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The impact of work placement on graduate employment in computing: outcomes from a UK-based study (2018)
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Smith, S., Taylor-Smith, E., Smith, C., & Webster, G. (2018). The impact of work placement on graduate employment in computing: outcomes from a UK-based study. International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 19(4), 359-369

This study followed recent computing graduates into the workplace and explored their undergraduate experiences of work placements and subsequent impact on graduate employment. Whilst studying at one of 14 Scottish universities, participants (n=99) ha... Read More about The impact of work placement on graduate employment in computing: outcomes from a UK-based study.

Surface functionalisation by the introduction of self-healing properties into electroless Ni-P coatings (2018)
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Stankiewicz, A., Kefallinou, Z., Mordarski, G., Jagoda, Z., & Spencer, B. (2019). Surface functionalisation by the introduction of self-healing properties into electroless Ni-P coatings. Electrochimica Acta, 297, 427-434. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electac

Ni-P∖alginate microgels coatings, as potential metallic protective coatings with self-healing properties, were deposited by the electroless method. The alginate microgels contained nickel chloride and sodium hypophosphite. It was proven that the redu... Read More about Surface functionalisation by the introduction of self-healing properties into electroless Ni-P coatings.

Trusting Intelligent Machines: Deepening Trust Within Socio-Technical Systems (2018)
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Andras, P., Esterle, L., Guckert, M., Anh Han, T., Lewis, P. R., Milanovic, K., Payne, T., Perret, C., Pitt, J., Powers, S. T., Urquhart, N., & Wells, S. (2018). Trusting Intelligent Machines: Deepening Trust Within Socio-Technical Systems. IEEE technolog

Intelligent machines have reached capabilities that go beyond a level that a human being can fully comprehend without sufficiently detailed understanding of the underlying mechanisms. The choice of moves in the game Go (generated by Deep Mind?s Alpha... Read More about Trusting Intelligent Machines: Deepening Trust Within Socio-Technical Systems.

Modelling Cycling Flow for the estimation of cycling risk at a meso urban spatial level (2018)
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Meade, S., & Stewart, K. (2018). Modelling Cycling Flow for the estimation of cycling risk at a meso urban spatial level. Transportation Research Procedia, 34, 59-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2018.11.014

One of the prevailing challenges in cycling research, or indeed any vulnerable road user research, is the availability of data to ascertain a representative level of 'exposure' or simply how much cycling there is – " when and where ". Therefore, it i... Read More about Modelling Cycling Flow for the estimation of cycling risk at a meso urban spatial level.

Rheology–Microstructure Relationships in Melt-Processed Polylactide/Poly(vinylidene Fluoride) Blends (2018)
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Salehiyan, R., Ray, S. S., Stadler, F. J., & Ojijo, V. (2018). Rheology–Microstructure Relationships in Melt-Processed Polylactide/Poly(vinylidene Fluoride) Blends. Materials, 11(12), Article 2450. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma11122450

In this study, small amplitude oscillatory shear tests are applied to investigate the rheological responses of polylactide/poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PLA/PVDF) blends and to correlate their viscoelastic properties with the morphological evolutions du... Read More about Rheology–Microstructure Relationships in Melt-Processed Polylactide/Poly(vinylidene Fluoride) Blends.

ProMe: A Mentoring Platform for Older Adults Using Machine Learning Techniques for Supporting the “Live and Learn” Concept (2018)
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Kostopoulos, G., Neureiter, K., Papatoiu, D., Tscheligi, M., & Chrysoulas, C. (2018). ProMe: A Mentoring Platform for Older Adults Using Machine Learning Techniques for Supporting the “Live and Learn” Concept. Mobile Information Systems, 2018, 1-8. ht

It is well known what an important role employment plays in our lives and how it influences our everyday life. With the help of employment, all of us as individuals manage to create our personal and social net that not only gives meaning and financia... Read More about ProMe: A Mentoring Platform for Older Adults Using Machine Learning Techniques for Supporting the “Live and Learn” Concept.

How universities can better engage with the animation/VFX sector in Scotland (2018)
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Mortimer, J. (2018). How universities can better engage with the animation/VFX sector in Scotland. Animation Practice, Process & Production, 7(1), 157-173. https://doi.org/10.1386/ap3.7.1.157_1

This research explores how universities can better engage with the animation/VFX industry in Scotland, by examining what skills current industry requires of graduates, and how institutes can better collaborate with working studios. Given the unknown... Read More about How universities can better engage with the animation/VFX sector in Scotland.

SMK-means: An Improved Mini Batch K-means Algorithm Based on Mapreduce with Big Data (2018)
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Xiao, B., Wang, Z., Liu, Q., & Liu, X. (2018). SMK-means: An Improved Mini Batch K-means Algorithm Based on Mapreduce with Big Data. Computers, Materials & Continua, 56(3), 365-379. https://doi.org/10.3970/cmc.2018.01830

In recent years, the rapid development of big data technology has also been favored by more and more scholars. Massive data storage and calculation problems have also been solved. At the same time, outlier detection problems in mass data have also co... Read More about SMK-means: An Improved Mini Batch K-means Algorithm Based on Mapreduce with Big Data.

Assessment of health status of the elderly and pre-elderly at a Malaysia elderly care centre (2018)
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Bani, N. A., Hassan, M. Z., Kaidi, H. M., Hashim, N. F. M., Dziyauddin, R. A., Musa, R., …Mas'ud, A. A. (2018). Assessment of health status of the elderly and pre-elderly at a Malaysia elderly care centre. International Journal of Integrated Engineering

They were once called the baby boomers, born between 1946 to 1964, but now aged above 50 years old, they contribute to the increasing number of elderly population in Malaysia. Age classification for elderly people varies between countries but commonl... Read More about Assessment of health status of the elderly and pre-elderly at a Malaysia elderly care centre.

Investigation of the turbulent flame structure and topology at different Karlovitz numbers using the tangential stretching rate index (2018)
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Manias, D. M., Tingas, E., Hernández Pérez, F. E., Malpica Galassi, R., Paolo Ciottoli, P., Valorani, M., & Im, H. G. (2019). Investigation of the turbulent flame structure and topology at different Karlovitz numbers using the tangential stretching rate

Turbulent premixed flames at high Karlovitz numbers exhibit highly complex structures in different reactive scalar fields to the extent that the definition of the flame front in an unambiguous manner is not straightforward. This poses a significant c... Read More about Investigation of the turbulent flame structure and topology at different Karlovitz numbers using the tangential stretching rate index.

Efficiency, productivity and returns to scale in ports: a comparison of data envelopment analysis and econometric estimation with application to Caribbean Small Island Developing States (2018)
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Julien, S., Cowie, J., & Monios, J. (2020). Efficiency, productivity and returns to scale in ports: a comparison of data envelopment analysis and econometric estimation with application to Caribbean Small Island Developing States. Maritime Economics and L

This paper investigates the evolutionary technical efficiency and productivity of ports in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The focus is primarily on Caribbean SIDS, benchmarked against two comparator groups: major top ports and ports in other... Read More about Efficiency, productivity and returns to scale in ports: a comparison of data envelopment analysis and econometric estimation with application to Caribbean Small Island Developing States.

Evaluation of solar factor using spectral analysis for CdTe photovoltaic glazing (2018)
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Alrashidi, H., Ghosh, A., Issa, W., Sellami, N., Mallick, T. K., & Sundaram, S. (2019). Evaluation of solar factor using spectral analysis for CdTe photovoltaic glazing. Materials Letters, 237, 332-335. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2018.11.128

Solar and luminous light transmission control using Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) based PV glazing systems (15cm × 15cm × 0.6cm) were evaluated in this work. Indoor spectral characterisation showed that average solar transmission for investigated three di... Read More about Evaluation of solar factor using spectral analysis for CdTe photovoltaic glazing.

Copy-move forgery detection using combined features and transitive matching (2018)
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Lin, C., Lu, W., Huang, X., Liu, K., Sun, W., Lin, H., & Tan, Z. (2019). Copy-move forgery detection using combined features and transitive matching. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 78(21), 30081-30096. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-018-6922-4

Recently, the research of Internet of Things (IoT) and Multimedia Big Data (MBD) has been growing tremendously. Both IoT and MBD have a lot of multimedia data, which can be tampered easily. Therefore, the research of multimedia forensics is necessary... Read More about Copy-move forgery detection using combined features and transitive matching.

BayesPiles: Visualisation Support for Bayesian Network Structure Learning (2018)
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Vogogias, A., Kennedy, J., Archambault, D., Bach, B., Smith, V. A., & Currant, H. (2018). BayesPiles: Visualisation Support for Bayesian Network Structure Learning. ACM transactions on intelligent systems and technology, 10(1), Article 5. https://doi.org/

We address the problem of exploring, combining and comparing large collections of scored, directed networks for understanding inferred Bayesian networks used in biology. In this feld, heuristic algorithms explore the space of possible network solutio... Read More about BayesPiles: Visualisation Support for Bayesian Network Structure Learning.

Short-long term anomaly detection in wireless sensor networks based on machine learning and multi-parameterized edit distance (2018)
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Cauteruccio, F., Fortino, G., Guerrieri, A., Liotta, A., Mocanu, D. C., Perra, C., Terracina, G., & Torres Vega, M. (2019). Short-long term anomaly detection in wireless sensor networks based on machine learning and multi-parameterized edit distance. Info

Heterogeneous wireless sensor networks are a source of large amount of different information representing environmental aspects such as light, temperature, and humidity. A very important research problem related to the analysis of the sensor data is... Read More about Short-long term anomaly detection in wireless sensor networks based on machine learning and multi-parameterized edit distance.

Blockchain Technologies for the Internet of Things: Research Issues and Challenges (2018)
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Ferrag, M. A., Derdour, M., Mukherjee, M., Derhab, A., Maglaras, L., & Janicke, H. (2019). Blockchain Technologies for the Internet of Things: Research Issues and Challenges. IEEE Internet of Things, 6(2), 2188-2204. https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2018.2882

This paper presents a comprehensive survey of the existing blockchain protocols for the Internet of Things (IoT) networks. We start by describing the blockchains and summarizing the existing surveys that deal with blockchain technologies. Then, we pr... Read More about Blockchain Technologies for the Internet of Things: Research Issues and Challenges.

Teaching Live Coding of Electronic Dance Music: A Case Study (2018)
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Cheng, L. (2018). Teaching Live Coding of Electronic Dance Music: A Case Study. Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, 10(1), https://doi.org/10.12801/1947-5403.2018.10.01.10

Live coding is a relatively new performance practice that emphasizes the expressive possibilities afforded by computer programming. Live coding has often been associated with contemporary musical styles such as electronic dance music (EDM), which fav... Read More about Teaching Live Coding of Electronic Dance Music: A Case Study.

A caching and spatial K-anonymity driven privacy enhancement scheme in continuous location-based services (2018)
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Zhang, S., Li, X., Tan, Z., Peng, T., & Wang, G. (2019). A caching and spatial K-anonymity driven privacy enhancement scheme in continuous location-based services. Future Generation Computer Systems, 94, 40-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2018.10.053

With the rapid pervasion of location-based services (LBSs), protection of location privacy has become a significant concern. In most continuous LBSs' privacy-preserving solutions, users need to transmit the location query data to an untrusted locatio... Read More about A caching and spatial K-anonymity driven privacy enhancement scheme in continuous location-based services.

The Challenges of Investigating Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Related Crime (2018)
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Dyson, S., Buchanan, W., & Bell, L. (2018). The Challenges of Investigating Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Related Crime. The Journal of the British Blockchain Association, 1(2), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.31585/jbba-1-2-%288%292018

We increasingly live in a world where there is a balance between the rights to privacy and the requirements for consent, and the rights of society to protect itself. Within this world, there is an ever-increasing requirement to protect the identities... Read More about The Challenges of Investigating Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Related Crime.

Soft-template synthesis of high surface area mesoporous titanium dioxide for dye-sensitized solar cells (2018)
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Selvaraj, P., Roy, A., Ullah, H., Sujatha Devi, P., Tahir, A. A., Mallick, T. K., & Sundaram, S. (2019). Soft-template synthesis of high surface area mesoporous titanium dioxide for dye-sensitized solar cells. International Journal of Energy Research, 43(

In the present work, 10 to 14 nm titania nanoparticles with high-packing density are synthesized by the soft-template method using a range of cationic surfactants including cetyl trimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), Sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), and dod... Read More about Soft-template synthesis of high surface area mesoporous titanium dioxide for dye-sensitized solar cells.