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Beyond cycle lanes and large-scale infrastructure: a scoping review of initiatives that groups and organisations can implement to promote cycling for the Cycle Nation Project (2020)
Journal Article
Kelly, P., Williamson, C., Baker, G., Davis, A., Broadfield, S., Coles, A., Connell, H., Logan, G., Pell, J. P., Gray, C. M., & Gill, J. M. (2020). Beyond cycle lanes and large-scale infrastructure: a scoping review of initiatives that groups and organisations can implement to promote cycling for the Cycle Nation Project. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 54(23), 1405-1415. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2019-101447

Background/objectives: Cycling has well-established positive relationships with health. Evidence suggests that large-scale infrastructure and built-environment initiatives to promote cycling are likely to be necessary but not sufficient to maximise c... Read More about Beyond cycle lanes and large-scale infrastructure: a scoping review of initiatives that groups and organisations can implement to promote cycling for the Cycle Nation Project.

On the merits and pitfalls of introducing a digital platform to aid conservation management: Volunteer data submission and the mediating role of volunteer coordinators (2020)
Journal Article
Arts, A., Melero, Y., Webster, G., Sharma, N., Tintarev, N., Tait, E., Mellish, C., Sripada, S., MacMaster, A., Sutherland, H., Horrill, C., Lambin, X., & Van der Wal, R. (2020). On the merits and pitfalls of introducing a digital platform to aid conservation management: Volunteer data submission and the mediating role of volunteer coordinators. Journal of Environmental Management, 265, Article 110497. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110497

Against a backdrop of accelerating digital innovation in nature conservation and environmental management, a real-world experiment was conducted with the research aims of assessing: 1) the effects of introducing a digital data-entry platform on volun... Read More about On the merits and pitfalls of introducing a digital platform to aid conservation management: Volunteer data submission and the mediating role of volunteer coordinators.

Development of a building sustainability assessment method (BSAM) for developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa (2020)
Journal Article
Olawumi, T. O., Chan, D. W., Chan, A. P., & Wong, J. K. (2020). Development of a building sustainability assessment method (BSAM) for developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Cleaner Production, 263, Article 121514. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121514

The consideration of the regional context in the development of green building rating systems is well established in the extant literature, and this informs the development of a sustainability assessment method for sub-Saharan Africa. Hence, a multi-... Read More about Development of a building sustainability assessment method (BSAM) for developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

Moving to healthy transport: the drivers of transformational change – a view from Scotland (2020)
Book Chapter
Davis, A. L. (2020). Moving to healthy transport: the drivers of transformational change – a view from Scotland. In M. J. Nieuwenhuijsen, & H. Khreis (Eds.), Advances in Transportation and Health (407-421). (1). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819136-1.00019-X

The need to stabilize global average temperature rises to no more than 1.5 degrees may be the driver for transformational change that will also deliver major improvements in public health. Barriers to change in the transport sector have long included... Read More about Moving to healthy transport: the drivers of transformational change – a view from Scotland.

Towards the Development of Rapid and Low-Cost Pathogen Detection Systems Using Microfluidic Technology and Optical Image Processing (2020)
Journal Article
Kerrouche, A., Lithgow, J., Muhammad, I., & Romdhani, I. (2020). Towards the Development of Rapid and Low-Cost Pathogen Detection Systems Using Microfluidic Technology and Optical Image Processing. Applied Sciences, 10(7), Article 2527. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10072527

Waterborne pathogens affect all waters globally and proceed to be an ongoing concern. Previous methods for detection of pathogens consist of a high test time and a high sample consumption, but they are very expensive and require specialist operators.... Read More about Towards the Development of Rapid and Low-Cost Pathogen Detection Systems Using Microfluidic Technology and Optical Image Processing.

Privacy-Preserving Non-Wearable Occupancy Monitoring System Exploiting Wi-Fi Imaging for Next-Generation Body Centric Communication (2020)
Journal Article
Aziz Shah, S., Ahmad, J., Tahir, A., Ahmed, F., Russell, G., Shah, S. Y., Buchanan, W., & Abbasi, Q. H. (2020). Privacy-Preserving Non-Wearable Occupancy Monitoring System Exploiting Wi-Fi Imaging for Next-Generation Body Centric Communication. Micromachines, 11(4), Article 379. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi11040379

Nano-scaled structures, wireless sensing, wearable devices, and wireless communications systems are anticipated to support the development of new next-generation technologies in the near future. Exponential rise in future Radio-Frequency (RF) sensing... Read More about Privacy-Preserving Non-Wearable Occupancy Monitoring System Exploiting Wi-Fi Imaging for Next-Generation Body Centric Communication.

Design and Optimization of a Slotted Monopole Antenna for Ultra-Wide Band Body Centric Imaging Applications (2020)
Journal Article
Danjuma, I. M., Akinsolu, M. O., See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., & Liu, B. (2020). Design and Optimization of a Slotted Monopole Antenna for Ultra-Wide Band Body Centric Imaging Applications. IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology, 4(2), 140-147. https://doi.org/10.1109/JERM.2020.2984910

This paper presents a cost-efficient design, optimization and physical implementation of a compact slotted ultra-wideband (UWB) monopole antenna for body-centric imaging applications. The proposed antenna is initially modelled and designed with the a... Read More about Design and Optimization of a Slotted Monopole Antenna for Ultra-Wide Band Body Centric Imaging Applications.

Indoor and outdoor characterization of concentrating photovoltaic attached to multi-layered microchannel heat sink (2020)
Journal Article
Al Siyabi, I., Shanks, K., Mallick, T., & Sundaram, S. (2020). Indoor and outdoor characterization of concentrating photovoltaic attached to multi-layered microchannel heat sink. Solar Energy, 202, 55-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2020.03.101

Concentrating Photovoltaic technology is a promising option in power generation using the photovoltaics compared to the conventional flat PV system. This study investigates the performance of a high concentrated photovoltaic single solar cell module... Read More about Indoor and outdoor characterization of concentrating photovoltaic attached to multi-layered microchannel heat sink.

Shear-Induced Carbon Nanotube Migration and Morphological Development in Polylactide/Poly(vinylidene fluoride) Blend Nanocomposites and Their Impact on Dielectric Constants and Rheological Properties (2020)
Journal Article
Salehiyan, R., Nofar, M., Makwakwa, D., & Ray, S. S. (2020). Shear-Induced Carbon Nanotube Migration and Morphological Development in Polylactide/Poly(vinylidene fluoride) Blend Nanocomposites and Their Impact on Dielectric Constants and Rheological Properties. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 124(17), 9536-9547. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c00891

Polymer composites featuring high dielectric constants are known to be useful materials for the development of modern transducers, piezo- and thermal-sensors, and energy storage devices. In this study, blend nanocomposites of carbon nanotube (CNT)-co... Read More about Shear-Induced Carbon Nanotube Migration and Morphological Development in Polylactide/Poly(vinylidene fluoride) Blend Nanocomposites and Their Impact on Dielectric Constants and Rheological Properties.