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Glued Laminated Timber (Glulam) Properties (2024)
Report
Plowas, W. (2024). Glued Laminated Timber (Glulam) Properties. Timber Development UK

Glued Laminated Timber, commonly referred to as glulam or GLT, has an excellent strength-to-weight ratio. It is comparatively light, and as such can generate economies in foundations costs when used efficiently.

Fire Design: Principles (2024)
Report
Plowas, W. (2024). Fire Design: Principles. Timber Development UK

Understanding fire behaviour and how it affects buildings and occupants is critical to the design of fire safety strategies.

Designers utilising timber construction should understand the means of fire protection, general concepts of evacuation sa... Read More about Fire Design: Principles.

Fire Design: Passive Fire Protection (2024)
Report
Plowas, W. (2024). Fire Design: Passive Fire Protection. Timber Development UK

To minimise fire risk, timber-frame wall and floor systems must be designed to maximise resistance, by implementing the different performance benefits of various assembly layers.

Creep (2024)
Report
Plowas, W. (2024). Creep. Timber Development UK

Timber is particularly sensitive to load duration and creep. Any deformation calculation must include an assessment of creep deformations.

Data as a potential path for the automotive aftersales business to remain active through and after the decarbonisation (2024)
Journal Article
Eslava-Bautista, J., & Beecroft, M. (2024). Data as a potential path for the automotive aftersales business to remain active through and after the decarbonisation. International Journal of Services Technology and Management, 29(1), 39-58. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijstm.2024.138262

Decarbonisation of transport implies transition and shift for many traditional businesses, one of which is the automotive aftersales. One of the strategies identified to address decarbonisation and meet GHG emissions targets is the adoption of Electr... Read More about Data as a potential path for the automotive aftersales business to remain active through and after the decarbonisation.

News media’s framing of telehealth before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2024)
Journal Article
Smith, H., Fischer, L., Fortin, K., & Zeller, F. (2024). News media’s framing of telehealth before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Facts and Frictions: Emerging Debates, Pedagogies and Practices in Contemporary Journalism, 3(2), 39-61. https://doi.org/10.22215/ff/v3.i2.06

This research contributes to the literature on journalistic news framing by analyzing the portrayal of telehealth as a particularly relevant topic during the COVID-19 pandemic. Frames before and after the onset of the pandemic were examined across fo... Read More about News media’s framing of telehealth before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Developing user-led interventions aimed at improving digital literacies in older adults (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Feeney, A. (2024, April). Developing user-led interventions aimed at improving digital literacies in older adults. Presented at Scottish Academic Libraries Cooperative Training Group: Student Research Showcase 2024, Online

Our present 'digital-by-default' society structurally supports inequalities in both digital access and skills development, with older adults being disproportionately affected herein. Using participative methodologies this project seeks to develop ne... Read More about Developing user-led interventions aimed at improving digital literacies in older adults.

Performance enhancement of Vivaldi-shaped planar UWB antenna using a single-layer FSS reflector (2024)
Journal Article
Kiani, S. H., Rafique, U., SAVCI, H. Ş., Rmili, H., Parchin, N. O., Algarni, A. D., & Elmannai, H. (2024). Performance enhancement of Vivaldi-shaped planar UWB antenna using a single-layer FSS reflector. International journal of electronics and communications = Archiv fur Elektronik und Ubertragungstechnik : AEU, 178, Article 155302. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeue.2024.155302

This work proposes the design of a frequency-selective surface (FSS)-based planar monopole antenna for ultra-wideband (UWB) communication applications. The UWB response is observed by integrating a Vivaldi-shaped slot and by introducing a stepped-lik... Read More about Performance enhancement of Vivaldi-shaped planar UWB antenna using a single-layer FSS reflector.

The digital Foley: what Foley artists say about using audio synthesis (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Di Donato, B., & McGregor, I. (2024, April). The digital Foley: what Foley artists say about using audio synthesis. Presented at 2024 AES 6th International Conference on Audio for Games, Tokyo, Japan

Foley is a sound production technique where organicity and authenticity in sound creation are key to fostering creativity. Audio synthesis, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Interaction Design (IXD) have been explored by the community to investigate t... Read More about The digital Foley: what Foley artists say about using audio synthesis.