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IYOLO-FAM: Improved YOLOv8 with feature attention mechanism for cow behaviour detection (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We introduced IYOLO-FAM (Improved YOLOv8 with Feature Attention Mechanism) for detecting cow behaviours. By leveraging the robust YOLOv8 architecture improved with Feature Attention Mechanisms (FAM), Squeeze-and-Excitation (SE) blocks and data augmen... Read More about IYOLO-FAM: Improved YOLOv8 with feature attention mechanism for cow behaviour detection.

Revisiting sample bias in the UK's Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, with implications for estimates of low pay and the bite of the National Living Wage (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) is based on an annual one per cent sample of employee jobs and provides many of the UK’s official earnings statistics. These statistics are generated using official weights designed to make the achieved... Read More about Revisiting sample bias in the UK's Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, with implications for estimates of low pay and the bite of the National Living Wage.

An anodic stripping voltammetric approach for total mercury determination in sea sponges from the Niger Delta region of Nigeria (2024)
Journal Article

Mercury pollution from ongoing crude oil refining and waste disposal activities threatens aquatic ecosystems and human health in the Niger Delta. Mercury monitoring exercise in this region is challenging due to the high cost of traditional instrument... Read More about An anodic stripping voltammetric approach for total mercury determination in sea sponges from the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

What lessons can be learnt from America’s use of competition law in the enforcement of financial crime? (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter focusses on the United States of America (US)’s approach to the enforcement of financial crime. In particular, the use by regulators in the US of competition law to enforce financial crimes such as market manipulation will be examined an... Read More about What lessons can be learnt from America’s use of competition law in the enforcement of financial crime?.

Evaluation and future perspectives on "Anthro-Hand" (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Inspired by nature's evolutionary marvels, this study explores the development of a novel bio-mimetic prosthetic hand, emphasizing a soft robotic approach. Through a meticulous review of various prosthetic designs, focusing on actuation and construct... Read More about Evaluation and future perspectives on "Anthro-Hand".

Improving search space analysis of fuzzing mutators using cryptographic structures (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper introduces a novel approach to enhance the performance of software fuzzing mutator tools, by leveraging cryptographic structures known as substitution-permutation networks and Feistel networks. By integrating these structures into the exis... Read More about Improving search space analysis of fuzzing mutators using cryptographic structures.

Evaluating data distribution strategies in federated learning: A trade-off analysis between privacy and performance for IoT security (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Federated learning is an effective approach for training a global machine learning model. It uses locally acquired data without having to share local data with the centralised server. This method provides a machine learning model beneficial for all p... Read More about Evaluating data distribution strategies in federated learning: A trade-off analysis between privacy and performance for IoT security.

Submission to inform Chile Declaration and Action Plan in the context of the Cartagena +40 multi-stakeholder pledge (2024)
Report

Women in Refugee Law (WiRL)'s submission regarding the particular challenges that women refugees face in the Latin America and Caribbean region aims to inform the Cartagena +40 process and next ten-year action plan.

WiRL’s submission identified tw... Read More about Submission to inform Chile Declaration and Action Plan in the context of the Cartagena +40 multi-stakeholder pledge.

“Sacred intimacies”: Sexual ambiguity and performance in My Favorite Wife (1940) (2024)
Journal Article

My Favorite Wife (1940) exemplifies the more “sex suggestive” style of screwball comedy in the late 1930s, posing significant problems for the Production Code Administration (PCA). Strategies for handling taboo content onscreen depended on ambiguity,... Read More about “Sacred intimacies”: Sexual ambiguity and performance in My Favorite Wife (1940).

A novel hybrid framework for realistic UAV detection using a mixed RF signal database (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) empower a plethora of applications but also raise significant security and privacy challenges. Effective UAVs detection systems are crucial for mitigating these risks. This paper deals with this problem and... Read More about A novel hybrid framework for realistic UAV detection using a mixed RF signal database.

"How can you think about losing your mind?": A reflexive thematic analysis of adapting the LivDem group intervention for couples and families living with dementia (2024)
Journal Article

Introduction: Despite the psychological challenges that dementia creates, comparatively little attention has been paid to how individuals or families can be helped to adjust to dementia. One of the few interventions to do this is the Living well with... Read More about "How can you think about losing your mind?": A reflexive thematic analysis of adapting the LivDem group intervention for couples and families living with dementia.

“How can you think about losing your mind?”: A reflexive thematic analysis of adapting the LivDem group intervention for couples and families living with dementia (2024)
Journal Article

Introduction
Despite the psychological challenges that dementia creates, comparatively little attention has been paid to how individuals or families can be helped to adjust to dementia. One of the few interventions to do this is the Living well with... Read More about “How can you think about losing your mind?”: A reflexive thematic analysis of adapting the LivDem group intervention for couples and families living with dementia.

The language of assessment: Identifying challenging terminology for students and exploring implications for practice (2024)
Journal Article

Many interventions have been developed by staff to support students in understanding assessment task requirements and summative and formative feedback. However, to various extents, these approaches assume a shared understanding of the, often indeterm... Read More about The language of assessment: Identifying challenging terminology for students and exploring implications for practice.

Participatory backcasting towards desirable co-produced mobility futures: A case study of MaaS in Greater Manchester (2024)
Journal Article

Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) has emerged as a model supported by popular discourse on achieving greener, more efficient and equitable future mobility. While technological change is a primary driver for models of development, the policy pathways, impl... Read More about Participatory backcasting towards desirable co-produced mobility futures: A case study of MaaS in Greater Manchester.

“You just can’t do that in dementia care”: Barriers to partnership working within dementia services for people from South Asian communities (2024)
Journal Article

Background: People from South Asian communities are under-represented at all levels of dementia services. Consequently, there is pressure for the statutory sector to deliver services in partnership with Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterpri... Read More about “You just can’t do that in dementia care”: Barriers to partnership working within dementia services for people from South Asian communities.

The statbarn: A new model for output statistical disclosure control (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A major success for research this century has been the growth of secure facilities allowing research access to detailed sensitive personal data. This has also raised awareness of the problem of output disclosure risk, where statistics may inadvertent... Read More about The statbarn: A new model for output statistical disclosure control.

Cognitive Multisensory Rehabilitation, a novel approach for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: Case series (2024)
Journal Article

Effective treatment for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), a chronic pain condition, is challenging. Cognitive Multisensory Rehabilitation (CMR) is a cognitive and sensorimotor treatment approach aimed at restoring function that targets cognitive... Read More about Cognitive Multisensory Rehabilitation, a novel approach for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: Case series.

Video gaming and sleep in adults: A systematic review (2024)
Journal Article

Video games (VGs) are one of the most common forms of entertainment and their diffusion is constantly increasing. Although largely studied in the framework of their relationship with mental and physical health, the relationship of VGs with sleep are... Read More about Video gaming and sleep in adults: A systematic review.

The value of cross-sector dialogue within tertiary education: Lessons from QAA Scotland’s June 2024 Symposium (2024)
Digital Artefact

On 11th June, we attended a symposium in Glasgow hosted by QAA Scotland, titled ‘Addressing the Anxiety of Assessment in an AI World’. The event explored the landscape of assessment in tertiary education, featuring talks, workshops, and keynote addre... Read More about The value of cross-sector dialogue within tertiary education: Lessons from QAA Scotland’s June 2024 Symposium.

Analyst-driven XAI for time series forecasting: Analytics for telecoms maintenance (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Time series forecasting facilitates real-time anomaly detection in telecom networks, predicting events that disrupt security and service. Current research efforts have been found to focus on new forecasting libraries, more rigorous data cleaning meth... Read More about Analyst-driven XAI for time series forecasting: Analytics for telecoms maintenance.