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Influence of long-term thermal history on thermal comfort and preference (2019)
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Jowkar, M., de Dear, R., & Brusey, J. (2020). Influence of long-term thermal history on thermal comfort and preference. Energy and Buildings, 210, Article 109685. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2019.109685

This study explores how climatic background or long-term thermal history influences individuals’ in-the-moment thermal comfort experiences. This investigation was conducted at eight mixed-mode university buildings in United Kingdom whose occupants ha... Read More about Influence of long-term thermal history on thermal comfort and preference.

A similarity-based neighbourhood search for enhancing the balance exploration–exploitation of differential evolution (2019)
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Segredo, E., Lalla-Ruiz, E., Hart, E., & Voß, S. (2020). A similarity-based neighbourhood search for enhancing the balance exploration–exploitation of differential evolution. Computers and Operations Research, 117, Article 104871. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2019.104871

The success of search-based optimisation algorithms depends on appropriately balancing exploration and exploitation mechanisms during the course of the search. We introduce a mechanism that can be used with Differential Evolution (de) algorithms to a... Read More about A similarity-based neighbourhood search for enhancing the balance exploration–exploitation of differential evolution.

PTAOD: A Novel Framework For Supporting Approximate Outlier Detection over Streaming Data for Edge Computing (2019)
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Zhu, R., Yu, T., Tan, Z., Du, W., Zhao, L., Li, J., & Xia, X. (2020). PTAOD: A Novel Framework For Supporting Approximate Outlier Detection over Streaming Data for Edge Computing. IEEE Access, 8, 1475-1485. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2962066

Outlier detection over sliding window is a fundamental problem in the domain of streaming data management, which has been studied over 10 years. The key of supporting outlier detection is to construct a neighbour-list for each object. It is used for... Read More about PTAOD: A Novel Framework For Supporting Approximate Outlier Detection over Streaming Data for Edge Computing.

An Exploratory Investigation of Public Perceptions Towards Key Benefits and Concerns from the Future Use of Flying Cars (2019)
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Eker, U., Fountas, G., Anastasopoulos, P. C., & Still, S. E. (2020). An Exploratory Investigation of Public Perceptions Towards Key Benefits and Concerns from the Future Use of Flying Cars. Travel Behaviour and Society, 19, 54-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tbs.2019.07.003

The imminent introduction of flying cars in the traffic fleet is anticipated to modify the mobility patterns of urban commuters. Flying cars' hybrid operation on the ground and in the air, in conjunction with their (semi-) automated capabilities, may... Read More about An Exploratory Investigation of Public Perceptions Towards Key Benefits and Concerns from the Future Use of Flying Cars.

Putting design into practice: An investigation of TPACK scores of lecturers in a networked institution (2019)
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Fabian, K., Clayes, E., & Kelly, L. (2019). Putting design into practice: An investigation of TPACK scores of lecturers in a networked institution. Research in Learning Technology, 27, https://doi.org/10.25304/rlt.v27.2296

Demand for blended and online learning environments is increasing and concurrent with this is the changing competencies required for teachers to be able to facilitate learning in both face-to-face and virtual space. The Technological Pedagogical Cont... Read More about Putting design into practice: An investigation of TPACK scores of lecturers in a networked institution.

Comparative life cycle analysis of façade passive systems in the Mediterranean: comfort, energy, and carbon (2019)
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Mifsud, L., Pomponi, F., & Moncaster, A. M. (2020). Comparative life cycle analysis of façade passive systems in the Mediterranean: comfort, energy, and carbon. Renewable Energy, 149, 347-360. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2019.12.072

In the Mediterranean region façade shading systems are used to reduce operational energy, particularly cooling loads. However, operational savings do not necessarily translate into net energy savings unless they outweigh the embodied energy/carbon re... Read More about Comparative life cycle analysis of façade passive systems in the Mediterranean: comfort, energy, and carbon.

Computational singular perturbation analysis of brain lactate metabolism (2019)
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Patsatzis, D. G., Tingas, E., Goussis, D. A., & Sarathy, S. M. (2019). Computational singular perturbation analysis of brain lactate metabolism. PLOS ONE, 14(12), Article e0226094. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226094

Lactate in the brain is considered an important fuel and signalling molecule for neuronal activity, especially during neuronal activation. Whether lactate is shuttled from astrocytes to neurons or from neurons to astrocytes leads to the contradictory... Read More about Computational singular perturbation analysis of brain lactate metabolism.

Metal oxides based electrochemical pH sensors: Current progress and future perspectives (2019)
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Manjakkal, L., Szwagierczak, D., & Dahiya, R. (2020). Metal oxides based electrochemical pH sensors: Current progress and future perspectives. Progress in Materials Science, 109, Article 100635. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmatsci.2019.100635

Electrochemical pH sensors are on high demand in numerous applications such as food processing, health monitoring, agriculture and nuclear sectors, and water quality monitoring etc., owing to their fast response (

Optimal Advance Angle for Aided Maximum-Speed-Node Design of Switched Reluctance Machines (2019)
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Rocca, R., Giulii Capponi, F., Papadopoulos, S., De Donato, G., Rashed, M., & Galea, M. (2020). Optimal Advance Angle for Aided Maximum-Speed-Node Design of Switched Reluctance Machines. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, 35(2), 775-785. https://doi.org/10.1109/tec.2019.2959823

In the design processes of Switched Reluctance Machines that operate in wide constant power speed ranges, the maximum power available at maximum speed must be evaluated for every machine candidate. This is critical to ensure compliance with the power... Read More about Optimal Advance Angle for Aided Maximum-Speed-Node Design of Switched Reluctance Machines.

A novel multi-modal machine learning based approach for automatic classification of EEG recordings in dementia (2019)
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Ieracitano, C., Mammone, N., Hussain, A., & Morabito, F. C. (2020). A novel multi-modal machine learning based approach for automatic classification of EEG recordings in dementia. Neural Networks, 123, 176-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2019.12.006

Electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings generate an electrical map of the human brain that are useful for clinical inspection of patients and in biomedical smart Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) applications. From a signal... Read More about A novel multi-modal machine learning based approach for automatic classification of EEG recordings in dementia.

PM2.5 Pollution: Health and Economic Effect Assessment Based on a Recursive Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Model (2019)
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Chen, K., Wang, G., Wu, L., Chen, J., Yuan, S., Liu, Q., & Liu, X. (2019). PM2.5 Pollution: Health and Economic Effect Assessment Based on a Recursive Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Model. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(24), Article 5102. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16245102

At present particulate matter (PM₂.₅) pollution represents a serious threat to the public health and the national economic system in China. This paper optimizes the whitening coefficient in a grey Markov model by a genetic algorithm, predicts the con... Read More about PM2.5 Pollution: Health and Economic Effect Assessment Based on a Recursive Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium Model.

Feasibility Study of Integrating Renewable Energy Generation System in Sark Island to Reduce Energy Generation Cost and CO2 Emissions (2019)
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Robinson, S., Papadopoulos, S., Jadraque Gago, E., & Muneer, T. (2019). Feasibility Study of Integrating Renewable Energy Generation System in Sark Island to Reduce Energy Generation Cost and CO2 Emissions. Energies, 12(24), 4722. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12244722

The island of Sark, located in the English Channel, has endured an electricity distribution crisis for the past few years, resulting in high electricity costs almost six times higher than UK mainland energy prices. This article is focused on a method... Read More about Feasibility Study of Integrating Renewable Energy Generation System in Sark Island to Reduce Energy Generation Cost and CO2 Emissions.

Accelerating Retinal Fundus Image Classification Using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and Reconfigurable Hardware (FPGA) (2019)
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Ghani, A., See, C. H., Sudhakaran, V., Ahmad, J., & Abd-Alhammed, R. (2019). Accelerating Retinal Fundus Image Classification Using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and Reconfigurable Hardware (FPGA). Electronics, 8(12), https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics8121522

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) and Glaucoma are common eye diseases that affect a blood vessel in the retina and are one of the leading causes of vision loss around the world. Glaucoma is a common eye condition where the optic nerve that connects the eye... Read More about Accelerating Retinal Fundus Image Classification Using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and Reconfigurable Hardware (FPGA).

Guest Editorial Special Issue on Blockchain-Based Secure and Trusted Computing for IoT (2019)
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Li, S., Yuan, Y., Zhang, J. J., Buchanan, B., Liu, E., & Ramadoss, R. (2019). Guest Editorial Special Issue on Blockchain-Based Secure and Trusted Computing for IoT. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 6(6), 1369-1372. https://doi.org/10.1109/tcss.2019.2954939

The Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to connect a massive number of smart devices to the Internet. The existing centralized architecture for handling the huge volume of data created in the IoT is facing many research challenges, including securit... Read More about Guest Editorial Special Issue on Blockchain-Based Secure and Trusted Computing for IoT.

Use of ubiquitous real-time bus passenger information (2019)
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Islam, M. F., Fonzone, A., MacIver, A., & Dickinson, K. (2020). Use of ubiquitous real-time bus passenger information. IET Intelligent Transport Systems, 14(3), 139-147. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-its.2019.0324

Ubiquitous real-time passenger information (URTPI) enhances the perceived quality of service of public transport and enables travellers to make better pre-trip and en-route travel choices. The paper presents an exploratory study of the use of URTPI.... Read More about Use of ubiquitous real-time bus passenger information.

Lead-free (Ba,Sr)TiO3 – BiFeO3 based multilayer ceramic capacitors with high energy density (2019)
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Wang, G., Lu, Z., Li, J., Ji, H., Yang, H., Li, L., Sun, S., Feteira, A., Yang, H., Zuo, R., Wang, D., & Reaney, I. M. (2020). Lead-free (Ba,Sr)TiO3 – BiFeO3 based multilayer ceramic capacitors with high energy density. Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 40(4), 1779-1783. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2019.12.009

High recoverable energy density (10 J cm−3) multilayers have been fabricated from lead-free 0.61BiFeO3-0.33(Ba0.8Sr0.2)TiO3-0.06La(Mg2/3Nb1/3)O3 ceramics. High breakdown strength > 730 kV cm-1 was achieved through the optimisation of multilayer proce... Read More about Lead-free (Ba,Sr)TiO3 – BiFeO3 based multilayer ceramic capacitors with high energy density.

Thermal performance of semitransparent CdTe BIPV window at temperate climate (2019)
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Alrashidi, H., Ghosh, A., Issa, W., Sellami, N., Mallick, T. K., & Sundaram, S. (2020). Thermal performance of semitransparent CdTe BIPV window at temperate climate. Solar Energy, 195, 536-543. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2019.11.084

Semi-transparent photovoltaic (PV) technology is attractive for building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) due to its ability to lower the admitted solar heat gain, to control the penetrating daylight and to generate onsite benevolent direct current po... Read More about Thermal performance of semitransparent CdTe BIPV window at temperate climate.

Dynamic performance enhancement for nonlinear stochastic systems using RBF driven nonlinear compensation with extended Kalman filter (2019)
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Zhou, Y., Wang, A., Zhou, P., Wang, H., & Chai, T. (2020). Dynamic performance enhancement for nonlinear stochastic systems using RBF driven nonlinear compensation with extended Kalman filter. Automatica, 112, Article 108693. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2019.108693

In this paper, a novel hybrid control method is proposed to enhance the tracking performance of the Proportional–Integral (PI) based control system for a class of nonlinear and non-Gaussian stochastic dynamic processes with unmeasurable states. The s... Read More about Dynamic performance enhancement for nonlinear stochastic systems using RBF driven nonlinear compensation with extended Kalman filter.

Fuzzy-Based Distributed Protocol for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication (2019)
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Hawbani, A., Torbosh, E., Wang, X., Sincak, P., Zhao, L., & Al-Dubai, A. (2021). Fuzzy-Based Distributed Protocol for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 29(3), 612-626. https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2019.2957254

This paper modeled the multihop data-routing in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks(VANET) as Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) in four steps. First, the criteria which have an impact on the performance of the network layer are captured and transformed... Read More about Fuzzy-Based Distributed Protocol for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication.

A Novel Trust Evaluation Process for Secure Localization using a Decentralized Blockchain in Wireless Sensor Networks (2019)
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Kim, T., Goyat, R., Rai, M. K., Kumar, G., Buchanan, W. J., Saha, R., & Thomas, R. (2019). A Novel Trust Evaluation Process for Secure Localization using a Decentralized Blockchain in Wireless Sensor Networks. IEEE Access, 7, 184133-184144. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2019.2960609

In this research paper, blockchain-based trust management model is proposed to enhance trust relationship among beacon nodes and to eradicate malicious nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). This composite trust evaluation involves behavioral-base... Read More about A Novel Trust Evaluation Process for Secure Localization using a Decentralized Blockchain in Wireless Sensor Networks.