Graph signal representations for EEG analysis and machine learning classification See

This thesis investigates the dynamic characteristics of electroencephalography (EEG) signals using graph signal processing (GSP), focusing on modeling spatial and temporal variations in brain connectivity. Conventional approaches often rely on static graph structures, which do not adequately c...

Confronting social dominance ideology: how professional women manage career stereotypes in male-dominated occupations See

Purpose: Using social dominance theory as a conceptual lens, this study explores how female managers and professionals strive to defy the perceived career stereotypes in traditionally male-dominated occupations. Design/methodology/approach: The dataset comprises 30 intervie...

Community violence exposure and conduct problems in children and adolescents with conduct disorder and healthy controls See

Exposure to community violence through witnessing or being directly victimized has been associated with conduct problems in a range of studies. However, the relationship between community violence exposure (CVE) and conduct problems has never been studied separately in healthy individuals and...

The effect of fintech financing on firm performance: Evidence from emerging economies See

This paper rigorously examines the relationship between fintech financing and the financial and real performance of financially constrained firms in emerging countries. Using data from 45,770 firms across 20 countries for 2012–2020, we find that the performance of external-finance dependent firms...

Integrated Programme Assessment: 10 years on See

This paper explores the implementation and impact of Integrated Programme Assessment (IPA) across diverse disciplines in English higher education institutions. IPA is advocated as a framework that focuses on programme outcomes, aligns learning outcomes with assessment practices, and enhances the ...

From silos to synthesis: ensuring interdisciplinary education through synoptic assessment See

Modular education limits students to narrow perspectives without interdisciplinary connections and leads to in silo learning. We show here how embedding synoptic assessments in the BSc Life Sciences at Brunel University has broken such silos to support holistic understanding and critical thi...

Traditional Methods, Consumers’ Stereotyping of Farmers and the Compensatory Effects of Ethical Food Cues See

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Checking my body for signs of life: A novel – ‘I think I hated her. I also love her.’ A creative and critical analysis of maternal ambivalence as experienced by the adult daughter See

This thesis comprises a full-length novel, entitled Checking My Body for Signs of Life, and an accompanying critical exegesis. The former falls under the genre of literary fiction, and follows thirty-two-year-old Sky, who, along with her twin sister Jess, is trying to ...

Echo state networks in forecasting chaotic dynamics and emergent universalities See

Deep learning has become a popular way to accurately recognise, classify, generate and forecast data in various complex scenarios. It is commonly based on artificial neural networks, a type of machine learning architecture inspired by the human brain, that consist of multip...