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Impedancemetric NO sensor based on YSZ/perovskite neodymium cobaltite operating at high temperatures (2016)
Journal Article
Cvejin, K., Śliwa, M., Manjakkal, L., Kulawik, J., Stojanović, G., & Szwagierczak, D. (2016). Impedancemetric NO sensor based on YSZ/perovskite neodymium cobaltite operating at high temperatures. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 228, 612-624. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2016.01.071

A solid-state planar impedancemetric NO sensor was fabricated using yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ) for a solid electrolyte substrate and a perovskite-type oxide Nd0.9Sr0.1CoO3 − δ for thick film sensing electrodes. Electrical properties of the fabr... Read More about Impedancemetric NO sensor based on YSZ/perovskite neodymium cobaltite operating at high temperatures.

Morpheme (2016)
Digital Artefact
Tsiros, A. (2016). Morpheme. [MaxMSP 5 32 bit software]

This is a MaxMSP 5 32 bit software, Morpheme allows the control of a concatenative synthesis module (IMTR CataRT) through the act of sketching on a digital canvas. The aim is to enable synthesis of sound and the expression of compositional intention... Read More about Morpheme.

From transit systems to models: data representation and collection. (2016)
Book Chapter
Noekel, K., Gentile, G., Nathanail, E., & Fonzone, A. (2016). From transit systems to models: data representation and collection. In G. Gentile, & K. Noekel (Eds.), Modelling Public Transport Passenger Flows in the Era of Intelligent Transport Systems (235-284). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25082-3_5

This chapter deals with the data that form input and output of passenger route choice models. All information about supply and demand that is relevant to passenger route choice must be captured in a formal way in order to be accessible to mathematica... Read More about From transit systems to models: data representation and collection..

Simple adaptive control for positive linear systems with applications to pest management (2016)
Journal Article
Guiver, C., Edholm, C., Jin, Y., Mueller, M., Powell, J., Rebarber, R., Tenhumberg, B., & Townley, S. (2016). Simple adaptive control for positive linear systems with applications to pest management. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 76(1), 238-275. https://doi.org/10.1137/140996926

Pest management is vitally important for modern arable farming, but models for pest species are often highly uncertain. In the context of pest management, control actions are naturally described by a nonlinear feedback that is generally unknown, whic... Read More about Simple adaptive control for positive linear systems with applications to pest management.

An Approach to a Laser-Touchscreen System (2016)
Book Chapter
Aizeboje, J., & Peng, T. (2016). An Approach to a Laser-Touchscreen System. In Enterprise Information Systems; Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (476-495). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29133-8_23

As modern day technologies advance, so have different methods in which users can interact with computers. Computers are currently being used in combination with devices like projectors for teaching and presentations, in which the mouse and the USB wi... Read More about An Approach to a Laser-Touchscreen System.

The adoption process in management innovation: A Knowledge Management case study (2016)
Journal Article
Rasmussen, L., & Hall, H. (2016). The adoption process in management innovation: A Knowledge Management case study. Journal of Information Science, 42(3), 356-368. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551515625032

is based on the findings of a study that explores and discusses in depth a Knowledge Management programme that was introduced within a large distributed public sector agency in Europe. The aim of this research was to provide insight into the adoption... Read More about The adoption process in management innovation: A Knowledge Management case study.

Timber grading seminar - Some things you should know about how strength grading works and what is changing in the standards. (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ridley-Ellis, D. (2016, February). Timber grading seminar - Some things you should know about how strength grading works and what is changing in the standards. Presented at Timber grading seminar

Presentations from the seminar on timber grading.

"This grading seminar will give you a crash course in timber strength grading, what it is, how it works, and how it is changing. It aims to demystify timber grading, tackle some widely held misconc... Read More about Timber grading seminar - Some things you should know about how strength grading works and what is changing in the standards..

The effect of methanol exposure on the flexural and tensile properties of halloysite nanoclay/polyester (2016)
Journal Article
Saharudin, M. S., Shyha, I., & Inam, F. (2016). The effect of methanol exposure on the flexural and tensile properties of halloysite nanoclay/polyester. International Journal of Advances in Science, Engineering and Technology, 4(1), 42-46

In this study, halloysitenanoclay reinforced polyester composites were prepared by adding different weight percentage in unsaturated polyester resin and subsequently cross linked using mixture of methyl ethyl ketone peroxide. The effect of methanol i... Read More about The effect of methanol exposure on the flexural and tensile properties of halloysite nanoclay/polyester.

The census as an information source in public policy-making (2016)
Journal Article
Killick, L., Hall, H., Duff, A. S., & Deakin, M. (2016). The census as an information source in public policy-making. Journal of Information Science, 42(3), 386-395. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551516628471

This paper provides an assessment of the value of national population censuses as information sources with specific reference to
UK census data and its use in policy-making. Mixed methods were adopted to collect quantitative and qualitative data fro... Read More about The census as an information source in public policy-making.

Analysis of groundwater-level response to rainfall and estimation of annual recharge in fractured hard rock aquifers, NW Ireland (2016)
Journal Article
Cai, Z., & Ofterdinger, U. (2016). Analysis of groundwater-level response to rainfall and estimation of annual recharge in fractured hard rock aquifers, NW Ireland. Journal of Hydrology, 535, 71-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.01.066

Despite fractured hard rock aquifers underlying over 65% of Ireland, knowledge of key processes controlling groundwater recharge in these bedrock systems is inadequately constrained. In this study, we examined 19 groundwater-level hydrographs from tw... Read More about Analysis of groundwater-level response to rainfall and estimation of annual recharge in fractured hard rock aquifers, NW Ireland.

Digital engagement workshops for Community Councils and Registered Tenant Organisations (2016)
Report
Ryan, B., & Cruickshank, P. (2016). Digital engagement workshops for Community Councils and Registered Tenant Organisations. Scotland: Scottish Government

In October and November 2015 Edinburgh Napier University (Napier) hosted a series of workshops on digital engagement for Community Councillors and representatives of Registered Tenants Organisations. These ‘#digiCC’ workshops were held in Ayr, Elgin,... Read More about Digital engagement workshops for Community Councils and Registered Tenant Organisations.

Local worlds of coordinated activation policy. (2016)
Book Chapter
Zimmermann, K., Fuertes, V., & Aurich-Beerheide, P. (2016). Local worlds of coordinated activation policy. In M. Heidenreich, & D. Rice (Eds.), Integrating social and employment policies in europe: active inclusion and challenges for local welfare governance (235-264). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783474929.00018

In Chapter 11 on local worlds of coordinated activation in Europe, Katharina Zimmermann, Vanesa Fuertes and Patrizia Aurich-Beerheide shed light on the role of the local level as a generic actor in the organization of activation. The authors apply a... Read More about Local worlds of coordinated activation policy..

Personalized activation policies for the long-term unemployed: the role of local governance in the UK. (2016)
Book Chapter
Fuertes, V., & McQuaid, R. (2016). Personalized activation policies for the long-term unemployed: the role of local governance in the UK. In M. Heidenreich, & D. Rice (Eds.), Integrating social and employment policies in europe: active inclusion and challenges for local welfare governance (93-117). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783474929.00012

In Chapter 5 on the UK, Vanesa Fuertes and Ronald McQuaid study how coordinated activation policies, which have been a core part of the UK welfare state since at least the 1990s, are implemented locally. Although service coordination is officially ac... Read More about Personalized activation policies for the long-term unemployed: the role of local governance in the UK..

Energy Performance of Craft Distilleries. (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Currie, J. (2016, January). Energy Performance of Craft Distilleries. Presented at Interface Food & Drink Showcase – "Food from Thought"

Solar energy needs focus (2016)
Journal Article
Munir, A. B., Muhammad-Sukki, F., & Bani, N. A. (2016). Solar energy needs focus. Nature, 529(7587), 466. https://doi.org/10.1038/529466e

Solar photovoltaic (PV) has seen a tremendous growth in the last decade, with a global cumulative installation exceeding 177 GW by the end of 2014. Despite this, PV only contributes to approximately 1.1\% of the world's electricity requirement. The h... Read More about Solar energy needs focus.

ELM based algorithms for acoustic template matching in home automation scenarios: Advancements and performance analysis (2016)
Book Chapter
della Porta, G., Principi, E., Ferroni, G., Squartini, S., Hussain, A., & Piazza, F. (2016). ELM based algorithms for acoustic template matching in home automation scenarios: Advancements and performance analysis. In Recent Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing (159-168). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28109-4_16

Speech and sound recognition in home automation scenarios has been gaining an increasing interest in the last decade. One interesting approach addressed in the literature is based on the template matching paradigm, which is characterized by ease of i... Read More about ELM based algorithms for acoustic template matching in home automation scenarios: Advancements and performance analysis.

Finite-element heat-transfer computations for parallel surfaces with uniform or non-uniform emitting. (2016)
Journal Article
Ivanova, S. M., & Muneer, T. (2016). Finite-element heat-transfer computations for parallel surfaces with uniform or non-uniform emitting. Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 8(1), 15102. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4942543

Radiation heat transfer has very many applications in building physics. In such studies, one has to deal with radiant energy exchanges between surfaces of different orientation and aspects. Two principal cases that may be cited here are exchanges bet... Read More about Finite-element heat-transfer computations for parallel surfaces with uniform or non-uniform emitting..

High-Figure-of-Merit Thermoelectric La-Doped A-Site-Deficient SrTiO3 Ceramics (2016)
Journal Article
Lu, Z., Zhang, H., Lei, W., Sinclair, D. C., & Reaney, I. M. (2016). High-Figure-of-Merit Thermoelectric La-Doped A-Site-Deficient SrTiO3 Ceramics. Chemistry of Materials, 28(3), 925-935. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b04616

The structure and thermoelectric (TE) properties of La-doped, A-site-deficient SrTiO3 (Sr1–3x/2LaxTiO3) ceramics sintered in air and N2/5% H2 have been investigated. Air-sintered ceramics with 0.10 ≤ x < 0.30 appear cubic by X-ray diffraction (XRD) b... Read More about High-Figure-of-Merit Thermoelectric La-Doped A-Site-Deficient SrTiO3 Ceramics.

Laboratory analysis of encased stone columns (2016)
Journal Article
Miranda, M., & Da Costa, A. (2016). Laboratory analysis of encased stone columns. Geotextiles and Geomembranes, 44(3), 269-277. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geotexmem.2015.12.001

Stone columns installed in extremely soft soils may significantly reduce the effectiveness of this treatment due to the insufficient lateral confinement provided by the soft soil. The encasement of columns with geotextiles is commonly used in these c... Read More about Laboratory analysis of encased stone columns.