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Beyond Logarithms & Bones: A short history of John Napier and his legacy (2017)
Book
Seath, G. (2017). Beyond Logarithms & Bones: A short history of John Napier and his legacy. Edinburgh Napier University

The purpose of this book is to provide a very short, historical account of the life and legacy of John Napier (1550-1617) and has been produced in support of a wider programme of activities to commemorate 400 years since his death.

Modeling and analysis of a deep learning pipeline for cloud based video analytics (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yaseen, M. U., Anjum, A., & Antonopoulos, N. (2017, December). Modeling and analysis of a deep learning pipeline for cloud based video analytics. Presented at BDCAT '17: Fourth IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies, Austin, Texas, USA

Video analytics systems based on deep learning approaches are becoming the basis of many widespread applications including smart cities to aid people and traffic monitoring. These systems necessitate massive amounts of labeled data and training time... Read More about Modeling and analysis of a deep learning pipeline for cloud based video analytics.

Journeys to the Edge: Exploring the Dimensions of Tacit Knowledge Sharing in Communities of Practice (2017)
Thesis
Telford, D. Journeys to the Edge: Exploring the Dimensions of Tacit Knowledge Sharing in Communities of Practice. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1248966

Tacit knowledge sharing has featured strongly in knowledge management literature in the last two decades. Knowledge management is an essential component attributed to underpinning organisational success and tacit knowledge sharing contributes directl... Read More about Journeys to the Edge: Exploring the Dimensions of Tacit Knowledge Sharing in Communities of Practice.

Scholarly Publishing, Freedom of Information and Academic Self-Determination: The UNAM-Elsevier Case (2017)
Other
Priego, E., McKiernan, E., Posada, A., Hartley, R., Rodriguez Ortega, N., Fiormonte, D., Gil, A., Logan, C., Alperin, J. P., Mounce, R., Eglen, S. J., Trigueros, E., Lawson, S., Gatto, L., Ramos, A., & Pérez, N. (2017). Scholarly Publishing, Freedom of Information and Academic Self-Determination: The UNAM-Elsevier Case

On February 1, 2015, the global information and analytics corporation Elsevier and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) established the agreement UNAM-Elsevier contract DGAJ-DPI-39-081114-241, which saw the transfer from UNAM to Elsevi... Read More about Scholarly Publishing, Freedom of Information and Academic Self-Determination: The UNAM-Elsevier Case.

The use of reading to improve student transition to university - and build the wider community. A case study within two universities (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Baverstock, A., & Ennis, L. (2017, September). The use of reading to improve student transition to university - and build the wider community. A case study within two universities. Presented at Higher Education Institution Research

This workshop explores how two universities have collaborated to us pre-arrival shared reading to empower learners.

Increasing academic engagement with the research repository – the value of an integrated system (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ramage, L., & Gibson, L. (2017, August). Increasing academic engagement with the research repository – the value of an integrated system. Poster presented at Repository Fringe 2017, University of Edinburgh

In August 2016 Edinburgh Napier rolled out their new end-to-end research management system. This allows academics self-service access to record and manage research information from project creation, costing, and post award management as well as addin... Read More about Increasing academic engagement with the research repository – the value of an integrated system.

Are we there yet? Well...not quite (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gibson, L., Templeton, J., & Ennis, L. (2017, August). Are we there yet? Well...not quite. Poster presented at Repository Fringe 2017

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Against capital (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lawson, S. (2017, June). Against capital. Paper presented at ReCOn, Edinburgh, UK

The ways in which scholars exchange and share their work have evolved through pragmatic responses to the political and economic contexts in which they are embedded. So rather than being designed to fulfil their function in an optimal way, our methods... Read More about Against capital.

Leganto all’Università Napier di Edimburgo (in Inglese) (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ennis, L. (2017, June). Leganto all’Università Napier di Edimburgo (in Inglese). Presented at La prossima generazione dei servizi di biblioteca in Italia

Laura illustrerà come l’Università ila soluzione per le reading list dei corsi Ex Libris Leganto per consentire alla biblioteca di giocare un ruolo centrale nell’apprendimento e nell’insegnamento.

The involvement of the speech production system in prediction during comprehension (2017)
Thesis
Drake, E. The involvement of the speech production system in prediction during comprehension. (Thesis). University of Edinburgh. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1186244

This thesis investigates the effects in speech production of prediction during speech comprehension. The topic is raised by recent theoretical models of speech comprehension, which suggest a more integrated role for speech production and comprehensio... Read More about The involvement of the speech production system in prediction during comprehension.

Implementation of an end-to-end research management system (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ramage, L. (2017, June). Implementation of an end-to-end research management system. Poster presented at ARMA annual conference

In the past 12-18 months we, at Edinburgh Napier University, have implemented an end to end research management system. We have been involved on the development of the research outputs and repository and research profiles with Worktribe Ltd in addit... Read More about Implementation of an end-to-end research management system.

Big data analytics in healthcare: A cloud based framework for generating insights (2017)
Book Chapter
Anjum, A., Aizad, S., Arshad, B., Subhani, M. M., Davies-Tagg, D., Abdullah, T., & Antonopoulos, N. (2017). Big data analytics in healthcare: A cloud based framework for generating insights. In N. Antonopoulos, & L. Gillam (Eds.), Cloud Computing (153-170). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54645-2_6

With exabytes of data being generated from genome sequencing, a whole new science behind genomics big data has emerged. As technology improves, the cost of sequencing a human genome has gone down considerably increasing the number of genomes being se... Read More about Big data analytics in healthcare: A cloud based framework for generating insights.

InOt-RePCoN: Forecasting user behavioural trend in large-scale cloud environments (2017)
Journal Article
Panneerselvam, J., Liu, L., & Antonopoulos, N. (2018). InOt-RePCoN: Forecasting user behavioural trend in large-scale cloud environments. Future Generation Computer Systems, 80, 322-341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2017.05.022

Cloud Computing has emerged as a low cost anywhere anytime computing paradigm. Given the energy consumption characteristics of the Cloud resources, service providers are under immense pressure to reduce the energy implications of the datacentres. For... Read More about InOt-RePCoN: Forecasting user behavioural trend in large-scale cloud environments.

The Digital Library (2017)
Journal Article
Ennis, L. (2017). The Digital Library. Teaching Fellows Journal,

The meteoric rise of the internet has meant that we have access to more information than ever. Our informational lives, and those of our students are complex – fraught with issues of access, immediacy, discoverability, and quality. Increasingly, to b... Read More about The Digital Library.

Efficient service discovery in decentralized online social networks (2017)
Journal Article
Yuan, B., Liu, L., & Antonopoulos, N. (2018). Efficient service discovery in decentralized online social networks. Future Generation Computer Systems, 86, 775-791. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2017.04.022

Online social networks (OSN) have attracted millions of users worldwide over the last decade. There are a series of urgent issues faced by existing OSN such as information overload, single-point of failure and privacy concerns. The booming Internet o... Read More about Efficient service discovery in decentralized online social networks.

Journal subscription expenditure in the UK 2015-16 (v6) (2017)
Data
Lawson, S. (2017). Journal subscription expenditure in the UK 2015-16 (v6). [Data]. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4542433.v6

This dataset contains payments made by UK higher education institutions for access to academic journals from eight publishers in 2015 and 2016. The data was obtained by sending Freedom of Information requests to 153 institutions through the website w... Read More about Journal subscription expenditure in the UK 2015-16 (v6).

Using Ultrasound Speech Imaging to Investigate Within- and Cross-Language Interference in Word Production (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Corley, M., Drake, E., & Knight, S. (2017, May). Using Ultrasound Speech Imaging to Investigate Within- and Cross-Language Interference in Word Production. Presented at Abstraction, Diversity and Speech Dynamics

Much psycholinguistic research into language production focuses on naming latencies: That is the time between the presentation of a stimulus and the recording of the onset of acoustic sound. Motor variability is treated as “noise” by-condition diffe... Read More about Using Ultrasound Speech Imaging to Investigate Within- and Cross-Language Interference in Word Production.