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Digitization of healthcare sector: A study on privacy and security concerns (2023)
Journal Article
Paul, M., Maglaras, L., Ferrag, M. A., & Almomani, I. (2023). Digitization of healthcare sector: A study on privacy and security concerns. ICT Express, 9(4), 571-588. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icte.2023.02.007

The digital revolution has taken business sectors to a new height through the advancement of technology. The healthcare sector also embraced digital technology to facilitate technological change from mechanical and analogue electronic devices to the... Read More about Digitization of healthcare sector: A study on privacy and security concerns.

Literary Prize Cultures: A Fairer Future? (2023)
Journal Article
Marsden, S. (2023). Literary Prize Cultures: A Fairer Future?. Wasafiri, 38(1), 67-79. https://doi.org/10.1080/02690055.2023.2133859

In June 2022, Costa Coffee announced that they would no longer be running the Costa Book Awards, one of the UK's most significant series of awards for fiction, children's books, poetry, non-fiction, and short fiction. The cancellation of the awards w... Read More about Literary Prize Cultures: A Fairer Future?.

Interculturality-in-Action: Communication Affordances used by International Postgraduate Students at a Thai University (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M. (2023, February). Interculturality-in-Action: Communication Affordances used by International Postgraduate Students at a Thai University. Paper presented at GXUST-ENU 2023 Research Seminar

The current investigation explores interculturality by looking at the communicative practices of a culturally and linguistically diverse group of international and local postgraduate students from China, Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines and Thailand.... Read More about Interculturality-in-Action: Communication Affordances used by International Postgraduate Students at a Thai University.

Vital Conditions to Remove Pollutants from Synthetic Wastewater Using Malaysian Ganoderma lucidum (2023)
Journal Article
Mooralitharan, S., Mohd Hanafiah, Z., Abd Manan, T. S. B., Muhammad-Sukki, F., Wan-Mohtar, W. A. A. Q. I., & Wan Mohtar, W. H. M. (2023). Vital Conditions to Remove Pollutants from Synthetic Wastewater Using Malaysian Ganoderma lucidum. Sustainability, 15(4), Article 3819. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043819

Mycoremediation, a fungal-based technology, has seen tremendous growth as an effective alternative to treat industrial wastewater due to its ability to oxidise pollutant loadings. Considering the non-toxic properties and high potential degradation pe... Read More about Vital Conditions to Remove Pollutants from Synthetic Wastewater Using Malaysian Ganoderma lucidum.

How AI could undermine diversity in the curriculum (2023)
Newspaper / Magazine
Illingworth, S. (2023). How AI could undermine diversity in the curriculum. [Blog]

The biases inherent in artificial intelligence are well known – and could be coming to a classroom near you. Sam Illingworth tackles the dark side of ChatGPT

The Quintuple Bottom Line: A Framework for Place-Based Sustainable Enterprise in the Craft Industry (2023)
Journal Article
Panneels, I. (2023). The Quintuple Bottom Line: A Framework for Place-Based Sustainable Enterprise in the Craft Industry. Sustainability, 15(4), Article 3791. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043791

This study proposes to extend the sustainable business framework of the Quadruple Bottom Line into the Quintuple Bottom Line. The five Ps of the Quintuple Bottom Line support purpose-driven businesses to consider economic profitability alongside soci... Read More about The Quintuple Bottom Line: A Framework for Place-Based Sustainable Enterprise in the Craft Industry.

‘I’m not going to leave someone to die’: carriage of naloxone by police in Scotland within a public health framework: a qualitative study of acceptability and experiences (2023)
Journal Article
Speakman, E. M., Hillen, P., Heyman, I., Murray, J., Dougall, N., Aston, E. V., & McAuley, A. (2023). ‘I’m not going to leave someone to die’: carriage of naloxone by police in Scotland within a public health framework: a qualitative study of acceptability and experiences. Harm Reduction Journal, 20, Article 20. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-023-00750-9

Background Scotland has one of the highest rates of drug-related deaths (DRDs) per capita in Europe, the majority of which involve opioids. Naloxone is a medication used to reverse opioid-related overdoses. In efforts to tackle escalating DRDs in ma... Read More about ‘I’m not going to leave someone to die’: carriage of naloxone by police in Scotland within a public health framework: a qualitative study of acceptability and experiences.

Ethical bank disclosures and liquidity creation (2023)
Journal Article
Kladakis, G., Chen, L., & Bellos, S. K. (2023). Ethical bank disclosures and liquidity creation. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 84, Article 101754. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2023.101754

Ethics in finance and in banks have attracted increasing attention after the global financial crisis of 2007-2009. Although engagement in more ethical activities for banks has been a legitimate social expectation, the impact of it on the financial pe... Read More about Ethical bank disclosures and liquidity creation.

Analysis of Attitudes towards Food Waste in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Using Fuzzy Logic (2023)
Journal Article
Malibari, A., Alsawah, G., Saleh, W., & Lashin, M. M. A. (2023). Analysis of Attitudes towards Food Waste in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Using Fuzzy Logic. Sustainability, 15(4), Article 3668. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043668

Attitudes and feelings towards food waste and positions on management policies have been vastly increased over the past few decades. Most of the available research on the analysis of attitudes towards food waste have been carried out using convention... Read More about Analysis of Attitudes towards Food Waste in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Using Fuzzy Logic.

A scoping review of the evidence for the use of screening tools in people with intellectual disabilities with dysphagia (2023)
Journal Article
O'Leary, L., Maine, A., Ring, N., Reid, J., Speirs, L., Allan, L., Truesdale, M., & Taggart, L. (2023). A scoping review of the evidence for the use of screening tools in people with intellectual disabilities with dysphagia. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 36(3), 429-447. https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.13076

Background Dysphagia can have serious health implications including choking and respiratory infection leading to poorer quality of life. People with intellectual disabilities are at higher risk of dysphagia related health complications and early dea... Read More about A scoping review of the evidence for the use of screening tools in people with intellectual disabilities with dysphagia.

Overdose Alert and Response Technologies: State-of-the-art Review (2023)
Journal Article
Oteo, A., Daneshvar, H., Baldacchino, A., & Matheson, C. (2023). Overdose Alert and Response Technologies: State-of-the-art Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 25, Article e40389. https://doi.org/10.2196/40389

Background: Drug overdose deaths, particularly from opioids, are a major global burden, with 128,000 deaths estimated in 2019. Opioid overdoses can be reversed through the timely administration of naloxone but only if responders are able to administ... Read More about Overdose Alert and Response Technologies: State-of-the-art Review.

Interactive Effect of Learning Rate and Batch Size to Implement Transfer Learning for Brain Tumor Classification (2023)
Journal Article
Usmani, I. A., Qadri, M. T., Zia, R., Alrayes, F. S., Saidani, O., & Dashtipour, K. (2023). Interactive Effect of Learning Rate and Batch Size to Implement Transfer Learning for Brain Tumor Classification. Electronics, 12(4), Article 964. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12040964

For classifying brain tumors with small datasets, the knowledge-based transfer learning (KBTL) approach has performed very well in attaining an optimized classification model. However, its successful implementation is typically affected by different... Read More about Interactive Effect of Learning Rate and Batch Size to Implement Transfer Learning for Brain Tumor Classification.

Preserving Differential Privacy in Deep Learning Based on Feature Relevance Region Segmentation (2023)
Journal Article
Wang, F., Xie, M., Tan, Z., Li, Q., & Wang, C. (2024). Preserving Differential Privacy in Deep Learning Based on Feature Relevance Region Segmentation. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 12(1), 307 - 315. https://doi.org/10.1109/TETC.2023.3244174

In the era of big data, deep learning techniques provide intelligent solutions for various problems in real-life scenarios. However, deep neural networks depend on large-scale datasets including sensitive data, which causes the potential risk of priv... Read More about Preserving Differential Privacy in Deep Learning Based on Feature Relevance Region Segmentation.

General practitioners’ perceptions on opportunistic single-time point screening for atrial fibrillation: A European quantitative survey (2023)
Journal Article
Vermunicht, P., Grecu, M., Deharo, J., Buckley, C. M., Palà, E., Mairesse, G. H., Farkowski, M. M., Bergonti, M., Pürerfellner, H., Hanson, C. L., Neubeck, L., Freedman, B., Witt, H., Hills, M. T., Lund, J., Giskes, K., Engler, D., Schnabel, R. B., Heidbuchel, H., & Desteghe, L. (2023). General practitioners’ perceptions on opportunistic single-time point screening for atrial fibrillation: A European quantitative survey. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 10, Article 1112561. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2023.1112561

Background: There is no clear guidance on how to implement opportunistic atrial fibrillation (AF) screening in daily clinical practice. Objectives: This study evaluated the perception of general practitioners (GPs) about value and practicalities of i... Read More about General practitioners’ perceptions on opportunistic single-time point screening for atrial fibrillation: A European quantitative survey.

Sustainable sales (2023)
Journal Article
Mackenzie, C. (2023). Sustainable sales. International Journal of Sales Transformation, 9(1), 40-43

In a world where sustainability is the new buzzword, is “sustainable sales” just greenwashing or can it genuinely support the creation of a company’s unique selling proposition? Academic concepts sometimes languish through lack of action as they c... Read More about Sustainable sales.

Factor structure and psychometric properties of the Birth Satisfaction Scale–Revised in Portuguese postpartum women (2023)
Journal Article
Moreira, H., Hollins Martin, C. J., & Martin, C. (2024). Factor structure and psychometric properties of the Birth Satisfaction Scale–Revised in Portuguese postpartum women. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 42(4), 715-730. https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2023.2176473

Objective This study aims to develop a Portuguese-language version of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R) for clinical and research use in Portugal (PT-BSS-R). The factor structure, its invariance across depression levels, and the internal... Read More about Factor structure and psychometric properties of the Birth Satisfaction Scale–Revised in Portuguese postpartum women.

Aerobically trained older adults show impaired resting, but preserved exercise-induced circulating progenitor cell count, which was not improved by sprint interval training (2023)
Journal Article
Yasar, Z., Ross, M. D., Gaffney, C. J., Postlethwaite, R. D., Wilson, R., & Hayes, L. D. (2023). Aerobically trained older adults show impaired resting, but preserved exercise-induced circulating progenitor cell count, which was not improved by sprint interval training. Pflügers Archiv European Journal of Physiology, 475(4), 465-475. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00424-022-02785-6

Older adults exhibit a reduced number and function of CD34 + circulating progenitor cells (CPC), a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Exercise promotes the mobilisation of CPCs from bone marrow, so whether ageing per se or physical inactiv... Read More about Aerobically trained older adults show impaired resting, but preserved exercise-induced circulating progenitor cell count, which was not improved by sprint interval training.