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A Mixed Approach for Aggressive Political Discourse Analysis on Twitter

Journal Article
Torregrosa, J., D’Antonio-Maceiras, S., Villar-Rodríguez, G., Hussain, A., Cambria, E., & Camacho, D. (in press)
A Mixed Approach for Aggressive Political Discourse Analysis on Twitter. Cognitive Computation, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-022-10048-w
Political tensions have grown throughout Europe since the beginning of the new century. The consecutive crises led to the rise of different social movements in several countri...

Composition of Games as a Model for the Evolution of Social Institutions

Conference Proceeding
Andras, P. (2020)
Composition of Games as a Model for the Evolution of Social Institutions. In Artificial Life Conference Proceedings (171-179). https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00264
The evolution of social institutions (e.g. institutions of political decision making or joint resource administration) is an important question in the context of understanding...

An information literacy lens on community representation for participatory budgeting in Brazil

Journal Article
Cruickshank, P., & Ryan, B. (2023)
An information literacy lens on community representation for participatory budgeting in Brazil. Journal of Information Literacy, 17(2), 46-68. https://doi.org/10.11645/17.2.5
This paper presents an evaluation of the information literacies used by community representatives when engaging with participatory budgeting in São Paulo City, Brazil. Using q...

Four levers of reciprocity across human societies: concepts, analysis and predictions

Journal Article
Lehmann, L., Powers, S. T., & van Schaik, C. P. (2022)
Four levers of reciprocity across human societies: concepts, analysis and predictions. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 4, Article e11. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2022.7
This paper surveys five human societal types – mobile foragers, horticulturalists, pre-state agriculturalists, state-based agriculturalists and liberal democracies – from the ...

Artificial intelligence-enabled social media analysis for pharmacovigilance of COVID-19 vaccinations in the United Kingdom: Observational Study

Journal Article
Hussain, Z., Sheikh, Z., Tahir, A., Dashtipour, K., Gogate, M., Sheikh, A., & Hussain, A. (2022)
Artificial intelligence-enabled social media analysis for pharmacovigilance of COVID-19 vaccinations in the United Kingdom: Observational Study. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 8(5), Article e32543. https://doi.org/10.2196/32543
Background: The roll-out of vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 in the United Kingdom, started in December 2020. Uptake has been high, and there has been a subsequent reduction in infecti...

Practices and educational affordances of sound in the postcolonial Hong Kong protests

Journal Article
Cheng, L., & McGregor, I. (in press)
Practices and educational affordances of sound in the postcolonial Hong Kong protests. Contemporary Music Review,
Sound has been theorised for its functional role as informative agent in political advocacy and participation in political studies, yet the investigation on the pedagogical po...

A Joint Optimization Algorithm for Renewable Energy System

Journal Article
Khan, I., Muhammad-Sukki, F., Ardila-Rey, J. A., Mas'ud, A. A., Alshammari, S. J., & Madsen, D. Ø. (2023)
A Joint Optimization Algorithm for Renewable Energy System. Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, 36(2), 1979-1989. https://doi.org/10.32604/iasc.2023.034106
Energy sustainability is a hot topic in both scientific and political circles. To date, two alternative approaches to this issue are being taken. Some people believe that incr...

A horizon scan of issues affecting UK forest management within 50 years

Journal Article
Tew, E. R., Ambrose-Oji, B., Beatty, M., Büntgen, U., Butterworth, H., Clover, G., …Sutherland, W. J. (in press)
A horizon scan of issues affecting UK forest management within 50 years. Forestry, https://doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpad047
Forests are in the spotlight: they are expected to play a pivotal role in our response to society’s greatest challenges, such as the climate and biodiversity crises. Yet, the ...

Socio-ecological risks management dynamic simulation in megaproject development of the Edinburgh Tram Network

Journal Article
Boateng, P., Omotayo, T., Osunsanmi, T., & Ekundayo, D. (in press)
Socio-ecological risks management dynamic simulation in megaproject development of the Edinburgh Tram Network. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, https://doi.org/10.1108/ijbpa-05-2022-0076
Purpose The inherent risks and their interactive impacts in megaproject development have been found in numerous cases worldwide. Although risk management standards have been r...

The public library as public sphere: a longitudinal analysis

Journal Article
Appleton, L., & Hall, H. (in press)
The public library as public sphere: a longitudinal analysis. Journal of Documentation, https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-02-2022-0031
The research was undertaken to explore the role of the UK public library as a public sphere, and the ways in which this role relates to the epistemic, community, and political...