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Bombardment, public safety and resilience in English coastal communities during the First World War. (2023)
Journal Article
FOSTER, A.-M. [2023]. Bombardment, public safety and resilience in English coastal communities during the First World War. Northern history [online], Latest Articles. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172X.2023.2276721

Reeve's monograph refreshingly focuses on a new area of British war studies - it uses a local studies lens to explore the coastal towns in the North-East of England and their experiences in the First World War. Reeve compellingly argues that the expe... Read More about Bombardment, public safety and resilience in English coastal communities during the First World War..

A green AI model selection strategy for computer-aided mpox detection. (2023)
Conference Proceeding
EZENKWU, C.P., STEPHEN, B.U.-A., AFFIAH, I. and DANIEL, B. 2023. A green AI model selection strategy for computer-aided mpox detection. In Proceedings of the 16th IEEE Africon conference (IEEE AFRICON 2023): advancing technology in Africa towards presence on the global stage, 20-22 September 2023, Nairobi, Kenya. Piscataway: IEEE [online], document number 10293707. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/AFRICON55910.2023.10293707

With the recent global surge in mpox (formerly monkeypox) cases, researchers have proposed deep learning technologies for early detection of the disease from skin lesion images. However, many of these researchers follow the current Red AI trend of se... Read More about A green AI model selection strategy for computer-aided mpox detection..

Maddie is online: a creative learning path to digital literacy for young people. (2023)
Journal Article
MARTZOUKOU, K., PANAYIOTAKIS, I., HERBERT, N., GREY, E. and MACDONALD, N. 2023. Maddie is online: a creative learning path to digital literacy for young people. Computers in the schools [online], Latest Articles. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/07380569.2023.2276736

This paper explores young people's development of digital literacy and resilience and discusses how teachers and librarians can play an important role in supporting young people to become digital citizens: informed, active, ethical, safe and responsi... Read More about Maddie is online: a creative learning path to digital literacy for young people..

Identifying key factors and actions: initial steps in the open science policy design and implementation process. (2023)
Journal Article
SHMAGUN, H., SHIM, J., KIM, J., CHOI, K.-N. and OPPENHEIM, C. 2023. Identifying key factors and actions: initial steps in the open science policy design and implementation process. Journal of information science [online], Online First. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515231205496

The coronavirus pandemic has illustrated the lack of a holistic approach in implementing Open Science (OS), leading to an inability to fully utilise its potential to inform prompt, evidence-based policy responses. In this view, this study aims to ide... Read More about Identifying key factors and actions: initial steps in the open science policy design and implementation process..

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.

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..

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..

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.

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..

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..

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..