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Constructing English Medium indicators in the shipping courses of Taiwan's higher education (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tseng, P., Richards, K., & Pilcher, N. (2017, May). Constructing English Medium indicators in the shipping courses of Taiwan's higher education. Paper presented at 9th International Forum on Shipping, Ports and Airports

English is a common language in the global maritime industry and many countries are now moving towards the use of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) to deliver their courses. Such a medium increases students’ proficiency in the common language... Read More about Constructing English Medium indicators in the shipping courses of Taiwan's higher education.

Investigation of the Unsteady Effects of Temperature Fluctuation on the Ignition of a Hydrogen-Air Mixture (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Song, W., Tingas, S., Lee, S., & Im, H. G. (2017, May). Investigation of the Unsteady Effects of Temperature Fluctuation on the Ignition of a Hydrogen-Air Mixture. Paper presented at 7th Annual Meeting of the Saudi Arabian Section of Combustion Institute, Saudi Arabia

Song, W., Tingas, S., Lee, S., & Im, H. G. (2017, May). Investigation of the Unsteady Effects of Temperature Fluctuation on the Ignition of a Hydrogen-Air Mixture. Paper presented at 7th Annual Meeting of the Saudi Arabian Section of Combustion Insti... Read More about Investigation of the Unsteady Effects of Temperature Fluctuation on the Ignition of a Hydrogen-Air Mixture.

Flame Front Insights at Extreme Combustion Conditions (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tingas, S., Mukhadiyev, N., & Im, H. (2017, May). Flame Front Insights at Extreme Combustion Conditions. Poster presented at 7th SASCI Meeting, Saudi Arabian Section of the Combustion Institute, KAUST, Saudi Arabia

The objective of this work is to obtain physical understanding of a high Karlovitz premixed H2/air flame by using algorithmic tools of the computational singular perturbation (CSP) approach [1, 2]. On the top of these tools, a recently developed quan... Read More about Flame Front Insights at Extreme Combustion Conditions.

5G: What Architecture to Serve Vertical Industries? (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thuemmler, C. (2017, May). 5G: What Architecture to Serve Vertical Industries?. Presented at IEEE ICC 2017

The implementation and roll out of 5G technology is progressing at increasing speed and will impact all industrial verticals. Health is globally a very important industry worth between 5 and 20% of GDP. This event is a co-creation event designed to e... Read More about 5G: What Architecture to Serve Vertical Industries?.

5G - What architecture to serve vertical industry (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thuemmler, C. (2017, May). 5G - What architecture to serve vertical industry. Presented at IEEE ICC 2017

5G offers the promise to dynamically satisfy a multiplicity of concurrent requirements originating from various business models of vertical industries. The 5G PPP has published a White Paper on 5G empowering vertical industries and has further worked... Read More about 5G - What architecture to serve vertical industry.

Transport and economic growth. (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rye, T. (2017, May). Transport and economic growth. Presented at SCOTS AGM

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A highly efficient ergonomic approach for the bonded repair of composite aerostructures utilising a virtual environment (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Marzano, A., McKeefry, R. P., & Falzon, B. G. (2016, July). A highly efficient ergonomic approach for the bonded repair of composite aerostructures utilising a virtual environment. Presented at 10th CIRP Conference on Intelligent Computation in Manufacturing Engineering - CIRP ICME '16, Ischia, Italy

This work presents an innovative approach to produce standardised procedures for a specific type of damage and subsequent repair of a Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic Composite (CFRP) aerostructure, along with an analysis of the process based on ergon... Read More about A highly efficient ergonomic approach for the bonded repair of composite aerostructures utilising a virtual environment.

Tailoring of electromagnetic waves by metasurfaces (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Spada, L. L., & Hao, Y. (2017). Tailoring of electromagnetic waves by metasurfaces. In 2017 11th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP). https://doi.org/10.23919/EuCAP.2017.7928143

In the last few years, non-homogeneous metasurfaces captured huge interest in tailoring electromagnetic waves, ranging from microwave to optical frequencies. Several technologies have been proposed, but a general design approach is still missing: the... Read More about Tailoring of electromagnetic waves by metasurfaces.

Robotic assistants for universal access (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Keates, S., & Kyberd, P. J. (2017). Robotic assistants for universal access. In UAHCI 2017: Universal Access in Human?Computer Interaction. Human and Technological Environments (527-538). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58700-4_43

Much research is now focusing on how technology is moving away from the traditional computer to a range of smart devices in smart environments, the so-called Internet of Things. With this increase in computing power and decrease in form factor, we ar... Read More about Robotic assistants for universal access.

PV electrical parameters degradation analysis-Oman perspective (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Honnurvali, M. S., & Gupta, N. (2017). PV electrical parameters degradation analysis-Oman perspective. In 2017 8th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC). https://doi.org/10.1109/irec.2017.7926000

Recent interests in exploring the potential of renewable energy possibilities and readiness in sultanate of Oman has showed that it can engage renewable energy technologies, such as solar, wind power and various hybrid power models to mitigate fossil... Read More about PV electrical parameters degradation analysis-Oman perspective.

Recent developments in integrated platforms (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kerrouche, A. (2017, May). Recent developments in integrated platforms. Presented at International Symposium on Health-Related Water Microbiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

This session will review and discuss the increase role of automated rapid and molecular methods for pathogen detection in drinking water and attempt to reach a consensus on the future role of such methods for routine use. The session will start with... Read More about Recent developments in integrated platforms.

New trust metric for the RPL routing protocol (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Romdhani, I., Djedjig, N., Medjek, F., & Tandjaoui, D. (2017). New trust metric for the RPL routing protocol. In 2017 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS),. https://doi.org/10.1109/iacs.2017.7921993

Establishing trust relationships between routing nodes represents a vital security requirement to establish reliable routing processes that exclude infected or selfish nodes. In this paper, we propose a new security scheme for the Internet of things... Read More about New trust metric for the RPL routing protocol.

Bringing new species to the market place (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ridley-Ellis, D. (2017, May). Bringing new species to the market place. Presented at EFIATLANTIC AND IEFC ANNUAL MEETING The Role of Alternative Tree Species in the Forests of Atlantic Europe

Timber grading (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ridley-Ellis, D. (2017, May). Timber grading. Presented at Tree Breeding and Forest Products - An update on current research

Designing for mixed reality with children (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Flint, T. (2017, May). Designing for mixed reality with children. Paper presented at Researching with and for children: Place, pedagogy and play

WaveTrace: Motion Matching Input using Wrist-Worn Motion Sensors (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Verweij, D., Esteves, A., Khan, V., & Bakker, S. (2017, May). WaveTrace: Motion Matching Input using Wrist-Worn Motion Sensors. Poster presented at Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI EA '17

We present WaveTrace, a novel interaction technique based on selection by motion matching. In motion matching systems, targets move continuously in a singular and pre-defined path -- users interact with these by performing a synchronous bodily moveme... Read More about WaveTrace: Motion Matching Input using Wrist-Worn Motion Sensors.

Understanding Concept Maps: A Closer Look at How People Organise Ideas (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Padilla, S., Methven, T. S., Robb, D. A., & Chantler, M. J. (2017, May). Understanding Concept Maps: A Closer Look at How People Organise Ideas. Presented at 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire, Denver, Colorado, USA

Research into creating visualisations that organise ideas into concise concept maps often focuses on implicit mathematical and statistical theories which are built around algorithmic efficacy or visual complexity. Although there are multiple techniqu... Read More about Understanding Concept Maps: A Closer Look at How People Organise Ideas.

Secure speech communication algorithm via DCT and TD-ERCS chaotic map (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Habib, Z., Khan, J. S., Ahmad, J., Khan, M. A., & Khan, F. A. (2017, April). Secure speech communication algorithm via DCT and TD-ERCS chaotic map. Presented at 2017 4th International Conference on Electrical and Electronic Engineering (ICEEE), Ankara, Turkey

Secure communication has always been a demanding area in civil, commercial and particularly in military set up. Robust and time-tested efficient algorithms are needed to have an essential privacy for speech transmission in the telephone networks, rad... Read More about Secure speech communication algorithm via DCT and TD-ERCS chaotic map.

Energy demand prediction through novel random neural network predictor for large non-domestic buildings (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ahmad, J., Larijani, H., Emmanuel, R., Mannion, M., Javed, A., & Phillipson, M. (2017, April). Energy demand prediction through novel random neural network predictor for large non-domestic buildings. Presented at 2017 Annual IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon), Montreal, QC, Canada

Buildings are among the largest consumers of energy in the world. In developed countries, buildings currently consumes 40% of the total energy and 51% of total electricity consumption. Energy prediction is a key factor in reducing energy wastage. Thi... Read More about Energy demand prediction through novel random neural network predictor for large non-domestic buildings.