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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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Piracy defense strategies for shipping companies and ships: A mixed empirical approach (2021)
Journal Article
Tseng, P.-H., Her, Z.-C., & Pilcher, N. (2021). Piracy defense strategies for shipping companies and ships: A mixed empirical approach. Maritime Transport Research, 2, Article 100020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.martra.2021.100020

Piracy attacks constitute a serious threat against which ships must be ready to defend themselves, particularly given the financial, political and logistical challenges involved in ensuring internationally coordinated protection. Yet, defense is high... Read More about Piracy defense strategies for shipping companies and ships: A mixed empirical approach.

Holistic Modelling and Parametric Study of Bathroom Solar Hot Water Heating System (2021)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Legal Practice in Modern History (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dodd, L. (2021, May). Legal Practice in Modern History. Paper presented at Legal History in Modern Practice, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

The Romans envisioned history as a moral didactic, the purpose of which was to present stories about deeds accomplished by historical figures and to challenge readers to emulate those deeds, often by contrasting, for rhetorical purposes, the supposed... Read More about Legal Practice in Modern History.

Context, design and conduct of the longitudinal COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study – Wave 3 (2021)
Journal Article
McBride, O., Butter, S., Murphy, J., Shevlin, M., Hartman, T. K., Hyland, P., McKay, R., Bennett, K. M., Gibson-Miller, J., Levita, L., Mason, L., Martinez, A. P., Stocks, T. V., Vallières, F., Karatzias, T., Valiente, C., Vazquez, C., & Bentall, R. P. (2021). Context, design and conduct of the longitudinal COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study – Wave 3. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 30(3), Article e1880. https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1880

Objectives: The COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study aims to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the adult population in multiple countries. This paper describes the third wave of the UK survey (the ‘parent’ strand of t... Read More about Context, design and conduct of the longitudinal COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study – Wave 3.

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)
Journal Article
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.

Bleeding Free (2021)
Digital Artefact
MacLeod, K., Morgan, L., & Cochrane, R. (2021). Bleeding Free. [Digital video]

A documentary film about period poverty and menstrual health. The film focuses on the importance of free access to period products and how this improves the life chances for women and girls, especially in relation to education but also for gender equ... Read More about Bleeding Free.

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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Business-government relations and national economic models: A review and future research directions in varieties of capitalism and beyond (2021)
Journal Article
MacKenzie, N. G., Perchard, A., Miller, C., & Forbes, N. (2021). Business-government relations and national economic models: A review and future research directions in varieties of capitalism and beyond. Business History, 63(8), 1239-1252. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1924687

This special issue complements and extends existing work in business history to show how the discipline can contribute to the Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) literature. The work in this collection delves deeper into our understanding of how VoC emerge... Read More about Business-government relations and national economic models: A review and future research directions in varieties of capitalism and beyond.

The intensification of work in Europe: A multilevel analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Adăscăliței, D., Heyes, J., & Mendonça, P. (2022). The intensification of work in Europe: A multilevel analysis. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 60(2), 324-347. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12611

Using the most recent two waves of the European Working Conditions Survey (2010 and 2015) in a multilevel setting, the paper argues that national institutions have a significant effect on shifts in work intensity. We find that work has intensified in... Read More about The intensification of work in Europe: A multilevel analysis.

A Lightweight Chaos-Based Medical Image Encryption Scheme Using Random Shuffling and XOR Operations (2021)
Journal Article
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.