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DTWN: Q-learning-based Transmit Power Control for Digital Twin WiFi Networks (2022)
Journal Article
Çakır, L. V., Huseynov, K., Ak, E., & Canberk, B. (2022). DTWN: Q-learning-based Transmit Power Control for Digital Twin WiFi Networks. EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems, 9(31), Article e5. https://doi.org/10.4108/eetinis.v9i31.1059

Interference has always been the main threat to the performance of traditional WiFi networks and next-generation moving forward. The problem can be solved with transmit power control(TPC). However, to accomplish this, an information-gathering process... Read More about DTWN: Q-learning-based Transmit Power Control for Digital Twin WiFi Networks.

Variation and correlation in the timing of breeding of North Atlantic seabirds across multiple scales (2022)
Journal Article
Keogan, K., Daunt, F., Wanless, S., Phillips, R. A., Alvarez, D., Anker-Nilssen, T., Barrett, R. T., Bech, C., Becker, P. H., Berglund, P., Bouwhuis, S., Burr, Z. M., Chastel, O., Christensen-Dalsgaard, S., Descamps, S., Diamond, T., Elliott, K., Erikstad, K., Harris, M., Hentati-Sundberg, J., …Phillimore, A. B. (2022). Variation and correlation in the timing of breeding of North Atlantic seabirds across multiple scales. Journal of Animal Ecology, 91(9), 1797-1812. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13758

Timing of breeding, an important driver of fitness in many populations, is widely studied in the context of global change, yet despite considerable efforts to identify environmental drivers of seabird nesting phenology, for most populations we la... Read More about Variation and correlation in the timing of breeding of North Atlantic seabirds across multiple scales.

Learning from the impact of individual identities on staff’s experiences during Covid-19: Moving toward ethically implementing new styles of working (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zike, J., & Illingworth, S. (2022, June). Learning from the impact of individual identities on staff’s experiences during Covid-19: Moving toward ethically implementing new styles of working. Presented at QAA Enhancement Conference 2022: Resilient Learning Communities – Inclusive, Flexible and Accessible, Glasgow

We will report the findings of our qualitative survey of 118 staff members at Edinburgh Napier University. We found a highly nuanced impact on protected groups with individual situations, resources, and challenges contributing to the perceived impact... Read More about Learning from the impact of individual identities on staff’s experiences during Covid-19: Moving toward ethically implementing new styles of working.

Engaging students in creating a curriculum framework –challenges and enablers (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Haddow, C., Zike, J., & Le-Vaul Grimwood, M. (2022, June). Engaging students in creating a curriculum framework –challenges and enablers. Paper presented at Advance HE Curriculum Symposium, Leeds, UK

This session reflects on the challenges of implementing a new curriculum framework during Covid 19, with a particular focus on student engagement. It asks what we have learned from experience and focus group data, as we begin to embed the framework,... Read More about Engaging students in creating a curriculum framework –challenges and enablers.

The de-industrialisation discourse and the loss of modern industrial heritage in the Arab world: Jordan as a case study (2022)
Journal Article
Jarrar, N., & Jaradat, S. (2024). The de-industrialisation discourse and the loss of modern industrial heritage in the Arab world: Jordan as a case study. Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, 14(4), 581-599. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCHMSD-03-2021-0037

Purpose Industrial heritage is considered an essential part of cultural heritage in the world. This heritage suffers from continued marginalisation in the Arab world, particularly in Jordan, where many industrial heritage sites have not been protect... Read More about The de-industrialisation discourse and the loss of modern industrial heritage in the Arab world: Jordan as a case study.

"The Arcade" at Cheltenham Science Festival (Curator) (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Kerr, G. (2022). "The Arcade" at Cheltenham Science Festival (Curator). [Exhibition]. Exhibited at Cheltenham Science Festival, Imperial Gardens, Cheltenham. 7 June 2022 - 12 June 2022

The game is on – get set for an awesome adventure in The Arcade and put your skills to the test in a series of fun, creative and cryptic challenges. Can you make, break and create? Can you work in a team and spot things others might have missed? If y... Read More about "The Arcade" at Cheltenham Science Festival (Curator).

An examination of athlete self-directed film study viewing times prior to a competitive game (2022)
Report
Laird, P., & Clark, J. (2022). An examination of athlete self-directed film study viewing times prior to a competitive game. BAFCA

This study examined individual player video viewing times prior to a game over the course of a competitive season. Analysis of whether viewing times were directly influenced by the stage in the season, previous results, and recurrence of opponent wer... Read More about An examination of athlete self-directed film study viewing times prior to a competitive game.

“Building back better”: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the resilience of the hospitality and tourism industries (2022)
Journal Article
Colmekcioglu, N., Dineva, D., & Lu, X. (2022). “Building back better”: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the resilience of the hospitality and tourism industries. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 34(11), 4103-4122. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijchm-12-2021-1509

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical synthesis of research conducted within the hospitality and tourism industries in response to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, identify key perspectives and themes relating to the recover... Read More about “Building back better”: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the resilience of the hospitality and tourism industries.

STEM educational engagement through competition, sport and wearable technology (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
James, D., Lee, J., Ohgi, Y., Petrone, N., Willis, C., Ferrier, B., Wada, T., Al-Rawi, M., & Parker, J. (2022, June). STEM educational engagement through competition, sport and wearable technology. Poster presented at International Sports Engineering Association: The Engineering of Sport 14, Purdue University, US

Student engagement in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) activities are often perceived as solitary activities, resulting in a limited range of students that are intrinsically interested in it [1]. Historically STEM activities ar... Read More about STEM educational engagement through competition, sport and wearable technology.

Transfer Learning for Wireless Networks: A Comprehensive Survey (2022)
Journal Article
Nguyen, C. T., Van Huynh, N., Chu, N. H., Saputra, Y. M., Hoang, D. T., Nguyen, D. N., Pham, Q., Niyato, D., Dutkiewicz, E., & Hwang, W. (2022). Transfer Learning for Wireless Networks: A Comprehensive Survey. Proceedings of the IEEE, 110(8), 1073-1115. https://doi.org/10.1109/jproc.2022.3175942

With outstanding features, machine learning (ML) has become the backbone of numerous applications in wireless networks. However, the conventional ML approaches face many challenges in practical implementation, such as the lack of labeled data, the co... Read More about Transfer Learning for Wireless Networks: A Comprehensive Survey.

Supply chain management based on volatility clustering: The effect of CBDC volatility (2022)
Journal Article
Ding, S., Cui, T., Wu, X., & Du, M. (2022). Supply chain management based on volatility clustering: The effect of CBDC volatility. Research in International Business and Finance, 62, Article 101690. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2022.101690

A Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) launched by the Bank of England could enable businesses to directly make electronic payments. It can be argued that digital payment is helpful in supply chain management applications. However, the adoption of CB... Read More about Supply chain management based on volatility clustering: The effect of CBDC volatility.

Entrepreneurship Education and Training Programmes: A Lifespan Development Perspective (2022)
Book Chapter
Garavan, T., O’Brien, F., Power, C., Matthews-Smith, G., & Buckley, J. (2022). Entrepreneurship Education and Training Programmes: A Lifespan Development Perspective. In P. Holland, T. Bartram, T. Garavan, & K. Grant (Eds.), The Emerald Handbook of Work, Workplaces and Disruptive Issues in HRM (335-365). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80071-779-420221033

In this chapter, we propose that EETPs should be understood as a lifelong dynamic process and highlight how entrepreneur knowledge, skills and abilities develop across the lifespan (Bohlmann et al., 2017; Brieger et al., 2021). A lifespan theory pers... Read More about Entrepreneurship Education and Training Programmes: A Lifespan Development Perspective.

Conceptualizing the Changing Faces of Pilgrimage Through Contemporary Tourism (2022)
Journal Article
Polus, R., Carr, N., & Walters, T. (2022). Conceptualizing the Changing Faces of Pilgrimage Through Contemporary Tourism. International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, 5(3), 321-335. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41978-022-00109-7

This paper aims to conceptualize the pilgrimage and tourism relationship in the contemporary world. As the boundaries between pilgrimage and tourism have become blurred, there is a need to find a more holistic way to understand the nuances of the pil... Read More about Conceptualizing the Changing Faces of Pilgrimage Through Contemporary Tourism.

Nanotechnology-Based Treatment Strategies for the Removal of Antibiotics and Their By-Products from Wastewater (2022)
Book Chapter
Pachamal, N., Dharmarajan, R., Sundaram, S. S., & Rajendran, S. (2022). Nanotechnology-Based Treatment Strategies for the Removal of Antibiotics and Their By-Products from Wastewater. In P. Chakraborty, & D. Snow (Eds.), Legacy and Emerging Contaminants in Water and Wastewater: Monitoring, Risk Assessment and Remediation Techniques (339-360). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95443-7_15

Antibiotic resistance has become a serious issue throughout the world due to its inappropriate use and overdosing in pharmaceutical therapies and veterinary and agricultural applications. The cause of increasing antibiotic resistance is the slow and... Read More about Nanotechnology-Based Treatment Strategies for the Removal of Antibiotics and Their By-Products from Wastewater.

Morphology modulated brookite TiO2 and BaSnO3 as alternative electron transport materials for enhanced performance of carbon perovskite solar cells (2022)
Journal Article
Bhandari, S., Roy, A., Mallick, T. K., & Sundaram, S. (2022). Morphology modulated brookite TiO2 and BaSnO3 as alternative electron transport materials for enhanced performance of carbon perovskite solar cells. Chemical Engineering Journal, 446(5), Article 137378. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2022.137378

Designing alternatives to TiO2 electron-transport layers (ETLs) for facile electron extraction and transport to enhance the efficiency of n-i-p structured carbon perovskite solar cells (CPSC) is still a less explored research interest. In this work,... Read More about Morphology modulated brookite TiO2 and BaSnO3 as alternative electron transport materials for enhanced performance of carbon perovskite solar cells.

The plant rhizosheath–root niche is an edaphic “mini-oasis” in hyperarid deserts with enhanced microbial competition (2022)
Journal Article
Marasco, R., Fusi, M., Ramond, J., Van Goethem, M. W., Seferji, K., Maggs-Kölling, G., Cowan, D. A., & Daffonchio, D. (2022). The plant rhizosheath–root niche is an edaphic “mini-oasis” in hyperarid deserts with enhanced microbial competition. ISME Communications, 2(1), Article 47. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43705-022-00130-7

Plants have evolved unique morphological and developmental adaptations to cope with the abiotic stresses imposed by (hyper)arid environments. Such adaptations include the formation of rhizosheath–root system in which mutualistic plant–soil microbiome... Read More about The plant rhizosheath–root niche is an edaphic “mini-oasis” in hyperarid deserts with enhanced microbial competition.

High-Qf value and temperature stable Zn2+-Mn4+ cooperated modified cordierite-based microwave and millimeter-wave dielectric ceramics (2022)
Journal Article
Xiu, Z., Mao, M., Lu, Z., Huang, Z., Qi, Z., Bafrooei, H. B., Zhou, T., Wang, D., Lin, H., Taheri-nassaj, E., & Song, K. (2022). High-Qf value and temperature stable Zn2+-Mn4+ cooperated modified cordierite-based microwave and millimeter-wave dielectric ceramics. Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 42(13), 5712-5717. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2022.05.082

Cordierite-based dielectric ceramics with a lower dielectric constant would have significant application potential as dielectric resonator and filter materials for future ultra-low-latency 5G/6G millimeter-wave and terahertz communication. In this ar... Read More about High-Qf value and temperature stable Zn2+-Mn4+ cooperated modified cordierite-based microwave and millimeter-wave dielectric ceramics.

Cyber Threats in the Healthcare Sector and Countermeasures (2022)
Book Chapter
Ahmed, M. M., Maglaras, L., & Ferrag, M. A. (2022). Cyber Threats in the Healthcare Sector and Countermeasures. In M. Khosrow-Pour (Ed.), Research Anthology on Securing Medical Systems and Records. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-6311-6.ch001

Healthcare is one of the most targeted industries by cybercriminals. The healthcare sector is far behind in cybersecurity as compared to other organizations. The vulnerabilities in the system open the door for cybercriminals to exploit it and get una... Read More about Cyber Threats in the Healthcare Sector and Countermeasures.

Walking and Cycling: latest evidence to support policy-making and practice (2022)
Report
Götschi, T., Davis, A., & Racioppi, F. (2022). Walking and Cycling: latest evidence to support policy-making and practice. Bonn, Germany: WHO Europe

Active travel modes, especially walking and cycling, are now recognized by many as modes that are fully equal to other urban transport modes, integrated in planning frameworks, and adopted as part of the mainstream – not just in trailblazer countries... Read More about Walking and Cycling: latest evidence to support policy-making and practice.