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Phenotiki: an open software and hardware platform for affordable and easy image-based phenotyping of rosette-shaped plants (2017)
Journal Article
Minervini, M., Giuffrida, M. V., Perata, P., & Tsaftaris, S. A. (2017). Phenotiki: an open software and hardware platform for affordable and easy image-based phenotyping of rosette-shaped plants. Plant Journal, 90(1), 204-216. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.13472

Phenotyping is important to understand plant biology, but current solutions are costly, not versatile or are difficult to deploy. To solve this problem, we present Phenotiki, an affordable system for plant phenotyping that, relying on off-the-shelf p... Read More about Phenotiki: an open software and hardware platform for affordable and easy image-based phenotyping of rosette-shaped plants.

Travel Plans for New Developments: A Global Review (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
De Gruyter, C., Rose, G., Currie, G., & Rye, T. (2017). Travel Plans for New Developments: A Global Review. In Proceedings Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting

Travel plans, also known as Transportation Demand Management (TDM) plans, can be required for new infill and greenfield developments through the land use planning and approvals process. They aim to manage car use through delivering a package of trans... Read More about Travel Plans for New Developments: A Global Review.

A pilot study: Evaluation of sensor system design for optical fibre humidity sensors subjected to aggressive air sewer environment (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alwis, L. S. M., Bustamante, H., Bremer, K., Roth, B., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. T. V. (2016, October). A pilot study: Evaluation of sensor system design for optical fibre humidity sensors subjected to aggressive air sewer environment. Presented at 2016 IEEE SENSORS

Research has identified that humidity plays a fundamental role on the conversion of hydrogen sulphide into sulphuric acid during corrosion of concrete in gravity sewers and that potentially minor reductions in humidity can reduce corrosion rates. The... Read More about A pilot study: Evaluation of sensor system design for optical fibre humidity sensors subjected to aggressive air sewer environment.

A new efficient cross-layer relay node selection model for Wireless Community Mesh Networks (2017)
Journal Article
Zhao, L., Al-Dubai, A., Li, X., Chen, G., & Min, G. (2017). A new efficient cross-layer relay node selection model for Wireless Community Mesh Networks. Computers and Electrical Engineering, 61, 361-372. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2016.12.031

Current networking technologies are not perfectly equipped to support Quality of Service (QoS), which is vital for real-time multimedia applications in Wireless Community Mesh Networks (WCNs). Therefore, there is a need to devise innovative routing a... Read More about A new efficient cross-layer relay node selection model for Wireless Community Mesh Networks.

Faculty perceptions on publishing research (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pennington, D. R., Swanson, A., Akwaowo, E., & Zobisch, P. (2016, September). Faculty perceptions on publishing research. Presented at 19th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, Belfast

Today’s researchers have not only the traditional publications, but the open access publishing method whereby research papers can be published via the Internet as well as print publications. Researchers must carefully scrutinize the open access publi... Read More about Faculty perceptions on publishing research.

Towards Trust and Governance in Integrated Health and Social Care Platforms (2017)
Book Chapter
Buchanan, W., Thuemmler, C., Spyra, G., Smales, A., & Prajapati, B. (2017). Towards Trust and Governance in Integrated Health and Social Care Platforms. In Health 4.0: How Virtualization and Big Data are Revolutionizing Healthcare (219-231). (1). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47617-9_11

The way we are sharing health and care data will be changing considerably over the years to come. One of the reasons is an increasing move towards patient-centric approaches where services are built around the citizens, rather than citizens integrate... Read More about Towards Trust and Governance in Integrated Health and Social Care Platforms.

Security for Cyber-Physical Systems in Healthcare (2017)
Book Chapter
Saleem, K., Tan, Z., & Buchanan, W. (2017). Security for Cyber-Physical Systems in Healthcare. In Health 4.0: How Virtualization and Big Data are Revolutionizing Healthcare (233-251). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47617-9_12

The great leap forward of cyber-physical systems has made provision for future personalized medicine. However, these systems are prone to cyber attacks. To provide patients with secure and reliable healthcare experience, the security issues of cyber-... Read More about Security for Cyber-Physical Systems in Healthcare.

Community Council Liaison Officer questionnaire data for IL-DEM project November - December 2016 (2017)
Data
Hall, H., Cruickshank, P., & Ryan, B. (2017). Community Council Liaison Officer questionnaire data for IL-DEM project November - December 2016. [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.17869/ENU.2017.682243

Results of questionnaire emailed to all Community Council Liaison Officers (1) in Scotland. Questions were around their Community Councils' use of information skills, for a project around information literacy in community-level democracy. (1) Com... Read More about Community Council Liaison Officer questionnaire data for IL-DEM project November - December 2016.

Community Councillors survey data for IL-DEM project November -December 2016 (2017)
Data
Hall, H., Cruickshank, P., & Ryan, B. (2017). Community Councillors survey data for IL-DEM project November -December 2016. [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.17869/ENU.2017.682227

Results of online survey of Community Councillors around Scotland. Most questions were around their use of information skills, for a project around information literacy in community-level democracy, but some questions were about their general roles a... Read More about Community Councillors survey data for IL-DEM project November -December 2016.

Controlling venetian blinds based on parametric design; via implementing Grasshopper’s plugins: A case study of an office building in Cairo (2017)
Journal Article
Eltaweel, A., & Su, Y. (2017). Controlling venetian blinds based on parametric design; via implementing Grasshopper’s plugins: A case study of an office building in Cairo. Energy and Buildings, 139, 31-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2016.12.075

Venetian blinds are common type of shading devices and are increasingly operated automatically to overcome the limitations of using manual operation. Automated blinds need to be controlled to maximize benefits of daylight on the aspects of redirectin... Read More about Controlling venetian blinds based on parametric design; via implementing Grasshopper’s plugins: A case study of an office building in Cairo.

Use of ubiquitous real-time passenger information. (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Islam, F., Fonzone, A., MacIver, A., & Dickinson, K. (2017, January). Use of ubiquitous real-time passenger information. Paper presented at 49th Annual UTSG Conference

Electrical and optical properties of aluminium doped zinc oxide transparent conducting oxide films prepared by dip coating technique (2017)
Journal Article
Manjakkal, L., Packia Selvam, I., Potty, S., & Shinde, R. (2017). Electrical and optical properties of aluminium doped zinc oxide transparent conducting oxide films prepared by dip coating technique. Microelectronics International, 34(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1108/mi-06-2015-0058

Purpose Aluminium-doped zinc oxide thin films exhibit interesting optoelectronic properties, which make them suitable for fabrication of photovoltaic cell, flat panel display electrode, etc. It has been shown that aluminium dopant concentration and... Read More about Electrical and optical properties of aluminium doped zinc oxide transparent conducting oxide films prepared by dip coating technique.

The analysis and presentation of patents to support engineering design (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Corney, J., Maclachlan, R., & Wodehouse, A. (2016, June). The analysis and presentation of patents to support engineering design. Presented at 7th International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition, Evanston (Chicago), United States

This paper explores the role of patents in engineering design, and how the extraction and presentation of patent data could be improved for designers. We propose the use of crowdsourcing as a means to post tasks online for a crowd of people to partic... Read More about The analysis and presentation of patents to support engineering design.

The Future of BIM Technologies in Africa: Prospects and Challenges (2017)
Book Chapter
Ogwueleka, A. C., & Ikediashi, D. I. (2017). The Future of BIM Technologies in Africa: Prospects and Challenges. In P. Wu, H. Li, & X. Wang (Eds.), Integrated Building Information Modelling (307-314). Bentham Science Publishers

The construction industry is undergoing a radical change as project owners are demanding for more project visibility at lower cost and better risk management; this has increased the use of new technologies in project implementations. The concept of i... Read More about The Future of BIM Technologies in Africa: Prospects and Challenges.

Mathematical Model for Calibration of Potential Detection of Nonlinear Responses in Biological Media Exposed to RF Energy (2017)
Journal Article
See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Mirza, A. F., McEwan, N. J., Excell, P. S., & Balzano, Q. (2017). Mathematical Model for Calibration of Potential Detection of Nonlinear Responses in Biological Media Exposed to RF Energy. The Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal, 32(1), 1-7

An efficient way to test for potential unsymmetrical nonlinear responses in biological tissue samples exposed to a microwave signal is to observe the second harmonic in a cavity resonant at the two frequencies, with collocated antinodes. Such a respo... Read More about Mathematical Model for Calibration of Potential Detection of Nonlinear Responses in Biological Media Exposed to RF Energy.

Preliminary Investigation of the Effectiveness of High-Visibility Crosswalks on Pedestrian Safety Using Crash Surrogates (2017)
Journal Article
Sarwar, M. T., Fountas, G., Bentley, C., Anastasopoulos, P. C., Blatt, A., Pierowicz, J., Majka, K., & Limoges, R. (2017). Preliminary Investigation of the Effectiveness of High-Visibility Crosswalks on Pedestrian Safety Using Crash Surrogates. Transportation research record, 2659, 182-191. https://doi.org/10.3141/2659-20

This paper, with the use of data from the SHRP 2 naturalistic driving study, provides a preliminary evaluation of the effectiveness of high-visibility crosswalks (HVCs) in improving pedestrian safety at un-controlled locations. This evaluation was ac... Read More about Preliminary Investigation of the Effectiveness of High-Visibility Crosswalks on Pedestrian Safety Using Crash Surrogates.

An investigation of environmental influence on the benefits of adaptation mechanisms in evolutionary swarm robotics (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Steyven, A., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2017, July). An investigation of environmental influence on the benefits of adaptation mechanisms in evolutionary swarm robotics. Presented at Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference - GECCO '17

A robotic swarm that is required to operate for long periods in a potentially unknown environment can use both evolution and individual learning methods in order to adapt. However, the role played by the environment in influencing the effectiveness o... Read More about An investigation of environmental influence on the benefits of adaptation mechanisms in evolutionary swarm robotics.