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Energy demand benchmarking of non-domestic buildings in Scotland (2015)
Journal Article
Chetboul, J., Garnier, C., & Bros Williamson, J. (2015). Energy demand benchmarking of non-domestic buildings in Scotland. Anales de Edificación, 1(3), 31-40. https://doi.org/10.20868/ade.2015.3135

Over the years building energy performance has become a predominant concern for owners and real estate managers. The focus is usually on residential buildings but in the last twenty years an interest in non-domestic buildings has emerged in the UK. B... Read More about Energy demand benchmarking of non-domestic buildings in Scotland.

The effect of polymer materials on the fracture characteristics of high performance concrete (HPC) (2015)
Thesis
Yahya, M. A. The effect of polymer materials on the fracture characteristics of high performance concrete (HPC). (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/464157

Compared with most construction materials, concrete is considered as a brittle material, and its brittleness increases with the compressive strength. For super-high-strength concrete, failure can be sudden, explosive and disastrous. Also the tensile... Read More about The effect of polymer materials on the fracture characteristics of high performance concrete (HPC).

Visualising Energy Use for Smart Homes and Informed Users (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stinson, J., Willis, A., Williamson, J. B., Currie, J., & Smith, R. (2015, June). Visualising Energy Use for Smart Homes and Informed Users. Presented at 6th International Building Physics Conference, IBPC 2015, Torino, Italy

We evaluate the changes to domestic electricity and gas consumption when the occupants have local access to a coloured real time in-home display (IHD). We report the preliminary six months findings of a three year research project involving 52 new bu... Read More about Visualising Energy Use for Smart Homes and Informed Users.

Improvement of Thermal Insulation of Residential Buildings’ Facades Via Acoustic Insulation. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Paris-Newton, J. E., Prokofieva, E., & Henry, N. (2015, June). Improvement of Thermal Insulation of Residential Buildings’ Facades Via Acoustic Insulation. Presented at 6th International Building Physics Conference, IBPC 2015, Torino, Italy

The European community has been undertaking noise mapping of major cities and transportation routes over the last decade. Implementation of the action plan to achieve reduction in people noise exposure is a key aim of the European Noise Directive (EN... Read More about Improvement of Thermal Insulation of Residential Buildings’ Facades Via Acoustic Insulation..

Developing performance-based standards for external timber cladding (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davies, I. (2015, June). Developing performance-based standards for external timber cladding. Presented at 6th International Building Physics Conference, IBPC 2015, Torino, Italy

This paper reviews the background to, and development of, new British Standards for external timber cladding. The standards are being produced because timber has become a widely used external cladding material in the UK and this has highlighted that... Read More about Developing performance-based standards for external timber cladding.

Comparative Evaluation of Radio and Audio Logo Sound Designs (2015)
Journal Article
McGregor, I., & Cunningham, S. (2015). Comparative Evaluation of Radio and Audio Logo Sound Designs. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 63(11), 876-888. https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2015.0076

This study aims to explore the suitability of capturing designers’ and listeners’ experiences of sound design for a radio drama and audio logos using the repertory grid technique, which is a proven method of information elicitation based on Personal... Read More about Comparative Evaluation of Radio and Audio Logo Sound Designs.

Latency aware foveated rendering in unreal engine 4 (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Swafford, N. T., Cosker, D., & Mitchell, K. (2015, November). Latency aware foveated rendering in unreal engine 4. Presented at Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Visual Media Production - CVMP '15

We contribute a foveated rendering implementation in Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) and a straight-forward metric to allow calculation of rendered foveal region sizes to compensate for overall system latency and maintain perceptual losslessness. Our system de... Read More about Latency aware foveated rendering in unreal engine 4.

Real-time variable rigidity texture mapping (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Koniaris, C., Mitchell, K., & Cosker, D. (2015, November). Real-time variable rigidity texture mapping. Presented at Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Visual Media Production - CVMP '15

Parameterisation of models is typically generated for a single pose, the rest pose. When a model deforms, its parameterisation characteristics change, leading to distortions in the appearance of texture-mapped mesostructure. Such distortions are unde... Read More about Real-time variable rigidity texture mapping.

The future internet: a world of secret shares (2015)
Journal Article
Buchanan, W. J., Lanc, D., Ukwandu, E., Fan, L., Russell, G., & Lo, O. (2015). The future internet: a world of secret shares. Future Internet, 7(4), 445-464. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi7040445

The PKI infrastructure is crumbling, especially due to the lack of a strong understanding of how encryption actually works, and in threats around its implementation. This paper outlines an Internet storage using secret sharing methods, and which coul... Read More about The future internet: a world of secret shares.

Combining temporal and content aware features for microblog retrieval (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chy, A. N., Ullah, M. Z., & Aono, M. (2015, August). Combining temporal and content aware features for microblog retrieval. Presented at 2015 2nd International Conference on Advanced Informatics: Concepts, Theory and Applications (ICAICTA), Chonburi, Thailand

Microblog, especially Twitter, have become an integral part of our daily life for searching latest news and events information. Due to short length characteristics of tweets, only content-relevance based search result cannot satisfy user's informatio... Read More about Combining temporal and content aware features for microblog retrieval.

An architecture for semantic service discovery and realizability in cloud computing (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barati, M., & St-Denis, R. (2015, September). An architecture for semantic service discovery and realizability in cloud computing. Presented at 2015 6th International Conference on the Network of the Future (NOF), Montreal, QC, Canada

One of the open issues in cloud computing is service discovery. Another issue, which has received less attention by practitioners in the cloud computing industry, is service composition based on formal methods, particularly those based on automata an... Read More about An architecture for semantic service discovery and realizability in cloud computing.

Efficient text localization in born-digital images by local contrast-based segmentation (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chen, K., Yin, F., Hussain, A., & Liu, C.-L. (2015, August). Efficient text localization in born-digital images by local contrast-based segmentation. Presented at 2015 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), Tunis, Tunisia

Text localization in born-digital images is usually performed using methods designed for scene text images. Based on the observation that text strokes in born-digital images mostly have complete contours and the pixels on the contours have high contr... Read More about Efficient text localization in born-digital images by local contrast-based segmentation.

Analysis of strip foundation performance on liquefied ground with limited ground improvement (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dimitriadi, V., & Bouckovalas, G. (2015, September). Analysis of strip foundation performance on liquefied ground with limited ground improvement. Presented at XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering

According to modern seismic codes, the use of shallow foundations on liquefiable soils is only acceptable after proper ground improvement underneath and around the foundation. Still, there are no widely acceptable guidelines for choosing the required... Read More about Analysis of strip foundation performance on liquefied ground with limited ground improvement.

Numerical analysis of liquefaction affected shallow foundations performance on improved ground. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dimitriadi, V., Bouckovalas, G., & Chaloulos, Y. (2015, September). Numerical analysis of liquefaction affected shallow foundations performance on improved ground. Presented at XVI ECSMGE Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructure and Development

A novel numerical methodology is presented and used to simulate the seismic response of footings on liquefiable ground, locally improved in order to reduce settlements and increase the bearing capacity of the foundation. The numerical simulation adop... Read More about Numerical analysis of liquefaction affected shallow foundations performance on improved ground..

Impact of Load Variation on Joint Angle Estimation From Surface EMG Signals (2015)
Journal Article
Tang, Z., Yu, H., & Cang, S. (2016). Impact of Load Variation on Joint Angle Estimation From Surface EMG Signals. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 24(12), 1342-1350. https://doi.org/10.1109/tnsre.2015.2502663

Many studies use surface electromyogram (sEMG) signals to estimate the joint angle, for control of upper-limb exoskeletons and prostheses. However, several practical factors still affect its clinical applicability. One of these factors is the load va... Read More about Impact of Load Variation on Joint Angle Estimation From Surface EMG Signals.

Guided ecological simulation for artistic editing of plant distributions in natural scenes (2015)
Journal Article
Bradbury, G. A., Subr, K., Koniaris, C., Mitchell, K., & Weyrich, T. (2015). Guided ecological simulation for artistic editing of plant distributions in natural scenes. The Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques, 4(4), 28-53

In this paper we present a novel approach to author vegetation cover of large natural scenes. Unlike stochastic scatter-instancing tools for plant placement (such as multi-class blue noise generators), we use a simulation based on ecological processe... Read More about Guided ecological simulation for artistic editing of plant distributions in natural scenes.

A Lightweight Approach for Airborne Wind Turbine Drivetrains (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jaen Sola, P., Mcdonald, A. S., & Oterkus, E. (2015, November). A Lightweight Approach for Airborne Wind Turbine Drivetrains. Presented at European Wind Energy Association, EWEA 2015

Buoyant airborne wind turbines are devices capable of harnessing stronger winds at higher altitudes and with their automated and rapidly deployable system they are suited to niche applications such as emergency power generation. Although much of the... Read More about A Lightweight Approach for Airborne Wind Turbine Drivetrains.

Integrate Sustainable Standards In Interior Design Curriculum (Interior Design Department - Jubail University College - Case Study) (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Obead Ahmed, R. (2015, November). Integrate Sustainable Standards In Interior Design Curriculum (Interior Design Department - Jubail University College - Case Study). Presented at The IRES 16th International Conference, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Humanity faces many challenges in this era. One of these challenges is the ability of people to satisfy their needs
for living without consuming the resources for the coming generation. Through sustainability, societies can reduce their use of
reso... Read More about Integrate Sustainable Standards In Interior Design Curriculum (Interior Design Department - Jubail University College - Case Study).

Significant risk factors associated with facilities management (FM) outsourcing: A study on Nigeria’s public hospitals (2015)
Journal Article
Ikediashi, D. I., & Ogunlana, S. O. (2015). Significant risk factors associated with facilities management (FM) outsourcing: A study on Nigeria’s public hospitals. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 22(6), 771-796. https://doi.org/10.1108/ecam-03-2014-0046

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to extend the body of knowledge on healthcare facilities management (FM) by investigating the risks associated with outsourcing of FM services in hospitals.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper relied on two... Read More about Significant risk factors associated with facilities management (FM) outsourcing: A study on Nigeria’s public hospitals.