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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.

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.

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.

UAE’s commitment towards UN Sustainable Development Goals (2020)
Journal Article
Umar, T., Egbu, C., Ofori, G., Honnurvali, M. S., Saidani, M., Shibani, A., Opoku, A., Gupta, N., & Goh, K. (2020). UAE’s commitment towards UN Sustainable Development Goals. Proceedings of the ICE - Engineering Sustainability, 173(7), 325-343. https://doi.org/10.1680/jensu.19.00036

In 2015, the UN member countries, on mutual understanding, identified 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to be achieved by 2030. According to several reports, some countries are reflecting good progress, but overall, no country is on track towa... Read More about UAE’s commitment towards UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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.

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). Microtargeting or Microphishing? Phishing Unveiled. In Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business (89-105). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58986-8_7

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.

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.

An Empirical Study of C++ Vulnerabilities in Crowd-Sourced Code Examples (2020)
Journal Article
Verdi, M., Sami, A., Akhondali, J., Khomh, F., Uddin, G., & Karami Motlagh, A. (2022). An Empirical Study of C++ Vulnerabilities in Crowd-Sourced Code Examples. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 48(5), 1497-1514. https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.2020.3023664

Software developers share programming solutions in Q&A sites like Stack Overflow, Stack Exchange, Android forum, and so on. The reuse of crowd-sourced code snippets can facilitate rapid prototyping. However, recent research shows that the shared code... Read More about An Empirical Study of C++ Vulnerabilities in Crowd-Sourced Code Examples.

Scottish Government appoints Dr Liz Aston to chair new IAG on policing (2020)
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Aitken, R., & Aston, E. (2020). Scottish Government appoints Dr Liz Aston to chair new IAG on policing. [Blog post]

The Justice Secretary, Hamza Yousef, has invited Dr Liz Aston, Associate Professor of Criminology at Edinburgh Napier, to chair a new Independent Advisory Group on New and Emerging Technologies in Policing.

URL: https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/enuapply... Read More about Scottish Government appoints Dr Liz Aston to chair new IAG on policing.

Trail Sector Stakeholder & Consumer Survey (DIRTT Project Report) (2020)
Report
Campbell, T., & Kirkwood, L. (2020). Trail Sector Stakeholder & Consumer Survey (DIRTT Project Report). International Mountain Bike Association

The mountain bike trail user survey forms part of the "Developing Intereuropean Resources for Trail builder Training (DIRTT)" project, funded under the ERASMUS+ programme, which aims to develop an educational framework and professional training progr... Read More about Trail Sector Stakeholder & Consumer Survey (DIRTT Project Report).

FPC-BI: Fast Probabilistic Consensus within Byzantine Infrastructures (2020)
Journal Article
Popov, S., & Buchanan, W. J. (2021). FPC-BI: Fast Probabilistic Consensus within Byzantine Infrastructures. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 147, 77-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpdc.2020.09.002

This paper presents a novel leaderless protocol (FPC-BI: Fast Probabilistic Consensus within Byzantine Infrastructures) with a low communicational complexity and which allows a set of nodes to come to a consensus on a value of a single bit. The paper... Read More about FPC-BI: Fast Probabilistic Consensus within Byzantine Infrastructures.

Mind the Gap: Developments in Autonomous Driving Research and the Sustainability Challenge (2020)
Journal Article
Mora, L., Wu, X., & Panori, A. (2020). Mind the Gap: Developments in Autonomous Driving Research and the Sustainability Challenge. Journal of Cleaner Production, 275, Article 124087. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.124087

Scientific knowledge on autonomous-driving technology is expanding at a faster-than-ever pace. As a result, the likelihood of incurring information overload is particularly notable for researchers, who can struggle to overcome the gap between informa... Read More about Mind the Gap: Developments in Autonomous Driving Research and the Sustainability Challenge.

Exercise Training as a Mediator for Enhancing Coronary Collateral Circulation: A Review of the Evidence (2020)
Journal Article
Nickolay, T., Nichols, S., Ingle, L., & Hoye, A. (2020). Exercise Training as a Mediator for Enhancing Coronary Collateral Circulation: A Review of the Evidence. Current Cardiology Reviews, 16(3), 212-220. https://doi.org/10.2174/1573403x15666190819144336

Coronary collateral vessels supply blood to areas of myocardium at risk after arterial occlusion. Flow through these channels is driven by a pressure gradient between the donor and the occluded artery. Concomitant with increased collateral flow is an... Read More about Exercise Training as a Mediator for Enhancing Coronary Collateral Circulation: A Review of the Evidence.

Who polices/governs Police Stops across Europe? (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aston, E., & Mouhana, C. (2020, September). Who polices/governs Police Stops across Europe?. Presented at EUROCRIM 2020: 20th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Online

Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS) in a patient receiving Infliximab therapy for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (2020)
Journal Article
Meredith, J., Khedim, C., Henderson, P., Wilson, D. C., & Russell, R. K. (2021). Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS) in a patient receiving Infliximab therapy for Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Journal of Crohn's and Colitis, 15(4), 687-691. https://doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjaa201

Paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 [PIMS-TS] is a newly described condition. It has a spectrum of presentations proposed to occur as part of a post-infectious immune response. We report the first case o... Read More about Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS) in a patient receiving Infliximab therapy for Inflammatory Bowel Disease.