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Interpreting magnitude of change in strength and conditioning: effect size selection, threshold values and Bayesian updating. (2022)
Journal Article
SWINTON, P.A., BURGESS, K., HALL, A., GREIG, L., PSYLLAS, J., ASPE, R., MAUGHAN, P. and MURPHY, A. 2022. Interpreting magnitude of change in strength and conditioning: effect size selection, threshold values and Bayesian updating. Journal of sports sciences [online], 40(18), pages 2047-2054. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2022.2128548

The magnitude of change following strength and conditioning (S&C) training can be evaluated comparing effect sizes to threshold values. This study conducted a series of meta-analyses and compiled results to identify thresholds specific to S&C, and cr... Read More about Interpreting magnitude of change in strength and conditioning: effect size selection, threshold values and Bayesian updating..

Painted conversations, exhibition 2: Sarah Longworth-West and Marcus Murison. [Exhibition] (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Painted conversations, exhibition 2: Sarah Longworth-West and Marcus Murison. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 1-6 October 2022, Whitespace Gallery, Edinburgh.

The "Painted Conversations" exhibition series is organised and facilitated by Lyndsey Gilmour and Peter Chalmers, whose collaborative partnership has formed through their roles as lecturers and early-career researchers in the Painting Department at G... Read More about Painted conversations, exhibition 2: Sarah Longworth-West and Marcus Murison. [Exhibition].

Printed texture guided color feature fusion for impressionism style rendering of oil paintings. (2022)
Journal Article
GENG, J., MA, L., LI, X., ZHANG, X. and YAN, Y. 2022. Printed texture guided color feature fusion for impressionism style rendering of oil paintings. Mathematics [online], 10(19): advances in computer vision and machine learning, article 3700. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/math10193700

As a major branch of Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR), image stylization mainly uses computer algorithms to render a photo into an artistic painting. Recent work has shown that the ex-traction of style information such as stroke texture and color o... Read More about Printed texture guided color feature fusion for impressionism style rendering of oil paintings..

The protection of badgers: where are we now? (2022)
Journal Article
DARNELL, H. 2022. The protection of badgers: where are we now? UK journal of animal law [online], 6(2), pages 27-36. Available from: https://tinyurl.com/2s3f3t2e

Whilst originally enacted to make provision for the protection of wild birds and their habitats, the 1981 Act introduced the notion of species-specific legislation as it amended several key pieces of animal welfare legislation involving certain mamma... Read More about The protection of badgers: where are we now?.

Transformational fieldwork, or, How might a sustainable cultural provision in the rural/small town context be framed? (2022)
Thesis
ZEISKE, C.F. 2022. Transformational fieldwork, or, How might a sustainable cultural provision in the rural/small town context be framed? Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-2071859

While a lot has been written in the past two decades about the impact of participatory arts on people in urban places, my practice-based research aims to fill the gap in relation to the rural context - often places with little traditional arts provis... Read More about Transformational fieldwork, or, How might a sustainable cultural provision in the rural/small town context be framed?.

Extending the frontier of the Nigerian insanity defence: comparative analyses of the insanity defence in England and Scotland to offer alternative options for development. (2022)
Thesis
EZE, K.U. 2022. Extending the frontier of the Nigerian insanity defence: comparative analyses of the insanity defence in England and Scotland to offer alternative options for development. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-2071637

Criminal responsibility determines whom the law will punish. A person must be criminally responsible before a court can punish them. The situation is challenging when a defendant raises insanity as a defence to criminal responsibility, because not ev... Read More about Extending the frontier of the Nigerian insanity defence: comparative analyses of the insanity defence in England and Scotland to offer alternative options for development..

The importance of NOx control for peak ozone mitigation based on a sensitivity study using CMAQ‐HDDM‐3D model during a typical episode over the Yangtze River delta region, China. [Dataset] (2022)
Data
WANG, Y., YALUK, E.A., CHEN, H., JIANG, S., HUANG, L., ZHU, A., XIAO, S., XUE, J., LU, G., BIAN, J., KASEMSAN, M., ZHANG, K., LIU, H., TONG, H., OOI, C.G., CHAN, A. and LI, L. 2022. The importance of NOx control for peak ozone mitigation based on a sensitivity study using CMAQ-HDDM-3D model during a typical episode over the Yangtze River delta region, China. [Dataset]. Journal of geophysical research: atmospheres [online], 127(9), article e2022JD036555. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022jd036555

Ground-level ozone (O3) is formed primarily from photochemical reactions between volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and nitrogen oxides (NOx). Besides, O3 and other pollutants also frequently undergo various other processes such as vertical/horizonta... Read More about The importance of NOx control for peak ozone mitigation based on a sensitivity study using CMAQ‐HDDM‐3D model during a typical episode over the Yangtze River delta region, China. [Dataset].

Cuttings transport and hydraulics optimisation for underbalanced drilling (UBD) operations in concentric and eccentric, directional and extended reach wells. (2022)
Thesis
SALUBI, V. 2022. Cuttings transport and hydraulics optimisation for underbalanced drilling (UBD) operations in concentric and eccentric, directional and extended reach wells. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-1893048

Underbalanced drilling facilitates the effective control of wellbore pressures - amongst several other important advantages - when compared to conventional drilling technology. However, this involves the flow of multiphase fluids, which introduces ad... Read More about Cuttings transport and hydraulics optimisation for underbalanced drilling (UBD) operations in concentric and eccentric, directional and extended reach wells..

Scientific model development for machinery safety using machine reliability, integrity and availability. (2022)
Journal Article
NESAN, K.P., BUANG, A., KANIAPAN, S. and ZAINI, D. 2022. Scientific model development for machinery safety using machine reliability, integrity and availability. International journal of occupational safety and health [online], 12(4), pages 307-315. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3126/ijosh.v12i4.42147

Machines are equipment that increases productivity and efficiency in a workplace. Machine Reliability, Integrity, and Availability are the most critical factors to ensure machinery safety in a workplace. Throughout this study, a series of reviews of... Read More about Scientific model development for machinery safety using machine reliability, integrity and availability..

The importance of NOx control for peak ozone mitigation based on a sensitivity study using CMAQ‐HDDM‐3D model during a typical episode over the Yangtze River delta region, China. (2022)
Journal Article
WANG, Y., YALUK, E.A., CHEN, H., JIANG, S., HUANG, L., ZHU, A., XIAO, S., XUE, J., LU, G., BIAN, J., KASEMSAN, M., ZHANG, K., LIU, H., TONG, H., OOI, M.C.G., CHAN, A. and LI, L. 2022. The importance of NOx control for peak ozone mitigation based on a sensitivity study using CMAQ-HDDM-3D model during a typical episode over the Yangtze River delta region, China. Journal of geophysical research: atmospheres [online], 127(9), article e2022JD036555. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022jd036555

In recent years, ground-level ozone (O3) has been one of the main pollutants hindering air quality compliance in China's large city-clusters including the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region. In this work, we utilized the process analysis (PA) and the h... Read More about The importance of NOx control for peak ozone mitigation based on a sensitivity study using CMAQ‐HDDM‐3D model during a typical episode over the Yangtze River delta region, China..

The incidence of metabolic syndrome amongst a group of migrants to Qatar employed in Hamad Medical Corporation 24 months post-migration: a prospective longitudinal observational cohort study. (2022)
Thesis
EZZAT AHMED AL-ADAWY, R.M.M. 2022. The incidence of metabolic syndrome amongst a group of migrants to Qatar employed in Hamad Medical Corporation 24 months post-migration: a prospective longitudinal observational cohort study. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-1880237

Over the past two decades, the International Organisation for Migration highlighted the increasing proportion of international migration from 2.8% (150 million in 2000) to 3.5% (272 million in 2020) of the total world population. In 2019, the Labour... Read More about The incidence of metabolic syndrome amongst a group of migrants to Qatar employed in Hamad Medical Corporation 24 months post-migration: a prospective longitudinal observational cohort study..

Collective behaviour monitoring in football using spatial temporal and network analysis: application and evaluations. (2022)
Thesis
CORSIE, M.R. 2022. Collective behaviour monitoring in football using spatial temporal and network analysis: application and evaluations. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-1880207

Analysis is an important part of understanding and exploiting performance of football teams. Traditional approaches of analysis have centred around events that may not fully incorporate the highly dynamic nature of matches. To circumvent this weaknes... Read More about Collective behaviour monitoring in football using spatial temporal and network analysis: application and evaluations..

Sky UK Ltd v Cherrie: Outer House rules on communicating copyright works on Reddit and YouTube. (2022)
Journal Article
LAUTERBACH, T. 2022. Sky UK Ltd v Cherrie: Outer House rules on communicating copyright works on Reddit and YouTube. Edinburgh law review [online], 26(3), pages 433-437. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2022.0791

Sky UK Ltd v Cherrie presented the first opportunity for a Scottish court to add to the growing jurisprudence on copyright infringement by means of linking content on the internet. Lady Wolffe's decision in the Outer House is particularly noteworthy,... Read More about Sky UK Ltd v Cherrie: Outer House rules on communicating copyright works on Reddit and YouTube..

Midwives', health visitors', family nurse practitioners' and women's experiences of the NHS Grampian's Financial Inclusion Pathway in practice: a qualitative investigation of early implementation and impact. [Report] (2022)
Report
DOUGLAS, F., MACIVER, E., DAVIS, T. and LITTLEJOHN, C. 2022. Midwives', health visitors', family nurse practitioners' and women's experiences of the NHS Grampian's Financial Inclusion Pathway in practice: a qualitative investigation of early implementation and impact. Aberdeen: Robert Gordon University.

All Local Child Poverty Action Plans require midwives, health visitors and family nurses to identify families with children under five at risk of financial hardship, and to refer them for help to increase their household incomes. This strategy (the s... Read More about Midwives', health visitors', family nurse practitioners' and women's experiences of the NHS Grampian's Financial Inclusion Pathway in practice: a qualitative investigation of early implementation and impact. [Report].

Deep learning based short-term total cloud cover forecasting. (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BANDARA, I., ZHANG, L. and MISTRY, K. 2022. Deep learning based short-term total cloud cover forecasting. In Proceedings of the 2022 International joint conference on neural networks (IJCNN 2022), co-located with the 2022 conference proceedings of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) World congress on computational intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2022), 18-23 July 2022, Padua, Italy. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article 9892773. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN55064.2022.9892773

In this research, we conduct deep learning based Total Cloud Cover (TCC) forecasting using satellite images. The proposed system employs the Otsu's method for cloud segmentation and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) variant models for TCC prediction. Spe... Read More about Deep learning based short-term total cloud cover forecasting..

Identification of bacterial isolates recovered from the surface of cleanroom operators' garments following wear. (2022)
Journal Article
SMITH, L.M., LOWES, C., O'DRISCOLL, N.H. and LAMB, A.J. 2022. Identification of bacterial isolates recovered from the surface of cleanroom operators' garments following wear. European journal of parenteral and pharmaceutical sciences [online], 27(3), article number 27301. Available from: https://doi.org/10.37521/ejpps.27301

Contamination of sterile pharmaceutical products can have serious consequences, in worst case scenario resulting in patient death. Cleanroom operators are the primary source of microbial contamination, where the surface of their specialist sterile cl... Read More about Identification of bacterial isolates recovered from the surface of cleanroom operators' garments following wear..

Comparative effect size distributions in strength and conditioning and implications for future research: a meta-analysis. (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper
SWINTON, P.A. and MURPHY, A. 2022. Comparative effect size distributions in strength and conditioning and implications for future research: a meta-analysis. SportRxiv [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.51224/srxiv.202

Controlled experimental designs are frequently used in strength and conditioning (S&C) to determine which interventions are most effective. The purpose of this large meta-analysis was to quantify the distribution of comparative effect sizes in S&C to... Read More about Comparative effect size distributions in strength and conditioning and implications for future research: a meta-analysis..

Application of pencil lead break (PLB) point source in the detection of interfacial defects in adhesive bonds. (2022)
Journal Article
PRATHURU, A., FAISAL, N., STEEL, J. and JIHAN, S. 2022. Application of pencil lead break (PLB) point source in the detection of interfacial defects in adhesive bonds. Journal of nondestructive evaluation [online], 41(4), article 65. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10921-022-00898-7

The presence of kissing bonds (zero-thickness disbond) along the interface of an adhesive bond is highly detrimental to its strength and longevity. The detection of these kind of defects has previously been attempted using several techniques such as... Read More about Application of pencil lead break (PLB) point source in the detection of interfacial defects in adhesive bonds..

Desirable tourism futures: stakeholders' participation in local strategic planning for sustainable tourism in Orkney Islands. (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ROITERSHTEIN, A. 2022. Desirable tourism futures: stakeholders' participation in local strategic planning for sustainable tourism in Orkney Islands. Presented at the 30th Nordic symposium on tourism and hospitality research: participatory approaches to development for desirable tourism futures, 27-29 September 2022, Porvoo, Finland.

Comprehensive stakeholder engagement in tourism planning is vital for sustainable destination development, but many strategic plans fail to provide evidence of such engagement on a destination level. As a part of a wider doctoral research project, th... Read More about Desirable tourism futures: stakeholders' participation in local strategic planning for sustainable tourism in Orkney Islands..

Federal Commissioner of Taxation v Carter (2022) HCA 10: a game changer for taxation of trust distributions in Australia? (2022)
Journal Article
MAK, C.H.W. 2022. Federal Commissioner of Taxation v Carter (2022) HCA 10: a game changer for taxation of trust distributions in Australia? Trusts and trustees [online], 28(9), pages 886-890. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/tandt/ttac098

In Federal Commissioner of Taxation v Carter, the High Court of Australia asked to clarify the meaning of 'is presently entitled' under section 97(1) of the Income Tax Assessment Act. This case is a significant example of the High Court dealing in re... Read More about Federal Commissioner of Taxation v Carter (2022) HCA 10: a game changer for taxation of trust distributions in Australia?.