All Outputs (1506)

Toilet Graffiti: Philosophy, pornography or poetry (2021)
Exhibition / Performance
Victoria, M. (2021). Toilet Graffiti: Philosophy, pornography or poetry. [The Fringe]. 11 August 2021. (Unpublished)

This was a Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas performance during the Edinburgh Fringe.

Exploring the benefits of structured medication reviews for frail older patients in advanced clinical practice (2021)
Journal Article
Duffy, S., & Paterson, R. (2021). Exploring the benefits of structured medication reviews for frail older patients in advanced clinical practice. British Journal of Nursing, 30(15), 894-898. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2021.30.15.894

Frailty in old age has become synonymous with medication use. As people age, the risk of disease burden increases. Older age is often linked with complex healthcare needs, with a rise in the number of comorbidities. This often results in the need to... Read More about Exploring the benefits of structured medication reviews for frail older patients in advanced clinical practice.

Conceptual Text Region Network: Cognition-Inspired Accurate Scene Text Detection (2021)
Journal Article
Cui, C., Lu, L., Tan, Z., & Hussain, A. (2021). Conceptual Text Region Network: Cognition-Inspired Accurate Scene Text Detection. Neurocomputing, 464, 252-264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2021.08.026

Segmentation-based methods are widely used for scene text detection due to their superiority in describing arbitrary-shaped text instances. However, two major problems still exist: (1) current label generation techniques are mostly empirical and lack... Read More about Conceptual Text Region Network: Cognition-Inspired Accurate Scene Text Detection.

Walking the talk: Realizing ethical considerations in cataloguing work (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chan, M., Snow, K., Shoemaker, E., Daniels, J., Rasmussen Pennington, D., & Furger, S. (2021, August). Walking the talk: Realizing ethical considerations in cataloguing work. Paper presented at ALA Webinar, Online

Tailored to administrators and managers, this webinar provides an overview of the recently released "Cataloguing Code of Ethics" and highlights particular areas of the Code in which library leadership can meaningfully support the Code in equity, dive... Read More about Walking the talk: Realizing ethical considerations in cataloguing work.

Investigating the Impact of Public Transport Service Disruptions upon Passenger Travel Behaviour—Results from Krakow City (2021)
Journal Article
Drabicki, A. A., Islam, M. F., & Szarata, A. (2021). Investigating the Impact of Public Transport Service Disruptions upon Passenger Travel Behaviour—Results from Krakow City. Energies, 14(16), Article 4889. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14164889

Public transport (PT) service disruptions are common and unexpected events which often result in major impediment to passengers’ typical travel routines. However, attitudes and behavioural responses to unexpected PT disruptions are still not fully un... Read More about Investigating the Impact of Public Transport Service Disruptions upon Passenger Travel Behaviour—Results from Krakow City.

Companion animal type and level of engagement matter: a mixed-methods study examining links between companion animal guardianship, loneliness and well-being during the covid-19 pandemic (2021)
Journal Article
Clements, H., Valentin, S., Jenkins, N., Rankin, J., Gee, N. R., Snellgrove, D., & Sloman, K. A. (2021). Companion animal type and level of engagement matter: a mixed-methods study examining links between companion animal guardianship, loneliness and well-being during the covid-19 pandemic. Animals, 11(8), Article 2349. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11082349

To reduce the spread of COVID-19, countries worldwide placed limitations on social interaction, which is anticipated to have severe psychological consequences. Although findings are inconsistent, prior research has suggested that companion animals ma... Read More about Companion animal type and level of engagement matter: a mixed-methods study examining links between companion animal guardianship, loneliness and well-being during the covid-19 pandemic.

Dirty QWERTY: there's no ESC! (2021)
Journal Article
Ledwoch, K., Dancer, S., Otter, J., & Maillard, J. (2021). Dirty QWERTY: there's no ESC!. Journal of Hospital Infection, 117, 184-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2021.08.002

We were delighted to see our study on hospital keyboards receiving interest from Prof. Vos' research group in their recent letter. Clearly, both our groups are passionate about infection prevention, and ways to improve the safety in hospitals in UK a... Read More about Dirty QWERTY: there's no ESC!.

Development and Critical Evaluation of a Condition-Specific Preference-Based Measure Sensitive to Binaural Hearing in Adults: The York Binaural Hearing–Related Quality-of-Life System (2021)
Journal Article
Summerfield, A. Q., Kitterick, P. T., & Goman, A. M. (2022). Development and Critical Evaluation of a Condition-Specific Preference-Based Measure Sensitive to Binaural Hearing in Adults: The York Binaural Hearing–Related Quality-of-Life System. Ear and Hearing, 43(2), 379-397. https://doi.org/10.1097/aud.0000000000001101

Objectives:
The widely-used generic preference-based measures of health-related quality of life—the EuroQol Descriptive System (EQ-5D) and the Health Utilities Index (HUI3)—are limited in their response to technologies that improve hearing. The EQ-... Read More about Development and Critical Evaluation of a Condition-Specific Preference-Based Measure Sensitive to Binaural Hearing in Adults: The York Binaural Hearing–Related Quality-of-Life System.

Perception and use of timber in construction: A case study of Ireland and the UK (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
O'Ceallaigh, C., Gil-Moreno, D., Ridley-Ellis, D., & Harte, A. M. (2021, August). Perception and use of timber in construction: A case study of Ireland and the UK. Presented at WCTE 2021: World Conference on Timber Engineering, Santiago, Chile [Online]

A survey was carried out to examine the perception of timber in construction among industry stakeholders within northwest Europe. The survey received responses from 17 countries in total. The total results of all respondents are presented along with... Read More about Perception and use of timber in construction: A case study of Ireland and the UK.

Test Machine Effect in the determination of modulus of elasticity for strength-graded timber (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gil-Moreno, D., Ridley-Ellis, D., & Harte, A. M. (2021, August). Test Machine Effect in the determination of modulus of elasticity for strength-graded timber. Presented at WCTE 2021: World Conference on Timber Engineering, Santiago, Chile [Online]

This paper investigates if the relationship between the global and local moduli of elasticity (MoE), measured in bending tests, is affected by the test machines employed, and how that may influence strength grading. The ultimate aim is to study the p... Read More about Test Machine Effect in the determination of modulus of elasticity for strength-graded timber.

Design and Evaluation of Visualisation Techniques to Facilitate Argument Exploration (2021)
Journal Article
Khartabil, D., Collins, C., Wells, S., Bach, B., & Kennedy, J. (2021). Design and Evaluation of Visualisation Techniques to Facilitate Argument Exploration. Computer Graphics Forum, 40(6), 447-465. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14389

This paper reports the design and comparison of three visualizations to represent the structure and content within arguments. Arguments are artefacts of reasoning widely used across domains such as education, policy making, and science. An argument i... Read More about Design and Evaluation of Visualisation Techniques to Facilitate Argument Exploration.

Practice based approaches to supporting the work related wellbeing of frontline care workers in care homes: A Scoping Review (2021)
Journal Article
Johnston, L., Malcolm, C., Rambabu, L., Hockley, J., & Shenkin, S. D. (2021). Practice based approaches to supporting the work related wellbeing of frontline care workers in care homes: A Scoping Review. Journal of Long-Term Care, 2021, 230-240. https://doi.org/10.31389/jltc.66

The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the need to ensure that strategic and operational approaches to retain high quality, resilient frontline care home workers are informed by context specific, high quality evidence. A targeted scoping review asked t... Read More about Practice based approaches to supporting the work related wellbeing of frontline care workers in care homes: A Scoping Review.

A Neural Approach to Generation of Constructive Heuristics (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alissa, M., Sim, K., & Hart, E. (2021, June). A Neural Approach to Generation of Constructive Heuristics. Presented at IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2021, Kraków, Poland (online)

Both algorithm-selection methods and hyper-heuristic methods rely on a pool of complementary heuristics. Improving the pool with new heuristics can improve performance, however, designing new heuristics can be challenging. Methods such as genetic pro... Read More about A Neural Approach to Generation of Constructive Heuristics.

Signs and Gestures (2021)
Digital Artefact
Jansen, I. (2021). Signs and Gestures. [Film]

Signs and Gestures is a digital practice-based output, consisting of a 10-minute short drama film. The short film is the result of research conducted by the film director at the Edinburgh College of Art between 2019 and 2020, supported by a Challenge... Read More about Signs and Gestures.

Making a difference: Belonging, diversity and inclusion in occupational therapy (2021)
Journal Article
Atwal, A., Sriram, V., & McKay, E. A. (2021). Making a difference: Belonging, diversity and inclusion in occupational therapy. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 84(11), 671-672. https://doi.org/10.1177/03080226211031797

Over the past year, COVID-19 has been causing death and adding to grief across the world; during this time, an equally important issue – #blacklivesmatter – has been filling our minds and awakening our hearts to confront misery, enable equity and cha... Read More about Making a difference: Belonging, diversity and inclusion in occupational therapy.

Testing Membranes for Separation of CO2 from Small Molecules in Landfill Gas (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ogunlude, P., Abunumah, O., Muhammad-Sukki, F., & Gobina, E. (2021, August). Testing Membranes for Separation of CO2 from Small Molecules in Landfill Gas. Presented at TUBA World Conference on Energy Science and Technology (TUBA WCEST-2021), Online

The present work is focusing on the utilization of previously fabricated membrane (synthesized in 3 days as reported in our previous work) to study the effect of hydrocarbons and its durability at the previously optimized conditions. Subsequently, ga... Read More about Testing Membranes for Separation of CO2 from Small Molecules in Landfill Gas.

Oro-mucosal midazolam maleate: Use and effectiveness in adults with epilepsy in the UK (2021)
Journal Article
Shankar, R., Goodwin, M., Toland, J., Boyle, A., Grant, A., Pearson, J., Storer, A., Higgins, R., Hudson, S., & Reuber, M. (2021). Oro-mucosal midazolam maleate: Use and effectiveness in adults with epilepsy in the UK. Epilepsy and Behavior, 123, Article 108242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yebeh.2021.108242

Background
Oro-mucosal midazolam maleate (OMM) with suitable training to family and carers is being increasingly recognized as the treatment of choice to mitigate the development of status epilepticus in non-hospital community settings. There are no... Read More about Oro-mucosal midazolam maleate: Use and effectiveness in adults with epilepsy in the UK.

Defeating Reactive Jammers with Deep Dueling-based Deception Mechanism (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Van Huynh, N., Nguyen, D. N., Hoang, D. T., & Dutkiewicz, E. (2021). Defeating Reactive Jammers with Deep Dueling-based Deception Mechanism. In ICC 2021 - IEEE International Conference on Communications. https://doi.org/10.1109/icc42927.2021.9500391

Conventional anti-jamming solutions like frequency hopping and rate adaptation that are more suitable for proactive jammers are not effective in dealing with reactive jammers. These advanced jammers with recent advances in signal detection can discer... Read More about Defeating Reactive Jammers with Deep Dueling-based Deception Mechanism.

An Integrated Framework for Remote Planning (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yaniel, C., Le Bras, P., Pairet Artau, E., Ardon, P., Chantler, M. J., & Petrick, R. P. A. (2021). An Integrated Framework for Remote Planning. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Integrated Planning, Acting and Execution (1-9)

Robotics opens the possibility for safer operations in remote and hazardous environments, with multiple robots deployed to perform tasks that would otherwise present risks for human operators. However, these missions must be carefully planned and mon... Read More about An Integrated Framework for Remote Planning.

A New Annulus-based Distribution Algorithm for Scalable IoT-driven LoRa Networks (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alahmadi, H., Bouabdallah, F., & Al-Dubai, A. (2021, June). A New Annulus-based Distribution Algorithm for Scalable IoT-driven LoRa Networks. Presented at IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2021), Montreal, Canada

Long-Range (LoRa) has been a major avenue for deploying the Internet of Things (IoT) in large scale environments due to its long-scale connection, energy efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. LoRa networks provide multiple configurable transmission par... Read More about A New Annulus-based Distribution Algorithm for Scalable IoT-driven LoRa Networks.