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A Participative Approach To Understanding The Hidden Curriculum (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brazier, D., & Milosheva, M. (2022, April). A Participative Approach To Understanding The Hidden Curriculum. Paper presented at ASIST 24-Hour Global Conference, Online

Information needs are fundamental building blocks of the information behaviour and information retrieval literature. However, the concept of an “information need” is rarely discussed or defined, particularly in the context of everyday life informatio... Read More about A Participative Approach To Understanding The Hidden Curriculum.

A short review of vapour droplet dispersion models used in CFD to study the airborne spread of COVID19 (2022)
Journal Article
Mehade Hussain, S., Goel, S., Kadapa, C., & Aristodemou, E. (2022). A short review of vapour droplet dispersion models used in CFD to study the airborne spread of COVID19. Materials Today: Proceedings, 64(3), 1349-1356. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2022.03.724

The use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to simulate the spread of COVID19 and many other airborne diseases, especially in an indoor environment needs accurate understanding of dispersion models. Modelling the transport/dispersion of vapour drop... Read More about A short review of vapour droplet dispersion models used in CFD to study the airborne spread of COVID19.

Speed Estimation for Visual Tracking Emerges Dynamically from Nonlinear Frequency Interactions (2022)
Journal Article
Meso, A. I., Gekas, N., Mamassian, P., & Masson, G. S. (2022). Speed Estimation for Visual Tracking Emerges Dynamically from Nonlinear Frequency Interactions. eNeuro, 9(3), https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0511-21.2022

Sensing the movement of fast objects within our visual environments is essential for controlling actions. It requires online estimation of motion direction and speed. We probed human speed representation using ocular tracking of stimuli of different... Read More about Speed Estimation for Visual Tracking Emerges Dynamically from Nonlinear Frequency Interactions.

A novel temporal attentive-pooling based convolutional recurrent architecture for acoustic signal enhancement (2022)
Journal Article
Hussain, T., Wang, W., Gogate, M., Dashtipour, K., Tsao, Y., Lu, X., Ahsan, A., & Hussain, A. (2022). A novel temporal attentive-pooling based convolutional recurrent architecture for acoustic signal enhancement. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 3(5), 833-842. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAI.2022.3169995

Removing background noise from acoustic observations to obtain clean signals is an important research topic regarding numerous real acoustic applications. Owing to their strong model capacity in function mapping, deep neural network-based algorithms... Read More about A novel temporal attentive-pooling based convolutional recurrent architecture for acoustic signal enhancement.

The intervening effect of the What Being the Parent of a New Baby is Like-Revised questionnaire on maternal affect (2022)
Journal Article
Van Beeck, E., Pridham, K. F., & Kuipers, Y. (2022). The intervening effect of the What Being the Parent of a New Baby is Like-Revised questionnaire on maternal affect. Research Ethics, 18(3), 250-262. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470161221094929

The 'What Being the Parent of a New Baby is Like-Revised' (WPL-R) is an instrument designed to measure adaptation to parenthood. In the process of pilot testing and validating the WPL-R in a postpartum Dutch population, we became aware of the potenti... Read More about The intervening effect of the What Being the Parent of a New Baby is Like-Revised questionnaire on maternal affect.

The fourth industrial revolution: a catalyst for regional development in Malaysian seaport sector (2022)
Journal Article
Selvaduray, M., Suhrab, M. I. R., Somu, R., Jeevan, J., Mohd Salleh, N. H., & Zain, R. M. (2023). The fourth industrial revolution: a catalyst for regional development in Malaysian seaport sector. Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean Affairs, 15(3), 284-295. https://doi.org/10.1080/18366503.2022.2068293

Seaports enable national and international trade in nearly every country around the globe. The new digital world has led most seaport sectors to fully embrace new technologies and tools to better compete with other seaports. Moreover, such maritime a... Read More about The fourth industrial revolution: a catalyst for regional development in Malaysian seaport sector.

Clinical teaching and learning during COVID-19 as perceived by nursing students in Lesotho: A descriptive cross-sectional survey (2022)
Journal Article
Nyangu, I., & Rathobei, L. M. (2022). Clinical teaching and learning during COVID-19 as perceived by nursing students in Lesotho: A descriptive cross-sectional survey. Annals of Educational Research and Reviews, 10(1), 15-22

Background: Nursing students and their clinical instructors in higher education institutions are faced with challenges regarding clinical teaching and learning strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Objectives: This study aimed to determine the per... Read More about Clinical teaching and learning during COVID-19 as perceived by nursing students in Lesotho: A descriptive cross-sectional survey.

Does the Stock Market Influence Investor Everyday Decisions? The Case of Parking Violations (2022)
Journal Article
Siganos, A. (2022). Does the Stock Market Influence Investor Everyday Decisions? The Case of Parking Violations. International Review of Financial Analysis, 82, Article 102164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2022.102164

We explore in this study whether stock market returns influence investor decisions in their everyday life. We find that past and contemporaneous US stock market returns are related negatively to the registered number of parking violations in New York... Read More about Does the Stock Market Influence Investor Everyday Decisions? The Case of Parking Violations.

Raymond Williams, Norman Nicholson, and rural modernity (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2022, April). Raymond Williams, Norman Nicholson, and rural modernity. Paper presented at Raymond Williams @ 100: A Centenary Conference, Manchester

This paper reads the Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson’s writings about the impact of deindustrialisation on rural communities through the lens of Raymond Williams’s theorisation of the rural in modernity – notably The Country and the City, but also tak... Read More about Raymond Williams, Norman Nicholson, and rural modernity.

‘Now that I am connected this isn't social isolation, this is engaging with people’: Staying connected during the COVID‐19 pandemic (2022)
Journal Article
Spassiani, N. A., Becaj, M., Miller, C., Hiddleston, A., Hume, A., & Tait, S. (2023). ‘Now that I am connected this isn't social isolation, this is engaging with people’: Staying connected during the COVID‐19 pandemic. British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 51(1), 99-110. https://doi.org/10.1111/bld.12478

Background The COVID-19 global pandemic has put adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities at greater risk of being socially excluded due to physical distancing. Technology has been looked at as a tool for adults with intellectual/developme... Read More about ‘Now that I am connected this isn't social isolation, this is engaging with people’: Staying connected during the COVID‐19 pandemic.

How Was Your Music Festival Experience? Impacts on Loyalty, Word-of-mouth, and Sustainability Behaviors (2022)
Journal Article
Sisson, A. D., & Alcorn, M. R. (2022). How Was Your Music Festival Experience? Impacts on Loyalty, Word-of-mouth, and Sustainability Behaviors. Event Management, 26(3), 565-585. https://doi.org/10.3727/152599521x16288665119495

As the popularity of music festivals increases worldwide, an essential component for successful festivals is creating an exceptional guest experience. A conceptual model is proposed, positing that experience economy has a positive effect on loyalty,... Read More about How Was Your Music Festival Experience? Impacts on Loyalty, Word-of-mouth, and Sustainability Behaviors.

EfficientMask-Net for face authentication in the era of COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
Journal Article
Azouji, N., Sami, A., & Taheri, M. (2022). EfficientMask-Net for face authentication in the era of COVID-19 pandemic. Signal, Image and Video Processing, 16(7), 1991-1999. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-022-02160-z

Today, we are facing the COVID-19 pandemic. Accordingly, properly wearing face masks has become vital as an effective way to prevent the rapid spread of COVID-19. This research develops an Efficient Mask-Net method for low-power devices, such as mobi... Read More about EfficientMask-Net for face authentication in the era of COVID-19 pandemic.

Resistance, the Transformation of School Teachers’ Work and Performance Management Reforms: A Labour Process Perspective (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Morrell, S. (2022, April). Resistance, the Transformation of School Teachers’ Work and Performance Management Reforms: A Labour Process Perspective. Paper presented at International Labour Process Conference, Padua, Italy

The study of resistance is a central aspect of labour process theorisation. Much recent literature has focused on the impact of collective action on work, yet insights into the realities of individual forms of resistance remain understudied within an... Read More about Resistance, the Transformation of School Teachers’ Work and Performance Management Reforms: A Labour Process Perspective.

Putting passion to work: Passionate labour in the fashion blogosphere (2022)
Journal Article
Logan-McFarlane, A., Hamilton, K., & Hewer, P. (2022). Putting passion to work: Passionate labour in the fashion blogosphere. European Journal of Marketing, 56(4), 1210-1231. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJM-08-2019-0642

Purpose This study aims to explore passionate labour in the fashion blogosphere and addresses two research questions: How does passion animate passionate labour? How does the emotion of passions and the discipline of labour fuse within passionate la... Read More about Putting passion to work: Passionate labour in the fashion blogosphere.

The 'Cacophony' of life and death: the impact of the pandemic on persons with disabilities in Ukraine (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sharapov, K. (2022, April). The 'Cacophony' of life and death: the impact of the pandemic on persons with disabilities in Ukraine. Paper presented at BSA Virtual Annual Conference 2022: Building Equality and Justice Now, Online

As of January 2021, about 2.7 million persons in Ukraine were officially registered as having a disability. The Ukrainian Government policies in relation to the economic and social wellbeing of people with disabilities (PWDs) could be, at best, descr... Read More about The 'Cacophony' of life and death: the impact of the pandemic on persons with disabilities in Ukraine.

I only fear when I hear: How media affects insider trading in takeover targets (2022)
Journal Article
Aleksanyan, M., Danbolt, J., Siganos, A., & Wu, B. (2022). I only fear when I hear: How media affects insider trading in takeover targets. Journal of Empirical Finance, 67, 318-342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jempfin.2022.04.004

We study how target firm insiders respond to Wall Street Journal articles referring to illegal insider trading in past mergers. Such articles lead to target insider share purchases before bid announcement to drop by 75%. This effect is stronger neare... Read More about I only fear when I hear: How media affects insider trading in takeover targets.

Synchronization of Monostatic Radar Using a Time-Delayed Chaos-Based FM Waveform (2022)
Journal Article
Abd, M. H., Al-Suhail, G. A., Tahir, F. R., Ali Ali, A. M., Abbood, H. A., Dashtipour, K., Jamal, S. S., & Ahmad, J. (2022). Synchronization of Monostatic Radar Using a Time-Delayed Chaos-Based FM Waveform. Remote Sensing, 14(9), Article 1984. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14091984

There is no doubt that chaotic systems are still attractive issues in various radar applications and communication systems. In this paper, we present a new 0.3 GHz mono-static microwave chaotic radar. It includes a chaotic system based on a time-dela... Read More about Synchronization of Monostatic Radar Using a Time-Delayed Chaos-Based FM Waveform.

Effective and Meaningful Involvement of Persons with Mental Disabilities in Research (2022)
Other
Davey, J. (2022). Effective and Meaningful Involvement of Persons with Mental Disabilities in Research

PhD proposal on FindAPhD.com This research proposal has gone live (as of 20/04/22) to recruit a PhD student to undertake research with myself, Professor Jill Stavart & Jessica Maclaren. It is the first research proposal that seeks to recruit a pe... Read More about Effective and Meaningful Involvement of Persons with Mental Disabilities in Research.

Twitter use by the dementia community during COVID-19: a user classification and social network analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Alhayan, F., Pennington, D., & Ayouni, S. (2023). Twitter use by the dementia community during COVID-19: a user classification and social network analysis. Online Information Review, 47(1), 41-58. https://doi.org/10.1108/oir-04-2021-0208

Purpose The study aimed to examine how different communities concerned with dementia engage and interact on Twitter. Design/methodology/approach A dataset was sampled from 8,400 user profile descriptions, which was labelled into five categories a... Read More about Twitter use by the dementia community during COVID-19: a user classification and social network analysis.