Outputs (258)

Does rail freight market liberalisation lead to market entry? A case study of the British privatisation experience (2014)
Journal Article
Cowie, J. (2015). Does rail freight market liberalisation lead to market entry? A case study of the British privatisation experience. Research in Transportation Business and Management, 14, 4-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rtbm.2014.10.004

This paper considers developments since privatisation in the British rail freight market from both general and production supply side perspectives. It also reviews the literature relating to the US railroad partial deregulation in order to identify t... Read More about Does rail freight market liberalisation lead to market entry? A case study of the British privatisation experience.

Compact MIMO/Diversity Antenna for Portable and Mobile UWB Terminals (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
See, C. H., Ali, N., Atojoko, A., Jan, N., Abd-Alhameed, R., Elkahzmi, E., & McEwan, N. (2014, November). Compact MIMO/Diversity Antenna for Portable and Mobile UWB Terminals. Presented at 2014 Asia Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), Sendai, Japan

A novel MIMO/diversity Planar Inverted-F antenna (PI FA) is presented for UWB applications. This antenna assembly is formed by two identical PIFAs, a T-shaped decoupling structure which connects the two PIFAs and a finite ground plane. The compact en... Read More about Compact MIMO/Diversity Antenna for Portable and Mobile UWB Terminals.

Design of a Wideband Printed MIMO Monopole Antenna using Neutralisation Lines Technique (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Elkazmi, E., See, C. H., Jan, N. A., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Ali, N., & McEwan, N. J. (2014, November). Design of a Wideband Printed MIMO Monopole Antenna using Neutralisation Lines Technique. Presented at 2014 Asia Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), Senda

A novel printed diversity monopole antenna is presented for WiFi/WiMAX applications. The antenna comprises two crescent shaped radiators placed symmetrically with respect to a defected ground plane and a wideband zigzag neutralization line is connect... Read More about Design of a Wideband Printed MIMO Monopole Antenna using Neutralisation Lines Technique.

TG1/201410/38rev1: Derivation of GoldenEye-702 grading machine settings for British Spruce (2014)
Preprint / Working Paper
Ridley-Ellis, D. TG1/201410/38rev1: Derivation of GoldenEye-702 grading machine settings for British Spruce

Confidential report for CEN TC124 WG2 TG1 Grading machine: GoldenEye-702 Manufacturer: MiCROTEC GmbH Growth area: United Kingdom + Republic of Ireland Species: Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) Norway spruce (Picea abies) (WPCS) Sizes: 20 mm... Read More about TG1/201410/38rev1: Derivation of GoldenEye-702 grading machine settings for British Spruce.

TG1/201410/21rev1: Derivation of GoldenEye-702 grading machine settings for UK larch (2014)
Preprint / Working Paper
Ridley-Ellis, D. TG1/201410/21rev1: Derivation of GoldenEye-702 grading machine settings for UK larch

Confidential report for CEN TC124 WG2 TG1 Grading machine: GoldenEye-702 Manufacturer: MiCROTEC GmbH Growth area: United Kingdom Species: European larch Larix decidua Hybrid larch Larix x eurolepsis Japanese larch Larix kaempferi (WLAD) Siz... Read More about TG1/201410/21rev1: Derivation of GoldenEye-702 grading machine settings for UK larch.

Step forward to map fully parallel energy efficient cortical columns on field programmable gate arrays (2014)
Journal Article
Ghani, A., See, C. H., & Usman Ali, S. M. U. (2014). Step forward to map fully parallel energy efficient cortical columns on field programmable gate arrays. IET Science, Measurements and Technology, 8(6), 432-440. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-smt.2014.0004

This study presents energy and area-efficient hardware architectures to map fully parallel cortical columns on reconfigurable platform - field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). An area-efficient architecture is proposed at the system level and benchm... Read More about Step forward to map fully parallel energy efficient cortical columns on field programmable gate arrays.

Electrochemical interdigitated conductimetric ph sensor based on RuO2 thick film sensitive layer (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Manjakkal, L., Cvejin, K., Kulawik, J., Zaraska, K., & Szwagierczak, D. (2014). Electrochemical interdigitated conductimetric ph sensor based on RuO2 thick film sensitive layer. In 2014 International Conference and Exposition on Electrical and Power Engi

Metal oxide based electrochemical pH sensors are an alternative to the glass pH sensor, exhibiting many potential advantages in industrial and laboratory applications. In particular, thick film based pH sensors are promising devices for a next genera... Read More about Electrochemical interdigitated conductimetric ph sensor based on RuO2 thick film sensitive layer.

Leveraging the Cloud for Large-Scale Software Testing: A Case Study ‑ Google Chrome on Amazon (2014)
Book Chapter
Pakhira, A., & Andras, P. (2014). Leveraging the Cloud for Large-Scale Software Testing: A Case Study ‑ Google Chrome on Amazon. In Cloud Technology: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6539-

Testing is a critical phase in the software life-cycle. While small-scale component-wise testing is done routinely as part of development and maintenance of large-scale software, the system level testing of the whole software is much more problematic... Read More about Leveraging the Cloud for Large-Scale Software Testing: A Case Study ‑ Google Chrome on Amazon.

The place-based impact of built environments: Diabetes, living conditions, homes and neighbourhoods (2014)
Journal Article
Sidawi, B., Deakin, M., & Al-Hariri, M. T. A. (2016). The place-based impact of built environments: Diabetes, living conditions, homes and neighbourhoods. Indoor and Built Environment, 25(3), 495-508. https://doi.org/10.1177/1420326x14556909

Abstract Many studies have demonstrated the adverse effect built environments have on health and differentiated between their direct and indirect impacts. In the case of diabetes and other chronic diseases, such studies concentrate on the direct imp... Read More about The place-based impact of built environments: Diabetes, living conditions, homes and neighbourhoods.

Surface plasmon resonance of nanoshell particles with PMMA-graphene core (2014)
Journal Article
Tarparelli, R., Iovine, R., La Spada, L., & Vegni, L. (2014). Surface plasmon resonance of nanoshell particles with PMMA-graphene core. COMPEL: The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 33(6), 2016

The purpose of this paper is to contribute an analytical and numerical study of a new type of nanoshell particles operating in the visible regime. The structure consists of a core/shell particle, arranged in a planar array configuration, with a poly... Read More about Surface plasmon resonance of nanoshell particles with PMMA-graphene core.