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A Review Of Iot Firmware Vulnerabilities And Auditing Techniques, Taimur Bakhshi, Bogdan Ghita, Ievgeniia Kuzminykh
A Review Of Iot Firmware Vulnerabilities And Auditing Techniques, Taimur Bakhshi, Bogdan Ghita, Ievgeniia Kuzminykh
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics
In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm has been widely applied across a variety of industrial and consumer areas to facilitate greater automation and increase productivity. Higher dependability on connected devices led to a growing range of cyber security threats targeting IoT-enabled platforms, specifically device firmware vulnerabilities, often overlooked during development and deployment. A comprehensive security strategy aiming to mitigate IoT firmware vulnerabilities would entail auditing the IoT device firmware environment, from software components, storage, and configuration, to delivery, maintenance, and updating, as well as understanding the efficacy of tools and techniques available for this purpose. To this …
Tackling The Dual Burden Of Malnutrition In Pregnancy - Pregnancy After Weight Loss Surgery, Kate Maslin, Kathryn Hart, Jill Shawe
Tackling The Dual Burden Of Malnutrition In Pregnancy - Pregnancy After Weight Loss Surgery, Kate Maslin, Kathryn Hart, Jill Shawe
School of Nursing and Midwifery
The dual burden of malnutrition is characterised by the coexistence of undernutrition alongside overweight/obesity and diet-related noncommunicable diseases. It is a paradox which disproportionately affects women and is applicable to those who become pregnant after weight loss surgery. Obesity before and during pregnancy is associated with increased risk of adverse perinatal outcomes in both mother and child. Overall lifestyle interventions targeting weight loss in the preconception period have not proven effective, with people, and women in particular, increasingly seeking weight loss surgery. In women with severe obesity, surgery may normalise hormonal abnormalities and improve fertility. In those who become pregnant …
Real-World Evidence Of Epidemiology, Patient Characteristics, And Mortality In People With Drug-Resistant Epilepsy In The United Kingdom, 2011–2021, Rohit Shankar, Xiaocong Li Marston, Vanessa Danielson, Bronwyn Do Rego, Reginald Lasagne, Oliver Williams, Lara Groves
Real-World Evidence Of Epidemiology, Patient Characteristics, And Mortality In People With Drug-Resistant Epilepsy In The United Kingdom, 2011–2021, Rohit Shankar, Xiaocong Li Marston, Vanessa Danielson, Bronwyn Do Rego, Reginald Lasagne, Oliver Williams, Lara Groves
Peninsula Medical School
Background: A third of people with epilepsy are drug resistant. People with drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) have a higher risk of mortality and physical injuries than those who respond to anti-seizure medication (ASM). This study describes patient characteristics, comorbidities, and mortality in people with DRE in the UK. Methods: The Clinical Practice Research Datalink was utilised to select people with DRE prescribed a third ASM between 1 January 2011 and 31 March 2021. Annual incidence and prevalence of DRE, patient characteristics, comorbidities, and mortality rates were analysed. Subgroup analysis was performed by age, sex, presence of intellectual disabilities and time from …
The Global Impact Of Offshore Wind Farms On Ecosystem Services, Stephen C.L. Watson, Paul J. Somerfield, Anaëlle J. Lemasson, Antony M. Knights, Andrew Edwards-Jones, Joana Nunes, Christine Pascoe, Caroline Louise Mcneill, Michaela Schratzberger, Murray S.A. Thompson, Elena Couce, Claire L. Szostek, Heather Baxter, Nicola J. Beaumont
The Global Impact Of Offshore Wind Farms On Ecosystem Services, Stephen C.L. Watson, Paul J. Somerfield, Anaëlle J. Lemasson, Antony M. Knights, Andrew Edwards-Jones, Joana Nunes, Christine Pascoe, Caroline Louise Mcneill, Michaela Schratzberger, Murray S.A. Thompson, Elena Couce, Claire L. Szostek, Heather Baxter, Nicola J. Beaumont
School of Biological and Marine Sciences
Understanding the global impact of offshore wind farms (OWF) on biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES) is crucial in developing sustainable energy transition pathways. This study takes a holistic approach, coupling a semi-systematic review with a novel analytical methodology, to consider the consequences of construction & operation of OWF deployment on biodiversity and ES. 314 pieces of evidence taken from 132 peer-reviewed studies provide the basis to determine the ecological and ES impacts. The process showed that construction impacts were predominantly negative across the ecological subject groups (52%), compared with positive impacts (8%) with several species of fish (e.g. brill, cod, …
Educating For Capability And Preparing For Practice: Integrating Theory And Skills, Sally Hanks, Tom Gale, Harry Carter, Robert Johnson
Educating For Capability And Preparing For Practice: Integrating Theory And Skills, Sally Hanks, Tom Gale, Harry Carter, Robert Johnson
Peninsula Medical School
Capability is the ability to perform clinical skills in ever-changing real world contexts, adapting to challenges and integrating technical and non-technical skills and competencies, for example, cannulating an uncooperative patient at night. Going beyond teaching competency and ensuring capability is imperative, as recommended by the national outcomes for medical graduates. A course on intravenous cannulation was developed with e-learning modules and high-fidelity complex simulation scenarios, aiming to promote capability in practice. The course delivered an intravenous cannulation e-learning package between two practical simulations to 10 final-year medical students. The hybrid simulation design consisted of an actor with a bespoke cannulation …
Xandar: An X-By-Construction Framework For Safety, Security, And Real-Time Behavior Of Embedded Software Systems, Tobias Dorr, Florian Schade, Juergen Becker, Georgios Keramidas, Nikos Petrellis, Vasilios Kelefouras, Michail Mavropoulos, Konstantinos Antonopoulos, Christos P. Antonopoulos, Nikolaos Voros, Alexander Ahlbrecht, Wanja Zaeske, Vincent Janson, Philip Nöldeke, Umut Durak, Christos Panagiotou, Dimitris Karadimas, Nico Adler, Clemens Reichmann, Andreas Sailer, Raphael Weber, Thomas Wilhelm, Wolfgang Gabler, Katrin Weiden, Xavier Anzuela Recasens, Sakir Sezer, Fahad Siddiqui, Rafiullah Khan, Kieran Mclaughlin, Sena Yengec Tasdemir
Xandar: An X-By-Construction Framework For Safety, Security, And Real-Time Behavior Of Embedded Software Systems, Tobias Dorr, Florian Schade, Juergen Becker, Georgios Keramidas, Nikos Petrellis, Vasilios Kelefouras, Michail Mavropoulos, Konstantinos Antonopoulos, Christos P. Antonopoulos, Nikolaos Voros, Alexander Ahlbrecht, Wanja Zaeske, Vincent Janson, Philip Nöldeke, Umut Durak, Christos Panagiotou, Dimitris Karadimas, Nico Adler, Clemens Reichmann, Andreas Sailer, Raphael Weber, Thomas Wilhelm, Wolfgang Gabler, Katrin Weiden, Xavier Anzuela Recasens, Sakir Sezer, Fahad Siddiqui, Rafiullah Khan, Kieran Mclaughlin, Sena Yengec Tasdemir
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics
The safe and secure implementation of increasingly complex features is a major challenge in the development of autonomous and distributed embedded systems. Automated design-time procedures that guarantee the fulfillment of critical system properties are a promising approach to tackle this challenge. In the European project XANDAR, which took place from 2021 to 2023, eight partners developed an X-by-Construction (XbC) design framework to support developers in the creation of embedded software systems with certain safety, security, and real-time properties. The design framework combines a model-based toolchain with a hypervisor-based runtime architecture. It targets modern high-performance hardware, facilitates the integration of machine …
Giant Offshore Pumice Deposit Records A Shallow Submarine Explosive Eruption Of Ancestral Santorini, T Druitt, S Kutterolf, T Ronge, C Hübscher, P Nomikou, J Preine, R Gertisser, J Karstens, J Keller, O Koukousioura, M Manga, A Metcalfe, M Mccanta, I Mcintosh, K Pank, A Woodhouse, S Beethe, C Berthod, S Chiyonobu, H Chen, A Clark, S Debari, R Johnston, A Peccia, Y Yamamoto, A Bernard, Perez T Fernandez, C Jones, Kb Joshi, G Kletetschka, X Li, A Morris, P Polymenakou, M Tominaga, D Papanikolaou
Giant Offshore Pumice Deposit Records A Shallow Submarine Explosive Eruption Of Ancestral Santorini, T Druitt, S Kutterolf, T Ronge, C Hübscher, P Nomikou, J Preine, R Gertisser, J Karstens, J Keller, O Koukousioura, M Manga, A Metcalfe, M Mccanta, I Mcintosh, K Pank, A Woodhouse, S Beethe, C Berthod, S Chiyonobu, H Chen, A Clark, S Debari, R Johnston, A Peccia, Y Yamamoto, A Bernard, Perez T Fernandez, C Jones, Kb Joshi, G Kletetschka, X Li, A Morris, P Polymenakou, M Tominaga, D Papanikolaou
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Large explosive volcanic eruptions from island arcs pour pyroclastic currents into marine basins, impacting ecosystems and generating tsunamis that threaten coastal communities and infrastructures. Risk assessments require robust records of such highly hazardous events, which is challenging as most of the products lie buried under the sea. Here we report the discovery by IODP Expedition 398 of a giant rhyolitic pumice deposit emplaced 520 ± 10 ky ago at water depths of 200 to 1000 m during a high-intensity, shallow submarine eruption of ancestral Santorini Volcano. Pyroclastic currents discharged into the sea transformed into turbidity currents and slurries, forming a …
To What Extent Can Decommissioning Options For Marine Artificial Structures Move Us Toward Environmental Targets?, Antony M. Knights, Anaëlle J. Lemasson, Louise B. Firth, Nicola Beaumont, Silvana Birchenough, Jeremy Claisse, Joop W.P. Coolen, Andrea Copping, Michela De Dominicis, Steven Degraer, Michael Elliott, Paul G. Fernandes, Ashley M. Fowler, Matthew Frost, Lea Anne Henry, Natalie Hicks, Kieran Hyder, Sylvia Jagerroos, Milton Love, Chris Lynam, Peter I. Macreadie, Dianne Mclean, Joseph Marlow, Ninon Mavraki, Paul A. Montagna, David M. Paterson, Martin R. Perrow, Joanne Porter, Ann Scarborough Bull, Michaela Schratzberger, Brooke Shipley, Sean Van Elden, Jan Vanaverbeke, Andrew Want, Stephen C.L. Watson, Thomas A. Wilding, Paul J. Somerfield
To What Extent Can Decommissioning Options For Marine Artificial Structures Move Us Toward Environmental Targets?, Antony M. Knights, Anaëlle J. Lemasson, Louise B. Firth, Nicola Beaumont, Silvana Birchenough, Jeremy Claisse, Joop W.P. Coolen, Andrea Copping, Michela De Dominicis, Steven Degraer, Michael Elliott, Paul G. Fernandes, Ashley M. Fowler, Matthew Frost, Lea Anne Henry, Natalie Hicks, Kieran Hyder, Sylvia Jagerroos, Milton Love, Chris Lynam, Peter I. Macreadie, Dianne Mclean, Joseph Marlow, Ninon Mavraki, Paul A. Montagna, David M. Paterson, Martin R. Perrow, Joanne Porter, Ann Scarborough Bull, Michaela Schratzberger, Brooke Shipley, Sean Van Elden, Jan Vanaverbeke, Andrew Want, Stephen C.L. Watson, Thomas A. Wilding, Paul J. Somerfield
School of Biological and Marine Sciences
Switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy is key to international energy transition efforts and the move toward net zero. For many nations, this requires decommissioning of hundreds of oil and gas infrastructure in the marine environment. Current international, regional and national legislation largely dictates that structures must be completely removed at end-of-life although, increasingly, alternative decommissioning options are being promoted and implemented. Yet, a paucity of real-world case studies describing the impacts of decommissioning on the environment make decision-making with respect to which option(s) might be optimal for meeting international and regional strategic environmental targets challenging. To address this …
Exploring Academic Perspectives On Immersive Scheduling In A Uk University, Rebecca Turner, Debby R.E. Cotton, Emily Danvers, David Morrison, Pauline E. Kneale
Exploring Academic Perspectives On Immersive Scheduling In A Uk University, Rebecca Turner, Debby R.E. Cotton, Emily Danvers, David Morrison, Pauline E. Kneale
Professional Services
This study examined how academic staff responded to a cross-institutional change initiative to integrate immersive scheduling into the first-year undergraduate curriculum. Immersive scheduling, also referred to as block or compressed delivery, sought to create a supportive first-year experience, to ease students’ transition to university. Adopting an immersive approach is associated with considerable change as academic staff adapt their practice to accommodate the compressed time frame of modules and embrace learning and assessment methods associated with this delivery format. In this study, we undertook semi-structured interviews with 17 academics who were leading the development and delivery of immersive modules or supporting …
Moral Mobilization In The Digital Space: Seafarers Exercising Agency During The Pandemic, Lijun Tang
Moral Mobilization In The Digital Space: Seafarers Exercising Agency During The Pandemic, Lijun Tang
Plymouth Business School
The agency of casualized and spatially isolated workers has recently received increased research attention. This paper extends this line of research to seafarers, a traditional but also casualized and spatially isolated workforce. More specifically, it examines cases of collective action by Chinese seafarers on WeChat, a social media platform, in response to problems and grievances caused by COVID-19 control measures during the pandemic. It shows that seafarers, building on the WeChat platform and together with other maritime stakeholders, have established a socio-technological infrastructure that enables them to mobilize their peers to take action when they experience injustice at work. Their …
Nest/Ing Un/Methodologies, Jayne Osgood, Claire Walsh
Nest/Ing Un/Methodologies, Jayne Osgood, Claire Walsh
School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences
A dense, pungent, brown-green, intricately woven, itchy-silky, moss-strewn, twig- ridden ball brought us together.Since then, nest(ing)[i] has become a shared methodology - nest/ing has offered a praxis of getting to know each other, getting to know nests (better) and it has become a capacious writing methodology. Taking nest(ing) seriously has drawn into sharp focus the perils of human exceptionalism. Nesting has gifted opportunities to wallow in porous boundaries and to luxuriate in modes of liminal reading/writing/experimenting, informed by a feminist politics to imagine the world differently (Despret, 2016). It is through lively storytelling, involving passing patterns back and forth that …
Factors Influencing Implementation And Sustainability Of Interventions To Improve Oral Health And Related Health Behaviours In Adults Experiencing Severe And Multiple Disadvantage: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review, Deepti A. John, Emma A. Adams, Laura J. Mcgowan, Emma C. Joyes, Catherine Richmond, Fiona R. Beyer, David Landes, Richard G. Watt, Falko F. Sniehotta, Martha Paisi, Clare Bambra, Dawn Craig, Eileen Kaner, Sheena E. Ramsay
Factors Influencing Implementation And Sustainability Of Interventions To Improve Oral Health And Related Health Behaviours In Adults Experiencing Severe And Multiple Disadvantage: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review, Deepti A. John, Emma A. Adams, Laura J. Mcgowan, Emma C. Joyes, Catherine Richmond, Fiona R. Beyer, David Landes, Richard G. Watt, Falko F. Sniehotta, Martha Paisi, Clare Bambra, Dawn Craig, Eileen Kaner, Sheena E. Ramsay
Peninsula Dental School
Objectives Among people experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage (SMD), poor oral health is common and linked to smoking, substance use and high sugar intake. Studies have explored interventions addressing oral health and related behaviours; however, factors related to the implementation of these interventions remain unclear. This mixed-methods systematic review aimed to synthesise evidence on the implementation and sustainability of interventions to improve oral health and related health behaviours among adults experiencing SMD. Methods Bibliographic databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, CINAHL, EBSCO, Scopus) and grey literature were searched from inception to February 2023. Studies meeting the inclusion criteria were screened and extracted …
Deep Learning Detection Of Aneurysm Clips For Magnetic Resonance Imaging Safety, M Courtman, D Kim, H Wit, H Wang, L Sun, E Ifeachor, S Mullin, M Thurston
Deep Learning Detection Of Aneurysm Clips For Magnetic Resonance Imaging Safety, M Courtman, D Kim, H Wit, H Wang, L Sun, E Ifeachor, S Mullin, M Thurston
Peninsula Medical School
Flagging the presence of metal devices before a head MRI scan is essential to allow appropriate safety checks. There is an unmet need for an automated system which can flag aneurysm clips prior to MRI appointments. We assess the accuracy with which a machine learning model can classify the presence or absence of an aneurysm clip on CT images. A total of 280 CT head scans were collected, 140 with aneurysm clips visible and 140 without. The data were used to retrain a pre-trained image classification neural network to classify CT localizer images. Models were developed using fivefold cross-validation and …
Sea Ice-Ocean Coupling During Heinrich Stadials In The Atlantic–Arctic Gateway, Naima El Bani Altuna, Mohamed M. Ezat, Lukas Smik, Francesco Muschitiello, Simon T. Belt, Jochen Knies, Tine L. Rasmussen
Sea Ice-Ocean Coupling During Heinrich Stadials In The Atlantic–Arctic Gateway, Naima El Bani Altuna, Mohamed M. Ezat, Lukas Smik, Francesco Muschitiello, Simon T. Belt, Jochen Knies, Tine L. Rasmussen
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
The variability of Arctic sea-ice during abrupt stadial-interstadial shifts in the last glacial period remain poorly understood. Here, we investigated the millennial-scale relationship, with a focus on Heinrich Stadials (HS), between sea-ice cover and bottom water temperature (BWT) during Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 3 and 2 (64–13 ka) in the Fram Strait using new molecular sea ice biomarker data and published benthic foraminiferal BWT records. Widespread spring sea-ice cover (SpSIC) dominated the studied interval, especially in mid-late MIS 3 (45–29 ka). Yet, warm interstadials were characterized by relatively more open-ocean conditions compared to cold stadials. At the transition between a …
Teaching-Learning-Doing (Post)Qualitative Inquiry: Relational, Digital, Nest-Making, Candice Kuby, Soern Finn Menning, Karin Murris, Jayne Osgood, Claire Walsh
Teaching-Learning-Doing (Post)Qualitative Inquiry: Relational, Digital, Nest-Making, Candice Kuby, Soern Finn Menning, Karin Murris, Jayne Osgood, Claire Walsh
School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences
This Dream Team session is a space to explore relationally and collectively thee teaching-learning-doing of (post) qualitative inquiry. We focus our session on foureaspects as a common thread which will be offered to participants as a series ofeinterwoven intra-ventions. Throughout there will be invitations and provocations fore attendees to engage with during the session. In addition, we experiment with videoein relation to four aspects (and invite participants to as well) to explore the digital ine relation to teaching- learning-doing (post) qualitative inquiry.
Consistent Patterns Of Common Species Across Tropical Tree Communities, Declan L.M. Cooper, Simon L. Lewis, Martin J.P. Sullivan, Paulo I. Prado, Hans Ter Steege, Nicolas Barbier, Ferry Slik, Bonaventure Sonké, Corneille E.N. Ewango, Stephen Adu-Bredu, Kofi Affum-Baffoe, Daniel P.P. De Aguiar, Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui, Shin Ichiro Aiba, Bianca Weiss Albuquerque, Francisca Dionízia De Almeida Matos, Alfonso Alonso, Christian A. Amani, Dário Dantas Do Amaral, Iêda Leão Do Amaral, Ana Andrade, Ires Paula De Andrade Miranda, Ilondea B. Angoboy, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Nicolás Castaño Arboleda, Luzmila Arroyo, Peter Ashton, Gerardo A. Aymard C, Cláudia Baider, Timothy R. Baker
Consistent Patterns Of Common Species Across Tropical Tree Communities, Declan L.M. Cooper, Simon L. Lewis, Martin J.P. Sullivan, Paulo I. Prado, Hans Ter Steege, Nicolas Barbier, Ferry Slik, Bonaventure Sonké, Corneille E.N. Ewango, Stephen Adu-Bredu, Kofi Affum-Baffoe, Daniel P.P. De Aguiar, Manuel Augusto Ahuite Reategui, Shin Ichiro Aiba, Bianca Weiss Albuquerque, Francisca Dionízia De Almeida Matos, Alfonso Alonso, Christian A. Amani, Dário Dantas Do Amaral, Iêda Leão Do Amaral, Ana Andrade, Ires Paula De Andrade Miranda, Ilondea B. Angoboy, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Nicolás Castaño Arboleda, Luzmila Arroyo, Peter Ashton, Gerardo A. Aymard C, Cláudia Baider, Timothy R. Baker
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Trees structure the Earth’s most biodiverse ecosystem, tropical forests. The vast number of tree species presents a formidable challenge to understanding these forests, including their response to environmental change, as very little is known about most tropical tree species. A focus on the common species may circumvent this challenge. Here we investigate abundance patterns of common tree species using inventory data on 1,003,805 trees with trunk diameters of at least 10 cm across 1,568 locations 1–6 in closed-canopy, structurally intact old-growth tropical forests in Africa, Amazonia and Southeast Asia. We estimate that 2.2%, 2.2% and 2.3% of species comprise 50% …
Steeper Size Spectra With Decreasing Phytoplankton Biomass Indicate Strong Trophic Amplification And Future Fish Declines, Angus Atkinson, Axel G. Rossberg, Ursula Gaedke, Gary Sprules, Ryan F. Heneghan, Stratos Batziakas, Maria Grigoratou, Elaine Fileman, Katrin Schmidt, Constantin Frangoulis
Steeper Size Spectra With Decreasing Phytoplankton Biomass Indicate Strong Trophic Amplification And Future Fish Declines, Angus Atkinson, Axel G. Rossberg, Ursula Gaedke, Gary Sprules, Ryan F. Heneghan, Stratos Batziakas, Maria Grigoratou, Elaine Fileman, Katrin Schmidt, Constantin Frangoulis
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Under climate change, model ensembles suggest that declines in phytoplankton biomass amplify into greater reductions at higher trophic levels, with serious implications for fisheries and carbon storage. However, the extent and mechanisms of this trophic amplification vary greatly among models, and validation is problematic. In situ size spectra offer a novel alternative, comparing biomass of small and larger organisms to quantify the net efficiency of energy transfer through natural food webs that are already challenged with multiple climate change stressors. Our global compilation of pelagic size spectrum slopes supports trophic amplification empirically, independently from model simulations. Thus, even a modest …
Comparison Of Biomedical Science Students’ Perceptions Of Online Versus Paper-Based Examinations, Elizabeth Winters, Kris Jeremy, William G. Mitchell, Mmf Subhan
Comparison Of Biomedical Science Students’ Perceptions Of Online Versus Paper-Based Examinations, Elizabeth Winters, Kris Jeremy, William G. Mitchell, Mmf Subhan
School of Biomedical Sciences
Introduction: Online examinations are becoming increasingly incorporated into higher education. However, Biomedical Science students’ perspectives on exam format preferences remains unexplored. This study aims to investigate exam format preferences and attitudes of these students.Methods: A self-reported survey of 31 questions on online exam perceptions was utilized and composed of six dimensions: affective factors, validity, practicality, reliability, security, and pedagogy. Scores measured student attitudes around online exams. Additionally, categorical questions examined attitudes around open-book online exams (OBOEs), closed-book online exams (CBOEs), and paper-based exams (PBEs). Qualitative analysis was conducted via the use of open-ended questions and a focus group on five …
Using Fisheries-Dependent Data To Investigate Landings Of European Lobster (Homarus Gammarus) Within An Offshore Wind Farm, Harry Thatcher, Thomas Stamp, Pippa J Moore, David Wilcockson, Silvana Birchenough
Using Fisheries-Dependent Data To Investigate Landings Of European Lobster (Homarus Gammarus) Within An Offshore Wind Farm, Harry Thatcher, Thomas Stamp, Pippa J Moore, David Wilcockson, Silvana Birchenough
School of Biological and Marine Sciences
The need for alternative strategies to assist in the monitoring and sustainable management of fisheries’ resources is becoming increasingly important. In recent years, greater utilization of fishers’ knowledge has been advocated as a potentially valuable source of data that could be applied to fisheries management issues. In the current study, we addressed this by investigating the landing per unit effort (LPUE) of European lobster (Homarus gammarus) from within an offshore wind farm using a fisheries-dependent commercial fishing logbook. The logbook was provided by a single fisherman who targeted lobsters within the wind farm between 2015 and 2022 using single pots …
Breaking Boundaries: A Model Of Student-Led Knowledge Exchange For Higher Education, D. R.E. Cotton, S. Bloxham, S. Cooper, J. Downey, M. Fornasiero
Breaking Boundaries: A Model Of Student-Led Knowledge Exchange For Higher Education, D. R.E. Cotton, S. Bloxham, S. Cooper, J. Downey, M. Fornasiero
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Knowledge exchange (KE) is increasingly important in higher education internationally, yet relatively little attention has been paid to it as a pedagogic opportunity for students. This paper draws on 26 interviews with stakeholders within and outside HE to develop a model of student-led knowledge exchange as a guide for learning through KE. The model includes the following elements: Preconditions, Prior Knowledge, Planning and Place, Pedagogic Context and Product, and offers an analysis of different forms of KE which occur between individuals in a learning triad consisting of student, facilitator and external participant. The research foregrounds a social view of learning …
Electrical Tuning Of Quantum Light Emitters In Hbn For Free Space And Telecom Optical Bands, Akbar Basha Dhu-Al Shaik, Penchalaiah Palla, David Jenkins
Electrical Tuning Of Quantum Light Emitters In Hbn For Free Space And Telecom Optical Bands, Akbar Basha Dhu-Al Shaik, Penchalaiah Palla, David Jenkins
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics
Quantum light emitters (also known as single photon emitters) are known to be the heart of quantum information technologies. Irrespective of possessing ideal single photon emitter properties, quantum emitters in 2-D hBN defect structures, exhibit constrained quantum light emission within the 300–700 nm range. However, this emission range cannot fully satisfy the needs of an efficient quantum communication applications such as quantum key distribution (QKD), which demands the quantum light emission in fiber optic telecom wavelength bands (from 1260 to 1625 nm) and the free space optical (FSO) (UV-C-solar blind band—100 to 280 nm) wavelength ranges. Hence, there is a …
Home-Based High-Intensity Interval Training For People With Parkinson's: Protocol For The Hiit-Home4parkinson's Randomized, Controlled Feasibility Study, Conrad Harpham, Hilary Gunn, Jonathan Marsden, Raul Bescos Garcia, Luke Connolly
Home-Based High-Intensity Interval Training For People With Parkinson's: Protocol For The Hiit-Home4parkinson's Randomized, Controlled Feasibility Study, Conrad Harpham, Hilary Gunn, Jonathan Marsden, Raul Bescos Garcia, Luke Connolly
School of Health Professions
Background: High-intensity interval training (HIIT) is feasible and beneficial for some people with Parkinson's (PwP), although adherence to extended programs may be problematic. PwP face barriers to exercise such as lack of time, expense, and difficulty with travel logistics due to motor symptoms. HIIT based in the home setting if practical, could therefore be apposite for PwP by overcoming these barriers. However, until now, no home-based HIIT program for PwP has been developed. Cocreated by PwP, clinicians, and family members, the HIIT-Home4Parkinson's (HH4P) program is an innovative, 12-week home-based HIIT program for PwP. This protocol describes a feasibility study designed …
Fake News On Social Media: The Impact On Society, Femi Olan, Uchitha Jayawickrama, Emmanuel Ogiemwonyi Arakpogun, Jana Suklan, Shaofeng Liu
Fake News On Social Media: The Impact On Society, Femi Olan, Uchitha Jayawickrama, Emmanuel Ogiemwonyi Arakpogun, Jana Suklan, Shaofeng Liu
Plymouth Business School
Fake news (FN) on social media (SM) rose to prominence in 2016 during the United States of America presidential election, leading people to question science, true news (TN), and societal norms. FN is increasingly affecting societal values, changing opinions on critical issues and topics as well as redefining facts, truths, and beliefs. To understand the degree to which FN has changed society and the meaning of FN, this study proposes a novel conceptual framework derived from the literature on FN, SM, and societal acceptance theory. The conceptual framework is developed into a meta-framework that analyzes survey data from 356 respondents. …
Use Of Patient Diaries In Paediatric Intensive Care: Update Study. A Constructivist Grounded Theory Study Exploring The Child, Parents, And Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives., Fiona Lynch
School of Nursing and Midwifery Theses
Use of Patient Diaries in pAediatric inTensive carE: UPDATE Study. A Constructivist Grounded Theory Study exploring the child, parents, and healthcare professionals’ perspectives. Fiona Lynch Paediatric Intensive Care Units (PICU) are essential to paediatric healthcare, providing high medical and nursing care to children who have become critically ill. PICUs offer prompt and appropriate interventions for children who have developed physiological instability, whether following surgery, from infection, trauma, or deterioration of a chronic condition. A stay in a PICU is not without potential psychological consequences for the child and family. Interventions to support recovery from the psychological impact of critical illness …
Ethnic Differences In Parental Experiences During The First Six Months After Picu Discharge In Singapore: A Qualitative Study, Pei Fen Poh, Matthew C. Carey, Joseph C. Manning, Jan Hau Lee, Jos M. Latour
Ethnic Differences In Parental Experiences During The First Six Months After Picu Discharge In Singapore: A Qualitative Study, Pei Fen Poh, Matthew C. Carey, Joseph C. Manning, Jan Hau Lee, Jos M. Latour
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Introduction: Literature on parental experiences after childhood critical illness has limited representation from diverse ethnic backgrounds. Parents from global ethnic majority groups have reported worst psychological outcomes and required more social support after childhood critical illness. Aim: To explore the experiences of Chinese, Malay, and Indian parents in the first six months after Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) discharge of their child in Singapore. Methods: Sequential semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted to collect data from a convenience sample of 28 parents at one month (n = 28) and at six months (n = 22) after their child's discharge from a …
Global River Economic Belts Can Become More Sustainable By Considering Economic And Ecological Processes, Yichu Wang, Jinren Ni, Jinbo Wan, Jianhua Xu, Chunmiao Zheng, Alistair George Liam Borthwick
Global River Economic Belts Can Become More Sustainable By Considering Economic And Ecological Processes, Yichu Wang, Jinren Ni, Jinbo Wan, Jianhua Xu, Chunmiao Zheng, Alistair George Liam Borthwick
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics
High-quality regional development requires coupling of socioeconomic and natural domains, but it remains unclear how to effectively integrate the regional economy with river basin ecosystems. Here we establish a developmental perspective of 65 river economic belts, formed through history along the main stems of the world’s great rivers, covering initial, developing, and developed stages. We find that river economic belts characterized by basin-based regional integration can substantially upgrade their eco-efficiency through the harmonization of enhanced regional economic growth and efficient utilization of basin resources, once key prerequisites (e.g., gross domestic product per capita, de-industrialization status, and human development index) are …
Decolonising The Curriculum: A Survey Of Current Practice In A Modern Uk University, J Winter, O Webb, R Turner
Decolonising The Curriculum: A Survey Of Current Practice In A Modern Uk University, J Winter, O Webb, R Turner
Plymouth Institute of Education
Decolonisation is a socio-political movement which challenges Eurocentrism and post-colonial notions of power. This has numerous implications for higher education institutions (HEIs), where the content and delivery of curricula may be seen as products of colonial legacy. The decolonisation agenda has increasing support from students, the academy, and regulatory bodies, which together are invoking HEIs to act. This paper reports on research undertaken within a UK HEI, which benchmarked the extent to which programmes followed characteristics of (de)colonised curricula. A survey, based on existing open access resources, was completed by 99 staff and 290 students across four schools. Findings suggest …
A Proposal To Facilitate Nhs Personnel To Recognise And Use New Learning Gained On A Global Health Experience, On Their Return To The Nhs. Project Dataset., Michael Dillon, Alice Inman, Lucy Spowart, Louise Hardy
A Proposal To Facilitate Nhs Personnel To Recognise And Use New Learning Gained On A Global Health Experience, On Their Return To The Nhs. Project Dataset., Michael Dillon, Alice Inman, Lucy Spowart, Louise Hardy
Faculty of Health Datasets
Significant learning occurs by health professionals during global health experiences overseas. However, volunteers struggle to recognise and use the new skills on return to the NHS. Through action research methodology, a team at the University of Plymouth designed, delivered, and evaluated a series of bespoke online workshops to support NHS professionals recognise and use their new skills on return. Dataset Description: This dataset consists of an Excel spreadsheet that collates anonymised qualitative and quantitative survey responses. The spreadsheet contains three tabs corresponding to three separate surveys: (1) Participant demographic information (2) Participant pre-workshop response data (3) Participant post-workshop response data …
Analysis Of The Liner Shipping Network Structure Of The Asia–Europe Main Trunk Route Using Social Network Analysis, Sunghoon Park, Saeyeon Roh, Inhyeok Yeo
Analysis Of The Liner Shipping Network Structure Of The Asia–Europe Main Trunk Route Using Social Network Analysis, Sunghoon Park, Saeyeon Roh, Inhyeok Yeo
Plymouth Business School
Due to COVID-19, the shipping market has faced uncertainty, and the possibility of changes in port routes has increased. The purpose of this study was to analyze the network of container liner shipping routes between Asia and Europe. In particular, this research focused on a global risky situation—the COVID-19 pandemic. The data examined encompassed Asia–Europe route schedules from January 2018 to October 2021, which exhibited significant fluctuations due to the COVID-19 pandemic originating in 2019. To access this problem, utilizing concepts of centrality from social network analysis (SNA), namely degree centrality and betweenness centrality, this analysis incorporated route capacity as …
Loss Of The Scavenger Receptor Marco Results In Uncontrolled Vomocytosis Of Fungi From Macrophages, Chinaemerem U. Onyishi, Yusun Jeon, Gyorgy Fejer, Subhankar Mukhopadhyay, Siamon Gordon, Robin C. May
Loss Of The Scavenger Receptor Marco Results In Uncontrolled Vomocytosis Of Fungi From Macrophages, Chinaemerem U. Onyishi, Yusun Jeon, Gyorgy Fejer, Subhankar Mukhopadhyay, Siamon Gordon, Robin C. May
School of Biomedical Sciences
Vomocytosis, also known as nonlytic exocytosis, is a process whereby fully phagocytosed microbes are expelled from phagocytes without discernible damage to either the phagocyte or microbe. Although this phenomenon was first described in the opportunistic fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans in 2006, to date, mechanistic studies have been hampered by an inability to reliably stimulate or inhibit vomocytosis. Here we present the fortuitous discovery that macrophages lacking the scavenger receptor MAcrophage Receptor with COllagenous domain (MARCO), exhibit near-total vomocytosis of internalised cryptococci within a few hours of infection. Marco−/− macrophages also showed elevated vomocytosis of a yeast-locked C. albicans strain, …