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Intervention Prediction in MOOCs Based on Learners’ Comments: A Temporal Multi-input Approach Using Deep Learning and Transformer Models (2022)
Book Chapter
Alrajhi, L., Alamri, A., & Cristea, A. I. (2022). Intervention Prediction in MOOCs Based on Learners’ Comments: A Temporal Multi-input Approach Using Deep Learning and Transformer Models. In S. Crossley, & E. Popescu (Eds.), Intelligent Tutoring Systems (227-237). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09680-8_22

High learner dropout rates in MOOC-based education contexts have encouraged researchers to explore and propose different intervention models. In discussion forums, intervention is critical, not only to identify comments that require replies but also... Read More about Intervention Prediction in MOOCs Based on Learners’ Comments: A Temporal Multi-input Approach Using Deep Learning and Transformer Models.

Spatial and temporal variation in interspecific interaction: impact of a recreational landscape (2022)
Journal Article
Marion, S., Demšar, U., Davies, A., Stephens, P., Irvine, R., & Long, J. (2022). Spatial and temporal variation in interspecific interaction: impact of a recreational landscape. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 68(3), Article 36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-022-01584-9

Anthropogenic activities, such as outdoor recreation, have the potential to change complex interactions between wildlife and livestock, with further consequences for the management of both animals, the environment, and disease transmission. We presen... Read More about Spatial and temporal variation in interspecific interaction: impact of a recreational landscape.

Camera trap distance sampling for terrestrial mammal population monitoring: lessons learnt from a UK case study (2022)
Journal Article
Mason, S., Hill, R., Whittingham, M., Cokill, J., Smith, G., & Stephens, P. (2022). Camera trap distance sampling for terrestrial mammal population monitoring: lessons learnt from a UK case study. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 8(5), 717-730. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.272

Accurate and precise density estimates are crucial for effective species management and conservation. However, efficient monitoring of mammal densities over large spatial and temporal scales is challenging. In the United Kingdom, published density es... Read More about Camera trap distance sampling for terrestrial mammal population monitoring: lessons learnt from a UK case study.

Red deer behavioural response to hiking activity: a study using camera traps (2022)
Journal Article
Marion, S., Demšar, U., Davies, A., Stephens, P., Irvine, R., & Long, J. (2022). Red deer behavioural response to hiking activity: a study using camera traps. Journal of Zoology, 317(4), 249-261. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12976

With increasing levels of outdoor recreation activities, consequences for wildlife through interactions with recreationists are highly variable. Behavioural changes in wildlife are one potential consequence of interactions with outdoor recreationists... Read More about Red deer behavioural response to hiking activity: a study using camera traps.

Recreating Tissue Structures Representative of Teratomas In Vitro Using a Combination of 3D Cell Culture Technology and Human Embryonic Stem Cells (2022)
Journal Article
Hidalgo Aguilar, A., Smith, L., Owens, D., Quelch, R., & Przyborski, S. (2022). Recreating Tissue Structures Representative of Teratomas In Vitro Using a Combination of 3D Cell Culture Technology and Human Embryonic Stem Cells. Bioengineering, 9(5), Article 185. https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering9050185

In vitro studies using human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) are a valuable method to study aspects of embryogenesis, avoiding ethical issues when using embryonic materials and species dissimilarities. The xenograft teratoma assay is often traditionally... Read More about Recreating Tissue Structures Representative of Teratomas In Vitro Using a Combination of 3D Cell Culture Technology and Human Embryonic Stem Cells.

Enhanced Methods for Evolution in-Materio Processors (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Jones, B. A., Al Moubayed, N., Zeze, D. A., & Groves, C. (2022). Enhanced Methods for Evolution in-Materio Processors. . https://doi.org/10.1109/icrc53822.2021.00026

Evolution-in-Materio (EiM) is an unconventional computing paradigm, which uses an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) to configure a material's parameters so that it can perform a computational task. While EiM processors show promise, slow manufacturing and... Read More about Enhanced Methods for Evolution in-Materio Processors.

Illustrating galaxy–halo connection in the DESI era with illustrisTNG (2022)
Journal Article
Yuan, S., Hadzhiyska, B., Bose, S., & Eisenstein, D. J. (2022). Illustrating galaxy–halo connection in the DESI era with illustrisTNG. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 512(4), 5793-5811. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac830

We employ the hydrodynamical simulation ILLUSTRISTNG to inform the galaxy–halo connection of the Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) and Emission Line Galaxy (ELG) samples of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey at redshift z ∼ 0.8. Specifica... Read More about Illustrating galaxy–halo connection in the DESI era with illustrisTNG.

Mechanical-Stress-Related Epigenetic Regulation of ZIC1 Transcription Factor in the Etiology of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis (2022)
Journal Article
Datta, H. K., Kringen, M. K., Tuck, S. P., Salpingidou, G., Olstad, O. K., Gautvik, K. M., …Reppe, S. (2022). Mechanical-Stress-Related Epigenetic Regulation of ZIC1 Transcription Factor in the Etiology of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23(6), Article 2957. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23062957

Mechanical loading exerts a profound influence on bone density and architecture, but the exact mechanism is unknown. Our study shows that expression of the neurological transcriptional factor zinc finger of the cerebellum 1 (ZIC1) is markedly increas... Read More about Mechanical-Stress-Related Epigenetic Regulation of ZIC1 Transcription Factor in the Etiology of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis.

Constructing high-fidelity halo merger trees in abacussummit (2022)
Journal Article
Bose, S., Eisenstein, D. J., Hadzhiyska, B., Garrison, L. H., & Yuan, S. (2022). Constructing high-fidelity halo merger trees in abacussummit. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 512(1), 837-854. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac555

Tracking the formation and evolution of dark matter haloes is a critical aspect of any analysis of cosmological N-body simulations. In particular, the mass assembly of a halo and its progenitors, encapsulated in the form of its merger tree, serves as... Read More about Constructing high-fidelity halo merger trees in abacussummit.

Gamification suffers from the novelty effect but benefits from the familiarization effect: Findings from a longitudinal study (2022)
Journal Article
Rodrigues, L., Pereira, F. D., Toda, A. M., Palomino, P. T., Pessoa, M., Carvalho, L. S. G., …Isotani, S. (2022). Gamification suffers from the novelty effect but benefits from the familiarization effect: Findings from a longitudinal study. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 19(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-021-00314-6

There are many claims that gamification (i.e., using game elements outside games) impact decreases over time (i.e., the novelty effect). Most studies analyzing this effect focused on extrinsic game elements, while fictional and collaborative competit... Read More about Gamification suffers from the novelty effect but benefits from the familiarization effect: Findings from a longitudinal study.

Permeate Flux in Ultrafiltration Processes—Understandings and Misunderstandings (2022)
Journal Article
Field, R. W., & Wu, J. J. (2022). Permeate Flux in Ultrafiltration Processes—Understandings and Misunderstandings. Membranes, 12(2), Article 187. https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes12020187

Concentration polarization refers to the rapid emergence of concentration gradients at a membrane/solution interface resulting from selective transfer through the membrane. It is distinguishable from fouling in at least two ways: (1) the state of the... Read More about Permeate Flux in Ultrafiltration Processes—Understandings and Misunderstandings.

Quantum emission of light with densely packed driven dipoles (2022)
Journal Article
Ribeiro, S., & Gardiner, S. A. (2022). Quantum emission of light with densely packed driven dipoles. Physical Review A, 105(2), Article L021701. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.105.l021701

Collective excitations in regular structures of strongly interacting driven dipoles have been found to lead to strongly antibunched statistics of the emitted photons [g(2)(0) 0.5], but precise control of the number of emitters and their spatial distr... Read More about Quantum emission of light with densely packed driven dipoles.

Lessening gap loss concentration problems in nanocrystalline cores by alloy gap replacement (2022)
Journal Article
Guo, X., Ran, L., & Tavner, P. (2022). Lessening gap loss concentration problems in nanocrystalline cores by alloy gap replacement. Journal of Engineering, 2022(4), 411-421. https://doi.org/10.1049/tje2.12127

A simple method is proposed here to improve the gap loss concentration problem of a nanocrystalline core in an LCL filter inductor for high switching frequency converters using SiC devices. This alloy-gapped inductor design aims to reach two primary... Read More about Lessening gap loss concentration problems in nanocrystalline cores by alloy gap replacement.

Dynamics of intermediate-mass black holes wandering in the milky way galaxy using the illustris TNG50 simulation (2022)
Journal Article
Weller, E. J., Pacucci, F., Hernquist, L., & Bose, S. (2022). Dynamics of intermediate-mass black holes wandering in the milky way galaxy using the illustris TNG50 simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 511(2), 2229-2238. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac179

The detection of Intermediate-Mass Black Holes (IMBHs) in dwarf galaxies is crucial to closing the gap in the wide mass distribution of black holes (⁠∼3M⊙ to ∼5×1010M⊙⁠). IMBHs originally located at the centre of dwarfs that later collide with the Mi... Read More about Dynamics of intermediate-mass black holes wandering in the milky way galaxy using the illustris TNG50 simulation.

Tissue engineering strategies to bioengineer the ageing skin phenotype in vitro (2022)
Journal Article
Costello, L., Dicolandrea, T., Tasseff, R., Isfort, R., Bascom, C., von Zglinicki, T., & Przyborski, S. (2022). Tissue engineering strategies to bioengineer the ageing skin phenotype in vitro. Aging Cell, 21(2), Article e13550. https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.13550

Human skin ageing is a complex and heterogeneous process, which is influenced by genetically determined intrinsic factors and accelerated by cumulative exposure to extrinsic stressors. In the current world ageing demographic, there is a requirement f... Read More about Tissue engineering strategies to bioengineer the ageing skin phenotype in vitro.

Predicting STC Customers' Satisfaction Using Twitter (2022)
Journal Article
Almuqren, L., & Cristea, A. I. (2023). Predicting STC Customers' Satisfaction Using Twitter. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 10(1), 204-210. https://doi.org/10.1109/tcss.2021.3135719

The telecom field has changed accordingly with the emergence of new technologies. This is the case with the telecom market in Saudi Arabia, which expanded in 2003 by attracting new investors. As a result, the Saudi telecom market became a viable mark... Read More about Predicting STC Customers' Satisfaction Using Twitter.

The Importance of Direct and Indirect Trophic Interactions in Determining the Presence of a Locally Rare Day-Flying Moth (2022)
Journal Article
O'Neill, H., Twiss, S., Stephens, P., Mason, T., Ryrholm, N., & Burman, J. (2022). The Importance of Direct and Indirect Trophic Interactions in Determining the Presence of a Locally Rare Day-Flying Moth. Oecologia, 198(2), 531-542. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-021-05100-9

Ecosystem engineers affect other organisms by creating, maintaining or modifying habitats, potentially supporting species of conservation concern. However, it is important to consider these interactions alongside non-engineering trophic pathways. We... Read More about The Importance of Direct and Indirect Trophic Interactions in Determining the Presence of a Locally Rare Day-Flying Moth.

Development of a mammalian neurosensory full‐thickness skin equivalent and its application to screen sensitizing stimuli (2022)
Journal Article
Freer, M., Darling, N., Goncalves, K., Mills, K. J., & Przyborski, S. (2023). Development of a mammalian neurosensory full‐thickness skin equivalent and its application to screen sensitizing stimuli. Bioengineering and Translational Medicine, 8(3), Article e10484. https://doi.org/10.1002/btm2.10484

Human skin equivalents (HSEs) are an increasingly popular research tool due to limitations associated with animal testing for dermatological research. They recapitulate many aspects of skin structure and function, however, many only contain two basic... Read More about Development of a mammalian neurosensory full‐thickness skin equivalent and its application to screen sensitizing stimuli.

A PIT-tag based method for measuring individual bait uptake in small mammals (2021)
Journal Article
Beatham, S., Goodwin, D., Coats, J., Stephens, P., & Massei, G. (2021). A PIT-tag based method for measuring individual bait uptake in small mammals. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2(2), Article e12081. https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12081

1. Rodents and other small mammals cause an increasing number of negative economic and environmental impacts worldwide. In the UK, the non-native grey squirrel has a significant impact on the forestry industry and has caused the decline of the native... Read More about A PIT-tag based method for measuring individual bait uptake in small mammals.

Durham University students’ experiences of asymptomatic COVID-19 testing: a qualitative study (2021)
Journal Article
Jones, L. F., Batteux, E., Bonfield, S., Bhogal, J. K., Taylor, J., Caiado, C., …Weston, D. (2021). Durham University students’ experiences of asymptomatic COVID-19 testing: a qualitative study. BMJ Open, 11(12), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-055644

Objectives To evaluate the asymptomatic coronavirus testing programme at Durham University by exploring students’ barriers and facilitators to taking part and provide recommendations to improve the programme. Design Qualitative interviews. Setting On... Read More about Durham University students’ experiences of asymptomatic COVID-19 testing: a qualitative study.