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Outsourcing as a strategy for facilities management provision in Nigerian universities (2018)
Journal Article
Ikediashi, D., & Aigbavboa, C. (2019). Outsourcing as a strategy for facilities management provision in Nigerian universities. International journal of construction management, 19(4), 281-290. https://doi.org/10.1080/15623599.2018.1435235

Outsourcing in universities is a form of privatization in which external providers are contracted to provide a traditional campus function or service but has however remained relatively unexplored. The purpose of this study is to explore its use as a... Read More about Outsourcing as a strategy for facilities management provision in Nigerian universities.

A Scientometric Review of Global Research on Sustainability and Sustainable Development (2018)
Journal Article
Olawumi, T. O., & Chan, D. W. (2018). A Scientometric Review of Global Research on Sustainability and Sustainable Development. Journal of Cleaner Production, 183, 231-250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.02.162

The concept of sustainable development has gained worldwide attention in recent years which had enhanced its implementation. However, few studies have attempted to map the global research of sustainability. This study utilizes scientometric review of... Read More about A Scientometric Review of Global Research on Sustainability and Sustainable Development.

Spatial-temporal representatives selection and weighted patch descriptor for person re-identification (2018)
Journal Article
Zheng, A., Wang, F., Hussain, A., Tang, J., & Jiang, B. (2018). Spatial-temporal representatives selection and weighted patch descriptor for person re-identification. Neurocomputing, 290, 121-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2018.02.039

How to represent the sequential person images is a crucial issue in multi-shot person re-identification. In this paper, we propose to select the spatial-temporal informative representatives to describe the image sequence. Specifically, we address rep... Read More about Spatial-temporal representatives selection and weighted patch descriptor for person re-identification.

A New Spectrum Management Scheme for Road Safety in Smart Cities (2018)
Journal Article
Alsarhan, A., Al-Dubai, A. Y., Min, G., Zomaya, A. Y., & Bsoul, M. (2018). A New Spectrum Management Scheme for Road Safety in Smart Cities. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 19(11), 3496-3506. https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2017.2784548

Traffic management in roads is one of the major challenges faced in developing efficient intelligent transportation systems. Recently, wireless networks have received significant attention for tackling this challenge. However, wireless technologies f... Read More about A New Spectrum Management Scheme for Road Safety in Smart Cities.

Perforated BaSnO3 nanorods exhibiting enhanced efficiency in dye sensitized solar cells (2018)
Journal Article
Roy, A., Das, P. P., Selvaraj, P., Sundaram, S., & Devi, P. S. (2018). Perforated BaSnO3 nanorods exhibiting enhanced efficiency in dye sensitized solar cells. ACS sustainable chemistry & engineering, 6(3), 3299-3310. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b03479

Here, we report the synthesis of phase pure perforated porous BaSnO3 (BSO) nanorods and their application as an alternative photoanode in dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). BaSnO3, synthesized using different amounts of dextran, has been characteriz... Read More about Perforated BaSnO3 nanorods exhibiting enhanced efficiency in dye sensitized solar cells.

Morphology tuned BaSnO3 active layer for ambient perovskite solar cells (2018)
Journal Article
Roy, A., Selvaraj, P., Devi, P. S., & Sundaram, S. (2018). Morphology tuned BaSnO3 active layer for ambient perovskite solar cells. Materials Letters, 219, 166-169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2018.02.055

A new type of electron transporting active layer made of BaSnO3 with different morphology, rod and particle is prepared via a wet chemical process for perovskite solar cells (PSCs). The effects of this BSO morphology is considered to play an essentia... Read More about Morphology tuned BaSnO3 active layer for ambient perovskite solar cells.

Printed flexible electrochemical pH sensors based on CuO nanorods (2018)
Journal Article
Manjakkal, L., Sakthivel, B., Gopalakrishnan, N., & Dahiya, R. (2018). Printed flexible electrochemical pH sensors based on CuO nanorods. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 263, 50-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2018.02.092

Nanostructured metal oxides have attracted significant interest in a range of areas in electrochemical applications such as sensors, supercapacitors, and battery electrodes etc. Printing of these materials on flexible substrates will open new applica... Read More about Printed flexible electrochemical pH sensors based on CuO nanorods.

Genetic Sensor Placement in Active Control of a Robotic Arm (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Soufian, M., & Borairi, M. (2017, June). Genetic Sensor Placement in Active Control of a Robotic Arm. Presented at Developments in eSystems Engineering 2017, Paris, France

This paper emphasizes the characterization of the dynamic motions of a robotic arm in terms of poles and zeros. The importance of the transmission zeros of open-loop systems, the role of these zeros in description of such systems, and the dependence... Read More about Genetic Sensor Placement in Active Control of a Robotic Arm.

Stretchable wireless system for sweat pH monitoring (2018)
Journal Article
Dang, W., Manjakkal, L., Navaraj, W. T., Lorenzelli, L., Vinciguerra, V., & Dahiya, R. (2018). Stretchable wireless system for sweat pH monitoring. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 107, 192-202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2018.02.025

Sensor-laden wearable systems that are capable of providing continuous measurement of key physiological parameters coupled with data storage, drug delivery and feedback therapy have attracted huge interest. Here we report a stretchable wireless syste... Read More about Stretchable wireless system for sweat pH monitoring.

Load Balancing Objective Function in RPL draft-qasem-roll-rpl-load-balancing-01 (2018)
Report
Qasem, M., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Ghaleb, B. (2018). Load Balancing Objective Function in RPL draft-qasem-roll-rpl-load-balancing-01. USA: IETF

This document proposes an extended Objective Function(OF) that balances the number of children nodes of the parent nodes to avoid the overloading problem and ensure node lifetime maximization in the IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Net... Read More about Load Balancing Objective Function in RPL draft-qasem-roll-rpl-load-balancing-01.

Citizen crowds and experts: observer variability in image-based plant phenotyping (2018)
Journal Article
Giuffrida, M. V., Chen, F., Scharr, H., & Tsaftaris, S. A. (2018). Citizen crowds and experts: observer variability in image-based plant phenotyping. Plant Methods, 14(1), Article 12 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-018-0278-7

Background:
Image-based plant phenotyping has become a powerful tool in unravelling genotype–environment interactions. The utilization of image analysis and machine learning have become paramount in extracting data stemming from phenotyping experime... Read More about Citizen crowds and experts: observer variability in image-based plant phenotyping.

The institutional approach for modeling the evolution of human societies (2018)
Journal Article
Powers, S. T. (2018). The institutional approach for modeling the evolution of human societies. Artificial Life, 24(1), 10-28. https://doi.org/10.1162/ARTL_a_00251

Artificial Life is concerned with understanding the dynamics of human societies. A defining feature of any society is its institutions. However, defining exactly what an institution is has proven difficult, with authors often talking past each other.... Read More about The institutional approach for modeling the evolution of human societies.

Deep learning driven multimodal fusion for automated deception detection (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gogate, M., Adeel, A., & Hussain, A. (2017, November). Deep learning driven multimodal fusion for automated deception detection. Presented at 2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), Honolulu, HI, USA

Humans ability to detect lies is no more accurate than chance according to the American Psychological Association. The state-of-the-art deception detection methods, such as deception detection stem from early theories and polygraph have proven to be... Read More about Deep learning driven multimodal fusion for automated deception detection.

A novel brain-inspired compression-based optimised multimodal fusion for emotion recognition (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gogate, M., Adeel, A., & Hussain, A. (2017, November). A novel brain-inspired compression-based optimised multimodal fusion for emotion recognition. Presented at 2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), Honolulu, HI, USA

The curse of dimensionality is a well-established phenomenon. However, the properties of high dimensional data are often poorly understood and overlooked during the process of data modelling and analysis. Similarly, how to optimally fuse different mo... Read More about A novel brain-inspired compression-based optimised multimodal fusion for emotion recognition.

Long-term community development within a researcher network: a social network analysis of the DREaM project cadre (2018)
Journal Article
Hall, H., Cruickshank, P., & Ryan, B. (2018). Long-term community development within a researcher network: a social network analysis of the DREaM project cadre. Journal of Documentation, 74(4), 844-861. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-05-2017-0069

Purpose Results are reported from a study that investigated the extent to which an intervention to develop a community of library and information science researchers – the Developing Research Excellence and Methods (DREaM) project-was successful in m... Read More about Long-term community development within a researcher network: a social network analysis of the DREaM project cadre.

Playing with the dead: transmedia narratives and the Walking Dead games (2018)
Book Chapter
Donald, I., & Austin, H. (2018). Playing with the dead: transmedia narratives and the Walking Dead games. In R. Yılmaz, M. N. Erdem, & F. Resuloğlu (Eds.), Handbook of research on transmedia storytelling and narrative strategies (50-71). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5357-1.ch004

This chapter discusses the theory and practice of transmedia narratives within the storyworld created by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard's comics series The Walking Dead. It examines key aspects from the comics series and AMC's adaptive... Read More about Playing with the dead: transmedia narratives and the Walking Dead games.

Solar energy potentials and benefits in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries: A review of substantial issues (2018)
Journal Article
Mas'ud, A. A., Wirba, A. V., Alshammari, S. J., Muhammad-Sukki, F., Abdullahi, M. M., Albarracín, R., & Hoq, M. Z. (2018). Solar energy potentials and benefits in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries: A review of substantial issues. Energies, 11(2), Article 372. https://doi.org/10.3390/en11020372

It is a well-known fact that the fossil fuel industry has dominated the economy of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries during the last few decades. However, recent developments show that most of the GCC countries plan to increase the share o... Read More about Solar energy potentials and benefits in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries: A review of substantial issues.

Long term productivity gains in the privatised British passenger rail industry – A case study of Malmquist productivity index measurements (2018)
Journal Article
Cowie, J. (2018). Long term productivity gains in the privatised British passenger rail industry – A case study of Malmquist productivity index measurements. Research in Transportation Business & Management, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rtbm.2018.01.001

This paper assesses long term productivity in the privatised British passenger rail industry using a Malmquist productivity index (MPI) generated using three different efficiency assessment methods, namely data envelopment analysis (DEA), corrected o... Read More about Long term productivity gains in the privatised British passenger rail industry – A case study of Malmquist productivity index measurements.

The use of artificial compressibility to improve partitioned semi-implicit FSI coupling within the classical Chorin–Témam projection framework (2018)
Journal Article
He, T., Wang, T., & Zhang, H. (2018). The use of artificial compressibility to improve partitioned semi-implicit FSI coupling within the classical Chorin–Témam projection framework. Computers and Fluids, 166, 64-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2018.01.022

Over the last decade the classical Chorin–Témam projection method has been utilized to address fluid- structure interaction in a semi-implicit manner. In previous studies the fluid projection step is fully coupled with the structural motion due to th... Read More about The use of artificial compressibility to improve partitioned semi-implicit FSI coupling within the classical Chorin–Témam projection framework.