An empirical examination of lean production, agile production and supply chain collaboration on manufacturing sustainability in Saudi Arabia See

The contemporary constantly changing environment is a significant challenge that affects all organisations including manufacturing firms while implementing concepts underpinning a drive for sustainability, with government regulations, customer demands and supplier issues impacting these firms. Literatur...

Timeless: Wings ascend forever – novel extract and gothic reflections: The gothic double and double identities in timeless: Wings ascend forever and R. L. Stevenson’s the strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), a... See

This thesis includes chapters one to nine of a novel and a critical reflective essay. My novel Timeless: Wings Ascend Forever is a neo-Victorian Gothic Fantasy inspired by R. L. Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886). The novel examines th...

Numerical modelling and fire design of stainless steel hollow section columns See

In this paper, the elevated temperature buckling performance and design of cold-formed square, rectangular and circular hollow section columns made of stainless steel is studied through a numerical modelling investigation. The finite element analysis software Abaqus was employed to perform the&#x...

The effect of funding for disadvantaged students on academic underachievement See

We estimate the effect of school funding for disadvantaged students on academic underachievement in primary education. For this purpose, we exploit a policy in Belgium that granted additional funding for schools with a share of disadvantaged students of at least 10%. Combining stochasti...

Unequal impacts of future droughts on global croplands: contributions of climate and land-use changes across different income groups See

This study presents a global assessment of future cropland exposure to drought risks under climate change, accounting for both climate variability and land-use changes across income groups. We used SPI and SPEI to assess concurrent 3- and 6-month drought risks during major crop-growing&...

A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation See

In human neuroimaging, brain atlases are essential for segmenting regions of interest (ROIs) and comparing subjects in a common coordinate frame. State-of-the-art atlases derived from histology1,2,3 provide exquisite three-dimensional cytoarchitectural maps but lack probabilistic labels throughout the whole...

H-SynEx: Using synthetic images and ultra-high resolution ex vivo MRI for hypothalamus subregion segmentation See

The hypothalamus is a small structure located in the center of the brain and is involved in significant functions such as sleeping, temperature, and appetite control. Various neurological disorders are also associated with hypothalamic abnormalities. Automated image analysis of this structure...

Thalamus involvement in genetic frontotemporal dementia assessed using structural and diffusion MRI: a GENFI study See

Thalamic subregions are commonly, but variably, affected by different forms of frontotemporal dementia. We aimed to better characterize thalamic subregional involvement in genetic frontotemporal dementia with a recently published thalamus segmentation tool that utilizes structural and diffusion MRI, offeri...

Impaired glymphatic system in genetic frontotemporal dementia: a GENFI study See

The glymphatic system is an emerging target in neurodegenerative disorders. Here, we investigated the activity of the glymphatic system in genetic frontotemporal dementia with a diffusion-based technique called diffusion tensor image analysis along the perivascular space. We investigated 291 subjects&...