Psoriatic Arthritis Priority Setting Partnership: patient and clinician informed considerations for future UK health service delivery by James, L, Hailey, L, Bundy, C, Burstow, H, Chandler, D, Cowper, R, Helliwell, P, Joannes, L, Kelly, A, Kennedy, B, Kinsella, S, McAteer, H, Mukherjee, S, Packham, J, Wise, E, Young, H, Dures, E, Coates, LC

“…Further analysis within the rheumatology service theme revealed additional sub-themes that emphasised integrating multidisciplinary services, improving access to advice lines and ensuring fair access to treatments.</p> <br> <p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> The five key themes provide valuable insights into the important areas of interest within health service delivery in the UK. …”

A novel framework for making dominant point detection methods non-parametric by Leung, Maylor Karhang, Quek, Chai, Cho, Siu-Yeung, Prasad, Dilip K.

“…This paper uses a theoretical bound of the maximum deviation of pixels obtained by digitization of a line segment for constructing a general framework to make most dominant point detection methods non-parametric. …”
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Evaporation of a sessile droplet on flat surfaces: an axisymmetric lattice Boltzmann model with consideration of contact angle hysteresis by Zhang, Chaoyang, Zhang, Hui, Zhang, Xuan, Yang, Chun, Cheng, Ping

“…Here, we propose an axisymmetric lattice Boltzmann (LB) model to simulate the dynamics of contact line motion during sessile droplet evaporation on a flat heated surface, taking contact angle hysteresis into consideration. …”
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Reliable environmental trace heavy metal analysis with potentiometric ion sensor - reality or a distant dreams by Lisak, Grzegorz

“…In the future, targeted on-site and on-line environmental sensors should be developed, addressing specific environmental conditions. …”
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Modelling familiarity : towards age-friendly exergame design by Zhang, Hao

“…The interview results show that Escape Room exergame is highly familiar to the participants and all the five sub-constructs were involved in the exergame design. …”
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Geometric hashing for camera based localization by Tan, Wei Chian

“…A VCLH is characterized by position of the vertical line or building corner in the image, and orientations of the neighbouring plane normal. …”
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Convergence issues in online marketing models : case study of catalog retailers. by Gupta, Ajay., Ghante, Anantha P. V.

“…The primary objective of this dissertation is to study the on-line retail business models to develop an understanding of the convergence of the catalog retailers in integrating online marketing into their business models.…”
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Which factors affect the performance of technology business incubators in China? An entrepreneurial ecosystem perspective by Yuan, Xiangfei, Hao, Haijing, Guan, Chenghua, Pentland, Alex

“…Further, seven factors related to all four areas have various statistically significant associations with an incubator’s performance in five major regional data set. In particular, a technology related factor has a consistently statistically significant association with the performance of the incubator in both national model and the five regional models, as we expected.…”
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Compressive behaviour and resistances of S690 high strength steel welded pi-shaped and cruciform section stub columns by Cabawatan, Nicolas

“…The experimental programme was conducted on five welded S690 high strength steel π-section and five welded S690 high strength steel cruciform sections, and included material tensile coupon tests, initial local geometric imperfection measurements, and twenty concentrically loaded stub column tests. …”
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Data-driven ecological driving behaviour evaluation and green supply chain improvement by Zhou, Zhongcan

“…In the 14th Five-Year Plan, China has emphasized the importance of promoting green development, and the policy once again emphasized the importance of promoting energy conservation, thus improving the green supply chain. …”
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The role of stock market volatility in predicting macroeconomic quantities. by Leong, Florence Mei Hua., Wirawan, Sulistiyana., Kevin, Yohanes.

“…The five variables are real gross domestic product, employment rate, industrial production index, real personal consumption expenditure and nondurables goods & services consumption. …”
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Young children retain fast mapped object labels better than shape, color, and texture words by Holland, Amanda, Simpson, Andrew, Riggs, Kevin J.

“…Retention of the mapping between the new word and the novel object or property was measured either five minutes or one week later. After five minutes, retention was significantly above chance in all conditions. …”
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Genome-wide association analysis of composite sleep health scores in 413,904 individuals by Goodman, MO, Faquih, T, Paz, V, Nagarajan, P, Lane, JM, Spitzer, B, Maher, M, Chung, J, Cade, BE, Purcell, SM, Zhu, X, Noordam, R, Phillips, AJK, Kyle, SD, Spiegelhalder, K, Weedon, MN, Lawlor, DA, Rotter, JI, Taylor, KD, Isasi, CR, Sofer, T, Dashti, HS, Rutter, MK, Redline, S

“…Here we construct novel sleep health scores (SHSs) incorporating five core self-report measures: sleep duration, insomnia symptoms, chronotype, snoring, and daytime sleepiness, using additive (SHS-ADD) and five principal components-based (SHS-PCs) approaches. …”

A management framework for sudden water pollution: a systematic review output by Bello, Nura, Jamil, Nor Rohaizah, Looi, Ley Juen, Yap, Ng Keng

“…Meanwhile, five mitigation strategies included reservoir operation, real-time monitoring, early warning, and chemical and biological treatments. …”

Simulation and optimisation design of microchannel heat sinks by Chong, Sh Hua.

“…This project studied the thermal and hydrodynamic performances of microchannel heat sink of five different design.…”
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Specific inhibition of PI3K p110δ inhibits CSF‐1‐induced macrophage spreading and invasive capacity by Mouchemore, KA, Sampaio, N, Murrey, MW, Stanley, ER, Lannutti, BJ, Pixley, FJ

“…Here we show that pY721‐based signaling is necessary for CSF‐1‐stimulated PtdIns(3,4,5)P production. While primary bone marrow‐derived macrophages and the immortalized bone marrow‐derived macrophage cell line M−/−.WT express all three class IA PI3K isoforms, p110δ predominates in the cell line. …”

Mimo: multipath signals and location aware by Luo, Yong Bin.

“…In this report, experimental study was conducted to investigate the multipath effect and the improvement to the signal quality by measuring the QoS parameters between MIMO (802.11n) and SISO (802.11a/b/g) under line of sight (LOS) and non-line of sight (NLOS) environment. …”
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A novel bearingless interior permanent magnet slice motor for pump* by Kant, Krishan, Weinreb, Benjamin S., Hegy, Michael, Gartner, Mark, Trumper, David L.

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Time-certified Input-constrained NMPC via Koopman Operator by Wu, Liang, Ganko, Krystian, Braatz, Ricahrd D

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3D object detection for autonomous vehicle by Wang, Yihan

“…3D object detection plays an important role in autonomous driving, while most state-of-the-art researches are developed based on 64-line LiDARs. However, the cost of high-resolution LiDARs are several magnitude higher than the low- resolution applied LiDARs on the makes the current research majority of low-cost robotics hard to be widely platforms. …”
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