University of Aberdeen

Mechanisms for digital business model innovation in international new ventures from developing economies

Digital international new ventures (DINVs) increasingly leverage ecosystem partnerships to drive digital business model innovation (DBMI) and navigate global markets. However, research to examine how such partnerships contribute to DBMI is limited, particularly in resource-constr...

Impact of Surgical Weight Loss Interventions on Urinary Incontinence in Obese Women: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Abstract Introduction and Hypothesis Obesity is strongly associated with urinary incontinence (UI) in women, contributing to significant physical and psychological morbidity. Surgical weight loss interventions such as bariatric surgery are increasingly utilised to manage obesity...

Equity in digital palliative care: a scoping review of disparities and facilitators

Digital health technologies offer significant potential to enhance palliative care delivery but concerns persist regarding equitable access across diverse populations. This scoping review maps the existing literature on digital palliative care interventions, identifies barriers a...

Palaeocene climate warming as a catalyst for wildfire intensification

Abstract Wildfire regimes are rapidly intensifying under anthropogenic climate change, the effects of which increasingly threaten the health and stability of global ecosystems and the safety of human populations. Understanding wildfire behavior, independent of human intervention,...

Integrating menopausal neurocognitive and psychosocial dynamics into economic behavior: the Behavioral Finance–Menopausal Cognition (BF-MC) Model (MARiE WP2A study)

Objective: Traditional behavioral finance—which examines how cognitive biases, emotions, and context shape economic decision-making— often assumes cognitive stability, rationality, and consistent risk evaluation, based largely on male-dominated samples. Emerging evidence from the...

SAGE: An Expert-Annotated South Asian GI Endoscopy Dataset for Multimodal Learning and Hallucination Analysis

Gastrointestinal cancers represent a growing health burden in the South Asian region, driven largely by rapid changes in socio-economic conditions and lifestyle habits. However, early diagnosis remains limited by inadequate equipment, financial resources, and scarce GI expertise....

Predicting the Unpredictable: Development and External Validation of the GO SOAR Surgical Risk Calculator for Data-Driven Predictions of Surgical Complications in Gynaecological Oncology Surgery

Background/Objectives: Universal surgical risk calculators are not validated for use and poorly predict postoperative morbidity and mortality for women undergoing gynaecological oncology surgery. This adversely affects communication of risk resulting in poorly informed decisions...

Unconformities: a personal view of their use in deducing tectonic histories

James Hutton (1726-1797) realised that earth history could be deduced from the unconformities found at outcrop. One hundred years later unconformities were used to propose that the Earth deformed in short-lived tectonic episodes of global extent. This arose, and is perpetuated, b...

Telling by Numbers Narrative Threads and the Craft of Accounting

The ‘digit’, from the Latin digitus, can be a number or a finger. This essay explores the changing relation between the two. Both numbers and fingers, once enrolled in practices of manual bookkeeping, have succumbed to a process of datafication that has led not only to the detach...

The interplay of social capital, digital transformation and sustainability for designing international marketing strategies: a systematic literature review

Purpose This study systematically reviews the current literature on the role of social capital in adopting digital technologies and achieving sustainability. The current investigation identifies key insights across social capital, digital transformation and sustainability paradig...

The Many Lives of Edmund Burke: A Historiographical Review

Abstract This historiographical review maps and scrutinizes the interpretative traditions that have grown around Edmund Burke’s thought since the 1790s, identifying three distinctive strands of criticism: the Victorian utilitarian/proto-liberal interpretation, the Namierite analy...

Toward scalable organ-level 3D plant segmentation: A systematic and quantitative review through the lens of the data-algorithm-computing triangle

The precise characterization of plant morphology provides valuable insights into plant-environment interactions and genetic evolution. A key technology for extracting this information is 3D segmentation, which delineates individual plant organs from complex point clouds. Despite...

HAT1 regulates glioblastoma cell proliferation and membrane lipid remodeling through ALDH2

Abstract Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive and lethal form of primary brain cancer in adults, characterized by rapid cell proliferation, resistance to therapy, and poor patient outcomes. While epigenetic dysregulation is increasingly recognized in glioma pathogenesis, the...

How non-market collaboration shapes stakeholders' wellbeing through climate-risk management strategies in emerging market B2B firms?

Climate change poses threats to stakeholders' wellbeing, defined as their satisfaction, value realisation, expectations, and retention with the firm. While research has established that enhancing stakeholders' wellbeing requires cross-sector collaboration, industrial marketing sc...

Not your average podcaster: turn-taking timings and conversational role behavior in AI-generated dialogues

Abstract What makes artificially generated podcasts feel natural, and what are their current limitations? In this exploratory study, we compare podcasts generated by Google’s NotebookLM Audio Overview feature with naturally produced podcasts to explore two key ingredients of huma...

Community-based archaeology reinforces Indigenous cultural resilience to climate change in Alaska

In this perspective I argue that in an era of climate crisis and persistent colonial injustice, archaeology can no longer remain neutral; it must align with the objectives of disempowered groups. As the Arctic warms at four times the global average, recent U.S. executive actions...

Transforming Science with Large Language Models: A Survey on AI-assisted Scientific Discovery, Experimentation, Content Generation, and Evaluation

With the advent of large multimodal language models, science is now at a threshold of an AI-based technological transformation. An emerging ecosystem of models and tools aims to support researchers throughout the scientific lifecycle, including (1) searching for relevant literatu...

Learning from model failure: insights from an AI/SHAP-based temporal error decomposition of tracer-aided ecohydrological modelling

Abstract. Process-based models (PBM) have served as testing grounds for hypotheses, being falsified and refined through model evaluation based on temporally complex PBM errors. Yet, conventional evaluation practices (e.g., performance metrics, visual inspection across time series...

Leading the renewal of a profession: Approaches to developing teacher educators’ research capacity in higher education

Teacher educators in higher education are often encouraged to engage with research to enhance their own subject knowledge and professional practice, improve teacher education programmes, and contribute to educating better trainee teachers. However, research shows that there are a...

Self-reported social and motivational factors in health-related future intentions amongst older adults

Abstract Prospective memory (PM), the ability to form a specific intention and remember to carry it out at an appropriate future time, is critical in health-related contexts and has been found to decline significantly with age. Further, motivation plays a vital role in PM and pre...