Egocentric hand pose estimation and distance recovery in a single RGB image by Liang, Hui, Yuan, Junsong, Thalman, Daniel

“…Especially, we find that the pose estimation accuracy can be further enhanced by incorporating the hand part semantics. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves good performance on both a synthesized dataset and several real-world color image sequences that are captured in different environments. …”
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Implications of Cyber Threats for the Design of Unmanned Air Traffic Management System by Vasily Sidorov, Ng, Wee Keong, Lam, Kwok Yan, Mohamed Faisal Bin Mohamed Salleh

“…The work was performed as a part of the early design of an urban UTMS in Singapore; however, the findings are applicable to designing UTMS for any urban environment.…”
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Agent-based modelling of EV energy storage systems considering human crowd behavior by Chaudhari, Kalpesh, Su, Piao Sen Fabian, Kandasamy, Nandha Kumar, Ukil, Abhisek, Gooi, Hoay Beng

“…Accurately predicting the realistic charging demand of energy storage systems (ESS) used in EVs is an essential part of the infrastructure planning. Charging demand of ESS used in EVs is affected by several factors such as driver behavior, location of charging stations and electricity pricing. …”
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Interleukin-26 (IL-26) is a novel anti-microbial peptide produced by T cells in response to staphylococcal enterotoxin by Woetmann, Anders, Alhede, Morten, Dabelsteen, Sally, Bjarnsholt, Thomas, Rybtke, Morten, Nastasi, Claudia, Krejsgaard, Thorbjørn, Andersen, Mads Hald, Bonefeld, Charlotte M., Geisler, Carsten, Givskov, Michael, Odum, Niels

“…Accordingly, we propose that IL-26 producing T cells take part in the innate immune response to SE producing S. aureus and thus play a novel role in the primary innate immune defense in addition to their classical role in adaptive immunity.…”
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PEIGEN – a platform for evaluation, implementation, and generation of S-boxes by Sasaki, Yu, Ling, San, Guo, Jian, Bao, Zhenzhen

“…To do so, the security requirements are first intensively surveyed, existing tools of S-boxes are then comprehensively compared, and finally our platform PEIGEN is presented. The survey part is aimed to be a systematic reference for the theoretical study of S-boxes. …”
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The ALA, public libraries and the Great Depression by Luyt, Brendan

“…Librarians and their institutions became part of a much broader set of social forces that served to re-establish the hegemony of the American state at a time when it was particularly vulnerable to attack. …”
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Knowledge transfer across dissimilar cultures by Boh, Wai Fong, Nguyen, T. T., Xu, Yun

“…Practical implications – This paper contributes to the literature in cross border knowledge transfer, showing that due to geographical distance or cultural differences between the HQ and the subsidiary, the cultivation of trust and openness to diversity on the part of local employees is critical for knowledge transfer.…”
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Z-score biological significance of binding hot spots of protein interfaces by using crystal packing as the reference state by Liu, Qian, Wong, Limsoon, Li, Jinyan

“…Comparison with previously reported methods on two benchmark datasets shows that this Z-score method is mostly superior to earlier methods. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Computational Methods for Protein Interaction and Structural Prediction.…”
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The long-term impact of multisystemic therapy: an experiential study of the adolescent-young adult life transition by Conroy, Dom, Smith, Jonathan A., Butler, Stephen, Byford, Sarah, Cottrell, David, Kraam, Abdullah, Fonagy, Peter, Ellison, Rachel, Simes, Elizabeth, Anokhina, Alisa

“…Interviews were conducted with 32 young people aged 16 to 22 years at their 48-month follow-up as part of the Systemic Therapy for At-Risk Teens (START) evaluation trial in the United Kingdom. …”
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Expressive interaction design using facial muscles as controllers by French, Fiona, Terry, Cassandra, Huq, Saif, Furieri, Isaac, Jarzembinski, Mateusz, Pauliukenas, Simas, Morrison, Neil, Shepherd, Karen

“…Using the prototype system, people can communicate facial expressions virtually with each other, without the need for a camera. This research is part of an on-going project to develop a facial muscle rehabilitation system that can be optimized to help patients with conditions such as hypomimia.…”
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Experiences of geophagy during pregnancy among African migrant women in London: implications for public health interventions by Madziva, Cathrine, Chinouya, Martha J., Njoroge, Kezia

“…This calls for innovative and culturally sensitive public health interventions starting with the inclusion of clay ingestion health risk messages in maternal health nutrition information within antenatal settings. This can be done as part of multilevel interventions informed by life course approaches, which also consider community health messages and an enabling regulatory policy framework focusing on clay sold for human ingestion.…”
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The social construction of professional counselling practice in UK embedded higher education counselling services: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of practitioner perspectives by Oliver, James Robert

“…Most UK universities provide Embedded Higher Education Counselling Services (EHECS) as part of their student support offer. However, a wealth of theory based clinical literature belies a long-standing deficiency of empirical research within the UK student counselling sector. …”
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Limerence, hidden obsession, fixation, and rumination: a scoping review of human behaviour by Bradbury, Paula, Short, Emma, Paul, Bleakley

“…This systematic scoping review explores the behavioural state of limerence and the relationship it has with rumination as part of a precursory phase to stalking, for the purpose of identifying a trajectory in harmful human behaviour. …”
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Digging for literature on tailoring cultural offers with and for older people from ethnic minority groups: a scoping review by Tierney, S, Gorenberg, J, Santillo, M, Westlake, D, Wong, G, Husk, K, Vougioukalou, S, Baxter, R, Dawson, S, Roberts, N, Potter, C, Warburton, H, McDougall, B, Latchem, J, Mahtani, KR

“…Such offers need to be acceptable and accessible to diverse populations if forming part of a social prescription.</p> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> A scoping review was conducted to identify what existing literature, conducted in the United Kingdom, tells us about tailoring cultural offers for older people (aged 60+ years) from ethnic minority groups. …”

Low wage work in the United Kingdom

“…Low pay grew sharply between the late 1970s and the mid-1990s, in large part due to the decline of unions and collective bargaining and the removal of protections for the low paid. …”

Strategy and regeneration in the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries by Parr, A

“…For Xu, agriculture is part of the Confucian imperative of good government for the benefit of the people and in harmony with the natural world. …”

Humans first: why people value animals less than humans by Caviola, L, Schubert, S, Kahane, G, Faber, NS

“…However, all else equal, participants still gave more moral weight to individuals with higher mental capacities (<em>individual mental capacity principle</em>), suggesting that the belief that humans have higher mental capacities than animals is part of the reason that they give humans moral priority. …”

Characterisation of Topoisomerase 1-cleavage complex repair by Lascaux, P

“…<p>Topoisomerase 1 (TOP1) resolves DNA topological stress ahead of DNA replication and transcription. As part of its enzymatic activity, TOP1 covalently binds to DNA, creating an intermediate known as TOP1 cleavage complex (TOP1cc) and a single strand DNA break which allows DNA to unwind. …”

'Women in an extraordinary time': the transnational network and educational spaces of the Canadian Eiwa Girls' mission schools in 1920s and 1930s Japan by Dugal, A

“…The students, graduates, missionaries, and Japanese educators of these three institutions were physically and intellectually part of a transnational network of Christian women and organizations in 1920s and 1930s Japan. …”

What can literature do that philosophy can't? Entering the hybrid worlds of Simone de Beauvoir and Iris Murdoch by Holt, N

“…I therefore also look at their views on language, focusing particularly on the kind of language ‘use’ represented by literature, and show how their own experience of language-learning played a part in shaping those views.</p> <p>My study is primarily about reassessing Murdoch’s and Beauvoir’s thinking on literature. …”