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The use of video presentation to improve assessment (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kerrouche, A. (2020, July). The use of video presentation to improve assessment. Presented at International Symposium of Engineering Education (ISEE), Glasgow

Kerrouche, A. (2020, July). The use of video presentation to improve assessment. Presented at International Symposium of Engineering Education (ISEE), Glasgow.

Acceptor and Donor Dopants in Potassium Sodium Niobate Based Ceramics (2020)
Journal Article
Hussain, F., Khesro, A., Lu, Z., Alotaibi, N., Mohamad, A. A., Wang, G., Wang, D., & Zhou, D. (2020). Acceptor and Donor Dopants in Potassium Sodium Niobate Based Ceramics. Frontiers in Materials, 7, Article 160. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmats.2020.00160

B-site doping in potassium sodium niobate (KNN) with Mn2+ (Mn′′′Nb) and Ti4+ (Ti′Nb) dopants were soluble but prevented KNN from achieving a high relative density, while Sn4+ (Sn′Nb) was not soluble in the structure as evidenced by second phase peaks... Read More about Acceptor and Donor Dopants in Potassium Sodium Niobate Based Ceramics.

Metamaterials for electromagnetic and thermal waves (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Donnelly, E., Durant, A., Lacoste, C., & Spada, L. L. (2020, March). Metamaterials for electromagnetic and thermal waves. Presented at 2020 14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Copenhagen, Denmark

In the last decade, electromagnetic metamaterials, thanks to their exotic properties and the possibility to control electromagnetic waves at will, become crucial building blocks to develop new and advanced technologies in several practical applicatio... Read More about Metamaterials for electromagnetic and thermal waves.

Metasurface sensors for healthcare applications (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Durant, A., Lacoste, C., Donnelly, E., & Spada, L. L. (2020, March). Metasurface sensors for healthcare applications. Presented at 2020 14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Copenhagen, Denmark

Electromagnetic sensors have received huge attention in the last few years, due to the rising demand of devices able to improve quality, performance and safety in different industrial sectors: both sensing and medical industries are outstanding examp... Read More about Metasurface sensors for healthcare applications.

Exploring the Potential Uses of Ocean Plastic and Public Engagement Activities for Raising Awareness (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tao, X. (2020, July). Exploring the Potential Uses of Ocean Plastic and Public Engagement Activities for Raising Awareness. Presented at International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, San Diego

This research explored the qualities and properties of ocean plastic as an accessible material in design and examined public perception by conducting public engagement activities. From addressing the needs of ocean plastic challenge by reviewing the... Read More about Exploring the Potential Uses of Ocean Plastic and Public Engagement Activities for Raising Awareness.

Scottish Mental Health and Capacity Law: Replacing the Old with the New or the Old in Policy, Law and Practice? (2020)
Book Chapter
Stavert, J. (2020). Scottish Mental Health and Capacity Law: Replacing the Old with the New or the Old in Policy, Law and Practice?. In C. Spivakovsky, L. Steele, & P. Weller (Eds.), The Legacies of Institutionalisation: Disability, Law and Policy in the ‘Deinstitutionalised’ Community. Hart Publishing

When enacted Scottish capacity and mental health legislation was internationally regarded as world leading in terms of presenting human rights-based approaches to interventions. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilitie... Read More about Scottish Mental Health and Capacity Law: Replacing the Old with the New or the Old in Policy, Law and Practice?.

Trauma, PTSD, and Complex PTSD in the Republic of Ireland: Prevalence, service use, comorbidity, and risk factors (2020)
Journal Article
Hyland, P., Vallières, F., Cloitre, M., Ben-Ezra, M., Karatzias, T., Olff, M., Murphy, J., & Shevlin, M. (2021). Trauma, PTSD, and Complex PTSD in the Republic of Ireland: Prevalence, service use, comorbidity, and risk factors. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 56, Article 649-658 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-020-01912-x

Purpose: This study represents the first assessment of the prevalence of trauma exposure, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD (CPTSD), ever conducted in the general population of the Republic of Ireland. Additionally, prevalence... Read More about Trauma, PTSD, and Complex PTSD in the Republic of Ireland: Prevalence, service use, comorbidity, and risk factors.

Speculative and Critical Design in Education: Practice and Perspectives (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Helgason, I., Smyth, M., Encinas, E., & Mitrović, I. (2020, July). Speculative and Critical Design in Education: Practice and Perspectives. Presented at DIS '20: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2020, Eindhoven Netherlands

This full-day, interdisciplinary workshop will address the use of Speculative and Critical Design (SCD), Design Fiction, and related practices, including those that use provocation, ambiguity and activism, within undergraduate, postgraduate and profe... Read More about Speculative and Critical Design in Education: Practice and Perspectives.

Policy During a Pandemic: How to Make Research Accessible for Policymakers During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020)
Newspaper / Magazine
Kerr, G., & Heath, E. (2020). Policy During a Pandemic: How to Make Research Accessible for Policymakers During the COVID-19 Pandemic. https://blog.ucsusa.org/science-blogger/how-to-make-research-accessible-for-policymakers-during-covid-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of effective science communication – in particular, the vital importance of making research accessible for policymakers. Here, we present our top tips for researchers on how to write for policymake... Read More about Policy During a Pandemic: How to Make Research Accessible for Policymakers During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Tax increment financing and major league venues (2020)
Journal Article
Sroka, R. (2020). Tax increment financing and major league venues. Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal, 10(4), 495-517. https://doi.org/10.1108/sbm-09-2019-0076

Purpose
This article intends to shine a light on venue-related tax increment financing (TIF) through the first comprehensive inventory of its use at the major league level.

Design/methodology/approach
For each 2018 venue in the five North Americ... Read More about Tax increment financing and major league venues.

Ethnographic Fictions: Research for Speculative Design (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Helgason, I., & Smyth, M. (2020, July). Ethnographic Fictions: Research for Speculative Design. Presented at DIS '20: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2020, Eindhoven Netherlands

Ethnographically informed research that investigates people's lived experiences, emotions, attitudes and behaviours inevitably draws primarily on current and past situations. Design practice is naturally concerned with using research to inform the cr... Read More about Ethnographic Fictions: Research for Speculative Design.

Analysis of a novel six-degree of freedom foldable parallel mechanism with optimized under-balance springs (2020)
Journal Article
Wang, C., Zhao, T., Yu, H., Li, E., Tian, X., & Ding, S. (2021). Analysis of a novel six-degree of freedom foldable parallel mechanism with optimized under-balance springs. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 235(4), 670-692. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954406220936728

The capacities of parallel mechanisms are limited by their height for the narrow space applications, such as the shipboard stability platforms, household simulators, aerospace mechanisms, etc. This paper proposes a novel foldable six-DOF parallel man... Read More about Analysis of a novel six-degree of freedom foldable parallel mechanism with optimized under-balance springs.

Monthly Precipitation Forecasts Using Wavelet Neural Networks Models in a Semiarid Environment (2020)
Journal Article
Estévez, J., Bellido-Jiménez, J. A., Liu, X., & García-Marín, A. P. (2020). Monthly Precipitation Forecasts Using Wavelet Neural Networks Models in a Semiarid Environment. Water, 12(7), Article 1909. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12071909

Accurate forecast of hydrological data such as precipitation is critical in order to provide useful information for water resources management, playing a key role in different sectors. Traditional forecasting methods present many limitations due to t... Read More about Monthly Precipitation Forecasts Using Wavelet Neural Networks Models in a Semiarid Environment.

A user detective adaptive facade towards improving visual and thermal comfort (2020)
Journal Article
Rizi, R. A., & Eltaweel, A. (2021). A user detective adaptive facade towards improving visual and thermal comfort. Journal of Building Engineering, 33, Article 101554. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2020.101554

Adaptive skins and, in particular, adaptive façade play a significant role in the future of environmentally friendly spaces. Meanwhile, occupants' involvement in the process of adaptive façade design and operation is essential to guarantee its useful... Read More about A user detective adaptive facade towards improving visual and thermal comfort.

5G-FOG: Freezing of Gait Identification in Multi-Class Softmax Neural Network Exploiting 5G Spectrum (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khan, J. S., Tahir, A., Ahmad, J., Shah, S. A., Abbasi, Q. H., Russell, G., & Buchanan, W. (2020, July). 5G-FOG: Freezing of Gait Identification in Multi-Class Softmax Neural Network Exploiting 5G Spectrum. Presented at 2020 Computing Conference, London

Freezing of gait (FOG) is one of the most incapacitating and disconcerting symptom in Parkinson's disease (PD). FOG is the result of neural control disorder and motor impairments, which severely impedes forward locomotion. This paper presents the exp... Read More about 5G-FOG: Freezing of Gait Identification in Multi-Class Softmax Neural Network Exploiting 5G Spectrum.

Decentralized Accessibility of e-commerce Products through Blockchain Technology (2020)
Journal Article
Kumar, G., Saha, R., Buchanan, W. J., Geetha, G., Thomas, R., Rai, M. K., Kim, T.-H., & Alazab, M. (2020). Decentralized Accessibility of e-commerce Products through Blockchain Technology. Sustainable Cities and Society, 62, Article 102361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2020.102361

A distributed and transparent ledger system is considered for various \textit{e}-commerce products including health medicines, electronics, security appliances, food products and many more to ensure technological and e-commerce sustainability. This s... Read More about Decentralized Accessibility of e-commerce Products through Blockchain Technology.

Accurate iteration-free mixed-stabilised formulation for laminar incompressible Navier–Stokes: Applications to fluid–structure interaction (2020)
Journal Article
Kadapa, C., Dettmer, W. G., & Perić, D. (2020). Accurate iteration-free mixed-stabilised formulation for laminar incompressible Navier–Stokes: Applications to fluid–structure interaction. Journal of Fluids and Structures, 97, Article 103077. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2020.103077

Stabilised mixed velocity–pressure formulations are one of the widely-used finite element schemes for computing the numerical solutions of laminar incompressible Navier–Stokes. In these formulations, the Newton–Raphson scheme is employed to solve the... Read More about Accurate iteration-free mixed-stabilised formulation for laminar incompressible Navier–Stokes: Applications to fluid–structure interaction.

VRtefacts: Performative Substitutional Reality with Museum Objects (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Spence, J., Darzentas, D. P., Huang, Y., Cameron, H. R., Beestin, E., & Benford, S. (2020, July). VRtefacts: Performative Substitutional Reality with Museum Objects. Presented at DIS '20: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2020, Eindhoven, Netherlands

We explore how a combination of manipulations and transitions can extend Substitutional Reality to create a highly personal Virtual Reality experience. Our design aimed to meet two challenges faced by museums: the limitations of object handling and t... Read More about VRtefacts: Performative Substitutional Reality with Museum Objects.