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Recent Advances and Trends in Lightweight Cryptography for IoT Security (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gunathilake, N. A., Al-Dubai, A., & Buchanan, W. J. (2020, November). Recent Advances and Trends in Lightweight Cryptography for IoT Security. Presented at 2020 16th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Izmir, Turkey

Lightweight cryptography is a novel diversion from conventional cryptography to minimise its high level of resource requirements, thus it would impeccably fit in the internet-of-things (IoT) environment. The IoT platform is constrained in terms of ph... Read More about Recent Advances and Trends in Lightweight Cryptography for IoT Security.

Book review: John Armbrecht, Erik Lundberg and Tommy D. Andersson (eds), A Research Agenda for Event Management (Elgar Research Agendas, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA 2019) 192 pp. (2020)
Journal Article
Snell, S. (2020). Book review: John Armbrecht, Erik Lundberg and Tommy D. Andersson (eds), A Research Agenda for Event Management (Elgar Research Agendas, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA 2019) 192 pp. Journal of Qualitative Research in Tourism, 134-137. https://doi.org/10.4337/jqrt.2020.01.09

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The effects of commodity financialization on commodity market volatility (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ding, S., Zheng, D., Cui, T., & Du, M. (2020, November). The effects of commodity financialization on commodity market volatility. Presented at ENSCON’ 20 Online International Congress of Energy Economy and Security, Istanbul, Turkey [Online]

Over the last two decades, it has been witnessed that massive capital flooded into commodity markets, provoking the commodity financialization episode, which turned into a major stimulus for the rapid development of commodity market studies. Moreover... Read More about The effects of commodity financialization on commodity market volatility.

Sdn heading north: Towards a declarative intent-based northbound interface (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alalmaei, S., Elkhatib, Y., Bezahaf, M., Broadbent, M., & Race, N. (2020, November). Sdn heading north: Towards a declarative intent-based northbound interface. Presented at 2020 16th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Izmir, Turkey

The Intent-Based Northbound Interface (NBI) offers users the ability to express what they want to achieve instead of how to achieve it, enabling improvements to network management and reducing operational costs. However, development of an Intent-Base... Read More about Sdn heading north: Towards a declarative intent-based northbound interface.

The Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Of 2-Fraction Granular Soils And The Internal Stability (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Imre, E., Illés, Z., Bálint, Á., Barreto, D., Khaliunaa, A., Tsendsuren, B., Huong, T. Q. D., & Lizeth Guadalupe, L. L. (2020, November). The Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Of 2-Fraction Granular Soils And The Internal Stability. Presented at 11th ICEEE – 2020 Conference, Budapest, Hungary

The four grading entropy coordinates can be used for soil classification on the basis of grain size and the grading curve shape (similarly e.g., to the diameter values). The grading entropy coordinates give information on several basic Physics featur... Read More about The Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Of 2-Fraction Granular Soils And The Internal Stability.

Sino-U.S. stock market volatility, economic policy uncertainty, and fluctuation of global oil market: an empirical analysis based on TVP-SV-VAR model (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yang, T., Zhou, F., Du, M., Du, Q., & Zhou, S. (2020, November). Sino-U.S. stock market volatility, economic policy uncertainty, and fluctuation of global oil market: an empirical analysis based on TVP-SV-VAR model. Presented at ENSCON’ 20 Online International Congress of Energy Economy and Security, Istanbul, Turkey [Online]

This paper investigates the correlations among Sino-US stock markets, economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and global oil market. Specificly, by adopting a TVP-SV-VAR model this study analyzes the dynamic effects of volatility of stock price in China an... Read More about Sino-U.S. stock market volatility, economic policy uncertainty, and fluctuation of global oil market: an empirical analysis based on TVP-SV-VAR model.

Optimal Electricity Trading Strategy for a Household Microgrid (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Qin, Z., Hua, H., Liang, H., Herzallah, R., Zhou, Y., & Cao, J. (2020, October). Optimal Electricity Trading Strategy for a Household Microgrid. Presented at 2020 IEEE 16th International Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA), Singapore

The recent integration of distributed generators (DGs) and renewable energy sources (RESs) into the power system led to the manifestation of a significant number of household microgrid (MG) systems in the electricity market. However, in most of the c... Read More about Optimal Electricity Trading Strategy for a Household Microgrid.

Why is mock care not a good proxy for predicting hand contamination during patient care? (2020)
Journal Article
King, M., Wilson, A., López-García, M., Proctor, J., Peckham, D., Clifton, I., Dancer, S., & Noakes, C. (2021). Why is mock care not a good proxy for predicting hand contamination during patient care?. Journal of Hospital Infection, 109, 44-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2020.11.016

Healthcare worker (HCW) behaviours, such as the sequence of their contacts with surfaces and hand hygiene moments, are important for understanding disease transmission.
Aim
To propose a method for recording sequences of HCW behaviours during mock v... Read More about Why is mock care not a good proxy for predicting hand contamination during patient care?.

A survey of ‘standard’ occupational therapy rehabilitation for the upper limb post-stroke: investigating components delivered by clinicians within the reflects trial - based throughout Ireland (in World Stroke Congress Abstracts, 2020) (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abercrombie, W., Porter-Armstrong, A., Turtle, B., Stockley, R., & Stinson, M. A survey of ‘standard’ occupational therapy rehabilitation for the upper limb post-stroke: investigating components delivered by clinicians within the reflects trial - based throughout Ireland (in World Stroke Congress Abstracts, 2020). Presented at World Stroke Congress, Online

Background And Aims: The REfLECTS study is a randomised controlled trial (RCT) examining mirror therapy for the treatment of upper limb (UL) impairment. Located throughout Northern Ireland (NI) and Ireland, the study compares experimental and ‘standa... Read More about A survey of ‘standard’ occupational therapy rehabilitation for the upper limb post-stroke: investigating components delivered by clinicians within the reflects trial - based throughout Ireland (in World Stroke Congress Abstracts, 2020).

An Architecture for IoT-Enabled Smart Transportation Security System: A Geospatial Approach (2020)
Journal Article
Zhang, J., Wang, Y., Li, S., & Shi, S. (2021). An Architecture for IoT-Enabled Smart Transportation Security System: A Geospatial Approach. IEEE Internet of Things, 8(8), 6205-6213. https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2020.3041386

Internet of Things (IoT) in urban transportation systems have been ubiquitously embedded into a variety of devices and transport entities. The IoT-enabled smart transportation system (STS) has thus gained growing tractions amongst scholars and practi... Read More about An Architecture for IoT-Enabled Smart Transportation Security System: A Geospatial Approach.

Cloud apps to‐go: Cloud portability with TOSCA and MiCADO (2020)
Journal Article
DesLauriers, J., Kiss, T., Ariyattu, R. C., Dang, H., Ullah, A., Bowden, J., Krefting, D., Pierantoni, G., & Terstyanszky, G. (2021). Cloud apps to‐go: Cloud portability with TOSCA and MiCADO. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 33(19), Article e6093. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.6093

As cloud adoption increases, so do the number of available cloud service providers. Moving complex applications between clouds can be beneficial—or other times necessary—but achieving this so-called cloud portability is rarely straightforward. This a... Read More about Cloud apps to‐go: Cloud portability with TOSCA and MiCADO.

An Improved Genetic-Shuffled Frog-Leaping Algorithm for Permutation Flowshop Scheduling (2020)
Journal Article
Wu, P., Yang, Q., Chen, W., Mao, B., & Yu, H. (2020). An Improved Genetic-Shuffled Frog-Leaping Algorithm for Permutation Flowshop Scheduling. Complexity, 2020, Article 3450180. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/3450180

Due to the NP-hard nature, the permutation flowshop scheduling problem (PFSSP) is a fundamental issue for Industry 4.0, especially under higher productivity, efficiency, and self-managing systems. This paper proposes an improved genetic-shuffled frog... Read More about An Improved Genetic-Shuffled Frog-Leaping Algorithm for Permutation Flowshop Scheduling.

The Local Provision of Restorative Justice in Scotland: an Exploratory Empirical Study (2020)
Journal Article
Maglione, G., Buchan, J., & Robertson, L. (2022). The Local Provision of Restorative Justice in Scotland: an Exploratory Empirical Study. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 28, 617-640. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10610-020-09470-3

This article presents the results of the first empirical qualitative research on the provision of restorative justice (RJ) in Scotland, based on interviews with 14 practitioners. In Scotland, RJ has attracted the attention of penal reformers and prac... Read More about The Local Provision of Restorative Justice in Scotland: an Exploratory Empirical Study.

All-Optical Planar Polymer Waveguide-Based Biosensor Chip Designed for Smartphone-Assisted Detection of Vitamin D (2020)
Journal Article
Walter, J.-G., Alwis, L. S. M., Roth, B., & Bremer, K. (2020). All-Optical Planar Polymer Waveguide-Based Biosensor Chip Designed for Smartphone-Assisted Detection of Vitamin D. Sensors, 20(23), Article 6771. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20236771

An all-optical plasmonic sensor platform designed for smartphones based on planar-optical waveguide structures integrated in a polymer chip is reported for the first time. To demonstrate the applicability of the sensor system for biosensing purposes,... Read More about All-Optical Planar Polymer Waveguide-Based Biosensor Chip Designed for Smartphone-Assisted Detection of Vitamin D.

Investigations towards lower cooling load in a typical residential building in Kurdistan (Iraq) (2020)
Journal Article
Mustafa, M., Ali, S., Snape, J. R., & Vand, B. (2020). Investigations towards lower cooling load in a typical residential building in Kurdistan (Iraq). Energy Reports, 6, 571-580. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2020.11.011

Energy consumption in cooling the buildings and occupant’s thermal comfort is significant, and any techniques to reduce this can bring great benefits, both locally in terms of reducing the need for expensive infrastructure and globally in terms of re... Read More about Investigations towards lower cooling load in a typical residential building in Kurdistan (Iraq).

Big data and IoT-based applications in smart environments: A systematic review (2020)
Journal Article
Hajjaji, Y., Boulila, W., Farah, I. R., Romdhani, I., & Hussain, A. (2021). Big data and IoT-based applications in smart environments: A systematic review. Computer Science Review, 39, Article 100318. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosrev.2020.100318

This paper reviews big data and Internet of Things (IoT)-based applications in smart environments. The aim is to identify key areas of application, current trends, data architectures, and ongoing challenges in these fields. To the best of our knowled... Read More about Big data and IoT-based applications in smart environments: A systematic review.

Assessment of the concordance between individual- and area-level measures of socio-economic deprivation in a cancer patient cohort in England and Wales (2020)
Journal Article
Ingleby, F. C., Belot, A., Atherton, I. M., Baker, M., Elliss-Brookes, L., & Woods, L. M. (2020). Assessment of the concordance between individual- and area-level measures of socio-economic deprivation in a cancer patient cohort in England and Wales. BMJ Open, 10(11), Article e041714. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-041714

Objectives
Most research on health inequalities uses aggregated deprivation scores assigned to the small area where the patient lives; however, the concordance between aggregate area-level deprivation measures and personal deprivation experienced by... Read More about Assessment of the concordance between individual- and area-level measures of socio-economic deprivation in a cancer patient cohort in England and Wales.

Creative Assessment (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cochrane, R. (2020, November). Creative Assessment. Presented at Edinburgh College Research, Innovation & Improvement Project Forum, Online

This paper focuses on students’ use of a novel programme-focused feedback tool we have developed and utilised across Product Design at Edinburgh Napier University. In the context of the creative industries feedback needs to become a shared responsibi... Read More about Creative Assessment.