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Rallying to the Flag - A Consolidated Picture of Armed Forces Children’s Education in Scotland in 2021: Laying Foundations & Promoting Development (2022)
Report
MacLeod, C., Short, G., & Matthews-Smith, G. (2022). Rallying to the Flag - A Consolidated Picture of Armed Forces Children’s Education in Scotland in 2021: Laying Foundations & Promoting Development. Edinburgh: Association of Directors of Education in Scotland

This report provides an overview of the numbers of armed forces children at national and local authority level, together with a review of how some authorities have responded to the needs of this part of the pupil population. It therefore marks a star... Read More about Rallying to the Flag - A Consolidated Picture of Armed Forces Children’s Education in Scotland in 2021: Laying Foundations & Promoting Development.

Essential spawning grounds of Scottish herring: current knowledge and future challenges (2022)
Journal Article
Frost, M., & Diele, K. (2022). Essential spawning grounds of Scottish herring: current knowledge and future challenges. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 32, 721-744. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11160-022-09703-0

Scotland once had the largest herring fishery globally, generating local income, identity, and societal change. Following historic stock collapse, in spring 2018/2019 large herring shoals were observed on the west coast for the first time in decades,... Read More about Essential spawning grounds of Scottish herring: current knowledge and future challenges.

Long-acting depot buprenorphine in people who are homeless: Views and experiences (2022)
Journal Article
Matheson, C., Foster, R., Schofield, J., & Browne, T. (2022). Long-acting depot buprenorphine in people who are homeless: Views and experiences. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 139, Article 108781. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsat.2022.108781

Introduction People experiencing homelessness often experience intersecting mental and physical health problems, alongside problem substance use and a range of overlapping challenges, including access to appropriate treatment. New long-acting opioid... Read More about Long-acting depot buprenorphine in people who are homeless: Views and experiences.

Risk factors for the development and evolution of deep tissue injuries: A systematic review (2022)
Journal Article
Wynn, M., Stephens, M., Pradeep, S., & Kennedy, R. (2022). Risk factors for the development and evolution of deep tissue injuries: A systematic review. Journal of Tissue Viability, 31(3), 416-423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtv.2022.03.002

The aim of this systematic review is to identify the current epidemiological evidence indicating the unique risk factors for deep tissue injury (DTI) compared to grade I-IV pressure injury (PI), the proportion of DTI which evolve rather than resolve... Read More about Risk factors for the development and evolution of deep tissue injuries: A systematic review.

Finite element modelling of micromachining process for epoxy/graphene nanoplatelet nanocomposites (2022)
Journal Article
Fu, G., Wang, J., Sun, F., Sun, F., Shyha, I., Fang, C., & Huo, D. (2022). Finite element modelling of micromachining process for epoxy/graphene nanoplatelet nanocomposites. Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 77, 770-782. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmapro.2022.03.062

Polymer-based composite materials reinforced with graphene derivatives have attracted increasing attention from academia and industry, but our understanding of the cutting mechanism of these new materials is incomplete. This paper develops a three-di... Read More about Finite element modelling of micromachining process for epoxy/graphene nanoplatelet nanocomposites.

An investigation of the role of leadership in consensus decision-making (2022)
Journal Article
Perret, C., & Powers, S. T. (2022). An investigation of the role of leadership in consensus decision-making. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 543, Article 111094. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2022.111094

Leadership is a widespread phenomena in social organisms and it is recognised to facilitate coordination between individuals. While the role of leadership in group foraging or swarm movement is well understood, it is not clear if leaders would also b... Read More about An investigation of the role of leadership in consensus decision-making.

Edge-IIoTset: A New Comprehensive Realistic Cyber Security Dataset of IoT and IIoT Applications for Centralized and Federated Learning (2022)
Journal Article
Ferrag, M. A., Friha, O., Hamouda, D., Maglaras, L., & Janicke, H. (2022). Edge-IIoTset: A New Comprehensive Realistic Cyber Security Dataset of IoT and IIoT Applications for Centralized and Federated Learning. IEEE Access, 10, 40281-40306. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2022.3165809

In this paper, we propose a new comprehensive realistic cyber security dataset of IoT and IIoT applications, called Edge-IIoTset, which can be used by machine learning-based intrusion detection systems in two different modes, namely, centralized and... Read More about Edge-IIoTset: A New Comprehensive Realistic Cyber Security Dataset of IoT and IIoT Applications for Centralized and Federated Learning.

Modeling Long-Range Travelling Times with Big Railway Data (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sun, W., Grubenmann, T., Cheng, R., Kao, B., & Ching, W. (2022, April). Modeling Long-Range Travelling Times with Big Railway Data. Presented at 27th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, Online

Big Railway Data, such as train movement logs and timetables, have become increasingly available. By analyzing these data, insights about train movement and delay can be extracted, allowing train operators to make smarter train management decisions.... Read More about Modeling Long-Range Travelling Times with Big Railway Data.

Creatures of Moonshine: H. G. Wells’s ‘The Sea Raiders’ and the Oceanic Romance (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2022, April). Creatures of Moonshine: H. G. Wells’s ‘The Sea Raiders’ and the Oceanic Romance. Paper presented at BSLS 2022 Annual Conference, Manchester

There is a strand of nineteenth-century fiction interested in tentacled monsters based to a greater or lesser extent on cephalopods. Although the legendary kraken remained a legend, biology had learned a little about the real existence of giant squid... Read More about Creatures of Moonshine: H. G. Wells’s ‘The Sea Raiders’ and the Oceanic Romance.

A novel image encryption scheme based on Arnold cat map, Newton-Leipnik system and Logistic Gaussian map (2022)
Journal Article
Masood, F., Boulila, W., Alsaeedi, A., Khan, J. S., Ahmad, J., Khan, M. A., & Rehman, S. U. (2022). A novel image encryption scheme based on Arnold cat map, Newton-Leipnik system and Logistic Gaussian map. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 81, 30931-30959. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-022-12844-w

In the existing literature, numerous chaos-based multimedia encryption schemes have been presented. Benefiting from inherent properties such as ergodicity and key-sensitivity; this can potentially improve non-linearity in encrypted data. This paper i... Read More about A novel image encryption scheme based on Arnold cat map, Newton-Leipnik system and Logistic Gaussian map.

Understanding the ethical legitimacy of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship in Indonesia in the context of increased government regulation: a legitimacy-as-perception perspective (2022)
Journal Article
Tjandra, N. C., Garavan, T. N., Aroean, L., & Prabandari, Y. S. (2022). Understanding the ethical legitimacy of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship in Indonesia in the context of increased government regulation: a legitimacy-as-perception perspective. European Journal of Marketing, 56(4), 1042-1064. https://doi.org/10.1108/ejm-06-2019-0512

Purpose The authors explore the metaphors people from Indonesia use to describe their propriety beliefs about the ethical legitimacy of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship (TAPS). This paper aims to understand why there is a consensus of... Read More about Understanding the ethical legitimacy of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship in Indonesia in the context of increased government regulation: a legitimacy-as-perception perspective.

Air Connectivity after the Extra Long Range Aircraft (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Arvanitis, P. (2022). Air Connectivity after the Extra Long Range Aircraft. . https://doi.org/10.5038/2834-4731-V2

Tourism and mobility feed one another, and the same principle applies on air travel. International tourism arrivals by air account for almost 60%. While it can be argued that the world today is well interconnected, there are still inequalities in ai... Read More about Air Connectivity after the Extra Long Range Aircraft.

The Right Place at the Right Time: Seasonal Variation of Bacterial Communities in Arid Avicennia marina Soils in the Red Sea Is Specific to Its Position in the Intertidal (2022)
Journal Article
Thomson, T., Ellis, J. I., Fusi, M., Prinz, N., Bennett-Smith, M. F., Aylagas, E., Carvalho, S., & Jones, A. B. H. (2022). The Right Place at the Right Time: Seasonal Variation of Bacterial Communities in Arid Avicennia marina Soils in the Red Sea Is Specific to Its Position in the Intertidal. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10, Article 845611. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.845611

Mangrove forests play an important role in facilitating biogeochemical pathways and cycling acting as blue carbon sinks. These services are primarily regulated by the activity of the soil microbiome. However, there is still limited research into spat... Read More about The Right Place at the Right Time: Seasonal Variation of Bacterial Communities in Arid Avicennia marina Soils in the Red Sea Is Specific to Its Position in the Intertidal.

The Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium: Producing Pacific community-based films by Pacific filmmakers (2022)
Journal Article
MacLeod, K. (2022). The Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium: Producing Pacific community-based films by Pacific filmmakers. Media Practice and Education, 23(2), 195-201. https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2022.2059832

This case study will discuss the impact pathways associated with a practice-led impact and engagement project based in the Pacific through the establishment of The Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium. The project aims to support community-based a... Read More about The Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium: Producing Pacific community-based films by Pacific filmmakers.

Unpacking value destruction at the intersection between public and private value (2022)
Journal Article
Cui, T., & Osborne, S. P. (2023). Unpacking value destruction at the intersection between public and private value. Public Administration, 101(4), 1207-1226. https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12850

Public services do not always create value. Rather, when poorly organized and/or delivered, they can destroy value and make service users’ lives worse. However, such ‘value destruction’ is presently weakly conceptualized in public management theory.... Read More about Unpacking value destruction at the intersection between public and private value.

New information literacy horizons: Making the case for career information literacy (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milosheva, M., Hall, H., Robertson, P., & Cruickshank, P. (2021, September). New information literacy horizons: Making the case for career information literacy. Presented at European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL) 2021, Bamberg, Germany [Online]

A literature review on the broad theme of information literacy and work was undertaken between January and April 2021 as part of an on-going doctoral study. The purpose of the literature review was to explore extant research on workplace information... Read More about New information literacy horizons: Making the case for career information literacy.

The United Kingdom and the Netherlands maternity care responses to COVID-19: A comparative study (2022)
Journal Article
van den Berg, L. M., Balaam, M., Nowland, R., Moncrieff, G., Topalidou, A., Thompson, S., Thomson, G., de Jonge, A., Downe, S., Ellison, G., Fenton, A., Heazell, A., de Jonge, A., Kingdon, C., Matthews, Z., Severns, A., Thomson, G., Topalidou, A., Wright, A., Akooji, N., …Treadwell, M. (2023). The United Kingdom and the Netherlands maternity care responses to COVID-19: A comparative study. Women and Birth, 36(1), 127-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2022.03.010

Background The national health care response to coronavirus (COVID-19) has varied between countries. The United Kingdom (UK) and the Netherlands (NL) have comparable maternity and neonatal care systems, and experienced similar numbers of COVID-19 in... Read More about The United Kingdom and the Netherlands maternity care responses to COVID-19: A comparative study.

Financial independence of women – the impact of social factors on women empowerment in small island developing states (SIDS) (2022)
Journal Article
Rughoobur-Seetah, S., Hosanoo, Z., & Balla Soupramanien, L. D. (2023). Financial independence of women – the impact of social factors on women empowerment in small island developing states (SIDS). International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 31(6), 2383-2408. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijoa-10-2021-2980

Purpose This study aims to understand and analyse the financial independence of women in small island developing states, with a focus on Mauritius. Factors such as employer choice, domestic violence, sociological factors, lack of opportunities and e... Read More about Financial independence of women – the impact of social factors on women empowerment in small island developing states (SIDS).

Experimental sexual selection affects the evolution of physiological and life‐history traits (2022)
Journal Article
Garlovsky, M. D., Holman, L., Brooks, A. L., Novicic, Z. K., & Snook, R. R. (2022). Experimental sexual selection affects the evolution of physiological and life‐history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 35(5), 742-751. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.14003

Sexual selection and sexual conflict are expected to affect all aspects of the phenotype, not only traits that are directly involved in reproduction. Here, we show coordinated evolution of multiple physiological and life-history traits in response to... Read More about Experimental sexual selection affects the evolution of physiological and life‐history traits.