Are long-term trends in child maltreatment decreasing in England and Wales? A time-series analysis of official record data, 1858–2016 by Esposti, MD, Humphreys, DK, Bowes, L

Numerous published biomarker prognostic models for heart failure exist, but none is officially recommended in clinical guidelines:a paradox or a research scandal/failure? by Kadoglou, NPE, Vazquez-Montes, M, Taylor, K, Perera, R, Speich, B, Taylor, CJ, Debray, T, Collins, G, Hobbs, FDR, Moons, K, Roberts, N, Parissis, J, Trivella, M

Global news synchrony and diversity during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic by Chen, X, Hale, SA, Jurgens, D, Samory, M, Zuckerman, E, Grabowicz, PA

“…Our study reveals that news media tend to cover a more diverse set of events in countries with larger Internet penetration, more official languages, larger religious diversity, higher economic inequality, and larger populations. …”

An empirical study of detection-based video instance segmentation by Wang, Q, He, Ye, Yang, X, Yang, Z, Torr, PHS

“…Our approach improves over the official baseline by an absolute 14.4% in mAP and achieves the second place in the 2019 YouTubeVIS challenge.…”

The importance of being thorough: On systematic accumulations of 'what works' in education research by Oancea, A, Pring, R

“…In particular, this involved prioritising research that purports to show clearly and unmistakably 'what works', and institutionalising this view of research in a range of centres that receive official approval. The article, though recognising the fruit of such centres, challenges the epistemological basis of such a narrowing of what counts as research, and, in doing so, analyses what is meant by evidence, the different kinds and strengths of evidence and the consequent need to democratise the search and appraisal of evidence in the constant refinement and criticism of the evidence. © 2008 Journal of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain.…”

The Great Palace of Constantinople: Eternal symbol of the state by Featherstone, J

“…Like the palaces of Constantine's semi-divine pagan predecessors, the palace of Constantinople, residence of the Christian God's representative on earth, was also sacred, as attested in the official appellation, τὸ ἱερὸν παλάτιον and in literary descriptions of the main gate of the palace, the Chalke, with its gilded bronze roof reflecting the divine light of the sun. …”

Beyond the office walls understanding security and shadow security behaviours in a remote work context by Alromaih, S, Flechais, I, Chalhoub, G

“…Here, researchers identified shadow security behaviour: where security-conscious users apply their own security practices which are not in compliance with official security policy. Driven by the growth in remote work and the increasing diversity of remote working arrangements, our qualitative research study aims to investigate the nature of security behaviours within remote work settings.…”

Automated recognition of sleep arousal using multimodal and personalized deep ensembles of neural networks by Patane, A, Ghiasi, S, Scilingo, E, Kwiatkowska, M

“…<strong>Result:</strong> The proposed architecture obtains an AUPR score of 0.40 on the test set of the official phase of Physionet/CbiC Challenge 2018. A score of 0.45 is obtained by means of 10 -fold cross-validation on the training set.…”

The real first class? Inferring confidential corporate mergers and government relations from air traffic communication by Strohmeier, M, Smith, M, Lenders, V, Martinovic, I

“…We identify seven M&amp;A; cases, in all of which the buyer has used corporate aircraft to visit the target prior to the official announcement, on average 61 days before. Finally, we analyze five existing technical and non-technical mitigation options available to the individual stakeholders. …”

A recently re-discovered Maltese-English dictionary by Salvu Mamo by Felice-Pace, J

“…For centuries Italian had been the official language of Malta, although the Maltese spoke the vernacular. …”

Graffiti scrawls and hiphop calls: coming to grips with non-traditional sources for historical lexicography by Zimmer, B

“…The second type of source material considered in the paper consists of bootleg recordings of rap music from the South Bronx predating the first official rap records in 1979. The bootleg tapes document live performances featuring rapped words and phrases that would later gain wide prominence in hiphop usage. …”

An open algorithm to pre-process free text self-reported medications data in UK biobank by Xie, J, Hong, S, Delmestri, A, Khalid, S, Strauss, VY, Collins, G, Prieto-Alhambra, D

“…In step 2, a dictionary of candidate drugs was built by referencing to UK Biobank official documents and the public ChEMBL Database which curates UK British national formulary, international non-proprietary name, and anatomical therapeutic chemical (ATC) codes. …”

Negotiating local protection and emplacement : a case study from the Zambia-Angolan borderlands by Bakewell, O

“…Over many years, the formal policy of Zambian government has a) required refugees to live in officially recognised settlements and b) offered no route to citizenship for those who enter the country as refugees. …”

The signature-based model for early detection of sepsis from electronic health records in the intensive care unit by Morrill, J, Kormilitzin, A, Nevado-Holgado, A, Swaminathan, S, Howison, S, Lyons, T

“…The gradient boosting machine algorithm that uses the features at the current time-points and the signature features extracted from the time-series to model the longitudinal effects of sepsis yields the utility function score of 0.360 (officially ranked 1st, team name: ‘Can I get your Signature?’) …”

The rise of the network: the case of our Walmart by Wood, A

“…These findings are drawn from six weeks of intensive participant observation of Californian Walmart workers' attempts at mobilisation, combined with 42 semi-structured interviews with 33 workers and union officials, and supplemented by an indicative media content analysis. …”

Student privacy and educational data mining: perspectives from industry by Sabourin, J, Kosturko, L, Clare Fitzgerald, McQuiggan, S

“…Many stakeholder groups, including public officials, media outlets, and parents, have voiced concern over the privacy of student data and their efforts have garnered national attention. …”

Federating infrastructure as a service cloud computing systems to create a uniform e-infrastructure for research by Wallom, D, Turilli, M, Drescher, M, Scardaci, D, Newhouse, S

“…Following a two-year period of development, the EGI Federated Cloud platform was officially launched in May 2014 offering resources provided by trusted academic and research organisations from within the user communities and consistently with their standard funding regime. …”