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Competitiveness throughout the seaport-hinterland: a container shipping analysis (2023)
Journal Article
de Almeida Rodrigues, T., Maria de Miranda Mota, C., Ojiako, U., Chipulu, M., Dweiri, F., & Marshall, A. (online). Competitiveness throughout the seaport-hinterland: a container shipping analysis. Maritime Policy and Management, https://doi.org/10.1080/03088839.2023.2248125

With customers looking for the highest level of services and reduction of cost on international trade of goods, shippers have recently begun to focus on the inland leg of containerized import/export, making the competition advance between ‘seaport ag... Read More about Competitiveness throughout the seaport-hinterland: a container shipping analysis.

Streaming Scotland: The Scottish Screen Sector in the Global HETV Production Market (2023)
Newspaper / Magazine
Correia, N. (2023). Streaming Scotland: The Scottish Screen Sector in the Global HETV Production Market. [Magazine]. Edinburgh

This article reflects on how Scotland has cemented its status as an international hub for high-end television (HETV) production between summer 2022 and summer 2023, and discusses strategies to maintain continuous growth in the local screen sector in... Read More about Streaming Scotland: The Scottish Screen Sector in the Global HETV Production Market.

Hospital cleaning: past, present, and future (2023)
Journal Article
Dancer, S. J. (2023). Hospital cleaning: past, present, and future. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 12(1), Article 80. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-023-01275-3

Introduction: The importance of hospital cleaning for controlling healthcare-associated infection (HAI) has taken years to acknowledge. This is mainly because the removal of dirt is inextricably entwined with gender and social status, along with lack... Read More about Hospital cleaning: past, present, and future.

Factors associated with the intention of pregnant women to give birth with epidural analgesia: a cross-sectional study (2023)
Journal Article
Van Leugenhaege, L., Degraeve, J., Jacquemyn, Y., Mestdagh, E., & Kuipers, Y. J. (2023). Factors associated with the intention of pregnant women to give birth with epidural analgesia: a cross-sectional study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 23(1), Article 598. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-023-05887-w

Background In Belgium most women receive epidural analgesia during labour. Although, it offers satisfactory pain relief during labour, the risk on a series of adverse advents has been reported. The objective of this study was to determine factors a... Read More about Factors associated with the intention of pregnant women to give birth with epidural analgesia: a cross-sectional study.

Food Safety Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices of Food Handlers in Restaurants in Malé, Maldives (2023)
Journal Article
Halim-Lim, S. A., Mohamed, K., Sukki, F. M., David, W., Ungku Zainal Abidin, U. F., & Jamaludin, A. A. (2023). Food Safety Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices of Food Handlers in Restaurants in Malé, Maldives. Sustainability, 15(17), Article 12695. https://doi.org/10.3390/su151712695

Poor hygiene in the food service industry is a critical public health concern in the Maldives, and is caused by several issues, such as limited inspections and monitoring, inadequate training and knowledge, and a lack of a regulatory framework. Thus,... Read More about Food Safety Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices of Food Handlers in Restaurants in Malé, Maldives.

Maritime museums vs seaport museums navigating the evolution from maritime port business to the maritime tourism industry (2023)
Journal Article
Selvaduray, M., Bandara, Y. M., & Yunus, N. (2023). Maritime museums vs seaport museums navigating the evolution from maritime port business to the maritime tourism industry. Journal of Maritime Logistics, 3(1), 46-73. https://doi.org/10.46754/jml.2023.08.004

Ocean-based countries has more advantages compare to a landlock regions where there face challenges on the access to the oceanography activities. Beyond major maritime trading and transportation business, maritime tourism business is one of the econo... Read More about Maritime museums vs seaport museums navigating the evolution from maritime port business to the maritime tourism industry.

Employee perceptions of wellbeing interventions (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gilek, M. (2023, August). Employee perceptions of wellbeing interventions. Presented at International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS) 21st Conference, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Influence policing: Strategic communications, digital nudges, and behaviour change marketing in Scottish and UK preventative policing (2023)
Report
Collier, B., Stewart, J., Horgan, S., Wilson, L., & Thomas, D. (2023). Influence policing: Strategic communications, digital nudges, and behaviour change marketing in Scottish and UK preventative policing. Scottish Institute for Policing Research

Influence policing is an emerging phenomenon: the use of digital targeted ‘nudge’ communications campaigns by police forces and law enforcement agencies to directly achieve strategic policing outcomes. While scholarship, civil society, and journalism... Read More about Influence policing: Strategic communications, digital nudges, and behaviour change marketing in Scottish and UK preventative policing.

Practical Hardware for Evolvable Robots (2023)
Journal Article
Angus, M., Buchanan, E., Le Goff, L. K., Hart, E., Eiben, A., De Carlo, M., Winfield, A. F., Hale, M., Woolley, R., Timmis, J., & Tyrrell, A. M. (2023). Practical Hardware for Evolvable Robots. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 10, Article 1206055. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2023.1206055

The evolutionary robotics field offers the possibility of autonomously generating robots that are adapted to desired tasks by iteratively optimising across successive generations of robots with varying configurations until a high-performing candidate... Read More about Practical Hardware for Evolvable Robots.

Account, accuracy, and authenticity: A framework for analysing historical narrative in games (2023)
Book Chapter
Donald, I., & Reid, A. J. (2023). Account, accuracy, and authenticity: A framework for analysing historical narrative in games. In R. Seiwald, & E. Vollans (Eds.), (Not) In the Game: History, Paratexts, and Games (57-80). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110732924-004

Selective Query Processing: A Risk-Sensitive Selection of Search Configurations (2023)
Journal Article
Mothe, J., & Ullah, M. Z. (2024). Selective Query Processing: A Risk-Sensitive Selection of Search Configurations. ACM transactions on information systems, 42(1), https://doi.org/10.1145/3608474

In information retrieval systems, search parameters are optimized to ensure high effectiveness based on a set of past searches and these optimized parameters are then used as the system configuration for all subsequent queries. A better approach, how... Read More about Selective Query Processing: A Risk-Sensitive Selection of Search Configurations.

Cognitive aging and experience of playing a musical instrument (2023)
Journal Article
Okely, J. A., Cox, S. R., Deary, I. J., Luciano, M., & Overy, K. (2023). Cognitive aging and experience of playing a musical instrument. Psychology and Aging, 38(7), 696–711. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000768

Musical instrument training has been found to be associated with higher cognitive performance in older age. However, it is not clear whether this association reflects a reduced rate of cognitive decline in older age (differential preservation), and/o... Read More about Cognitive aging and experience of playing a musical instrument.

Dysarthric Speech Recognition, Detection and Classification using Raw Phase and Magnitude Spectra (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yue, Z., Loweimi, E., & Cvetkovic, Z. (2023). Dysarthric Speech Recognition, Detection and Classification using Raw Phase and Magnitude Spectra. In Proc. INTERSPEECH 2023 (1533-1537). https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2023-222

In this paper, we explore the effectiveness of deploying the raw phase and magnitude spectra for dysarthric speech recognition, detection and classification. In particular, we scrutinise the usefulness of various raw phase-based representations along... Read More about Dysarthric Speech Recognition, Detection and Classification using Raw Phase and Magnitude Spectra.

Experimental study on flexural behaviours of fresh or aged hollow reinforced concrete girders strengthened by prestressed CFRP plates (2023)
Journal Article
Deng, Y., Guo, Z., Zhang, H., Limkatanyu, S., Sukontasukkul, P., Yuen, T. Y. P., Wong, S. H. F., Hansapinyo, C., Adom-Asamoah, M., Shen, M., Huang, L., Kuang, J. S., & Zou, Y. (2023). Experimental study on flexural behaviours of fresh or aged hollow reinforced concrete girders strengthened by prestressed CFRP plates. Engineering Structures, 294, Article 116776. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2023.116776

The paper presents a well-rounded experimental study on the flexural performance of Reinforced Concrete (RC) box girders strengthened with prestressed carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) plates. The motivation behind the study was twofold: the ris... Read More about Experimental study on flexural behaviours of fresh or aged hollow reinforced concrete girders strengthened by prestressed CFRP plates.

Have increased deaths at home during the pandemic returned to pre-pandemic levels? An analysis of publicly available Scottish death registrations (2023)
Journal Article
Savinc, J., & Atherton, I. M. (2023). Have increased deaths at home during the pandemic returned to pre-pandemic levels? An analysis of publicly available Scottish death registrations. Journal of Public Health, 45(4), e664–e667. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdad156

Deaths at home increased in Scotland at the start of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic by ~35%. The majority did not involve COVID-19. This has implications for resource allocation and care at the end of life. Publicly available weekly... Read More about Have increased deaths at home during the pandemic returned to pre-pandemic levels? An analysis of publicly available Scottish death registrations.

A Comparison of Ensemble Learning for Intrusion Detection in Telemetry Data (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Naz, N., Khan, M. A., Khan, M. A., Khan, M. A., Jan, S. U., Shah, S. A., Arshad, Abbasi, Q. H., & Ahmad, J. (2022, October). A Comparison of Ensemble Learning for Intrusion Detection in Telemetry Data. Presented at 3rd International Conference of Advanced Computing and Informatics, Casablanca, Morocco

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a grid of interconnected pre-programmed electronic devices to provide intelligent services for daily life tasks. However, the security of such networks is a considerable obstacle to successful implementation. Therefore... Read More about A Comparison of Ensemble Learning for Intrusion Detection in Telemetry Data.

Squared Symmetric Formal Contexts and Their Connections with Correlation Matrices (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Antoni, L., Eliaš, P., Horváth, T., Krajči, S., Krídlo, O., & Török, C. (2023, September). Squared Symmetric Formal Contexts and Their Connections with Correlation Matrices. Presented at International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS) 2023, Berlin

Formal Concept Analysis identifies hidden patterns in data that can be presented to the user or the data analyst. We propose a method for analyzing the correlation matrices based on Formal concept analysis. In particular, we define a notion of square... Read More about Squared Symmetric Formal Contexts and Their Connections with Correlation Matrices.

Sludge-derived biochar: Physicochemical characteristics for environmental remediation (2023)
Journal Article
Mayilswamy, N., Nighojkar, A., Edirisinghe, M., Sundaram, S., & Kandasubramanian, B. (2023). Sludge-derived biochar: Physicochemical characteristics for environmental remediation. Applied Physics Reviews, 10(3), Article 031308. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0137651

The global production of fecal wastes is envisioned to reach a very high tonnage by 2030. Perilous handling and consequential exposition of human and animal fecal matter are inextricably linked with stunted growth, enteric diseases, inadequate cognit... Read More about Sludge-derived biochar: Physicochemical characteristics for environmental remediation.

Majority Voting Ransomware Detection System (2023)
Journal Article
Davies, S. R., Macfarlane, R., & Buchanan, W. J. (2023). Majority Voting Ransomware Detection System. Journal of Information Security, 14(4), 264-293. https://doi.org/10.4236/jis.2023.144016

Crypto-ransomware remains a significant threat to governments and companies alike, with high-profile cyber security incidents regularly making headlines. Many different detection systems have been proposed as solutions to the ever-changing dynamic la... Read More about Majority Voting Ransomware Detection System.

Healthcare Technology and Innovation Management Methods: Theoretical Interpretation (2023)
Book Chapter
Fascia, M., Koseda, E., & McIntosh, B. (2023). Healthcare Technology and Innovation Management Methods: Theoretical Interpretation. In M. Al Mubarak, & A. Hamdan (Eds.), Technological Sustainability and Business Competitive Advantage. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35525-7_19

Today, the concept of technology and innovation management in healthcare is prevalent in the literature. Managers who interpret technology from a management perspective, interpret it as a significant factor in determining the starting point for an an... Read More about Healthcare Technology and Innovation Management Methods: Theoretical Interpretation.