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Control Strategies for Energy Efficiency at PNU’s Metro System (2021)
Journal Article
Saleh, W., Justin, S., Alsawah, G., Al Ghamdi, T., & Lashin, M. M. A. (2021). Control Strategies for Energy Efficiency at PNU’s Metro System. Energies, 14(20), Article 6660. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14206660

It is broadly acknowledged that there is an urgent need to reduce carbon-based mobility systems and increase renewable energy alternatives. The automotive industry is one of the greatest consumers of energy in the world. It is fronted with many chall... Read More about Control Strategies for Energy Efficiency at PNU’s Metro System.

Dual-Polarized Highly Folded Bowtie Antenna with Slotted Self-Grounded Structure for Sub-6 GHz 5G Applications (2021)
Journal Article
Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B. S., See, C. H., Shukla, P., Mansouri Moghaddam, S., Uz Zaman, A., Shafqaat, S., Akinsolu, M. O., Liu, B., Yang, J., Abd-Alhameed, R., Falcone, F., & Limiti, E. (2022). Dual-Polarized Highly Folded Bowtie Antenna with Slott

In this paper, a novel dual-polarized highly-folded self-grounded Bowtie antenna that is excited through I-shaped slots is proposed for applications in sub-6GHz 5G multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna systems. The antenna consists of two pai... Read More about Dual-Polarized Highly Folded Bowtie Antenna with Slotted Self-Grounded Structure for Sub-6 GHz 5G Applications.

A Study of Gas Transport Mechanisms for CH4/CO2 Using Ceramic Membranes (2021)
Journal Article
Ogunlude, P., Abunumah, O., Muhammad-Sukki, F., & Gobina, E. (2021). A Study of Gas Transport Mechanisms for CH4/CO2 Using Ceramic Membranes. Crystals, 11(10), Article 1224. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst11101224

Greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) and their effects have been a matter of global concern over the past decade. As the demand for energy grows in developing economies, there has been a challenge in harnessing and utilising sustainable forms of energy to... Read More about A Study of Gas Transport Mechanisms for CH4/CO2 Using Ceramic Membranes.

Factors Influencing the Adoption of Blockchain Technology in the Construction Industry – A System Dynamics Approach (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Olawumi, T., Ojo, S., Chan, D., & Yam, M. (2021). Factors Influencing the Adoption of Blockchain Technology in the Construction Industry – A System Dynamics Approach. In Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Man

The construction industry is always a slow adopter of innovative technologies than other sectors of the economy. Although some technologies, such as Building Information Modelling (BIM), robotics, among others, have been implemented, their ad... Read More about Factors Influencing the Adoption of Blockchain Technology in the Construction Industry – A System Dynamics Approach.

Some Notes on Granular Mixtures with Finite, Discrete Fractal Distribution (2021)
Journal Article
Imre, E., Talata, I., Barreto, D., Datcheva, M., Baille, W., Georgiev, I., …Lőrincz, J. (2022). Some Notes on Granular Mixtures with Finite, Discrete Fractal Distribution. Periodica Polytechnica Civil Engineering, 66(1), 179-192. https://doi.org/10.331

Why fractal distribution is so frequent? It is true that fractal dimension is always less than 3? Why fractal dimension of 2.5 to 2.9 seems to be steady-state or stable? Why the fractal distributions are the limit distributions of the degradation pat... Read More about Some Notes on Granular Mixtures with Finite, Discrete Fractal Distribution.

Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition Using 3D-CNN and LSTM Networks (2021)
Journal Article
Ur Rehman, M., Ahmed, F., Attique Khan, M., Tariq, U., Abdulaziz Alfouzan, F., M. Alzahrani, N., & Ahmad, J. (2021). Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition Using 3D-CNN and LSTM Networks. Computers, Materials & Continua, 70(3), 4675-4690. https://doi.org/10.326

Recognition of dynamic hand gestures in real-time is a difficult task because the system can never know when or from where the gesture starts and ends in a video stream. Many researchers have been working on vision-based gesture recognition due to it... Read More about Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition Using 3D-CNN and LSTM Networks.

Cloud-based Sustainability Assessment (CSA) System for Automating the Sustainability Decision-Making Process of Built Assets (2021)
Journal Article
Olawumi, T. O., & Chan, D. W. (2022). Cloud-based Sustainability Assessment (CSA) System for Automating the Sustainability Decision-Making Process of Built Assets. Expert Systems with Applications, 188, Article 116020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.

Digital tools help facilitate the implementation of sustainability practices in the built environment in the era of rapid urban developments. However, the extant literature revealed salient gaps in the use of cloud-based systems and digital tools to... Read More about Cloud-based Sustainability Assessment (CSA) System for Automating the Sustainability Decision-Making Process of Built Assets.

Electromyographic Signal Based Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition Using Transfer Learning (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Song, S., Yang, L., Huo, B., Wu, M., Liu, Y., & Yu, H. (2022). Electromyographic Signal Based Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition Using Transfer Learning. In Proceedings of 2021 Chinese Intelligent Automation Conference (389-397). https://doi.org/10.1007/97

Recent years, the research of gesture recognition based on surface EMG signal has become an active topic. The conventional methods mainly focus on feature engineering, but the sEMG signal is non-stationary temporally, which makes proper feature desig... Read More about Electromyographic Signal Based Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition Using Transfer Learning.

Observer-Based Adaptive Sliding Mode Control for Soft Actuators with Input Constraints (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cao, G., Shi, H., Xia, D., Zheng, Y., Liu, Y., & Yu, H. (2022). Observer-Based Adaptive Sliding Mode Control for Soft Actuators with Input Constraints. In Proceedings of 2021 Chinese Intelligent Automation Conference (524-533). https://doi.org/10.1007/97

Fabricated by superelastic materials, soft actuators are an emerging field to provide a solution of safe interaction with complicated, unstructured and frequently brittle work environments, while they also bear challenges in fragility and controlling... Read More about Observer-Based Adaptive Sliding Mode Control for Soft Actuators with Input Constraints.

Joint Coding and Scheduling Optimization for Distributed Learning Over Wireless Edge Networks (2021)
Journal Article
Van Huynh, N., Hoang, D. T., Nguyen, D. N., & Dutkiewicz, E. (2022). Joint Coding and Scheduling Optimization for Distributed Learning Over Wireless Edge Networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 40(2), 484-498. https://doi.org/10.1109/j

Unlike theoretical analysis of distributed learning (DL) in the literature, DL over wireless edge networks faces the inherent dynamics/uncertainty of wireless connections and edge nodes, making DL less efficient or even inapplicable under the highly... Read More about Joint Coding and Scheduling Optimization for Distributed Learning Over Wireless Edge Networks.

Verification of the Photogrammetric Approach on the Torsion Test Method for Timber Beams (2021)
Journal Article
Mohamed, A., Uheida, K., Quan, Y., & Zhang, H. (2022). Verification of the Photogrammetric Approach on the Torsion Test Method for Timber Beams. International Wood Products Journal, 13(1), 3-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/20426445.2021.1983690

The photogrammetric approach was proposed in this study to evaluate torsional behaviour of glulam timber beams during the torsion test. The main objectives of the experimental work were to investigate the applicability of the photogrammetric approach... Read More about Verification of the Photogrammetric Approach on the Torsion Test Method for Timber Beams.

Federated Deep Learning for Cyber Security in the Internet of Things: Concepts, Applications, and Experimental Analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Ferrag, M. A., Friha, O., Maglaras, L., Janicke, H., & Shu, L. (2021). Federated Deep Learning for Cyber Security in the Internet of Things: Concepts, Applications, and Experimental Analysis. IEEE Access, 9, 138509-138542. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2

In this article, we present a comprehensive study with an experimental analysis of federated deep learning approaches for cyber security in the Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Specifically, we first provide a review of the federated learning-b... Read More about Federated Deep Learning for Cyber Security in the Internet of Things: Concepts, Applications, and Experimental Analysis.

Architecting Green Mobile Cloud Apps (2021)
Book Chapter
Jaachimma Chinenyeze, S., & Liu, X. (2021). Architecting Green Mobile Cloud Apps. In C. Calero, M. Á. Moraga, & M. Piattini (Eds.), Software Sustainability (183-214). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69970-3_8

With the resource-constrained nature of mobile devices, and the resource-abundant offerings of the cloud, several promising optimization techniques have been proposed by the green computing research community. Prominent techniques and unique methods... Read More about Architecting Green Mobile Cloud Apps.

Modelling construction 4.0 as a vaccine for ensuring construction supply chain resilience amid COVID-19 pandemic (2021)
Journal Article
Osunsanmi, T. O., Aigbavboa, C. O., Thwala, W. D. D., & Molusiwa, R. (2022). Modelling construction 4.0 as a vaccine for ensuring construction supply chain resilience amid COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 20(1), 132-158. h

Purpose-The COVID-19 pandemic came with a lot of stress, uncertainty and disruption for managing the construction supply chain (CSC). The disruption in return caused weak resilience of CSC activities. Unfortunately, the existing models for managing C... Read More about Modelling construction 4.0 as a vaccine for ensuring construction supply chain resilience amid COVID-19 pandemic.

Metadata can kill (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Haynes, D. (2021, October). Metadata can kill. Paper presented at DCMI Virtual 2021 - Metadata Innovation, Online

A number of events in the recent years have raised concerns about how private companies and government institutions collect and use metadata about their clients and citizens, from the highly-mediatized National Security Agency and Cambridge Analytica... Read More about Metadata can kill.

Exploring the effects of positive organizational behaviour (POB) models on occupational eustress amongst construction employees (2021)
Journal Article
Ogwueleka, A. C., & Ikediashi, D. I. (2021). Exploring the effects of positive organizational behaviour (POB) models on occupational eustress amongst construction employees. Journal of Construction Business and Management, 5(1), 38-46. https://doi.org/10.

The general perspective of organizational behaviour (OB) has been characterized more by negativity than positively. The introduction of a positive approach into OB is known as positive organizational behaviour (POB), which focuses on employees' posit... Read More about Exploring the effects of positive organizational behaviour (POB) models on occupational eustress amongst construction employees.

MnOx-Electrodeposited Fabric-Based Stretchable Supercapacitors with Intrinsic Strain Sensing (2021)
Journal Article
Pullanchiyodan, A., Manjakkal, L., Ntagios, M., & Dahiya, R. (2021). MnOx-Electrodeposited Fabric-Based Stretchable Supercapacitors with Intrinsic Strain Sensing. ACS applied materials & interfaces, 13(40), 47581-47592. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c12

The increasing number of devices needed by wearable systems to bring radical advances in healthcare, robotics, and human–machine interfaces is a threat to their growth if the integration and energy-related challenges are not managed. A natural soluti... Read More about MnOx-Electrodeposited Fabric-Based Stretchable Supercapacitors with Intrinsic Strain Sensing.

Varied perceptions of environmental impacts from informal public transport hubs in two sub-Saharan African cities (Nairobi and Ibadan) (2021)
Journal Article
Onyango, V., Olowosegun, A., & Moyo, D. (2023). Varied perceptions of environmental impacts from informal public transport hubs in two sub-Saharan African cities (Nairobi and Ibadan). International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development, 22(2)

This paper explored perceptions of the environmental impacts of informal public transport (IPT) in Ibadan, Nigeria and Nairobi, Kenya. Based on a questionnaire survey supplemented by exploratory factor analysis the results revealed unanimous agreemen... Read More about Varied perceptions of environmental impacts from informal public transport hubs in two sub-Saharan African cities (Nairobi and Ibadan).

Microservices in IoT Security: Current Solutions, Research Challenges, and Future Directions (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Driss, M., Hasan, D., Boulila, W., & Ahmad, J. (2021, September). Microservices in IoT Security: Current Solutions, Research Challenges, and Future Directions. Presented at 25th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & En

In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) technology has led to the emergence of multiple smart applications in different vital sectors including healthcare, education, agriculture, energy management, etc. IoT aims to interconnect several intelli... Read More about Microservices in IoT Security: Current Solutions, Research Challenges, and Future Directions.

The Task2Dial Dataset (2021)
Data
Gkatzia, D., & Strathearn, C. (2021). The Task2Dial Dataset. [Dataset]

URL: https://huggingface.co/datasets/cstrathe435/Task2Dial