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Vindolanda. A Roman Military Settlement as a Legal Model of Integration. (2023)
Book
Di Donato, G. (2023). Vindolanda. A Roman Military Settlement as a Legal Model of Integration. Dykinson. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.8500864

This study identifies and analyses the legal rules followed in Vindolanda, a Roman military settlement erected in the first century AD to separate the Roman province of Britannia from the unconquered Caledonia. In particular, the focus is on the rule... Read More about Vindolanda. A Roman Military Settlement as a Legal Model of Integration..

Adaptive Event-Triggered Bipartite Formation for Multiagent Systems via Reinforcement Learning (2023)
Journal Article
Zhao, H., Shan, J., Peng, L., & Yu, H. (2024). Adaptive Event-Triggered Bipartite Formation for Multiagent Systems via Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 35(12), 17817 - 17828. https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2023.3309326

This article investigates the online learning and energy-efficient control issues for nonlinear discrete-time multiagent systems (MASs) with unknown dynamics models and antagonistic interactions. First, a distributed combined measurement error functi... Read More about Adaptive Event-Triggered Bipartite Formation for Multiagent Systems via Reinforcement Learning.

Origin Region Wealth Effect and Inbound Tourism to Europe (2023)
Journal Article
Adamolekun, G., & Kladakis, G. (2024). Origin Region Wealth Effect and Inbound Tourism to Europe. Tourism Analysis, 29(2), 239-256. https://doi.org/10.3727/108354223x16951532650252

Despite the role of wealth in modelling the propensity to consume luxurious goods and services, the literature has so far neglected the role of wealth as inferred from the stock market in modelling tourism inflow. Using 43 European countries over the... Read More about Origin Region Wealth Effect and Inbound Tourism to Europe.

Start thinking in graphs: using graphs to address critical attack paths in a Microsoft cloud tenant (2023)
Journal Article
Elmiger, M., Lemoudden, M., Pitropakis, N., & Buchanan, W. J. (2024). Start thinking in graphs: using graphs to address critical attack paths in a Microsoft cloud tenant. International Journal of Information Security, 23, 467-485. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10207-023-00751-6

The challenge of securing IT environments has reached a new complexity level as a growing number of organisations adopt cloud solutions. This trend increases the possibility of overseen attack paths in an organisation’s IT infrastructure. This paper... Read More about Start thinking in graphs: using graphs to address critical attack paths in a Microsoft cloud tenant.

Discrete restriction estimates for forms in many variables (2023)
Journal Article
Cook, B., Hughes, K., & Palsson, E. (2023). Discrete restriction estimates for forms in many variables. Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, 66(4), 923–939. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0013091523000366

We prove discrete restriction estimates for a broad class of hypersurfaces arising in seminal work of Birch. To do so, we use a variant of Bourgain’s arithmetic version of the Tomas–Stein method and Magyar’s decomposition of the Fourier transform of... Read More about Discrete restriction estimates for forms in many variables.

The time-varying impact of geopolitical risk on natural resource prices: The post-COVID era evidence (2023)
Journal Article
Ding, S., Wang, K., Cui, T., & Du, M. (2023). The time-varying impact of geopolitical risk on natural resource prices: The post-COVID era evidence. Resources Policy, 86(B), Article 104161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2023.104161

The geopolitical risk plays a pivotal role in affecting commodity price variations, especially natural resource commodity prices. Geopolitical risk is sensitive to political environmental changes and geopolitical events, including COVID-19 and the Ru... Read More about The time-varying impact of geopolitical risk on natural resource prices: The post-COVID era evidence.

A holistic human activity recognition optimisation using AI techniques (2023)
Journal Article
Li, Z., Liu, Y., Liu, B., Le Kernec, J., & Yang, S. (2024). A holistic human activity recognition optimisation using AI techniques. IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, 18(2), 256-265. https://doi.org/10.1049/rsn2.12474

Building on previous radar-based human activity recognition (HAR), we expand the micro-Doppler signature to 6 domains and exploit each domain with a set of handcrafted features derived from the literature and our patents. An adaptive thresholding met... Read More about A holistic human activity recognition optimisation using AI techniques.

Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of peer support among disadvantaged groups: A rapid scoping review (2023)
Journal Article
Mikolajczak-Degrauwe, K., Slimmen, S. R., Gillissen, D., de Bil, P., Bosmans, V., Keemink, C., Meyvis, I., & Kuipers, Y. J. (2023). Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of peer support among disadvantaged groups: A rapid scoping review. International Journal of Nursing Sciences, 10(4), 587-601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnss.2023.09.002

Objective
To explore the current state of knowledge and evidence about peer support for various disadvantaged groups; to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of peer support to reflect on peer support within health and soci... Read More about Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of peer support among disadvantaged groups: A rapid scoping review.

Critical assessment of medical devices on reliability, replacement prioritization and maintenance strategy criterion: Case study of Malaysian hospitals (2023)
Journal Article
Amran, M. E., Aziz, S. A., Muhtazaruddin, M. N., Masrom, M., Haron, H. N., Bani, N. A., Mohd Izhar, M. A., Usman, S., Sarip, S., Najamudin, S. S., Zamzam, A. H., Ahmad Kamil, A. S., Azilah, N. F., & Muhammad‐Sukki, F. (2024). Critical assessment of medical devices on reliability, replacement prioritization and maintenance strategy criterion: Case study of Malaysian hospitals. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 40(2), 970-1001. https://doi.org/10.1002/qre.3447

The Biomedical Engineering Maintenance Services (BEMS) is a comprehensive maintenance program that ensures the safety and reliability of medical devices. Significant and crucial devices are identified and prioritized for best practice prior to the eq... Read More about Critical assessment of medical devices on reliability, replacement prioritization and maintenance strategy criterion: Case study of Malaysian hospitals.

Use and operational safety (2023)
Book Chapter
Reed, N., Charisis, V., & Cowper, S. (2023). Use and operational safety. In D. Ventriglia, & M. Kahl (Eds.), FISITA Intelligent Safety White Paper – The Safety of Electro-Mobility: Expert considerations on the Safety of an Electric Vehicle from concept through end of life (107-111). FISITA

Whether you are an individual buying your first car or replacing an existing vehicle, or if you are a fleet manager making vehicle purchase decisions on behalf of a company, the acquisition of a car is usually a highly significant purchase. Increasi... Read More about Use and operational safety.

Novel linkage of health and prison data in Scotland: Investigating access to services for mental health and substance use following release from prison (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Connell, C., Kjellgren, R., & Savinc, J. Novel linkage of health and prison data in Scotland: Investigating access to services for mental health and substance use following release from prison. Presented at ADR UK Conference UK 2023, Birmingham, UK

Objectives
To compare the use of NHS services for mental health and substance use (MH/SU) between people released from prison and the general population. This paper describes the data linkage and analytical process, discusses policy implications and... Read More about Novel linkage of health and prison data in Scotland: Investigating access to services for mental health and substance use following release from prison.

Associations between home death, demographic factors and health care service usage for people who died in Scotland before and during the Covid-19 pandemic in Scotland (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Savinc, J. Associations between home death, demographic factors and health care service usage for people who died in Scotland before and during the Covid-19 pandemic in Scotland. Presented at ADR UK Conference UK 2023, Birmingham, UK

Objectives
To compare pre-pandemic and pandemic associations between death at home and: 1) demographic characteristics, 2) health care usage characteristics of people who died in Scotland.

Methods
Retrospective observational study of linked rout... Read More about Associations between home death, demographic factors and health care service usage for people who died in Scotland before and during the Covid-19 pandemic in Scotland.

Automated bus services – To whom are they appealing in their early stages? (2023)
Journal Article
Fonzone, A., Fountas, G., & Downey, L. (2024). Automated bus services – To whom are they appealing in their early stages?. Travel Behaviour and Society, 34, Article 100647. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tbs.2023.100647

Amidst a period of operational and financial challenges for the bus industry, the advent of Automated Buses (ABs) could be an opportunity to boost the attractiveness of public transport. This paper examines the determinants of changes in bus use afte... Read More about Automated bus services – To whom are they appealing in their early stages?.

Testing the latent structure of ICD-11 prolonged grief disorder symptoms in the U.K. adult population: An exploratory structural equation modeling approach (2023)
Journal Article
Shevlin, M., Redican, E., Murphy, J., Hyland, P., & Karatzias, T. (2023). Testing the latent structure of ICD-11 prolonged grief disorder symptoms in the U.K. adult population: An exploratory structural equation modeling approach. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 36(6), 1011-1185. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.22972

The latent structure of ICD-11 prolonged grief disorder (PGD), as measured using the International Prolonged Grief Disorder Scale (IPGDS), was assessed in a large general population sample of bereaved adults from the United Kingdom. Data were derived... Read More about Testing the latent structure of ICD-11 prolonged grief disorder symptoms in the U.K. adult population: An exploratory structural equation modeling approach.

Resistance by Exiting: Senior Doctors Work Orientations and Intensions to Retire (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bushfield, S., Martin, G., & Staines, H. (2023, September). Resistance by Exiting: Senior Doctors Work Orientations and Intensions to Retire. Presented at Work, Employment and Society Conference, Glasgow, UK

The NHS in Scotland (NHSS) is facing an unprecedented financial and operational challenges (Audit Scotland, 2023). Current staff are working under extreme pressure. Frustrations around workload, pay, and pensions are leading professionals to use thei... Read More about Resistance by Exiting: Senior Doctors Work Orientations and Intensions to Retire.

A stacking ensemble of deep learning models for IoT intrusion detection (2023)
Journal Article
Lazzarini, R., Tianfield, H., & Charissis, V. (2023). A stacking ensemble of deep learning models for IoT intrusion detection. Knowledge-Based Systems, 279, Article 110941. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2023.110941

The number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has increased considerably in the past few years, which resulted in an exponential growth of cyber attacks on IoT infrastructure. As a consequence, the prompt detection of attacks in IoT environments thr... Read More about A stacking ensemble of deep learning models for IoT intrusion detection.

Enhancing IoT network security through deep learning-powered Intrusion Detection System (2023)
Journal Article
Bakhsh, S. A., Khan, M. A., Ahmed, F., Alshehri, M. S., Ali, H., & Ahmad, J. (2023). Enhancing IoT network security through deep learning-powered Intrusion Detection System. Internet of Things, 24, Article 100936. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iot.2023.100936

The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has brought about a global concern for the security of interconnected devices and networks. This necessitates the use of efficient Intrusion Detection System (IDS) to mitigate cyber threats. Deep learn... Read More about Enhancing IoT network security through deep learning-powered Intrusion Detection System.