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Auditory Occlusion Based on the Human Body in the Direct Sound Path: Measured and Perceivable Effects (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McSeveney, S., Tamariz, M., McGregor, I., Koniaris, B., & Mitchell, K. (2024, September). Auditory Occlusion Based on the Human Body in the Direct Sound Path: Measured and Perceivable Effects. Presented at Audio Mostly 2024 - Explorations in Sonic Cultures, Milan, Italy

Audio plays a key role in the sense of immersion and presence in VR, as it correlates to improved enjoyment of content. We share results of a perception study on the ability of listeners to recognise auditory occlusion due to the presence of a human... Read More about Auditory Occlusion Based on the Human Body in the Direct Sound Path: Measured and Perceivable Effects.

Blue Carbon Ecosystems in Malaysia – Status, Threats, and the Way Forward for Research and Policy (2024)
Journal Article
Lee, S. L., Yin Chee, S., Huxham, M., Jamilah, M., Choo, J., Rita Kaur, C., Aldrie Amir, A., Lean Sim Ooi, J., Rozaimi, M., Omar, H., Sharma, S., Moritz, M., & Yee-Hui Then, A. (online). Blue Carbon Ecosystems in Malaysia – Status, Threats, and the Way Forward for Research and Policy. Journal of Environment and Development, https://doi.org/10.1177/10704965241284366

Malaysia hosts some of the most productive blue carbon ecosystems globally. Here we review the status of and known threats faced by local mangroves and seagrass and examine conservation prospects using carbon financing. Based on lessons learnt from b... Read More about Blue Carbon Ecosystems in Malaysia – Status, Threats, and the Way Forward for Research and Policy.

Experiences and Health Outcomes of Emerging Adults with Type 1 Diabetes: A Mixed Methods Study (2024)
Journal Article
Al Bayrakdar, A., Puzantian, H., Noureddine, S., Abu-Saad Huijer, H., Nasrallah, M., Joiner, K. L., Martyn-Nemeth, P., & Tfayli, H. (in press). Experiences and Health Outcomes of Emerging Adults with Type 1 Diabetes: A Mixed Methods Study. Nursing Research, https://doi.org/10.1097/nnr.0000000000000781

Background
Emerging adults with type 1 diabetes are at risk of poorer diabetes-related health outcomes than other age groups. Several factors affecting the health and experiences of the emerging adults are culture and healthcare specific.
Objectiv... Read More about Experiences and Health Outcomes of Emerging Adults with Type 1 Diabetes: A Mixed Methods Study.

Transparent RFID tag wall enabled by artificial intelligence for assisted living (2024)
Journal Article
Khan, M. Z., Usman, M., Tahir, A., Farooq, M., Qayyum, A., Ahmad, J., Abbas, H., Imran, M., & Abbasi, Q. H. (2024). Transparent RFID tag wall enabled by artificial intelligence for assisted living. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 18896. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-64411-y

Current approaches to activity-assisted living (AAL) are complex, expensive, and intrusive, which reduces their practicality and end user acceptance. However, emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and wireless communications offer new... Read More about Transparent RFID tag wall enabled by artificial intelligence for assisted living.

Information avoidance by younger adults with Type 1 diabetes: A preliminary empirical study (2024)
Journal Article
Ryan, B., & Webster, G. (2024). Information avoidance by younger adults with Type 1 diabetes: A preliminary empirical study. Information Research, 29(3), 56-73. https://doi.org/10.47989/ir293701

Introduction. People with Type 1 diabetes need to collect data to calculate their own insulin doses, and collect information about potential complications. However, information avoidance may be a barrier to such activities.
Method. A preliminary stu... Read More about Information avoidance by younger adults with Type 1 diabetes: A preliminary empirical study.

A New Zero Waste Design for a Manufacturing Approach for Direct-Drive Wind Turbine Electrical Generator Structural Components (2024)
Journal Article
Gonzalez-Delgado, D., Jaen-Sola, P., & Oterkus, E. (2024). A New Zero Waste Design for a Manufacturing Approach for Direct-Drive Wind Turbine Electrical Generator Structural Components. Machines, 12(9), Article 643. https://doi.org/10.3390/machines12090643

An integrated structural optimization strategy was produced in this study for direct-drive electrical generator structures of offshore wind turbines, implementing a design for an additive manufacturing approach, and using generative design techniques... Read More about A New Zero Waste Design for a Manufacturing Approach for Direct-Drive Wind Turbine Electrical Generator Structural Components.

MTFDN: An image copy‐move forgery detection method based on multi‐task learning (2024)
Journal Article
Liang, P., Tu, H., Hussain, A., & Li, Z. (online). MTFDN: An image copy‐move forgery detection method based on multi‐task learning. Expert Systems, https://doi.org/10.1111/exsy.13729

Image copy-move forgery, where an image region is copied and pasted within the same image, is a simple yet widely employed manipulation. In this paper, we rethink copy-move forgery detection from the perspective of multi-task learning and summarize t... Read More about MTFDN: An image copy‐move forgery detection method based on multi‐task learning.

Translation and validation of the Czech Partner version of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R) (2024)
Journal Article
Lochmannová, A., Hollins Martin, C. J., & Martin, C. R. (online). Translation and validation of the Czech Partner version of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R). Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2024.2401828

Background
The Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R) is a widely used, psychometrically robust and brief self-report measure of birth experience from the mothers perspective. The current study sought to adapt and validate the BSS-R for partners,... Read More about Translation and validation of the Czech Partner version of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R).

Digital Musicianship in Post-Pandemic Popular Music Education (2024)
Journal Article
Cheng, L., Moir, Z., Bell, A. P., Humberstone, J., & Hein, E. (in press). Digital Musicianship in Post-Pandemic Popular Music Education. International Journal of Music Education,

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about dramatic changes in popular music education, underscoring the importance of technology in both practice and transmission. Nevertheless, the celebration of technological integration as a one-stop solution has le... Read More about Digital Musicianship in Post-Pandemic Popular Music Education.

Coming and going: A narrative review exploring the push-pull factors during nurses’ careers (2024)
Journal Article
Ejebu, O.-Z., Philippou, J., Turnbull, J., Rafferty, A. M., Palmer, W., Prichard, J., Atherton, I., Jamieson, M., Rolewicz, L., Williams, M., & Ball, J. (2024). Coming and going: A narrative review exploring the push-pull factors during nurses’ careers. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 160, Article 104908. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2024.104908

Background: Shortages of nurses are one of the biggest challenges healthcare systems face around the world. Given the wide range of contexts and individuals working in nursing, a ‘one-size-fits-all’ retention strategy is unlikely to be effective. Kno... Read More about Coming and going: A narrative review exploring the push-pull factors during nurses’ careers.

The Performance of Frequency Fitness Assignment on JSSP for Different Problem Instance Sizes (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pijning, I., Koppenhol, L., Dijkzeul, D., Brouwer, N., Thomson, S. L., & van den Berg, D. (2024, November). The Performance of Frequency Fitness Assignment on JSSP for Different Problem Instance Sizes. Paper presented at ECTA 2024: 16th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications, Porto, Portugal

This study compares the performance of the hillClimber algorithm to that of the hillClimber with a plugged in Frequency Fitness Assignment (FFA) method on the optimization of 240 Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP) instances. The JSSP instances have b... Read More about The Performance of Frequency Fitness Assignment on JSSP for Different Problem Instance Sizes.

In-person and online mixed method non-randomised studies exploring feasibility and acceptability of HEADS: UP, an adapted Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction programme for stroke survivors experiencing symptoms of anxiety and depression (2024)
Journal Article
Lawrence, M., Davis, B., Clark, N. E., Booth, J., Donald, G., Dougall, N., Grealy, M., Jani, B., MacDonald, J., Mason, H., Maxwell, M., Parkinson, B., Pieri, M., Wang, X., & Mercer, S. (2024). In-person and online mixed method non-randomised studies exploring feasibility and acceptability of HEADS: UP, an adapted Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction programme for stroke survivors experiencing symptoms of anxiety and depression. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 10(1), Article 119. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-024-01545-w

Background
Depression and anxiety are prevalent after stroke and associated with poor outcomes. We previously co-developed a stroke-specific self-management intervention, HEADS: UP (Helping Ease Anxiety and Depression after Stroke). The two studies... Read More about In-person and online mixed method non-randomised studies exploring feasibility and acceptability of HEADS: UP, an adapted Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction programme for stroke survivors experiencing symptoms of anxiety and depression.

Impacts of forest extent, configuration and landscape context on presence of declining breeding Eurasian curlew Numenius arquata and implications for planning new woodland (2024)
Journal Article
McGrory, R. E., Briers, R. A., Tomlin, C., Findlay, M. A., Kerslake, L. J., Riddle, N., & White, P. J. (2024). Impacts of forest extent, configuration and landscape context on presence of declining breeding Eurasian curlew Numenius arquata and implications for planning new woodland. Forest Ecology and Management, 572, Article 122281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.122281

In response to the combined impacts of the climate and biodiversity crises, as well as for timber security and increased recreational access to green spaces, there is a global drive to increase tree cover. In the UK, an estimated 1.5 million ha of af... Read More about Impacts of forest extent, configuration and landscape context on presence of declining breeding Eurasian curlew Numenius arquata and implications for planning new woodland.

Discovery of Benzopyrone-Based Candidates as Potential Antimicrobial and Photochemotherapeutic Agents through Inhibition of DNA Gyrase Enzyme B: Design, Synthesis, In Vitro and In Silico Evaluation (2024)
Journal Article
Abd El-Haleem, A., Ammar, U., Masci, D., El-Ansary, S., Abdel Rahman, D., Abou-Elazm, F., & El-Dydamony, N. (2024). Discovery of Benzopyrone-Based Candidates as Potential Antimicrobial and Photochemotherapeutic Agents through Inhibition of DNA Gyrase Enzyme B: Design, Synthesis, In Vitro and In Silico Evaluation. Pharmaceuticals, 17(9), Article 1197. https://doi.org/10.3390/ph17091197

Bacterial DNA gyrase is considered one of the validated targets for antibacterial drug discovery. Benzopyrones have been reported as promising derivatives that inhibit bacterial DNA gyrase B through competitive binding into the ATP binding site of th... Read More about Discovery of Benzopyrone-Based Candidates as Potential Antimicrobial and Photochemotherapeutic Agents through Inhibition of DNA Gyrase Enzyme B: Design, Synthesis, In Vitro and In Silico Evaluation.

Novel Lagrange Multipliers-Driven Adaptive Offloading for Vehicular Edge Computing (2024)
Journal Article
Zhao, L., Li, T., Meng, G., Hawbani, A., Min, G., Al-Dubai, A., & Zomaya, A. (online). Novel Lagrange Multipliers-Driven Adaptive Offloading for Vehicular Edge Computing. IEEE Transactions on Computers, https://doi.org/10.1109/TC.2024.3457729

Vehicular Edge Computing (VEC) is a transportation-specific version of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) designed for vehicular scenarios. Task offloading allows vehicles to send computational tasks to nearby Roadside Units (RSUs) in order to reduce the co... Read More about Novel Lagrange Multipliers-Driven Adaptive Offloading for Vehicular Edge Computing.

A method for constrained energy-maximising control of heaving wave-energy converters via a nonlinear frequency response (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Guiver, C. (2024, August). A method for constrained energy-maximising control of heaving wave-energy converters via a nonlinear frequency response. Presented at The 8th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) 2024, Newcastle Upon Tyne

A theoretical grounding is presented for justifying how frequency domain methods may be applied in the determination of constrained extracted-energy maximising controls in wave-energy conversion applications subject to nonlinear models. A computation... Read More about A method for constrained energy-maximising control of heaving wave-energy converters via a nonlinear frequency response.

Unregulated Futures: Scenario Planning for the Unknown (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crawford, M., Roubelat, F., & Marchais-Roubelat, A. (2024, September). Unregulated Futures: Scenario Planning for the Unknown. Presented at Anticipation 2024, Lancaster, UK

Building from years of piloting novel methods for future visioning through group engagement, this curated session will take attendees through a fast-tracked, yet fully- immersive scenario planning workshop. The prompt is, “What does 2034 look like if... Read More about Unregulated Futures: Scenario Planning for the Unknown.

Designing out Barriers - Student Partnership for Student Voice Research (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Garden, C., Skelton, F., & Calabrese, P. (2024, September). Designing out Barriers - Student Partnership for Student Voice Research. Presented at RAISE Annual Conference 2024, Leicester

We are committed to creating a culture of inclusion at Edinburgh Napier University. Listening to and respecting the student voice are part of the culture – to be an inclusive university we must have ways to hear every student and work to remove any b... Read More about Designing out Barriers - Student Partnership for Student Voice Research.

The occupational roles of nurses and midwives in the UK: an analysis of the Nursing and Midwifery Council-census England and Wales 2021 data linkage study (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, M., Savinc, J., & Atherton, I. (2024, September). The occupational roles of nurses and midwives in the UK: an analysis of the Nursing and Midwifery Council-census England and Wales 2021 data linkage study. Presented at International Population Data Linkage Network (IPDLN) 2024, Chicago, IL, USA