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Can you guess the strength of timber? How (your) wood quality perceptions relate to reality (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cramer, M., & Ridley-Ellis, D. (2022, September). Can you guess the strength of timber? How (your) wood quality perceptions relate to reality. Paper presented at Northern European Network for Wood Science and Engineering (WSE) 2022, Goettingen, Germany

UK-grown timber is often perceived to have “low quality”, and most of the UK’s sawn timber is used for fencing and packaging material. Much of the resource could be used as construction timber, as UK spruce and other softwoods can be strength graded... Read More about Can you guess the strength of timber? How (your) wood quality perceptions relate to reality.

Moving AFK: Exploring the applicability of contemporary desistance theorising for cyber-dependent offending (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Anderson, S., Horgan, S., & Collier, B. (2022, September). Moving AFK: Exploring the applicability of contemporary desistance theorising for cyber-dependent offending. Paper presented at European Society of Criminology, Malaga

The presentation will explore the analytical utility of contemporary theories of desistance for making sense of narratives of cyber-dependent offending careers. Until recently, cybercrime research has been preoccupied with situational theorisations o... Read More about Moving AFK: Exploring the applicability of contemporary desistance theorising for cyber-dependent offending.

The assessment of the mechanical and physical properties of in situ timber (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bather, M., & Ridley-Ellis, D. (2022, September). The assessment of the mechanical and physical properties of in situ timber. Paper presented at Northern European Network for Wood Science and Engineering (WSE) 2022, Goettingen, Germany

The refurbishment of existing buildings is a more sustainable option than demolition and reconstruction, leading to significant reductions in CO2 emissions and many other benefits. Policy across Europe is leaning more towards retaining and upgrading... Read More about The assessment of the mechanical and physical properties of in situ timber.

Exploring tourist’s socio-cultural aversions, self-congruity bias, attitudes and willingness to participate in indigenous tourism (2022)
Journal Article
Holder, A., Walters, G., Ruhanen, L., & Mkono, M. (2024). Exploring tourist’s socio-cultural aversions, self-congruity bias, attitudes and willingness to participate in indigenous tourism. Journal of Vacation Marketing, 30(2), 207-224. https://doi.org/10.1177/13567667221124343

Empirical studies of tourist socio-cultural aversions and their influence on tourist consumption are limited. A socio-cultural aversion describes the avoidance associated with an ingrained dislike for, and distancing from something representative of... Read More about Exploring tourist’s socio-cultural aversions, self-congruity bias, attitudes and willingness to participate in indigenous tourism.

A little about the verification of a lot (EN 14358) (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ridley-Ellis, D. (2022, September). A little about the verification of a lot (EN 14358). Paper presented at Northern European Network for Wood Science and Engineering (WSE) 2022, Goettingen, Germany

Sometimes it is necessary to estimate the mean and/or percentile of a certain population by limited sampling, in order to compare with target values. Done properly, the method should account for random chance in the sampling so that the two risks can... Read More about A little about the verification of a lot (EN 14358).

Watching you desist: Policing as punishment in the cybercrime context (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Horgan, S., Anderson, S., & Collier, B. (2022, September). Watching you desist: Policing as punishment in the cybercrime context. Paper presented at European Society of Criminology, Malaga

Cyber-dependent crime is now more often considered a national security issue rather than a routine policing matter. 'High-policing' agencies tend to take the lead in law enforcement responses, even when crimes are petty, ‘low-tech’, or born of curios... Read More about Watching you desist: Policing as punishment in the cybercrime context.

Who is More Likely (Not) to Make Home-Based Work Trips during the COVID-19 Pandemic? The Case of Scotland (2022)
Journal Article
Semple, T., Fountas, G., & Fonzone, A. (2023). Who is More Likely (Not) to Make Home-Based Work Trips during the COVID-19 Pandemic? The Case of Scotland. Transportation research record, 2677(4), 904-916. https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981221119192

In this study, we use survey data (n=6,000) to investigate the work trip patterns of Scottish residents at various points of the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus specifically on the reported patterns of weekly work trips made during the government-enforce... Read More about Who is More Likely (Not) to Make Home-Based Work Trips during the COVID-19 Pandemic? The Case of Scotland.

GC Insights: Diversifying the geosciences in higher education: a manifesto for change (2022)
Journal Article
Hall, C. A., Illingworth, S., Mohadjer, S., Roxy, M. K., Poku, C., Otu-Larbi, F., Reano, D., Freilich, M., Veisaga, M.-L., Valencia, M., & Morales, J. (2022). GC Insights: Diversifying the geosciences in higher education: a manifesto for change. Geoscience Communication, 5(3), 275-280. https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-5-275-2022

There is still a significant lack of diversity and equity in geoscience education, even after decades of work and widespread calls for improvement and action. We join fellow community voices in calls for improved diversity, equity, inclusion, and jus... Read More about GC Insights: Diversifying the geosciences in higher education: a manifesto for change.

New Zealand border restrictions amidst COVID-19 and their impacts on temporary migrant workers (2022)
Journal Article
Liu, L. S., Ran, G. J., & Jia, X. (2022). New Zealand border restrictions amidst COVID-19 and their impacts on temporary migrant workers. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 31(3), 312-323. https://doi.org/10.1177/01171968221126206

In September 2021, Immigration New Zealand (INZ) announced the offer of a one-off residence visa category – the 2021 Resident Visa, to over 165,000 temporary migrant workers and their family members living in the country. The offer was a response to... Read More about New Zealand border restrictions amidst COVID-19 and their impacts on temporary migrant workers.

Dynamic noise filtering for multi-class classification of beehive audio data (2022)
Journal Article
Várkonyi, D. T., Seixas Junior, J. L., & Horváth, T. (2023). Dynamic noise filtering for multi-class classification of beehive audio data. Expert Systems with Applications, 213(Part A), Article 118850. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.118850

Honeybees are the most specialized insect pollinators and are critical not only for honey production but, also, for keeping the environmental balance by pollinating the flowers of a wide variety of crops.

Recording and analyzing bee sounds became... Read More about Dynamic noise filtering for multi-class classification of beehive audio data.

DSMAC: Privacy-Aware Decentralized Self-Management of Data Access Control Based on Blockchain for Health Data (2022)
Journal Article
Saidi, H., Labraoui, N., Ari, A. A. A., Maglaras, L. A., & Emati, J. H. M. (2022). DSMAC: Privacy-Aware Decentralized Self-Management of Data Access Control Based on Blockchain for Health Data. IEEE Access, 10, 101011-101028. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2022.3207803

In recent years, the interest in using wireless communication technologies and mobile devices in the healthcare environment has increased. However, despite increased attention to the security of electronic health records, patient privacy is still at... Read More about DSMAC: Privacy-Aware Decentralized Self-Management of Data Access Control Based on Blockchain for Health Data.

Eight-Element Antenna Array with Improved Radiation Performances for 5G Hand-Portable Devices (2022)
Journal Article
Ullah, A., Ojaroudi Parchin, N., Amar, A. S. I., & Abd-Alhameed, R. A. (2022). Eight-Element Antenna Array with Improved Radiation Performances for 5G Hand-Portable Devices. Electronics, 11(18), Article 2962. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11182962

This study aims to introduce a new phased array design with improved radiation properties for future cellular networks. The procedure of the array design is simple and has been accomplished on a low-cost substrate material while offering several inte... Read More about Eight-Element Antenna Array with Improved Radiation Performances for 5G Hand-Portable Devices.

Understanding factors influencing uptake and sustainable use of the PINCER intervention at scale: A qualitative evaluation using Normalisation Process Theory (2022)
Journal Article
Laing, L., Salema, N., Jeffries, M., Binti Mohd Shamsuddin, A., Sheikh, A., Chuter, A., Waring, J., Avery, A., & Keers, R. (2022). Understanding factors influencing uptake and sustainable use of the PINCER intervention at scale: A qualitative evaluation using Normalisation Process Theory. PLOS ONE, 17(9), Article e0274560. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274560

Introduction
Medication errors are an important cause of morbidity and mortality. The pharmacist-led IT-based intervention to reduce clinically important medication errors (PINCER) has demonstrated improvements in primary care medication safety, and... Read More about Understanding factors influencing uptake and sustainable use of the PINCER intervention at scale: A qualitative evaluation using Normalisation Process Theory.

Project-focused literature on public-private partnership (PPP) in developing countries: a critical review (2022)
Journal Article
Almeile, A. M., Chipulu, M., Ojiako, U., Vahidi, R., & Marshall, A. (2024). Project-focused literature on public-private partnership (PPP) in developing countries: a critical review. Production Planning and Control, 35(7), 683-710. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2022.2123408

Set within the context of developing countries, we conduct a state of the art systematic review of project-focused, public-private partnership literature published between 1997 and 2021. The outcome of this review provides critical insight into trend... Read More about Project-focused literature on public-private partnership (PPP) in developing countries: a critical review.

Dysarthric Speech Recognition From Raw Waveform with Parametric CNNs (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yue, Z., Loweimi, E., Christensen, H., Barker, J., & Cvetkovic, Z. (2022, September). Dysarthric Speech Recognition From Raw Waveform with Parametric CNNs. Paper presented at Interspeech 2022, Incheon, Korea

Raw waveform acoustic modelling has recently received increasing attention. Compared with the task-blind hand-crafted features which may discard useful information, representations directly learned from the raw waveform are task-specific and potentia... Read More about Dysarthric Speech Recognition From Raw Waveform with Parametric CNNs.

RCT: Random consistency training for semi-supervised sound event detection (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shao, N., Loweimi, E., & Li, X. (2022, September). RCT: Random consistency training for semi-supervised sound event detection. Paper presented at Interspeech 2022, Incheon, Korea

Sound event detection (SED), as a core module of acoustic environmental analysis, suffers from the problem of data deficiency. The integration of semi-supervised learning (SSL) largely mitigates such problem. This paper researches on several core mod... Read More about RCT: Random consistency training for semi-supervised sound event detection.

Developing a hybrid risk assessment method for prioritizing the critical risks of temporary accommodation sites after destructive earthquakes (2022)
Journal Article
Dabiri, M., Sarvari, H., Chan, D. W., & Olawumi, T. O. (2022). Developing a hybrid risk assessment method for prioritizing the critical risks of temporary accommodation sites after destructive earthquakes. Habitat International, 128, Article 102667. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2022.102667

One of the most critical challenges in preventive planning and disaster management is the multitudinous uncertainties involved in decision-making. Previous studies showed the usefulness of intuitionistic fuzzy sets for considering uncertainties in de... Read More about Developing a hybrid risk assessment method for prioritizing the critical risks of temporary accommodation sites after destructive earthquakes.