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The effect of a game-based mobile app “MyHeartMate” to promote lifestyle change in coronary disease patients: a randomised controlled trial (2022)
Journal Article
Gallagher, R., Chow, C. K., Parker, H., Neubeck, L., Celermajer, D., Redfern, J., Tofler, G., Buckley, T., Schumacher, T., Hyun, K., Bouramond, F., & Figtree, G. (2023). The effect of a game-based mobile app “MyHeartMate” to promote lifestyle change in coronary disease patients: a randomised controlled trial. European Heart Journal – Digital Health, 4(1), 33-42. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjdh/ztac069

Aims
Secondary prevention reduces coronary heart disease (CHD) progression. Traditional prevention programs including cardiac rehabilitation are under-accessed, which smartphone apps may overcome. To evaluate the effect of a game-based mobile app in... Read More about The effect of a game-based mobile app “MyHeartMate” to promote lifestyle change in coronary disease patients: a randomised controlled trial.

Global Review of Smart City Governance Practices (2022)
Report
Beckers, D., Gerli, P., Mora, L., Thabit, S., & Tonnarelli, F. (2022). Global Review of Smart City Governance Practices. Nairobi: United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)

Through smart city initiatives, digital technologies are increasingly applied in cities to modernize city operations and transform service delivery. The ongoing digital transformation provides new opportunities but also creates challenges, and it is... Read More about Global Review of Smart City Governance Practices.

Assessment of Ambient Air Quality in Hulu Langat District, Selangor, Malaysia (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mohd Saudi, A., Abdullah, A., Shafii, N., Khairuddin, M., Ismail, M., Mejía, P., Kadir, K., Saudi, M., Kamarudin, M., Muhammad-Sukki, F., Ali, M., & Bani, N. (2022, November). Assessment of Ambient Air Quality in Hulu Langat District, Selangor, Malaysia. Presented at The 3rd International Conference on Medical Science Technology, Online

Air pollution is one of the most pressing environmental issues in the world. The district of Hulu Langat, bordering the capital city of Kuala Lumpur, is the focus area of the surrounding population. The district experienced a decline in air quality i... Read More about Assessment of Ambient Air Quality in Hulu Langat District, Selangor, Malaysia.

Decarbonising the Transport Industry (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Muhammad Sukki, F. (2022, November). Decarbonising the Transport Industry. Presented at Research Seminar, Edinburgh Napier University

The electric vehicles (EVs) sales in Scotland increased by 97% in 2020, but Scotland still lags behinds when compared to other locations in the UK. One of the reasons for the slow rollout is limited charging infrastructure to power the EVs especially... Read More about Decarbonising the Transport Industry.

Wave-Net: A lightweight deep network for retinal vessel segmentation from fundus images (2022)
Journal Article
Liu, Y., Shen, J., Yang, L., Yu, H., & Bian, G. (2023). Wave-Net: A lightweight deep network for retinal vessel segmentation from fundus images. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 152, Article 106341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.106341

Accurate segmentation of retinal vessels from fundus images is fundamental for the diagnosis of numerous diseases of eye, and an automated vessel segmentation method can effectively help clinicians to make accurate diagnosis for the patients and prov... Read More about Wave-Net: A lightweight deep network for retinal vessel segmentation from fundus images.

Understanding collaboration patterns on funded research projects: A network analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Smith, M., Sarabi, Y., & Christopoulos, D. (2023). Understanding collaboration patterns on funded research projects: A network analysis. Network Science, 11(1), 143-173. https://doi.org/10.1017/nws.2022.33

This paper provides an examination of inter-organizational collaboration in the UK research system. Data are collected on organizational collaboration on projects funded by four key UK research councils: Arts and Humanities Research Council, Economic... Read More about Understanding collaboration patterns on funded research projects: A network analysis.

Low‐gain integral control for a class of discrete‐time Lur'e systems with applications to sampled‐data control (2022)
Journal Article
Guiver, C., Rebarber, R., & Townley, S. (2023). Low‐gain integral control for a class of discrete‐time Lur'e systems with applications to sampled‐data control. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 33(3), 1410-1437. https://doi.org/10.1002/rnc.6455

We study low-gain (P)roportional (I)ntegral control of multivariate discrete-time, forced Lur’e systems to solve the output-tracking problem for constant reference signals. We formulate an incremental sector condition which is sufficient for a usual... Read More about Low‐gain integral control for a class of discrete‐time Lur'e systems with applications to sampled‐data control.

Reducing fear of water and aquaphobia through 360 degree video use? (2022)
Journal Article
Roche, L., Cunningham, I., Rolland, C., Fayaubost, R., & Maire, S. (2022). Reducing fear of water and aquaphobia through 360 degree video use?. Frontiers in Education, 7, Article 898071. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2022.898071

Drowning is a serious public health problem threat claiming the lives of 372,000 people each year worldwide that can be linked to an individual’s ability to swim. Learning to swim requires limited fear of water. This exploratory study investigated th... Read More about Reducing fear of water and aquaphobia through 360 degree video use?.

‘I'm competitive with myself’: A study of women leaders navigating neoliberal patriarchal workplaces (2022)
Journal Article
Mavin, S., & Yusupova, M. (2023). ‘I'm competitive with myself’: A study of women leaders navigating neoliberal patriarchal workplaces. Gender, Work and Organization, 30(3), 881-896. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12939

This paper investigates how women leaders in the UK negotiate claims of being competitive by internalizing competition. Competition is a critical component in neoliberal contexts; yet its gendered implications are under research. Through analysis of... Read More about ‘I'm competitive with myself’: A study of women leaders navigating neoliberal patriarchal workplaces.

An Efficient Optimization of Battery-Drone-Based Transportation Systems for Monitoring Solar Power Plant (2022)
Journal Article
Jemmali, M., Bashir, A. K., Boulila, W., Melhim, L. K. B., Jhaveri, R. H., & Ahmad, J. (2023). An Efficient Optimization of Battery-Drone-Based Transportation Systems for Monitoring Solar Power Plant. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24(12), 15633 - 15641. https://doi.org/10.1109/tits.2022.3219568

Nowadays, developing environmental solutions to ensure the preservation and sustainability of natural resources is one of the core research topics for providing a better life quality. Using renewable energy sources, such as solar energy, is one of th... Read More about An Efficient Optimization of Battery-Drone-Based Transportation Systems for Monitoring Solar Power Plant.

Co-branding hotel owners and operators to increase willingness to pay (2022)
Journal Article
Whalen, E. A., & Sisson, A. D. (2022). Co-branding hotel owners and operators to increase willingness to pay. Research in Hospitality Management, 12(2), 151-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/22243534.2022.2133172

Although hotel brands are well established in the industry, customers have not been educated about the different kinds of properties, nor has hotel structure been utilised as a functional marketing tool. Drawing on previous studies, the purpose of th... Read More about Co-branding hotel owners and operators to increase willingness to pay.

Synonym-Based Essay Generation and Augmentation for Robust Automatic Essay Scoring (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tashu, T. M., & Horváth, T. (2022, November). Synonym-Based Essay Generation and Augmentation for Robust Automatic Essay Scoring. Presented at 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL), Manchester

Automatic essay scoring (AES) models based on neural networks (NN) have had a lot of success. However, research has shown that NN-based AES models have robustness issues, such that the output of a model changes easily with small changes in the input.... Read More about Synonym-Based Essay Generation and Augmentation for Robust Automatic Essay Scoring.

Solving Multi-class Imbalance Problems Using Improved Tabular GANs (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Farou, Z., Kopeikina, L., & Horváth, T. (2022, November). Solving Multi-class Imbalance Problems Using Improved Tabular GANs. Presented at 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL), Manchester

Multi-class imbalance problems are non-standard derivative data science problems. These problems are associated with the skewness in the data underlying distribution, which, in turn, raises numerous issues for conventional machine learning techniques... Read More about Solving Multi-class Imbalance Problems Using Improved Tabular GANs.

An adaptive large neighbourhood search metaheuristic for hourly learning activity planning in personalised learning (2022)
Journal Article
Wouda, N. A., Aslan, A., & Vis, I. F. (2023). An adaptive large neighbourhood search metaheuristic for hourly learning activity planning in personalised learning. Computers and Operations Research, 151, Article 106089. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2022.106089

Personalised learning offers an alternative method to one-size-fits-all education in schools, and has seen increasing adoption over the past several years. Personalised learning’s focus on learner-driven education requires novel scheduling methods. I... Read More about An adaptive large neighbourhood search metaheuristic for hourly learning activity planning in personalised learning.

Effective Practical Work in Science (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McGill, C. (2022, November). Effective Practical Work in Science. Presented at ResearchED Aberdeen, Robert Gordon College, Aberdeen

Practical work is carried out in the science classroom to teach scientific concepts, increase motivation, develop practical skills and practise being a scientist. Research suggests that much practical work carried out in science classrooms has very l... Read More about Effective Practical Work in Science.

DEF-Net: A Dual-Encoder Fusion Network for Fundus Retinal Vessel Segmentation (2022)
Journal Article
Li, J., Gao, G., Yang, L., Liu, Y., & Yu, H. (2022). DEF-Net: A Dual-Encoder Fusion Network for Fundus Retinal Vessel Segmentation. Electronics, 11(22), Article 3810. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11223810

The deterioration of numerous eye diseases is highly related to the fundus retinal structures, so the automatic retinal vessel segmentation serves as an essential stage for efficient detection of eye-related lesions in clinical practice. Segmentation... Read More about DEF-Net: A Dual-Encoder Fusion Network for Fundus Retinal Vessel Segmentation.