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Which COVID-19 information really impacts stock markets? (2022)
Journal Article
SZCZYGIELSKI, J.J., CHARTERIS, A., BWANYA, P.R. and BRZESZCZYŃSKI, J. 2023. Which COVID-19 information really impacts stock markets? Journal of international financial markets, institutions and money [online], 84, article 101592. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2022.101592

Information about COVID-19 pandemic abounds, but which COVID-19 data actually impacts stock prices? We investigate which measures of COVID-19 matter most by applying elastic net regression for measure selection using a sample of the 35 largest stock... Read More about Which COVID-19 information really impacts stock markets?.

Reformulating the empowerment process through women entrepreneurship in a collective context. (2022)
Journal Article
NG, P.Y., WOOD, B.P. and BASTIAN, B.L. 2022. Reformulating the empowerment process through women entrepreneurship in a collective context. International journal of entrepreneurial behavior and research [online], 28(9), pages 154-176. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-06-2021-0479

The purpose of this study is to develop an empirically informed framework to analyze women empowerment and entrepreneurship, contextualized within a collective society. The authors conducted 15 in-depth semi-structured interviews with women entrepren... Read More about Reformulating the empowerment process through women entrepreneurship in a collective context..

Clinical dialogue transcription error correction using Seq2Seq models. (2022)
Working Paper
NANAYAKKARA, G., WIRATUNGA, N., CORSAR, D., MARTIN, K. and WIJEKOON, A. 2022. Clinical dialogue transcription error correction using Seq2Seq models. arXiv [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2205.13572

Good communication is critical to good healthcare. Clinical dialogue is a conversation between health practitioners and their patients, with the explicit goal of obtaining and sharing medical information. This information contributes to medical decis... Read More about Clinical dialogue transcription error correction using Seq2Seq models..

Using the theoretical domains framework to explore behavioural determinants for medication taking in patients following percutaneous coronary intervention. (2022)
Journal Article
CUNNINGHAM, S., JEBARA, T., STEWART, D., SMITH, J., LESLIE, S.J. and RUSHWORTH, G.F. 2023. Using the theoretical domains framework to explore behavioural determinants for medication taking in patients following percutaneous coronary intervention. International journal of pharmacy practice [online], 31(2), pages 190-197. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpp/riac039

The aim of this study was to investigate relationships between factors influencing medication taking and behavioural determinants in patients who have undergone percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). A cross-sectional survey was undertaken, using... Read More about Using the theoretical domains framework to explore behavioural determinants for medication taking in patients following percutaneous coronary intervention..

Rethinking financial contagion: information transmission mechanism during the COVID-19 pandemic. (2022)
Journal Article
YAROVAYA, L, BRZESZCZYŃSKI, J., GOODBELL, J., LUCEY, B. and LAU, C.K.M. 2022. Rethinking financial contagion: information transmission mechanism during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of international financial markets, institutions and money [online], 80, article 101589. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2022.101589

Rapidly growing numbers of empirical papers assessing the financial effects of COVID-19 pandemic triggered an urgent need for a study summarising the existing knowledge of contagion phenomenon. This paper provides a review of conceptual approaches to... Read More about Rethinking financial contagion: information transmission mechanism during the COVID-19 pandemic..

SC2Net: a novel segmentation-based classification network for detection of COVID-19 in chest X-ray images. (2022)
Journal Article
ZHAO, H., FANG, Z., REN, J., MACLELLAN, C., XIA, Y., SUN, M. and REN, K. 2022. SC2Net: a novel segmentation-based classification network for detection of COVID-19 in chest X-ray images. IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics [online], 26(8), pages 4032-4043. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2022.3177854

The pandemic of COVID-19 has become a global crisis in public health, which has led to a massive number of deaths and severe economic degradation. To suppress the spread of COVID-19, accurate diagnosis at an early stage is crucial. As the popularly u... Read More about SC2Net: a novel segmentation-based classification network for detection of COVID-19 in chest X-ray images..

Post-COVID-19 and African agenda for a green recovery: lessons from the European Union and the United States of America. (2022)
Book Chapter
ASEKOMEH, A., AZUBUIKE, S.I. and GERSHON, O. 2022. Post-COVID-19 and African agenda for a green recovery: lessons from the European Union and the United States of America. In Osabuohein, E., Odularu, G., Ufua, D. and Osabohein, R. (eds.). COVID-19 in the African continent: sustainable development and socioeconomic shocks. Bingley: Emerald [online], pages 309-322. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80117-686-620221028

The concept of a ‘green new deal’ for Africa will provide a joined-up approach to managing the impact of extreme climatic events. In this regard, the United States (US) and the European Union (EU) green deal arrangements offer Africa lessons to consi... Read More about Post-COVID-19 and African agenda for a green recovery: lessons from the European Union and the United States of America..

Multi-scale spatial fusion and regularization induced unsupervised auxiliary task CNN model for deep super-resolution of hyperspectral image. (2022)
Journal Article
HA, V.K., REN, J., WANG, Z., SUN, G., ZHAO, H. and MARSHALL, S. 2022. Multi-scale spatial fusion and regularization induced unsupervised auxiliary task CNN model for deep super-resolution of hyperspectral image. IEEE journal of selected topics in applied earth observations and remote sensing [online], 15, pages 4583-4598. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2022.3176969

Hyperspectral images (HSI) features rich spectral information in many narrow bands but at a cost of a relatively low spatial resolution. As such, various methods have been developed for enhancing the spatial resolution of the low-resolution HSI (Lr-H... Read More about Multi-scale spatial fusion and regularization induced unsupervised auxiliary task CNN model for deep super-resolution of hyperspectral image..

Impact of policy instruments in the implementation of renewable sources of energy in selected European countries. (2022)
Journal Article
NASIRI, E., ROCHA-MENESES, L., INAYAT, A. and KIKAS, T. 2022. Impact of policy instruments in the implementation of renewable sources of energy in selected European countries. Sustainability [online], 14(10), article number 6314. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/su14106314

Nowadays, great attention has been paid to alternative sources of energy that can be used as a replacement for fossil fuels and help to reduce their utilization in the overall energy mix. In Europe, the development and implementation of renewable sou... Read More about Impact of policy instruments in the implementation of renewable sources of energy in selected European countries..

A paradigm-shift in water treatment: in-reservoir UV-LED-driven TiO2 photocatalysis for the removal of cyanobacteria: a mesocosm study. (2022)
Presentation / Conference
PESTANA, C.J., CAPELO-NETO, J., HUI, J., ROBERTSON, P.K.J., OLIVEIRA, S., ROGERS, R., SANTOS, A., AZEVEDO, S.M.F.O., EDWARDS, C., IRVINE, J.T.S. and LAWTON, L.A. 2022. A paradigm-shift in water treatment: in-reservoir UV-LED-driven TiO2 photocatalysis for the removal of cyanobacteria: a mesocosm study. Presented at the 12th International conference on toxic cyanobacteria (ICTC 2022), 22-27 May 2022, Toledo, USA.

Potentially harmful cyanobacteria challenge potable water treatment globally, with high biomass events, and dissolved toxic and nuisance metabolites. Retrofitting existing water treatment infrastructure is often impractical (if not impossible) and of... Read More about A paradigm-shift in water treatment: in-reservoir UV-LED-driven TiO2 photocatalysis for the removal of cyanobacteria: a mesocosm study..

The effect of COVID-19 lockdown on design studio learning and architecture students' performance. (2022)
Conference Proceeding
MITCHELL, J. and KOUIDER, T. 2022. The effect of COVID-19 lockdown on design studio learning and architecture students' performance. In Kouider, T. and Saleeb, N. (eds.) Proceedings of the 9th International congress on architectural technology (ICAT 2022): digitally integrated cities: closing the chasm between social and physical, 19-20 May 2022, London, UK. Aberdeen: Robert Gordon University [online], pages 55-76. Available from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17KEcD4GshS1PpSyH6dTPGRwNfsBtYtan/view

The first UK lockdown halted all facets of life and quickly became the greatest challenge the education system has ever faced. In order to continue teaching curriculums remote learning was promptly adopted as the emergency method as a substitute lear... Read More about The effect of COVID-19 lockdown on design studio learning and architecture students' performance..

An embodied carbon implications of home grown cross laminated timber, the Scottish case. (2022)
Conference Proceeding
HENDERSON, K. and SALMAN, H. 2022. An embodied carbon implications of home grown cross laminated timber, the Scottish case. In Kouider, T. and Saleeb, N. (eds.) Proceedings of the 9th International congress on architectural technology (ICAT 2022): digitally integrated cities: closing the chasm between social and physical, 19-20 May 2022, London, UK. Aberdeen: Robert Gordon University [online], pages 31-54. Available from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17KEcD4GshS1PpSyH6dTPGRwNfsBtYtan/view

Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) is a carbon-efficient form of construction, but no UK manufacturers exist, therefore, it remains a product imported from mainland Europe, doing so significantly increases the associated carbon emissions. This paper presen... Read More about An embodied carbon implications of home grown cross laminated timber, the Scottish case..

Discretisation design strategies: strategies to integrate design and fabrication through discretization. (2022)
Conference Proceeding
ZAMANI, E. and DOUNAS, T. 2022. Discretisation design strategies: strategies to integrate design and fabrication through discretization. In Kouider, T. and Saleeb, N. (eds.) Proceedings of the 9th International congress on architectural technology (ICAT 2022): digitally integrated cities: closing the chasm between social and physical, 19-20 May 2022, London, UK. Aberdeen: Robert Gordon University [online], pages 1-15. Available from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17KEcD4GshS1PpSyH6dTPGRwNfsBtYtan/view

In the present paper, we introduce a classification system, for discretisation strategies, based on the procedural differences. This paper has a particular focus on strategies explicitly positioned towards an integration between digital design, robot... Read More about Discretisation design strategies: strategies to integrate design and fabrication through discretization..

Proceedings of the 9th International congress of architectural technology: digitally integrated cities: closing the chasm between social and physical. (2022)
Conference Proceeding
KOUIDER, T. and SALEEB, N. (eds.) 2022. Proceedings of the 9th International congress on architectural technology (ICAT 2022): digitally integrated cities: closing the chasm between social and physical, 19-20 May 2022, London, UK. Aberdeen: Robert Gordon University [online]. Available from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17KEcD4GshS1PpSyH6dTPGRwNfsBtYtan/view

Challenges are emerging within the construction industry, causing diversification of roles, workflows and educational transformations. This has resulted in unifying and integrating the built environment on city, country, and global levels due to the... Read More about Proceedings of the 9th International congress of architectural technology: digitally integrated cities: closing the chasm between social and physical..

A systematic review on physical health education interventions for people with Parkinson's disease: content, impact, and implementation considerations across the Parkinson's trajectory. (2022)
Journal Article
ALUSHI, L., ALEXANDER, J., JONES, J. and LAFORTUNE, L. 2022. A systematic review on physical health education interventions for people with Parkinson's disease: content, impact, and implementation considerations across the Parkinson's trajectory. Journal of Parkinson's disease [online], 12(5), pages 1389-1407. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3233/JPD-223259

Educational interventions promoting the role of physical activity (PA) aim to address knowledge, poor exercise self-efficacy and low outcome expectations, which are well-researched barriers to PA participation in both healthy people and people with c... Read More about A systematic review on physical health education interventions for people with Parkinson's disease: content, impact, and implementation considerations across the Parkinson's trajectory..

The importance of cephalopods in the diet of fish on the northwest European shelf. (2022)
Journal Article
BARRETT, C.J., BARRY, P., MACLEOD, E., STOTT, S., VIEIRA, R. and LAPTIKHOVSKY, V. 2022. The importance of cephalopods in the diet of fish on the northwest European shelf. ICES journal of marine science [online], 79(5), pages 1675-1686. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsac086

Cephalopods are universal to the world's oceans and prey to many fish species. On the northwest European shelf, integrated ecosystem assessments are rapidly evolving into the preferred method for holistically assessing stocks, but cephalopods appear... Read More about The importance of cephalopods in the diet of fish on the northwest European shelf..

Has the risk of socially responsible investments (SRI) companies stocks changed in the COVID-19 period? International evidence. (2022)
Journal Article
BRZESZCZYŃSKI, J., GAJDKA, J., PIETRASZEWSKI, P. and SCHABEK, T. 2022. Has the risk of socially responsible investments (SRI) companies stocks changed in the COVID-19 period? International evidence. Finance research letters [online], 49, article 102986. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2022.102986

In this study, we investigate changes in risk of socially responsible investments (SRI) companies in the periods before and during the COVID-19 pandemic relying on a broad dataset covering SRI indices from 35 markets analyzed between 2016 and 2021. O... Read More about Has the risk of socially responsible investments (SRI) companies stocks changed in the COVID-19 period? International evidence..

Cultural factors related to childhood and adolescent obesity in Mexico: a systematic review of qualitative studies. (2022)
Journal Article
ACEVES-MARTINS, M., LÓPEZ-CRUZ, L., GARCÍA-BOTELLO, M., GODINA-FLORES, N.L., GUTIERREZ-GÓMEZ, Y.Y. and MORENO-GARCÍA, C.F. 2022. Cultural factors related to childhood and adolescent obesity in Mexico: a systematic review of qualitative studies. Obesity reviews [online], 23(9), article e13461. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.13461

Culture and culturally specific beliefs or practices may influence perceptions and decisions, potentially contributing to childhood obesity. The objective of this study is to identify the cultural factors (expressed through decisions, behaviors, indi... Read More about Cultural factors related to childhood and adolescent obesity in Mexico: a systematic review of qualitative studies..

Contribution of aerosol species to the 2019 smoke episodes over the east coast of peninsular Malaysia. (2022)
Journal Article
NAPI, N.N.L.M., OOI, M.C.G., LATIF, M.T., JUNENG, L., NADZIR, M.S.M., CHAN, A., LI, L. and ABDULLAH, S. 2022. Contribution of aerosol species to the 2019 smoke episodes over the east coast of peninsular Malaysia. Aerosol and air quality research [online], 22(7), article 210393. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.210393

Large-scale biomass burning (BB) emits large amounts of aerosols that lead to transboundary smoke events and adversely impacts human health, whilst causing societal and environmental issues. High ambient PM2.5 concentration in the year 2019 based on... Read More about Contribution of aerosol species to the 2019 smoke episodes over the east coast of peninsular Malaysia..

Indies in Scotland: exploring the role of independent bookshops in Scotland's towns and villages. (2022)
Presentation / Conference
LAING, A. 2022. Indies in Scotland: exploring the role of independent bookshops in Scotland's towns and villages. Presented at Culture vs commerce, 17 May 2022, [virtual event].

This talk was presented at the Culture vs Commerce roundtable session, part of the Literature and the Market DFG funded project held virtually at the University of Münster. This project builds on previous work and explores consumer behaviour and brow... Read More about Indies in Scotland: exploring the role of independent bookshops in Scotland's towns and villages..