopping data into respiratory disease forecasting models. Nature Communications, 14, Article 7258. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42776-4

The COVID-19 pandemic led to unparalleled pressure on healthcare services. Improved healthcare planning in relation to diseases affecting the respiratory system has consequently become a key concern. We investigated the value of integrating sales of... Read More about Assessing the value of integrating national longitudinal shopping data into respiratory disease forecasting models.

Lifestyle behaviours and associated factors among people with type 2 diabetes attending a diabetes clinic in Ningbo, China: A crosssectional study (2023)
Journal Article
Carter, N., Li, J., Xu, M., Li, L., Xu, S., Fan, X., …Chattopadhyay, K. (2023). Lifestyle behaviours and associated factors among people with type 2 diabetes attending a diabetes clinic in Ningbo, China: A crosssectional study. PLoS ONE, 18(11), Article e0294245. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0294245

The burden of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) in China is significant and growing, and this is reflected in high rates of T2DM in the city of Ningbo, China. Consequent impacts on morbidity, mortality, healthcare expenditure, and health-related quality of life... Read More about Lifestyle behaviours and associated factors among people with type 2 diabetes attending a diabetes clinic in Ningbo, China: A crosssectional study.

Differential interaction patterns of opioid analgesics with µ opioid receptors correlate with ligand-specific voltage sensitivity (2023)
Journal Article
Kirchhofer, S. B., Lim, V. J. Y., Ernst, S., Karsai, N., Julia, R. G., Canals, M., …Bünemann, M. (2023). Differential interaction patterns of opioid analgesics with µ opioid receptors correlate with ligand-specific voltage sensitivity. eLife, 12, Article e91291. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.91291

The µ opioid receptor (MOR) is the key target for analgesia, but the application of opioids is accompanied by several issues. There is a wide range of opioid analgesics, differing in their chemical structure and their properties of receptor activatio... Read More about Differential interaction patterns of opioid analgesics with µ opioid receptors correlate with ligand-specific voltage sensitivity.

A resource for development and comparison of multimodal brain 3T MRI harmonisation approaches (2023)
Journal Article
Warrington, S., Ntata, A., Mougin, O., Campbell, J., Torchi, A., Craig, M., …Sotiropoulos, S. N. (2023). A resource for development and comparison of multimodal brain 3T MRI harmonisation approaches. Imaging Neuroscience, 1(2023), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00042

Despite the huge potential of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in mapping and exploring the brain, MRI measures can often be limited in their consistency, reproducibility and accuracy which subsequently restricts their quantifiability. Nuisance nonbi... Read More about A resource for development and comparison of multimodal brain 3T MRI harmonisation approaches.

Modulating Skeletons of Covalent Organic Framework for High‐Efficiency Gold Recovery (2023)
Journal Article
Liu, M., Jiang, D., Fu, Y., Zheng Chen, G., Bi, S., Ding, X., …Zeng, G. (2024). Modulating Skeletons of Covalent Organic Framework for High‐Efficiency Gold Recovery. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 63(1), Article e202317015. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202317015

Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have attracted considerable attention as adsorbents for capturing and separating gold from electronic wastes. To enhance the binding capture efficiency, constructing hydrogen-bond nanotraps along the pore walls was... Read More about Modulating Skeletons of Covalent Organic Framework for High‐Efficiency Gold Recovery.

Evaluation of a COVID‐19 fundamental nursing care guideline versus usual care: The COVID‐NURSE cluster randomized controlled trial (2023)
Journal Article
Richards, D. A., Bollen, J., Jones, B., Melendez-Torres, G. J., Hulme, C., Cockcroft, E., …Wootton, S. (2024). Evaluation of a COVID‐19 fundamental nursing care guideline versus usual care: The COVID‐NURSE cluster randomized controlled trial. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 80(5), 2137-2152. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.15959

Aim: To evaluate the impact of usual care plus a fundamental nursing care guideline compared to usual care only for patients in hospital with COVID‐19 on patient experience, care quality, functional ability, treatment outcomes, nurses' moral distress... Read More about Evaluation of a COVID‐19 fundamental nursing care guideline versus usual care: The COVID‐NURSE cluster randomized controlled trial.