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Scottish Drug Checking Project summary (2024)
Report
Carver, H., Falzon, D., Aston, E., Craik, V., Masterson, W., & Parkes, T. (2024). Scottish Drug Checking Project summary. Corra Foundation

What might make nurses stay? A protocol for discrete choice experiments to understand NHS nurses’ preferences at early-career and late-career stages (2024)
Journal Article
Ejebu, O., Turnbull, J., Atherton, I., Rafferty, A. M., Palmer, B., Philippou, J., Prichard, J., Jamieson, M., Rolewicz, L., Williams, M., & Ball, J. (2024). What might make nurses stay? A protocol for discrete choice experiments to understand NHS nurses’ preferences at early-career and late-career stages. BMJ Open, 14, Article e075066. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-075066

Introduction: Like many countries, England has a national shortage of registered nurses. Employers strive to retain existing staff, to ease supply pressures. Disproportionate numbers of nurses leave the National Health Services (NHS) both early in th... Read More about What might make nurses stay? A protocol for discrete choice experiments to understand NHS nurses’ preferences at early-career and late-career stages.

Information Literacy Impact Framework (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ryan, B., Cruickshank, P., & Milosheva, M. (in press). Information Literacy Impact Framework. In ECIL2023 (15-27). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52998-6_2

This paper presents findings from a scoping review of academic literature reporting on information literacy (IL) impact. It is intended to deliver considerations towards a framework for impactful IL interventions, including development of parameters... Read More about Information Literacy Impact Framework.

‘New Clicks’: Developing User-Led Digital Literacies in Older Adults Within Scottish Public Libraries (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Feeney, A. J. (2024). ‘New Clicks’: Developing User-Led Digital Literacies in Older Adults Within Scottish Public Libraries. In European Conference on Information Literacy (121-129). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53001-2_11

Background
Research details that our present ‘digital-by-default' society structurally supports inequalities, where users without the requisite skills to enable meaningful engagement in the digital world are at an i ncreasingly severe disadvantage (... Read More about ‘New Clicks’: Developing User-Led Digital Literacies in Older Adults Within Scottish Public Libraries.

Are Legal Systems Converging or Diverging? Lessons from Contemporary Crises (2024)
Book
Ghio, E., & Perlingeiro, R. (Eds.). (2024). Are Legal Systems Converging or Diverging? Lessons from Contemporary Crises. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38180-5

This edited volume investigates legal convergence. It takes an international and thematical approach where chapters focus on how selected legal areas in selected jurisdictions have responded to contemporary crises. The volume aims to provide some ins... Read More about Are Legal Systems Converging or Diverging? Lessons from Contemporary Crises.

Terminology (2024)
Book Chapter
Ghio, E. (2024). Terminology. In E. Ghio, & R. Perlingeiro (Eds.), Are Legal Systems Converging or Diverging? Lessons from Contemporary Crises (15-25). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38180-5_2

This chapter presents the background and framework of the book. It defines key terms, concepts and phenomena relating to the discussions in this volume, such as crisis, globalisation, integration, disintegration, harmonisation, convergence and legal... Read More about Terminology.

Introduction: Convergence and Divergence in Times of Crisis (2024)
Book Chapter
Ghio, E. (2024). Introduction: Convergence and Divergence in Times of Crisis. In E. Ghio, & R. Perlingeiro (Eds.), Are Legal Systems Converging or Diverging? Lessons from Contemporary Crises (1-11). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38180-5_1

While legal harmonisation/convergence is considered to be one of the most influential theses in the discipline of law, the law of harmonisation is full of paradoxes. On the one hand, legal borrowing is commonplace, leading to a phenomenon of converge... Read More about Introduction: Convergence and Divergence in Times of Crisis.

Harmonisation and European Integration in Times of Crisis (2024)
Book Chapter
Ghio, E. (2024). Harmonisation and European Integration in Times of Crisis. In E. Ghio, & R. Perlingeiro (Eds.), Are Legal Systems Converging or Diverging? Lessons from Contemporary Crises (255-276). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38180-5_14

Globalisation, generally, and European integration, more specifically, have led to calls for the minimisation of legal diversity which can result in transaction costs and the lack of level-playing field for cross-border actors. One of the prevailing... Read More about Harmonisation and European Integration in Times of Crisis.

A Review of the Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT): Challenges and Opportunities (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abubakar, M., Gunathilake, N. A., Buchanan, W. J., & O’Reilly, B. (2023, August). A Review of the Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT): Challenges and Opportunities. Presented at 13th EAI International Conference, BDTA 2023, Edinburgh

Non-Fungible Token (NFT) is an emerging blockchain-based technology. These tokens can represent digital assets, as it has proof of ownership built in. NFTs have the potential to hugely influence both the decentralised markets that exist now and the c... Read More about A Review of the Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT): Challenges and Opportunities.

RI-L1Approx: A novel Resnet-Inception-based Fast L1-approximation method for face recognition (2024)
Journal Article
Bajpai, S., Mishra, G., Jain, R., Jain, D. K., Saini, D., & Hussain, A. (2024). RI-L1Approx: A novel Resnet-Inception-based Fast L1-approximation method for face recognition. Neurocomputing, 613, Article 128708. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2024.128708

Performance of deep learning methods for face recognition often relies on abundant data, posing challenges in surveillance and security where data availability is limited and environments are unconstrained. To address this challenge, we propose a nov... Read More about RI-L1Approx: A novel Resnet-Inception-based Fast L1-approximation method for face recognition.

The Lions’ Gate Permaculture Garden (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine
Egan, C. (2024). The Lions’ Gate Permaculture Garden

Callum Egan explains how his academic community transformed The Lions’ Gate at Napier University, Edinburgh, into a series of permaculture gardens to create a healthier, nature-focused form of educational workplace

Better trees: an empirical study on hyperparameter tuning of classification decision tree induction algorithms (2024)
Journal Article
Mantovani, R. G., Horváth, T., Rossi, A. L. D., Cerri, R., Barbon Junior, S., Vanschoren, J., & de Carvalho, A. C. P. L. F. (2024). Better trees: an empirical study on hyperparameter tuning of classification decision tree induction algorithms. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 38, 1364–1416. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10618-024-01002-5

Machine learning algorithms often contain many hyperparameters whose values affect the predictive performance of the induced models in intricate ways. Due to the high number of possibilities for these hyperparameter configurations and their complex i... Read More about Better trees: an empirical study on hyperparameter tuning of classification decision tree induction algorithms.

Recruitment and baseline data of the Aging and Cognitive Health Evaluation in Elders (ACHIEVE) study: A randomized trial of a hearing loss intervention for reducing cognitive decline (2024)
Journal Article
Reed, N. S., Gravens‐Mueller, L., Huang, A. R., Goman, A. M., Mitchell, C. M., Arnold, M. L., Bolton, S., Burgard, S., Chisolm, T. H., Couper, D., Deal, J. A., Evans, J., Faucette, S., Glynn, N. W., Gmelin, T., Hayden, K. M., Miller, E., Minotti, M., Mosley, T., Naylor, S., …for the ACHIEVE Collaborative Research Group. (2024). Recruitment and baseline data of the Aging and Cognitive Health Evaluation in Elders (ACHIEVE) study: A randomized trial of a hearing loss intervention for reducing cognitive decline. Alzheimer's and Dementia: Translational Research and Clinical Interventions, 10(1), Article e12453. https://doi.org/10.1002/trc2.12453

INTRODUCTION
Hearing loss is highly prevalent among older adults and independently associated with cognitive decline. The Aging and Cognitive Health Evaluation in Elders (ACHIEVE) study is a multicenter randomized control trial (partially nested wit... Read More about Recruitment and baseline data of the Aging and Cognitive Health Evaluation in Elders (ACHIEVE) study: A randomized trial of a hearing loss intervention for reducing cognitive decline.

Active Cellulose-Based Food Packaging and Its Use on Foodstuff (2024)
Journal Article
Irimia, A., Grigoraș, V. C., & Popescu, C. (2024). Active Cellulose-Based Food Packaging and Its Use on Foodstuff. Polymers, 16(3), Article 389. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym16030389

The essential role of active packaging is food quality improvement, which results in an extension of shelf life. Active packaging can also further enhance distribution from the origin point, and contributes to food waste reduction, offering greater s... Read More about Active Cellulose-Based Food Packaging and Its Use on Foodstuff.

Do Workplace Fish Tanks Influence Employee Wellbeing and Cognitive Performance? An Embedded Mixed-Methods Study (2024)
Journal Article
Clements, H., Valentin, S., Jenkins, N., Rankin, J., Gee, N. R., Snellgrove, D., & Sloman, K. A. (2024). Do Workplace Fish Tanks Influence Employee Wellbeing and Cognitive Performance? An Embedded Mixed-Methods Study. Anthrozoös, 37(3), 459-478. https://doi.org/10.1080/08927936.2024.2303227

Evidence from “pet-friendly” workplaces highlights potential benefits associated with taking companion animals to work, including reduced stress among employees. Ornamental fishes carry a much lower risk than other companion animals and may be a suit... Read More about Do Workplace Fish Tanks Influence Employee Wellbeing and Cognitive Performance? An Embedded Mixed-Methods Study.

Can Federated Models Be Rectified Through Learning Negative Gradients? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tahir, A., Tan, Z., & Babaagba, K. O. Can Federated Models Be Rectified Through Learning Negative Gradients?. Presented at 13th EAI International Conference, BDTA 2023, Edinburgh

Federated Learning (FL) is a method to train machine learning (ML) models in a decentralised manner, while preserving the privacy of data from multiple clients. However, FL is vulnerable to malicious attacks, such as poisoning attacks, and is challen... Read More about Can Federated Models Be Rectified Through Learning Negative Gradients?.

Cumulative risk exposure is associated with increased risk for PTSD but not depression or anxiety. Results from a UK clinical sample of children and adolescents (2024)
Journal Article
Turgoose, D., Wilkinson, S., Shevlin, M., & Karatzias, T. (2024). Cumulative risk exposure is associated with increased risk for PTSD but not depression or anxiety. Results from a UK clinical sample of children and adolescents. Developmental Child Welfare, 6(2), 79-90. https://doi.org/10.1177/25161032241230980

Background
Childhood adversity can include traumatic experiences and exposure to other risk factors; consistently predicting poorer psychosocial outcomes in adulthood. Relatively little research has investigated the impact of cumulative risk exposur... Read More about Cumulative risk exposure is associated with increased risk for PTSD but not depression or anxiety. Results from a UK clinical sample of children and adolescents.

Design Of A Serious Game For Safety In Manufacturing Industry Using Hybrid Simulation Modelling: Towards Eliciting Risk Preferences (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
El Raoui, H., Quigley, J., Aslan, A., Vasantha, G., Hanson, J., Corney, J., & Sherlock, A. (2023, December). Design Of A Serious Game For Safety In Manufacturing Industry Using Hybrid Simulation Modelling: Towards Eliciting Risk Preferences. Presented at The Winter Simulation Conference 2023, San Antonio, Texas

Conventional methods used to elicit risk-taking preferences have demonstrated significant disparities with real-world behaviours, compromising the validity of the data collected. Serious gaming (SG) provides a high potential to bridge this gap. This... Read More about Design Of A Serious Game For Safety In Manufacturing Industry Using Hybrid Simulation Modelling: Towards Eliciting Risk Preferences.

An Auditable Framework for Evidence Sharing and Management using Smart Lockers and Distributed Technologies: Law Enforcement Use Case (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Onyeashie, B., Leimich, P., McKeown, S., & Russell, G. (2023, August). An Auditable Framework for Evidence Sharing and Management using Smart Lockers and Distributed Technologies: Law Enforcement Use Case. Presented at EAI BDTA 2023 - 13th EAI International Conference on Big Data Technologies and Applications, Edinburgh

This paper presents a decentralised framework for sharing and managing evidence that uses smart lockers, blockchain technology, and the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS). The system incorporates Hyperledger Fabric blockchain for immutability and tamp... Read More about An Auditable Framework for Evidence Sharing and Management using Smart Lockers and Distributed Technologies: Law Enforcement Use Case.