All Outputs (1511)

Carbon Sequestration and Storage in the Built Environment (2021)
Journal Article
Arehart, J. H., Hart, J., Pomponi, F., & D'Amico, B. (2021). Carbon Sequestration and Storage in the Built Environment. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 27, 1047-1063. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2021.02.028

The increasing interest in bio-based construction materials has resulted in the emergence of the concept of “buildings as a carbon sink”. Quantifying and comparing the effects of carbon sequestration and storage in buildings from a life cycle perspec... Read More about Carbon Sequestration and Storage in the Built Environment.

A Discussion with a Malaysian Expert in Edinburgh: Energy, Carbon Emissions, Environmental Management (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Muhammad Sukki, F. (2021, February). A Discussion with a Malaysian Expert in Edinburgh: Energy, Carbon Emissions, Environmental Management. Presented at Malaysian Expert Abroad Seminar Series, Glasgow, UK

An introduction to the special section on the Capability Approach to career guidance (2021)
Journal Article
Robertson, P. J., & Picard, F. (2021). An introduction to the special section on the Capability Approach to career guidance. International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 21(2), 395-404. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10775-021-09462-7

This editorial introduces readers to the Capability Approach to career guidance. It outlines the origins of the approach in the work of economist Amartya Sen, and explains some of its key concepts. The Capability Approach offers a way to think about... Read More about An introduction to the special section on the Capability Approach to career guidance.

Bus passenger path choices after consulting ubiquitous real-time information (2021)
Journal Article
Islam, F., & Fonzone, A. (2021). Bus passenger path choices after consulting ubiquitous real-time information. Travel Behaviour and Society, 23, 226-239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tbs.2021.01.001

Ubiquitous real-time passenger information (URTPI) enables public transport (PT) users to make better travel choices at both pre-trip and en-route stages. A significant amount of URTPI usage is evident in the existing literature. This study investiga... Read More about Bus passenger path choices after consulting ubiquitous real-time information.

Do the Clinical Management Guidelines for Covid-19 in African Countries Reflect the African Quality Palliative Care Standards? A Review of Current Guidelines (2021)
Journal Article
Afolabi, O. A., Abboah-Offei, M., Namisango, E., Chukwusa, E., Oluyase, A. O., Luyirika, E. B., Harding, R., & Nkhoma, K. (2021). Do the Clinical Management Guidelines for Covid-19 in African Countries Reflect the African Quality Palliative Care Standards? A Review of Current Guidelines. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 61(5), e17-e23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2021.01.126

Context
Palliative care should be a component of COVID-19 management to relieve suffering, improve patient outcomes and save cost.

Objectives
We aimed to identify and critically appraise the palliative care recommendations within COVID-19 case m... Read More about Do the Clinical Management Guidelines for Covid-19 in African Countries Reflect the African Quality Palliative Care Standards? A Review of Current Guidelines.

A simple extrapolated predictor for overcoming the starting and tracking issues in the arc-length method for nonlinear structural mechanics (2021)
Journal Article
Kadapa, C. (2021). A simple extrapolated predictor for overcoming the starting and tracking issues in the arc-length method for nonlinear structural mechanics. Engineering Structures, 234, Article 111755. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2020.111755

This paper presents a simplified implementation of the arc-length method for computing the equilibrium paths of nonlinear structural mechanics problems using the finite element method. In the proposed technique, the predictor is computed by extrapola... Read More about A simple extrapolated predictor for overcoming the starting and tracking issues in the arc-length method for nonlinear structural mechanics.

An effective salp swarm based MPPT for photovoltaic systems under dynamic and partial shading conditions (2021)
Journal Article
Jamaludin, M. N. I., Tajuddin, M. F. N., Ahmed, J., Azmi, A., Azmi, S. A., Ghazali, N. H., Babu, T. S., & Alhelou, H. H. (2021). An effective salp swarm based MPPT for photovoltaic systems under dynamic and partial shading conditions. IEEE Access, 9, 34570-34589. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3060431

This study proposes a duty cycle-based direct search method that capitalizes on a bioinspired optimization algorithm known as the salp swarm algorithm (SSA). The goal is to improve the tracking capability of the maximum power point (MPP) controller f... Read More about An effective salp swarm based MPPT for photovoltaic systems under dynamic and partial shading conditions.

ICD-11 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD (CPTSD) in Treatment Seeking Veterans: Risk factors and comorbidity (2021)
Journal Article
Murphy, D., Karatzias, T., Busuttil, W., Greenberg, N., & Shevlin, M. (2021). ICD-11 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD (CPTSD) in Treatment Seeking Veterans: Risk factors and comorbidity. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 56(7), 1289-1298. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-021-02028-6

Purpose: Emerging evidence suggests that ICD-11 CPTSD is a more common condition than PTSD in treatment seeking samples although no study has explored risk factors and comorbidities of PTSD and CPTSD in veteran populations. In this study risk factors... Read More about ICD-11 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD (CPTSD) in Treatment Seeking Veterans: Risk factors and comorbidity.

Protocol of the COVID-19 Health and Adherence Research in Scotland (CHARIS) study: understanding changes in adherence to transmission-reducing behaviours, mental and general health, in repeated cross-sectional representative survey of the Scottish population (2021)
Journal Article
Den Daas, C., Hubbard, G., Johnston, M., Dixon, D., & The CHARIS Consortium. (2021). Protocol of the COVID-19 Health and Adherence Research in Scotland (CHARIS) study: understanding changes in adherence to transmission-reducing behaviours, mental and general health, in repeated cross-sectional representative survey of the Scottish population. BMJ Open, 11(2), Article e044135. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-044135

Introduction: COVID-19 has unprecedented consequences on population health, with governments worldwide issuing stringent public health directives. In the absence of a vaccine, a key way to control the pandemic is through behavioural change: people ad... Read More about Protocol of the COVID-19 Health and Adherence Research in Scotland (CHARIS) study: understanding changes in adherence to transmission-reducing behaviours, mental and general health, in repeated cross-sectional representative survey of the Scottish population.

Cyber Ranges and TestBeds for Education, Training, and Research (2021)
Journal Article
Chouliaras, N., Kittes, G., Kantzavelou, I., Maglaras, L., Pantziou, G., & Ferrag, M. A. (2021). Cyber Ranges and TestBeds for Education, Training, and Research. Applied Sciences, 11(4), Article 1809. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11041809

In recent years, there has been a growing demand for cybersecurity experts, and, according to predictions, this demand will continue to increase. Cyber Ranges can fill this gap by combining hands-on experience with educational courses, and conducting... Read More about Cyber Ranges and TestBeds for Education, Training, and Research.

Scottish Parliament Citizens’ Panel on COVID-19 (2021)
Report
Citizens’ Panel Steering Group, . (2021). Scottish Parliament Citizens’ Panel on COVID-19. https://archive2021.parliament.scot/20210218CVDCitizensPanelReportFinal.pdf: Scottish Parliament

This Citizens’ Panel was commissioned by the Scottish Parliament’s COVID-19 Committee. Its findings will support the COVID-19 Committee’s work to scrutinise the Scottish Government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic at a time when the health protect... Read More about Scottish Parliament Citizens’ Panel on COVID-19.

The reality of 'cyber security awareness': findings and policy implications for Scotland (2021)
Report
Horgan, S. (2021). The reality of 'cyber security awareness': findings and policy implications for Scotland. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, the Scottish Institute for Policing Research, and the Scottish Government

This briefing paper represents a summary of doctoral research that explores how different groups make sense of and respond to cybercrime in their everyday lives. The research found that people from different groups, places, and times think about cybe... Read More about The reality of 'cyber security awareness': findings and policy implications for Scotland.

Volunteer tourism fields: spaces of altruism and unsustainability (2021)
Journal Article
Thompson, J. (2022). Volunteer tourism fields: spaces of altruism and unsustainability. Current Issues in Tourism, 25(5), 779-791. https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2021.1887824

Drawing upon research from six volunteer projects in Cambodia, this paper explores the volunteer host community as a ‘space’ that has its own rules and normalized ways of behaving that influences the assistance prospective beneficiaries receive. Unde... Read More about Volunteer tourism fields: spaces of altruism and unsustainability.

Tourist’s mobilities: Walking, cycling, driving and waiting (2021)
Journal Article
Hannam, K., Butler, G., Witte, A., & Zuev, D. (2021). Tourist’s mobilities: Walking, cycling, driving and waiting. Tourist Studies, 21(1), 57-69. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797621992931

This commentary reviews recent research in terms of tourist’s mobilities in terms practices of walking, cycling and driving. It concludes by reflecting on the contemporary lock down of travel in terms of the global pandemic and its consequences for w... Read More about Tourist’s mobilities: Walking, cycling, driving and waiting.

High‐energy storage performance in BaTiO3‐based lead‐free multilayer ceramic capacitors (2021)
Journal Article
Yang, H., Bao, W., Lu, Z., Li, L., Ji, H., Huang, Y., Xu, F., Wang, G., & Wang, D. (2021). High‐energy storage performance in BaTiO3‐based lead‐free multilayer ceramic capacitors. Journal of Materials Research, 36(6), 1285-1294. https://doi.org/10.1557/s43578-020-00093-2

Lead-free BaTiO3 (BT)-based multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) with the thickness of dielectric layers ~9 μm were successfully fabricated by tape-casting and screen-printing techniques. A single phase of the pseudo-cubic structure was revealed by... Read More about High‐energy storage performance in BaTiO3‐based lead‐free multilayer ceramic capacitors.

Uncertainty in Entrepreneurship (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cochrane, R. (2021, February). Uncertainty in Entrepreneurship. Presented at Design Entrepreneurship Series, Maynooth University, Ireland

Uncertainty. The power and risk of working with the unknown.
Ruth will be drawing on her experience as a designer for Tannoy, Linn, Aston Martin and her company Love Scotland, to talk about service design with social impact. Uncertainty requires ski... Read More about Uncertainty in Entrepreneurship.

An experimental investigation on tool wear behaviour of uncoated and coated micro-tools in micro-milling of graphene-reinforced polymer nanocomposites (2021)
Journal Article
Shakoori, N., Fu, G., Le, B., Khaliq, J., Jiang, L., Huo, D., & Shyha, I. (2021). An experimental investigation on tool wear behaviour of uncoated and coated micro-tools in micro-milling of graphene-reinforced polymer nanocomposites. International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 113, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-021-06715-1

Nanomaterials such as graphene have been added to various matrices to enhance mechanical, thermal and electrical properties for
various applications requiring intricate designs at the micro-scale. At this scale, mechanical micro-machining is utilise... Read More about An experimental investigation on tool wear behaviour of uncoated and coated micro-tools in micro-milling of graphene-reinforced polymer nanocomposites.

The use of pedobarographic analysis to evaluate movement patterns in unstable total knee arthroplasty: a proof of concept study (2021)
Journal Article
Seghal, A., Burnett, R., Howie, C. R., Simpson, A. H. R., & Hamilton, D. (2021). The use of pedobarographic analysis to evaluate movement patterns in unstable total knee arthroplasty: a proof of concept study. The Knee, 29, 110-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knee.2021.01.010

Background
Definition and clinical diagnosis of instability in TKA is challenging. Sensitive and objective biomechanical tools to aid diagnosis are currently lacking. This proof-of-concept study evaluates the use of pressure mat analyses to identify... Read More about The use of pedobarographic analysis to evaluate movement patterns in unstable total knee arthroplasty: a proof of concept study.

Impedance Matching Network Based on Metasurface (2-D Metamaterials) for Electrically Small Antennas (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Limiti, . E., Falcone, F., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Virdee, B. S., Alibakhshikenari, M., & See, C. H. (2020, July). Impedance Matching Network Based on Metasurface (2-D Metamaterials) for Electrically Small Antennas. Presented at 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting, Montréal, Québec, Canada

The paper shows the gain-bandwidth limitations of traditional discrete component matching used in electrically small antennas can be overcome by implementing the impedance matching network with metasurface. The proposed metasurface can optimize maxim... Read More about Impedance Matching Network Based on Metasurface (2-D Metamaterials) for Electrically Small Antennas.

Energy Harvesting Circuit with High RF-to-DC Conversion Efficiency (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Limiti, E., Falcone, F., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Virdee, . B. S., Alibakhshikenari, M., & See, C. H. (2020, July). Energy Harvesting Circuit with High RF-to-DC Conversion Efficiency. Presented at 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting, Montréal, Québec, Canada

This paper presents an energy harvesting circuit for high efficiency performance. The proposed circuit consists of an RLC shunt resonance circuit integrated to a RF antenna. The resonance circuit is used to (i) selectively pick the desired signal who... Read More about Energy Harvesting Circuit with High RF-to-DC Conversion Efficiency.