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A Novel Generation-Adversarial-Network-Based Vehicle Trajectory Prediction Method for Intelligent Vehicular Networks (2020)
Journal Article
Zhao, L., Liu, Y., Al-Dubai, A. Y., Zomaya, A. Y., Min, G., & Hawbani, A. (2021). A Novel Generation-Adversarial-Network-Based Vehicle Trajectory Prediction Method for Intelligent Vehicular Networks. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 8(3), 2066-2077. https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2020.3021141

Prediction of the future location of vehicles and other mobile targets is instrumental in intelligent transportation system applications. In fact, networking schemes and protocols based on machine learning can benefit from the results of such accurat... Read More about A Novel Generation-Adversarial-Network-Based Vehicle Trajectory Prediction Method for Intelligent Vehicular Networks.

Changes and Continuities in Adoption Social Work: Adoption in Scotland Since the 1968 Act (2020)
Journal Article
Critchley-Morris, A., Cowan, P., Grant, M., & Hardy, M. (2021). Changes and Continuities in Adoption Social Work: Adoption in Scotland Since the 1968 Act. British Journal of Social Work, 51(6), 2061-2079. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcaa114

This article charts changes and continuities in the social work role in adoption since 1968. The Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 established the Children’s Hearing System, Scotland’s unique approach to child welfare in which lay volunteers make decis... Read More about Changes and Continuities in Adoption Social Work: Adoption in Scotland Since the 1968 Act.

Compassion as a Powerful Intervention: How the interactions between women, midwives and maternity services influence women’s childbirth experiences and subsequent trauma (2020)
Journal Article
Patterson, J., & Ménage, D. (2020). Compassion as a Powerful Intervention: How the interactions between women, midwives and maternity services influence women’s childbirth experiences and subsequent trauma. Practising Midwife, 23(08), https://doi.org/10.55975/iaod9019

This article combines work from two separate PhD research studies by Dr Jenny Patterson and Dr Diane Ménage.
These studies explored, from different perspectives, how the nature of interactions between midwives and women may
contribute to, or preven... Read More about Compassion as a Powerful Intervention: How the interactions between women, midwives and maternity services influence women’s childbirth experiences and subsequent trauma.

Dashboard application for monitoring routinely collected data by the Improving Cancer Journeys project in Glasgow (2020)
Digital Artefact
Savinc, J. (2020). Dashboard application for monitoring routinely collected data by the Improving Cancer Journeys project in Glasgow. [Application]

An online demo version of the application can be viewed at https://jsvnc.shinyapps.io/dashboard-pivot-data/;
Please allow a minute to load, then click on "Load made-up data" on the top of the page, and wait for the data to finish loading (there will... Read More about Dashboard application for monitoring routinely collected data by the Improving Cancer Journeys project in Glasgow.

African BIM Report 2020 (2020)
Report
Saka, A., Itanola, M., Olawumi, T., Kori, S., Hamma-adama, M., Akinradewo, O., Fordjour Antwi-Afari, M., Ayinla, K., Banahene Blay, K., Adamu, Z., Kaduma, L., Blay, K., Udeze, O., Kolo, S., Markafi, U., Khalid, B., Yusuf, H., Aghimien, E. I., Olanrewaju, O., Aliu, S., …Mimoun, M. (2020). African BIM Report 2020. Abuja, Nigeria: BIM AFRICA

While it may seem like the adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM) across Africa is slow-paced, the increasing advocacy efforts from various stakeholders is now resulting in a widespread drive for implementation and deployment. Coupled with... Read More about African BIM Report 2020.

A Feasibility Study for the Optimized Development of Renewable Air-Conditioning for Different Climatic Conditions (2020)
Journal Article
Oye, T. T., Gupta, N., Goh, K., & Oye, T. K. (2020). A Feasibility Study for the Optimized Development of Renewable Air-Conditioning for Different Climatic Conditions. Environmental management and sustainable development, 9(3), 87-109. https://doi.org/10.5296/emsd.v9i3.17459

This paper aims to present renewable air-conditioning as a sustainable system for varied climatic conditions with the feasibility of optimization to reduce the level of energy consumption and the rate of carbon emissions. Extreme use of air-condition... Read More about A Feasibility Study for the Optimized Development of Renewable Air-Conditioning for Different Climatic Conditions.

International Legal Cooperation and the Principle of Harmonisation: Lessons from Cross-Border Insolvency (2020)
Journal Article
Ghio, E. (2020). International Legal Cooperation and the Principle of Harmonisation: Lessons from Cross-Border Insolvency. Juris Poiesis, 23(32), 576-581. https://doi.org/10.5935/2448-0517.20200026

This project assesses how harmonisation can be promoted and achieved in the EU without a completely uniform legal system in place. The project focuses on international legal cooperation as a means to promote harmonisation throughout the EU. It uses t... Read More about International Legal Cooperation and the Principle of Harmonisation: Lessons from Cross-Border Insolvency.

Learner autonomy in music performance practices (2020)
Journal Article
Cheng, L., Wong, P. W. Y., & Lam, C. Y. (2020). Learner autonomy in music performance practices. British Journal of Music Education, 37(3), 234-246. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0265051720000170

The language of music shares a number of basic processing mechanisms with natural languages, yet studies of learner autonomy in music education are rare. This study aims to assess the effectiveness of fostering music students’ learner autonomy in per... Read More about Learner autonomy in music performance practices.

Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring management and community stakeholders’ visual representations of festival spaces (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L. (2020, September). Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring management and community stakeholders’ visual representations of festival spaces. Paper presented at Festivals and the City: The Festivalisation of Public Space, RGS-IBG Symposium, London

I will explore how two distinct strategic management and local community stakeholder groups engage with a festival city through their visual portrayals of festival spaces. Informed by festival city discourses and a hallmark event tourism stakeholder... Read More about Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring management and community stakeholders’ visual representations of festival spaces.

Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring visual representations of management and local community stakeholders (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L. (2020, September). Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring visual representations of management and local community stakeholders. Paper presented at Festivals and the City: The Festivalisation of Public Space, RGS-IBG Symposium sponsored by the Geographies of Leisure & Tourism Research Group, Online

I will explore how two distinct strategic management and local community stakeholder groups engage with a festival city through their visual portrayals of festival spaces. Informed by festival city discourses and a hallmark event tourism stakeholder... Read More about Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring visual representations of management and local community stakeholders.

DNA and Plaintext Dependent Chaotic Visual Selective Image Encryption (2020)
Journal Article
Khan, J. S., Boulila, W., Ahmad, J., Rubaiee, S., Rehman, A. U., Alroobaea, R., & Buchanan, W. J. (2020). DNA and Plaintext Dependent Chaotic Visual Selective Image Encryption. IEEE Access, 8, 159732-159744. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.3020917

Visual selective image encryption can both improve the efficiency of the image encryption algorithm and reduce the frequency and severity of attacks against data. In this article, a new form of encryption is proposed based on keys derived from Deoxyri... Read More about DNA and Plaintext Dependent Chaotic Visual Selective Image Encryption.

Transition to Postgraduate Study at Master’s Level: Lessons Learned from Students’ Evaluations of an Online Induction Resource (2020)
Journal Article
Robb, L., & Moffat, S. (2020). Transition to Postgraduate Study at Master’s Level: Lessons Learned from Students’ Evaluations of an Online Induction Resource. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 8(1), 41-51. https://doi.org/10.14297/jpaap.v8i1.402

Evidence from UK universities’ Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) concluded that whilst confident and experienced in their area of practice, some find the prospect of returning to study in an on-line environment and making the transition to... Read More about Transition to Postgraduate Study at Master’s Level: Lessons Learned from Students’ Evaluations of an Online Induction Resource.

Props Alive: A Framework for Augmented Reality Stop Motion Animation (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Casas, L., Kosek, M., & Mitchell, K. (2017, March). Props Alive: A Framework for Augmented Reality Stop Motion Animation. Presented at 2017 IEEE 10th Workshop on Software Engineering and Architectures for Realtime Interactive Systems (SEARIS), Los Angeles, CA, USA

Stop motion animation evolved in the early days of cinema with the aim to create an illusion of movement with static puppets posed manually each frame. Current stop motion movies introduced 3D printing processes in order to acquire animations more ac... Read More about Props Alive: A Framework for Augmented Reality Stop Motion Animation.

The truth is in the detail: predators attack aposematic prey with less aggression than other prey types (2020)
Journal Article
Yamazaki, Y., Pagani-Núñez, E., Sota, T., & Barnett, C. R. (2020). The truth is in the detail: predators attack aposematic prey with less aggression than other prey types. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 131(2), 332-343. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaa119

Aposematic organisms are often unprofitable to predators (e.g. because of defensive chemicals) which they advertise with a conspicuous signal (e.g. bright and conspicuous colour signals). Aposematism is thought to reduce predation of prey because the... Read More about The truth is in the detail: predators attack aposematic prey with less aggression than other prey types.

Evaluation of Ensemble Learning for Android Malware Family Identification (2020)
Journal Article
Wylie, J., Tan, Z., Al-Dubai, A., & Wang, J. (2020). Evaluation of Ensemble Learning for Android Malware Family Identification. Journal of Guangzhou University (Natural Science Edition), 19(4), 28-41

Every Android malware sample generally belongs to a specific family that performs a similar set of actions and characteristics. Having the ability to effectively identify Android malware families can assist in addressing the damage caused by malware.... Read More about Evaluation of Ensemble Learning for Android Malware Family Identification.

Customized 2D Barcode Sensing for Anti-Counterfeiting Application in Smart IoT with Fast Encoding and Information Hiding (2020)
Journal Article
Chen, R., Yu, Y., Chen, J., Zhong, Y., Zhao, H., Hussain, A., & Tan, H. (2020). Customized 2D Barcode Sensing for Anti-Counterfeiting Application in Smart IoT with Fast Encoding and Information Hiding. Sensors, 20(17), Article 4926. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20174926

With the development of commodity economy, the emergence of fake and shoddy products has seriously harmed the interests of consumers and enterprises. To tackle this challenge, customized 2D barcode is proposed to satisfy the requirements of the enter... Read More about Customized 2D Barcode Sensing for Anti-Counterfeiting Application in Smart IoT with Fast Encoding and Information Hiding.

Opportunities and Challenges for Community-Based Seagrass Conservation (2020)
Report
Shilland, R., Wanjiru, A., Ahmed, M., Grimsditch, G., & Huxham, M. (2020). Opportunities and Challenges for Community-Based Seagrass Conservation. Nairobi, Kenya: United Nations Environment Program

Seagrass meadows are important marine ecosystems, providing a range of services including carbon sequestration, nursery habitats for fish and coastal protection. They are suffering rapid global decline in the face of eutrophication and other pollutio... Read More about Opportunities and Challenges for Community-Based Seagrass Conservation.

Diagrammatic Representation and Inference: 11th International Conference, Diagrams 2020, Tallinn, Estonia, August 24–28, 2020, Proceedings (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
(2020, August). Diagrammatic Representation and Inference: 11th International Conference, Diagrams 2020, Tallinn, Estonia, August 24–28, 2020, Proceedings. Presented at Diagrams: International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams, Tallinn, Estonia

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, Diagrams 2020, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in August 2020.*

The 20 full papers and 16 short papers presented together with... Read More about Diagrammatic Representation and Inference: 11th International Conference, Diagrams 2020, Tallinn, Estonia, August 24–28, 2020, Proceedings.

Atrial Fibrillation Screen, Management And Guideline Recommended Therapy (AF SMART II) in the rural primary care setting: a cross-sectional study and cost-effectiveness analysis of eHealth tools to support all stages of screening (2020)
Journal Article
Orchard, J., Li, J., Freedman, B., Webster, R., Salkeld, G., Hespe, C., Gallagher, R., Patel, A., Kamel, B., Neubeck, L., & Lowres, N. (2020). Atrial Fibrillation Screen, Management And Guideline Recommended Therapy (AF SMART II) in the rural primary care setting: a cross-sectional study and cost-effectiveness analysis of eHealth tools to support all stages of screening. Journal of the American Heart Association JAHA, 9(18), Article e017080. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.120.017080

Background
Internationally, most atrial fibrillation (AF) management guidelines recommend opportunistic screening for AF in people aged ≥65 years, and oral anticoagulant (OAC) treatment for those at high stroke risk (CHA₂DS₂-VA ≥2). However, gaps re... Read More about Atrial Fibrillation Screen, Management And Guideline Recommended Therapy (AF SMART II) in the rural primary care setting: a cross-sectional study and cost-effectiveness analysis of eHealth tools to support all stages of screening.