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Maddie is online. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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.

Smart meter data-driven voltage forecasting model for a real distribution network based on SCO-MLP. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
DOKUR, E., SENGOR, I., ERDOGAN, N., YUZGEC, U. and HAYES, B.P. 2023. Smart meter data-driven voltage forecasting model for a real distribution network based on SCO-MLP. In Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE PES (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Power and Energy Society) Innovative smart grid technologies conference Europe (2023 IEEE PES ISGT Europe): powering solutions for decarbonized and resilient future smartgrids, 23-26 October 2023, Grenoble, France. Piscataway: IEEE [online], 10408345. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEUROPE56780.2023.10408345

Advanced metering infrastructure like smart meter technology has enabled the collection of high-resolution data on voltage, active, and reactive power consumption from end-users in real-time. This paper introduces a new machine learning model, named... Read More about Smart meter data-driven voltage forecasting model for a real distribution network based on SCO-MLP..

Judex: hope for the hopeful and the hopeless. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HARPER, L., EGBEWOLE, W. and CHRISTODOULIDIS, E. 2023. Judex: hope for the hopeful and the hopeless. Presented at the 3rd Cross-cultural conversation of the Interdisciplinary Forum for the Study of Jurisprudence and Value Inquiry in the Non-Western World (JVI), 25 October 2023, Aberdeen, UK.

This seminar was the third meeting or cross-cultural conversation (CCC) organised by the Interdisciplinary Forum for the Study of Jurisprudence and Value Inquiry in the Non-Western World (JVI), convened by Olufemi Ilesanmi. This particular event, mod... Read More about Judex: hope for the hopeful and the hopeless..

A study exploring public opinion and attitudes towards being vaccinated in a community pharmacy. [SIFaCT Poster] (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ZERBINATO, F. and TONNA, A. 2023. A study exploring public opinion and attitudes towards being vaccinated in a community pharmacy. Presented at 11th SIFaCT (Italian Society of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics) national congress 2023, 19-21 October 2023, Verona, Italy.

This poster described a small-scale study exploring the public opinion and attitudes towards being vaccinated in a community pharmacy in the Veneto region of Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fuzzy logic, edge enabled underwater video surveillance through partially wireless optical communication. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
STEWART, C., FOUGH, N. and PRABHU, R. 2023. Fuzzy logic, edge enabled underwater video surveillance through partially wireless optical communication. In Bouma, H., Dijk, J., Prabhu, R., Stokes, R.J. and Yitzhaky, Y. (eds.) Artificial intelligence for security and defence applications: proceedings of the 2023 SPIE joint Remote sensing and Security + defence conference (SPIE Sensor + Imaging 2023), 3-7 September 2023, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Proceedings of SPIE, 12742. Bellingham, WA: SPIE [online], paper 127420A. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2685278

Underwater surveillance is inherently tricky to achieve. Even in the clearest waters, the visibility tends to be in the range of tens of meters. Normally, tethered Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) with underwater cameras are used for underwater imag... Read More about Fuzzy logic, edge enabled underwater video surveillance through partially wireless optical communication..

Vision based relative position estimation in surgical robotics. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MUTHUKRISHNAN, R., KANNAN, S., PRABHU, R., ZHAO, Y., BHOWMICK, P. and HASAN, M.J. 2023. Vision based relative position estimation in surgical robotics. In Proceedings of the 2023 Network, multimedia and information technology international conference (NMITCON 2023), 1-2 September 2023, Bengaluru, India. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article number 10275973. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/NMITCON58196.2023.10275973

Teleoperation-based Robotic-Assisted Minimally In-vasive Surgery (RAMIS) has gained immense popularity in medical field. However, limited physical interaction between the surgeon and patient poses a significant challenge. In RAMIS, the surgeon operat... Read More about Vision based relative position estimation in surgical robotics..

The Illegal Migration Act 2023: an unlawful affront to justice. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MANTE, J. and ARNELL, P. 2023. The Illegal Migration Act 2023: an unlawful affront to justice. Presented at the October 2023 Law School webinar, 11 October 2023, [virtual event]. Hosted on YouTube [online]. Available from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YATnx5A6FQs

In this webinar Paul Arnell and Joseph Mante (both affiliated the Robert Gordon University) discuss the Illegal Migration Act 2023 and its implications. The latest attempt to address to flow of persons arriving on the shores of England from France i... Read More about The Illegal Migration Act 2023: an unlawful affront to justice..

Supporting undergraduate engineering student mental health. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
WILSON, S., JENSEN, K. and TAIT, J.-A. 2023. Supporting undergraduate engineering student mental health. In Proceedings of the 51st Annual conference of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI 2023): engineering education for sustainability: reflecting on the role of engineering and technology education for a sustainable world, 11-14 September 2023, Dublin, Ireland. Dublin: TU Dublin [online], pages 3284-3291. Available from: https://doi.org/10.21427/MATP-QP66

The culture within engineering education can lead to the normalization of stress, which has the potential to impact student mental health. In particular, there have been reports on the perceived stress of the engineering education environment, percei... Read More about Supporting undergraduate engineering student mental health..

Information and digital literacy for primary education: diagnosis of needs and challenges. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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 Contribution
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 Contribution
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..

Influence of the training set composition on the estimation performance of linear ECG-lead transformations. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
GULDENRING, D., FINLAY, D.D., BOND, R.R., KENNEDY, A., DOGGART, P., JANJUA, G. and MCLAUGHLIN, J. 2023. Influence of the training set composition on the estimation performance of linear ECG-lead transformations. In Proceedings of the 50th Computing in cardiology 2023 (CinC 2023), 1-4 October 2023, Atlanta, GA, USA. Piscataway: IEEE/CinC [online], 50, article number 263. Available from: https://doi.org/10.22489/CinC.2023.263

Linear ECG-lead transformations (LELTs) are used to estimate unrecorded target leads by applying a number of recorded basis leads to a LELT matrix. Such LELT matrices are commonly developed using training datasets that are composed of ECGs that belon... Read More about Influence of the training set composition on the estimation performance of linear ECG-lead transformations..

Female entrepreneurship in Nigeria and access to finance: a comparative study. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ONOSHAKPOR, C., CUNNINGHAM, J. and GAMMIE, E. 2022. Female entrepreneurship in Nigeria and access to finance: a comparative study. In Proceedings of 36th British Academy of Management conference 2022 (BAM 2022): reimagining business and management as a force for good, 31 August - 2 September 2022, Manchester, UK. London: British Academy of Management [online]. To be available from: https://www.bam.ac.uk/conference-proceedings.html

Our aim is to better understand access to finance and its role in the development of female-run enterprises in Nigeria. In such a way, we can better understand the gendered context of entrepreneurship and the implications for business growth. The pap... Read More about Female entrepreneurship in Nigeria and access to finance: a comparative study..

Detecting contradictory COVID-19 drug efficacy claims from biomedical literature. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
SOSA, D.N., SURESH, M., POTTS, C. and ALTMAN, R.B. 2023. Detecting contradictory COVID-19 drug efficacy claims from biomedical literature. In Rogers, A., Boyd-Graber, J. and Okazaki, N. (eds.) Proceedings of the 61st Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting 2023 (ACL 2023), 9-14 July 2023, Toronto, Candada. Stroudsburg, PA: ACL [online], volume 2: short papers, pages 694-713. Available from: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.acl-short.61

The COVID-19 pandemic created a deluge of questionable and contradictory scientific claims about drug efficacy – an "infodemic" with lasting consequences for science and society. In this work, we argue that NLP models can help domain experts distill... Read More about Detecting contradictory COVID-19 drug efficacy claims from biomedical literature..

Towards feasible counterfactual explanations: a taxonomy guided template-based NLG method. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
SALIMI, P., WIRATUNGA, N., CORSAR, D. and WIJEKOON, A. 2023. Towards feasible counterfactual explanations: a taxonomy guided template-based NLG method. In Gal, K., Nowé, A., Nalepa, G.J., Fairstein, R. and Rădulescu, R. (eds.) ECAI 2023: proceedings of the 26th European conference on artificial intelligence (ECAI 2023), 30 September - 4 October 2023, Kraków, Poland. Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications, 372. Amsterdam: IOS Press [online], pages 2057-2064. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA230499

Counterfactual Explanations (cf-XAI) describe the smallest changes in feature values necessary to change an outcome from one class to another. However, many cf-XAI methods neglect the feasibility of those changes. In this paper, we introduce a novel... Read More about Towards feasible counterfactual explanations: a taxonomy guided template-based NLG method..

Bibliometric analysis of scientific literature on mental health research in Africa. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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..

Gender, workforce and artificial intelligence. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
IDEMUDIA, I. and ONOSHAKPOR, C. 2023. Gender, workforce and artificial intelligence. In Proceedings of the 16th IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Africa conference 2023 (IEEE AFRICON 2023): advancing technology in Africa towards presence on the global stage, 20-22 September 2023, Nairobi, Kenya. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article number 10293367. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/AFRICON55910.2023.10293367

Our aim is to explore the role Artificial Intelligence has on widening the gender inequality gap that currently exists in the field of Information Technology. This study builds on the 'Advancement of Women in Technology (AWT) framework and 'The impli... Read More about Gender, workforce and artificial intelligence..