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Valorization of diverse waste-derived nanocellulose for multifaceted applications: A review (2024)
Journal Article
Ghamari, M., Sun, D., Dai, Y., See, C. H., Yu, H., Edirisinghe, M., & Sundaram, S. (2024). Valorization of diverse waste-derived nanocellulose for multifaceted applications: A review. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 280(3), Article 136130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.136130

The study underscores the urgent need for sustainable waste management by focusing on circular economy principles, government regulations, and public awareness to combat ecological threats, pollution, and climate change effects. It explores extractin... Read More about Valorization of diverse waste-derived nanocellulose for multifaceted applications: A review.

Scent lures and baits at camera traps improve time to first detection and detection probability of two typically elusive species of weasel (2024)
Journal Article
Ebel, K., & White, P. J. (online). Scent lures and baits at camera traps improve time to first detection and detection probability of two typically elusive species of weasel. Mammal Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13364-024-00771-0

There is a growing body of evidence that weasel species are in decline globally. More data on their ecology and distribution are needed to plan and justify any conservation management actions. Camera trapping can be an effective survey method for man... Read More about Scent lures and baits at camera traps improve time to first detection and detection probability of two typically elusive species of weasel.

Advancements and Challenges in Antenna Design and Rectifying Circuits for Radio Frequency Energy Harvesting (2024)
Journal Article
Odiamenhi, M., Jahanbakhsh Basherlou, H., Hwang See, C., Ojaroudi Parchin, N., Goh, K., & Yu, H. (2024). Advancements and Challenges in Antenna Design and Rectifying Circuits for Radio Frequency Energy Harvesting. Sensors, 24(21), Article 6804. https://doi.org/10.3390/s24216804

The proliferation of smart devices increases the demand for energy-efficient, battery-free technologies essential for sustaining IoT devices in Industry 4.0 and 5G networks, which require zero maintenance and sustainable operation. Integrating radio... Read More about Advancements and Challenges in Antenna Design and Rectifying Circuits for Radio Frequency Energy Harvesting.

MuscleMap: An Open-Source, Community-Supported Consortium for Whole-Body Quantitative MRI of Muscle (2024)
Journal Article
McKay, M. J., Weber, K. A., Wesselink, E. O., Smith, Z. A., Abbott, R., Anderson, D. B., Ashton-James, C. E., Atyeo, J., Beach, A. J., Burns, J., Clarke, S., Collins, N. J., Coppieters, M. W., Cornwall, J., Crawford, R. J., De Martino, E., Dunn, A. G., Eyles, J. P., Feng, H. J., Fortin, M., …Elliott, J. M. (2024). MuscleMap: An Open-Source, Community-Supported Consortium for Whole-Body Quantitative MRI of Muscle. Journal of Imaging, 10(11), Article 262. https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging10110262

Disorders affecting the neurological and musculoskeletal systems represent international health priorities. A significant impediment to progress in trials of new therapies is the absence of responsive, objective, and valid outcome measures sensitive... Read More about MuscleMap: An Open-Source, Community-Supported Consortium for Whole-Body Quantitative MRI of Muscle.

Digital Twin-empowered Green Mobility Management in Next-Gen Transportation Networks (2024)
Journal Article
Duran, K., Cakir, L. V., Fonzone, A., Duong, T. Q., & Canberk, B. (online). Digital Twin-empowered Green Mobility Management in Next-Gen Transportation Networks. IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology, 5, 1650-1662. https://doi.org/10.1109/ojvt.2024.3484956

Evolving transportation networks need seamless integration and effective infrastructure utilisation to form the next-generation transportation networks. Also, they should be capable of capturing the traffic flow data at the right time and promptly ap... Read More about Digital Twin-empowered Green Mobility Management in Next-Gen Transportation Networks.

White Paper on Clean Heating & Cooling Technologies and Thermal Energy Storage for Buildings (2024)
Report
Costa Pereira, C. (2024). White Paper on Clean Heating & Cooling Technologies and Thermal Energy Storage for Buildings. Implementation Working Group on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (IWG5)

The built environment is responsible for 35% of the greenhouse gas emissions and 85% of the buildings in Europe are older than 25 years. It is therefore a big task to reach a 100% renewable heated and cooled built environment. This White Paper descri... Read More about White Paper on Clean Heating & Cooling Technologies and Thermal Energy Storage for Buildings.

Analytical Philosophy in Healthcare Leadership - EMRI Healthcare Conference - Edinburgh 2024 (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
Fascia, M., & Tarazona, J. Analytical Philosophy in Healthcare Leadership - EMRI Healthcare Conference - Edinburgh 2024

This paper presents a novel framework for enhancing decision-making in healthcare leadership by synthesizing Hegelian inferentialism with contemporary quantitative methodologies, particularly Bayesian analysis and epistemic justice metrics. By embedd... Read More about Analytical Philosophy in Healthcare Leadership - EMRI Healthcare Conference - Edinburgh 2024.

Libraries Change Lives by Creating Opportunities (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Feeney, D. (2024, October). Libraries Change Lives by Creating Opportunities. Presented at Libraries Change Lives by Creating Opportunities, House of Parliament, London, UK

Invited attendance at a Westminster Parliamentary reception on behalf of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.

Preparing Tourism, Hospitality and Events graduates to be industry ready: Extending the three-factor model of authentic learning (2024)
Journal Article
Kitchen, E., Goh, E., Harkison, T., Drake, C., Steriopolous, E., Robertson, M., Losekoot, E., & Waterston, L. (in press). Preparing Tourism, Hospitality and Events graduates to be industry ready: Extending the three-factor model of authentic learning. Studies in Higher Education,

Authentic learning is a critical pedagogy and curriculum requirement in higher education to better prepare students for future workforce requirements. As such, educators adopt a range of authentic learning tasks such as work-integrated learning, indu... Read More about Preparing Tourism, Hospitality and Events graduates to be industry ready: Extending the three-factor model of authentic learning.

A review on rheological approaches as a perfect tool to monitor thermal degradation of biodegradable polymers (2024)
Journal Article
Salehiyan, R., & Soleymani Eil Bakhtiari, S. (online). A review on rheological approaches as a perfect tool to monitor thermal degradation of biodegradable polymers. Korea-Australia rheology journal, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13367-024-00111-3

This review provides an in-depth analysis of the thermal degradation of biodegradable polymers through rheological methods. Focusing on key techniques such as time sweep tests, frequency sweep tests, and nonlinear rheological analyses gained at highe... Read More about A review on rheological approaches as a perfect tool to monitor thermal degradation of biodegradable polymers.

How do you become resilient? A critical realist explanation of the youth resilience process (2024)
Journal Article
Ho, G. W., Leung, D. Y., Chan, A. C., Bressington, D. T., & Karatzias, T. (online). How do you become resilient? A critical realist explanation of the youth resilience process. Adversity and Resilience Science, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42844-024-00154-z

Adversities serve as risks, but also opportunities to acquire capacities to adjust positively in future stressors. There is now considerable agreement that resilience should be viewed as a process. However, a key question remains: Why do some individ... Read More about How do you become resilient? A critical realist explanation of the youth resilience process.

The CIPD in South East Scotland branch monthly newsletter (2024)
Digital Artefact
Gerard, L. (2024). The CIPD in South East Scotland branch monthly newsletter

Providing regular contributions to the CIPD in South East Scotland newsletter which is designed to keep members up to date with the latest branch news and events happening in the branch region

Evaluation of the protective efficacy of different doses of a Chlamydia abortus subcellular vaccine in a pregnant sheep challenge model for ovine enzootic abortion (2024)
Journal Article
Livingstone, M., Aitchison, K., Palarea-Albaladejo, J., Chianini, F., Silvia Rocchi, M., Gastón Caspe, S., Underwood, C., Flockhart, A., Wheelhouse, N., Entrican, G., Ranjan Wattegedera, S., & Longbottom, D. (2024). Evaluation of the protective efficacy of different doses of a Chlamydia abortus subcellular vaccine in a pregnant sheep challenge model for ovine enzootic abortion. Animals, 14(20), Article 3004. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14203004

Chlamydia abortus causes the disease ovine enzootic abortion, which is one of the most infectious causes of foetal death in small ruminants worldwide. While the disease can be controlled using live and inactivated commercial vaccines, there is scope... Read More about Evaluation of the protective efficacy of different doses of a Chlamydia abortus subcellular vaccine in a pregnant sheep challenge model for ovine enzootic abortion.

Enhancing Human Activity Recognition with FedPA: Focusing on Non-IID Data Challenges in Federated Learning (2024)
Journal Article
Wen, X., Wang, Y., Yuan, M., Geng, Y., Yu, H., & Zheng, G. (online). Enhancing Human Activity Recognition with FedPA: Focusing on Non-IID Data Challenges in Federated Learning. IEEE Sensors Journal, https://doi.org/10.1109/jsen.2024.3465593

Federated Learning (FL) revolutionizes distributed learning in Human Activity Recognition (HAR) by allowing clients to train models locally and share only model parameters, thus optimizing data usage and mitigating privacy concerns. However, the pres... Read More about Enhancing Human Activity Recognition with FedPA: Focusing on Non-IID Data Challenges in Federated Learning.

Public opinion on types of voice systems for older adults (2024)
Journal Article
Zijie Qu, N., Li, J., Kongmanee, J., & Chignell, M. (2024). Public opinion on types of voice systems for older adults. Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering, 11, https://doi.org/10.1177/20556683241287414

Public opinion may influence the adoption of technologies for older adults, yet studies on different contexts of technology for older adults is limited. In an online YouGov survey (N = 500) with text-and-image vignettes, participants gave more positi... Read More about Public opinion on types of voice systems for older adults.

A narrative review on vital criteria of fungal dyes as dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) (2024)
Journal Article
Pirdaus, N. A., Muhammad-Sukki, F., Ahmad, N., & Wan-Mohtar, W. A. A. Q. I. (2024). A narrative review on vital criteria of fungal dyes as dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC). Discover Applied Sciences, 6(10), Article 553. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-024-06256-8

The main two reasons for the shift to renewable energy are the depletion and the harmful effects of non-renewable energy, such as burning coal and fossil fuels. As a result, the use of solar cells as renewable energy resources, that prioritise high e... Read More about A narrative review on vital criteria of fungal dyes as dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC).

A preliminary study on bamboo-timber composite columns under axial compression (2024)
Journal Article
Deng, Y., Xia, W., Yang, S., Ni, M., Huo, G., Zhang, H., Wong, S. H. F., Sukontasukkul, P., Hansapinyo, C., Zhang, Y., Thepvpngsa, K., Seixas, M., & de Almeida Melo Filho, J. (online). A preliminary study on bamboo-timber composite columns under axial compression. International Wood Products Journal, https://doi.org/10.1177/20426445241288926

Bamboo–timber composite columns hold significant promise as bio-based structural elements. However, research in this area remains limited, especially concerning modern buckling analysis methods that incorporate bio-based constitutive models of engine... Read More about A preliminary study on bamboo-timber composite columns under axial compression.

Applying the Right UX based on Users' Needs and Future Trends of UX (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cameron, J. (2024, October). Applying the Right UX based on Users' Needs and Future Trends of UX. Presented at BINUS Business School International Lecture Week 2024, Jakarta, Indonesia and online

This lecture by Dr Jackie Cameron, an experienced digital marketing lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University, provides a comprehensive overview of user experience (UX) principles and their application in digital marketing contexts. Covering key defini... Read More about Applying the Right UX based on Users' Needs and Future Trends of UX.

Leg ulceration in venous and arteriovenous insufficiency: assessment and management with compression therapy as part of a holistic wound‑healing strategy (2024)
Journal Article
Nair, H. K., Mosti, G., Atkin, L., Aburn, R., Ali Hussin, N., Govindarajanthran, N., Narayanan, S., Ritchie, G., Samuriwo, R., Sandy-Hodgetts, K., Smart, H., Sussman, G., Ehmann, S., Lantis, J., Moffatt, C., Naude, L., Probst, S., & White, W. (2024). Leg ulceration in venous and arteriovenous insufficiency: assessment and management with compression therapy as part of a holistic wound‑healing strategy. Journal of Wound Care, 33(Sup10b), S1-S31. https://doi.org/10.12968/jowc.2024.33.sup10b.s1

Introduction
This international consensus document presents the outcomes of an expert panel discussion, convened in October 2023. The discussion aimed to provide best-practice recommendations on the assessment and management of venous and arterioven... Read More about Leg ulceration in venous and arteriovenous insufficiency: assessment and management with compression therapy as part of a holistic wound‑healing strategy.