All Outputs (113)

FluxZayn: An Auto-Ethnographic Case Study in Vibe Coding a Generative AI Extension for Stable Diffusion WebUI Forge Paper (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper

This practice-led, auto-ethnographic case study documents the conceptualisation, development, and release of FluxZayn, a Python-based extension for the Stable Diffusion WebUI Forge platform. Motivated by a creative workflow challenge – specifically g... Read More about FluxZayn: An Auto-Ethnographic Case Study in Vibe Coding a Generative AI Extension for Stable Diffusion WebUI Forge Paper.

Unstructured Spare Time as an International Predictor of Adolescent Crime (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper

This study investigates whether unstructured spare time is a significant predictor of self-reported offending among adolescents in multiple countries. Drawing on survey data from 58,425 13-to-17-year-olds in 21 countries, we examine whether time spen... Read More about Unstructured Spare Time as an International Predictor of Adolescent Crime.

Is aphantasia a neurodevelopmental condition? Evidence from face recognition and developmental prosopagnosia (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper

Developmental aphantasia is characterised by an absence of visual mental imagery, with many
researchers concluding that it is not a disorder. However, impairments in facial identity
processing and elevated cooccurrence with developmental prosopagno... Read More about Is aphantasia a neurodevelopmental condition? Evidence from face recognition and developmental prosopagnosia.

Therapeutic Potential of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) in Long COVID: Protocol for a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper

Objective To synthesise quantitative evidence on the effectiveness of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) as an intervention for individuals with long COVID/post-COVID syndrome.

Introduction An estimated 65 million people worldwide meet the WH... Read More about Therapeutic Potential of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) in Long COVID: Protocol for a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

A very brief intervention with the muscle-strengthening guidelines to improve strength in adults aged 50-75 years (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper

Background
Muscle strength is a robust predictor of healthy ageing and vital for independence in later life. Despite their potential reach, there is little evidence that healthcare practitioners are promoting the muscle-strengthening component of th... Read More about A very brief intervention with the muscle-strengthening guidelines to improve strength in adults aged 50-75 years.

Mapping current research relating to family and partners of people with chronic kidney disease (kidney carers): A scoping review protocol (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper

Protocol of a scoping review to identify extent and patterns in current research relating to informal carers of people with chronic kidney disease.

Optimisation of passive acoustic bird surveys: a global assessment of BirdNET settings (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper

BirdNET is a popular machine learning tool for automated recognition of bird sounds. Here we evaluate how BirdNET settings affect the model performance both at vocalization and species levels, using 4,225 one-minute recordings from 67 recording locat... Read More about Optimisation of passive acoustic bird surveys: a global assessment of BirdNET settings.

A study of the acceptability of a community delirium toolkit to healthcare staff (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper

Background: Delirium is a common condition that frequently results in hospital admission. There is increasing evidence, to show that delirium can be safely assessed and managed in the community, we have previously published the results of a community... Read More about A study of the acceptability of a community delirium toolkit to healthcare staff.

Differential expression patterns of sIgA in Human Breast milk (HBM) is dependent on birth outcome (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper

Breast milk is key for the development of newborns, particularly their immune systems and gut microbiota. In times of neonatal care, newborns are often supplemented with donor breast milk for a range of practical and medical reasons. However, we do n... Read More about Differential expression patterns of sIgA in Human Breast milk (HBM) is dependent on birth outcome.

WABAD: A World Annotated Bird Acoustic Dataset for Passive Acoustic Monitoring (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper

Under the current global biodiversity crisis, there is a need for automated and non-invasive monitoring techniques that are able to gather large amounts of information cost-effectively at large scales. One such technique is passive acoustic monitorin... Read More about WABAD: A World Annotated Bird Acoustic Dataset for Passive Acoustic Monitoring.

How to Manage Portfolios in Different Clusters? An Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Using the daily data from 2010 to 2023 on global indices for 15 heterogeneous stocks’ prices, this study examines traditional portfolio theory by applying unsupervised machine learning, particularly the K-means clustering algorithm. This algorithm id... Read More about How to Manage Portfolios in Different Clusters? An Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach.

LOad Monitoring and Intervention System (LOMIS) to prevent diabetic foot ulceration: Study protocol for a multi-phased safety and performance evaluation of a novel medical device (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Background: Plantar foot pressure is a significant risk factor for ulceration in diabetic feet. However, foot pressure-based ulceration risk prediction has remained confined to the contribution of compressive pressure measured under controlled labora... Read More about LOad Monitoring and Intervention System (LOMIS) to prevent diabetic foot ulceration: Study protocol for a multi-phased safety and performance evaluation of a novel medical device.

The Role of Ethics in Physiotherapy: A Scoping Review Protocol (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Background and aims Ethical considerations play a crucial role in physiotherapy, influencing patient care, professional conduct, and clinical decision-making. Despite its significance, there is a limited comprehensive understanding of how ethical pri... Read More about The Role of Ethics in Physiotherapy: A Scoping Review Protocol.

Experiences of a Lived Experience Recovery Organisation for those in abstinence-based substance use recovery: A thematic analysis (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Background.
Lived experience recovery organisations (LEROs) are social support services facilitated by those who have shared lived experience. Typically, they aim to build shared identity and reducing stigma in this area, although there is limited k... Read More about Experiences of a Lived Experience Recovery Organisation for those in abstinence-based substance use recovery: A thematic analysis.

Evidence for Motivated Control? Climate Change Related Distress is Positively Associated with Domain-specific Self-Efficacy and Climate Action (2024)
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Tracking Persistent Symptoms in Scotland (TraPSS): a longitudinal prospective cohort study of COVID-19 recovery after mild acute infection (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Background: COVID-19 disease results in disparate responses between individuals and has led to the emergence of long coronavirus disease (Long-COVID), characterised by persistent and cyclical symptomology. To understand the complexity of Long-COVID,... Read More about Tracking Persistent Symptoms in Scotland (TraPSS): a longitudinal prospective cohort study of COVID-19 recovery after mild acute infection.

Baler -- Machine Learning Based Compression of Scientific Data (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper

Storing and sharing increasingly large datasets is a challenge across scientific research and industry. In this paper, we document the development and applications of Baler - a Machine Learning based data compression tool for use across scientific di... Read More about Baler -- Machine Learning Based Compression of Scientific Data.

Credit Rating and Capital Providers (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

Credit Ratings (CRs) and Capital Providers (CPs) are strategically linked realities. Firms exhibit strategic behaviour in selecting their capital providers after rating changes. The findings show that after an upgrade, firms try to minimise their exp... Read More about Credit Rating and Capital Providers.

Compliant actuators that mimic biological muscle performance with applications in a highly biomimetic robotic arm (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

This paper endeavours to bridge the existing gap in muscular actuator design for ligament-skeletal-inspired robots, thereby fostering the evolution of these robotic systems. We introduce two novel compliant actuators, namely the Internal Torsion Spri... Read More about Compliant actuators that mimic biological muscle performance with applications in a highly biomimetic robotic arm.

Citizen scientists’ motivation to participate in environmental DNA (eDNA) surveys: A case study on monitoring mammals in the UK (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

1. Citizen scientists have become integral participants in nature conservation projects, and the demand for effective conservation efforts has sparked increasing interest in utilizing environmental DNA (eDNA) for species monitoring, drawing citizen s... Read More about Citizen scientists’ motivation to participate in environmental DNA (eDNA) surveys: A case study on monitoring mammals in the UK.