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TG1/0211/10rev: Derivation of ViSCAN Grading Machine Settings for British Spruce (2011)
Preprint / Working Paper
Ridley-Ellis, D., & Moore, J. R. TG1/0211/10rev: Derivation of ViSCAN Grading Machine Settings for British Spruce

Confidential report for CEN TC124 WG2 TG1 Grading machine: ViSCAN Manufacturer: MiCROTEC GmbH Growth area: United Kingdom and Ireland Species: Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) Norway spruce (Picea abies) (WPCS) Sizes: 35 mm to 82 mm 57 mm to... Read More about TG1/0211/10rev: Derivation of ViSCAN Grading Machine Settings for British Spruce.

Increasing Confidence in Mass Discharge Estimates Using Geostatistical Methods (2011)
Journal Article
Cai, Z., Wilson, R. D., Cardiff, M. A., & Kitanidis, P. K. (2011). Increasing Confidence in Mass Discharge Estimates Using Geostatistical Methods. Groundwater, 49(2), 197-208. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-6584.2010.00709.x

Mass discharge is one metric rapidly gaining acceptance for assessing the performance of in situ groundwater remediation systems. Multilevel sampling transects provide the data necessary to make such estimates, often using the Thiessen Polygon method... Read More about Increasing Confidence in Mass Discharge Estimates Using Geostatistical Methods.

A smarter way to practise (2011)
Journal Article
Thuemmler, C. (2011). A smarter way to practise. BMJ, 342(feb22 2), d1124-d1124. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d1124

Rapid response to the following article - Nolan, Tom -A smarter way to practise, (2011), BMJ vol. 342, doi:10.1136/bmj.d1124 issn-0959-8138, http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d1124

Compact Tunable Microstrip F-Slot antenna for Mobile Handset Applications (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Elfergani, I., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., See, C. H., Abidin, Z., Hraga, H., & Excell, P. (2011). Compact Tunable Microstrip F-Slot antenna for Mobile Handset Applications.

This paper presents a design for a single-feed, compact, tunable microstrip F- slot antenna capable of achieving high tuning ranges without using any matching networks. An F shaped slot embedded in a patch is used to generate resonant frequencies. Th... Read More about Compact Tunable Microstrip F-Slot antenna for Mobile Handset Applications.

Optimised concentrator for the Solar Photonic Optoelectronic Transformer System: First optimisation stage (2011)
Journal Article
Muhammad Sukki, F., Ramirez-Iniguez, R., McMeekin, S., Stewart, B., & Clive, B. (2011). Optimised concentrator for the Solar Photonic Optoelectronic Transformer System: First optimisation stage. Caledonian Journal of Engineering, 7(1), 19-24

Collecting and storing solar energy will be a key part of efficient renewable technologies for buildings of the future, particularly in the Middle East. This paper presents the topic of improved properties of optical concentrators to achieve increase... Read More about Optimised concentrator for the Solar Photonic Optoelectronic Transformer System: First optimisation stage.

A new dynamic counter-based broadcasting scheme for mobile ad hoc networks. (2011)
Journal Article
Yassein, M. B., Nimer, S. F., & Al-Dubai, A. (2011). A new dynamic counter-based broadcasting scheme for mobile ad hoc networks. Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, 19, 553-563. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.simpat.2010.08.011

Broadcasting is an essential operation in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) to transmit a message (data packet) from the sender to the rest of the network nodes. Although flooding is the simplest mechanism for broadcasting, where each node retransmits... Read More about A new dynamic counter-based broadcasting scheme for mobile ad hoc networks..

Is stereotyping inevitable when designing with personas? (2011)
Journal Article
Turner, P., & Turner, S. (2011). Is stereotyping inevitable when designing with personas?. Design Studies, 32, 30-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2010.06.002

User representations are central to user-centred design, personas being one of the more recent developments. However, such descriptions of people risk stereotyping. We review the genesis and application of personas and kindred representations, and di... Read More about Is stereotyping inevitable when designing with personas?.

Advanced security and network forensics: web Infrastructures. (2011)
Other
Buchanan, W. J. (2011). Advanced security and network forensics: web Infrastructures. [Educational Resource]. Edinburgh Napier University

5 WEB INFRASTRUCTURES 5.1 Objectives 5.2 Introduction 5.3 Identity 2.0 5.4 SOAP over HTTP 5.5 LDAP X.500 5.6 Authentication Infrastructures 5.7 802.1x Authentication Infrastructure Authentication techniques Security weaknesses of... Read More about Advanced security and network forensics: web Infrastructures..

Advanced security and network forensics: obfuscation and data hiding. (2011)
Other
Buchanan, W. J. (2011). Advanced security and network forensics: obfuscation and data hiding. [Educational resource]. Edinburgh Napier University

4 DATA HIDING AND OBFUSCATION 4.1 Objectives 4.2 Introduction 4.3 Obfuscation using Encryption Private-key data hiding Public-key data hiding Hashing Encoding Ex-OR encoding Coding 4.4 Obfuscation through tunneling 4.5 Covert ch... Read More about Advanced security and network forensics: obfuscation and data hiding..

Advanced security and network forensics: network forensics. (2011)
Other
Buchanan, W. J. (2011). Advanced security and network forensics: network forensics. [Educational toolkit]. Edinburgh Napier University

3 NETWORK FORENSICS 3.1 Objectives 3.2 Introduction 3.3 The key protocols 3.4 Ethernet, IP and TCP headers 3.5 TCP connection 3.6 ARP 3.7 SYN 3.8 Application Layer Analysis - FTP 3.9 ICMP 3.10 DNS 3.11 Port scan 3.12 SYN flood... Read More about Advanced security and network forensics: network forensics..

Effects of 7.5% CO2 inhalation on allocation of spatial attention to facial cues of emotional expression (2011)
Journal Article
Cooper, R. M., Bailey, J. E., Diaper, A., Stirland, R., Renton, L. E., Benton, C. P., …Munafò, M. R. (2011). Effects of 7.5% CO2 inhalation on allocation of spatial attention to facial cues of emotional expression. Cognition and Emotion, 25(4), 626-638

Increased vigilance to threat-related stimuli is thought to be a core cognitive feature of anxiety. We sought to investigate the cognitive impact of experimentally induced anxiety, by means of a 7.5% CO2 challenge, which acts as an unconditioned anxi... Read More about Effects of 7.5% CO2 inhalation on allocation of spatial attention to facial cues of emotional expression.

Eco Planner: A Tabletop System for Scheduling Sustainable Routines (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Esteves, A., & Oakley, I. (2011, January). Eco Planner: A Tabletop System for Scheduling Sustainable Routines. Presented at The 5th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, 2011

This paper presents Eco Planner, a tangible system that aims to encourage users to behave more sustainably. It is based on a tabletop system showing a tabular view on which users can manipulate tokens to express and observe information about their da... Read More about Eco Planner: A Tabletop System for Scheduling Sustainable Routines.

A counter-example to “Positive realness preserving model reduction with H-\infty norm error bounds” (2011)
Journal Article
Guiver, C., & Opmeer, M. R. (2011). A counter-example to “Positive realness preserving model reduction with H-\infty norm error bounds”. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 58(6), 1410-1411. https://doi.org/10.1109/tcsi.2010.2

We provide a counter example to the H∞ error bound for the difference of a positive real transfer function and its positive real balanced truncation stated in “Positive realness preserving model reduction with H-\infty norm error bounds” IEEE Trans.... Read More about A counter-example to “Positive realness preserving model reduction with H-\infty norm error bounds”.

Numerical Simulation of Drain Performance in Liquefiable Soils (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bouckovalas, G., Dimitriadi, V., Tsiapas, Y., & Tsioulou, A. (2011, January). Numerical Simulation of Drain Performance in Liquefiable Soils. Paper presented at 5th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Santiago, Chile

Modern approaches for the design of drains for liquefaction mitigation are based on the work of Seed and Booker (1977) for infinitely permeable drains and uniform soil with purely horizontal drainage. More recently, Bouckovalas et al. (2009) revisite... Read More about Numerical Simulation of Drain Performance in Liquefiable Soils.

Exploring the effects of stress history on the drained and undrained cyclic behaviour of granular materials. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barreto, D. (2011, January). Exploring the effects of stress history on the drained and undrained cyclic behaviour of granular materials. Paper presented at 5th International Conference on Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering (5-ICEGE)

This paper presents the results of 3D DEM simulations of granular materials subject to cyclic loading. While both the drained and undrained conditions are considered, the effects of depositional history and consolidation stress history on the stress-... Read More about Exploring the effects of stress history on the drained and undrained cyclic behaviour of granular materials..

Settlement-The Short and the Long of it (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McDougall, J. (2011). Settlement-The Short and the Long of it. In D. Zekkos (Ed.), Geotechnical Characterization, Field Measurement, and Laboratory Testing of Municipal Solid Waste (76-111). https://doi.org/10.1061/41146%28395%293

Total settlement in municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills can be considerable, from 25% to 50% of original fill thickness (Bjarngard and Edgers, 1990). Some occurs very quickly, i.e. during the filling phase (or short term), but there remains a signi... Read More about Settlement-The Short and the Long of it.

A booking portal for shared transport in rural areas. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cooper, J. A., Duffell, J., & Nelson, J. D. (2011, January). A booking portal for shared transport in rural areas. Paper presented at Universities Transport Studies Group

Although Demand Responsive Transport (DRT) has developed in a number of urban and rural areas, solutions are local with no mechanism to offer services further afield. Furthermore, transport providers, particularly smaller ones, cannot offer their ser... Read More about A booking portal for shared transport in rural areas..

Student perception of on-line lectures with a blended learning environment. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, W. J. (2011, January). Student perception of on-line lectures with a blended learning environment. Paper presented at Edinburgh Napier University Staff Conference

Educational institutions are increasingly moving towards enhancing learning through the use of integrated information technology. Blended, or augmented, learning, aims to support the traditional learning environment – where the instructor blends onli... Read More about Student perception of on-line lectures with a blended learning environment..