Cognitive aging and experience of playing a musical instrument
Journal Article
Okely, J. A., Cox, S. R., Deary, I. J., Luciano, M., & Overy, K. (2023)
Cognitive aging and experience of playing a musical instrument. Psychology and Aging, 38(7), 696–711. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000768
Musical instrument training has been found to be associated with higher cognitive performance in older age. However, it is not clear whether this association reflects a reduce...
Maritime museums vs seaport museums navigating the evolution from maritime port business to the maritime tourism industry
Journal Article
Selvaduray, M., Bandara, Y. M., & Yunus, N. (2023)
Maritime museums vs seaport museums navigating the evolution from maritime port business to the maritime tourism industry. Journal of Maritime Logistics, 3(1), 46-73. https://doi.org/10.46754/jml.2023.08.004
Ocean-based countries has more advantages compare to a landlock regions where there face challenges on the access to the oceanography activities. Beyond major maritime trading...
Dysarthric Speech Recognition, Detection and Classification using Raw Phase and Magnitude Spectra
Conference Proceeding
Yue, Z., Loweimi, E., & Cvetkovic, Z. (2023)
Dysarthric Speech Recognition, Detection and Classification using Raw Phase and Magnitude Spectra. In Proc. INTERSPEECH 2023 (1533-1537). https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2023-222
In this paper, we explore the effectiveness of deploying the raw phase and magnitude spectra for dysarthric speech recognition, detection and classification. In particular, we...
Have increased deaths at home during the pandemic returned to pre-pandemic levels? An analysis of publicly available Scottish death registrations
Journal Article
Savinc, J., & Atherton, I. M. (2023)
Have increased deaths at home during the pandemic returned to pre-pandemic levels? An analysis of publicly available Scottish death registrations. Journal of Public Health, 45(4), e664–e667. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdad156
Deaths at home increased in Scotland at the start of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic by ~35%. The majority did not involve COVID-19. This has implications for...
Squared Symmetric Formal Contexts and Their Connections with Correlation Matrices
Conference Proceeding
Antoni, L., Eliaš, P., Horváth, T., Krajči, S., Krídlo, O., & Török, C. (2023)
Squared Symmetric Formal Contexts and Their Connections with Correlation Matrices. In Graph-Based Representation and Reasoning: 28th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2023, Berlin, Germany, September 11–13, 2023, Proceedings (19-27). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40960-8_2
Formal Concept Analysis identifies hidden patterns in data that can be presented to the user or the data analyst. We propose a method for analyzing the correlation matrices ba...
Lecturer's pedagogical attributes and teaching quality for construction and engineering education in UK universities: mediating effect of research informed teaching
Journal Article
Ikediashi, D., Moobela, C., Leitch, K., Dan-Jumbo, N., Dania, A., Akoh, S. R. R., & Esangbedo, P. (in press)
Lecturer's pedagogical attributes and teaching quality for construction and engineering education in UK universities: mediating effect of research informed teaching. Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1108/jarhe-05-2023-0216
Purpose
Researchers have opined that the quality of commitment to pedagogical approaches by lecturers is one of the most important factors in determining student academic succ...
Characterization of a small-scale PCM-Heat Exchanger: Impact of PCM selection
Presentation / Conference
Callaghan, R., D’Oliveira, E., Groulx, D., & Pereira, C. C. (2023, August)
Characterization of a small-scale PCM-Heat Exchanger: Impact of PCM selection. Presented at 17th International Heat Transfer Conference (IHTC-17), Cape Town, South Africa
Loneliness and Social Network Characteristics Among Older Adults with Hearing Loss in the ACHIEVE Study
Journal Article
Huang, A. R., Reed, N. S., Deal, J. A., Arnold, M., Burgard, S., Chisolm, T., …ACHIEVE Collaborative Research Group. (2024)
Loneliness and Social Network Characteristics Among Older Adults with Hearing Loss in the ACHIEVE Study. Journals of Gerontology, Series A, 79(2), Article glad196. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glad196
Background: Hearing loss is linked to loneliness and social isolation, but evidence is typically based on self-reported hearing. This study quantifies the associations of obje...
BBC Radio in Scotland - National, Regional and Local: Mission Impossible?
Journal Article
Kocic, A. (2023)
BBC Radio in Scotland - National, Regional and Local: Mission Impossible?. Journal of Radio and Audio Media, 30(2), 555-569. https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2023.2244485
The way radio is set up in Scotland is significantly different from that of England. For the BBC, Scotland is a “national region”, served by the national station, BBC Radio Sc...
Apprentices’ perspectives of the tripartite collaboration at the heart of degree apprenticeships: a longitudinal study
Journal Article
Taylor-Smith, E., Smith, S., Fabian, K., & Bratton, A. (2023)
Apprentices’ perspectives of the tripartite collaboration at the heart of degree apprenticeships: a longitudinal study. Journal of Workplace Learning, 35(8), 779-795. https://doi.org/10.1108/JWL-01-2023-0007
Purpose: The partnership which underpins degree apprenticeships is a tripartite collaboration between apprentices, employers, and universities. This study investigated the li...