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Home-based end of life care for children and their families – a systematic scoping review and narrative synthesis (2020)
Journal Article
Malcolm, C., Knighting, K., & Taylor, C. (2020). Home-based end of life care for children and their families – a systematic scoping review and narrative synthesis. Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 55, 126-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedn.2020.07.018

Abstract
Problem: There is a growing international drive to deliver children’s palliative care services closer to home. Families should have choice of where end of life (EOL) care is provided with home as one option. This review aims to establish t... Read More about Home-based end of life care for children and their families – a systematic scoping review and narrative synthesis.

Risk factors for falls among adults with intellectual disabilities: A narrative review (2020)
Journal Article
Pope, J., Truesdale, M., & Brown, M. (2021). Risk factors for falls among adults with intellectual disabilities: A narrative review. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 34(1), 274-285. https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.12805

Background
The prevalence of falls involving people with intellectual disabilities (ID) is high in comparison with the general population. There has been little evidence to date on the contributing risk factors. The objective of this review was to i... Read More about Risk factors for falls among adults with intellectual disabilities: A narrative review.

What are the Implications of Changing Place for the Professional Performativity of Prison Officers? (2020)
Journal Article
Maycock, M., McGuckin, K., & Morrison, K. (2023). What are the Implications of Changing Place for the Professional Performativity of Prison Officers?. Corrections: Policy, Practice and Research, 8(2), 57-73. https://doi.org/10.1080/23774657.2020.1821407

Throughcare Support Officers (TSOs) were a unique role in the Scottish criminal justice system when they operated between 2015 and 2019. This research challenges and extends existing prison scholarship by asking a number of novel questions: to what e... Read More about What are the Implications of Changing Place for the Professional Performativity of Prison Officers?.

New Research Avenues in Human-Robot Interaction (2020)
Book Chapter
Zeller, F. (2020). New Research Avenues in Human-Robot Interaction. In D. Zhang, & B. Wei (Eds.), Human–Robot Interaction: Control, Analysis, and Design (75-92). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

"We are 'free range' prison officers", the experiences of Scottish Prison Service (SPS) Throughcare Support Officers (TSOs) working in custody and the community (2020)
Journal Article
Maycock, M., McGuckin, K., & Morrison, K. (2020). "We are 'free range' prison officers", the experiences of Scottish Prison Service (SPS) Throughcare Support Officers (TSOs) working in custody and the community. Probation Journal, 67(4), 358-374. https://doi.org/10.1177/0264550520954898

Between 2015 and 2019, forty-one Throughcare Support Officers (TSOs) supported people serving short sentences leaving custody across eleven Scottish Prison Service (SPS) establishments. The role of prison officers in the provision of throughcare in t... Read More about "We are 'free range' prison officers", the experiences of Scottish Prison Service (SPS) Throughcare Support Officers (TSOs) working in custody and the community.

Effect of various spatial auditory cues on the perception of threat in a first-person shooter video game (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Semionov, K., & McGregor, I. (2020, September). Effect of various spatial auditory cues on the perception of threat in a first-person shooter video game. Presented at AM'20: Audio Mostly 2020, Graz, Austria

This study interviewed game audio professionals to establish the implementation requirements for an experiment to ascertain the effect of different spatial audio localisation systems on the perception of threat in a first-person shooter. In addition,... Read More about Effect of various spatial auditory cues on the perception of threat in a first-person shooter video game.

Load Magnitude and Locomotion Pattern Alter Locomotor System Function in Healthy Young Adult Women (2020)
Journal Article
Krajewski, K. T., Dever, D. E., Johnson, C. C., Mi, Q., Simpson, R. J., Graham, S. M., Moir, G. L., Ahamed, N. U., Flanagan, S. D., Anderst, W. J., & Connaboy, C. (2020). Load Magnitude and Locomotion Pattern Alter Locomotor System Function in Healthy Young Adult Women. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 8, https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2020.582219

Introduction: During cyclical steady state ambulation, such as walking, variability in stride intervals can indicate the state of the system. In order to define locomotor system function, observed variability in motor patterns, stride regulation and... Read More about Load Magnitude and Locomotion Pattern Alter Locomotor System Function in Healthy Young Adult Women.

Sonification of an exoplanetary atmosphere (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Quinton, M., McGregor, I., & Benyon, D. (2020, September). Sonification of an exoplanetary atmosphere. Presented at AM'20: Audio Mostly 2020, Graz, Austria

This study investigates the effectiveness of user design methods to create a sonification for an astronomer who analyses exoplanet meteorological data situated in habitable zones. Requirements about the astronomer’s work, the dataset and how to sonif... Read More about Sonification of an exoplanetary atmosphere.

A Low Power Sigma-Delta Modulator with Hybrid Architecture (2020)
Journal Article
An, S., Xia, S., Ma, Y., Ghani, A., See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Niu, C. F., & Yang, R. (2020). A Low Power Sigma-Delta Modulator with Hybrid Architecture. Sensors, 20(18), Article 5309. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20185309

Analogue-to-digital converters (ADC) using oversampling technology and Σ-∆ modulation mechanism are widely applied in digital audio systems. This paper presents an audio modulator with high accuracy and low power consumption by using discrete second-... Read More about A Low Power Sigma-Delta Modulator with Hybrid Architecture.

UberPOOL Services – Approaches from Transport Operators and Policymakers in London (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mohamed, M. J., Rye, T., & Fonzone, A. (2019, May). UberPOOL Services – Approaches from Transport Operators and Policymakers in London. Presented at World Conference on Transport Research – WCTR 2019, Mumbai, India

Ridesourcing services such as Uber provide a segment of the total daily trips in Urban cities, for instance, its reported that Taxi and Private Hire Vehicle (PHV) mode share were 1.3% of total daily trips in London in 2014 (GLA, 2016) - which include... Read More about UberPOOL Services – Approaches from Transport Operators and Policymakers in London.

Experimental Review of Neural-Based Approaches for Network Intrusion Management (2020)
Journal Article
Mauro, M. D., Galatro, G., & Liotta, A. (2020). Experimental Review of Neural-Based Approaches for Network Intrusion Management. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 17(4), 2480-2495. https://doi.org/10.1109/tnsm.2020.3024225

The use of Machine Learning (ML) techniques in Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) has taken a prominent role in the network security management field, due to the substantial number of sophisticated attacks that often pass undetected through classic ID... Read More about Experimental Review of Neural-Based Approaches for Network Intrusion Management.

The DIAMOND Model: Deep Recurrent Neural Networks for Self-Organizing Robot Control (2020)
Journal Article
Smith, S. C., Dharmadi, R., Imrie, C., Si, B., & Herrmann, J. M. (2020). The DIAMOND Model: Deep Recurrent Neural Networks for Self-Organizing Robot Control. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 14, Article 62. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2020.00062

The proposed architecture applies the principle of predictive coding and deep learning in a brain-inspired approach to robotic sensorimotor control. It is composed of many layers each of which is a recurrent network. The component networks can be spo... Read More about The DIAMOND Model: Deep Recurrent Neural Networks for Self-Organizing Robot Control.

Competition and gender: Time’s up on essentialist knowledge production (2020)
Journal Article
Mavin, S., & Yusupova, M. (2021). Competition and gender: Time’s up on essentialist knowledge production. Management Learning, 52(1), 86-108. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507620950176

This article is an intervention in current trends of thinking about competition and gender in essentialist and stereotypical ways. Such thinking has produced numerous comparative studies measuring competitiveness of women and men; ‘proving’ men as co... Read More about Competition and gender: Time’s up on essentialist knowledge production.

A second-order accurate non-intrusive staggered scheme for the interaction of ultra-lightweight rigid bodies with fluid flow (2020)
Journal Article
Kadapa, C. (2020). A second-order accurate non-intrusive staggered scheme for the interaction of ultra-lightweight rigid bodies with fluid flow. Ocean Engineering, 217, Article 107940. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2020.107940

This paper presents a staggered scheme with second-order temporal accuracy for fluid–structure interaction problems involving ultra-lightweight rigid bodies. The staggered scheme is based on the Dirichlet–Neumann coupling and is non-intrusive. First,... Read More about A second-order accurate non-intrusive staggered scheme for the interaction of ultra-lightweight rigid bodies with fluid flow.

Mapping the visual culture of Edinburgh’s festival city tourist gaze: drawing as autoethnography (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L. (2020, September). Mapping the visual culture of Edinburgh’s festival city tourist gaze: drawing as autoethnography. Paper presented at The Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future (Royal Anthropological Institute annual conference), Online

Today, travel and tourism are increasingly becoming strategies for taking and sharing photographs. This is evidenced through the exponential growth of digital social media platforms as means of recording and displaying tourism settings and experience... Read More about Mapping the visual culture of Edinburgh’s festival city tourist gaze: drawing as autoethnography.

Problematizing “Activism”: Medical Volunteer Tourism in Central America, Local Resistance, and Academic Activism (2020)
Journal Article
Stanley, P. (2021). Problematizing “Activism”: Medical Volunteer Tourism in Central America, Local Resistance, and Academic Activism. International Review of Qualitative Research, 14(3), 412-427. https://doi.org/10.1177/1940844720948066

This paper critically examines epistemological, ontological and axiological tensions of activism in three related contexts. These are, first, (primarily medical) volunteer tourism ideologies and practices in Central America –including US-American tee... Read More about Problematizing “Activism”: Medical Volunteer Tourism in Central America, Local Resistance, and Academic Activism.

A Distributed Trust Framework for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abramson, W., Hall, A. J., Papadopoulos, P., Pitropakis, N., & Buchanan, W. J. (2020, September). A Distributed Trust Framework for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning. Presented at The 17th International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business - TrustBus2020, Bratislava, Slovakia

When training a machine learning model, it is standard procedure for the researcher to have full knowledge of both the data and model. However, this engenders a lack of trust between data owners and data scientists. Data owners are justifiably reluct... Read More about A Distributed Trust Framework for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning.

Microtargeting or Microphishing? Phishing Unveiled (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khursheed, B., Pitropakis, N., McKeown, S., & Lambrinoudakis, C. (2020, September). Microtargeting or Microphishing? Phishing Unveiled. Presented at The 17th International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business - TrustBus2020, Bratislava, Slovakia

Online advertisements delivered via social media platforms function in a similar way to phishing emails. In recent years there has been a growing awareness that political advertisements are being microtargeted and tailored to specific demographics, w... Read More about Microtargeting or Microphishing? Phishing Unveiled.