Discovery Research Portal (University of Dundee)

The rise of digital technologies is transforming Environmental Assessment (EA), enabling continuous monitoring and interactive communication of environmental impacts. However, the reliability of these advancements critically depends on the quality and integrity of underlying data. This systematic literature review examines how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other digital tools influence data qu…

Abstract Large Language Models (LLMs) have attained human-level accuracy on medical question-answer (QA) benchmarks. However, their limitations in navigating clinical scenarios requiring flexible reasoning have recently been shown, raising concerns about the robustness and generalizability of LLM reasoning across diverse, real-world medical tasks. To probe potential LLM failure modes in clinical …

It is well documented that the addition of antimony in pure lead increases tensile strength and reduced elongation. The goal of the present work is to identify the cause of these phenomena by investigation of the effects of the addition of Sb (1.25 wt.%) on the structure of pure continuously cast lead and lead alloy rods. The microstructure and morphology of both pure lead and lead with 1.25 wt.%…

To simulate the prototype installation behaviour of screw piles at realistic confining stress lev-els, a new installation and loading rig, consisting of two independently-controlled servo-motor drive systems was developed to allow screw pile models to be installed and axially load-tested inflight in one operation at 50 g. This system was developed around the Scalable Actuator Control System archi…

This article reports on the so-called "sons of "Cadder" cases in which the UK Supreme Court has shed further light on the implications of recognising suspects' right to legal advice prior to police questioning. It assesses whether these cases have further improved the position of suspects, and the extent to which they vindicate or repudiate the arguments made in an earlier article in this journal.

The PANGU (Planet and Asteroid Natural Scene Generation Utility) is a software tool for simulating and visualising the surface of various planetary bodies. This tool was designed to support the development of active or passive computer vision systems on board planetary landers. PANGU can be used to generate an artificial surface representative of the Moon, Mercury, Mars or asteroids and to rapidl…

SpaceWire has proved very successful since the release of the standard by ECSS. This success Is due to the versatility of SpaceWire and its inherent simplicity and low implementation cost. Beyond the requirement for each packet to be lead by an address and terminated by an end-of-packet marker, SpaceWire does not specify the contents of each packet. The proposed SpaceWire Protocol Identification …

Most school syllabuses, even those for primary stages, specify aims that relate to the use of experimental work in gaining evidence. It can be argued that this is a key aspect of the nature and role of science. Nonetheless, evidence that such aims are attainable is sparse. Indeed, there is little evidence that such aims are actively required by teachers and they are rarely the focus of assessment…

This paper seeks to characterise the distribution of extreme returns for a UK share index over the years 1975 to 2000. In particular, the suitability of the following distributions is investigated: Gumbel, Frechet, Weibull, Generalised Extreme Value, Generalised Pareto, Log-Normal and Generalised Logistic. Daily returns for the FT All Share index were obtained from Datastream, and the maxima and …

The goal of much psycholinguistic research is to understand the processes by which linguistic input is mapped onto a hearer's mental representation of his or her world. Within the context of a sentence such as "The mouse chased the cat into the basket," we can ask questions such as "At what stage is the cat interpreted as the thing being chased?" "At what stage do we determine which cat?" and, mo…

The use of LIDAR to support the GNC function during planetary landing is discussed. The Planet and Asteroid Natural-scene Generation Utility (PANGU) is a system for generating simulated surfaces of planets and for producing images of those surfaces from specified camera positions and orientations. It is implemented specifically to support the development of vision-based navigation sensors. The pl…