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Rheological Behavior of Bitumen Modified by Synthesized Polyurethane Based on MDI–PPG Reactive Prepolymers (2024)
Journal Article
Xia, T., Xu, Y., Salehiyan, R., Wan, C., & McNally, T. (2025). Rheological Behavior of Bitumen Modified by Synthesized Polyurethane Based on MDI–PPG Reactive Prepolymers. Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 37(2), https://doi.org/10.1061/jmcee7.mteng-19012

Bitumen without modification is prone to suffer from damage under extreme temperature and traffic conditions, leading to distress such as rutting, fatigue cracking, and thermal cracking. Polyurethane-modified bitumen can effectively be prepared at lo... Read More about Rheological Behavior of Bitumen Modified by Synthesized Polyurethane Based on MDI–PPG Reactive Prepolymers.

Information Literacy within Scottish Public Libraries (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Feeney, D. (2024, December). Information Literacy within Scottish Public Libraries. Presented at Scottish Library and Information Council, Online

Presentation on behalf of CILIP's Information Literacy Group to the Scottish Library and Information Council's Public Library Strategy Implementation Group.

Using storyboards to explore the impact of staff development on student retention in higher education (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Illingworth, S., Cowan, J., Graham, C., Shan, S., & Swanton, K. (2024, December). Using storyboards to explore the impact of staff development on student retention in higher education. Presented at 2024 SRHE International Research Conference, Online

This paper explores how staff engagement and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) can influence student retention outcomes in higher education. Drawing on a detailed research project at Edinburgh Napier University, it highlights the role of acad... Read More about Using storyboards to explore the impact of staff development on student retention in higher education.

Academic Staff AI Literacy Development Through LLM Prompt Training (2024)
Book Chapter
Drumm, L., & Sami, A. (2024). Academic Staff AI Literacy Development Through LLM Prompt Training. In X. O’Dea, & D. Tsz Kit Ng (Eds.), Effective Practices in AI Literacy Education: Case Studies and Reflections (41-49). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83608-852-320241005

A foundation in artificial intelligence (AI) literacy among all academic staff is essential for supporting students’ AI literacy effectively. As tools like ChatGPT increasingly influence academic work, educators need to understand prompt engineering... Read More about Academic Staff AI Literacy Development Through LLM Prompt Training.

Are Foundation Models the Next-Generation Social Media Content Moderators? (2024)
Journal Article
Nadeem, M., Javed, L., Sohail, S. S., Cambria, E., & Hussain, A. (2024). Are Foundation Models the Next-Generation Social Media Content Moderators?. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 39(6), 70-80. https://doi.org/10.1109/mis.2024.3477109

Recent progress in artificial intelligence (AI) tools and systems has been significant, especially in their reasoning and efficiency. Notable examples include generative AI-based large language models (LLMs) like Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3.... Read More about Are Foundation Models the Next-Generation Social Media Content Moderators?.

The RESIST Project Dataset: Data from the Work Package 2 (Survey) (2024)
Data
RESIST Project Team. (2024). The RESIST Project Dataset: Data from the Work Package 2 (Survey). [Data]. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.11180966

This record for the Dataset 2 (Survey) from the Work Package 2 (Effects of, and Resistances to 'Anti-Gender' Mobilisations Across Europe) of the RESIST Project has been created in the Zenodo open repository, in line with the RESIST Project’s Data Man... Read More about The RESIST Project Dataset: Data from the Work Package 2 (Survey).

How to improve the perceived health, comfort, and well-being of primary school teachers? A quantitative self-reported survey during the COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland (2024)
Journal Article
Bain-Reguis, N., Smith, A., Hollins-Martin, C., & Currie, J. (2024). How to improve the perceived health, comfort, and well-being of primary school teachers? A quantitative self-reported survey during the COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland. Science of the Total Environment, 957, Article 177808. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.177808

Teachers are among the most stressed professionals, for whom the built environment has an influence. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the pressure on schools, where enhanced ventilation is deemed essential to help reduce virus-laden p... Read More about How to improve the perceived health, comfort, and well-being of primary school teachers? A quantitative self-reported survey during the COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland.

Regularity and Compactness Properties of Integral Hankel Operators and Their Singular Vectors (2024)
Journal Article
Guiver, C. (2024). Regularity and Compactness Properties of Integral Hankel Operators and Their Singular Vectors. Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, 19, Article 6. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11785-024-01627-w

Integral Hankel operators on vector-valued $L^2(\mathbb{R}_+,U)$-function spaces are considered. Regularity (integrability) and compactness properties of the kernel are shown to give rise to quantifiable regularity and compactness properties of the H... Read More about Regularity and Compactness Properties of Integral Hankel Operators and Their Singular Vectors.

The Value of Being Greener: Untangling the Relationship between Environmental Investment and Firms’ Access to Trade Credit (2024)
Journal Article
Li, W., Hua, X., Boateng, A., Wang, Y., & Du, M. (online). The Value of Being Greener: Untangling the Relationship between Environmental Investment and Firms’ Access to Trade Credit. British Journal of Management, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12883

This study investigates the relationship between corporate environmental performance, as captured by environmental investment, and firms’ access to trade credit. Using data from Chinese listed firms in heavy pollution industries, we find that corpora... Read More about The Value of Being Greener: Untangling the Relationship between Environmental Investment and Firms’ Access to Trade Credit.

Physiological responses to capture, handling and tagging in the critically endangered flapper skate (Dipturus intermedius) (2024)
Journal Article
Cole, G., Lavender, E., Naylor, A., Girling, S., Aleynik, D., Oppel, S., Dodd, J., & Thorburn, J. (2024). Physiological responses to capture, handling and tagging in the critically endangered flapper skate (Dipturus intermedius). Conservation Physiology, 12(1), Article coae077. https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coae077

Catch-and-release angling is a popular recreational pastime and an essential component of many fish research programmes. Marked physiological disturbances have been documented in elasmobranchs in response to angling and handling, but skates and rays... Read More about Physiological responses to capture, handling and tagging in the critically endangered flapper skate (Dipturus intermedius).

Shaping triumph from within: an investigation into employee-based brand co-creation, motivation drivers and enhanced job-related organisational performance (2024)
Journal Article
Yuan, R., Chen, R., Huang, B., & Du, A. M. (online). Shaping triumph from within: an investigation into employee-based brand co-creation, motivation drivers and enhanced job-related organisational performance. Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, https://doi.org/10.1108/joepp-04-2024-0165

Purpose
Drawing on the co-creation literature and self-determination theory, this study takes a broader organisational perspective linking employees’ motivational antecedents (corporate brand socialization, employee brand identification and impress... Read More about Shaping triumph from within: an investigation into employee-based brand co-creation, motivation drivers and enhanced job-related organisational performance.

From a place of silence: Articulations of the unspoken (2024)
Journal Article
Medbøe, H. (2024). From a place of silence: Articulations of the unspoken. Jazz Research Journal, 17(1-2), 32-50. https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.28151

This article discusses two albums of freely improvised music in duo settings recorded during the year following the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. A reflection thereupon takes the form of a paper presented informally as work in progress at the Inte... Read More about From a place of silence: Articulations of the unspoken.

Environmental and food security implications of livestock abortions and calf mortality: a case study in Kenya and Tanzania (2024)
Journal Article
Gurmu, E. B., Bronsvoort, B., Cook, E. A. J., Lankester, F., Özkan, Ş., Rosenstein, P. K., Semango, G., Wheelhouse, N., Wilkes, A., & Arndt, C. (2024). Environmental and food security implications of livestock abortions and calf mortality: a case study in Kenya and Tanzania. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 8, Article 1390047. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2024.1390047

This study investigates the environmental and food security implications of livestock abortions and calf mortality in Tanzanian dairy systems and Kenyan beef systems by utilizing data from previously published studies. The environmental impact of liv... Read More about Environmental and food security implications of livestock abortions and calf mortality: a case study in Kenya and Tanzania.

Beyond Hamming Distance: Exploring Spatial Encoding in Perceptual Hashes (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mckeown, S. (2025, April). Beyond Hamming Distance: Exploring Spatial Encoding in Perceptual Hashes. Presented at DFRWS EU 2025, Brno, Czech Republic

Forensic analysts are often tasked with analysing large volumes of data in modern investigations, and frequently make use of hashing technologies to identify previously encountered images. Perceptual hashes, which seek to model the semantic (visual)... Read More about Beyond Hamming Distance: Exploring Spatial Encoding in Perceptual Hashes.

Volumetric Modular Construction research (2024)
Report
Brennan, J., Vokes, C., Massey, T., Duncheva, M., Plowas, W., Livingstone, A., Reid, A., Bros Williamson, J., & Hairstans, R. (2024). Volumetric Modular Construction research. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

Building on a pledge to support Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) in its Autumn Budget of 2017, the 2019 Conservative party manifesto reaffirmed the target of 300,000 homes a year by the mid-2020s and made explicit commitment to support MMC. The n... Read More about Volumetric Modular Construction research.

Digital financial inclusion, the belt and road initiative, and the Paris agreement: Impacts on energy transition grid costs (2024)
Journal Article
Chishti, M. Z., Xia, X., Du, A. M., & Özkan, O. (2025). Digital financial inclusion, the belt and road initiative, and the Paris agreement: Impacts on energy transition grid costs. Finance Research Letters, 72, Article 106517. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2024.106517

We investigate how digital financial inclusion, the Belt and Road Initiative, and the Paris Agreement influence the energy transition grid cost. We propose two new Kendall and Spearman wavelet cross-quantile correlation methods and utilize data from... Read More about Digital financial inclusion, the belt and road initiative, and the Paris agreement: Impacts on energy transition grid costs.

Fueling financial development: The crucial role of generative AI financing across nations (2024)
Journal Article
Siddik, A. B., Li, Y., Du, A. M., & Migliavacca, M. (2025). Fueling financial development: The crucial role of generative AI financing across nations. Finance Research Letters, 72, Article 106519. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2024.106519

This study examines the impact of Generative AI (GAI) financing on financial development (FD) across 21 countries using cross-sectional data from 2020 to 2022. Employing both simple linear regression and two-stage least squares (2SLS) to address endo... Read More about Fueling financial development: The crucial role of generative AI financing across nations.