University of Strathclyde

Assessing port infrastructure criticality and vulnerability for climate adaptation planning: Insights from three European ports

Climate change is increasing the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events, directly threatening critical port infrastructure and the stability of global supply chains. Effective adaptation planning requires systematic tools capable of identifying the most critical and cl...

Comparative Thermodynamic Assessment of Renewable Production Pathway Efficiencies for Methane, Methanol, and Ammonia Fuels

Abstract The use of alternative fuels such as methane, methanol, and ammonia is quintessential for the shipping decarbonization. However, to minimize their carbon footprint and achieve net-zero targets, these fuels’ production must involve energy from renewable sources. This stud...

A Framework for Quantifying Diverse Multi‐Hazard Interactions to Enhance Climate Resilience

ABSTRACT Multi‐hazard events generate impacts exceeding those of individual hazards but remain difficult to assess due to complex interactions. This study presents a generalized framework for analyzing four interaction types—multivariate, preconditioned and triggering, spatially,...

Rapid soil moisture depletion during flash droughts accelerates wildfire spread in the United States

Abstract Fire danger can escalate rapidly when vegetation dries over days to weeks. Flash droughts, characterised by rapid root-zone soil moisture depletion under high evaporative demand, may accelerate wildfire spread. Here, we quantify relationships between flash droughts and w...

Local economy impacts of a planned ultra-deep-water quay development in the Scottish Shetland Islands

Creating new port infrastructure is essential in unlocking energy and net-zero transition pathways globally. In addition to standard business planning, it is increasingly important to build an understanding of how investment that extends port infrastructure to increase operating...

Integrated Ground-Penetrating Radar and Electrical Resistivity Tomography for Concrete and Masonry Assessment: A Critical Review and Research Agenda

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) provide complementary, but non-unique, observations of concrete and masonry conditions. GPR is primarily sensitive to dielectric contrasts, interfaces, reinforcement geometry and electromagnetic attenuatio...

Evaluating the socio-economic impacts of the energy system transition: the implications of wage-setting mechanisms

Achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions requires large-scale investment in clean energy infrastructure, with potentially far-reaching system-wide consequences for employment and wages. Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) and Input-Output (IO) models are widely used to assess...

Transcription and Recognition in the Oral History Interview

Abstract Transcription is a key part of oral history practice. Transcribed text is often the main way in which a wider audience engages with an oral history interview, and even as the possibilities for digital and multimedia presentation become wider, text remains an important co...

An Iterative Block Matrix Inversion (IBMI) Algorithm for Symmetric Positive Definite Matrices with Applications to Covariance Matrices

Abstract. Obtaining the inverse of a large symmetric positive definite matrix [Formula: see text] is a continual challenge across many mathematical disciplines. The computational complexity associated with direct methods can be prohibitively expensive, making it infeasible to com...

Evaluating the effectiveness of video based learning for Ansys tutorials in engineering education

The present work explores the effectiveness of video based Ansys tutorials as a complementary learning tool in undergraduate mechanical engineering education. A survey of 58 students was conducted at the University of Strathclyde across three levels of academic study. The finding...

‘Seeing Like a Movie’: Cultivating the Poetic Gaze with Thomas Aquinas and the Artform of the Moving Image

Abstract Why does Aquinas go to the movies and what does all of this have to do with education? In order to shed light on this productive confusion, I shall explore Thomas Aquinas’ medieval notion of divine poiesis not merely as a theological or metaphysical intrusion of the peda...

Exploring post-pandemic policies on staff testing, sickness pay and absence related to COVID and respiratory infections in English care homes

Abstract Background Residents of care homes for older people are at risk of illness and hospitalisation from respiratory infections. Care home industry pay and conditions may contribute to the risk that staff will transmit infection to residents at times when respiratory viruses...

Towards fair gig work: integrating gig work into Scotland's renewed fair work agenda

Purpose This article examines how platform gig work in Scotland, which remains absent from both the fair work agenda, aligns with or diverges from, Scotland's fair work framework. Specifically, it discusses the employment practices in the sector in relation to Scotland's fair wor...

Mitophagy and Noncoding RNA Regulation in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Molecular Mechanisms, Tissue-Specific Evidence and Translational Perspective

Despite significant therapeutic advances, T2DM remains a global public health challenge that leads to multiple complications, including cardiovascular, renal, hepatic, and neurodegenerative disorders. Mitochondrial dysfunction and impaired mitophagy remain fundamental, yet incomp...

A Self‐Supervised Framework for Space Object Behaviour Characterisation

ABSTRACT Foundation Models, which leverage large neural networks pre‐trained on unlabelled data before fine‐tuning for specific tasks, are increasingly being applied to specialised domains. Recent examples include ClimaX for climate and Clay for satellite Earth observation, but a...

A compilation of global bio-optical in situ data for ocean-colour satellite applications – version four

Abstract. A global in situ dataset for validation of satellite products from the ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (OC-CCI) is presented. This version of the compilation, with data starting in 1996, extends to 2025, which is important for the validation of recent algorit...

Walk Based Laplacians for Modeling Diffusion on Complex Networks

Abstract We develop a novel framework for modeling diffusion on complex networks by constructing Laplacian-like operators based on walks around a graph. Our approach introduces a parametric family of walk-based Laplacians that naturally incorporate memory effects by excluding or...

Antimicrobial peptides for tuberculosis in a post-antibiotic era: from in vitro promise to therapeutic potential

Abstract Tuberculosis remains the leading cause of death from a single infectious pathogen, driven by prolonged treatment regimens and escalating drug resistance. Antimicrobial peptides represent a promising alternative therapeutic class with diverse mechanisms and limited resist...

Cultural capital and the social origin pay gap in the UK: Do you like the opera?

A wealth of qualitative literature on the ‘class ceiling’ highlights how cultural capital plays a role in the social origin pay gap. However, no study has quantitatively examined this association. This paper uses data from Understanding Society, measuring cultural capital via res...

A Unified Multi-Task Vision Transformer for Interpretable Ovarian Tumour Analysis

Ovarian cancer remains a leading cause of gynaecological cancer mortality, and ultrasound-based deep learning systems for its diagnosis are typically built as separate post hoc processes for classification, segmentation, and interpretability, which introduces workflow inefficienc...