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On extended power geometric operator for proportional hesitant fuzzy linguistic large-scale group decision-making
(Article)The unduly low or high data are commonly regarded as the outliers in the classical power geometric operator. However, in many cases, these types of data may be significantly important to the aggregated results. This study ... -
A Human Laboratory: Imagining the invisible worlds of science
(Other)Featuring 12 large-scale photographs, an experimental documentary film and an immersive installation, this exhibition allows visitors to explore the often hidden world of the scientific laboratory. Grounded within a larger ... -
Developing a Clinical Academic Career Pathway in a Community and Mental Health NHS Trust
(Article)Background: Despite growing evidence of the impact that clinical academic staff have on patient care and clinical practice, there are disproportionately low numbers of nurses, allied health professionals and other healthcare ... -
Building Equality: A “Litmus Test” for Recognising and Evidencing Inequalities and Segregation in the Built Environment
(Article)The current convergence of global challenges, particularly the climate change emergency, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the Black Lives Matter movement, have highlighted the need for a new lens to challenge and interrogate key ... -
The Changing Significance of Nationality for the Protection of Civilians in the Hands of a Party to an International Armed Conflict
(Article)The Fourth Geneva Convention provides the main protection regime for civilians in the hands of a party to an international armed conflict. Yet its application is limited to non-nationals, and conditional upon states’ ... -
‘Creating creativity for future-proofing digital engagement, an evidence-based approach’
(Book chapter)Creativity may be the single most important skill in our increasingly ‘online’ society. Pre-Covid, it had already been established that creativity is key to the acquisition of ‘future-proofing’ digital skills. Through ... -
'Extract from Three Experiments in Translation'
(Other)This ekphrasis poem responds to a photograph by Raymond Depardon ('Glasgow. 1980) and combines the terminology of shipbuilding and an academic article by J Gill on the use of pink in the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop. It ... -
Understanding the nature of substance use in Zimbabwe: State of the art and ways forward: A scoping review protocol
(Article)Reports of substance use in Zimbabwe paint a concerning picture of escalating prevalence of use, with over half of people admitted to inpatient mental health units reportedly experiencing a substance induced disorder. The ... -
Grey systems and uncertainty modelling
(Book chapter)Information can, and often is, rather uncertain; with only partial information initially being made available, from which one would be able to hopefully provide for a solution. The information itself may contain conflicts ... -
Agent-based modelling in grey economic systems
(Book chapter)The economic systems are basically grey systems due to their components and to their interactions which enable the occurrence of uncertainty. First, the human component plays an important role as a consequence of its usually ... -
light
(Other)'light' is a translation of the poetry of Dutch poet, Asha Karami. The article in Modern Poetry in Translation comprises the translator's note and translated poem. -
Designing optimal proactive replacement strategies for degraded systems subject to two types of external shocks
(Article)This paper mainly investigates a proactive replacement policy for a stochastically deteriorating system concurrently subject to two types of shocks. Firstly, the closed form representation of system reliability function ... -
Development of grey system research
(Book chapter)The first chapter presents an introduction to grey system theory. We begin with some background information on the appearance and growth of grey system theory and founder “Professor Julong Deng”, who established the new ... -
End-to-end handwritten Chinese paragraph text recognition using residual attention networks
(Article)Handwritten Chinese recognition which involves variant writing style, thousands of character categories and monotonous data mark process is a long term focus in the field of pattern recognition research. The existing methods ... -
A residual-attention offline handwritten Chinese text recognition based on fully convolutional neural networks
(Article)Offline handwritten Chinese text recognition is one of the most challenging tasks in that it involves various writing styles, complex character-touching, and large number of character categories. In this paper, we propose ... -
Meta-heuristics in microgrid management: A survey
(Article)As a small energy system, microgrid plays an important role in utilizing distributed energy resources, improving traditional energy networks, and building intelligent integrated energy systems. However, microgrid management ... -
Grey Systems Analysis: Methods, Models and Applications
(Book)The book covers up-to-date theoretical and applied advances in grey systems theory from across the world and vividly presents the reader with the overall picture of this new theory and its frontier research. Many of the ... -
A dynamic multi-objective evolutionary algorithm using adaptive reference vector and linear prediction
(Article)Responding to environmental changes quickly is a very key component in solving dynamic multi-objective optimization problems (DMOPs). Most existing methods perform well on predicting individuals, but exist some difficulties ... -
Application of the novel-structured multivariable grey model with various orders to forecast the bending strength of concrete
(Article)Bending strength of concrete is one of the significant indexes to measure the mechanical properties of concrete. A reliable prediction about the bending strength of concrete is of great importance to maintain the health ...