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Wilson, M, Al-Jumeily, D, Abbas, I, Khan, I, Birkett, JW, Tang, L and Assi, S (2023) Palm-sized Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Machine Learning Analytics for the Detection of Endogenous Constituents and Drugs in Human Fingernails. In: 2023 15th International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE) . (DeSE2022, Iraq).

Wilson, M, Tang, L, Abbas, I, Birkett, JW, Khan, I, Al-Jumeily, D and Assi, Sulaf (2022) Detection of Cocaine and its Impurities in Fingernails Using Palm-sized Near-infrared Spectroscopy and Machine Learning Analytics. In: Joint Pharmaceutical Analysis Group (JPAG) Awards and Careers Fair, London, UK.

Wilson, M, Abbas, I, Tang, L, Birkett, JW, Khan, I, Al-Jumeily, D and Assi, S (2022) Field Detection of Cocaine and its Impurities in Human Fingernails Using Portable Attenuated Total-Reflectance Fourier transform Infrared Spectroscopy and Machine Learning Analytics. In: Joint Pharmaceutical Analysis Group (JPAG), London, UK.

Wilson, M, Tang, L, Abbas, I, Birkett, JW, Bonser, P, Jackson, I, Khan, I, Al-Jumeily, D and Assi, S (2022) Infrared Vs Raman Spectroscopy for the Characterisation of Cocaine and its Impurities in Human Fingernails. In: Current Trends in Seized Drug Analysis Symposium, Virtual Event.