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Maintaining privacy for a recommender system diagnosis using blockchain and deep learning. (2023)
Journal Article
MANTEY, E.A., ZHOU, C., MANI, V., ARTHUR, J.K. and IBEKE, E. 2023. Maintaining privacy for a recommender system diagnosis using blockchain and deep learning. Human-centric computing and information science [online], 13, article number 47. Available from: https://doi.org/10.22967/HCIS.2023.13.047

The healthcare sector has been revolutionized by Blockchain and AI technologies. Artificial intelligence uses algorithms, recommender systems, decision-making abilities, and big data to display a patient's health records using blockchain. Healthcare... Read More about Maintaining privacy for a recommender system diagnosis using blockchain and deep learning..

Maddie is online. (2023)
Presentation / Conference
MARTZOUKOU, K. 2023. Maddie is online. Presented at the 2023 Aberdeen Business School women entrepreneurship week (ABS WEW 2023), 30 October - 3 November 2023, Aberdeen, UK.

This poster presents Dr. Konstantina Martzoukou's perspective on incorporating entrepreneurship into her teaching and research practice. It uses the "Maddie is Online" project as an example of how Dr. Martzoukou has achieved this.

Information and digital literacy for primary education: diagnosis of needs and challenges. (2023)
Presentation / Conference
SALES, D., MARTZOUKOU, K., GOLDSTEIN, S., PAVEY, S., HIRVONEN, N., SARAN, M. and ŞENCAN, İ. 2023. Information and digital literacy for primary education: diagnosis of needs and challenges. Panel presented at the 2023 European conference on information literacy (ECIL 2023), 9-12 October 2023, Krakow, Poland.

The aftermath of the crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic - and the dangerous infodemic that has emerged in parallel - has made the importance of fostering information literacy even more evident. Information literacy is fundamental in all ages t... Read More about Information and digital literacy for primary education: diagnosis of needs and challenges..

BRIDGE project: information and digital literacy at primary school. (2023)
Presentation / Conference
SALES, D., KURBANOĞLU, S., KOSTAGIOLAS, P., MARTZOUKOU, K., GOLDSTEIN, S., PAVEY, S., HIRVONEN, N., AKKOYUNLU, B., MURAT, S., ANTONIAZZI, A., MORELLI, M. and ŞENCAN, İ. 2023. BRIDGE project: information and digital literacy at primary school. Presented at the 2023 European conference on information literacy (ECIL 2023), 9-12 October 2023, Krakow, Poland.

This poster describes the BRIDGE project ("Information and Digital Literacy at School: A Bridge to Support Critical Thinking and Equality Values for Primary Education Using Children's Literature and Transmedia"), which aims to review current legislat... Read More about BRIDGE project: information and digital literacy at primary school..

Maddie is online: embedding creative audio-visual resources to the teaching of information literacy in an elementary school in Greece. (2023)
Presentation / Conference
MARTZOUKOU, K. and TRAMANTZA, E. 2023. Maddie is online: embedding creative audio-visual resources to the teaching of information literacy in an elementary school in Greece. Presented at the 2023 European conference on information literacy (ECIL 2023), 9-12 October 2023, Krakow, Poland.

There is a growing need to design creative teaching methods for early in the school curriculum to empower children with information literacy (IL) skills. This will prepare them for battling mis/disinformation, so that they can be safe, understand the... Read More about Maddie is online: embedding creative audio-visual resources to the teaching of information literacy in an elementary school in Greece..

A critical evaluation of the impact coaching and mentoring has on the walking spinal community's behavioural change and motivations to being physically active. (2023)
Thesis
FOWLER, G. 2023. A critical evaluation of the impact coaching and mentoring has on the walking spinal community's behavioural change and motivations to being physically active. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-2270792

This study explores the impact coaching and mentoring have on the Walking Spinal Community's (WSC) behavioural change and motivations to being physically active. A sub-set of the spinal community, this specific population is partly overlooked due to... Read More about A critical evaluation of the impact coaching and mentoring has on the walking spinal community's behavioural change and motivations to being physically active..

The information behaviour of Nigerian digital entrepreneurs: idea generation in start-up businesses. (2023)
Thesis
IBRAHIM, M.S. 2023. The information behaviour of Nigerian digital entrepreneurs: idea generation in start-up businesses. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-2270830

Though a wealth of research on information behaviour has been undertaken in a variety of contexts over the years, less has been done on entrepreneurship. In particular, there is a lack of literature around the ideation or business idea generation com... Read More about The information behaviour of Nigerian digital entrepreneurs: idea generation in start-up businesses..

Leisure myths and mythmaking. (2023)
Journal Article
IRONSIDE, R. 2023. Leisure myths and mythmaking. World leisure journal [online], Latest Articles. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/16078055.2023.2261407

This is a book review of 'Leisure myths and mythmaking', which is an insightful collection of essays which address the "absence presence" of myth and mythmaking in leisure studies.

Bibliometric analysis of scientific literature on mental health research in Africa. (2023)
Conference Proceeding
EGWUOGU, C., IBEKE, E., CHAURASIA, P., IWENDI, C. and BOULOUARD, Z. 2023. Bibliometric analysis of scientific literature on mental health research in Africa. In Iwendi, C., Boulouard, Z. and Kryvinska, N. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2023 International conference on advances in communication technology and computer engineering (ICACTCE'23): new artificial intelligence and the Internet of things based perspective and solutions, 23-24 February 2023, Bolton UK. Lecture notes in networks and systems, 735. Cham: Springer [online], pages 469-489. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37164-6_35

This bibliometric study presents a comprehensive summary of literature published on mental health research in Africa. The region has a large number of scientific studies conducted in this area. The purpose of this study was to investigate the contrib... Read More about Bibliometric analysis of scientific literature on mental health research in Africa..

COVID-19 in the UK: sentiment and emotion analysis of Tweets over time. (2023)
Conference Proceeding
AMUJO, O., IBEKE, E., IWENDI, C. and BOULOUARD, Z. 2023. COVID-19 in the UK: sentiment and emotion analysis of Tweets over time. In Iwendi, C., Boulouard, Z. and Kryvinska, N. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2023 International conference on advances in communication technology and computer engineering (ICACTE'23): new artificial intelligence and the Internet of things based perspective and solutions, 23-24 February 2023, Bolton UK. Lecture notes in networks and systems, 735. Cham: Springer [online], pages 519-535. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37164-6_38

We performed an analysis of tweets concerning the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK over a two-year period, selecting fifteen timelines. Over 110,000 tweets were obtained from Twitter and analysed using BERT and Text2Emotions for sentiment and emotion anal... Read More about COVID-19 in the UK: sentiment and emotion analysis of Tweets over time..

A novel and innovative blockchain-empowered federated learning approach for secure data sharing in smart city applications. (2023)
Conference Proceeding
HAI, T., WANG, D., SEETHARAMAN, T., AMELESH, M, SREEJITH, P.M., SHARMA, V., IBEKE, E. and LIU, H. 2023. A novel and innovative blockchain-empowered federated learning approach for secure data sharing in smart city applications. In Iwendi, C., Boulouard, Z. and Kryvinska, N. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2023 International conference on advances in communication technology and computer engineering (ICACTCE'23): new artificial intelligence and the Internet of things based perspective and solutions, 23-24 February 2023, Bolton UK. Lecture notes in networks and systems, 735. Cham: Springer [online], pages 105-118. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37164-6_9

The very existence of smart cities forms the stepping stone in the evolution of many technological advancements in the future era. While smart cities have already grown in their way, the tremendous amount of data generated from them paves the way for... Read More about A novel and innovative blockchain-empowered federated learning approach for secure data sharing in smart city applications..

Towards expert systems for improved customer services using ChatGPT as an inference engine. (2023)
Conference Proceeding
EZENKWU, C.P. 2023. Towards expert systems for improved customer services using ChatGPT as an inference engine. In Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE (Institute of electrical and Electronics Engineers) International conference on digital applications, transformation and economy (ICDATE 2023), 14-16 July 2023, Miri, Malaysia, article 10248647. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDATE58146.2023.10248647

By harnessing both implicit and explicit customer data, companies can develop a more comprehensive understanding of their consumers, leading to better customer engagement and experience, and improved loyalty. As a result, businesses have embraced man... Read More about Towards expert systems for improved customer services using ChatGPT as an inference engine..

Join the coalition: collective action spaces in pioneer journalism and the reimagination of journalistic epistemology. (2023)
Presentation / Conference
ANDERSON, B. 2023. Join the coalition: collective action spaces in pioneer journalism and the reimagination of journalistic epistemology. Presented at the 9th Future of journalism conference 2023: journalism in troubled times: threats, opportunities and research, 14-15 September 2023, Cardiff, UK

The aim of this project is to examine how transformation-focused journalism communities produce knowledge vis-à-vis their audiences, public and wider world. This will be carried out by metajournalistic discourse analysis, 30 semi-structured interview... Read More about Join the coalition: collective action spaces in pioneer journalism and the reimagination of journalistic epistemology..

A better future: people power and collective action spaces in global pioneer journalism. (2023)
Presentation / Conference
ANDERSON, B. 2023. A better future: people power and collective action spaces in global pioneer journalism. Presented at the 2023 MeCCSA (Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association) conference (MeCCSA 2023): connected futures, 4-6 September 2023, Glasgow, UK.

The aim of this project is to examine how transformation-focused journalism communities produce knowledge in relation to their audiences, public and wider world.

Developing an understanding of the relationships between organisational learning and performance measurement systems: the case of Frankfurt airport. (2023)
Thesis
EWIG, J.R. 2023. Developing an understanding of the relationships between organisational learning and performance measurement systems: the case of Frankfurt airport. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-2270769

The aim of this research was to develop a comprehensive perspective of both the breadth and depth of the relationships between organisational learning (OL) and performance measurement systems (PMS), theoretically and practically, within the context o... Read More about Developing an understanding of the relationships between organisational learning and performance measurement systems: the case of Frankfurt airport..

Enhancing the drilling efficiency through the application of machine learning and optimization algorithm. (2023)
Journal Article
BOUKREDERA, F.S., YOUCEFI, M.R., HADJADJ, A., EZENKWU, C.P., VAZIRI, V. and APHALE, S.S. 2023. Enhancing the drilling efficiency through the application of machine learning and optimization algorithm. Engineering applications of artificial intelligence [online], 126(part C), article 107035. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2023.107035

This article presents a novel Artificial Intelligence (AI) workflow to enhance drilling performance by mitigating the adverse impact of drill-string vibrations on drilling efficiency. The study employs three supervised machine learning (ML) algorithm... Read More about Enhancing the drilling efficiency through the application of machine learning and optimization algorithm..

The impact of COVID-19 on partnerships between police and GBV service providers in remote, rural and island communities in Scotland. (2023)
Report
PEDERSEN, S., MUELLER-HIRTH, N. and MILLER, L. 2023. The impact of COVID-19 on partnerships between police and GBV service providers in remote, rural and island communities in Scotland. Aberdeen: Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR). Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/2049031

Domestic abuse and violence in rural, remote and island locations tends to be underestimated and the unique experiences of women and girls from rural communities are rarely captured in domestic abuse scholarship. Moreover, rural, remote and island co... Read More about The impact of COVID-19 on partnerships between police and GBV service providers in remote, rural and island communities in Scotland..

The memorial afterlives of online crowdsourcing: "Lives of the First World War" at Imperial War Museums. (2023)
Journal Article
FOSTER, A.-M. and WALLIS, J. 2023. The memorial afterlives of online crowdsourcing: "Lives of the First World War" at Imperial War Museums. Public history review [online], 30, pages 89-104. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5130/phrj.v30i0.8048

From May 2014 to March 2019 the Imperial War Museums launched a large-scale digital crowdsourcing project, 'Lives of the First World War'. 'Lives' melded official and unofficial datasets to create an integrated database of people who had participated... Read More about The memorial afterlives of online crowdsourcing: "Lives of the First World War" at Imperial War Museums..

Partnerships between police and GBV service providers in remote, rural and island communities in northern Scotland before and during COVID-19. (2023)
Journal Article
PEDERSEN, S., MUELLER-HIRTH, N. and MILLER, L. 2023. Partnerships between police and GBV service providers in remote, rural and island communities in northern Scotland before and during COVID-19. Policing [online], 17, Advanced Articles. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paad045

COVID-19 exacerbated challenges that already existed in the policing of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in remote and rural northern Scotland. Victims' direct access to the police and third-sector organisations was impeded by social distancing while the... Read More about Partnerships between police and GBV service providers in remote, rural and island communities in northern Scotland before and during COVID-19..

A cross-sectional study of discipline-based self-perceived digital literacy competencies of nursing students. (2023)
Journal Article
MARTZOUKOU, K., LUDERS, E.S., MAIR, J., KOSTAGIOLAS, P., JOHNSON, N., WORK, F. and FULTON, C. 2023. A cross-sectional study of discipline-based self-perceived digital literacy competencies of nursing students. Journal of advanced nursing [online], Online First. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.15801

This study offers an empirical exploration of self-assessed digital competencies of students, most of whom studied in nursing courses, using a discipline-based self-assessment survey tool. A range of digital competencies were explored: information an... Read More about A cross-sectional study of discipline-based self-perceived digital literacy competencies of nursing students..