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Study of CO2 bubble dynamics in seawater from QICS field Experiment (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chen, B., Dewar, M., Sellami, N., Stahl, H., & Blackford, J. (2013, December). Study of CO2 bubble dynamics in seawater from QICS field Experiment. Presented at AGU Fall Meeting 2013, San Francisco, US

One of the concerns of employing CCS at engineering scale is the risk of leakage of storage CO2 on the environment and especially on the marine life. QICS, a scientific research project was launched with an aim to study the effects of a potential lea... Read More about Study of CO2 bubble dynamics in seawater from QICS field Experiment.

Optical analysis of a CPC based CPV/T system for application in the kingdom of saudi arabia (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Baig, H., Sellami, N., Bahaidarah, H., & Mallick, T. (2013, September). Optical analysis of a CPC based CPV/T system for application in the kingdom of saudi arabia. Presented at 28th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Paris, France

Saudi Arabia receives an average insolation of 6 kWh/m2/day, making it one of the most likely candidates for a country to be using solar energy for meeting its energy needs in the near future. The energy from the sun can be directly converted into el... Read More about Optical analysis of a CPC based CPV/T system for application in the kingdom of saudi arabia.

Leveraging the Cloud for Large-Scale Software Testing – A Case Study: Google Chrome on Amazon (2013)
Book Chapter
Pakhira, A., & Andras, P. (2013). Leveraging the Cloud for Large-Scale Software Testing – A Case Study: Google Chrome on Amazon. In S. Tilley, & T. Parveen (Eds.), Software Testing in the Cloud: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline (252-279). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2536-5.ch012

Testing is a critical phase in the software life-cycle. While small-scale component-wise testing is done routinely as part of development and maintenance of large-scale software, the system level testing of the whole software is much more problematic... Read More about Leveraging the Cloud for Large-Scale Software Testing – A Case Study: Google Chrome on Amazon.

Risk and Uncertainty in Sustainable Building Performance (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sajjadian, S. M., Lewis, J., & Sharples, S. Risk and Uncertainty in Sustainable Building Performance. Presented at 4th International Conference in Sustainability in Energy and Buildings (SEB´12), Stockholm, Sweden

Decision-making in the design of sustainable building envelopes will mostly consider the trade-off between initial cost and energy savings. However, this leads to an insufficiently holistic approach to the assessment of the sustainable performance of... Read More about Risk and Uncertainty in Sustainable Building Performance.

The potential of shading devices to improve comfort in current and future UK housing through integrated simulations with high and low thermal mass construction systems (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sajjadian, S., Lewis, J., & Sharples, S. (2013, October). The potential of shading devices to improve comfort in current and future UK housing through integrated simulations with high and low thermal mass construction systems. Presented at International Conference on Adaptation and Movement (ICAM), Toronto

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Interpretation and determination of thermal comfort in climate change context (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sajjadian, S., Lewis, J., & Sharples, S. (2013, April). Interpretation and determination of thermal comfort in climate change context. Presented at IPGRC 2013: International post graduate research conference, Salford, UK

Thermal comfort is a complicatedsubjectand is thus hard to quantify generally and specificallyandthe existing quantification methods are unlikely to be reliable for naturally ventilated houses. The challenge for designers is to produce a com... Read More about Interpretation and determination of thermal comfort in climate change context.

Liquid level monitoring using passive RFID tags (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atojoko, A., Bin-Melha, M., Elkazmi, E., Usman, M., Abd-Alhameed, R., & See, C. .. (2013, December). Liquid level monitoring using passive RFID tags. Presented at 2013 Design and Test Symposium (IDT), Marrakesh

Tank flooding have become major causes of pollution both in residential and industrial areas majorly caused by overflows of water(mostly residential) and volatile poisonous industrial liquids from the storage tanks. An effective way of avoiding this... Read More about Liquid level monitoring using passive RFID tags.

Improved Grating Monopole antenna with zigzag for DVB-T application (2013)
Journal Article
Zebiri, C., Ney, M., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Benabdelaziz, F., Lashab, M., & See, C. H. (2013). Improved Grating Monopole antenna with zigzag for DVB-T application. Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters, 41, 39-49. https://doi.org/10.2528/PIERL13050107

This work presents a novel broadband monopole antenna for digital video broadcasting-terrestrial (DVB-T) application. The proposed antenna consists of a grating zigzag patch and a concave rectangular ground plane. The zigzag patch is used to enable t... Read More about Improved Grating Monopole antenna with zigzag for DVB-T application.

Hybrid computational scheme for antenna-human body interaction. (2013)
Journal Article
Ramli, K., Abd-Alhameed, R., See, C., Excell, P., & Noras, J. (2013). Hybrid computational scheme for antenna-human body interaction. Progress in electromagnetics research B: PIER B, 133, 117-136

A new hybrid method of moments (MoM)/finite-difference time-domain (FDTD), with a sub-gridded finite-difference time-domain (SGFDTD) approach is presented. The method overcomes the drawbacks of homogeneous MoM and FDTD simulations, and so permits acc... Read More about Hybrid computational scheme for antenna-human body interaction..

Statistical analysis of refractivity gradient and β₀ parameter in the Gulf Region. (2013)
Journal Article
AbouAlmal, A., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Al-Ansari, K., AlAhmad, H., See, C. H., Jones, S. M. R., & Noras, J. M. (2013). Statistical analysis of refractivity gradient and β₀ parameter in the Gulf Region. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 61(12), 6250-6254. https://doi.org/10.1109/tap.2013.2279999

In this communication, nine years of local radiosonde meteorological data, from 1997 to 2005, have been used to calculate the vertical refractivity gradient, ΔΝ, in the lowest atmospheric layer above the ground surface. The values obtained are used t... Read More about Statistical analysis of refractivity gradient and β₀ parameter in the Gulf Region..

Countering brandjacking in the digital age... and other hidden risks to your brand (2013)
Book
Hofman, C., & Keates, S. (2013). Countering brandjacking in the digital age... and other hidden risks to your brand. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5580-5

The rise of the Internet and social media in particular offer great opportunities for brand owners to increase business and brand recognition. While this has clearly been of benefit to brand owners, who have seen a consequent rise in the value of the... Read More about Countering brandjacking in the digital age... and other hidden risks to your brand.

The future of universal access? merging computing, design and engineering (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Keates, S., Bradley, D., & Sapeluk, A. (2013, July). The future of universal access? merging computing, design and engineering. Presented at 7th International Conference, UAHCI 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA

Technology is advancing at a fast pace while the shape and nature of computers continues to evolve, with tablets and smartphones illustrating the move away from the traditional notion of a laptop or desktop computer. Similarly, networking and sensing... Read More about The future of universal access? merging computing, design and engineering.

eHealth and the internet of things (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ball, L., Szymkowiak, A., Keates, S., Bradley, D., & Brownsell, S. (2013, February). eHealth and the internet of things. Presented at 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems, Barcelona, Spain

To respond to an ageing population, eHealth strategies offer significant opportunities in achieving a balanced and sustainable healthcare infrastructure. Advances in technology both at the sensor and device levels and in respect of information techno... Read More about eHealth and the internet of things.

Conical Nanoparticles for Blood Disease Detection (2013)
Journal Article
Spada, L. L., Iovine, R., Tarparelli, R., & Vegni, L. (2013). Conical Nanoparticles for Blood Disease Detection. Advances in nanoparticles, 02(03), 259-265. https://doi.org/10.4236/anp.2013.23036

Metallic nanoparticles play an important role in the design of sensing platforms. In this paper, a new electromagnetic study for conical metal nanoparticles, working in the Near Infrared and Visible frequency regime, is proposed. The structures consi... Read More about Conical Nanoparticles for Blood Disease Detection.

Computing the incomputable with human processing units (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Corney, J., Vasantha, G. A., Lynn, A., Jagadeesan, A., Acur, N., Smith, M., & Agarwal, A. (2013, March). Computing the incomputable with human processing units. Presented at International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia IITM 2013, Allahabad, India

Initially commercial crowdsourcing services (such as Amazon’s Mechanical Turk) were focused largely on providing micro-labor services for tasks such as image labeling and text processing. However it is becoming increasingly apparent that these servic... Read More about Computing the incomputable with human processing units.

IPS2 Design Process: A Comparative Study between Literature and Industrial Approaches (2013)
Book Chapter
Annamalai Vasantha, G. V., Hussain, R., Roy, R., & Erkoyuncu, J. A. (2013). IPS2 Design Process: A Comparative Study between Literature and Industrial Approaches. In Y. Shimomura, & K. Kimita (Eds.), The Philosopher's Stone for Sustainability (411-416). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32847-3_69

Although the merits of Industrial product-service systems (IPS2) have been widely reported in the literature, the methodologies currently used to design IPS2 are not yet mature in either academia or industry. The objective of this paper is to determi... Read More about IPS2 Design Process: A Comparative Study between Literature and Industrial Approaches.

Strategy Choice in Transit Networks (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fonzone, A., Schmöcker, J. D., Kurauchi, F., & Hassan, S. (2013, September). Strategy Choice in Transit Networks. Presented at 10th International Conference of Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS), Taipei, Taiwan

Machine vision approach for automating vegetation detection on railway tracks. (2013)
Journal Article
Yella, S., Nyberg, R., Payvar, B., Dougherty, M., & Gupta, N. K. (2013). Machine vision approach for automating vegetation detection on railway tracks. Journal of Intelligent Systems, 22, 179-196. https://doi.org/10.1515/jisys-2013-0017

The presence of vegetation on railway tracks (amongst other issues) threatens track safety and longevity. However, vegetation inspections in Sweden (and elsewhere in the world) are currently being carried out manually. Manually inspecting vegetation... Read More about Machine vision approach for automating vegetation detection on railway tracks..