Singing for lung health following completion of pulmonary rehabilitation: feasibility of a randomised controlled trial See

Background: Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is a highly effective intervention for people with chronic respiratory disease; however, it is not known how best to sustain its benefits. Clinical trials are needed to establish if participation in singing for lung health (SLH) groups following ...

Capacity Building in the Arab Nonprofit Sector: A Scoping Review and Preliminary Bibliometric Insights See

Arab countries are pursuing ambitious development agendas, modernizing while preserving cultural identities. Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) play vital roles across social, economic, and environmental sectors, yet research on capacity building remains limited. Guided by PRISMA-ScR, this bilingual review (English...

A Data-Driven Approach to Labour Market Alignment with Renewable Innovation in the UK and US See

As the development of renewable energy technologies accelerates, the need for a highly skilled workforce becomes increasingly critical. However, empirical evidence remains limited regarding whether current labour markets are adequately responding to this growing demand. This paper analyses the demand&...

Advancing AI-driven lung ultrasound diagnostics for COVID-19: Procedural data synthesis, image enhancement, and pleural line detection See

This thesis presents novel advancements in lung ultrasound imaging through the integration of computational techniques and artificial intelligence. Addressing critical challenges such as low contrast, noise, data scarcity, and diagnostic variability, the research focuses on three core areas: contrast ...

Simulating Visual Impairments in XR: Toward Virtual Player Models for Inclusive Design See

This work presents a novel approach to assessing accessibility in Extended Reality (XR) through the development of Virtual Player Models (VPMs) for simulating visual impairments. Grounded in qualitative insights from visually impaired users and informed by clinical vision parameters, each&...

libFLASM: A software library for fixed-length approximate string matching See

Background: Approximate string matching is the problem of finding all factors of a given text that are at a distance at most k from a given pattern. Fixed-length approximate string matching is the problem of finding all factors of a text of length n that are&#...

MARS: Improving multiple circular sequence alignment using refined sequences See

Background: A fundamental assumption of all widely-used multiple sequence alignment techniques is that the left- and right-most positions of the input sequences are relevant to the alignment. However, the position where a sequence starts or ends can be totally arbitrary due to a nu...

U-Index: A Universal Indexing Framework for Matching Long Patterns See

Motivation. Text indexing is a fundamental and well-studied problem. Classic solutions to this problem either replace the original text with a compressed representation, e.g., the FM-index and its variants, or keep it uncompressed but attach some redundancy - an index - to accelerate&#x...

Constraints on standard model effective field theory for a Higgs boson produced in association with W or Z bosons in the H→bb̅ decay channel in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV See

A standard model effective field theory (SMEFT) analysis with dimension-six operators probing nonresonant new physics effects is performed in the Higgs-strahlung process, where the Higgs boson is produced in association with a W or Z boson, in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass...