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The impact of Brexit on the digitisation of rural areas in the UK (2022)
Book Chapter
Gerli, P., & Whalley, J. (2022). The impact of Brexit on the digitisation of rural areas in the UK. In A. Attorp, S. Heron, & R. McAreavey (Eds.), Rural Governance in the UK (162-179). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003200208-9

This chapter discusses new policymaking scenarios in rural broadband and digital services that have opened now that the UK is no longer subject to the EU regulatory framework that has thus far driven rural digitisation. One advantage is that there ma... Read More about The impact of Brexit on the digitisation of rural areas in the UK.

A Descriptive and Phenomenological Exploration of the Spiritual Needs of Chinese Children Hospitalized with Cancer (2022)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Ho, K., Lam, K., Lam, W., Cheng, E., Ching, S., & Wong, F. (2022). A Descriptive and Phenomenological Exploration of the Spiritual Needs of Chinese Children Hospitalized with Cancer. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(20), Article 13217. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013217

Spiritual well-being is the fourth dimension of health, as equally important as physical, mental, and social well-being. The shadow of death associated with cancer triggers children to explore their personal values, meanings, and life goals throughou... Read More about A Descriptive and Phenomenological Exploration of the Spiritual Needs of Chinese Children Hospitalized with Cancer.

Putting Lacan's Four Discourses to Work (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2022, October). Putting Lacan's Four Discourses to Work. Presented at Lacan: Clinic & Culture, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh

While Lacan’s teaching is directed much of the time toward a clinical application and the training of analysts, his writings and seminars are also replete with references to cultural objects and discussions of extra-clinical matters. This inclusive r... Read More about Putting Lacan's Four Discourses to Work.

Utilising Gamification and Virtual Environments to Present Digitally Enhanced Advanced Services (DEAS) for the Financial Sector (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khan, C., Charissis, V., & Harrison, D. K. (2022, October). Utilising Gamification and Virtual Environments to Present Digitally Enhanced Advanced Services (DEAS) for the Financial Sector. Presented at Future Technologies Conference 2022 (FTC 2022), Vancouver, Canada

Servitization offers a fresh opportunity for manufacturing and finance companies to incorporate additional services to the main product, as part of an extended maintenance scheme or for insurance purposes. Parametric insurance products based on new t... Read More about Utilising Gamification and Virtual Environments to Present Digitally Enhanced Advanced Services (DEAS) for the Financial Sector.

Understanding factors that could influence patient acceptability of the use of the PINCER intervention in primary care: A qualitative exploration using the Theoretical Framework of Acceptability (2022)
Journal Article
Laing, L., Salema, N., Jeffries, M., Binti Mohd Shamsuddin, A., Sheikh, A., Chuter, A., Waring, J., Avery, A., & Keers, R. (2022). Understanding factors that could influence patient acceptability of the use of the PINCER intervention in primary care: A qualitative exploration using the Theoretical Framework of Acceptability. PLOS ONE, 17(10), Article e0275633. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275633

Introduction Medication errors are an important cause of morbidity and mortality. The pharmacist-led IT-based intervention to reduce clinically important medication errors (PINCER) intervention was shown to reduce medication errors when tested in a... Read More about Understanding factors that could influence patient acceptability of the use of the PINCER intervention in primary care: A qualitative exploration using the Theoretical Framework of Acceptability.

An Efficient Lightweight Image Encryption Scheme Using Multichaos (2022)
Journal Article
Ullah, A., Shah, A. A., Khan, J. S., Sajjad, M., Boulila, W., Akgul, A., Masood, J., Ghaleb, F. A., Shah, S. A., & Ahmad, J. (2022). An Efficient Lightweight Image Encryption Scheme Using Multichaos. Security and Communication Networks, 2022, Article 5680357. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/5680357

With an immense increase in Internet multimedia applications over the past few years, digital content such as digital images are stored and shared over global networks, the probability for information leakage and illegal modifications to the digital... Read More about An Efficient Lightweight Image Encryption Scheme Using Multichaos.

Corporate carbon emissions and market valuation of organic and inorganic investments (2022)
Journal Article
Adamolekun, G., Kwansa, N. A., & Kwabi, F. (2022). Corporate carbon emissions and market valuation of organic and inorganic investments. Economics Letters, 221, Article 110887. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110887

We empirically examine the impact of a firm’s carbon emissions level on the market valuation of organic and inorganic investments. We document that the market reacts negatively to corporate investment announcements by companies with high carbon emiss... Read More about Corporate carbon emissions and market valuation of organic and inorganic investments.

What are public libraries for? Culture as a determinant of conceptualizations of public library services for forced migrants (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Salzano, R., Brazier, D., Hall, H., & Webster, G. (2022, October). What are public libraries for? Culture as a determinant of conceptualizations of public library services for forced migrants. Presented at Association for Information Science and Technology Annual Conference ASIS&T 2022, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Public libraries offer important services for newcomer populations, including forced migrants. They help facilitate the integration of forced migrants into the host country, increase their levels of trust within new communities, and build social capi... Read More about What are public libraries for? Culture as a determinant of conceptualizations of public library services for forced migrants.

False memory and COVID-19: How people fall for fake news about COVID-19 in digital contexts (2022)
Journal Article
Mangiulli, I., Battista, F., Kafi, N. A., Coveliers, E., Webster, T. C., Curci, A., & Otgaar, H. (2022). False memory and COVID-19: How people fall for fake news about COVID-19 in digital contexts. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 972004. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.972004

People are often exposed to fake news. Such an exposure to misleading information might lead to false memory creation. We examined whether people can form false memories for COVID-19-related fake news. Furthermore, we investigated which individual fa... Read More about False memory and COVID-19: How people fall for fake news about COVID-19 in digital contexts.

Adherence to COVID-19 preventive measures and associated factors in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Gebreheat, G., Paterson, R., Mulugeta, H., & Teame, H. (2022). Adherence to COVID-19 preventive measures and associated factors in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis. PLOS ONE, 17(10), Article e0275320. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275320

Background: Reluctance to the COVID-19 preventive measures have been repeatedly reported in Ethiopia although compliance with these actions is the key step to minimize the pandemic’s burden. Hence, this systematic review and meta-analysis aims to add... Read More about Adherence to COVID-19 preventive measures and associated factors in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Multi-Objective Evolutionary Optimisation for Prototype-Based Fuzzy Classifiers (2022)
Journal Article
Gu, X., Li, M., Shen, L., Tang, G., Ni, Q., Peng, T., & Shen, Q. (2023). Multi-Objective Evolutionary Optimisation for Prototype-Based Fuzzy Classifiers. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 31(5), 1703-1715. https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2022.3214241

Evolving intelligent systems (EISs), particularly, the zero-order ones have demonstrated strong performance on many real-world problems concerning data stream classification, while offering high model transparency and interpretability thanks to their... Read More about Multi-Objective Evolutionary Optimisation for Prototype-Based Fuzzy Classifiers.

A Deployable and Cost-Effective Kirigami Antenna for Sub-6 GHz MIMO Applications (2022)
Journal Article
Kiani, S. H., Marey, M., Rafique, U., Shah, S. I. H., Bashir, M. A., Mostafa, H., Wong, S., & Parchin, N. O. (2022). A Deployable and Cost-Effective Kirigami Antenna for Sub-6 GHz MIMO Applications. Micromachines, 13(10), Article 1735. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi13101735

In this work, a low-cost, deployable, integratable, and easy-to-fabricate multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) Kirigami antenna is proposed for sub-6 GHz applications. The proposed MIMO antenna is inspired by Kirigami art, which consists of four rad... Read More about A Deployable and Cost-Effective Kirigami Antenna for Sub-6 GHz MIMO Applications.

Very Accurate Time-Frequency Representation of Induction Motors Harmonics for Fault Diagnosis Under Arbitrary Load Variations (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bonet-Jara, J., Fernandez-Cavero, V., Vedreno Santos, F., & Pons-Llinares, J. (2022, September). Very Accurate Time-Frequency Representation of Induction Motors Harmonics for Fault Diagnosis Under Arbitrary Load Variations. Presented at 2022 International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM), Valencia, Spain

Induction motors work under steady state in many applications. Nevertheless, in some cases (e.g., wood cutting machine or pulp mixer in paper industries), the load continuously varies. In these cases, time-frequency transforms are needed to detect th... Read More about Very Accurate Time-Frequency Representation of Induction Motors Harmonics for Fault Diagnosis Under Arbitrary Load Variations.

Online Supportive Conversations and Reflection Sessions (OSCaRS): A Feasibility Study with Care Home Staff during the Pandemic (2022)
Journal Article
Johnston, L., Hockley, J., Watson, J., & Shenkin, S. D. (2022). Online Supportive Conversations and Reflection Sessions (OSCaRS): A Feasibility Study with Care Home Staff during the Pandemic. International journal of practice-based learning in health and social care, 10(1), 48-58. https://doi.org/10.18552/ijpblhsc.v10i1.743

Care homes care for people with complex needs, supporting them to the end of life and are now being seen as the ‘de facto’ hospice. Reflective debriefing for care home staff has been found to help support staff and provide an educative and communicat... Read More about Online Supportive Conversations and Reflection Sessions (OSCaRS): A Feasibility Study with Care Home Staff during the Pandemic.

Object Detection Using Sim2Real Domain Randomization for Robotic Applications (2022)
Journal Article
Horváth, D., Erdős, G., Istenes, Z., Horváth, T., & Földi, S. (2023). Object Detection Using Sim2Real Domain Randomization for Robotic Applications. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 39(2), 1225-1243. https://doi.org/10.1109/tro.2022.3207619

Robots working in unstructured environments must be capable of sensing and interpreting their surroundings. One of the main obstacles of deep-learning-based models in the field of robotics is the lack of domain-specific labeled data for different ind... Read More about Object Detection Using Sim2Real Domain Randomization for Robotic Applications.

Goal Congruence in Place Branding (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Leask, A., & Dinnie, K. (2022, October). Goal Congruence in Place Branding. Paper presented at International Place Branding Association Conference, Aix-en-Provence, France