Repository as a service (RaaS)

In his oft-quoted seminal paper ‘Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure For Scholarship In The Digital Age’ Clifford Lynch (2003) described the Institutional Repository as “a set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members.” This paper seeks instead to define the repository service at a more primitive level, without the specialism of being an ‘Institutional Repository’, and looks at how it can viewed as providing a service within appropriate boundaries, and what that could mean for the future development of repositories, our expectations of what repositories should be, and how they could fit into the set of services required to deliver an Institutional Repository service as describe by Lynch.<br/

Investigating phishing awareness using virtual agents and eye movements

Phishing emails typically attempt to persuade recipients to reveal private or confidential information (e.g., passwords or bank details). Interaction with such emails places individuals at risk of financial loss and identity theft. We present an ongoing study using eye tracking metrics and varying interface components to assess users' ability to spot simulated phishing attempts. Findings seek to establish how users interact with email inbox interfaces and will inform future design of usable security tools.</p

We’re all in the same boat : A collective model of preserving and accessing nature-based opportunities

Author's accepted version (postprint).This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Sage in Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice on 15/03/2019.Available online: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1042258719834014acceptedVersio

Straight to the heart of the matter:towards effective means of combatting romance fraud

Romance fraud has rapidly increased over the past decade and has become one of the most devastating forms of fraud around. By impersonating a victim's 'true love’, scammers can exploit victims’ trust and money, leaving victims emotionally and financially ruined. This devious and exploitative cybercrime merits a strong response to prevent the risk of, and damage resulting from, romance fraud. Consequently, many approaches have been taken to deter and disrupt the effectiveness of scammers, ranging from easily distributable awareness campaigns to bespoke victim support groups. Such approaches demonstrate promising results in some areas; however, they are not without their limitations. Awareness campaigns can only be effective if users retain the message. Meanwhile, victim support groups can only attempt to lessen the emotional impact for victims and prevent them from being further defrauded. Existing approaches overlook a key area in the romance fraud timeline: the dating platforms themselves. Dating platforms offer an opportunity to examine interactions between scammers and potential victims, thus potentially providing interventions when scammer behaviour is identified rather than after the fact; allowing context dependent advice in this setting helps keep users one step ahead of the scammers

Straight to the heart of the matter:towards effective means of combatting romance fraud

Romance fraud has rapidly increased over the past decade and has become one of the most devastating forms of fraud around. By impersonating a victim's 'true love’, scammers can exploit victims’ trust and money, leaving victims emotionally and financially ruined. This devious and exploitative cybercrime merits a strong response to prevent the risk of, and damage resulting from, romance fraud. Consequently, many approaches have been taken to deter and disrupt the effectiveness of scammers, ranging from easily distributable awareness campaigns to bespoke victim support groups. Such approaches demonstrate promising results in some areas; however, they are not without their limitations. Awareness campaigns can only be effective if users retain the message. Meanwhile, victim support groups can only attempt to lessen the emotional impact for victims and prevent them from being further defrauded. Existing approaches overlook a key area in the romance fraud timeline: the dating platforms themselves. Dating platforms offer an opportunity to examine interactions between scammers and potential victims, thus potentially providing interventions when scammer behaviour is identified rather than after the fact; allowing context dependent advice in this setting helps keep users one step ahead of the scammers

Use of biochemical indices for analysis of growth in juvenile two-spotted gobies Gobiusculus flavescens of the Baltic Sea

Multiple biochemical measurements were evaluated as an indirect measure of juvenile fish growth rate. Juvenile two-spotted gobies, Gobiusculus flavescens (Fabricius), caught in the Kiel Bight, were incubated in a temperature gradient table at 7 different temperatures ranging from 9 to 22.7°C for up to 28 days and sampled weekly. RNA/DNA ratios (RNA/DNA), protein and lipid amounts were measured in whole fish homogenates and compared with calculated weight-based growth rates of the individuals. RNA/DNA values were not significantly correlated with weight-specific growth rates. Lipid- and protein-based growth rates, on the other hand, were highly correlated with weight-specific growth (R2 of 0.4-0.5) and lipid-based growth rate explained 45.8% variability of weight-based growth in a linear growth model. Weight-based growth rates showed a dome-shaped relationship to temperature with a maximum around 16°C, a trend mirrored in lipid-based growth rates. The results indicate a stage-dependent shift in energy storage and metabolism with a decoupling of RNA/DNA as an index of weight-based growth rate as the juvenile gobies mature and lipids become the main determinant of weight-based growth in these fish