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Air-Conditioning and the Transmission of COVID-19 in Indoor Environment

Journal Article
Oye, T. T., Gupta, N., Goh, K., & Oye, T. K. (2021)
Air-Conditioning and the Transmission of COVID-19 in Indoor Environment. Environmental management and sustainable development, 10(3), https://doi.org/10.5296/emsd.v10i3.18461
Substandard ventilation in restricted air-conditioning indoor places is allied with upsurge in the respiratory infections’ transmission. There have been several COVID-19 sprea...

Validation of the International Trauma Questionnaire – Child and Adolescent Version (ITQ-CA) in a Chinese mental health service seeking adolescent sample

Journal Article
Ho, G., Liu, H., Karatzias, T., Hyland, P., Cloitre, M., Lueger-Schuster, B., …Shevlin, M. (in press)
Validation of the International Trauma Questionnaire – Child and Adolescent Version (ITQ-CA) in a Chinese mental health service seeking adolescent sample. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 16(1), Article 66. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-022-00497-4
Background. The International Trauma Questionnaire – Child and Adolescent version (ITQ-CA) is a self-report measure that assesses posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and comp...

An Artificial Neural Network-Based Model for Effective Software Development Effort Estimation

Journal Article
Rashid, J., Kanwal, S., Wasif Nisar, M., Kim, J., & Hussain, A. (2023)
An Artificial Neural Network-Based Model for Effective Software Development Effort Estimation. Computer Systems Science and Engineering, 44(2), 1309-1324. https://doi.org/10.32604/csse.2023.026018
In project management, effective cost estimation is one of the most crucial activities to efficiently manage resources by predicting the required cost to fulfill a given task....

The Role of Employee Voice on Mental Health and Wellbeing: The Case of Poland

Book Chapter
Gilek, M. (2023)
The Role of Employee Voice on Mental Health and Wellbeing: The Case of Poland. In T. Ajibade Adisa, C. Mordi, & E. Oruh (Eds.), Employee Voice in the Global North: Insights from Europe, North America and Australia (141-165). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan
Mental health is recognised as an important workplace issue that can contribute to a wide range of individual and organisational outcomes (Arnold et al., Work psychology: Unde...

Stolen Time: The Temporal Captivity of Migrants in the Italian Border Regime

Journal Article
Castelli, V., Paynter, E., Sbaffi, G., & Soliman, F. (in press)
Stolen Time: The Temporal Captivity of Migrants in the Italian Border Regime. Modern Italy,
This paper explores the use of captivity in Italy’s response to recurrent “migration crises” at the southern border of the European Union. It first considers the case of Lamp...

A Small Scale Fading Model with Sectored and Three Dimensional Diffuse Scattering

Conference Proceeding
Karadimas, P., Vagenas, E. D., & Kotsopoulos, S. A. (2008)
A Small Scale Fading Model with Sectored and Three Dimensional Diffuse Scattering. In 2008 5th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (943-947). https://doi.org/10.1109/ccnc08.2007.218
In frequency non-selective fading channels the multipath components can arrive at the mobile receiver via a three dimensional (3-D) scattering mechanism. That case occurs espe...

Facilities management outsourcing: theoretical trends and evidence from practice in Nigeria and United Kingdom

Journal Article
Ikediashi, D. I., & Odesola, I. A. (2016)
Facilities management outsourcing: theoretical trends and evidence from practice in Nigeria and United Kingdom. International Journal of Strategic Property Management, 20(2), 207-219. https://doi.org/10.3846/1648715x.2015.1132789
Previous research has acknowledged facilities management (FM) as a discipline that optimises the delivery of facilities and its related services through use of high profile st...

On The Usefulness of Self-Attention for Automatic Speech Recognition with Transformers

Conference Proceeding
Zhang, S., Loweimi, E., Bell, P., & Renals, S. (2021)
On The Usefulness of Self-Attention for Automatic Speech Recognition with Transformers. In 2021 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT). https://doi.org/10.1109/slt48900.2021.9383521
Self-attention models such as Transformers, which can capture temporal relationships without being limited by the distance between events, have given competitive speech recogn...

Understanding for whom, under what conditions, and how an integrated approach to atrial fibrillation service delivery works: a realist review

Journal Article
Pearsons, A., Hanson, C., Hendriks, J., & Neubeck, L. (in press)
Understanding for whom, under what conditions, and how an integrated approach to atrial fibrillation service delivery works: a realist review. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Article zvad093. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjcn/zvad093
Aims To understand for whom, under what conditions, and how an integrated approach to atrial fibrillation service delivery works (or does not work). Methods and Results A r...

Speech Acoustic Modelling from Raw Phase Spectrum

Conference Proceeding
Loweimi, E., Cvetkovic, Z., Bell, P., & Renals, S. (2021)
Speech Acoustic Modelling from Raw Phase Spectrum. In ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). https://doi.org/10.1109/icassp39728.2021.9413727
Magnitude spectrum-based features are the most widely employed front-ends for acoustic modelling in automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. In this paper, we investigate t...

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Fungal Innovations for Synergy of Zero Hunger and Affordable Energy for Sustainable Development (FUSE)

2023 - 2024
Fungal dye resources can contribute to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by providing a sustainable solution for clean energy production and addressing food security ch...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £65,000

Development of a Virtual Reality application for home haemodialysis training

2023 - 2025
Patients entering end-stage kidney disease often need dialysis prior to transplantation - this may be delivered as in-centre dialysis (haemodialysis), or peritoneal dialysis. Increasingly, patients ar...
Funder: Kidney Research UK | Value: £149,697

Modular Energy Storage - Challenges and opportunities

2023 - 2023
A techno-economical feasibility study aiming at identifying opportunities for energy storage in domestic and small commercial environments at a global scale. The project will identify challenges and ...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £4,999

Modular Energy Storage for Energy Trading

2023 - 2023
The project aims at developing a configurable tool which can estimate the potential for profit based on energy storage solutions in combination with distributed generation and energy trading for domes...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £4,999

Scholarly Edition of Scottish Scene

2023 - 2024
RATIONALE Scottish Scene was first published by Jarrolds in 1934. Widely reviewed at the time, it quickly became one of the most controversial texts of the Scottish literary renaissance of the early d...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £3,102

Affordable and sustainable green homes for underprivileged people in Africa.

2022 - 2023
A product service innovation providing affordable, fast, modular & sustainable construction technology using a new-age construction material "Composite Paper Honeycomb Panel”. The panel has two compo...
Funder: Royal Academy of Engineering | Value: £19,923

The Policy Cards project - CAPE funded

2023 - 2024
The purpose of the project is to continue and finish the development of the Policy Cards. The Policy Cards are a card-based ideation tool that facilitates the analysis and development of policy campai...
Funder: Research England | Value: £11,311

Do iron-oxide nanoparticles contribute to Parkinsons Disease pathology?

2021 - 2022
Anthropogenic iron-oxide nanoparticles (IONPs) detected in ultrafine particulate matter caused by traffic and industrial emissions have increased substantially over time, constituting one of the most ...
Funder: RS Macdonald Charitable Trust | Value: £1,500

Chair of Transport & Health

2024 - 2025
This will allow me to continue and extend some of the work that I do, to promote and support policy and practice which results in an increase in total physical activity time, mainly as a result in an ...
Funder: Paths for All Partnership | Value: £28,407

Evaluation of the impact of BRAVEHOUND on Veteran Mental Health

2023 - 2024
The grant will be used to fund an evaluation, led by Napier University (Centre for Military Research) which will provide an evidence base report for Bravehound.
Funder: The Veterans Foundation | Value: £11,928

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Adaptive video game sound based on inherent skill level utilising selective attention

2022 - 2025
In video games, selective attention can be utilised to increase a player’s engagement by adapting the sound design ...
Mr. Ethan Robson | Director of Studies: Dr Iain McGregor | Second Supervisor: Dr Balandino Di Donato

The meeting journey: Supporting the design of interaction within co-located, collaborative device ecologies

2013 - 2019
I am currently working on a PhD programme in the Centre for Interaction Design, supervised by...
Aurelien Ammeloot | Director of Studies: Prof David Benyon | Second Supervisor: Dr Oli Mival

Visualising Multiple Overlapping Classification Hierarchies

1998 - 2002
The revision or reorganisation of hierarchical data sets can result in many possible hierarchical classifications composed of the same or ove...
Dr Martin Graham | Director of Studies: Prof Jessie Kennedy | Second Supervisor: Prof David Benyon

City narratives in music: creating musical works that reflect urban realities relating to Valletta

2013 - 2019
"The research explores elements of community, identity, and cultural realities. It explores the way of...
Alexander Vella Gregory | Director of Studies: Mr. Ken Dempster | Second Supervisor: Dr Katrina Burton

Performance monitoring and modelling of micro-, midi- and macro-wind turbines

2007 - 2012
This thesis investigates the potential of using wind turbine to offset electricity demand for dwellings or public building....
Ahmad Makkawi | Director of Studies: Prof Tariq Muneer | Second Supervisor: Prof Naren Gupta

Risk-Modelling at the Pre-Proposal Stages of eGovernment Services

2002 - 2007
eGovernment is a relatively new, but rapidly expanding, domain; mainly due to the perceived outcomes that it may bring to the public ad...
Adrianos Evangelidis | Director of Studies: Ann Macintosh | Second Supervisor: Prof Lissie Davenport

Self-rated health and health inequalities by area deprivation in British nurses

2015 - date
The PhD project will explore the relationship between area deprivation and self-reported health in UK Nurses. I aim to as...
Mr William Ball | Director of Studies: Dr Iain Atherton | Second Supervisor: Dr Richard Kyle

Sustainable festivals and events - an enquiry of leadership and futures

2015 - 2017
As a societal phenomenon, festivals and planned events are discussed in a wide policy context. They have entered a broader discus...
Dr Martin Robertson | Director of Studies: Prof Anna Leask | Second Supervisor: Prof Jane Ali-Knight

Investigation of driving cycles as tools to assess travel demand management in Edinburgh and Abu Dhabi

2008 - 2013
Traffic congestion today is a major problem in almost all of the metropolitan areas of the world. ...
Ahmed Zaidi | Director of Studies: Prof Wafaa Saleh | Second Supervisor: Kevin Cullinane

A framework for the transformation of the creative industries in a digital age

2011 - 2015
The cultural and creative industries face a constantly changing context, characterised by the speed of the development and...
Hannah Rudman | Director of Studies: Prof David Benyon | Second Supervisor: Prof Hazel Hall

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ExtraCECI Project Awarded over £1.4 million by the Medical Research Council

30 April 2024
RESEARCH QUESTION: Is the Extra community-based enhanced care intervention (ExtraCECI) effective and cost-effective in improving quality of life and person-centred outcomes for people living with HIV/...

Films by Napier academics Paul Gray and Ita Jansen screen at Cameo

28 April 2024
Films by Edinburgh Napier academics are screening at Cameo as part of the Folk Film Gathering.

Film by Napier academic wins the Grand Prize at the Arizona International Film Festival

27 April 2024
The film Itu Ninu by Itandehui Jansen, Programme Lead for the MA Film at Edinburgh Napier University, has just received the Grand Prize at the Arizona International Film Festival.

The RESIST Project Press Release: Findings from the Work Package 1 Released

9 April 2024
Headline: Europe-wide research reveals how transgender rights, feminism, and LGBTIQ+ advocacy are systematically attacked in politics and media. Lead: A project researching so-called ‘anti-gender’ po...

Invited to participate in the launch of the innovative green room in Kuwait

26 March 2024
As the PI of the externally funded project, Islam has participated in the launch of the innovative green room at Kuwait College for Science and Technology with the British and Australian Ambassadors.

Meet the jewel in the crown of Edinburgh Napier University’s health training: its Simulation and Clinical Skills Centre where the latest technologies are used to help train nursing and midwifery students.

21 March 2024
Recruitment Study in a high-tech environment If you’re thinking about a career in nursing or midwifery, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Social Work, Edinburgh Napier University has the latest...

Call for papers: Special issue of Research in International Business and Finance (CABS 2, SSCI Q1, ABDC B, Impact Factor 6.5). “Integrating Inclusive Finance and Sustainability: Pathways to Carbon Neutrality and Nature-Positive Futures"

15 March 2024
Special issue in Research in International Business and Finance (CABS 2, JCR Q1, ABDC B, Impact factor: 6.5, 6th out of 111 finance journals based on impact factor): Integrating Inclusive Finance and ...

Dr Kulpa organises a gender & sexuality-focused event to celebrate inclusive queer-feminist politics across the month of March 2024.

6 March 2024
Dr Kulpa organises an inclusive queer-feminist event celebrating our diverse lives and work across Edinburgh Napier University.

Universities join forces to accelerate health technology innovation

20 February 2024
A first-of-its-kind research collaboration between Edinburgh Napier University and Heriot-Watt University is bringing together engineering and nursing students to develop cutting-edge health technolog...

Napier academic guest edits Special Issue on East-West divisions in Europe

20 February 2024
Dr Cristian Surubaru has guest edited a Special Issue (SI) of the Journal of European Public Policy (JEPP) on the topic of the East-West divide within the European Union (2024, Volume 31, Issue 3). H...

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