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A rose is a rose is a rose: even in YA SFF (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Freestone, P. (2021, December). A rose is a rose is a rose: even in YA SFF. Paper presented at Concepts in Popular Genre Fiction Symposium, Deakin University / Online

The rose has been valued, revered, and infused with meaning across time and cultures—from the earliest chemists to appear in the historical record to today's mass-market perfumes, from the religious festivals of ancient Rome to the works of the Roman... Read More about A rose is a rose is a rose: even in YA SFF.

Improved Group-Based Signaling Scheme for Mobile Nodes in the Internet of Things Networks (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ghaleb, S. M., Man, M., Ghaleb, B., Aplop, F., Ghaleb, M., & Al-Hadi, I. A. A. (2021, April). Improved Group-Based Signaling Scheme for Mobile Nodes in the Internet of Things Networks. Presented at ICETIS: International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Intelligent Systems, Online

One of the most important challenge in the mobility management protocols is maintaining the MN’s IP connectivity and its accessibility during its movement. Although mobility protocols have come a long way in solving this issue in IP-WSNs, they still... Read More about Improved Group-Based Signaling Scheme for Mobile Nodes in the Internet of Things Networks.

The new normal: The role of B2B Sales in Supply chain and logistics strategy (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mackenzie, C. (2021, December). The new normal: The role of B2B Sales in Supply chain and logistics strategy. Presented at ISAC, Online

The Role of B2B Sales in Supply chain and Logistics strategy- A talk given at the opening of the Indonesian Sales competition. This talk illustrated the importance position of 'sales strategy', its key components and discussed two pieces of resear... Read More about The new normal: The role of B2B Sales in Supply chain and logistics strategy.

An RPL based Optimal Sensors placement in Pipeline Monitoring WSNs (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wadhaj, I., Thomson, C., & Ghaleb, B. (2021, June). An RPL based Optimal Sensors placement in Pipeline Monitoring WSNs. Presented at International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Intelligent Systems (ICETIS 2021), Online

Compared to an ordinary sensor network, Linear Sensor Networks (LSNs) has many applications in a number of areas such as surveillance and monitoring of international boundaries for illegal crossing, river environment monitoring and roads monitoring e... Read More about An RPL based Optimal Sensors placement in Pipeline Monitoring WSNs.

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) in Oil and Gas Industry: Applications, Requirements and Existing Solutions (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wadhaj, I., Ghaleb, B., & Thomson, C. (2021, June). Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) in Oil and Gas Industry: Applications, Requirements and Existing Solutions. Presented at International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Intelligent Systems (ICETIS 2021), Online

Effective measurement and monitoring of certain parameters (temperature, pressure, flow etc.) is crucial for the safety and optimization of processes in the Oil and Gas Industry. Wired sensors have been extensively utilized for this purpose but are c... Read More about Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) in Oil and Gas Industry: Applications, Requirements and Existing Solutions.

Collaborating with the Cities can B Movement: The case of Edinburgh can B (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Weaver, M., & Tan, H. (2021, December). Collaborating with the Cities can B Movement: The case of Edinburgh can B. Presented at 2021 B Academics Global Community of Practice Conversations, Online

The 2021 B Academics Global Community of Practice Conversations was focused on collaborative experiences in research, teaching and practice. The event showcases how academics and organizations can collaborate and create value, contributing to the tra... Read More about Collaborating with the Cities can B Movement: The case of Edinburgh can B.

Queer Politics of Post-Enlightenment (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2021, December). Queer Politics of Post-Enlightenment. Presented at Working transnationally beyond comparative hierarchies: Exploring relationalities, solidarities and changing conditions in transnational research and pedagogies, Lund University, Sweden

This invited presentation reflected on the contemporary queer studies and the geo-temporal ‘unsettlement’ of Central and Eastern Europe in the occidental (and occidentalist) imaginary. Dr Kulpa pointed to the uncanny possibilities for queer studi... Read More about Queer Politics of Post-Enlightenment.

‘Are we criminals?’ Encounters with accommodation providers and everyday housing experiences amongst asylum seekers living in Glasgow during the pandemic (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Guma, T., Blake, Y., Maclean, G., MacLeod, K., Sharapov, K., & Makutsa, R. (2021, December). ‘Are we criminals?’ Encounters with accommodation providers and everyday housing experiences amongst asylum seekers living in Glasgow during the pandemic. Paper presented at Refugee Borders and Home-making, Barcelona

This paper addresses these gaps in our knowledge. It draws from TEMPACCO research project (https://tempacco.wordpress.com/), which is an ongoing 12-month digital collaborative ethnography carried out with asylum seekers living in Glasgow. The project... Read More about ‘Are we criminals?’ Encounters with accommodation providers and everyday housing experiences amongst asylum seekers living in Glasgow during the pandemic.

What happens if you treat ordinal ratings as interval data? Human evaluations in {NLP} are even more under-powered than you think (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Howcroft, D. M., & Rieser, V. (2021, November). What happens if you treat ordinal ratings as interval data? Human evaluations in {NLP} are even more under-powered than you think. Presented at 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Previous work has shown that human evaluations in NLP are notoriously under-powered. Here, we argue that there are two common factors which make this problem even worse: NLP studies usually (a) treat ordinal data as interval data and (b) operate unde... Read More about What happens if you treat ordinal ratings as interval data? Human evaluations in {NLP} are even more under-powered than you think.

CAPE: Context-Aware Private Embeddings for Private Language Learning (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Plant, R., Gkatzia, D., & Giuffrida, V. (2021). CAPE: Context-Aware Private Embeddings for Private Language Learning. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (7970-7978)

Neural language models have contributed to state-of-the-art results in a number of downstream applications including sentiment analysis, intent classification and others. However, obtaining text representations or embeddings using these models risks... Read More about CAPE: Context-Aware Private Embeddings for Private Language Learning.

The role of environmental regulation of the home country in enhancing innovation performance of Chinese EMNEs (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Du, Q., Li, Z., Yang, T., Du, M., & Chen, S. (2021, November). The role of environmental regulation of the home country in enhancing innovation performance of Chinese EMNEs. Presented at International Congress of Energy, Economy and Security (ENSCON '21), Istanbul, Turkey

EMNEs pursuing for innovation performance via internationalization could be affected by the environmental regulation within a global sustainable development context. Building on the institution-based view, we study how external environmental regulati... Read More about The role of environmental regulation of the home country in enhancing innovation performance of Chinese EMNEs.

Correlation among oil price, stock returns and country risks: an empirical analysis based on 31 countries (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yang, T., Dong, Q., Du, M., & Du, Q. (2021). Correlation among oil price, stock returns and country risks: an empirical analysis based on 31 countries. In International Congress of Energy, Economy and Security: Proceedings Book (2-23)

Existing studies have purely paid attention to the relationship between oil price and stock returns or the relationship between oil price and country risks; however, simultaneous correlations among the three are highly neglected. Using monthly panel... Read More about Correlation among oil price, stock returns and country risks: an empirical analysis based on 31 countries.

The impact of inclusive finance on carbon dioxide emissions: evidence from China's provincial regions (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yang, T., Zhou, F., Du, M., & Du, Q. (2021, November). The impact of inclusive finance on carbon dioxide emissions: evidence from China's provincial regions. Presented at International Congress of Energy, Economy and Security (ENSCON '21), Istanbul, Turkey

Previous studies have not paid close attention to the effects of inclusive finance on carbon dioxide emissions. Setting research context in China with its rapid development in inclusive finance and pressing target of carbon dioxide neutrality, this p... Read More about The impact of inclusive finance on carbon dioxide emissions: evidence from China's provincial regions.

Impacts of alternative energy production innovation on reduction of carbon dioxide emissions: evidence from China (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yang, T., Li, F., Du, M., & Li, Y. (2021, November). Impacts of alternative energy production innovation on reduction of carbon dioxide emissions: evidence from China. Presented at International Congress of Energy, Economy and Security (ENSCON), Istanbul, Turkey

Though the impacts of green innovation on reduction of carbon dioxide emissions have been an important topic for research on environmental economics, the previous studies ignore heterogeneity of the green innovation and how it might affect the carbon... Read More about Impacts of alternative energy production innovation on reduction of carbon dioxide emissions: evidence from China.

The influence of training volume on training and match injury risk in elite Scottish rugby union players (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Paul, C., Campbell, T., Yule, S., Walsh, J., Martindale, R., & Palmer, D. (2021, November). The influence of training volume on training and match injury risk in elite Scottish rugby union players. Poster presented at IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury & Illness in Sport, Monaco

BACKGROUND Training volume has been shown to influence injury risk in elite Rugby Union players. OBJECTIVE To investigate the influence of training volume on injury risk in elite Scottish Rugby Union players. DESIGN A prospective, observational... Read More about The influence of training volume on training and match injury risk in elite Scottish rugby union players.

Time-Series in Hyper-parameter Initialization of Machine Learning Techniques (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Horváth, T., Mantovani, R. G., & de Carvalho, A. C. P. L. F. (2021, November). Time-Series in Hyper-parameter Initialization of Machine Learning Techniques. Presented at 22nd International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL2021), Manchester

Initializing the hyper-parameters (HPs) of machine learning (ML) techniques became an important step in the area of automated ML (AutoML). The main premise in HP initialization is that a HP setting that performs well for a certain dataset(s) will als... Read More about Time-Series in Hyper-parameter Initialization of Machine Learning Techniques.