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De novo design of novel protease inhibitor candidates in the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 using deep learning, docking, and molecular dynamic simulations

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Arshia, A. H., Shadravan, S., Solhjoo, A., Sakhteman, A., & Sami, A. (2021)
De novo design of novel protease inhibitor candidates in the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 using deep learning, docking, and molecular dynamic simulations. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 139, Article 104967. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.104967
The main protease of SARS-CoV-2 is a critical target for the design and development of antiviral drugs. 2.5 M compounds were used in this study to train an LSTM generative net...

Financial Fair Play and the Court of Arbitration for Sport

Journal Article
Sroka, R. (in press)
Financial Fair Play and the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Journal of Global Sport Management, https://doi.org/10.1080/24704067.2022.2032258
This article examines four major Financial Fair Play (FFP) cases that have come before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Although significant previous work has address...

Short Documentary Film Series - Artist Uncovered: George Donald

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Bilgrami, S. (2015)
Short Documentary Film Series - Artist Uncovered: George Donald
A portrait of the celebrated Scottish artist George Donald who explains the philosophy behind his thought-provoking paintings. Link to video on Youtube - https://www.youtube....

Friendship as Method? Friendship as Epistemology?

Presentation / Conference
Kulpa, R. (2022, June)
Friendship as Method? Friendship as Epistemology?. Paper presented at 11th European Feminist Research Conference: "Social Change in a Feminist Perspective", Universita di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, IT
Friendship gained across years some traction in kinship research, recently especially within the ‘queer kinship’ debates, as a strong manifestation for the need and drive of a...

Lipophilicity profiling and cell viability assessment of a selected panel of endocrine disruptors

Journal Article
Russo, G., Piccolo, M., Neri, I., Ferraro, M. G., Santamaria, R., & Grumetto, L. (2023)
Lipophilicity profiling and cell viability assessment of a selected panel of endocrine disruptors. Chemosphere, 313, Article 137569. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.137569
Endocrine disruptors are chemicals widely used worldwide by industries in a variety of applications. Routinely exposure to these chemicals, even if at low doses, can cause dam...

Build, manage and evaluate: information practices and personal reputations on social media platforms

Presentation / Conference
Ryan, F., Hall, H., Cruickshank, P., & Lawson, A. (2019, June)
Build, manage and evaluate: information practices and personal reputations on social media platforms. Paper presented at Conceptions of Library and Information Science 10 (CoLIS10), Ljubjana, Slovenia
Introduction. The broad theme of this paper is the use of information to build, manage and evaluate personal reputations. It reports the findings of a study that considered th...

Deep Learning for Quality Assessment in Live Video Streaming

Journal Article
Vega, M. T., Mocanu, D. C., Famaey, J., Stavrou, S., & Liotta, A. (2017)
Deep Learning for Quality Assessment in Live Video Streaming. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 24(6), 736-740. https://doi.org/10.1109/lsp.2017.2691160
Video content providers put stringent requirements on the quality assessment methods realized on their services. They need to be accurate, real-time, adaptable to new content,...

Meeting psychosocial needs to improve health: a prospective cohort study

Journal Article
Snowden, A., Young, J., & Savinc, J. (2020)
Meeting psychosocial needs to improve health: a prospective cohort study. BMC Cancer, 20(1), Article 528. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-020-07022-w
Background Cancer impacts on patients and their families across a range of different domains. For that reason, optimal cancer care has moved away from a disease-centric focus ...

Health help-seeking by men in Brunei Darussalam: masculinities and ‘doing’ male identities across the life course.

Journal Article
Idris, D. R., Forrest, S., & Brown, S. (2019)
Health help-seeking by men in Brunei Darussalam: masculinities and ‘doing’ male identities across the life course. Sociology of health and illness, 41(6), 1071-1087. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12885
Using data collected through semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions with 37 adult men living in Brunei Darussalam, this paper explores how masculinities and ex...

Hybrid Gene Origination Creates Human-Virus Chimeric Proteins during Infection

Journal Article
Ho, J. S. Y., Angel, M., Ma, Y., Sloan, E., Wang, G., Martinez-Romero, C., …Marazzi, I. (2020)
Hybrid Gene Origination Creates Human-Virus Chimeric Proteins during Infection. Cell, 181(7), 1502-1517. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.05.035
RNA viruses are a major human health threat. The life cycles of many highly pathogenic RNA viruses like influ-enza A virus (IAV) and Lassa virus depends on host mRNA, because ...

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SHELTERs: Sustainable Homes Enabling the Long Term Empowerment of Refugees

2020 - 2024
This project addresses this major moral, humanitarian, and knowledge gap by following on from a highly successful seed-funded project, which developed—through participatory design and interdisciplinar...
Funder: Royal Academy of Engineering | Value: £314,324

Development of an in vitro suppression assay to assess functionality of therapeutic regulatory T cell for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis

2023 - 2024
MRS Summer Studentship for ENU Undergrad student Martin Swapp - 8 weeks in duration over summer 2023
Funder: Medical Research Scotland | Value: £3,030

Assessing the implementation of the Public Health Scotland Physical Activity Referral Standards: A process evaluation

2022 - 2025
Physical inactivity is a major public health problem and increasing population physical activity levels is a Scottish Government priority. In Scotland, 49% of men and 58% of women were not active enou...
Funder: Chief Scientists Office | Value: £298,277

Raptor Persecution in Scotland

2023 - 2024
Drs Soliman and Wooff are designing a project examining raptor persecution in Scotland. One of the six UK wildlife crime priority areas, the illegal killing of birds of prey is primarily associated wi...
Funder: Scottish Institute for Policing Research | Value: £2,000

EXPOSURE OF RESPIRATORY NURSES TO SECOND-HAND SMOKE DURING PATIENT VISITS IN THE COMMUNITY

2024 - 2024
Although there has been a smoking ban across the UK for more than 15 years making it illegal to smoke in many workplaces there are still some circumstances where workers are being exposed to second-ha...
Funder: Association of Respiratory Nurse Specialists | Value: £8,077

TRUST AND PRIVACY PRESERVING COMPUTING PLATFORM FOR CROSSBORDER FEDERATION OF PERSONAL DATA

2022 - 2025
As we live in a data-driven era, the emergence of interdisciplinary, geographically dispersed, data repositories, is inevitable. The fact that these repositories do not necessarily abide with existing...
Funder: UK Research and Innovation | Value: £310,843

Building From England's Woodlands

2022 - 2025
The focus of the project is to develop 5 building system concepts through innovative digital design, adapted to the characteristics of 5 underutilised home-grown English timber species. Each project s...
Funder: Forestry Commission England | Value: £109,975

Acceptability of extragenital Chlamydia testing

2017 - 2018
Chlamydia trachomatis is the most common sexually transmitted infection in Scotland, and has significant long‐term consequences to reproductive health. Recent studies suggest that in addition to the g...
Funder: Chief Scientists Office | Value: £27,998

Cerapoint - Surface Materials for Oil & Gas

2011 - 2012
A unique coating process has been developed for applications in environmentally challenging environments, in particular for the oil and gas industry. The University will investigate the feasibility of...
Value: £34,892

Inverted Hydro-generation

2018 - 2018
Inverted hydro-electrical generation concept realisation and proof of concept evaluation.
Funder: Energy Technology Partnership | Value: £10,000

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Pedestrian right-of-way violations at signalised pedestrian crossings in Edinburgh

2007 - 2013
The review of available literature related to pedestrian accidents indicates that the occurrence of pedestrian acciden...
Khalfan Alnaqbi | Director of Studies: Prof Wafaa Saleh | Second Supervisor: Kevin Cullinane

Shared ownership and use of vehicles in the Autonomous Vehicle era.

2017 - 2022
Shared ownership and ridership models to determine driverless car use in Edinburgh This research explores the shared ownership and ri...
Mr. Sayed Faruque | Director of Studies: Prof Achille Fonzone | Second Supervisor: Dr Grigorios Fountas

The Unresolved Battles: A Qualitative study exploring the lived experiences of UK military veterans incarcerated in Scottish prisons

2016 - date
In 2014, the Veterans' Transition Review anticipated that 22,5301 m...
Jacqueline Rappoport | Director of Studies: Dr Mandy Winterton | Second Supervisor: Dr Christine Haddow

Cryptographic privacy-preserving enhancement method for investigative data acquisition

2006 - 2011
The specification of Internet protocol stack was developed to be as universal as possible, providing various optio...
Zbigniew Kwecka | Director of Studies: Prof Bill Buchanan | Second Supervisor: Dr Duncan Spiers

Anglophone Sub-Sahara African video industry: a new paradigmatic practice of movie--making

2006 - 2013
The subject of this study is Sub-Sahara Africa Anglophone Video-moviemaking and the research process is an emp...
Kofi Boateng | Director of Studies: Roberta McGrath | Second Supervisor: Dr C. Paul Sellors

An analysis of motorcyclist injury severity by various crash configurations at T-Junctions in the United Kingdom

2004 - 2008
Motorcyclists that have no protective structures while motorcycling as other occupants o...
Chih Wei Pai | Director of Studies: Prof Wafaa Saleh | Second Supervisor: Mike Maher

Learning and development at work: opportunities and barriers for non-registered clinical staff in NHS Scotland

2002 - 2008
The non-registered assistant workforce in the National Health Service Scotland (NHSS) has ...
Dr Deborah McCraw | Director of Studies: Prof Anne Munro | Second Supervisor: Gillian Raab

The development and analysis of conductive nonwoven carbon fibre veils for electromagnetic shielding applications

2008 - 2010
Electromagnetic interference (EMI) is a growing problem in the modern world and as the ...
Andrew Austin | Director of Studies: Mike Barker | Second Supervisor: John Sharp

Developing a clinically meaningful and feasible suicide risk assessment measure for use in Emergency Departments

2014 - 2018
My PhD project aims to explore suicide risk assessment practices in emergency settings. ...
Dr Kirstie McClatchey | Director of Studies: Dr Jennifer Murray | Second Supervisor: Dr Zoe Chouliara

Assessing the role of intertidal seagrasses as coastal carbon sinks in Scotland

2013 - 2017
Seagrasses form dense and extensive coastal meadows extending from intertidal areas down to 40 m depth worldwide except ...
Maria Potouroglou | Director of Studies: Prof Mark Huxham | Second Supervisor: Prof Karen Diele

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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.

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...

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...

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