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Pilot crossflow absorber hydrodynamic and mass transfer data
No full textThis data was generated during a comprehensive set of experimental runs of a pilot-scale crossflow absorber. The absorber is described in the PhD thesis titled "Crossflow absorber characterisation for the direct air capture of carbon" completed by MennatAllah Labib. The data includes hydrodynamic and effective mass transfer area measurements for six Mellapak 250Y.PP structured packings of slightly different geometries
Decolonised Transformations
No full textThis work is being conducted within the context of the UN International Decade for People of
African Descent (2015-24) and in the wake of calls by grassroots communities of reparatory justice interest, students-led
organizations and scholar-activists for higher education institutions (HEIs) to begin repairing the harms caused by
institutional ties to the enslavement of African peoples and colonial oppression, and their legacies today. Each HEI is
taking a different approach to their reparative justice programmes. Edinburgh is therefore at a critical point, and in a
unique position, to do something different. Restoring the dignity of racially minoritized peoples from multiple Black
(including African, African-descended, Caribbean) and Asian communities and other First Nation peoples requires an
action plan designed to both recognize the past while providing a vision for institutional and cultural development in the
future. The dataset comprises raw and anonymised responses from two questionnaires, cleaned and anonymised data,
data analyses and results, the documents used to obtain ethical approval for the questionnaires, and files used to recruit
participants for the questionnaires
Hong Kong April 2024 - images of new estates
No full text### DOCOMOMO INTERNATIONAL MASS HOUSING ARCHIVE ### The provision of healthy modern housing for all was one of the foremost ideals of the Modern Movement, and inspired a vast wave of planning and building across the world during the 20th century. In the last quarter of the century, even as the foundational programmes of Europe and America lost their impetus, the baton was passed on to other countries, especially in eastern Asia, where the narrative of Modern mass housing was reinvigorated for the next century - a unique example of a key Modernist project that actually continues and thrives today, and which thus forms a principal focus of interest for DOCOMOMO – the leading international organisation promoting the documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement. As heritage, the built legacies of this diverse and multi-generational adventure are almost always too controversial to qualify for conservation strategies. Instead, therefore, recording and inventorisation must dominate the heritage interest in this field. In the recognition of that fact, DOCOMOMO’s International Specialist Committee on Urbanism and Landscape, in partnership with the Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies at the University of Edinburgh, has launched the International Mass Housing Archive, whose aim is to provide an open-access library of images of significant housing projects in each working-group territory, free of copyright restrictions. These files may be copied, edited and shared on condition the appropriate citation is used, as per the terms of the attached Creative Commons Attribution licence. ### Structure ### The International Mass Housing Archive is subdivided under geographical headings corresponding to the constituent working groups of DOCOMOMO, and the individual housing projects are searchable under city and project name. Initially, the Image Archive will be managed and augmented centrally by DOCOMOMO and the SCCS, in partnership with University of Edinburgh Information Services, commencing with pilot city surveys sourced from our own photographic records in the first instance. The archive is related to several existing mass housing documentation initiatives. These include one concerning Britain, namely the online version of the 1994 book, Tower Block: http://towerblock.org/TowerBlock.pd
Cryptic dataset
No full textThe Cryptic dataset is constructed using from A Dataset of Cryptic Crossword Clues by George Ho (available at https://cryptics.georgeho.org)
This database consists of cryptic clues from multiple different sources, incuding the New York Times, The Guardian, The Times and The Hindu.
Each row in the database stores the clue (normally a cryptic sentence or two along with the length of the answer), the answer (normally a word or two), the definition (one or a few words, almost always either the start of the clue or the end).
We have extracted each clue that consists of 6 words from the database, and encoded the words with the BERT encoder to 6 word embeddings of dimension 768.
The task is to determine whether the cryptic clue contains the definition at the beginning or end of the clue. This makes a binary classification problem. The labels are as follows {beginning: 1, end: 0}.
The shape of the input data is (n, 1, 6, 768), and the labels are binary (0 or 1).
The extracted data is split into three sets, the test set consists of clues from The Times, the validation set from The Hindu, and the train set from all other sources
BioAsteroid_metabolomics
No full textMetabolomics analysis of the liquid fractions of samples from the BioAsteroid experiment, performed onboard the International Space Station between 2020 and 2021. It includes both ground and space samples
What's Right with PE: Exploring Positive Narratives in Physical Education
No full textThe dataset is a series of 5 narratives developed from discussions between PE practitioners from Scotland, England, Ireland, Canada and Norway. Their discussions were around ‘what’s right’ and ‘what’s wrong’ with PE. Full details of the analysis process can be found in the following article (just accepted for publication).
Gray, S., Lambert, K. & Young, L. (accepted April 2025). What's Right with PE: Exploring Positive Narratives in Physical Education. European Physical Education Review.
For decades, physical education (PE) scholars have called for a change to how PE is conceptualised and enacted, highlighting that its current (and persistent) form and focus - organised around physical activities and sport - are not fit for purpose. Much of this change-oriented discourse highlights what is wrong with PE, leading to suggestions about how PE should change in and for the future, for example, by adopting critical approaches and connecting more to the lives of young people. While we do not disagree with these perspectives and ideas, it is important to note that, in general, they have had little impact on PE curricula or pedagogy. In this paper we suggest an alternative, strengths-based approach. Drawing from discussions with a range of professionals from the PE community (teachers, undergraduate and postgraduate pre-service teachers and teacher educators) across five national contexts - Canada, England, Ireland, Norway and Scotland - we generated narratives about ‘what’s right with PE’. The narratives highlighted that PE can be ‘fit for purpose’ when it connects to the wider school and community, when everyone has a shared understanding of its purpose, and when PE teachers enact a broad, holistic and inclusive curriculum. We present the narratives as a reflective tool, encouraging all professionals within the PE community to consider how they align with (or against) their current experiences. We hope that these reflections facilitate critical thinking and problem solving to ensure that the subject is (and remains) fit for purpose now and in the future
Managing free-roaming domestic dog populations using surgical sterilisation: a randomised controlled trial
No full textFree-roaming domestic dogs (FRDs) are among the most abundant carnivores on earth and have coexisted with humans for over 15,000 years, yet increases in negative interactions and the transmission of zoonotic diseases, precipitates calls for population management. Despite significant investment in FRD sterilisation in India, where rabies is endemic, there is limited evidence of its impact on reducing FRD population sizes. Therefore, robust evaluation of the effectiveness of fertility control programmes is necessary. To address this, we implemented a Before After Control Intervention (BACI) framework in the first multi-site randomised controlled trial for the sterilisation of FRDs. We conducted single intensive sterilisation campaigns in five areas, achieving female sterilisation coverages of 58–66%. We observed a decrease in puppies and lactating females and a reduction in residents’ reports of barking, a common problem associated with FRDs. There were no significant differences in adult FRD counts between intervention and control sites during the 2-year follow-up. However, unmeasured immigration into and emigration out of study areas may have confounded counts. One-off, albeit intense, sterilisation campaigns in open populations require substantial investment and are unlikely to reduce population size in isolation, though there may be some reduction in problematic behaviours and improved animal welfare.README_ImpactsPaper.tx
NDVI maps Robert Island
No full textEarth’s polar regions are experiencing significant climate change, impacting global oceanographic and weather patterns. Arctic ‘greening’ is well studied, but a debate has emerged about whether similar trends are occurring in Antarctica and whether and how remote sensing can assess them. Recent studies have introduced a concept of 'greening' in Antarctica, framed primarily around moss cover expansion over bare ground. This interpretation differs from Arctic greening studies, which focus mainly on changes in vascular plant productivity and successional dynamics. This paper evaluates the Antarctic greening concept, focusing on how Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)-based methods are applied and interpreted in this context, considering regional limitations in technology, data availability, and the unique Antarctic vegetation characteristics. Unlike the Arctic, Antarctic vegetation consists mainly of non-vascular organisms (algae, cyanobacteria, lichens, and bryophytes) that interact with slow-weathering soils with minimal organic inputs. These biological and environmental differences likely influence NDVI greening metrics and their ecological relevance but remain poorly understood due to limited long-term data and validation. Despite advances in remote sensing, Antarctic vegetation mapping remains in its early stages. The small size and patchy distribution of vegetation complicate detection of presence and extent, and even with modern satellites, capturing sub-centimetre annual growth rates remains challenging. A lack of historical high-resolution imagery hampers change detection, limiting our ability to track habitat expansion, vegetation dynamics, and community composition changes over time. Based on critical assessment, we identify serious concerns regarding the accuracy and interpretation of NDVI-based greening trends in Antarctica in recent studies, particularly in relation to technological constraints and biological realism. To address these issues, we propose a refined framework for interpreting NDVI data in Antarctica, aiming to prevent misleading conclusions about vegetation changes and trends. This framework suggests an urgent need for re-evaluation of how 'greening' is both quantified and interpreted in Antarctica.
The NDVI layers are derived from WorldView 2 images taken on 13/3/13, 16/3/19 and 06/2/2023, 2m resolution
Divergent actions of physiological and pathological amyloid-β on synapses in live human brain slice cultures
No full textIn Alzheimer’s disease, amyloid beta (Aβ) and tau pathology are thought to drive synapse loss. However, there is limited information on how endogenous levels of tau, Aβ and other biomarkers relate to patient characteristics, or how manipulating physiological levels of Aβ impacts synapses in living adult, human brain. Using live human brain slice cultures, we report that Aβ1-40 and tau release levels vary with donor age and brain region, respectively. Release of other biomarkers such as KLK-6, NCAM-1, and Neurogranin vary between brain region, while TDP-43 and NCAM-1 release is impacted by sex. Pharmacological manipulation of Aβ in either direction results in a loss of synaptophysin puncta, with increased physiological Aβ triggering potentially compensatory synaptic transcript changes. In contrast, treatment with Aβ-containing Alzheimer’s disease brain extract results in postsynaptic Aβ uptake and presynaptic puncta loss without affecting synaptic transcripts. These data reveal distinct effects of physiological and pathological Aβ on synapses in human brain tissue.Within the excel file, each tab references each figure in the paper. A READ ME is provided at the top of each sheet to explain how the data relates to the figure
SUPERSEDED - WeightGait Dataset (Example Videos)
No full text## This item has been replaced by the one which can be found at https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7897 ##
Here is a set of example videos of the different pathologies exhibited in the WeightGait dataset (Lochhead, Christopher; Fisher, Robert. (2024). WeightGait Dataset, [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Informatics. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7802.). A full description and access to the dataset is available at: https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/885