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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People with Disabilities in Ukraine: Perspectives of People with Disabilities & Implications for Public Health and Other Emergencies, including Conflict and Post-conflict Recovery (2022)
Report
Sharapov, K., Anderson, D., Nazarenko, V., Polishchuk, O., & Burova, O. (2022). The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People with Disabilities in Ukraine: Perspectives of People with Disabilities & Implications for Public Health and Other Emergencies, including Conflict and Post-conflict Recovery. Edinburgh: AHRC

Scottish Mental Health Law Review: Final Report (2022)
Report
McKay, C., Stavert, J., Scott, J., Martin, K., Rankin, A., & Morgan, G. (2022). Scottish Mental Health Law Review: Final Report. Scottish Government

Report commissioned by Scottish Ministers to review Scottish mental health, capacity and adult protection law, to improve the rights and protections of persons with a mental disorder and remove barriers to those caring for their health and welfare.

Dealing with Problematic Asymmetries in Caregiving Relationships: A Role for Social Robots? (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zijie Qu, N., Henderson, K., Li, J., & Chignell, M. (2022, October). Dealing with Problematic Asymmetries in Caregiving Relationships: A Role for Social Robots?. Presented at HFES 66th International Annual Meeting, Atlanta, USA

How can a third party (person or social robot) mitigate the negative aspects of the asymmetrical dyadic relationships associated with caregiving of the elderly? We start by examining the social-psychological structure of the relationship between give... Read More about Dealing with Problematic Asymmetries in Caregiving Relationships: A Role for Social Robots?.

Football viewing centres in an African megacity: viewers’ characteristics and operational dynamics (2022)
Journal Article
Ogunseye, N. O., Olowosegun, A. M., Kadiri, W. A., Salisu, U. O., & Ogunseye, O. D. (2024). Football viewing centres in an African megacity: viewers’ characteristics and operational dynamics. African geographical review, 43(1), 186-203. https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2022.2128835

This study examines viewers’ characteristics and operational dynamics of football viewing centres (FVCs) in Agege, Lagos Megacity, Nigeria. It anchors on the “theory of happiness” and the microeconomic vitality of FVCs using a mixed-methods approach.... Read More about Football viewing centres in an African megacity: viewers’ characteristics and operational dynamics.

A scoping review to establish the utility of patient reported outcome measures in blood cancer (2022)
Journal Article
Kirkpatrick, S., & Campbell, K. (2022). A scoping review to establish the utility of patient reported outcome measures in blood cancer. Annals of Oncology, 33(suppl_7), S1371. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annonc.2022.07.382

Background Blood cancers can have devastating effects on patients’ physical, emotional, and psychosocial health. With improvements in therapies, patients are living longer. There is growing evidence to support the use of Patient Reported Outcome Mea... Read More about A scoping review to establish the utility of patient reported outcome measures in blood cancer.

Caregiver perspectives on patient capacities and institutional pathways to person centered forensic psychiatric care (2022)
Journal Article
El-Alti, L., Sandman, L., & Munthe, C. (2022). Caregiver perspectives on patient capacities and institutional pathways to person centered forensic psychiatric care. PLOS ONE, 17(9), Article e0275205. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275205

The ethical discourse surrounding patients’ agential capacities, vis-à-vis their active participation in shared decision-making (SDM) in forensic psychiatric (FP) contexts, is an unexplored area of inquiry. The aim of this paper is to explore caregiv... Read More about Caregiver perspectives on patient capacities and institutional pathways to person centered forensic psychiatric care.

AI-driven lightweight real-time SDR sensing system for anomalous respiration identification using ensemble learning (2022)
Journal Article
Saeed, U., Abbasi, Q. H., & Shah, S. A. (2022). AI-driven lightweight real-time SDR sensing system for anomalous respiration identification using ensemble learning. CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction, 4(4), 381-392. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42486-022-00113-6

In less than three years, more than six million fatalities have been reported worldwide due to the coronavirus pandemic. COVID-19 has been contained within a broad range due to restrictions and effective vaccinations. However, there is a greater risk... Read More about AI-driven lightweight real-time SDR sensing system for anomalous respiration identification using ensemble learning.

WikiDes: A Wikipedia-based dataset for generating short descriptions from paragraphs (2022)
Journal Article
Ta, H. T., Rahman, A. B. S., Majumder, N., Hussain, A., Najjar, L., Howard, N., Poria, S., & Gelbukh, A. (2023). WikiDes: A Wikipedia-based dataset for generating short descriptions from paragraphs. Information Fusion, 90, 265-282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2022.09.022

As free online encyclopedias with massive volumes of content, Wikipedia and Wikidata are key to many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, such as information retrieval, knowledge base building, machine translation, text classification, and text s... Read More about WikiDes: A Wikipedia-based dataset for generating short descriptions from paragraphs.

Multimodal sentiment analysis: A systematic review of history, datasets, multimodal fusion methods, applications, challenges and future directions (2022)
Journal Article
Gandhi, A., Adhvaryu, K., Poria, S., Cambria, E., & Hussain, A. (2023). Multimodal sentiment analysis: A systematic review of history, datasets, multimodal fusion methods, applications, challenges and future directions. Information Fusion, 91, 424-444. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2022.09.025

Sentiment analysis (SA) has gained much traction In the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP). There is growing demand to automate analysis of user sentiment towards products or services. Opinions are increasingl... Read More about Multimodal sentiment analysis: A systematic review of history, datasets, multimodal fusion methods, applications, challenges and future directions.

Investigating Machine Learning Attacks on Financial Time Series Models (2022)
Journal Article
Gallagher, M., Pitropakis, N., Chrysoulas, C., Papadopoulos, P., Mylonas, A., & Katsikas, S. (2022). Investigating Machine Learning Attacks on Financial Time Series Models. Computers and Security, 123, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2022.102933

Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) already support human decision-making and complement professional roles, and are expected in the future to be sufficiently trusted to make autonomous decisions. To trust AI systems with such tasks, a... Read More about Investigating Machine Learning Attacks on Financial Time Series Models.

Trusted Threat Intelligence Sharing in Practice and Performance Benchmarking through the Hyperledger Fabric Platform (2022)
Journal Article
Ali, H., Ahmad, J., Jaroucheh, Z., Papadopoulos, P., Pitropakis, N., Lo, O., Abramson, W., & Buchanan, W. J. (2022). Trusted Threat Intelligence Sharing in Practice and Performance Benchmarking through the Hyperledger Fabric Platform. Entropy, 24(10), Article 1379. https://doi.org/10.3390/e24101379

Historically, threat information sharing has relied on manual modelling and centralised network systems, which can be inefficient, insecure, and prone to errors. Alternatively, private blockchains are now widely used to address these issues and impro... Read More about Trusted Threat Intelligence Sharing in Practice and Performance Benchmarking through the Hyperledger Fabric Platform.

An enduring in vitro wound healing phase recipient by bioactive glass-graphene oxide nanocomposites (2022)
Journal Article
Nandhakumar, M., Thangaian, D. T., Sundaram, S., Roy, A., & Subramanian, B. (2022). An enduring in vitro wound healing phase recipient by bioactive glass-graphene oxide nanocomposites. Scientific Reports, 12(1), Article 16162. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-20575-z

Bioactive glass (BG) is an interesting topic in soft tissue engineering because of its biocompatibility and bonding potential to increase fibroblast cell proliferation, synthesize growth factors, and stimulate granulation tissue development. The prop... Read More about An enduring in vitro wound healing phase recipient by bioactive glass-graphene oxide nanocomposites.

On the Fast DHT Precoding of OFDM Signals over Frequency-Selective Fading Channels for Wireless Applications (2022)
Journal Article
Anoh, K., Tanriover, C., Ribeiro, M. V., Adebisi, B., & See, C. H. (2022). On the Fast DHT Precoding of OFDM Signals over Frequency-Selective Fading Channels for Wireless Applications. Electronics, 11(19), Article 3099. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11193099

Due to high power consumption and other problems, it is unlikely that orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) would be included in the uplink of the future 6G standard. High power consumption in OFDM systems is motivated by the high peak-to... Read More about On the Fast DHT Precoding of OFDM Signals over Frequency-Selective Fading Channels for Wireless Applications.

Sacred Violence: W. B. Yeats, Patrick Pearse, and The Revival of Ireland (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2022, September). Sacred Violence: W. B. Yeats, Patrick Pearse, and The Revival of Ireland. Presented at 'Crossing Borders', School of Humanities Seminar Series 2022/23, University of Strathclyde

This paper frames the Irish Revival as a meta-symbolical attempt to reinterpret and reimagine the cultural and political narrative of Irish history. It focuses on the manner in which religious and spiritual beliefs and ideas were utilised by key Iris... Read More about Sacred Violence: W. B. Yeats, Patrick Pearse, and The Revival of Ireland.

Bio-based construction materials for climate change mitigation: scalability and sustainability (2022)
Thesis
Hart, J. T. T. Bio-based construction materials for climate change mitigation: scalability and sustainability. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

Construction products made from timber and other organic materials are understood to contribute to climate change mitigation by causing relatively low greenhouse gas emissions in the supply chain, whilst also storing biogenic carbon within the materi... Read More about Bio-based construction materials for climate change mitigation: scalability and sustainability.

The influence of menstruation on training schedules in well-trained and elite female mountain bike, road and cyclocross athletes (2022)
Thesis
Aitkenhead, R. The influence of menstruation on training schedules in well-trained and elite female mountain bike, road and cyclocross athletes. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

Female physiology is unique and driven by fluctuations in sex hormones that regulate the menstrual cycle (MC) (Marsh et al., 2002). These hormones present a myriad of mechanisms that may influence physiological systems, potentially implicating exerci... Read More about The influence of menstruation on training schedules in well-trained and elite female mountain bike, road and cyclocross athletes.

Generating unambiguous, natural and diverse referring expressions (2022)
Thesis
Panagiaris, N. Generating unambiguous, natural and diverse referring expressions. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

Referring expression generation (REG) aims at generating natural language definite descriptions for objects within images called referring expressions (REs). Despite the substantial progress in recent years, REGmodels are still far frombeing perfect.... Read More about Generating unambiguous, natural and diverse referring expressions.

Patient, family members and community pharmacists' views of a proposed overdose prevention intervention delivered in community pharmacies for patients prescribed high‐strength opioids for chronic non‐cancer pain: An explorative intervention development study (2022)
Journal Article
Mercer, F., Parkes, T., Foster, R., Steven, D., McAuley, A., Baldacchino, A., Steele, W., Schofield, J., & Matheson, C. (2023). Patient, family members and community pharmacists' views of a proposed overdose prevention intervention delivered in community pharmacies for patients prescribed high‐strength opioids for chronic non‐cancer pain: An explorative intervention development study. Drug and Alcohol Review, 42(3), 517-526. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.13554

Introduction Despite opioid prescribing for chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) having limited therapeutic benefits, recent evidence indicates significant increases in the prescribing of high-strength opioids for individuals with CNCP. Patients prescribe... Read More about Patient, family members and community pharmacists' views of a proposed overdose prevention intervention delivered in community pharmacies for patients prescribed high‐strength opioids for chronic non‐cancer pain: An explorative intervention development study.

Privacy-preserving systems around security, trust and identity (2022)
Thesis
Papadopoulos, P. Privacy-preserving systems around security, trust and identity. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

Data has proved to be the most valuable asset in a modern world of rapidly advancing technologies. Companies are trying to maximise their profits by getting valuable insights from collected data about people’s trends and behaviour which often can be... Read More about Privacy-preserving systems around security, trust and identity.