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Building the bridges -- a proposal for merging different paradigms in mobile NFC ecosystem. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Akram, R. N., Markantonakis, K., & Mayes, K. (2012, November). Building the bridges -- a proposal for merging different paradigms in mobile NFC ecosystem

In late 1990s. the multi-application initiative was put forward to have multiple applications on a single smart card. This would have enabled a cardholder to accumulate all of her smart card based applications (e.g. banking, telecom, and transport et... Read More about Building the bridges -- a proposal for merging different paradigms in mobile NFC ecosystem..

Efficient Rasterization for Edge-based 3D Object Tracking on Mobile Devices (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kissling, E., Mitchell, K., Oskam, T., & Gross, M. (2012, November). Efficient Rasterization for Edge-based 3D Object Tracking on Mobile Devices. Presented at GRAPHInternational Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques

Augmented reality applications on hand-held devices suffer from the limited available processing power. While methods to detect the location of artificially textured markers within the scene are commonly used, geometric properties of three-dimensiona... Read More about Efficient Rasterization for Edge-based 3D Object Tracking on Mobile Devices.

Social dimension of a multi-scale life cycle assessment: the urban heat island mitigation in New York City (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Susca, T. (2012, November). Social dimension of a multi-scale life cycle assessment: the urban heat island mitigation in New York City. Presented at SETAC Europe 18th SETAC LCA Case Study Symposium. Tools, Trends and Applications

In the next years the number of cities plagued by the urban heat island (UHI) will likely grow because of the increase in urban population. This will cause the increase in heat-related mortality especially among old people and people with social or p... Read More about Social dimension of a multi-scale life cycle assessment: the urban heat island mitigation in New York City.

Public engagement - what it means for researchers. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ridley-Ellis, D. (2012, November). Public engagement - what it means for researchers. Presented at Queen Margaret University - Doctoral Student Conference

Product-Service Systems Design Using Stakeholders’ Information (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Annamalai Vasantha, G. V., Hussain, R., Cakkol, M., & Roy, R. (2012, March). Product-Service Systems Design Using Stakeholders’ Information. Presented at 22nd CIRP International Design Conference

Product-Service System (PSS) provides added value to customers through integrated product and service offerings. Currently, the development of PSS solutions is ad hoc and the roles and involvement of stakeholders at the various stages of PSS developm... Read More about Product-Service Systems Design Using Stakeholders’ Information.

A band-suppression UWB suspended planar antenna incorporating a slotted spiral resonator (2012)
Journal Article
See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Hraga, H. I., Excell, P. S., Jones, S. M. R., & Noras, J. M. (2013). A band-suppression UWB suspended planar antenna incorporating a slotted spiral resonator. International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering, 23(5), 570-578. https://doi.org/10.1002/mmce.20691

A novel miniaturized planar inverted F-L antenna assembly is considered for UWB radio operations. The antenna design utilizes the electromagnetic coupling between an air dielectric planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) and a parasitic planar inverted-L (P... Read More about A band-suppression UWB suspended planar antenna incorporating a slotted spiral resonator.

A nonlinear correlation measure for Intrusion Detection (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ambusaidi, M., Lu, L. F., He, X., Tan, Z., Jamdagni, A., & Nanda, P. (2012, November). A nonlinear correlation measure for Intrusion Detection. Paper presented at The 7th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology (FCST-12)

The popularity of using internet contains some risks of network attacks. It has attracted the attention of many researchers to overcome this problem. One of the effective ways that plays an important role to achieve higher security and protect networ... Read More about A nonlinear correlation measure for Intrusion Detection.

Towards OWL 2 Natively Supported Fuzzy Cloud Ontology (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fang, D., Liu, X., Romdhani, I., & Zhao, H. (2012, July). Towards OWL 2 Natively Supported Fuzzy Cloud Ontology. Presented at 2012 IEEE 36th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference Workshops

Cloud Computing introduces a revolutionary paradigm of computing to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), by provisioning various types of computational resources and applications as on-demand services. While presenting cloud services semantically usi... Read More about Towards OWL 2 Natively Supported Fuzzy Cloud Ontology.

A Bayesian interpretation of the particle swarm optimization and its kernel extension (2012)
Journal Article
Andras, P. (2012). A Bayesian interpretation of the particle swarm optimization and its kernel extension. PLOS ONE, 7(11), Article e48710. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048710

Particle swarm optimization is a popular method for solving difficult optimization problems. There have been attempts to formulate the method in formal probabilistic or stochastic terms (e.g. bare bones particle swarm) with the aim to achieve more ge... Read More about A Bayesian interpretation of the particle swarm optimization and its kernel extension.

Impedance spectroscopy studies of electroless Ni-P matrix, Ni-W-P, Ni-P-ZrO 2 , and Ni-W-P-ZrO 2 coatings exposed to 3.5% NaCl solution : Impedance spectroscopy studies (2012)
Journal Article
Stankiewicz, A., Masalski, J., & Szczygieł, B. (2013). Impedance spectroscopy studies of electroless Ni-P matrix, Ni-W-P, Ni-P-ZrO 2 , and Ni-W-P-ZrO 2 coatings exposed to 3.5% NaCl solution : Impedance spectroscopy studies. Materials and corrosion : with International Corrosion abstracts = Werkstoffe und Korrosion : Organ der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Korrosion und der Dechema-Beratungsstelle für Werkstoff-Fragen, 64(10), 908-913. https://doi.org/10.1002/maco.201206856

Ni–P matrix, ternary Ni–W–P and Ni–P–ZrO2 coatings, and quaternary Ni–W–P–ZrO2 coatings were deposited using electroless method from a glycine bath. Their corrosion resistance was evaluated by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) for various... Read More about Impedance spectroscopy studies of electroless Ni-P matrix, Ni-W-P, Ni-P-ZrO 2 , and Ni-W-P-ZrO 2 coatings exposed to 3.5% NaCl solution : Impedance spectroscopy studies.

An exploration of tags assigned to geotagged still and moving images on Flickr (2012)
Book Chapter
Rorissa, A., Neal, D., Muckell, J., & Chaucer, A. (2012). An exploration of tags assigned to geotagged still and moving images on Flickr. In D. Rasmussen Neal (Ed.), Indexing and retrieval of non-text information (185-211). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110260588.185

Folded Loop Balanced Coplanar Antenna for WLAN Applications (2012)
Journal Article
Alhaddad, A. G., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Zhou, D., See, C. H., Excell, P. S., & Jones, S. M. R. (2012). Folded Loop Balanced Coplanar Antenna for WLAN Applications. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 60(10), 4916-4920. https://doi.org/10.1109/tap.2012.2207322

A novel balanced rectangular loop antenna is proposed, having an ungrounded coplanar waveguide (CPW) feed configuration and a folded structure at both ends. This antenna is designed for operation over the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz WLAN frequency bands. Bond-... Read More about Folded Loop Balanced Coplanar Antenna for WLAN Applications.

Electric machines diagnosis techniques via transient current analysis (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pons-Llinares, J., Climente-Alarcon, V., Vedreno-Santos, F., Antonino-Daviu, J., & Riera-Guasp, M. (2012, October). Electric machines diagnosis techniques via transient current analysis. Presented at IECON 2012 - 38th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

Induction motor condition monitoring has primarily
relied on the analysis of currents during steady-state operation
through the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). Nonetheless, this
conventional approach has many constraints, most of them
related to th... Read More about Electric machines diagnosis techniques via transient current analysis.

Diagnosis of eccentricity in induction machines working under fluctuating load conditions, through the instantaneous frequency (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vedreno-Santos, F., Riera-Guasp, M., Henao, H., Pineda-Sanchez, M., & Antonino-Daviu, J. A. (2012, October). Diagnosis of eccentricity in induction machines working under fluctuating load conditions, through the instantaneous frequency. Presented at IECON 2012 - 38th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

This paper introduces a methodology for diagnosing
mixed eccentricity fault in squirrel cage induction machines
which work under variable load conditions in generator or motor
mode; the method is based on the extraction of the instantaneous
frequ... Read More about Diagnosis of eccentricity in induction machines working under fluctuating load conditions, through the instantaneous frequency.

Seals like it hot: Changes in surface temperature of harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) from late pregnancy to moult (2012)
Journal Article
Paterson, W., Sparling, C. E., Thompson, D., Pomeroy, P. P., Currie, J., & McCafferty, D. J. (2012). Seals like it hot: Changes in surface temperature of harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) from late pregnancy to moult. Journal of Thermal Biology, 37(6), 454-461. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2012.03.004

The annual moult in harbour seals(Phoca vitulina L.) follows a few weeks after the end of lactation and is characterised by a progressive loss and regrowth of hair which is apparent over a 4–6 week period. It is thought that during the moult harbour... Read More about Seals like it hot: Changes in surface temperature of harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) from late pregnancy to moult.

Moisture conditions in timber cladding: field trial data for Sitka spruce (2012)
Journal Article
Davies, I., Fairfield, C., Stupart, A., & Wilson, P. (2012). Moisture conditions in timber cladding: field trial data for Sitka spruce. Proceedings of the ICE - Construction Materials, 165(5), 263-278. https://doi.org/10.1680/coma.11.00033

Exposure trials on timber cladding are valuable for informing facade designers. This paper describes a trial using Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis). Sitka spruce is the only UK-grown timber available in sufficient volume to supply the growing cladding... Read More about Moisture conditions in timber cladding: field trial data for Sitka spruce.

Community Councils online: a survey (2012)
Report
Ryan, B., & Cruickshank, P. (2012). Community Councils online: a survey. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh Napier University

A survey of Scottish Community Councils found that only 22% have up-to-date online public presences. Only 4% of Community Councils have easily accessible online planning content. Most Community Councils websites communicate from Community Councils to... Read More about Community Councils online: a survey.

Understanding complex interactions using social network analysis (2012)
Journal Article
Pow, J. S., Gayen, K., Elliott, L., & Raeside, R. (2012). Understanding complex interactions using social network analysis. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 21, 2772-2779. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2702.2011.04036.x

Aims and objectives. The aim of this paper is to raise the awareness of social network analysis as a method to facilitate research in nursing research.
Background. The application of social network analysis in assessing network properties has allowe... Read More about Understanding complex interactions using social network analysis.

Knowledge creation and the use of secondary data (2012)
Journal Article
Alvarez, J., Canduela, J., & Raeside, R. (2012). Knowledge creation and the use of secondary data. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 21, 2699-2710. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2702.2012.04296.x

Aims and Objectives: the purpose of this paper is to expose problems of using bespoke questionnaire based surveys to create knowledge and to advance the use of secondary data as an alternative research approach.
Background: Many researchers from st... Read More about Knowledge creation and the use of secondary data.

Evolution for the sustainability of Internetware. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fang, D., Liu, X., Liu, L., & Yang, H. (2012, October). Evolution for the sustainability of Internetware. Presented at Fourth Asia-Pacific Symposium on Internetware

Along with the green attentions and efforts on energy efficiency of computer hardware and embedded systems, software relevant sustainability issues are becoming increasingly focused, as a part of Green Information Technology (GIT). Undoubtedly, softw... Read More about Evolution for the sustainability of Internetware..