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A Privacy Preserving Distributed Ledger Framework for Global Human Resource Record Management: The Blockchain Aspect (2020)
Journal Article
Kim, T.-H., Kumar, G., Saha, R., Rai, M. K., Buchanan, W. J., Thomas, R., & Alazab, M. (2020). A Privacy Preserving Distributed Ledger Framework for Global Human Resource Record Management: The Blockchain Aspect. IEEE Access, 8, 96455-96467. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.2995481

Blockchain is a technology used with the series of users in peer-to-peer transactions to utilize the usability properties of the immutable data records. The distributed nature of this technology has given the wide acceptance to its range of applicati... Read More about A Privacy Preserving Distributed Ledger Framework for Global Human Resource Record Management: The Blockchain Aspect.

Efficient Routines for Obtaining Radiation View-Factor for Non-Uniform Horizons (2020)
Journal Article
Muneer, T., & Ivanova, S. (2020). Efficient Routines for Obtaining Radiation View-Factor for Non-Uniform Horizons. Energies, 13(10), Article 2551. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13102551

There are a large number of engineering applications wherein estimation of radiation exchange between surfaces is required. One important part of the latter procedure is to obtain the so-called ‘view factor’ of the emitter–receiver combination. The p... Read More about Efficient Routines for Obtaining Radiation View-Factor for Non-Uniform Horizons.

Measuring Consumer Behavioural Intention to Accept Technology: Towards Autonomous Vehicles Technology Acceptance Model (AVTAM) (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Seuwou, P., Chrysoulas, C., Banissi, E., & Ubakanma, G. (2020, April). Measuring Consumer Behavioural Intention to Accept Technology: Towards Autonomous Vehicles Technology Acceptance Model (AVTAM). Presented at WorldCIST: World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, Budva, Montenegro

The work presented in the paper aims at exploring information technology acceptance in the context of Autonomous Vehicles (AV) with the objectives of identifying and testing the constructs that will influence future AVs acceptance. Most models of tec... Read More about Measuring Consumer Behavioural Intention to Accept Technology: Towards Autonomous Vehicles Technology Acceptance Model (AVTAM).

Multi-label Classifier to Deal with Misclassification in Non-functional Requirements (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sabir, M., Chrysoulas, C., & Banissi, E. (2020, April). Multi-label Classifier to Deal with Misclassification in Non-functional Requirements. Presented at WorldCist 2020: 8th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, Budva, Montenegro

Automatic classification of software requirements is an active research area; it can alleviate the tedious task of manual labeling and improves transparency in the requirements engineering process. Several attempts have been made towards the identifi... Read More about Multi-label Classifier to Deal with Misclassification in Non-functional Requirements.

Solution Blow Spinning of High-Performance Submicron Polyvinylidene Fluoride Fibres: Computational Fluid Mechanics Modelling and Experimental Results (2020)
Journal Article
Atif, R., Combrinck, M., Khaliq, J., Hassanin, A. H., Shehata, N., Elnabawy, E., & Shyha, I. (2020). Solution Blow Spinning of High-Performance Submicron Polyvinylidene Fluoride Fibres: Computational Fluid Mechanics Modelling and Experimental Results. Polymers, 12(5), Article 1140. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym12051140

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) was used to investigate characteristics of high-speed air as it is expelled from a solution blow spinning (SBS) nozzle using a k-ε turbulence model. Air velocity, pressure, temperature, turbulent kinetic energy and... Read More about Solution Blow Spinning of High-Performance Submicron Polyvinylidene Fluoride Fibres: Computational Fluid Mechanics Modelling and Experimental Results.

Load‐modulation technique without using quarter‐wavelength transmission line (2020)
Journal Article
Abdulkhaleq, A. M., Yahya, M. A., Parchin, N. O., Al‐Yasir, Y., Sajedin, M., Elfergani, I., McEwan, N. J., Abd‐Alhameed, R. A., Rayit, A., & Rodriguez, J. (2020). Load‐modulation technique without using quarter‐wavelength transmission line. IET microwaves, antennas & propagation, 14(11), 1209-1215. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-map.2019.0957

A proposed method for achieving active load-modulation technique without using a quarter-wavelength transmission line is discussed and evaluated. The theoretical analysis shows that the active load-modulation can be achieved without using a quarter-w... Read More about Load‐modulation technique without using quarter‐wavelength transmission line.

An assessment of risks associated with contractor’s cash flow projections in South-South, Nigeria (2020)
Journal Article
Ikediashi, D. I., & Okolie, K. C. (2022). An assessment of risks associated with contractor’s cash flow projections in South-South, Nigeria. International journal of construction management, 22(11), 2051-2058. https://doi.org/10.1080/15623599.2020.1764752

Construction contracts have been widely acknowledged to be capital intensive, complicated, and risk prone. The purpose of the study is to assess risk factors affecting contractors’ cash flow for construction projects and examine their influence on co... Read More about An assessment of risks associated with contractor’s cash flow projections in South-South, Nigeria.

Methods of estimations of the band gap for kesterite Cu2ZnSnS (Se) 4 (2020)
Journal Article
Mamedov, D., Yakubov, K., Bazarbaev, R., Ismailov, K., Senthilarasu, S., & Karazhanov, S. Z. (2020). Methods of estimations of the band gap for kesterite Cu2ZnSnS (Se) 4. Materials Today: Proceedings, 33(6), 2495-2498. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.04.242

This paper presents a study related to methods of estimation of the band gap for kesterite-type Cu2ZnSnS(Se)4 based on their electronic structure and optical properties driven by the first-principles calculations within the hybrid functional. The est... Read More about Methods of estimations of the band gap for kesterite Cu2ZnSnS (Se) 4.

Fatigue resistant lead-free multilayer ceramic capacitors with ultrahigh energy density (2020)
Journal Article
Wang, G., Lu, Z., Yang, H., Ji, H., Mostaed, A., Li, L., Wei, Y., Feteira, A., Sun, S., Sinclair, D. C., Wang, D., & Reaney, I. M. (2020). Fatigue resistant lead-free multilayer ceramic capacitors with ultrahigh energy density. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 8(22), 11414-11423. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0ta00216j

The critical role of electrical homogeneity in optimising electric-field breakdown strength (BDS) and energy storage in high energy density (0.7 − x)BiFeO3–0.3BaTiO3–xBi(Li0.5Nb0.5)O3 (BF–BT–xBLN) lead-free capacitors is demonstrated. The high BDS fo... Read More about Fatigue resistant lead-free multilayer ceramic capacitors with ultrahigh energy density.

A Novel Attack Detection Scheme for the Industrial Internet of Things Using a Lightweight Random Neural Network (2020)
Journal Article
Latif, S., Zou, Z., Idrees, Z., & Ahmad, J. (2020). A Novel Attack Detection Scheme for the Industrial Internet of Things Using a Lightweight Random Neural Network. IEEE Access, 8, 89337-89350. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.2994079

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) brings together many sensors, machines, industrial applications, databases, services, and people at work. The IIoT is improving our lives in several ways including smarter cities, agriculture, and e-healthcare... Read More about A Novel Attack Detection Scheme for the Industrial Internet of Things Using a Lightweight Random Neural Network.