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Scottish Scene and the ‘Condition of Scotland’ Question (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2025, February). Scottish Scene and the ‘Condition of Scotland’ Question. Presented at 'For I Will Give You The Morning Star': A Celebration of the Life and Work of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, The Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh

Quantifying the phenome-wide response to sex-specific selection in Drosophila melanogaster (2025)
Journal Article
Keaney, T. A., & Holman, L. (2025). Quantifying the phenome-wide response to sex-specific selection in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution, 79(5), 765–778. https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf024

In species with separate sexes, selection on males causes evolutionary change in female traits values (and vice versa) via genetic correlations, which has far-reaching consequences for adaptation. Here, we utilise a sex-specific form of Robertson’s S... Read More about Quantifying the phenome-wide response to sex-specific selection in Drosophila melanogaster.

Exploring safety at mass gathering events through the lens of three different stakeholders (2025)
Journal Article
Hutton, A., Robertson, M., & Ranse, J. (2025). Exploring safety at mass gathering events through the lens of three different stakeholders. Frontiers in Public Health, 12, Article 1451891. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1451891

Introduction: The work here reviews the role of those with responsibility in managing people and their safety at Mass Gathering Events (MGE); event managers, police, and medical personnel. This paper comes at a time when there is an acute need for ap... Read More about Exploring safety at mass gathering events through the lens of three different stakeholders.

Beyond Universal AI Literacy: Fostering Deeper Connections in Higher Education (2025)
Digital Artefact
Drumm, L. (2025). Beyond Universal AI Literacy: Fostering Deeper Connections in Higher Education. [Blog]

The rapid advancement of generative AI tools continues to reshape the landscape of higher education, yet core academic principles remain steadfast. This blog post explores the evolving relationship between generative AI and education, highlighting ho... Read More about Beyond Universal AI Literacy: Fostering Deeper Connections in Higher Education.

Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Enhanced Environmental Sustainability in China's Banking Sector: A Mixed-Methods Approach (2025)
Journal Article
Siddik, A. B., Yong, L., Du, A. M., Vigne, S. A., & Sharif, A. (online). Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Enhanced Environmental Sustainability in China's Banking Sector: A Mixed-Methods Approach. British Journal of Management, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12901

Amid escalating global environmental challenges, the banking sector is increasingly turning to Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance Environmental Sustainability Performance (ESP). Our research examines the impact of AI adoption on ESP through the... Read More about Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Enhanced Environmental Sustainability in China's Banking Sector: A Mixed-Methods Approach.

A Novel Approach to Fire Detection With Enhanced Target Localisation and Recognition (2025)
Journal Article
Zou, L., Sun, Q., Jiang, F., Wu, Z., Sun, L., Wang, X., Gogate, M., Dashtipour, K., & Hussain, A. (2025). A Novel Approach to Fire Detection With Enhanced Target Localisation and Recognition. Expert Systems, 42(3), Article e70006. https://doi.org/10.1111/exsy.70006

Real-time monitoring of fires is crucial for safeguarding lives and property. However, current fire detection methods still suffer from issues such as redundant feature information, poor network generalisation capabilities and low perception of targe... Read More about A Novel Approach to Fire Detection With Enhanced Target Localisation and Recognition.

Adversarial Attacks on Supervised Energy-Based Anomaly Detection in Clean Water Systems (2025)
Journal Article
Moradpoor, N., Abah, E., Robles-Durazno, A., & Maglaras, L. (2025). Adversarial Attacks on Supervised Energy-Based Anomaly Detection in Clean Water Systems. Electronics, 14(3), Article 639. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14030639

Critical National Infrastructure includes large networks such as telecommunications, transportation, health services, police, nuclear power plants, and utilities like clean water, gas, and electricity. The protection of these infrastructures is cruci... Read More about Adversarial Attacks on Supervised Energy-Based Anomaly Detection in Clean Water Systems.

Business Events and the Efficacy of UN SDGS for the Knowledge City (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robertson, M. (2025, February). Business Events and the Efficacy of UN SDGS for the Knowledge City. Paper presented at Tourism Research Seminar, Edinburgh Napier University, UK

Models of knowledge cities, the learning city, the incubation city, the smart city, and knowledge region are well established. With the evolution of the innovation paradigm, the understanding of regional innovation is being expanded. Business events... Read More about Business Events and the Efficacy of UN SDGS for the Knowledge City.

Optimizing cardiac rehabilitation: structuring dietary support for improved post myocardial infarction outcomes (2025)
Journal Article
Czapla, M., & Uchmanowicz, I. (2025). Optimizing cardiac rehabilitation: structuring dietary support for improved post myocardial infarction outcomes. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 24(4), 606–607. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjcn/zvaf019

This invited commentary refers to ‘Older adults with acute coronary syndrome: The impact of frailty and nutritional status on in-hospital complications’, by M. Jiménez-Salva et al., https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjcn/zvaf006.

Unleashing the Power of Generative AI in Agriculture 4.0 for Smart and Sustainable Farming (2025)
Journal Article
Sai, S., Kumar, S., Gaur, A., Goyal, S., Chamola, V., & Hussain, A. (2025). Unleashing the Power of Generative AI in Agriculture 4.0 for Smart and Sustainable Farming. Cognitive Computation, 17(1), Article 63. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-025-10420-6

Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) represents a pioneering class of artificial intelligence systems renowned for producing diverse media, such as text and images. Agriculture 4.0 (AG-4.0) is a concept that integrates advanced technologies such... Read More about Unleashing the Power of Generative AI in Agriculture 4.0 for Smart and Sustainable Farming.

Creating a Cross-Race Effect Inventory to Postdict Eyewitness Accuracy (2025)
Journal Article
Toredi, D., Mansour, J., Jones, S., Skelton, F., & McIntyre, A. (in press). Creating a Cross-Race Effect Inventory to Postdict Eyewitness Accuracy. Law and Human Behavior,

Objective: The Cross-Race Effect (CRE) is a reliable and robust phenomenon, whereby individuals better recognize faces that belong to their race compared to another race. Our goal was to produce items for a self-report Inventory (i.e., CRE-I) that br... Read More about Creating a Cross-Race Effect Inventory to Postdict Eyewitness Accuracy.

Scaling to new heights: methodological insights for uplifting research on grassroots digital innovation (2025)
Journal Article
Gerli, P., Neves da Rocha, F., & Mora, L. (2025). Scaling to new heights: methodological insights for uplifting research on grassroots digital innovation. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12, Article 126. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-04320-7

The Covid-19 pandemic has further evidenced the potential of grassroots actors as initiators of digital innovations, in the form of open-source applications, platform cooperatives, and other crowdsourced digital artifacts. These innovations played a... Read More about Scaling to new heights: methodological insights for uplifting research on grassroots digital innovation.

Experiences of early assessment to teach functional programming (2025)
Journal Article
Chapman, P. (2025). Experiences of early assessment to teach functional programming. Journal of Functional Programming, 35, Article e4. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956796824000182

This paper reports on the experiences of using an early assessment intervention, specifically employing a Use-Modify-Create scaffold, to teach first-year undergraduate functional programming. The particular intervention that was trialled was the use... Read More about Experiences of early assessment to teach functional programming.

Vortex generators in heat sinks: Design, optimisation, applications and future trends (2025)
Journal Article
Ismail, M., Ali, A. M., & Costa Pereira, S.-C. (2025). Vortex generators in heat sinks: Design, optimisation, applications and future trends. Results in Engineering, 25, Article 104216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rineng.2025.104216

Vortex generators (VGs) have been identified as an exceedingly effective method in augmenting heat transfer in minichannels, a significant feature of cutting-edge heat sinks, heat exchangers and electronics cooling tools. This paper aims to discuss t... Read More about Vortex generators in heat sinks: Design, optimisation, applications and future trends.

The Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma, Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adverse Family Experiences: A Qualitative Exploration of Sibling Resilience (2025)
Journal Article
Nichol, M. R., Curley, L. J., & Sime, P. J. (2025). The Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma, Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adverse Family Experiences: A Qualitative Exploration of Sibling Resilience. Behavioral Sciences, 15(2), Article 161. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15020161

The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Adverse Family Experiences (AFEs) frameworks have been employed extensively in research. However, to date, no such studies have considered both frameworks concurrently, nor have they explored the similarit... Read More about The Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma, Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adverse Family Experiences: A Qualitative Exploration of Sibling Resilience.

Barriers to achieving net zero sustainability target for Edinburgh City: private property owners’ perspective (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ikediashi, D., Walker, C., & Jaradat, S. (2024, September). Barriers to achieving net zero sustainability target for Edinburgh City: private property owners’ perspective. Presented at The Fourteenth International Conference on Construction in the 21st Century (CITC-14), Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

The recent successes made at the 28th Conference of Parties (COP) held in Dubai is a testament that governments globally are committed to combating climate change. United Kingdom is no different and its various devolved powers have made carbon reduct... Read More about Barriers to achieving net zero sustainability target for Edinburgh City: private property owners’ perspective.

An Assessment of Demersal Elasmobranch Occurrence and Associated Habitats Using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) (2025)
Journal Article
Taylor, J., Howe, J. A., Thorburn, J., Fox, C. J., McGonigle, C., & Rybanska, P. (2025). An Assessment of Demersal Elasmobranch Occurrence and Associated Habitats Using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). Marine Ecology, 46(1), Article e70000. https://doi.org/10.1111/maec.70000

To implement effective management and conservation strategies, an understanding of the spatial ecology, habitat preferences and movement of demersal elasmobranchs is required. This study combines a photographic survey obtained from an autonomous unde... Read More about An Assessment of Demersal Elasmobranch Occurrence and Associated Habitats Using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV).

Using a digital health intervention “INTERCEPT” to improve secondary prevention in coronary heart disease (CHD) patients: protocol for a mixed methods non-randomised feasibility study (2025)
Journal Article
Gibson, I., Jennings, C., Neubeck, L., Corcoran, M., Wood, D., Sharif, F., Hynes, L., Murphy, A. W., Byrne, M., & McEvoy, J. W. (in press). Using a digital health intervention “INTERCEPT” to improve secondary prevention in coronary heart disease (CHD) patients: protocol for a mixed methods non-randomised feasibility study. HRB Open Research, 6, Article 43. https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13781.2

Background
Digital health interventions (DHIs) are increasingly used for the secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The aim of this study is to determine the feasibility of “INTERCEPT”, a co-designed DHI developed to improve secondary... Read More about Using a digital health intervention “INTERCEPT” to improve secondary prevention in coronary heart disease (CHD) patients: protocol for a mixed methods non-randomised feasibility study.