New feature engineering framework for deep learning in financial fraud detection by Ikeda, Chie, Ouazzane, Karim, Yu, Qicheng, Hubenova, Svetla

“…In the experiment, a real-life transaction dataset has been used which was provided by a private bank in Europe and built autoencoder models with three different types of datasets: With original data, with created features and with selected effective features. …”
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Practical poetics: rhythmic spatiality and the communicative movement between site, architecture and sculpture by Lynch, Patrick

“…Crucially, the revelation of the structure of relationships between site, place, social life, the natural world, etc., which make up the architectural conditions for civic praxis, is the basis also of ornament and decorum in the arts generally. …”
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The English public library as an agency for social stability c. 1850-1919 by Black, Alistair Matthew

“…Inaugurated by legislation in 1850 the municipal public library had by the end of the First World War become a common feature of urban life. The research and writing of public library history has been myopic; the subject has received little attention from historians working in broader fields. …”
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Establishing and maintaining employee motivation from recruitment through Induction, transition and retirement by Ungemah, Joseph Michael

“…This dissertation explores how motivation changes across the employee life cycle, from recruitment through induction, transition, and retirement. …”
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Advancing the embedding framework: using longitudinal methods to revisit French highly skilled migrants in the context of Brexit by Mulholland, Jon, Ryan, Louise

“…Moreover, our longitudinal data, gathered through repeated interviews over seven years (2011-2018), enables analysis of how participants’ experiences and evaluations of life and work in the UK changed, over time, in response to Brexit. …”
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Studies on the residue chemistry of some organophosphorus pesticides by Soares, Vera Maria

“…Hydrolytic studies have shown that mecarbam at 70°C in 50% ethanol (buffer pH 7.0) has a half-life of approximately 3 hours. Chlormephos is considerably more stable. …”
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Will we ever go back to normal? An international exploration of the impact of Covid-19 on tourism teaching in 5 countries by Bamford, Jan

“…Both had to navigate uncertain waters to deliver higher education which appeared to be a forgotten sector by governments, as well as dealing with life during the pandemic and changes to lifestyle not witnessed in this generation. …”
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Atorvastatin rapidly reduces hepatitis B viral load in combination with Tenofovir: a prospective clinical trial by Gharehbeglou, M., Yazdani, S., White, Kenneth, Haeri, M. R., Masoumzadeh, N.

“…After three months of the treatment, there was no detectable HBV DNA in 50% of the atorvastatin + tenofovir-treated group compared with 30% in the control group. The half-life of plasma viral load was 2.03 and 3.32 months in the atorvastatin + tenofovir-treated and control groups, respectively. …”
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The space paradox in graphic representation by Lange-Kuettner, Christiane, Vinueza Chavez, Ximena

“…A sample of 96 children from 5 to 12 years of age and 24 adults (N = 120) drew on a computer tablet a real-life model spacebox placed in front of the participant, with three cubes placed inside the model. …”
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Application of graph-based technique to identity resolution by Kazemian, Hassan, Amirhosseini, Mohammad-Hossein, Phillips, Michael

“…These days the ability to prove an individual identity is crucial in social, economic and legal aspects of life. Identity resolution is the process of semantic reconciliation that determines whether a single identity is the same when being described differently. …”
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Ponte City, Johannesburg: a history of appropriation and the appropriation of history by McKay, Harriet

“…This discussion of the tower block that dominates Johannesburg’s skyline, Ponte City apartments, aims to get behind the stories that have also dogged the life of this infamous building. This discussion of Ponte City (1976), located just outside Johannesburg’s Central Business District in the notorious, so-called crime-ridden Berea/Hillbrow districts, demonstrates the way lives lived there have been clouded by truths and untruths frequently not of their inhabitants’ making and very frequently the stuff of hyperbole. …”
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Renegotiating the sexual self after an HIV-diagnosis: listening to white, European women by Gerada, Martina

“…They speak of the continued, significant psychological impact of an HIV-diagnosis, despite advances in medication, which precipitates multiple psychosocial crises related to identity, intimacy and meaning in life. The voice of distress confirms previous research on HIV-trauma and also highlights women’s early vulnerability to infection. …”
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Anti-social behaviour: local perception and reporting behaviour in a small urban location by Venables, Lucie Mary

“…A range of behaviours were identified as anti-social behaviour with participants considering it to be anything that showed a lack of respect or persistently impacted on daily life. Nearly three-quarters of anti-social behaviour in the Bentswood ward goes unreported. …”
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Disruptive digital technologies to ensure circularity in supply chain: a critical review of drivers, barriers and challenges by Agrawal, Rohit, Yadav, Vinay Surendra, Majumdar, Abhijit, Kumar, Anil, Luthra, Sunil, Garza-Reyes, Jose Arturo

“…Our review reveals that digital technology enabled CE practices helps to improve several performance metrics like resource optimization, waste reduction, product life cycle, occupational health, social performance, product safety and quality, and customer loyalty and satisfaction. …”
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Brief interventions 2.0: a new agenda for alcohol policy, practice and research by Stewart, Duncan, Madden, Mary, McCambridge, Jim

“…This makes it harder to think about and talk about how alcohol affects health, well-being, and other aspects of life, and how we as a society should respond. To progress, brief interventions should not be restricted only to the self-regulation of one’s own drinking. …”
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A graph-based method for identity resolution to assist police force investigative process by Amirhosseini, Mohammad Hossein, Kazemian, Hassan, Phillips, Michael

“…The ability to prove an individual identity has become crucial in social, economic, and legal aspects of life. Identity resolution is the process of semantic reconciliation that determines whether a single identity is the same when being described differently. …”
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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

“…The study identified four dominant discourses: Academic achievement, Life-stage, Mental-health crisis and Professional counselling practice which were seen to influence the counsellor role as they manifested through a series of sub-discourses including, the Precedence of educational attainment sub-discourse, the Loco-parentis sub-discourse and the Risk-vulnerability sub-discourse. …”
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Resource scheduling techniques optimization using cuckoo search based algorithm for cloud computing by Madni, Syed Hamid Hussain

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Simultaneous saccharification and fermentation of microwave - alkali pre-treated oil palm empty fruit bunch fiber for lactic acid production by Hamzah, Fazlena, author, Idris, Ani, thesis advisor

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Design and operation of renewable energy based distributed energy generation system by Ho, Wai Shin

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