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Indirect evaporative cooling: Past, present and future potentials (2012)
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Duan, Z., Zhan, C., Zhang, X., Mustafa, M., Zhao, X., Alimohammadisagvand, B., & Hasan, A. (2012). Indirect evaporative cooling: Past, present and future potentials. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 16(9), 6823-6850. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2012.07.007

This paper reported a review based study into the Indirect Evaporative Cooling (IEC) technology, which was undertaken from a variety of aspects including background, history, current status, concept, standardisation, system configuration, operational... Read More about Indirect evaporative cooling: Past, present and future potentials.

Comparison of fungal laccase production on different solid substrates, immobilization and its decolorization potential on synthetic textile dyes (2012)
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Rajendran, R., Sundaram, S. K., Yasodha, K., & Umamaheswari, K. (2012). Comparison of fungal laccase production on different solid substrates, immobilization and its decolorization potential on synthetic textile dyes. The IIOAB Journal, 3(5), 1-6

Laccases are polyphenol oxidases that require O2 to oxidize phenols, polyphenols, aromatic amines and different non-phenolic substrates by one electron transfer resulting in the formation of reactive radicals. In the current study 2 laccase producing... Read More about Comparison of fungal laccase production on different solid substrates, immobilization and its decolorization potential on synthetic textile dyes.

Optical efficiency study of PV crossed compound parabolic concentrator (2012)
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Sellami, N., & Mallick, T. K. (2013). Optical efficiency study of PV crossed compound parabolic concentrator. Applied Energy, 102, 868-876. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2012.08.052

Static solar concentrators present a solution to the challenge of reducing the cost of Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) by reducing the area of solar cells. In this study a 3-D ray trace code has been developed using MATLAB in order to determi... Read More about Optical efficiency study of PV crossed compound parabolic concentrator.

Modelling of a vibro-impact capsule system (2012)
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Liu, Y., Wiercigroch, M., Pavlovskaia, E., & Yu, H. (2013). Modelling of a vibro-impact capsule system. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 66, 2-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2012.09.012

The model of a vibro-impact capsule system is studied in this paper to provide a fundamental understanding of its dynamics for potential medical and engineering applications. The system consists of a capsule having a main body which interacts with an... Read More about Modelling of a vibro-impact capsule system.

Analysis of risks associated with facilities management outsourcing: A multivariate approach (2012)
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Ikediashi, D. I., Ogunlana, S. O., Boateng, P., & Okwuashi, O. (2012). Analysis of risks associated with facilities management outsourcing: A multivariate approach. Journal of Facilities Management, 10(4), 301-316. https://doi.org/10.1108/14725961211265756

Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyse the risk factors associated with outsourcing of facilities management (FM) services. Design/methodology/approach The study administered questionnaires on 146 registered members of International Fac... Read More about Analysis of risks associated with facilities management outsourcing: A multivariate approach.

Researching the adoption of ICT in Ethiopia: a case study of small hotels in Addis Ababa (2012)
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Demeke, W., & Olden, A. (2012). Researching the adoption of ICT in Ethiopia: a case study of small hotels in Addis Ababa. Aslib Proceedings, 64(5), 519-528. https://doi.org/10.1108/00012531211263139

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the difficulties encountered when researching the adoption of information and communications technology (ICT) by small hotels in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and to indicate how some of these difficulties... Read More about Researching the adoption of ICT in Ethiopia: a case study of small hotels in Addis Ababa.

Service oriented architecture based web application model for collaborative biomedical signal analysis (2012)
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Mahmud, M., Rahman, M. M., Travalin, D., Raif, P., & Hussain, A. (2012). Service oriented architecture based web application model for collaborative biomedical signal analysis. Biomedical Engineering / Biomedizinische Technik, 57(S1), 780-783. https://doi.org/10.1515/bmt-2012-4412

The rapid growth in availability of new biomedical systems and devices capable of acquiring biosignals for disease diagnosis and health monitoring require rigorous processing. Biomedical research by nature depends on integrated problem solving softwa... Read More about Service oriented architecture based web application model for collaborative biomedical signal analysis.

A low-profile ultra-wideband modified planar inverted-f antenna (2012)
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See, C. H., Hraga, H. I., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., McEwan, N. J., Noras, J. M., & Excell, P. S. (2013). A low-profile ultra-wideband modified planar inverted-f antenna. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 61(1), 100-108. https://doi.org/10.1109/tap.2012.2216494

A miniaturized modified planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) is presented and experimentally studied. This antenna consists of a planar rectangular monopole top-loaded with a rectangular patch attached to two rectangular plates, one shorted to the ground... Read More about A low-profile ultra-wideband modified planar inverted-f antenna.

Preparation of nanocrystalline TiO2 electrodes for flexible dye-sensitized solar cells: influence of mechanical compression (2012)
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Senthilarasu, S., Peiris, T. N., Garcia-Canadas, J., & Wijayantha, K. U. (2012). Preparation of nanocrystalline TiO2 electrodes for flexible dye-sensitized solar cells: influence of mechanical compression. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 116(36), 19053-19061. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp301638p

Nanocrystalline TiO2 electrodes were prepared using binder-free TiO2 paste on conductive ITO-PEN substrates by the doctor-blade method at significantly low temperature (140 °C), and the electrodes were further processed under different compressions (... Read More about Preparation of nanocrystalline TiO2 electrodes for flexible dye-sensitized solar cells: influence of mechanical compression.

Optical characterisation of 3-D static solar concentrator (2012)
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Sellami, N., Mallick, T. K., & McNeil, D. A. (2012). Optical characterisation of 3-D static solar concentrator. Energy Conversion and Management, 64, 579-586. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2012.05.028

The focus of this research is to develop a solar concentrator which is compact, static and, at the same time, able to collect maximum solar energy. A novel geometry of a 3-D static concentrator has been designed and coined the Square Elliptical Hyper... Read More about Optical characterisation of 3-D static solar concentrator.

Mutual information based input feature selection for classification problems (2012)
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Cang, S., & Yu, H. (2012). Mutual information based input feature selection for classification problems. Decision Support Systems, 54(1), 691-698. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2012.08.014

The elimination process aims to reduce the size of the input feature set and at the same time to retain the class discriminatory information for classification problems. This paper investigates the approaches to solve classification problems of the f... Read More about Mutual information based input feature selection for classification problems.

Common Sense Knowledge for Handwritten Chinese Text Recognition (2012)
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Wang, Q., Cambria, E., Liu, C., & Hussain, A. (2013). Common Sense Knowledge for Handwritten Chinese Text Recognition. Cognitive Computation, 5(2), 234-242. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-012-9183-y

Compared to human intelligence, computers are far short of common sense knowledge which people normally acquire during the formative years of their lives. This paper investigates the effects of employing common sense knowledge as a new linguistic con... Read More about Common Sense Knowledge for Handwritten Chinese Text Recognition.

Planar monopole antennas for new generation mobile and lower band ultra-wide band applications (2012)
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See, C., Abd-Alhameed, R., Jones, S., Zhou, D., McEwan, N., Excell, P., Elmegri, F., & Noras, J. (2012). Planar monopole antennas for new generation mobile and lower band ultra-wide band applications. IET microwaves, antennas & propagation, 6(11), 1207-1214. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-map.2012.0086

This study presents two multiband planar printed monopole antennas with an optimised size of 57 × 37.5 × 0.8 mm³ for mobile/wireless and low-band ultra-wide band (UWB) applications. Both these antennas are constructed as a chorded crescent-shaped rad... Read More about Planar monopole antennas for new generation mobile and lower band ultra-wide band applications.

Compact-size linearly tapered slot antenna for portable ultra-wideband imaging systems. (2012)
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Zhu, F., Gao, S., Ho, A. T. S., See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Li, J., & Xu, J. (2013). Compact-size linearly tapered slot antenna for portable ultra-wideband imaging systems. International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering, 23(3), 290-299. https://doi.org/10.1002/mmce.20673

A compact‐size asymmetrical linearly tapered slot antenna required for portable ultra‐wideband (UWB) imaging systems is presented. The total antenna size is reduced compared with the conventional linearly tapered slot antenna by using a triangular sl... Read More about Compact-size linearly tapered slot antenna for portable ultra-wideband imaging systems..

Nanoparticle Electromagnetic Properties for Sensing Applications (2012)
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Spada, L. L., Iovine, R., & Vegni, L. (2012). Nanoparticle Electromagnetic Properties for Sensing Applications. Advances in nanoparticles, 01(02), 9-14. https://doi.org/10.4236/anp.2012.12002

Nanoparticles play a crucial role in biomedical and sensing applications. In this paper the design of non-spherical gold nanoparticles, operating in the near infrared and visible regime, is proposed. The structures consist of metallic resonating incl... Read More about Nanoparticle Electromagnetic Properties for Sensing Applications.

Biometric Applications Related to Human Beings: There Is Life beyond Security (2012)
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Faundez-Zanuy, M., Hussain, A., Mekyska, J., Sesa-Nogueras, E., Monte-Moreno, E., Esposito, A., Chetouani, M., Garre-Olmo, J., Abel, A., Smekal, Z., & Lopez-de-Ipiña, K. (2013). Biometric Applications Related to Human Beings: There Is Life beyond Security. Cognitive Computation, 5(1), 136-151. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-012-9169-9

The use of biometrics has been successfully applied to security applications for some time. However, the extension of other potential applications with the use of biometric information is a very recent development. This paper summarizes the field of... Read More about Biometric Applications Related to Human Beings: There Is Life beyond Security.

Effects of Interactive Real-Time Simulations and Humanoid Avatars on Consumers’ Responses in Online House Products Marketing (2012)
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Mahdjoubi, L., Hao Koh, J., & Moobela, C. (2014). Effects of Interactive Real-Time Simulations and Humanoid Avatars on Consumers’ Responses in Online House Products Marketing. Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 29(1), 31-46. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8667.2012.00775.x

Interactive product presentation techniques have recently gained importance in online marketing of house products. Real-time simulation offers a high level interactive presentation with more powerful features to present product functions and variatio... Read More about Effects of Interactive Real-Time Simulations and Humanoid Avatars on Consumers’ Responses in Online House Products Marketing.

Emotional and aesthetic attachment to digital artefacts (2012)
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Turner, P., & Turner, S. (2012). Emotional and aesthetic attachment to digital artefacts. Cognition, Technology and Work, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10111-012-0231-x

We report a pair of repertory grid studies that explore the attachment people have for digital and nondigital artefacts. In the first study we found no clear distinctions between emotional attachment to digital and nondigital artefacts: people are... Read More about Emotional and aesthetic attachment to digital artefacts.