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Blueprint for change in AF: the Scottish national inquiry (2018)
Journal Article
Neubeck, L., Barclay, K., Dunn, M., Oliver, C., Armitage, W., Oliver, C., Hodson, P., Bruce, J., Grubb, N., & Quinn, T. J. (2018). Blueprint for change in AF: the Scottish national inquiry. British Journal of Cardiac Nursing, 13(2), 64-69. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjca.2018.13.2.64

Background: Understanding Atrial Fibrillation (AF) management in Scotland was identified as a key priority at the Cross Party Group (CPG) for Heart Disease and Stroke which meets regularly at the Scottish Parliament. Therefore, a national inquiry was... Read More about Blueprint for change in AF: the Scottish national inquiry.

Conflicting Values (2018)
Journal Article
Kuipers, Y., den Hartog-van Veen, H., Klop, L., & Zondag, L. (2018). Conflicting Values. Clinical Research in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1(1),

Objective: The objective of the study was to explore the dilemma’s, the conflicting values, and their underlying factors that Dutch
midwives experience when they find it difficult to conform to, or to accommodate women’s care needs.

Methods: Qu... Read More about Conflicting Values.

Combining deep convolutional neural network and SVM to SAR image target recognition (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gao, F., Huang, T., Wang, J., Sun, J., Yang, E., & Hussain, A. (2018). Combining deep convolutional neural network and SVM to SAR image target recognition. . https://doi.org/10.1109/iThings-GreenCom-CPSCom-SmartData.2017.165

To address the challenging problem on target recognition from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, a novel method is proposed by combining Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM). First, an improved DCNN is employe... Read More about Combining deep convolutional neural network and SVM to SAR image target recognition.

Pathways Towards Popular Music Education in the UK (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z., & Stillie, B. (2018, February). Pathways Towards Popular Music Education in the UK. Paper presented at Teaching Fellows Conference

No abstract available.

Security Risk Assessment of Critical Infrastructure Systems: A Comparative Study (2018)
Journal Article
Tweneboah-Koduah, S., & Buchanan, W. J. (2018). Security Risk Assessment of Critical Infrastructure Systems: A Comparative Study. Computer Journal, 61(9), 1389-1406. https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/bxy002

Recent cyberattacks on critical infrastructure systems coupled with the technology-induced complexity of the system of systems have necessitated a review of existing methods of assessing critical systems security risk exposure. The question is; do ex... Read More about Security Risk Assessment of Critical Infrastructure Systems: A Comparative Study.

Exploring the Big Picture of Smart City Research (2018)
Journal Article
Komninos, N., & Mora, L. (2018). Exploring the Big Picture of Smart City Research. Scienze Regionali-The Italian Journal of Regional Science, 1, 15-38

This paper analyses the big picture of the smart city research field by means of a bibliometric analysis of the literature on smart cities produced between 1992 and 2012. The findings show that this new field of scientific inquiry has started to grow... Read More about Exploring the Big Picture of Smart City Research.

A Trust-based Intrusion Detection System for Mobile RPL Based Networks (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Faiza, M., Tandjaoui, D., Romdhani, I., & Nabil, D. (2017, June). A Trust-based Intrusion Detection System for Mobile RPL Based Networks. Presented at 10th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings-2017)

Successful deployment of Low power and Lossy Networks (LLNs) requires self-organising, self-configuring, security, and mobility support. However, these characteristics can be exploited to perform security attacks against the Routing Protocol for Low-... Read More about A Trust-based Intrusion Detection System for Mobile RPL Based Networks.

A new Zigbee-based device for measuring visual reaction time in sport activities (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ali, B. B., Dugas, É., Naceur, A., & Romdhani, I. (2017, May). A new Zigbee-based device for measuring visual reaction time in sport activities. Presented at 2017 International Conference on Engineering & MIS (ICEMIS)

There is a growing demand for smart tools and devices that measure visual reaction time during sports and physical activities in outdoor environments. However, one of the major problems is the need to maintain an on-time 1 pulse per second (pps) refe... Read More about A new Zigbee-based device for measuring visual reaction time in sport activities.

Children and Young People’s Advocacy House North: Final Report (2018)
Report
Livesley, J., Fenton, K., Bowden, L., Grierson, S., Hadi, J., Long, T., …Rowland, A. (2018). Children and Young People’s Advocacy House North: Final Report. Salford: NHS England (North)

The vision for a children’s advocacy centre in the north of England was first mooted in a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust report (Rowland 2014). Having witnessed the work of the child advocacy movement in the USA, Rowland argued that a UK based chil... Read More about Children and Young People’s Advocacy House North: Final Report.

Hearing treatment for reducing cognitive decline: Design and methods of the Aging and Cognitive Health Evaluation in Elders randomized controlled trial (2018)
Journal Article
Deal, J. A., Goman, A. M., Albert, M. S., Arnold, M. L., Burgard, S., Chisolm, T., Couper, D., Glynn, N. W., Gmelin, T., Hayden, K. M., Mosley, T., Pankow, J. S., Reed, N., Sanchez, V. A., Richey Sharrett, A., Thomas, S. D., Coresh, J., Lin, F. R., & ACHIEVE Investigators. (2018). Hearing treatment for reducing cognitive decline: Design and methods of the Aging and Cognitive Health Evaluation in Elders randomized controlled trial. Alzheimer's and Dementia: Translational Research and Clinical Interventions, 4(1), 499-507. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trci.2018.08.007

Introduction
Hearing impairment is highly prevalent and independently associated with cognitive decline. The Aging and Cognitive Health Evaluation in Elders study is a multicenter randomized controlled trial to determine efficacy of hearing treatmen... Read More about Hearing treatment for reducing cognitive decline: Design and methods of the Aging and Cognitive Health Evaluation in Elders randomized controlled trial.

libVersioningCompiler: An easy-to-use library for dynamic generation and invocation of multiple code versions (2018)
Journal Article
Cherubin, S., & Agosta, G. (2018). libVersioningCompiler: An easy-to-use library for dynamic generation and invocation of multiple code versions. SoftwareX, 7, 95-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2018.03.006

We present libVersioningCompiler, a C++ library designed to support the dynamic generation of multiple versions of the same compute kernel in a HPC scenario. It can be used to provide continuous optimization, code specialization based on the input da... Read More about libVersioningCompiler: An easy-to-use library for dynamic generation and invocation of multiple code versions.

Rhyme and reason-using poetry to talk to underserved audiences about environmental change (2018)
Journal Article
Illingworth, S., & Jack, K. (2018). Rhyme and reason-using poetry to talk to underserved audiences about environmental change. Climate Risk Management, 19, 120-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2018.01.001

The effects and consequences that environmental change will have on our society are not solely dependent on the ways in which the Earth system responds to anthropogenic effects. They are also affected by the way in which our society decides to mitiga... Read More about Rhyme and reason-using poetry to talk to underserved audiences about environmental change.

Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval: understanding metadata and its use (2018)
Book
Haynes, D. (2018). Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval: understanding metadata and its use. (2nd edition). Facet Publishing

PART I: Metadata concepts

Part I introduces the concepts that underpin metadata, starting with an historical perspective.

In Chapter 1 some examples of metadata that people come across in their daily life are demonstrated along with some altern... Read More about Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval: understanding metadata and its use.

Applications of Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning to Biological Data (2018)
Journal Article
Mahmud, M., Kaiser, M. S., Hussain, A., & Vassanelli, S. (2018). Applications of Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning to Biological Data. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 29(6), 2063-2079. https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2018.2790388

Rapid advances in hardware-based technologies during the past decades have opened up new possibilities for life scientists to gather multimodal data in various application domains, such as omics, bioimaging, medical imaging, and (brain/body)-machine... Read More about Applications of Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning to Biological Data.

Are self-reported telemonitored blood pressure readings affected by end-digit preference: a prospective cohort study in Scotland (2018)
Journal Article
Parker, R. A., Paterson, M., Padfield, P., Pinnock, H., Hanley, J., Hammersley, V. S., Al-Remal, M., Steventon, A., & McKinstry, B. (2018). Are self-reported telemonitored blood pressure readings affected by end-digit preference: a prospective cohort study in Scotland. BMJ Open, 8(1), Article e019431. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019431

Objective Simple forms of blood pressure (BP) telemonitoring require patients to text readings to central servers creating an opportunity for both entry error and manipulation. We wished to determine if there was an apparent preference for particul... Read More about Are self-reported telemonitored blood pressure readings affected by end-digit preference: a prospective cohort study in Scotland.

Spleen (2018)
Book Chapter
Thomson, T. (2017). Spleen. In V. Koloctroni, & O. Taxidou (Eds.), The Edinburgh Dictionary of ModernismEdinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press

Encyclopedia entry.