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Energy cooperatives as a means of achieving sustainability within the housing sector. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Borthwick, S., & Muneer, T. (2011). Energy cooperatives as a means of achieving sustainability within the housing sector.

TRI members Sarah Borthwick and Prof Tariq Muneer have presented a video entitled "Energy Co-operatives as a Means of Achieving Sustainability within the Housing Sector" as part of a 4-day online conference on the "Resilience of Buildings, Neighbourh... Read More about Energy cooperatives as a means of achieving sustainability within the housing sector..

‘Green’ fiscal measures for lessening the environmental impact of private vehicle ownership – a review. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Borthwick, S., & Carreno, M. (2011). ‘Green’ fiscal measures for lessening the environmental impact of private vehicle ownership – a review. In D. Cygas, & K. Froehner (Eds.), The 8th International Conference on Environmental Engineering (8th ICEE)

Given the increasing concerns surrounding climate change, the paper focuses upon the transport sector and the use of taxation policy to help curb rising amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Through various environmental reforms, Governments can... Read More about ‘Green’ fiscal measures for lessening the environmental impact of private vehicle ownership – a review..

Frequency-based maritime container assignment model for global liner services. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bell, M. G. H., Angeloudis, P., Liu, X., Fonzone, A., & Hosseinloo, S. H. (2011). Frequency-based maritime container assignment model for global liner services. In TRB 90th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD

This paper transposes the classic frequency-based transit assignment method of Spiess and Florian to containers demonstrating its promise as the basis for a global maritime container assignment model. In this model, containers are carried by shipping... Read More about Frequency-based maritime container assignment model for global liner services..

Using DEM for the assessment of K0 in soils. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barreto, D. (2011). Using DEM for the assessment of K0 in soils. In Discrete Element Methods – Simulations of Discontinua: Theory and Applications - proceedings of the fifth international conference on discrete element methods (440-445)

Novel processing of solid oxide fuel cell (2011)
Thesis
Baba, N. B. Novel processing of solid oxide fuel cell. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4271

ABSTRACT Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are of major interest in fuel cell development due to their high energy conversion efficiency, wide range of fuels and environmental friendliness. One important obstacle for their industrial development is the... Read More about Novel processing of solid oxide fuel cell.

Mobilities: new perspectives on transport and society. (2011)
Book
Grieco, M., & Urry, J. (Eds.). (2011). Mobilities: new perspectives on transport and society. Ashgate Publishing

Bringing together the leading authors currently working at the intersection of social science and transport science, this volume provides a companion to the well-established and extensive international Transport and Society series. Each chapter, and... Read More about Mobilities: new perspectives on transport and society..

BioVis 2011 Conference Proceedings. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
(2011, October). BioVis 2011 Conference Proceedings

The rapidly expanding field of biology creates enormous challenges for computational visualization techniques for enabling researchers to gain insight from their large and highly complex data sets. The goal of the BioVis 2011 symposium is to create t... Read More about BioVis 2011 Conference Proceedings..

OSCAM-optimized stereoscopic camera control for interactive 3D (2011)
Journal Article
Oskam, T., Hornung, A., Bowles, H., Mitchell, K., & Gross, M. (2011). OSCAM-optimized stereoscopic camera control for interactive 3D. ACM transactions on graphics, 30, 189. https://doi.org/10.1145/2024156.2024223

This paper presents a controller for camera convergence and interaxial separation that specifically addresses challenges in interactive stereoscopic applications like games. In such applications, unpredictable viewer- or object-motion often compromis... Read More about OSCAM-optimized stereoscopic camera control for interactive 3D.

Enhanced performance of flexible dye-sensitized solar cells: Electrodeposition of Mg (OH) 2 on a nanocrystalline TiO2 electrode (2011)
Journal Article
Peiris, T. N., Senthilarasu, S., & Wijayantha, K. U. (2012). Enhanced performance of flexible dye-sensitized solar cells: Electrodeposition of Mg (OH) 2 on a nanocrystalline TiO2 electrode. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 116(1), 1211-1218. https://doi.o

Nanocrystalline TiO2 photoanodes were prepared on a conductive indium–tin oxide coated polyethylene naphthalate (ITO-PEN) plastic substrate by the doctor-blade method to fabricate flexible dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs). The surface of the photoan... Read More about Enhanced performance of flexible dye-sensitized solar cells: Electrodeposition of Mg (OH) 2 on a nanocrystalline TiO2 electrode.

A review of product-service systems design methodologies (2011)
Journal Article
Vasantha, G. V. A., Roy, R., Lelah, A., & Brissaud, D. (2012). A review of product-service systems design methodologies. Journal of Engineering Design, 23(9), 635-659. https://doi.org/10.1080/09544828.2011.639712

Product–service systems (PSS), motivated to fulfil customers’ needs, are seen as good strategies to face today's competitive business environment. The field of PSS research is however not fully mature and many different methodologies are proposed for... Read More about A review of product-service systems design methodologies.

OSCAM - Optimized Stereoscopic Camera Control for Interactive 3D (2011)
Journal Article
Oskam, T., Hornung, A., Bowles, H., Mitchell, K., & Gross, M. (2011). OSCAM - Optimized Stereoscopic Camera Control for Interactive 3D. ACM transactions on graphics, 30, 189:1-189:8. https://doi.org/10.1145/2070781.2024223

This paper presents a controller for camera convergence and interaxial separation that specifically addresses challenges in interactive stereoscopic applications like games. In such applications, unpredictable viewer- or object-motion often compromis... Read More about OSCAM - Optimized Stereoscopic Camera Control for Interactive 3D.

A learning automata based and multicast routing energy efficiency algorithm using minimum spanning tree for wireless sensor networks (2011)
Journal Article
Barati, M., & Sajadi, J. (2011). A learning automata based and multicast routing energy efficiency algorithm using minimum spanning tree for wireless sensor networks. Australian journal of basic and applied sciences, 5(12), 239-248

Wireless sensor networks(WSNs) include a lot of small sensor nodes with limited energy. Multicast routing in wireless sensor networks is an appropriate method for sending a same data to several different receivers in the network. In this paper, A mul... Read More about A learning automata based and multicast routing energy efficiency algorithm using minimum spanning tree for wireless sensor networks.

Can Skype be used beyond video calling? (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Exarchakos, G., Menkovski, V., & Liotta, A. (2011). Can Skype be used beyond video calling?. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (155-161). https://doi.org/10.1145/2095697.2095725

Skype nodes generate a substantial part of real-time bi-directional video traffic nowadays. Employing a range of adaptive mechanisms, the application configures video streaming to meet the requirements of the communication and constraints of the unde... Read More about Can Skype be used beyond video calling?.

Towards neuro-silicon interface using reconfigurable dynamic clamping (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Luo, J. W., Mak, T., Yu, B., Andras, P., & Yakovlev, A. (2011). Towards neuro-silicon interface using reconfigurable dynamic clamping. In 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (6389-6392). https://do

Dynamic clamp emerges as an important apparatus to study the intrinsic neuronal properties through close-loop interactions between models and biological neurons. Modelling large-scale neuronal networks in software will result in significant computati... Read More about Towards neuro-silicon interface using reconfigurable dynamic clamping.

Social Networks in the Workplace - some data protection issues (2011)
Digital Artefact
Haynes, D. (2011). Social Networks in the Workplace - some data protection issues. [Article]

There are many benefits to be gained from using social networks in the workplace but there is a downside – a growing concern about privacy and misuse of personal information. Using the results from a survey he conducted to highlight the issues, David... Read More about Social Networks in the Workplace - some data protection issues.