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Laboratory Learning Objectives Measurement: Relationships Between Student Evaluation Scores And Perceived Learning, Sasha Nikolic, Thomas Suesse, Kosta Jovanovic, Zarko Stanisavljevic
Laboratory Learning Objectives Measurement: Relationships Between Student Evaluation Scores And Perceived Learning, Sasha Nikolic, Thomas Suesse, Kosta Jovanovic, Zarko Stanisavljevic
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
Contribution: This article provides evidence that perceived learning has a relationship and influences the way students evaluate laboratory experiments, facilities, and demonstrators. Background: Debate continues on the capability and/or reliability of students to evaluate teaching and/or learning. Understanding such relationships can help educators decode evaluation data to develop more effective teaching experiences. Research Question: Does a relationship exist between student evaluation scores and perceived learning? Methodology: Perceived learning across the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains was measured using the Laboratory Learning Objectives Measurement (LLOM) tool at an Australian (344 students) and Serbian (181 students) university. A multilevel statistical analysis was …
Risk Factors Associated With Suicidal Ideation And Suicide Attempts In Bhutan: An Analysis Of The 2014 Bhutan Steps Survey Data, Tashi Dendup, Yun Zhao, Tandin Dorji, Sonam Phuntsho
Risk Factors Associated With Suicidal Ideation And Suicide Attempts In Bhutan: An Analysis Of The 2014 Bhutan Steps Survey Data, Tashi Dendup, Yun Zhao, Tandin Dorji, Sonam Phuntsho
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Suicide is a major public health problem globally. Data on the factors influencing suicidal behaviours that can inform prevention policies are limited in Bhutan. This study used the dataset of the nationally-representative Bhutan STEPS Survey conducted in 2014 that assessed the non-communicable disease risk factors. Using a backward elimination approach, multiple logistic regression analysis accounting for the complex survey design was performed to identify the factors associated with suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in adults separately. The prevalence of suicidal ideation and suicide attempt was 3.1% and 0.7%, respectively. We found female gender, being unemployed, low and middle household income …
A Systematic Review Of Parent And Caregiver Mental Health Literacy, Diarmuid Hurley, Christian Swann, Mark S. Allen, Helen L. Ferguson, Stewart A. Vella
A Systematic Review Of Parent And Caregiver Mental Health Literacy, Diarmuid Hurley, Christian Swann, Mark S. Allen, Helen L. Ferguson, Stewart A. Vella
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2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. This study aimed to systematically review the current body of research on parent and caregiver mental health literacy. Electronic databases were searched in January 2018 with 21 studies meeting inclusion criteria. A narrative synthesis of quantitative and qualitative studies was conducted. Findings across studies suggest that parents and caregivers had limited mental health knowledge. Factors associated with help-seeking included cultural and religious beliefs, financial and knowledge barriers, fear and mistrust of treatment services, and stigma. Notable limitations include non-representative samples, cross-sectional research designs, and use of inconsistent and non-validated study measures. …
Social Anhedonia And Social Functioning: Loneliness As A Mediator, Melody Tan, Amy Shallis, Emma Barkus
Social Anhedonia And Social Functioning: Loneliness As A Mediator, Melody Tan, Amy Shallis, Emma Barkus
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2020 The Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd Social anhedonia is associated with reduced social functioning and diminished reward from social interactions. Individuals expressing social anhedonia are likely to experience reduced social connectedness and feel lonely. Loneliness is also associated with reduced social functioning. Therefore, loneliness could account for the relationship between social anhedonia and social functioning. We aimed to determine whether loneliness mediates the relationship between social anhedonia and reduced social functioning. In total, 824 young adults (M age = 21.03, SD = 5.59; 72.3% female) completed the Revised-Social Anhedonia Scale …
Friday Essay: This Grandmother Tree Connects Me To Country. I Cried When I Saw Her Burned, Vanessa I. Cavanagh
Friday Essay: This Grandmother Tree Connects Me To Country. I Cried When I Saw Her Burned, Vanessa I. Cavanagh
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I remember brushing my teeth over the green enamel sink. I would gaze out the window at a prominent grandmother and ponder her age. This grandmother had soft pink skin, smooth and dimpled, and incredible curves that burled in places. She stood at least 25 metres tall. She was one of the sentinel trees which stood strong on the property where I grew up in Colo Heights, northwest of Sydney, at the edge of Darkinjung Country. Belonging to the Angophora costata family, she, like me, is part of human and non-human kinship networks that connect us with Country. To begin …
Everyday Practices And Activities To Improve Pre-School Self-Regulation: Cluster Rct Evaluation Of The Prsist Program, Steven J. Howard, Elena Vasseleu, Marijka Batterham, Cathrine Marguerite Neilsen-Hewett
Everyday Practices And Activities To Improve Pre-School Self-Regulation: Cluster Rct Evaluation Of The Prsist Program, Steven J. Howard, Elena Vasseleu, Marijka Batterham, Cathrine Marguerite Neilsen-Hewett
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The Preschool Situational Self-Regulation Toolkit (PRSIST) Program was developed as a low-cost and embedded approach for educators to foster pre-schoolers' self-regulation and related abilities (e.g., executive function, school readiness). This study reports on a cluster RCT study with 50 Australian pre-school services to evaluate the effectiveness of the PRSIST Program for improving children's self-regulation, executive function and school readiness, compared to current routine practice. Pre-school centers were recruited to reflect the breadth of geography, pedagogical quality, and socio-economic catchment areas across the early childhood education and care sector. All children identified as in their final year of pre-school education at …
Effects Of An Acute Physical Activity Break On Test Anxiety And Math Test Performance, Myrto F. Mavilidi, Kim Ouwehand, Nicholas Riley, Paul A. Chandler, Fred Paas
Effects Of An Acute Physical Activity Break On Test Anxiety And Math Test Performance, Myrto F. Mavilidi, Kim Ouwehand, Nicholas Riley, Paul A. Chandler, Fred Paas
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Background: Test anxiety has been found to negatively affect students' mental health and academic performance. A primary explanation for this is that anxiety‐related thoughts occupy working memory resources during testing that cannot be used for test‐related processes (such as information retrieval and problem‐solving). The present intervention study investigated whether physical activity could decrease anxiety levels and improve maths test performance in sixth‐grade children. Methods: Sixty‐eight children of 11-12 years from two primary schools in New South Wales, Australia were categorised as low or high anxious from their scores on a trait‐anxiety questionnaire. After this assessment, they were randomly assigned to …
Loneliness Among People With Substance Use Problems: A Narrative Systematic Review, Isabella Ingram, Peter James Kelly, Frank P. Deane, Amanda Baker, Melvin Goh, Dayle Raftery, Genevieve A. Dingle
Loneliness Among People With Substance Use Problems: A Narrative Systematic Review, Isabella Ingram, Peter James Kelly, Frank P. Deane, Amanda Baker, Melvin Goh, Dayle Raftery, Genevieve A. Dingle
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
2020 Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs Issues: Despite the serious implications of loneliness on health and wellbeing, little is understood about this experience across people with substance use problems. This systematic review aimed to examine: (i) correlates and predictors of loneliness; (ii) theories underpinning loneliness; (iii) methods employed to measure loneliness; and (iv) loneliness interventions for people with substance use problems. Approach: Empirical sources were identified from key databases for all publications preceding February 2019. Overall, 41 studies met the eligibility criteria and were included in the review. Key Findings: Findings from this review suggest that loneliness …
Environmental Influences On Children's Physical Activity In Early Childhood Education And Care, Karen L. Tonge, Rachel A. Jones, Anthony D. Okely
Environmental Influences On Children's Physical Activity In Early Childhood Education And Care, Karen L. Tonge, Rachel A. Jones, Anthony D. Okely
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Background: To examine the relationship between attributes of early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings and children's physical activity and sedentary behavior. Methods: Cross-sectional study involving 490 children aged 2-5 years from 11 ECECs. The ECEC routine, size of the outdoor environment, and time spent in the outdoor environment were calculated for each center. Children's physical activity and sedentary time were measured using accelerometers. Multivariate linear regressions were used to examine associations of the attributes of ECEC centers with the outcome variables, adjusting for the effects of center clustering and gender. Results: Children in ECECs that offered free routines (where …
Animal Geographies I: Hearing The Cry And Extending Beyond, Leah Maree Gibbs
Animal Geographies I: Hearing The Cry And Extending Beyond, Leah Maree Gibbs
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Research on animal geographies is burgeoning. This report identifies key themes emerging in the sub-discipline over the past two to three years. It begins with an overview of the growing empirical, conceptual and methodological diversity of the field. It then explores two themes, which seek, in turn, to look very closely at the animal and beyond it. The first theme incorporates efforts to attend to the lived experiences of animals and the nonhuman side of human-animal relations: to ‘hear the cry’ of the nonhuman. The second includes attempts to move beyond both the kinds of animals most commonly considered within …
Urban Greening And Mobility Justice In Dhaka’S Informal Settlements, Razia Sultana, Thomas Birtchnell, Nicholas J. Gill
Urban Greening And Mobility Justice In Dhaka’S Informal Settlements, Razia Sultana, Thomas Birtchnell, Nicholas J. Gill
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Urban greening in Dhaka, Bangladesh is fraught with injustice for slum dwellers. Access to the commons for the enactment of gardening, farming and foraging by the urban poor, many recent internal migrants from rural areas, is contested by wealthier citizens, developers and political elites. Through qualitative research with households within the informal settlement of Korail in Dhaka’s urban core, and a range of stakeholders in governmental and non-governmental organizations, this study critiques competing policy visions that involve urban greening and urban green infrastructure. Repurposing the conceptual lense of ‘mobility justice’ to analyse environmental and ecological issues in the global South, …
Facilitators And Barriers To The Self-Management Of Copd: A Qualitative Study From Rural Nepal, Uday Yadav, Jane Lloyd, Hassan Hosseinzadeh, Kedar Baral, Sagar Dahal, Narendra Bhatta, Mark Harris
Facilitators And Barriers To The Self-Management Of Copd: A Qualitative Study From Rural Nepal, Uday Yadav, Jane Lloyd, Hassan Hosseinzadeh, Kedar Baral, Sagar Dahal, Narendra Bhatta, Mark Harris
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Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Objective: To understand the facilitators and barriers to the self-management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in rural Nepal. Settings: Community and primary care centres in rural Nepal. Participants: A total of 14 participants (10 people with COPD and 4 health care providers) were interviewed. Primary and secondary outcome measure(s): People with COPD and healthcare provider's experience of COPD self-management in rural Nepal. Results: Facilitators and barriers affecting COPD self-management in Nepal operated at the patient-family, community and service provider levels. People with COPD were found to have a limited understanding of COPD and medications. …
Methodological Challenges In Deliberative Empirical Ethics, Stacy M. Carter
Methodological Challenges In Deliberative Empirical Ethics, Stacy M. Carter
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
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Augmenting Cancer Registry Data With Health Survey Data With No Cases In Common: The Relationship Between Pre-Diagnosis Health Behaviour And Post-Diagnosis Survival In Oesophageal Cancer, Paul Fahey, Andrew Page, Glenn Stone, Thomas E. Astell-Burt
Augmenting Cancer Registry Data With Health Survey Data With No Cases In Common: The Relationship Between Pre-Diagnosis Health Behaviour And Post-Diagnosis Survival In Oesophageal Cancer, Paul Fahey, Andrew Page, Glenn Stone, Thomas E. Astell-Burt
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
2020 The Author(s). Background: For epidemiological research, cancer registry datasets often need to be augmented with additional data. Data linkage is not feasible when there are no cases in common between data sets. We present a novel approach to augmenting cancer registry data by imputing pre-diagnosis health behaviour and estimating its relationship with post-diagnosis survival time. Methods: Six measures of pre-diagnosis health behaviours (focussing on tobacco smoking, 'at risk' alcohol consumption, overweight and exercise) were imputed for 28,000 cancer registry data records of US oesophageal cancers using cold deck imputation from an unrelated health behaviour dataset. Each data point was …
Attentional Bias For Threat And Anxiety: The Role Of Loneliness, Maryann Wei, Steven J. Roodenrys, Leonie M. Miller
Attentional Bias For Threat And Anxiety: The Role Of Loneliness, Maryann Wei, Steven J. Roodenrys, Leonie M. Miller
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2020, 2020 Washington School of Psychiatry. Objective: There is literature to suggest that anxious individuals may be lonely. Attentional bias for threat (ABT), a mechanism implicated in the core symptoms of anxiety, has been linked to loneliness in a separate line of work. The primary aim of this study was to examine the role of loneliness in the association between ABT and anxiety. Method: An unselected sample of 260 individuals (196 Female; Mean Age = 22.43) completed measures of loneliness, ABT (a dot probe task), and anxiety. Two possible models of the role of loneliness in the ABT-anxiety link were …
Biopedagogies And Family Life: A Social Class Perspective, Lisette Burrows, Jan Wright
Biopedagogies And Family Life: A Social Class Perspective, Lisette Burrows, Jan Wright
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
In this chapter we draw on our work with young people and families to explore the utility of poststructural theoretical resources in understanding engagement with health imperatives. While we suggest that concepts like biopedagogies, discourse and subjectivity (amongst others) usefully frame our research, we also focus on what cannot be thought/understood with these resources alone. We explore how the complexity of family life, the ways culture, class and biopedagogies of the body intersect in ‘real’ lives and the translation of school-based health messages to home environs may require alternate theories.
Crossing Boundaries: Rethinking The Ways That First-In-Family Students Navigate 'Barriers' To Higher Education, Sarah Elizabeth O'Shea
Crossing Boundaries: Rethinking The Ways That First-In-Family Students Navigate 'Barriers' To Higher Education, Sarah Elizabeth O'Shea
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This article explores how one cohort of first-in-family students narrated their movement into and through university, proposed as a form of boundary crossing. These metaphors emerged from the stories that students told about their persistence, with references ranging from institutional or organisational boundaries through to those imposed by self and others. Applying the sensitizing lens of boundary crossing, an analysis is provided of how learners navigated their transition into university and the types of persistence behaviours adopted. The focus is on those who traversed these boundaries, considering the nature of incursions and the ways these were negotiated within students' everyday …
An International Survey On The Clinical Use Of Rigid And Deformable Image Registration In Radiotherapy, Johnson Yuen, Jeffrey Barber, Anna C. Ralston, Alison Gray, Amy L. Walker, Nicholas G. Hardcastle, Laurel Schmidt, Kristie Harrison, Joel Poder, Jonathan Sykes, Michael G. Jameson
An International Survey On The Clinical Use Of Rigid And Deformable Image Registration In Radiotherapy, Johnson Yuen, Jeffrey Barber, Anna C. Ralston, Alison Gray, Amy L. Walker, Nicholas G. Hardcastle, Laurel Schmidt, Kristie Harrison, Joel Poder, Jonathan Sykes, Michael G. Jameson
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
Objectives: Rigid image registration (RIR) and deformable image registration (DIR) are widely used in radiotherapy. This project aims to capture current international approaches to image registration. Methods: A survey was designed to identify variations in use, resources, implementation, and decision-making criteria for clinical image registration. This was distributed to radiotherapy centers internationally in 2018. Results: There were 57 responses internationally, from the Americas (46%), Australia/New Zealand (32%), Europe (12%), and Asia (10%). Rigid image registration and DIR were used clinically for computed tomography (CT)-CT registration (96% and 51%, respectively), followed by CT-PET (81% and 47%), CT-CBCT (84% and 19%), CT-MR …
A Blockchain Based System For Safe Vaccine Supply And Supervision, Binbin Yong, Jun Shen, Xin Liu, Fucun Li, Huaming Chen, Qingguo Zhou
A Blockchain Based System For Safe Vaccine Supply And Supervision, Binbin Yong, Jun Shen, Xin Liu, Fucun Li, Huaming Chen, Qingguo Zhou
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
Immunization is an indispensable mechanism for preventing infectious diseases in modern society, and vaccine safety is closely related to public health and national security. However, issues such as vaccine expiration and vaccine record fraud are still widespread in vaccine supply chains. Therefore, an effective management system for the supervision of vaccine supply chains is urgently required. As the next generation of core technology after the Internet, blockchain is designed to build trust mechanisms that can change current information management methods. Meanwhile, the development of machine learning technologies provides additional ways to analyze the data in information management systems. The main …
From Ideal To Reality: Segmentation, Annotation, And Recommendation, The Vital Trajectory Of Intelligent Micro Learning, Jiayin Lin, Geng Sun, Tingru Cui, Jun Shen, Dongming Xu, Ghassan Beydoun, Ping Yu, David Pritchard, Li Li, Shiping Chen
From Ideal To Reality: Segmentation, Annotation, And Recommendation, The Vital Trajectory Of Intelligent Micro Learning, Jiayin Lin, Geng Sun, Tingru Cui, Jun Shen, Dongming Xu, Ghassan Beydoun, Ping Yu, David Pritchard, Li Li, Shiping Chen
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
The soaring development of Web technologies and mobile devices has blurred time-space boundaries of people’s daily activities. Such development together with the life-long learning requirement give birth to a new learning style, micro learning. Micro learning aims to effectively utilize learners’ fragmented time to carry out personalized learning activities through online education resources. The whole workflow of a micro learning system can be separated into three processing stages: micro learning material generation, learning materials annotation and personalized learning materials delivery. Our micro learning framework is firstly introduced in this paper from a higher perspective. Then we will review representative segmentation …
Participation In Domains Of Physical Activity Among Australian Youth During The Transition From Childhood To Adolescence: A Longitudinal Study, Byron Kemp, Anne-Maree Parrish, Marijka Batterham, Dylan P. Cliff
Participation In Domains Of Physical Activity Among Australian Youth During The Transition From Childhood To Adolescence: A Longitudinal Study, Byron Kemp, Anne-Maree Parrish, Marijka Batterham, Dylan P. Cliff
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Background: Information about the domains of physical activity (PA) that are most prone to decline between late childhood (11 y), early adolescence (13 y), and mid-adolescence (15 y) may support more targeted health promotion strategies. This study explored longitudinal trends in nonorganized PA, organized PA, active transport and active chores/work between childhood and adolescence, and potential sociodemographic moderators of changes. Methods: Data were sourced from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (n = 4108). Participation in PA domains was extracted from youth time-use diaries. Potential moderators were sex, Indigenous status, language spoken at home, socioeconomic position, and geographical remoteness. Results: …
Four-Dimensional (Bio-)Printing: A Review On Stimuli-Responsive Mechanisms And Their Biomedical Suitability, Pedro Morouco, Bahareh Azimi, Mario Milazzo, Fatemeh Mokhtari, Cristiana Fernandes, Diana Reis, Serena Danti
Four-Dimensional (Bio-)Printing: A Review On Stimuli-Responsive Mechanisms And Their Biomedical Suitability, Pedro Morouco, Bahareh Azimi, Mario Milazzo, Fatemeh Mokhtari, Cristiana Fernandes, Diana Reis, Serena Danti
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
The applications of tissue engineered constructs have witnessed great advances in the last few years, as advanced fabrication techniques have enabled promising approaches to develop structures and devices for biomedical uses. (Bio-)printing, including both plain material and cell/material printing, offers remarkable advantages and versatility to produce multilateral and cell-laden tissue constructs; however, it has often revealed to be insufficient to fulfill clinical needs. Indeed, three-dimensional (3D) (bio-)printing does not provide one critical element, fundamental to mimic native live tissues, i.e., the ability to change shape/properties with time to respond to microenvironmental stimuli in a personalized manner. This capability is in …
Susceptibility Artifact Correction For Sub-Millimeter Fmri Using Inverse Phase Encoding Registration And T1 Weighted Regularization, Soan Duong, Son Lam Phung, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, Harriet Boyd Taylor, A Puckett, Mark M. Schira
Susceptibility Artifact Correction For Sub-Millimeter Fmri Using Inverse Phase Encoding Registration And T1 Weighted Regularization, Soan Duong, Son Lam Phung, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, Harriet Boyd Taylor, A Puckett, Mark M. Schira
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Background: Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) enables non-invasive examination of both the structure and the function of the human brain. The prevalence of high spatial-resolution (sub-millimeter) fMRI has triggered new research on the intra-cortex, such as cortical columns and cortical layers. At present, echo-planar imaging (EPI) is used exclusively to acquire fMRI data; however, susceptibility artifacts are unavoidable. These distortions are especially severe in high spatial-resolution images and can lead to misrepresentation of brain function in fMRI experiments. New method: This paper presents a new method for correcting susceptibility artifacts by combining a T1-weighted (T1w) image …
Teaching Sample Survey Design—A Project Using A Virtual Population, Carole L. Birrell
Teaching Sample Survey Design—A Project Using A Virtual Population, Carole L. Birrell
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
© 2020, © 2020 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor and Francis Group, LLC. Sample survey design is a topic usually taught to students undertaking a minor or major in statistics in the latter part of their bachelor’s degree. This article describes an assessment project that fosters active learning and helps to develop a set of essential skills for statistical practice. The project is completed in pairs and submitted in two parts. This allows feedback from the first part to be acted upon for the second part. Ideally, students would gain experience sampling from an actual population. However, the …
Risk Factors Discovery For Cancer Survivability Analysis Using Graph-Rule Mining, Chaoyu Yang, Jie Yang, Zhenyu Yang
Risk Factors Discovery For Cancer Survivability Analysis Using Graph-Rule Mining, Chaoyu Yang, Jie Yang, Zhenyu Yang
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
Mining and understanding patients' disease-development pattern is a major healthcare need. A huge number of research studies have focused on medical resource allocation, survivability prediction, risk management of diagnosis, etc. In this article, we are specifically interested in discovering risk factors for patients with high probability of developing cancers. We propose a systematic and data-driven algorithm and build around the idea of association rule mining. More precisely, the rule-mining method is firstly applied on the target dataset to unpack the underlying relationship of cancer-risk factors, via generating a set of candidate rules. Later, this set is represented as a rule …
Geogrid-Confined Pervious Geopolymer Concrete Piles With Frp-Pvc-Confined Concrete Core: Analytical Models, Haiqiu Zhang, Muhammad N. S Hadi
Geogrid-Confined Pervious Geopolymer Concrete Piles With Frp-Pvc-Confined Concrete Core: Analytical Models, Haiqiu Zhang, Muhammad N. S Hadi
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
2019 Institution of Structural Engineers The geogrid-confined pervious geopolymer concrete pile (GPGCP) with fibre reinforced polymer (FRP)-polyvinyl chloride (PVC)-confined concrete core (FPCC) is a new form of composite piles proposed in a previous study, which consists of a circular geogrid outer tube, a FPCC, and pervious geopolymer concrete (PGC) filled in between. For FPCC, the normal geopolymer concrete (NGC) was used to fill the FRP-PVC tubes. In this study, new analytical models are proposed to simulate the axial compressive behaviour of GPGCPs without and with FPCC. According to the characteristics of the mechanical behaviour of GPGCPs, analytical models are proposed …
Cancer Risk Analysis Based On Improved Probabilistic Neural Network, Chaoyu Yang, Jie Yang, Ying Liu, Xianya Geng
Cancer Risk Analysis Based On Improved Probabilistic Neural Network, Chaoyu Yang, Jie Yang, Ying Liu, Xianya Geng
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
© Copyright © 2020 Yang, Yang, Liu and Geng. The problem of cancer risk analysis is of great importance to health-service providers and medical researchers. In this study, we propose a novel Artificial Neural Network (ANN) algorithm based on the probabilistic framework, which aims to investigate patient patterns associated with their disease development. Compared to the traditional ANN where input features are directly extracted from raw data, the proposed probabilistic ANN manipulates original inputs according to their probability distribution. More precisely, the Naïve Bayes and Markov chain models are used to approximate the posterior distribution of the raw inputs, which …
Attention-Based High-Order Feature Interactions To Enhance The Recommender System For Web-Based Knowledge-Sharing Servic, Jiayin Lin, Geng Sun, Jun Shen, Tingru Cui, David Pritchard, Dongming Xu, Li Li, Wei Wei, Ghassan Beydoun, Shiping Chen
Attention-Based High-Order Feature Interactions To Enhance The Recommender System For Web-Based Knowledge-Sharing Servic, Jiayin Lin, Geng Sun, Jun Shen, Tingru Cui, David Pritchard, Dongming Xu, Li Li, Wei Wei, Ghassan Beydoun, Shiping Chen
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
Providing personalized online learning services has become a hot research topic. Online knowledge-sharing services represents a popular approach to enable learners to use fragmented spare time. User asks and answers questions in the platform, and the platform also recommends relevant questions to users based on their learning interested and context. However, in the big data era, information overload is a challenge, as both online learners and learning resources are embedded in data rich environment. Offering such web services requires an intelligent recommender system to automatically filter out irrelevant information, mine underling user preference, and distil latent information. Such a recommender …
Biomechanics Of Lower Limb In Badminton Lunge: A Systematic Scoping Review, Wing Lam, Duo Wong, Winson Lee
Biomechanics Of Lower Limb In Badminton Lunge: A Systematic Scoping Review, Wing Lam, Duo Wong, Winson Lee
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
Background. Badminton is a popular sport activity in both recreational and elite levels. A lot of biomechanical studies have investigated badminton lunge, since good lunge performance may increase the chances to win the game. This review summarized the current trends, research methods, and parameters-of-interest concerning lower-extremity biomechanics in badminton lunges. Methodology. Databases including Web of Science, Cochrane Library, Scopus, and PubMed were searched from the oldest available date to September 2020. Two independent authors screened all the articles and 20 articles were eligible for further review. The reviewed articles compared the differences among playing levels, footwear designs, and lunge directions/variations, …
An Unsupervised Deep Learning Technique For Susceptibility Artifact Correction In Reversed Phase-Encoding Epi Images, Soan Duong, Son Lam Phung, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, Mark M. Schira
An Unsupervised Deep Learning Technique For Susceptibility Artifact Correction In Reversed Phase-Encoding Epi Images, Soan Duong, Son Lam Phung, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, Mark M. Schira
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
© 2020 Elsevier Inc. Echo planar imaging (EPI) is a fast and non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging technique that supports data acquisition at high spatial and temporal resolutions. However, susceptibility artifacts, which cause the misalignment to the underlying structural image, are unavoidable distortions in EPI. Traditional susceptibility artifact correction (SAC) methods estimate the displacement field by optimizing an objective function that involves one or more pairs of reversed phase-encoding (PE) images. The estimated displacement field is then used to unwarp the distorted images and produce the corrected images. Since this conventional approach is time-consuming, we propose an end-to-end deep learning technique, …