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Experience of Playing a Musical Instrument and Lifetime Change in General Cognitive Ability: Evidence From the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 (2022)
Journal Article
Okely, J. A., Overy, K., & Deary, I. J. (2022). Experience of Playing a Musical Instrument and Lifetime Change in General Cognitive Ability: Evidence From the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. Psychological Science, 33(9), 1495-1508. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976221092726

We tested whether experience of playing a musical instrument was associated with lifetime change in cognitive ability. Participants were 366 older adults from the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 who had completed general cognitive-ability assessments at ag... Read More about Experience of Playing a Musical Instrument and Lifetime Change in General Cognitive Ability: Evidence From the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936.

Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Sandy Brechin and Friends (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Currie, J. Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Sandy Brechin and Friends. [Live Public Performance]. Performed at The A Club at the Merchant's Hall. 27 August 2022

He's back! After two years of forced solitary accordion squeezing at home, and to the huge relief of his neighbours, Sandy returns to the A Club once again, upgraded, biceps bulging, pumped and well-oiled, along with special guest singer, the fabulou... Read More about Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Sandy Brechin and Friends.

Evaluating the suitability of close-kin mark-recapture as a demographic modelling tool for a critically endangered elasmobranch population (2022)
Journal Article
Delaval, A., Bendall, V., Hetherington, S. J., Skaug, H. J., Frost, M., Jones, C. S., & Noble, L. R. (2023). Evaluating the suitability of close-kin mark-recapture as a demographic modelling tool for a critically endangered elasmobranch population. Evolutionary Applications, 16(2), 461-473. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13474

Estimating the demographic parameters of contemporary populations is essential to the success of elasmobranch conservation programmes, and to understanding their recent evolutionary history. For benthic elasmobranchs such as skates, traditional fishe... Read More about Evaluating the suitability of close-kin mark-recapture as a demographic modelling tool for a critically endangered elasmobranch population.

Transfer Learning for Signal Detection in Wireless Networks (2022)
Journal Article
Van Huynh, N., & Li, G. Y. (2022). Transfer Learning for Signal Detection in Wireless Networks. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 11(11), 2325-2329. https://doi.org/10.1109/lwc.2022.3202117

The last decade has witnessed the rapid growth of deep learning (DL) applications in wireless communications, especially for channel estimation and signal detection. However, conventional DL techniques are usually trained for a specific scenario. The... Read More about Transfer Learning for Signal Detection in Wireless Networks.

Childhood adversity, mental health and suicide (CHASE): a longitudinal case-control linked data study of lifetime inpatient records associated with suicide (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Savinc, J., Dougall, N., Maxwell, M., Karatzias, T., O'Connor, R., Williams, B., John, A., Cheyne, H., Fyvie, C., Bisson, J., Hibberd, C., Abbott-Smith, S., & Nolan, L. Childhood adversity, mental health and suicide (CHASE): a longitudinal case-control linked data study of lifetime inpatient records associated with suicide. Presented at International Population Data Linkage Conference 2022

Objectives
Childhood adversity (CA) carries an increased risk of developing later mental health (MH) problems and suicidal behaviour. This study aimed to summarise lifetime hospital attendances for CA and MH in young people who later died by suicide... Read More about Childhood adversity, mental health and suicide (CHASE): a longitudinal case-control linked data study of lifetime inpatient records associated with suicide.

Mind the Gap: Public Equity as a Financing Solution for Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Influence of National Culture (2022)
Journal Article
Koch, L., Crossan, K., & Jaworski, P. (2022). Mind the Gap: Public Equity as a Financing Solution for Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Influence of National Culture. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, 28(7), 1800-1827. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-04-2021-0247

Purpose
This research focuses on the demand from medium-sized firms to access public equity as a source of finance. The acceptance of public equity differs strongly between countries, particularly between the United Kingdom and Germany. Therefore, t... Read More about Mind the Gap: Public Equity as a Financing Solution for Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Influence of National Culture.

Differences in end-of-life health service usage between people who died at home before and during the pandemic in Scotland (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Savinc, J., & Atherton, I. Differences in end-of-life health service usage between people who died at home before and during the pandemic in Scotland. Presented at International Population Data Linkage Conference 2022

Objectives
To compare health service usage of people who died at home in Scotland during the Covid-19 pandemic to the population who died at home prior to the pandemic, as a proxy measure of end-of-life care availability during the pandemic.

Appr... Read More about Differences in end-of-life health service usage between people who died at home before and during the pandemic in Scotland.

Oral histories in the Scottish Jazz Scene (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maclean, D. (2022, August). Oral histories in the Scottish Jazz Scene. Paper presented at Jazz Then and Now, Amsterdam

MSc CEP Curriculum Framework (2022)
Other
Jones, P. H., Green, . P. D., Whyte, P. G., Askew, A. P. C., Tolfrey, D. K., Scott, D. A., Campbell, P. A., George, P. K., Buckley, P. J., Skelton, P. D., Jack, P. S., McGregor, D. G., O’Doherty, D. A., Broom, P. D., Caldow, D. E., Pitkethly, A., Miller, D. G., Board, D. L., Williams, P. N., Naylor, D. L., …Crozier, A. (2022). MSc CEP Curriculum Framework. [Curriculum Framework]

The Academy of Healthcare Science (AHCS) approve education programmes to ensure that they allow students to meet Standards of Proficiency and principles of Good Clinical Practice when they satisfactorily complete the programme. Standards of Proficien... Read More about MSc CEP Curriculum Framework.

Mindfulness-based interventions for non-affective psychosis: A comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Lai King Yip, A., Karatzias, T., & Tong Chien, W. (2022). Mindfulness-based interventions for non-affective psychosis: A comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis. Annals of Medicine, 54(1), 2340-2353. https://doi.org/10.1080/07853890.2022.2108551

Aim: Although mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are routinely used in clinical practice, a comprehensive synthesis of the effectiveness of MBIs for non-affective psychosis has yet to be conducted. The aim in the present review and meta-analysis... Read More about Mindfulness-based interventions for non-affective psychosis: A comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis.

Application of Deep Learning in Generating Structured Radiology Reports: A Transformer-Based Technique (2022)
Journal Article
Moezzi, S. A. R., Ghaedi, A., Rahmanian, M., Mousavi, S. Z., & Sami, A. (2023). Application of Deep Learning in Generating Structured Radiology Reports: A Transformer-Based Technique. Journal of Digital Imaging, 36(1), 80-90. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-022-00692-x

Since radiology reports needed for clinical practice and research are written and stored in free-text narrations, extraction of relative information for further analysis is difficult. In these circumstances, natural language processing (NLP) techniqu... Read More about Application of Deep Learning in Generating Structured Radiology Reports: A Transformer-Based Technique.