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Plugging the Data Gap: Freelance Workers in the Creative Industries (2021)
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Panneels, I., Terras, M., Jones, C., Helgason, I., & Komorowski, M. (2021). Plugging the Data Gap: Freelance Workers in the Creative Industries. https://www.pec.ac.uk/blog/plugging-the-data-gap-freelance-and-self-employed-workers-in-the-creative-industries

The lack of data on the self-employed and freelance workforce is a particularly severe problem for the creative industries, which are disproportionately made up of freelancers.

Experimental Strain Measurement Approach Using Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors for Monitoring of Railway Switches and Crossings (2021)
Journal Article
Kerrouche, A., Najeh, T., & Jaen-Sola, P. (2021). Experimental Strain Measurement Approach Using Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors for Monitoring of Railway Switches and Crossings. Sensors, 21(11), Article 3639. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21113639

Railway infrastructure plays a major role in providing the most cost-effective way to transport freight and passengers. The increase in train speed, traffic growth, heavier axles, and harsh environments make railway assets susceptible to degradation... Read More about Experimental Strain Measurement Approach Using Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors for Monitoring of Railway Switches and Crossings.

Air-Conditioning and the Transmission of COVID-19 in Indoor Environment (2021)
Journal Article
Oye, T. T., Gupta, N., Goh, K., & Oye, T. K. (2021). Air-Conditioning and the Transmission of COVID-19 in Indoor Environment. Environmental management and sustainable development, 10(3), https://doi.org/10.5296/emsd.v10i3.18461

Substandard ventilation in restricted air-conditioning indoor places is allied with upsurge in the respiratory infections’ transmission. There have been several COVID-19 spread occurrences connected with indoor environment, together with a few from p... Read More about Air-Conditioning and the Transmission of COVID-19 in Indoor Environment.

A novel CNN-LSTM-based approach to predict urban expansion (2021)
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Boulila, W., Ghandorh, H., Khan, M. A., Ahmed, F., & Ahmad, J. (2021). A novel CNN-LSTM-based approach to predict urban expansion. Ecological Informatics, 64, Article 101325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101325

Time-series remote sensing data offer a rich source of information that can be used in a wide range of applications, from monitoring changes in land cover to surveillance of crops, coastal changes, flood risk assessment, and urban sprawl. In this pap... Read More about A novel CNN-LSTM-based approach to predict urban expansion.

Privacy Laws and Privacy by Design Schemes for the Internet of Things: A Developer’s Perspective (2021)
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Aljeraisy, A., Barati, M., Rana, O., & Perera, C. (2021). Privacy Laws and Privacy by Design Schemes for the Internet of Things: A Developer’s Perspective. ACM computing surveys, 54(5), Article 102. https://doi.org/10.1145/3450965

Internet of Things applications have the potential to derive sensitive information about individuals. Therefore, developers must exercise due diligence to make sure that data are managed according to the privacy regulations and data protection laws.... Read More about Privacy Laws and Privacy by Design Schemes for the Internet of Things: A Developer’s Perspective.

Holistic Modelling and Parametric Study of Bathroom Solar Hot Water Heating System (2021)
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Oye, T. K., Gupta, N., Goh, K., Kerrouche, A., & Oye, T. T. (2021). Holistic Modelling and Parametric Study of Bathroom Solar Hot Water Heating System. Environmental management and sustainable development, 10(3), 36-61. https://doi.org/10.5296/emsd.v10i3.18519

One of the major issues facing the world in the 21st century is climate change. However, sustainability has become a crucial concept to combat extreme consumption of environmental resources. The bathroom has been estimated to be the principal user of... Read More about Holistic Modelling and Parametric Study of Bathroom Solar Hot Water Heating System.

Development of a Sustainable Theoretical Framework for a Renewable Based Bathroom Unit (2021)
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Oye, T. K., Gupta, N., Goh, K., Kerrouche, A., & Oye, T. T. (2021). Development of a Sustainable Theoretical Framework for a Renewable Based Bathroom Unit. Environmental management and sustainable development, 10(3), 10-35. https://doi.org/10.5296/emsd.v10i3.18537

One of the major issues facing the world in the 21st century is climate change. However, sustainability has become a crucial concept to combat extreme consumption of environmental resources. The bathroom has been estimated to be the principal user of... Read More about Development of a Sustainable Theoretical Framework for a Renewable Based Bathroom Unit.

An Empirical Study of C++ Vulnerabilities in Crowd-Sourced Code Examples (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Verdi, M., Sami, A., Akhondali, J., Khomh, F., Uddin, G., & Karami Motlagh, A. (2021, May). An Empirical Study of C++ Vulnerabilities in Crowd-Sourced Code Examples. Presented at 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering, Online

Software developers share programming solutions in Q&A sites like Stack Overflow, Stack Exchange, Android forum, and so on. The reuse of crowd-sourced code snippets can facilitate rapid prototyping. However, recent research shows that the shared code... Read More about An Empirical Study of C++ Vulnerabilities in Crowd-Sourced Code Examples.

Experimental and Analytical Studies on Steel-Reinforced Concrete Composite Members with Bonded Prestressed CFRP tendon under Eccentric Tension (2021)
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Deng, Y., Shen, M., Zhang, H., Zhang, P., Yueng, T. Y., Hansapinyo, C., Usmani, A., Khan, A., & Zhao, J.-J. (2021). Experimental and Analytical Studies on Steel-Reinforced Concrete Composite Members with Bonded Prestressed CFRP tendon under Eccentric Tension. Composite Structures, 271, Article 114124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2021.114124

This paper reported the very earliest experimental and analytical studies on the bonded Prestressed CFRP tendon enhanced Steel Reinforced Concrete (PSRC) members under eccentric tensile loads. Eight PSRC members were tested under monotonic eccentric... Read More about Experimental and Analytical Studies on Steel-Reinforced Concrete Composite Members with Bonded Prestressed CFRP tendon under Eccentric Tension.

Parametric lightweight design of a direct-drive wind turbine electrical generator supporting structure for minimizing dynamic response (2021)
Journal Article
Jaen Sola, P., Oterkusb, E., & McDonald, A. (2021). Parametric lightweight design of a direct-drive wind turbine electrical generator supporting structure for minimizing dynamic response. Ships and Offshore Structures, 16(Sup 1: Papers from the 2020 International Conference on Ships and Offshore Structures), 266-274. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445302.2021.1927356

Heavy, large and robust supporting structures are needed to keep the airgap clearance of direct-drive multi-MW wind turbine electrical generators open and stable. As rotating pieces of machinery, generators vibrate when their natural frequencies are... Read More about Parametric lightweight design of a direct-drive wind turbine electrical generator supporting structure for minimizing dynamic response.

Granular Data Access Control with a Patient-Centric Policy Update for Healthcare (2021)
Journal Article
Khan, F., Khan, S., Tahir, S., Ahmad, J., Tahir, H., & Shah, S. A. (2021). Granular Data Access Control with a Patient-Centric Policy Update for Healthcare. Sensors, 21(10), Article 3556. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21103556

Healthcare is a multi-actor environment that requires independent actors to have a different view of the same data, hence leading to different access rights. Ciphertext Policy-Attribute-based Encryption (CP-ABE) provides a one-to-many access control... Read More about Granular Data Access Control with a Patient-Centric Policy Update for Healthcare.

Intrusion Detection, Measurement Correction, and Attack Localization of PMU Networks (2021)
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Khalafi, Z. S., Dehghani, M., Khalili, A., Sami, A., Vafamand, N., & Dragicevic, T. (2022). Intrusion Detection, Measurement Correction, and Attack Localization of PMU Networks. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 69(5), 4697-4706. https://doi.org/10.1109/tie.2021.3080212

Accurate state estimation is essential for correct supervision of power grids. With the existence of cyber-attacks, state estimation may become inaccurate, which can eventually lead to wrong supervisory decision making. To detect cyber-attacks in pow... Read More about Intrusion Detection, Measurement Correction, and Attack Localization of PMU Networks.

Connected Sensors, Innovative Sensor Deployment, and Intelligent Data Analysis for Online Water Quality Monitoring (2021)
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Manjakkal, L., Mitra, S., Petillot, Y. R., Shutler, J., Scott, E. M., Willander, M., & Dahiya, R. (2021). Connected Sensors, Innovative Sensor Deployment, and Intelligent Data Analysis for Online Water Quality Monitoring. IEEE Internet of Things, 8(18), 13805-13824. https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2021.3081772

The sensor technology for water quality monitoring (WQM) has improved during recent years. The cost-effective sensorised tools that can autonomously measure the essential physical-chemical-biological (PCB) variables are now readily available and are... Read More about Connected Sensors, Innovative Sensor Deployment, and Intelligent Data Analysis for Online Water Quality Monitoring.

A Lightweight Chaos-Based Medical Image Encryption Scheme Using Random Shuffling and XOR Operations (2021)
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Masood, F., Driss, M., Boulila, W., Ahmad, J., ur Rehman, S., Jan, S. U., Qayyum, A., & Buchanan, W. J. (2022). A Lightweight Chaos-Based Medical Image Encryption Scheme Using Random Shuffling and XOR Operations. Wireless Personal Communications, 127, 1405-1432. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-021-08584-z

Medical images possess significant importance in diagnostics when it comes to healthcare systems. These images contain confidential and sensitive information such as patients’ X-rays, ultrasounds, computed tomography scans, brain images, and magnetic... Read More about A Lightweight Chaos-Based Medical Image Encryption Scheme Using Random Shuffling and XOR Operations.

A multi-institutional exploration of the social mobility potential of degree apprenticeships (2021)
Journal Article
Smith, S., Taylor-Smith, E., Fabian, K., Zarb, M., Paterson, J., Barr, M., & Berg, T. (2021). A multi-institutional exploration of the social mobility potential of degree apprenticeships. Journal of Education and Work, 34(4), 488-503. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2021.1946494

This mixed-method study at six universities asked degree apprentices about their trajectories into the apprenticeship, to better understand the social mobility potential of apprenticeships. The degree apprenticeship offers a route to a degree for app... Read More about A multi-institutional exploration of the social mobility potential of degree apprenticeships.

Advances in machine translation for sign language: approaches, limitations, and challenges (2021)
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Farooq, U., Rahim, M. S. M., Sabir, N., Hussain, A., & Abid, A. (2021). Advances in machine translation for sign language: approaches, limitations, and challenges. Neural Computing and Applications, 33, 14357-14399. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-021-06079-3

Sign languages are used by the deaf community around the globe to communicate with one another. These are gesture-based languages where a deaf person performs gestures using hands and facial expressions. Every gesture represents a word or a phrase in... Read More about Advances in machine translation for sign language: approaches, limitations, and challenges.

A Control and Posture Recognition Strategy for Upper-Limb Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients (2021)
Journal Article
Yu, X., Xiao, B., Tian, Y., Wu, Z., Liu, Q., Wang, J., Sun, M., & Liu, X. (2021). A Control and Posture Recognition Strategy for Upper-Limb Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2021, Article 6630492. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/6630492

At present, the study of upper-limb posture recognition is still in the primary stage; due to the diversity of the objective environment and the complexity of the human body posture, the upper-limb posture has no public dataset. In this paper, an upp... Read More about A Control and Posture Recognition Strategy for Upper-Limb Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients.

Towards An SDN Assisted IDS (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sutton, R., Ludwiniak, R., Pitropakis, N., Chrysoulas, C., & Dagiuklas, T. (2021, April). Towards An SDN Assisted IDS. Presented at IFIP NTMS Workshop on CyberSecurity on Hardware 2021, Paris, France

Modern Intrusion Detection Systems are able to identify and check all traffic crossing the network segments that they are only set to monitor. Traditional network infrastructures use static detection mechanisms that check and monitor specific types o... Read More about Towards An SDN Assisted IDS.

DeepFake: Deep Dueling-Based Deception Strategy to Defeat Reactive Jammers (2021)
Journal Article
Van Huynh, N., Hoang, D. T., Nguyen, D. N., & Dutkiewicz, E. (2021). DeepFake: Deep Dueling-Based Deception Strategy to Defeat Reactive Jammers. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 20(10), 6898-6914. https://doi.org/10.1109/twc.2021.3078439

In this paper, we introduce DeepFake, a novel deep reinforcement learning-based deception strategy to deal with reactive jamming attacks. In particular, for a smart and reactive jamming attack, the jammer is able to sense the channel and attack the c... Read More about DeepFake: Deep Dueling-Based Deception Strategy to Defeat Reactive Jammers.