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Automatic Subject-based Contextualisation of Programming Assignment Lists (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fonseca, S. C., Pereira, F. D., Oliveira, E. H., Oliveira, D. B., Carvalho, L. S., & Cristea, A. I. (2020). Automatic Subject-based Contextualisation of Programming Assignment Lists. In A. N. Rafferty, J. Whitehill, C. Romero, & V. Cavalli-Sforza (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (81-91)

As programming must be learned by doing, introductory programming course learners need to solve many problems, e.g., on systems such as ’Online Judges’. However, as such courses are often compulsory for non-Computer Science (nonCS) undergraduates, th... Read More about Automatic Subject-based Contextualisation of Programming Assignment Lists.

Condition Monitoring of Rotating Electrical Machines (2020)
Book
Tavner, P. J., Ran, L., & Crabtree, C. J. (2020). Condition Monitoring of Rotating Electrical Machines. (3rd ed.). Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)

Condition monitoring of engineering plants has increased in importance as engineering processes have become increasingly automated. However, electrical machinery usually receives attention only at infrequent intervals when the plant or the electricit... Read More about Condition Monitoring of Rotating Electrical Machines.

For whom should we gamify? Insights on the users intentions and context towards gamification in education (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Toda, A., Pereira, F. D., Klock, A. C. T., Rodrigues, L., Palomino, P., Oliveira, W., …Isotani, S. (2020). For whom should we gamify? Insights on the users intentions and context towards gamification in education. . https://doi.org/10.5753/cbie.sbie.2020.471

Gamification design in educational environments is not trivial and many variables need to be considered to achieve positive outcomes. Often, educators and designers do not know when the students intend on the use of gamified environments might influe... Read More about For whom should we gamify? Insights on the users intentions and context towards gamification in education.

Optical properties and carrier dynamics in Co-doped ZnO nanorods (2020)
Journal Article
Sivan, A. K., Galán-González, A., Di Mario, L., Tappy, N., Hernández-Ferrer, J., Catone, D., …Martelli, F. (2021). Optical properties and carrier dynamics in Co-doped ZnO nanorods. Nanoscale Advances, 3(1), 214-222. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0na00693a

The controlled modification of the electronic properties of ZnO nanorods via transition metal doping is reported. A series of ZnO nanorods were synthesized by chemical bath growth with varying Co content from 0 to 20 atomic% in the growth solution. O... Read More about Optical properties and carrier dynamics in Co-doped ZnO nanorods.

Sequential Recommender via Time-aware Attentive Memory Network (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ji, W., Wang, K., Wang, X., Chen, T., & Cristea, A. I. (2020). Sequential Recommender via Time-aware Attentive Memory Network. In Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’20), October 19–23, 2020, Virtual Event, Ireland (565-574). https://doi.org/10.1145/3340531.3411869

Recommendation systems aim to assist users to discover desirable contents from an ever-growing corpus of items. Although recommenders have been greatly improved by deep learning, they still face several challenges: (1) behaviours are much more comple... Read More about Sequential Recommender via Time-aware Attentive Memory Network.

GamiCSM: relating education, culture and gamification - a link between worlds (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Toda, A., Klock, A. C. T., Palomino, P. T., Rodrigues, L., Oliveira, W., Stewart, C., …Isotani, S. (2020). GamiCSM: relating education, culture and gamification - a link between worlds. . https://doi.org/10.1145/3424953.3426490

The potential of gamification to improve users' motivation and engagement influenced many researchers and professionals to analyse its effects in educational settings. While some studies focus on adapting game elements according to demographic and be... Read More about GamiCSM: relating education, culture and gamification - a link between worlds.

The vitamin A ester retinyl propionate has a unique metabolic profile and higher retinoid‐related bioactivity over retinol and retinyl palmitate in human skin models (2020)
Journal Article
Bjerke, D. L., Li, R., Price, J. M., Dobson, R. L., Rodrigues, M., Tey, C., …Oblong, J. E. (2021). The vitamin A ester retinyl propionate has a unique metabolic profile and higher retinoid‐related bioactivity over retinol and retinyl palmitate in human skin models. Experimental Dermatology, 30(2), 226-236. https://doi.org/10.1111/exd.14219

Human skin is exposed daily to environmental stressors, which cause acute damage and inflammation. Over time this leads to morphological and visual appearance changes associated with premature aging. Topical vitamin A derivatives such as retinol (ROL... Read More about The vitamin A ester retinyl propionate has a unique metabolic profile and higher retinoid‐related bioactivity over retinol and retinyl palmitate in human skin models.

Contrasting Effects of Climate Change on Alpine chamois (2020)
Journal Article
Chirichella, R., Stephens, P., Mason, T., & Apollonio, M. (2021). Contrasting Effects of Climate Change on Alpine chamois. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 85(1), 109-120. https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.21962

Global climate change can affect animal ecology in numerous ways, but researchers usually emphasize undesirable consequences. Temperature increases, for instance, can induce direct physiological costs and indirect effects via mismatches in resource n... Read More about Contrasting Effects of Climate Change on Alpine chamois.

Deep learning for early performance prediction of introductory programming students: a comparative and explanatory study (2020)
Journal Article
Pereira, F. D., Fonseca, S. C., Oliveira, E. H., Oliveira, D. B., Cristea, A. I., & Carvalho, L. S. (2020). Deep learning for early performance prediction of introductory programming students: a comparative and explanatory study. Revista Brasileira de Informática na Educação, 28, 723-749. https://doi.org/10.5753/rbie.2020.28.0.723

Introductory programming may be complex for many students. Moreover, there is a high failure and dropout rate in these courses. A potential way to tackle this problem is to predict student performance at an early stage, as it facilitates human-AI col... Read More about Deep learning for early performance prediction of introductory programming students: a comparative and explanatory study.

microRNA27a-3p mediates reduction of the Wnt antagonist sFRP-1 in systemic sclerosis (2020)
Journal Article
Henderson, J., Wilkinson, S., Przyborski, S., Stratton, R., & O’Reilly, S. (2021). microRNA27a-3p mediates reduction of the Wnt antagonist sFRP-1 in systemic sclerosis. Epigenetics, 16(7), 808-817. https://doi.org/10.1080/15592294.2020.1827715

Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune connective tissue disease that leads to skin and lung fibrosis. The Wnt pathway is clearly elevated in SSc and is pro-fibrotic via activation of canonical Wnt signalling. sFRP-1 is a Wnt antagonist that acts... Read More about microRNA27a-3p mediates reduction of the Wnt antagonist sFRP-1 in systemic sclerosis.

Accounting for Model Discrepancy in Uncertainty Analysis by Combining Numerical Simulation and Bayesian Emulation Techniques (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Formentin, H. N., Vernon, I., Goldstein, M., Caiado, C., Avansi, G., & Schiozer, D. (2020). Accounting for Model Discrepancy in Uncertainty Analysis by Combining Numerical Simulation and Bayesian Emulation Techniques. . https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.202035095

Model discrepancy specifies unavoidable differences between a physical system and its corresponding computer model. Incomplete information, simplifications and lack of knowledge about the physical state originate model discrepancy. Misevaluation of m... Read More about Accounting for Model Discrepancy in Uncertainty Analysis by Combining Numerical Simulation and Bayesian Emulation Techniques.

Temporal Sentiment Analysis of Learners: Public Versus Private Social Media Communication Channels in a Women-in-Tech Conversion Course (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yu, J., Aduragba, O. T., Sun, Z., Black, S., Stewart, C., Shi, L., & Cristea, A. (2020). Temporal Sentiment Analysis of Learners: Public Versus Private Social Media Communication Channels in a Women-in-Tech Conversion Course. In International Conference on Computer Science & Education (ICCSE) (182-187). https://doi.org/10.1109/iccse49874.2020.9201631

Social media is ubiquitous, a continuous part of our daily lives; it offers new ways of communication. This is especially crucial in education, where various online systems make use of (perceived) public or private communication, as a means to suppor... Read More about Temporal Sentiment Analysis of Learners: Public Versus Private Social Media Communication Channels in a Women-in-Tech Conversion Course.

Digital Inclusion in Nothern England: Training Women from Underrepresented Communities in Tech: A Data Analytics Case Study (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aduragba, O. T., Yu, J., Cristea, A. I., Hardey, M., & Black, S. (2020). Digital Inclusion in Nothern England: Training Women from Underrepresented Communities in Tech: A Data Analytics Case Study. In 2020 15th International Conference on Computer Science & Education (ICCSE) (162-168). https://doi.org/10.1109/iccse49874.2020.9201693

The TechUPWomen programme takes 100 women from the Midlands and North of England, particularly from underrepresented communities, with degrees or experience in any subject area, retrains them in technology and upon graduation guarantees an interview... Read More about Digital Inclusion in Nothern England: Training Women from Underrepresented Communities in Tech: A Data Analytics Case Study.

Capital and Income Breeding in Male Ungulates: Causes and Consequences of Strategy Differences Among Species (2020)
Journal Article
Apollonio, M., Merli, E., Chirichella, R., Pokorny, B., Alagic, A., Flajsman, K., & Stephens, P. (2020). Capital and Income Breeding in Male Ungulates: Causes and Consequences of Strategy Differences Among Species. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8, Article 521767. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.521767

The capital and income breeding concept links energy resources used during reproduction to the timing of their acquisition. During reproduction, capital breeders rely on resources gained previously and accumulated for reproductive investment. By cont... Read More about Capital and Income Breeding in Male Ungulates: Causes and Consequences of Strategy Differences Among Species.

Enhanced lifetime of Organic Photovoltaic diodes achieved by blending with PMMA: Impact of morphology and Donor:Acceptor combination (2020)
Journal Article
Nieto-Díaz, B. A., Pearson, C., Al-Busaidi, Z., Bowen, L., Petty, M. C., & Groves, C. (2021). Enhanced lifetime of Organic Photovoltaic diodes achieved by blending with PMMA: Impact of morphology and Donor:Acceptor combination. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 219, Article 110765. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2020.110765

In order to realise the potential of organic photovoltaic devices (OPVs) to provide cheap, scalable access to renewable energy, it is necessary to improve their lifetime and cost of encapsulation. The aim of this work is to achieve these aims by blen... Read More about Enhanced lifetime of Organic Photovoltaic diodes achieved by blending with PMMA: Impact of morphology and Donor:Acceptor combination.

Bioengineering Novel in vitro Co-culture Models That Represent the Human Intestinal Mucosa With Improved Caco-2 Structure and Barrier Function (2020)
Journal Article
Darling, N. J., Mobbs, C. L., González-Hau, A. L., Freer, M., & Przyborski, S. (2020). Bioengineering Novel in vitro Co-culture Models That Represent the Human Intestinal Mucosa With Improved Caco-2 Structure and Barrier Function. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 8, Article 992. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2020.00992

The Caco-2 monolayer is the most widely used in vitro model of the human intestinal mucosa to study absorption. However, models lack communication from other cells present in the native intestine, such as signals from fibroblasts in the lamina propri... Read More about Bioengineering Novel in vitro Co-culture Models That Represent the Human Intestinal Mucosa With Improved Caco-2 Structure and Barrier Function.

Germline TET2 loss of function causes childhood immunodeficiency and lymphoma (2020)
Journal Article
Stremenova Spegarova, J., Lawless, D., Mohamad, S. M. B., Engelhardt, K. R., Doody, G., Shrimpton, J., …Hambleton, S. (2020). Germline TET2 loss of function causes childhood immunodeficiency and lymphoma. Blood, 136(9), 1055-1066. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.2020005844

Molecular dissection of inborn errors of immunity can help to elucidate the nonredundant functions of individual genes. We studied 3 children with an immune dysregulation syndrome of susceptibility to infection, lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, d... Read More about Germline TET2 loss of function causes childhood immunodeficiency and lymphoma.

Structure, processing and performance of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (IUPAC Technical Report). Part 3: deformation, wear and fracture (2020)
Journal Article
Bucknall, C., Altstädt, V., Auhl, D., Buckley, P., Dijkstra, D., Galeski, A., …Wu, J. J. (2020). Structure, processing and performance of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (IUPAC Technical Report). Part 3: deformation, wear and fracture. Pure and Applied Chemistry, 92(9), 1503-1519. https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0406

Three grades of polyethylene, with weight-average relative molar masses, ¯¯¯¯ M W , of approximately 0.6 × 106, 5 × 106, and 9 × 106, were supplied as compression mouldings by a leading manufacturer of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE... Read More about Structure, processing and performance of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (IUPAC Technical Report). Part 3: deformation, wear and fracture.

Structure, processing and performance of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (IUPAC Technical Report). Part 2: crystallinity and supra molecular structure (2020)
Journal Article
Bucknall, C., Altstädt, V., Auhl, D., Buckley, P., Dijkstra, D., Galeski, A., …Wu, J. J. (2020). Structure, processing and performance of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (IUPAC Technical Report). Part 2: crystallinity and supra molecular structure. Pure and Applied Chemistry, 92(9), 1485-1501. https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0403

Test methods including OM, SEM, TEM, DSC, SAXS, WAXS, and IR were used to characterise supra-molecular structure in three batches of polyethylene (PE), which had weight-average relative molar masses ¯¯¯¯ M w of approximately 0.6 × 106, 5 × 106, and 9... Read More about Structure, processing and performance of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (IUPAC Technical Report). Part 2: crystallinity and supra molecular structure.

Structure, processing and performance of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (IUPAC Technical Report). Part 1: characterizing molecular weight (2020)
Journal Article
Bucknall, C., Altstädt, V., Auhl, D., Buckley, P., Dijkstra, D., Galeski, A., …Wu, J. J. (2020). Structure, processing and performance of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (IUPAC Technical Report). Part 1: characterizing molecular weight. Pure and Applied Chemistry, 92(9), 1469-1483. https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0405

The aim of this project was to study the efficacy of current methods of quality control and quality assurance for ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) products, and find improvements where possible. Intrinsic viscosity (IV) tests were pe... Read More about Structure, processing and performance of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (IUPAC Technical Report). Part 1: characterizing molecular weight.