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The ‘Research Repository’ is the open access institutional repository of Edinburgh Napier University. It contains examples of research outputs produced by staff and research students, as well as related information about the university's funded projects and staff research interests.

Whenever possible, refereed documents accepted for publication, or finished artistic compositions presented in public, will be made available here in full digital format, and hyperlinks to standard published versions will be provided. Any questions about submissions to the repository or problems with access to any of its content should be sent to the Repository Team at repository@napier.ac.uk

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The Impact of Minority Status on the Cross-Race Effect: A Critical Review (2025)
Journal Article
Töredi, D., Mansour, J. K., Jones, S. E., Skelton, F., & McIntyre, A. (in press). The Impact of Minority Status on the Cross-Race Effect: A Critical Review. Perspectives on Psychological Science,

Meta-analyses have consistently demonstrated the robustness of the cross-race effect (CRE; i.e., better recognition of same-race faces compared to different-race faces). These analyses have unveiled variations in the dependent variables associated wi... Read More about The Impact of Minority Status on the Cross-Race Effect: A Critical Review.

Plundrarna [Fantomen 10/2025] (2025)
Other
Bishop, D. (2025). Plundrarna [Fantomen 10/2025]. Malmö, Sweden

Siblings Kit and Heloise Walker intervene when scavengers took advantage of lawlessness in post-disaster Bengali.
This 23-page story written by David Bishop was illustrated by Janusz Ordon.

The Freshwater Sounds Archive (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Greenhalgh, J. A., Akmentins, M., Boullhesen, M., Brejao, G. L., Bowman, J. C., Briers, R. A., Campbell, K., Clark, A., Coen, M., Desjonqueres, C., Gaston, S., Gottesman, B. L., Jones, I. T., Lahoz-Monfort, J. J., Lindsay, E., Rodriguez, F. M., Navarrete-Mier, F., Norton, M., Las Casas e Novaes, M. C., Okazaki, S., …Looby, A. (2025). The Freshwater Sounds Archive

Freshwater ecosystems are full of underwater sounds produced by amphibians, aquatic arthropods, reptiles, plants, fishes, and methane bubbles escaping from the sediment. Although much headway has been made in recent years investigating the overall so... Read More about The Freshwater Sounds Archive.

A dynamic integrative view of signaling strategies during the franchisee recruitment process (2025)
Journal Article
Le Bot, C., Perrigot, R., Watson, A., & Cliquet, G. (2025). A dynamic integrative view of signaling strategies during the franchisee recruitment process. Industrial Marketing Management, 127, 133-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2025.04.002

During the franchisee recruitment process, franchisors and franchisee candidates must both engage and screen each other to determine whether they are a suitable match. To facilitate this, they usually exchange a number of signals that reduce informat... Read More about A dynamic integrative view of signaling strategies during the franchisee recruitment process.

A Framework for Speech Enhancement based on Audio Signal and Speaker Embeddings (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nazemi, A., Sami, A., Sami, M., & Hussain, A. (2024, September). A Framework for Speech Enhancement based on Audio Signal and Speaker Embeddings. Presented at 3rd COG-MHEAR Workshop on Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement (AVSEC), Kos Island, Greece

This study addresses the challenge of speech enhancement within an audio-only context. Our proposed framework extracts speaker embeddings and voice signals, subsequently integrating these components to synthesise a voice based on the extracted data.... Read More about A Framework for Speech Enhancement based on Audio Signal and Speaker Embeddings.

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