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Air connectivity for leisure tourism the way forward (2021)
Book Chapter
Arvanitis, P. (2021). Air connectivity for leisure tourism the way forward. In N. Pappas, & A. Farmaki (Eds.), Tourism Dynamics. Goodfellow Publishers. https://doi.org/10.23912/9781911635932-4961

International tourism arrivals by air account for almost 60% of all tourism arrivals. Despite the spectacular increase in air connectivity there are distinct differences between connectivity types, with direct and indirect connectivity, airport conne... Read More about Air connectivity for leisure tourism the way forward.

Validity and Responsiveness of the Generic Health-Related Quality of Life Instrument (VetMetrica™) in Cats With Osteoarthritis. Comparison of Vet and Owner Impressions of Quality of Life Impact (2021)
Journal Article
Scott, E. M., Davies, V., Nolan, A. M., Noble, C. E., Dowgray, N. J., German, A. J., Wiseman-Orr, M. L., & Reid, J. (2021). Validity and Responsiveness of the Generic Health-Related Quality of Life Instrument (VetMetrica™) in Cats With Osteoarthritis. Comparison of Vet and Owner Impressions of Quality of Life Impact. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 8, Article 733812. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2021.733812

Validity is not an inherent property of a measurement scale and so evidence for validity relating to its use for particular purposes, with defined populations and in specified contexts must be accumulated. We have published the development of a web-b... Read More about Validity and Responsiveness of the Generic Health-Related Quality of Life Instrument (VetMetrica™) in Cats With Osteoarthritis. Comparison of Vet and Owner Impressions of Quality of Life Impact.

The future of conferences: lessons from Europe's largest online geoscience conference (2021)
Journal Article
Gibson, H., Illingworth, S., & Buiter, S. (2021). The future of conferences: lessons from Europe's largest online geoscience conference. Geoscience Communication, 4(3), 437-451. https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-4-437-2021

In the early months of 2020, as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) swept across the globe, millions of people were required to make drastic changes to their lives to help contain the impact of the virus. Among those changes, scientific conferences of e... Read More about The future of conferences: lessons from Europe's largest online geoscience conference.

Sonification of Planetary Orbits in Asteroid Belts (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Quinton, M., Mcgregor, I., & Benyon, D. (2021, September). Sonification of Planetary Orbits in Asteroid Belts. Presented at Audio Mostly 2021, Trento, Italy

This study investigates the design and evaluation of a sonification designed to detect any planets orbiting within an asteroid belt of an exosolar system. The interface was designed for an astronomer who studies this phenomenon. User centered design... Read More about Sonification of Planetary Orbits in Asteroid Belts.

A Blockchain Framework in Post-Quantum Decentralization (2021)
Journal Article
Saha, R., Kumar, G., Devgun, T., Buchanan, W., Thomas, R., Alazab, M., Kim, T.-H., & Rodrigues, J. (2023). A Blockchain Framework in Post-Quantum Decentralization. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1109/tsc.2021.3116896

The decentralization and transparency have provided wide acceptance of blockchain technology in various sectors through numerous applications. The claimed security services by blockchain have been proved using various cryptographic techniques, mainly... Read More about A Blockchain Framework in Post-Quantum Decentralization.

Exploring Placement Opportunities For Postgraduate and Early Career Social Science Researchers (2021)
Report
Wong, Y. N., & Wunderly, C. (2021). Exploring Placement Opportunities For Postgraduate and Early Career Social Science Researchers. ESRC IAA

Current placement opportunities for postgraduate social science researchers are limited, despite it being one of the few platforms for social science researchers to connect with businesses. The purpose of this report is to examine how universities ca... Read More about Exploring Placement Opportunities For Postgraduate and Early Career Social Science Researchers.

A comprehensive scenario intervention typology (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crawford, M. (2021, September). A comprehensive scenario intervention typology. Presented at YouTube series: Futures and Foresight Papers Explained, Online

Megan Crawford, presents her 2020 paper, "A comprehensive scenario intervention typology" published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change. Megan talks about how the paper was sparked by a need for clearer directions in scenario planning impl... Read More about A comprehensive scenario intervention typology.

for St Albert's (2021)
Other
Burton, K. (2021). for St Albert's. Edinburgh, Scotland

A site-specific work informed by the architectural design of the Chapel of St Albert the Great, Edinburgh. The piece received multiple performances in the space on September 29th 2018, as part of Edinburgh's Doors open Day programme. The performers w... Read More about for St Albert's.

Several cases of backward erosion/liquefaction piping from Hungary (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Imre, E., Koch, E., Nagy, L., Illés, Z., Hortobágyi, Z., & Barreto, D. (2021, September). Several cases of backward erosion/liquefaction piping from Hungary. Presented at 6th International Conference on Geotechnical and Geophysical Site Characterization, Online

Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation for Holistic Counting under Label Gap (2021)
Journal Article
Litrico, M., Battiato, S., Tsaftaris, S. A., & Giuffrida, M. V. (2021). Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation for Holistic Counting under Label Gap. Journal of Imaging, 7(10), Article 198. https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging7100198

This paper proposes a novel approach for semi-supervised domain adaptation for holistic regression tasks, where a DNN predicts a continuous value y∈R given an input image x. The current literature generally lacks specific domain adaptation approaches... Read More about Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation for Holistic Counting under Label Gap.

The Scots Law of Intestacy: Whence? Where? Whither? (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dodd, L. (2021, September). The Scots Law of Intestacy: Whence? Where? Whither?. Paper presented at Edinburgh Napier Research Seminar Series, Edinburgh

An overview of the origins of current Scots intestacy law, the major problems posed by the current intestacy regime, and proposals for the possible reform.

Automatic Architectural Drawing Labelling Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sajjadian, S. M., Jafari, M., & Chen, X. (2021, September). Automatic Architectural Drawing Labelling Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network. Presented at SEB 2021: International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings, Online

Architectural designers and technologists are able to make an assessment on buildability, thermal and hygrothermal performance of design details. To process drawings, human vision segments, classifies and distinguishes the drawing objects on the basi... Read More about Automatic Architectural Drawing Labelling Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network.

Sexual selection can partly explain low frequencies of Segregation Distorter alleles (2021)
Journal Article
Keaney, T. A., Jones, T. M., & Holman, L. (2021). Sexual selection can partly explain low frequencies of Segregation Distorter alleles. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288(1959), https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1190

The Segregation Distorter (SD) allele found in Drosophila melanogaster distorts Mendelian inheritance in heterozygous males by causing developmental failure of non-SD spermatids, such that greater than 90% of the surviving sperm carry SD. This within... Read More about Sexual selection can partly explain low frequencies of Segregation Distorter alleles.

A Mamdani Type Fuzzy Inference System to Calculate Employee Susceptibility to Phishing Attacks (2021)
Journal Article
Lambat, Y., Ayres, N., Maglaras, L., & Ferrag, M. A. (2021). A Mamdani Type Fuzzy Inference System to Calculate Employee Susceptibility to Phishing Attacks. Applied Sciences, 11(19), Article 9083. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11199083

It is a well known fact that the weakest link in a cyber secure system is the people who configure, manage or use it. Security breaches are persistently being attributed to human error. Social engineered based attacks are becoming more sophisticated... Read More about A Mamdani Type Fuzzy Inference System to Calculate Employee Susceptibility to Phishing Attacks.

Delay discounting and under-valuing of recent information predict poorer adherence to social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021)
Journal Article
Lloyd, A., McKay, R., Hartman, T. K., Vincent, B. T., Murphy, J., Gibson-Miller, J., Levita, L., Bennett, K., McBride, O., Martinez, A. P., Stocks, T. V., Vallières, F., Hyland, P., Karatzias, T., Butter, S., Shevlin, M., Bentall, R. P., & Mason, L. (2021). Delay discounting and under-valuing of recent information predict poorer adherence to social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Reports, 11(1), Article 19237. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-98772-5

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about unprecedented global changes in individual and collective behaviour. To reduce the spread of the virus, public health bodies have promoted social distancing measures while attempting to mitigate their mental he... Read More about Delay discounting and under-valuing of recent information predict poorer adherence to social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Joining the workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic: views of Allied Health Profession students (2021)
Journal Article
Porter-Armstrong, A., Daly-Lynn, J., Turtle, B., Abercrombie, W., McLean, A., Martin, S., & Stinson, M. (2022). Joining the workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic: views of Allied Health Profession students. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 36(5), 651-659. https://doi.org/10.1080/13561820.2021.1976122

In the United Kingdom, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic placed great pressures on universities to ensure final year health care students completed their studies earlier than planned in order to join the National Health Service workforce. This study... Read More about Joining the workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic: views of Allied Health Profession students.

The good, the bad and the ugly: Real live stories of end-user engagement evaluation in energy efficiency projects. (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bull, R., Morton, A., & Reeves, A. (2021, June). The good, the bad and the ugly: Real live stories of end-user engagement evaluation in energy efficiency projects. Presented at eceee Summer Study on energy efficiency: a new reality?, Online

Evaluating engagement for energy efficiency projects often uncovers barriers around end-users’ understanding and acceptance, or issues of trust surrounding interventions, technological advances, and new policies. Monitoring and evaluating end-user en... Read More about The good, the bad and the ugly: Real live stories of end-user engagement evaluation in energy efficiency projects..

A new paradigm for CPD in Sales (2021)
Journal Article
Mackenzie, C., & Bauer, A. C. (2021). A new paradigm for CPD in Sales. International Journal of Sales Transformation, 7(4), 10-13

This concept paper discusses the benefits of a continuous Training, Mentoring and Coaching cycle for sales managers and sales executives. It explains the different stages of the cycle and gives suggestions on what each cycle could contain. It is a me... Read More about A new paradigm for CPD in Sales.

Particular matter prediction using synergy of multiple source urban big data in smart cities (2021)
Journal Article
Honarvar, A. R., & Sami, A. (2021). Particular matter prediction using synergy of multiple source urban big data in smart cities. Intelligent Decision Technologies, 15(3), 371-385. https://doi.org/10.3233/idt-200147

At present, the issue of air quality in populated urban areas is recognized as an environmental crisis. Air pollution affects the sustainability of the city. In controlling air pollution and protecting its hazards from humans, air quality data are ve... Read More about Particular matter prediction using synergy of multiple source urban big data in smart cities.