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Welcome to Edinburgh Napier Research Repository

The ‘Research Repository’ is the open access institutional repository of Edinburgh Napier University. It contains examples of research outputs produced by staff and research students, as well as related information about the university's funded projects and staff research interests.

Whenever possible, refereed documents accepted for publication, or finished artistic compositions presented in public, will be made available here in full digital format, and hyperlinks to standard published versions will be provided. Any questions about submissions to the repository or problems with access to any of its content should be sent to the Repository Team at repository@napier.ac.uk



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From the active classroom to active assessment: a student-centred approach enhancing career readiness and creativity (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Urquhart, E., & Urie, G. (2025, May). From the active classroom to active assessment: a student-centred approach enhancing career readiness and creativity. Paper presented at Council for Hospitality Management Education Conference (CHME) 2025, University of Essex, UK

This paper reflects on innovative assessment practice on an undergraduate tourism and hospitality module. Following an extensive redesign to adopt an active learning and dialogical pedagogy, we developed the service quality masterclass assessment to... Read More about From the active classroom to active assessment: a student-centred approach enhancing career readiness and creativity.

Discovery of novel naphthalene-based diarylamides as pan-Raf kinase inhibitors with promising anti-melanoma activity: rational design, synthesis, in vitro and in silico screening (2025)
Journal Article
Elkamhawy, A., Ammar, U. M., Kim, M., Gul, A. R., Park, T. J., & Lee, K. (online). Discovery of novel naphthalene-based diarylamides as pan-Raf kinase inhibitors with promising anti-melanoma activity: rational design, synthesis, in vitro and in silico screening. Archives of Pharmacal Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12272-025-01533-5

Raf kinase enzymes are often dysregulated in melanoma. While sorafenib demonstrates strong activity against wild-type B-Raf, it fails to effectively inhibit the mutated form of B-Raf. In this study, sorafenib served as a lead compound for the develop... Read More about Discovery of novel naphthalene-based diarylamides as pan-Raf kinase inhibitors with promising anti-melanoma activity: rational design, synthesis, in vitro and in silico screening.

FedCST: Federated Learning on Heterogeneous Resource-constrained Devices Using Clustering and Split Training (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, Z., Lin, H., Liu, Q., Zhang, Y., & Liu, X. (2024, July). FedCST: Federated Learning on Heterogeneous Resource-constrained Devices Using Clustering and Split Training. Presented at The 24th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security Companion (QRS-C), Cambridge, UK

With the rapid development of 5G and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, edge devices such as sensors, smartphones, and wearable devices have become increasingly prevalent. The massive amount of distributed data generated by these devices offers u... Read More about FedCST: Federated Learning on Heterogeneous Resource-constrained Devices Using Clustering and Split Training.

A New Improved Method of Recurrent Memory Perception for Radar Echo Extrapolation (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ji, R., Liu, Q., Zhang, Y., & Liu, X. (2024, July). A New Improved Method of Recurrent Memory Perception for Radar Echo Extrapolation. Presented at 2024 IEEE 24th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security Companion (QRS-C), Cambridge, United Kingdom

Precipitation forecasting has long been a prominent topic in meteorology, as accurate predictions of impending rainfall are crucial for daily life and travel planning. Currently, radar echo extrapolation serves as the primary method for precipitation... Read More about A New Improved Method of Recurrent Memory Perception for Radar Echo Extrapolation.

High Intensity Radar Echo Extrapolation Based on Stacked Generative Structure (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tao, S., Liu, Q., Zhang, Y., & Liu, X. (2024, July). High Intensity Radar Echo Extrapolation Based on Stacked Generative Structure. Presented at 2024 IEEE 24th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security Companion (QRS-C), Cambridge, UK

In recent years, the phenomenon of severe convective disaster weather has increased significantly in the world. Due to the characteristics of small spatial scale, short occurrence period, great destructiveness and drastic changes, severe convective d... Read More about High Intensity Radar Echo Extrapolation Based on Stacked Generative Structure.