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Influence Policing: domestic digital influence campaigns and algorithmic strategic communications in UK law enforcement and homeland security (2024)
Journal Article
Horgan, S., Collier, B., Stewart, J., & Thomas, D. (online). Influence Policing: domestic digital influence campaigns and algorithmic strategic communications in UK law enforcement and homeland security. British Journal of Criminology, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azae063

This paper conceptualises an emerging model of algorithmic policing; ‘influence policing’. This harnesses the affordances of Internet platforms to conduct domestic digital influence campaigns for crime prevention. These campaigns use sophisticated ta... Read More about Influence Policing: domestic digital influence campaigns and algorithmic strategic communications in UK law enforcement and homeland security.

Lessons for Lab Learning (2024)
Journal Article
McGill, C. (2024). Lessons for Lab Learning. Education in Chemistry,

10 guiding principles to help you maximise students’ outcomes from chemistry practicals

English as a Lingua Franca: Intercultural Interaction in an Asian 'Third Space' Context (2024)
Journal Article
Victoria, M., Xu, F. H., & Pilcher, N. (online). English as a Lingua Franca: Intercultural Interaction in an Asian 'Third Space' Context. Asian Englishes, https://doi.org/10.1080/13488678.2024.2405278

In many studies on English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), the prevailing perspective has primarily focused on ELF as the use of English for communication among speakers who do not share English as their first language. However, recent scholarship has emph... Read More about English as a Lingua Franca: Intercultural Interaction in an Asian 'Third Space' Context.

Media Law, Interviewing and News Writing: Skills Scottish Community Radio Needs to Expand Its News Coverage (2024)
Book Chapter
Kocic, A. (2024). Media Law, Interviewing and News Writing: Skills Scottish Community Radio Needs to Expand Its News Coverage. In J. Morrison, & S. Pedersen (Eds.), Silenced Voices and the Media: Who Gets to Speak? (47-61). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65403-9

Could community radio, run in the UK on a not-for-profit basis by volunteers without journalistic training, help slow down the decline in local news provision? The majority of community stations in the country already offer news in some form. This us... Read More about Media Law, Interviewing and News Writing: Skills Scottish Community Radio Needs to Expand Its News Coverage.

Impact of the Finch case on EIA and the carbon accounting space (2024)
Journal Article
Landsburgh, C., D'Amico, B., & Davies, I. (online). Impact of the Finch case on EIA and the carbon accounting space. Proceedings of the ICE - Engineering Sustainability, https://doi.org/10.1680/jensu.24.00108

The UK Supreme Court's ruling in "R (on the application of Finch on behalf of the Weald Action Group) (Appellant) v Surrey County Council and others (Respondents)" marks a pivotal moment in environmental law and greenhouse gas emission responsibility... Read More about Impact of the Finch case on EIA and the carbon accounting space.

The trouble with trauma: Interconnected forms of violence in the lives of repeatedly criminalised men (2024)
Journal Article
Anderson, S. (online). The trouble with trauma: Interconnected forms of violence in the lives of repeatedly criminalised men. The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12578

Focus on the interconnection of interpersonal violence, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), trauma and justice‐involvement has increased interest internationally among policymakers and practitioners working within criminal justice contexts for ‘tra... Read More about The trouble with trauma: Interconnected forms of violence in the lives of repeatedly criminalised men.

Electrical Tree Image De-Noising using Threshold Wavelet Transform and Wiener Filter (2024)
Journal Article
Abdulah, C. S. K., Gazata, N. D. A., Rohani, M. N. K. H., Ismail, B., Mohd Isa, M. A., Rosmi, A. S., Mansor, N. S., Jamil, M. K., Muhammad-Sukki, F., & Mas'ud, A. A. (2025). Electrical Tree Image De-Noising using Threshold Wavelet Transform and Wiener Filter. Journal of Advanced Research in Applied Sciences and Engineering Technology, 53(1), 73-85. https://doi.org/10.37934/araset.53.1.7385

Electrical treeing occurred in solid dielectric materials, especially in electrical application with high voltage. The occurrence of electrical tree happens when high electric fields applied, causing tiny channels or paths to form. The main issue dur... Read More about Electrical Tree Image De-Noising using Threshold Wavelet Transform and Wiener Filter.

Assessing the risk of pedestrian crossing behavior on suburban roads using structural equation model (2024)
Journal Article
Kavianpour, S., Haghighi, F., Sheykhfard, A., Das, S., Fountas, G., & Oshanreh, M. M. (2024). Assessing the risk of pedestrian crossing behavior on suburban roads using structural equation model. Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, 11(5), 853-866. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtte.2023.12.001

While pedestrian crashes on suburban roads have received more attention over recent years, the role of pedestrian crossing risk in areas adjacent to pedestrian crossing facilities, such as pedestrian overpasses, has been neglected. Most pedestrians i... Read More about Assessing the risk of pedestrian crossing behavior on suburban roads using structural equation model.

‘Land is a huge integral part of our identity’: Patriarchy and the gender asset gap (2024)
Journal Article
Curtin, M., Murphy, C., Woods, U., & Cross, C. (online). ‘Land is a huge integral part of our identity’: Patriarchy and the gender asset gap. Sociologia Ruralis, https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12495

The aim of this article is to examine female participation in farming and more specifically, the reasons for the low rate of female farm ownership in Ireland where only 13% of Irish farm owners are female. Females are excluded from the occupation of... Read More about ‘Land is a huge integral part of our identity’: Patriarchy and the gender asset gap.

A linear dissipativity approach to incremental input-to-state stability for a class of positive Lur’e systems (2024)
Journal Article
Piengeon, V., & Guiver, C. (online). A linear dissipativity approach to incremental input-to-state stability for a class of positive Lur’e systems. International Journal of Control, https://doi.org/10.1080/00207179.2024.2403473

Incremental stability properties are considered for certain systems of forced, nonlinear differential equations with a particular positivity structure. An incremental stability estimate is derived for pairs of input/state/output trajectories of the L... Read More about A linear dissipativity approach to incremental input-to-state stability for a class of positive Lur’e systems.

DeFT-Net: Dual-Window Extended Frequency Transformer for Rhythmic Motion Prediction (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ademola, A., Sinclair, D., Koniaris, B., Hannah, S., & Mitchell, K. (2024, September). DeFT-Net: Dual-Window Extended Frequency Transformer for Rhythmic Motion Prediction. Presented at EG UK Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (2024), London, UK

Enabling online virtual reality (VR) users to dance and move in a way that mirrors the real-world necessitates improvements in the accuracy of predicting human motion sequences paving way for an immersive and connected experience. However, the drawba... Read More about DeFT-Net: Dual-Window Extended Frequency Transformer for Rhythmic Motion Prediction.

'“As much as I miss it… I can't bring myself to go back”: Experiences of early career registered nurses who leave nursing.' (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bastow, F., Atherton, I., McLuckie, C., & Mahoney, C. (2024, September). '“As much as I miss it… I can't bring myself to go back”: Experiences of early career registered nurses who leave nursing.'. Presented at RCN International Nursing Research Conference 2024, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

Background

There is evidence of a nursing workforce crisis with increasing intention to leave (Royal College of Nursing, 2021), yet little is known about the experience of leaving the profession or direct nursing care. Actual nursing turnover need... Read More about '“As much as I miss it… I can't bring myself to go back”: Experiences of early career registered nurses who leave nursing.'.

Exploring the impact of data representation on neural data-to-text generation (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Howcroft, D. M., Watson, L. N., Nedopas, O., & Gkatzia, D. (2024, September). Exploring the impact of data representation on neural data-to-text generation. Presented at INLG 2024, Tokyo, Japan

A relatively under-explored area in research on neural natural language generation is the impact of the data representation on text quality. Here we report experiments on two leading input representations for data-to-text generation: attribute-value... Read More about Exploring the impact of data representation on neural data-to-text generation.

Automatic Metrics in Natural Language Generation: A survey of Current Evaluation Practices (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schmidtova, P., Mahamood, S., Balloccu, S., Dusek, O., Gatt, A., Gkatzia, D., Howcroft, D. M., Platek, O., & Sivaprasad, A. (2024, September). Automatic Metrics in Natural Language Generation: A survey of Current Evaluation Practices. Presented at INLG 2024, Tokyo, Japan

Automatic metrics are extensively used to evaluate Natural Language Processing systems. However, there has been increasing focus on how the are used and reported by practitioners within the field. In this paper, we have conducted a survey on the use... Read More about Automatic Metrics in Natural Language Generation: A survey of Current Evaluation Practices.

An Open Intent Discovery Evaluation Framework (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Anderson, G., Hart, E., Gkatzia, D., & Beaver, I. (2024, September). An Open Intent Discovery Evaluation Framework. Presented at SIGDIAL 2024, Kyoto, Japan

In the development of dialog systems the discovery of the set of target intents to identify is a crucial first step that is often overlooked. Most intent detection works assume that a labelled dataset already exists, however creating these datasets i... Read More about An Open Intent Discovery Evaluation Framework.

Automated Human-Readable Label Generation in Open Intent Discovery (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Anderson, G., Hart, E., Gkatzia, D., & Beaver, I. (2024, September). Automated Human-Readable Label Generation in Open Intent Discovery. Presented at Interspeech 2024, Kos, Greece

The correct determination of user intent is key in dialog systems. However, an intent classifier often requires a large, labelled training dataset to identify a set of known intents. The creation of such a dataset is a complex and time-consuming task... Read More about Automated Human-Readable Label Generation in Open Intent Discovery.

‘On the perimeter and fringe of war’: Norman Nicholson, Rural Modernity and Wartime (2024)
Journal Article
Frayn, A. (2024). ‘On the perimeter and fringe of war’: Norman Nicholson, Rural Modernity and Wartime. Modernist Cultures, 19(1), 128 - 151. https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2024.0421%29

The author Norman Nicholson is an exemplary writer of rural modernity, acutely conscious of the need for rural areas to remain ‘living and organic communities’, as he puts it in his topographic book Greater Lakeland (1969). Here, I argue that his po... Read More about ‘On the perimeter and fringe of war’: Norman Nicholson, Rural Modernity and Wartime.

Short duration antibiotic therapy for critically ill patients with sepsis (SHORTER trial): a mixed-methods process evaluation of a randomised controlled trial. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wojcik, G., Emerson, L., & Hellyer, T. (2024, September). Short duration antibiotic therapy for critically ill patients with sepsis (SHORTER trial): a mixed-methods process evaluation of a randomised controlled trial. Presented at International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference, Edinburgh, UK

Introduction

Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction resulting from infection, and a leading global cause of death.1 Timely antibiotic administration is crucial, with guidelines recommending initiation within one hour of recognising severe... Read More about Short duration antibiotic therapy for critically ill patients with sepsis (SHORTER trial): a mixed-methods process evaluation of a randomised controlled trial..

Hardwoods in the United Kingdom Considerations When Looking to Future Planting and Future Value Chains (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ridley-Ellis, D., & Cramer, M. (2024, September). Hardwoods in the United Kingdom Considerations When Looking to Future Planting and Future Value Chains. Presented at International Scientific Conference on Hardwood Processing, Coimbra, Portugal

Reasons for increasing the diversity of the tree species providing wood for the value chain include: improving forest resilience to climate change; mitigating the risks of pests and pathogens; and improving other important functions of forests such a... Read More about Hardwoods in the United Kingdom Considerations When Looking to Future Planting and Future Value Chains.