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Virtualizing the real: a virtual reality contemporary sculpture park for children (2018)
Journal Article
Flint, T., Hall, L., Stewart, F., & Hagan, D. (2018). Virtualizing the real: a virtual reality contemporary sculpture park for children. Digital Creativity, 29(2/3), 191-207. https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2018.1511601

This paper discusses a virtual reality experience for a contemporary sculpture park, Jupiter Artland, developed in Minecraft targeting 9-11-year-old children. Issues of fidelity, realism and authenticity are considered, examining the use of Minecraft... Read More about Virtualizing the real: a virtual reality contemporary sculpture park for children.

GDPR and Cyber Security for Business Information Systems (2018)
Book
Gobeo, A., Fowler, C., & Buchanan, B. (2018). GDPR and Cyber Security for Business Information Systems. River Publishers

The General Data Protection Regulation is the latest, and one of the most stringent, regulations regarding Data Protection to be passed into law by the European Union. Fundamentally, it aims to protect the Rights and Freedoms of all the individuals i... Read More about GDPR and Cyber Security for Business Information Systems.

Physical characteristics of wireless communication channels for secret key establishment: A survey of the research (2018)
Journal Article
Bottarelli, M., Epiphaniou, G., Ismail, D. K. B., Karadimas, P., & Al-Khateeb, H. (2018). Physical characteristics of wireless communication channels for secret key establishment: A survey of the research. Computers and Security, 78, 454-476. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2018.08.001

Physical layer security protocols have recently been deployed in the context of Wireless communications. These are derived from the intrinsic characteristics of the communication media for key generation, sharing and randomness extraction. These prot... Read More about Physical characteristics of wireless communication channels for secret key establishment: A survey of the research.

Designing vehicle sounds (2018)
Digital Artefact
McGregor, I. (2018). Designing vehicle sounds. [Website]

Sound is intrinsically linked to vehicles, drivers use it to monitor their actions and vehicle mechanical condition. Pedestrians and other road users rely on sound to prevent accidents. Motoring authorities in the EU, Japan and USA are concerned abou... Read More about Designing vehicle sounds.

A Survey on the Role of Wireless Sensor Networks and IoT in Disaster Management (2018)
Book Chapter
Adeel, A., Gogate, M., Farooq, S., Ieracitano, C., Dashtipour, K., Larijani, H., & Hussain, A. (2019). A Survey on the Role of Wireless Sensor Networks and IoT in Disaster Management. In T. S. Durrani, W. Wang, & S. M. Forbes (Eds.), Geological Disaster Monitoring Based on Sensor Networks (57-66). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0992-2_5

Extreme events and disasters resulting from climate change or other ecological factors are difficult to predict and manage. Current limitations of state-of-the-art approaches to disaster prediction and management could be addressed by adopting new un... Read More about A Survey on the Role of Wireless Sensor Networks and IoT in Disaster Management.

Overview of porous media/metal foam application in fuel cells and solar power systems (2018)
Journal Article
Tan, W. C., Saw, L. H., Thiam, H. S., Xuan, J., Cai, Z., & Yew, M. C. (2018). Overview of porous media/metal foam application in fuel cells and solar power systems. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 96, 181-197

Fuel cells and solar energy are promising candidates for electricity generation. It is forecast that fuel cells and solar power systems will play an important role in reducing the greenhouse gas footprint and replacing fossil fuels. Therefore, the li... Read More about Overview of porous media/metal foam application in fuel cells and solar power systems.

Design and Fabrication of Absorptive/Reflective Crossed CPC PV/T System (2018)
Journal Article
Aykapadathu, M., Nazarinia, M., & Sellami, N. (2018). Design and Fabrication of Absorptive/Reflective Crossed CPC PV/T System. Designs, 2(3), Article 29. https://doi.org/10.3390/designs2030029

A crossed compound parabolic concentrator (CCPC) is a non-imaging concentrator which is a modified form of a circular 3D compound parabolic concentrator (CPC) obtained by orthogonal intersection of two 2D CPCs that have an optical efficiency in line... Read More about Design and Fabrication of Absorptive/Reflective Crossed CPC PV/T System.

Developing a BIM Competency Framework: Research & Key Principles (2018)
Report
Bush, R., & Robinson, M. (2018). Developing a BIM Competency Framework: Research & Key Principles. Scottish Futures Trust

Blended Spaces Exhibition (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
Flint, T., & O'Keefe, B. Blended Spaces Exhibition. [https://blendedspaces.tumblr.com/]. Exhibited at Patchogue New York. 4 August 2018. (Unpublished)

The Blended Spaces Exhibition at Mineca Arthouse Patchogue New York is an exhibition of work conducted during an exchange with Farmingdale State College. The exhibition highlights a number of interaction design solutions created by exchange particip... Read More about Blended Spaces Exhibition.

Edinburgh Festival Fringe - The Sandy Brechin Band (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
Brechin, S., & Currie, J. Edinburgh Festival Fringe - The Sandy Brechin Band. Performed at Merchants Hall, Edinburgh. 4 August 2018 - 4 August 2018. (Unpublished)

The wild man of Scottish accordion is back with his tip-top tunes, frighteningly fast fingering and hilarious hi-jinks and humour, accompanied by his groovin' five-piece band. It's folk music, Jim, but not as we know it! Sandy is one of Scotland's be... Read More about Edinburgh Festival Fringe - The Sandy Brechin Band.

High-shear rate rheometry of micro-nanofibrillated cellulose (CMF/CNF) suspensions using rotational rheometer (2018)
Journal Article
Vadodaria, S. S., Onyianta, A. J., & Sun, D. (2018). High-shear rate rheometry of micro-nanofibrillated cellulose (CMF/CNF) suspensions using rotational rheometer. Cellulose, 25(10), 5535-5552. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-018-1963-4

Suspensions of cellulose micro- and nanofibrils are widely used in coatings, fibre spinning, 3D printing and as rheology modifiers where they are frequently exposed to shear rates > 104 s−1, often within small confinements. High-shear rate rheologica... Read More about High-shear rate rheometry of micro-nanofibrillated cellulose (CMF/CNF) suspensions using rotational rheometer.

Architecture of the Mouse Brain Synaptome (2018)
Journal Article
Zhu, F., Cizeron, M., Qiu, Z., Benavides-Piccione, R., Kopanitsa, M. V., Skene, N. G., …Grant, S. G. (2018). Architecture of the Mouse Brain Synaptome. Neuron, 99(4), 781-799.e10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2018.07.007

Synapses are found in vast numbers in the brain and contain complex proteomes. We developed genetic labeling and imaging methods to examine synaptic proteins in individual excitatory synapses across all regions of the mouse brain. Synapse catalogs we... Read More about Architecture of the Mouse Brain Synaptome.

A Novel Adaptive and Efficient Routing Update Scheme for Low-Power Lossy Networks in IoT (2018)
Journal Article
Ghaleb, B., Al-Dubai, A., Ekonomou, E., Romdhani, I., Nasser, Y., & Boukerche, A. (2018). A Novel Adaptive and Efficient Routing Update Scheme for Low-Power Lossy Networks in IoT. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 5(6), 12. https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2018.2862364

In this paper, we introduce Drizzle, a new algorithm for maintaining routing information in the Low-power and Lossy Networks (LLNs). The aim is to address the limitations of the currently standardized routing maintenance (i.e. Trickle algorithm) in s... Read More about A Novel Adaptive and Efficient Routing Update Scheme for Low-Power Lossy Networks in IoT.

Creating Real-Time Aeroacoustic Sound Effects Using Physically Informed Models (2018)
Journal Article
Selfridge, R., Moffat, D., Avital, E., & Reiss, J. (2018). Creating Real-Time Aeroacoustic Sound Effects Using Physically Informed Models. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 66(7/8), 594-607. https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2018.0033

Aeroacoustics is a branch of engineering within fluid dynamics. It encompasses sounds generated by disturbances in air either by an airflow being disturbed by an object or an object moving through air. A number of fundamental sound sources exist depe... Read More about Creating Real-Time Aeroacoustic Sound Effects Using Physically Informed Models.

A Secured Data Management Scheme for Smart Societies in Industrial Internet of Things Environment (2018)
Journal Article
Babar, M., Khan, F., Iqbal, W., Yahya, A., Arif, F., Tan, Z., & Chuma, J. (2018). A Secured Data Management Scheme for Smart Societies in Industrial Internet of Things Environment. IEEE Access, 6, 43088-43099

Smart societies have an increasing demand for quality-oriented services and infrastructure in an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) paradigm. Smart urbanization faces numerous challenges. Among them, secured energy Demand Side Management (DSM) is o... Read More about A Secured Data Management Scheme for Smart Societies in Industrial Internet of Things Environment.

Traffic Sign Recognition based on Synthesised Training Data (2018)
Journal Article
Stergiou, A., Kalliatakis, G., & Chrysoulas, C. (2018). Traffic Sign Recognition based on Synthesised Training Data. Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 2(3), Article 19. https://doi.org/10.3390/bdcc2030019

To deal with the richness in visual appearance variation found in real-world data, we propose to synthesise training data capturing these differences for traffic sign recognition. The use of synthetic training data, created from road traffic sign tem... Read More about Traffic Sign Recognition based on Synthesised Training Data.

Towards workload-aware cloud resource provisioning using a multi-controller fuzzy switching approach (2018)
Journal Article
Ullah, A., Li, J., & Hussain, A. (2018). Towards workload-aware cloud resource provisioning using a multi-controller fuzzy switching approach. International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, 12(1), 13-25. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJHPCN.2018.093838

Elasticity enables cloud customers to enrich their applications to dynamically adjust underlying cloud resources. Over the past, a plethora of techniques have been introduced to implement elasticity. Control theory is one such technique that offers a... Read More about Towards workload-aware cloud resource provisioning using a multi-controller fuzzy switching approach.

Accelerating Infinite Ensemble of Clustering by Pivot Features (2018)
Journal Article
Jin, X., Xie, G., Huang, K., & Hussain, A. (2018). Accelerating Infinite Ensemble of Clustering by Pivot Features. Cognitive Computation, 10(6), 1042-1050. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-018-9583-8

The infinite ensemble clustering (IEC) incorporates both ensemble clustering and representation learning by fusing infinite basic partitions and shows appealing performance in the unsupervised context. However, it needs to solve the linear equation s... Read More about Accelerating Infinite Ensemble of Clustering by Pivot Features.

Micro flying robot for autonomous agricultural pollination (2018)
Patent
Yu, H. (2018). Micro flying robot for autonomous agricultural pollination. WO2018133241A1, US20190104699. State Intellectual Property Office of the P. R . China

Disclosed is a micro flying robot for autonomous pollination, comprising a robot body, an intelligent control portion, an intelligent sensor portion, a battery, a pollination apparatus and an emitter, wherein the robot body comprises a body portion a... Read More about Micro flying robot for autonomous agricultural pollination.

Improving spectral modification for applications in solar cells: A review (2018)
Journal Article
Day, J., Senthilarasu, S., & Mallick, T. K. (2019). Improving spectral modification for applications in solar cells: A review. Renewable Energy, 132, 186-205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2018.07.101

The spectral mismatch between solar cells and incident radiation is a fundamental factor limiting their efficiencies. There exist materials and luminescent processes which can modify the incident sunlight’s properties to better suit the cell’s optima... Read More about Improving spectral modification for applications in solar cells: A review.