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Megasonic sonication for cost-effective and automatable elution of Cryptosporidium from filters and membranes (2015)
Journal Article
Kerrouche, A., Desmulliez, M. P., & Bridle, H. (2015). Megasonic sonication for cost-effective and automatable elution of Cryptosporidium from filters and membranes. Journal of Microbiological Methods, 118, 123-127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mimet.2015.09.001

Sample processing is a highly challenging stage in the monitoring of waterborne pathogens. This step is time-consuming, requires highly trained technicians and often results in low recovery rates of pathogens. In the UK but also in other parts of the... Read More about Megasonic sonication for cost-effective and automatable elution of Cryptosporidium from filters and membranes.

Double- or Single-Skin Façades for Low-Carbon Office Refurbishments in the UK: A Comparative Case Study (2015)
Book Chapter
Pomponi, F., & Piroozfar, P. A. (2015). Double- or Single-Skin Façades for Low-Carbon Office Refurbishments in the UK: A Comparative Case Study. In A. Sayigh (Ed.), Renewable Energy in the Service of Mankind Vol I (379-389). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17777-9_34

In the UK, 75% of non-domestic buildings will still exist in 2050, and the reduction of their emissions represents a major challenge for the UK government to meet the greenhouse gases (GHG) target. There is a growing tendency towards the use of doubl... Read More about Double- or Single-Skin Façades for Low-Carbon Office Refurbishments in the UK: A Comparative Case Study.

Generating and Evaluating Landmark-Based Navigation Instructions in Virtual Environments (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cercas Curry, A., Gkatzia, D., & Rieser, V. (2015, September). Generating and Evaluating Landmark-Based Navigation Instructions in Virtual Environments. Presented at 15th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 2015), University of Brighton, Brighton, UK

Referring to landmarks has been identified to lead to improved navigation instructions. However, a previous corpus study suggests that human “wizards” also choose to refer to street names and generate user-centric instructions. In this paper, we cond... Read More about Generating and Evaluating Landmark-Based Navigation Instructions in Virtual Environments.

A Snapshot of NLG Evaluation Practices 2005 - 2014 (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gkatzia, D., & Mahamood, S. (2015, September). A Snapshot of NLG Evaluation Practices 2005 - 2014. Presented at Proceedings of the 15th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG), University of Brighton Brighton, UK

In this paper we present a snapshot of endto-end NLG system evaluations as presented in conference and journal papers1 over the last ten years in order to better understand the nature and type of evaluations that have been undertaken. We find that re... Read More about A Snapshot of NLG Evaluation Practices 2005 - 2014.

A Game-Based Setup for Data Collection and Task-Based Evaluation of Uncertain Information Presentation (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gkatzia, D., Cercas Curry, A., Rieser, V., & Lemon, O. (2015, September). A Game-Based Setup for Data Collection and Task-Based Evaluation of Uncertain Information Presentation. Presented at 15th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 2015), University of Brighton, Brighton, UK

Decision-making is often dependent on uncertain data, e.g. data associated with confidence scores, such as probabilities. A concrete example of such data is weather data. We will demo a game-based setup for exploring the effectiveness of different ap... Read More about A Game-Based Setup for Data Collection and Task-Based Evaluation of Uncertain Information Presentation.

Cruise sector challenges related to corporate social responsibility. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stantchev, D., Neumann, S., & Pawlik, T. (2015, September). Cruise sector challenges related to corporate social responsibility. Paper presented at The 20th LRN Annual Conference and PhD Workshop 2015, University of Derby

The cruise industry’s growth has led to increased levels of competition in the sector. The Cruise Lines International Association, which is the world's largest cruise industry trade association, reports in the beginning of 2014 that their member line... Read More about Cruise sector challenges related to corporate social responsibility..

SQL-IDS: evaluation of SQLi attack detection and classification based on machine learning techniques (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sheykhkanloo, N. M. (2015, September). SQL-IDS: evaluation of SQLi attack detection and classification based on machine learning techniques. Presented at 8th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks - SIN '15, Sochi, Russia

Structured Query Language injection (SQLi) attack is a code injection technique where malicious SQL statements are inserted into a given SQL database by simply using a web browser. Injected SQL commands can alter the database and thus compromise the... Read More about SQL-IDS: evaluation of SQLi attack detection and classification based on machine learning techniques.

Service quality and user satisfaction of outsourced facilities management (FM) services in Nigeria’s public hospitals (2015)
Journal Article
Ikediashi, D. I., Ogunlana, S. O., & Odesola, I. A. (2015). Service quality and user satisfaction of outsourced facilities management (FM) services in Nigeria’s public hospitals. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 5(4), 363-379. https://doi.org/10.1108/bepam-03-2014-0024

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the concepts of satisfaction and service quality of outsourced facilities management (FM) services.

Design/methodology/approach
An empirical survey of 208 stakeholders in Nigeria’s hospitals was us... Read More about Service quality and user satisfaction of outsourced facilities management (FM) services in Nigeria’s public hospitals.

Orbits: enabling gaze interaction in smart watches using moving targets (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Esteves, A., Velloso, E., Bulling, A., & Gellersen, H. (2015, September). Orbits: enabling gaze interaction in smart watches using moving targets. Presented at 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers - UbiComp '15, Osaka, Japan

In this paper we demonstrate Orbits, a novel gaze interaction technique that accounts for both the reduced size of smart watch displays and the hands-free nature of conventional watches. Orbits combines graphical controls that display one or multiple... Read More about Orbits: enabling gaze interaction in smart watches using moving targets.

Source-filter separation of speech signal in the phase domain (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Loweimi, E., Barker, J., & Hain, T. (2015, September). Source-filter separation of speech signal in the phase domain. Presented at Interspeech 2015, Dresden, Germany

Deconvolution of the speech excitation (source) and vocal tract (filter) components through log-magnitude spectral processing is well-established and has led to the well-known cepstral features used in a multitude of speech processing tasks. This pap... Read More about Source-filter separation of speech signal in the phase domain.

A Low Cost Non-Contact and Non-Destructive Method for Evaluating the Variation of the Shear Modulus for Glued Laminated Timber Beams using a Photogrammetric Approach (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mohamed, A., Zhang, H., Smith, I., & Xiao, Z. (2015, September). A Low Cost Non-Contact and Non-Destructive Method for Evaluating the Variation of the Shear Modulus for Glued Laminated Timber Beams using a Photogrammetric Approach. Presented at Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing

This paper presents the experimental studies performed to investigate the feasibility of the proposed photogrammetric system for torsion tests. In this study, two binocular stereo systems were used to measure the surface rotation of timber glulam bea... Read More about A Low Cost Non-Contact and Non-Destructive Method for Evaluating the Variation of the Shear Modulus for Glued Laminated Timber Beams using a Photogrammetric Approach.

An online generalized eigenvalue version of Laplacian Eigenmaps for visual big data (2015)
Journal Article
Malik, Z. K., Hussain, A., & Wu, J. (2016). An online generalized eigenvalue version of Laplacian Eigenmaps for visual big data. Neurocomputing, 173(2), 127-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2014.12.119

This paper presents a generalized incremental Laplacian Eigenmaps (GENILE), a novel online version of the Laplacian Eigenmaps, one of the most popular manifold-based dimensionality reduction techniques which solves the generalized eigenvalue problem.... Read More about An online generalized eigenvalue version of Laplacian Eigenmaps for visual big data.

Evaluation of the DFET Cloud. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, W. J., Ramsay, B., Macfarlane, R., Smales, A., Keane, E., Callahan, C., Blazic, B. J., & Popov, O. (2015, September). Evaluation of the DFET Cloud. Paper presented at Cybercrime Forensics Education and Training (CFET) conference

The DFET (Digital Forensics Evaluation and Training) Cloud creates new training methods/techniques to support judicial authorities, law enforcement agencies and associated stakeholders in the fight against cybercrime through the development of a virt... Read More about Evaluation of the DFET Cloud..

Developing an intelligent digital mock up to integrate design and manufacturing disciplines (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Friel, I., Marzano, A., & Butterfield, J. (2015, September). Developing an intelligent digital mock up to integrate design and manufacturing disciplines. Paper presented at 32nd International Manufacturing Conference (IMC 32), Belfast

This paper presents an approach to develop an intelligent digital mock-up (DMU) through integration of design and manufacturing disciplines to enable a better understanding of assembly related issues during design evolution. The intelligent DMU will... Read More about Developing an intelligent digital mock up to integrate design and manufacturing disciplines.

"Don't make me turn this seat around!": driver and passenger activities and positions in autonomous cars (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ive, H. P., Sirkin, D. M., Miller, D., Li, J., & Ju, W. G. (2015, September). "Don't make me turn this seat around!": driver and passenger activities and positions in autonomous cars. Poster presented at International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, Nottingham

From the earliest concepts of autonomous cars, a prototypical model has emerged in which occupants freely orient themselves to engage in non-driving activities. This new environment prompts questions about how car occupants will actually sit, what ac... Read More about "Don't make me turn this seat around!": driver and passenger activities and positions in autonomous cars.

Ghost driver: A platform for investigating interactions between pedestrians and driverless vehicles (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rothenbücher, D., Li, J., Sirkin, D. M., Mok, B. K. J., & Ju, W. G. (2015, September). Ghost driver: A platform for investigating interactions between pedestrians and driverless vehicles. Presented at AutomotiveUI '15, Nottingham, UK

How will pedestrians and cyclists interact with self-driving cars when there is no human driver? To find answers to this question we need a secure experimental design in which pedestrians can interact with a car that appears to drive on its own. In G... Read More about Ghost driver: A platform for investigating interactions between pedestrians and driverless vehicles.

D–π–A system based on zinc porphyrin dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells: Combined experimental and DFT–TDDFT study (2015)
Journal Article
Narra, V. K., Ullah, H., Singh, V. K., Giribabu, L., Senthilarasu, S., Karazhanov, S., Tahir, A. A., Mallick, T. K., & Upadhyaya, H. M. (2015). D–π–A system based on zinc porphyrin dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells: Combined experimental and DFT–TDDFT study. Polyhedron, 100, 313-320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2015.08.035

A series of four new porphyrin-furan dyads were designed and synthesized by having anchoring group either at meso-phenyl or pyrrole-β position of a zinc porphyrin based on donor–π–acceptor (D–π–A) approach. The porphyrin macrocycle acts as donor, fur... Read More about D–π–A system based on zinc porphyrin dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells: Combined experimental and DFT–TDDFT study.

Learning to Count Leaves in Rosette Plants (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Giuffrida, M. V., Minervini, M., & Tsaftaris, S. (2015, September). Learning to Count Leaves in Rosette Plants. Presented at Proceedings of the Computer Vision Problems in Plant Phenotyping Workshop 2015, Swansea

Counting the number of leaves in plants is important for plant phenotyping, since it can be used to assess plant growth stages. We propose a learning-based approach for counting leaves in rosette (model) plants. We relate image-based descriptors lear... Read More about Learning to Count Leaves in Rosette Plants.

Assessment of rural digital imaging and creativity abilities for potential crowdsourcing case (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G. A., Acur, N., & Corney, J. (2015, September). Assessment of rural digital imaging and creativity abilities for potential crowdsourcing case. Paper presented at The Continious Innovation Management Workshop, Enschede, Netherlands

Benefits of crowdsourcing tasks are largely reaped by urban rather than rural workers. Even if rural workers could access these web portals, tasks are in general elementary. This research aims to see whether rural crowdsourcing workers' digital imagi... Read More about Assessment of rural digital imaging and creativity abilities for potential crowdsourcing case.