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The Peritoneal Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (2021)
Book Chapter
Stallard, B., Johnson, D. W., Perl, J., & Davies, S. J. (2021). The Peritoneal Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study. In Applied Peritoneal Dialysis (395-410). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70897-9_28

Background: Peritoneal dialysis (PD) technique failure remains a significant barrier to improving the outcomes for PD patients and increasing the uptake of PD worldwide. The Peritoneal Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (PDOPPS) has been d... Read More about The Peritoneal Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study.

Personal Data and Collective Value: Data-Driven Personalisation as Network Effect (2021)
Book Chapter
O’Donovan, N. (2021). Personal Data and Collective Value: Data-Driven Personalisation as Network Effect. In Data-Driven Personalisation in Markets, Politics and Law (74-92). Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108891325.006

Over recent years, economists, lawyers and regulators have become increasingly interested in the role played by ‘network effects’ in the digital economy: namely, the phenomenon whereby a platform becomes increasingly valuable to its users, the more u... Read More about Personal Data and Collective Value: Data-Driven Personalisation as Network Effect.

Virtual Imaging for Patient Information on Radiotherapy Planning and Delivery for Prostate Cancer (2021)
Book Chapter
Martínez-Albaladejo, M., Sulé-Suso, J., Lines, D., Bisson, J., Jassal, S., & Edwards, C. (2021). Virtual Imaging for Patient Information on Radiotherapy Planning and Delivery for Prostate Cancer. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (125-139). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80432-9_10

The provision of information on radiotherapy (RT) planning and delivery for patient with cancer is a vital issue in improving not only patients’ satisfaction but also patients’ compliance to treatment. In the present study, patients with prostate can... Read More about Virtual Imaging for Patient Information on Radiotherapy Planning and Delivery for Prostate Cancer.

Respiratory Disorders (2021)
Book Chapter
Gilchrist, F., & Carroll, W. D. (2021). Respiratory Disorders. In Illustrated Textbook of Paediatrics. (6th). Elsevier

This sixth edition of the acclaimed and award-winning ‘Sunflower book’ comprehensively covers the undergraduate curriculum in paediatrics and child health. Topics are made accessible with numerous colour images, diagrams and case studies, and revisio... Read More about Respiratory Disorders.

Chapter 17: Respiratory Disorders (2021)
Book Chapter
Gilchrist, F., & Carroll, W. (2021). Chapter 17: Respiratory Disorders. In Illustrated Textbook of Paediatrics, 6th Edition. Elsevier

In Her Own Words: Practitioner Contribution 3 (2021)
Book Chapter
Blackburn, M. (2021). In Her Own Words: Practitioner Contribution 3. In The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900 (228-234). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108556491.019

In her practitioner contribution, Manuella Blackburn presents an an exploration of how motherhood, and a new interest in domestic sound sources, inspired by prolonged time spent in the home during pregnancy and the early days of motherhood, changed h... Read More about In Her Own Words: Practitioner Contribution 3.

Freedom in Sartre’s Phenomenology: The Kantian Limits of a Radical Project (2021)
Book Chapter
Baiasu. (2021). Freedom in Sartre’s Phenomenology: The Kantian Limits of a Radical Project. In Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Phenomenology. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66857-0_6

An easily recognizable feature of Sartre’s phenomenological existentialism is his conception of freedom. According to a popular interpretation, we are absolutely free, not only from factual constraints, but also free to create and pursue our own valu... Read More about Freedom in Sartre’s Phenomenology: The Kantian Limits of a Radical Project.

No Longer Just Victims: New Fiction and New Gender Roles (2021)
Book Chapter
lau, L. (2021). No Longer Just Victims: New Fiction and New Gender Roles. In Teaching Anglophone South Asian Women Writers. Modern Language Association

Global and cosmopolitan since the late nineteenth century, anglophone South Asian women’s writing has flourished in many genres and locations, encompassing diverse works linked by issues of language, geography, history, culture, gender, and literary... Read More about No Longer Just Victims: New Fiction and New Gender Roles.

A Review of Privacy-preserving Federated Learning for the Internet-of-Things (2021)
Book Chapter
Fan. (2021). A Review of Privacy-preserving Federated Learning for the Internet-of-Things. In Federated Learning Systems: Towards Next Generation AI (21-50). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70604-3_2

The Internet-of-Things (IoT) generates vast quantities of data, much of it attributable to individuals' activity and behaviour. Gathering personal data and performing machine learning tasks on this data in a central location presents a significant pr... Read More about A Review of Privacy-preserving Federated Learning for the Internet-of-Things.

Bridging Waves on a Membrane: An Approach to Preserving Wave Patterns (2021)
Book Chapter
Wootton, P., & Kaplunov, J. Bridging Waves on a Membrane: An Approach to Preserving Wave Patterns. In Modern Trends in Structural and Solid Mechanics 2: Vibrations (203-229). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119831860.ch9

This chapter introduces a novel metamaterial intended to “bridge” a gap between two membranes using a periodic array of strings, with the aim of identically reproducing an incident wave form on the other side of the void. It also introduces an elasti... Read More about Bridging Waves on a Membrane: An Approach to Preserving Wave Patterns.

Syndecan-3: A Signaling Conductor in the Musculoskeletal System (2021)
Book Chapter
Jones, F. K., Kehoe, O., Daroszewska, A., van’t Hof, R. J., & Pisconti, A. (2021). Syndecan-3: A Signaling Conductor in the Musculoskeletal System. In Proteoglycans in Stem Cells (153-177). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73453-4_7

Syndecan-3 is a transmembrane proteoglycan, the largest of the four syndecan family members and the most mysterious. To date, the number of published studies involving syndecan-3 is only a small fraction of the number of studies involving the other s... Read More about Syndecan-3: A Signaling Conductor in the Musculoskeletal System.

The patient with abnormal cervical cytology (2021)
Book Chapter
Underwood, M., & Parry-Smith, W. (2021). The patient with abnormal cervical cytology. In Assisted Reproduction Techniques: Challenges and Management Options (123-126). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119622215.ch19

This chapter includes clinical cases, background, evidence-based practical management options, preventive measures, key-point summaries of abnormal cervical cytology and answers to questions patients ask. Cervical screening programs around the world... Read More about The patient with abnormal cervical cytology.

Quantifying Missingness in Wearable Heart Rate Recordings (2021)
Book Chapter
Collins, T., Woolley, S. I., Oniani, S., & Pandyan, A. (2021). Quantifying Missingness in Wearable Heart Rate Recordings. In Volume 281: Public Health and Informatics (1077 - 1078). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI210352

Wrist-worn photoplethysmography (PPG) heart rate monitoring devices are increasingly used in clinical applications despite the potential for data missingness and inaccuracy. This paper provides an analysis of the intermittency of experimental wearabl... Read More about Quantifying Missingness in Wearable Heart Rate Recordings.

A Preliminary Scoping Study of Federated Learning for the Internet of Medical Things. (2021)
Book Chapter
Farhad, A., Woolley, S. I., & Andras, P. (2021). A Preliminary Scoping Study of Federated Learning for the Internet of Medical Things. In Volume 281: Public Health and Informatics (504 - 505). IOS Press. https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI210216

This paper presents a scoping review of federated learning for the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) and demonstrates the limited amount of research work in an area which has potential to improve patient care. Federated Learning and IoMT - as standal... Read More about A Preliminary Scoping Study of Federated Learning for the Internet of Medical Things..