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Mathematical modelling of BIPV-micro wind system: production, storage and usages (2009)
Thesis
Clarke, P. Mathematical modelling of BIPV-micro wind system: production, storage and usages. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3745

This thesis deals with the following aspects of renewable energy technology; solar energy modelling within the urban environment, performance of building integrated renewables including solar photovoltaics and micro wind technology. The development o... Read More about Mathematical modelling of BIPV-micro wind system: production, storage and usages.

A Modified Loo Model with Partially Blocked and Three Dimensional Multipath Scattering: Analysis, Simulation and Validation (2009)
Journal Article
Karadimas, P., & Kotsopoulos, S. A. (2010). A Modified Loo Model with Partially Blocked and Three Dimensional Multipath Scattering: Analysis, Simulation and Validation. Wireless Personal Communications, 53(4), 503-528. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-009-9

This paper presents a novel mobile fading channel model, belonging to the class of Loo models, in which the multipath power arrives both in three dimensions (3-D) and in two angular sectors at the azimuth receiver’s plane. Moreover shadowing affects... Read More about A Modified Loo Model with Partially Blocked and Three Dimensional Multipath Scattering: Analysis, Simulation and Validation.

Sustainable workplaces: improving staff health and well‐being using plants (2009)
Journal Article
Smith, A., & Pitt, M. (2009). Sustainable workplaces: improving staff health and well‐being using plants. Journal of Corporate Real Estate, 11(1), 52-63. https://doi.org/10.1108/14630010910940552

Purpose-The paper aims to identify and demonstrate the benefits of plants in offices in contributing to employee health and well-being by applying the study to a working office. Design/methodology/approach-Via comprehensive literature reviews, the pa... Read More about Sustainable workplaces: improving staff health and well‐being using plants.

Enhanced FBG sensor-based system performance assessment for monitoring strain along a prestressed CFRP rod in structural monitoring (2009)
Journal Article
Kerrouche, A., Boyle, W., Sun, T., Grattan, K., Schmidt, J., & Täljsten, B. (2009). Enhanced FBG sensor-based system performance assessment for monitoring strain along a prestressed CFRP rod in structural monitoring. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 15

Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor-based systems have been widely used for many engineering applications including most recently a number of applications in structural health monitoring. It is well known that strain and temperature both affect the FBG... Read More about Enhanced FBG sensor-based system performance assessment for monitoring strain along a prestressed CFRP rod in structural monitoring.

Identifying components of a network having high importance for network integrity (2009)
Patent
Young, M. P., Andras, P. E., & O'Neill, M. A. (2009). Identifying components of a network having high importance for network integrity. US20090062136A1

A computer system (2) is provided which is arranged to receive network data (1) identifying nodes and links between nodes. The computer system (2) processes the input network data (1) to utilise the network topology to identify nodes and links having... Read More about Identifying components of a network having high importance for network integrity.

A mixed logit analysis of motorists’ right-of-way violation in motorcycle accidents at priority T-junctions. (2009)
Journal Article
Pai, C., Hwang, K. P., & Saleh, W. (2009). A mixed logit analysis of motorists’ right-of-way violation in motorcycle accidents at priority T-junctions. Accident analysis and prevention, 41(3), 565-573. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2009.02.007

Research suggested that motorists’ right-of-way (ROW) violation in automobile–motorcycle gap-acceptance accidents at priority (i.e., stop-/yield-controlled) T-intersections has been a safety concern to motorcyclists. This study examines the character... Read More about A mixed logit analysis of motorists’ right-of-way violation in motorcycle accidents at priority T-junctions..

A Wire-Grid Adaptive Meshing Program for Microstrip Patch Antenna Designs Using a Genetic Algorithm (2009)
Journal Article
Abd-Alhameed, R., Zhou, D., See, C., & Excel, P. (2009). A Wire-Grid Adaptive Meshing Program for Microstrip Patch Antenna Designs Using a Genetic Algorithm. IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, 51(1), 147-151. https://doi.org/10.1109/MAP.2009.4939045

A program to adaptively generate equivalent wire-grid structures for electromagnetic simulation of two-dimensional structures has been developed. The main purpose of this program is to simulate planar microstrip-patch antenna designs, using the numer... Read More about A Wire-Grid Adaptive Meshing Program for Microstrip Patch Antenna Designs Using a Genetic Algorithm.

Design and in-the-field performance evaluation of compact FBG sensor system for structural health monitoring applications (2009)
Journal Article
Kerrouche, A., Boyle, W., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. (2009). Design and in-the-field performance evaluation of compact FBG sensor system for structural health monitoring applications. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 151(2), 107-112. https://doi.org/10.1016

Over the last few years optical fibre sensor systems have been developed and their use reported for the monitoring of large civil engineering structures. In this way they have shown themselves to be well suited to the measurement of strain and temper... Read More about Design and in-the-field performance evaluation of compact FBG sensor system for structural health monitoring applications.

Protecting mobile agents from external replay attacks (2009)
Journal Article
Garrigues, C., Migas, N., Buchanan, W., Robles, S., & Borrell, J. (2009). Protecting mobile agents from external replay attacks. Journal of Systems and Software, 82(2), 197-206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2008.05.018

This paper presents a protocol for the protection of mobile agents against external replay attacks. This kind of attacks are performed by malicious platforms when dispatching an agent multiple times to a remote host, thus making it reexecute part of... Read More about Protecting mobile agents from external replay attacks.