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View article: Mental Health and Foundational Academic Behaviours: Pieces of the Academic Success Puzzle
Mental Health and Foundational Academic Behaviours: Pieces of the Academic Success Puzzle Open
The interplay between mental health and academic behaviours has been understudied. This study examined the relationship between foundational academic behaviours (e.g., attending class and meeting assignment deadlines), student mental healt…
View article: Moderating borderline content while respecting fundamental values
Moderating borderline content while respecting fundamental values Open
As efforts to identify and remove online terrorist and violent extremist content have intensified, concern has also grown about so‐called lawful but awful content. Various options have been touted for reducing the visibility of this border…
View article: Remove, Impede, Disrupt, Redirect: Understanding & Combating Pro-Islamic State Use of File-Sharing Platforms
Remove, Impede, Disrupt, Redirect: Understanding & Combating Pro-Islamic State Use of File-Sharing Platforms Open
In the face of content takedown and account suspensions on the biggest social media platforms, terrorist groups and their supporters have resorted to the use of file-sharing sites to ensure stable access to their propaganda. Amongst those …
View article: Introduction to the Special Issue: Extremism and Terrorism Online—Widening the Research Base
Introduction to the Special Issue: Extremism and Terrorism Online—Widening the Research Base Open
In 2017, also in a special issue of Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, this one titled “Terrorist Online Propaganda and Radicalization,” 1 one of the coeditors of this issue, Conway, made six suggest...
View article: Network and hypervisor-based attacks in cloud computing environments
Network and hypervisor-based attacks in cloud computing environments Open
Article published in International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics available at https: doi.org/10.1504/IJESDF.2021.118549
View article: Intentional and Performative Persuasion: The Linguistic Basis for Criminalizing the (Direct and Indirect) Encouragement of Terrorism
Intentional and Performative Persuasion: The Linguistic Basis for Criminalizing the (Direct and Indirect) Encouragement of Terrorism Open
Article 5 of the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism requires member states to criminalise ‘public provocation to commit a terrorist offence’. In the U.K., the realisation of this obligation is found in the ‘Encoura…
View article: Taking God into the Suburbs: Canadian Presbyterians and New Church Development in the Toronto Area, 1945-1965
Taking God into the Suburbs: Canadian Presbyterians and New Church Development in the Toronto Area, 1945-1965 Open
the presbytery of Toronto appointed the Rev
View article: Regulating terrorist content on social media: automation and the rule of law
Regulating terrorist content on social media: automation and the rule of law Open
Social-media companies make extensive use of artificial intelligence in their efforts to remove and block terrorist content from their platforms. This paper begins by arguing that, since such efforts amount to an attempt to channel human c…
View article: Exploring a New Air-Surface Temperature Diurnal Wave Analysis Method for Permafrost Areas
Exploring a New Air-Surface Temperature Diurnal Wave Analysis Method for Permafrost Areas Open
Existing air-surface temperature time series analysis methods for permafrost regions, such as n-factors, are largely limited to describing larger-scale mean conditions, while waveform analysis methods have typically focused on a single wav…
View article: Introduction to the Special Issue: Islamic State’s Online Activity and Responses, 2014–2017
Introduction to the Special Issue: Islamic State’s Online Activity and Responses, 2014–2017 Open
The ten articles in this special issue were selected from those delivered at an international conference on terrorism and social media (#TASMConf) held at Swansea University, U.K., on 27–28 June 20...
View article: Front Matter
Front Matter Open
Advancing Studies in Religion catalyzes and provokes original research in the study of religion with a critical edge.The series advances the study of religion in method and theory, textual interpretation, theological studies, and the under…
View article: Demonstrating Repository Trustworthiness through the Data Seal of Approval
Demonstrating Repository Trustworthiness through the Data Seal of Approval Open
Demonstrating Repository Trustworthiness through the Data Seal of Approval
View article: Public and expert voices in the legal regulation of technology
Public and expert voices in the legal regulation of technology Open
This chapter focuses on the legal regulation of technology. It examines three technological areas which have been subjected to legal regulation: human fertilisation and embryology; the manufacture and distribution of chemicals; and the dis…
View article: Promoting Scotland, Diplomacy and Influence through Sport
Promoting Scotland, Diplomacy and Influence through Sport Open
Sport is being used by a number of countries to raise profile, and create influence. Sports diplomacy has an increasing presence in terms of theory, practice and evidence within international relations. Sports diplomacy may occur both with…
View article: South of Scotland Castles of the 15th Century
South of Scotland Castles of the 15th Century Open
This data details the locations of castles in the south of Scotland in the 15th century. The locations were gathered by Prof MacQueen. The data were cleaned and mapped by Pauline Ward using ESRI ArcGIS 10.2 with assistance from Stuart Macd…