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A rapid review of literature relating to support for people with intellectual disabilities and their family carers when the person has: behaviours that challenge and/or mental health problems; or they are advancing in age, (2011)
Report
Slevin, E., Taggart, L., McConkey, R., Cousins, W., Truesdale-Kennedy, M., & Dowling, S. (2011). A rapid review of literature relating to support for people with intellectual disabilities and their family carers when the person has: behaviours that challenge and/or mental health problems; or they are advancing in age,. Belfast: HSC Public Health Agency

What services and support do people with Intellectual disabilities who display behaviours that challenge and their caregivers require to meet their needs? What services and support do older people with learning disabilities and their caregivers requi... Read More about A rapid review of literature relating to support for people with intellectual disabilities and their family carers when the person has: behaviours that challenge and/or mental health problems; or they are advancing in age,.

Meander-line filter for short range radio communications (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alqahtani, S., See, C., Abd-Alhameed, R., Hussaini, A., Abidin, Z., Excell, P., & Noras, J. (2011, September). Meander-line filter for short range radio communications. Presented at 4th International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications, ITA 11, Wrexham

Filters and antennas play a significant part in many different RF and microwave transceiver systems. This paper describes the design and testing of two RF filters for use in narrow-band short-range radio communications. The structures of these filter... Read More about Meander-line filter for short range radio communications.

A holistic model of governance for SMEs (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crossan, K., & Henschel, T. (2011, December). A holistic model of governance for SMEs. Paper presented at BAFA South East Area Group Annual Conference

No abstract available.

Isanette: A common and common sense knowledge base for opinion mining (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cambria, E., Song, Y., Wang, H., & Hussain, A. (2011). Isanette: A common and common sense knowledge base for opinion mining. In 2011 IEEE 11th International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (315-322). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDMW.2011.106

The ability to understand natural language text is far from being emulated in machines. One of the main hurdles to overcome is that computers lack both the common and the common sense knowledge humans normally acquire during the formative years of th... Read More about Isanette: A common and common sense knowledge base for opinion mining.

Multi-stage classification of Gyrodactylus species using machine learning and feature selection techniques (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ali, R., Hussain, A., Bron, J. E., & Shinn, A. P. (2011, November). Multi-stage classification of Gyrodactylus species using machine learning and feature selection techniques. Presented at 2011 11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, Cordoba, Spain

This study explores the use of multi-stage machine learning based classifiers and feature selection techniques in the classification and identification of fish parasites. Accurate identification of pathogens is a key to their control and as a proof o... Read More about Multi-stage classification of Gyrodactylus species using machine learning and feature selection techniques.

Sentic avatar: Multimodal affective conversational agent with common sense (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cambria, E., Hupont, I., Hussain, A., Cerezo, E., & Baldassarri, S. (2010, March). Sentic avatar: Multimodal affective conversational agent with common sense. Presented at Third COST 2102 International Training School, Caserta, Italy

The capability of perceiving and expressing emotions through different modalities is a key issue for the enhancement of human-computer interaction. In this paper we present a novel architecture for the development of intelligent multimodal affective... Read More about Sentic avatar: Multimodal affective conversational agent with common sense.

Sentic medoids: Organizing affective common sense knowledge in a multi-dimensional vector space (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cambria, E., Mazzocco, T., Hussain, A., & Eckl, C. (2011, May). Sentic medoids: Organizing affective common sense knowledge in a multi-dimensional vector space. Presented at ISNN 2011: 8th International Symposium on Neural Networks, Guilin, China

Existing approaches to opinion mining and sentiment analysis mainly rely on parts of text in which opinions and sentiments are explicitly expressed such as polarity terms and affect words. However, opinions and sentiments are often conveyed implicitl... Read More about Sentic medoids: Organizing affective common sense knowledge in a multi-dimensional vector space.

Switching between different ways to think: Multiple approaches to affective common sense reasoning (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cambria, E., Mazzocco, T., Hussain, A., & Durrani, T. (2010, September). Switching between different ways to think: Multiple approaches to affective common sense reasoning. Presented at COST 2102 International Conference, Budapest, Hungary

Emotions are different Ways to Think that our mind triggers to deal with different situations we face in our lives. Our ability to reason and make decisions, in fact, is strictly dependent on both our common sense knowledge about the world and our in... Read More about Switching between different ways to think: Multiple approaches to affective common sense reasoning.

Broadband dual planar inverted F-antenna for wireless local area networks/worldwide interoperability for microwave access and lower-band ultra wideband wireless applications (2011)
Journal Article
See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R., Zhou, D., Hraga, H., & Excell, P. (2011). Broadband dual planar inverted F-antenna for wireless local area networks/worldwide interoperability for microwave access and lower-band ultra wideband wireless applications. IET microwaves, antennas & propagation, 5(6), 644-650. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-map.2010.0135

An extension of the planar inverted F-antenna (PIFA) concept is proposed, combining two such antennas (one of them fed parasitically) to extend the usable bandwidth to cover the WiFi wireless local area network, worldwide interoperability for microwa... Read More about Broadband dual planar inverted F-antenna for wireless local area networks/worldwide interoperability for microwave access and lower-band ultra wideband wireless applications.

New antenna designs for wideband harmonic suppression using adaptive surface meshing and genetic algorithms (2011)
Journal Article
Zhou, D., Abd-Alhameed, R., See, C. . H., Bin-Melha, M., Zainal-Abdin, Z., & Excell, P. (2011). New antenna designs for wideband harmonic suppression using adaptive surface meshing and genetic algorithms. IET microwaves, antennas & propagation, 5(9), 1054-1061. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-map.2010.0218

A novel design strategy for microstrip harmonic-suppression antennas is presented. The computational method is based on an integral equation solver using adaptive surface meshing driven by a genetic algorithm (GA). Three examples are illustrated, all... Read More about New antenna designs for wideband harmonic suppression using adaptive surface meshing and genetic algorithms.

A novel dual band tunable balanced handset antenna for WLAN application (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Elfergani, I., Abd-Alhameed, R., Ali, N., Alhaddad, A., See, C., & Cabongomuqueba, E. (2011, December). A novel dual band tunable balanced handset antenna for WLAN application. Presented at 2011 18th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems - (ICECS 2011), Beirut, Lebanon

This paper presents a tunable balanced antenna covering WLAN frequency bands near 2.4 GHz (2.4-2.4835 GHz) and 5 GHz (5.15-5.35 GHz & 5.650-5.925 GHz), for mobile application. The design is based on loading two variable capacitors onto the planar bal... Read More about A novel dual band tunable balanced handset antenna for WLAN application.

Experiments in Multicore and Distributed Parallel Processing using JCSP (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kerridge, J. (2011, June). Experiments in Multicore and Distributed Parallel Processing using JCSP. Presented at 33rd Communicating Process Architecture (CPA) Conference, University of Limerick, Ireland

It is currently very difficult to purchase any form of computer system be it, notebook, laptop, desktop server or high performance computing system that does not contain a multicore processor. Yet the designers of applications, in general, have very... Read More about Experiments in Multicore and Distributed Parallel Processing using JCSP.

Privacy in Pervasive Systems: Legal Framework and Regulatory Challenges (2011)
Book Chapter
Liotta, A., & Liotta, A. (2011). Privacy in Pervasive Systems: Legal Framework and Regulatory Challenges. In Pervasive Computing and Communications Design and Deployment: Technologies, Trends and Applications (263-277). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-611-4.ch012

Data protection legislation has developed in a digital communication context that is changing dramatically. Infrastructure-based, networked systems are increasingly interconnecting and interoperating with infrastructure-less or even spontaneous netwo... Read More about Privacy in Pervasive Systems: Legal Framework and Regulatory Challenges.

Networks for Pervasive Services: Six Ways to Upgrade the Internet (2011)
Book
Liotta, A., & Exarchakos, G. (2011). Networks for Pervasive Services: Six Ways to Upgrade the Internet. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1473-1

Since its inception in the 1970s the Internet has become larger, faster and wireless. It is the biggest machine ever built, the “generative” engine of our digital society. However, the software that runs the global network has not seen any substantia... Read More about Networks for Pervasive Services: Six Ways to Upgrade the Internet.

Behavioural Antecedents of Inter-firm Linkages in the Irish Road Freight Industry (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Plant, E., & McGovern, J. (2011). Behavioural Antecedents of Inter-firm Linkages in the Irish Road Freight Industry. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Universities’ Transport Studies Group

The Irish road haulage industry exhibits a structure dominated by single-vehicle owner-managed operators. This has implications for the Irish economy through reduced efficiency. It is crucial that Ireland’s transport policies sustain its trade-depen... Read More about Behavioural Antecedents of Inter-firm Linkages in the Irish Road Freight Industry.

De-Centring Western Sexualities: Central and Eastern European Perspectives (2011)
Book
Kulpa, R., & Mizielińska, J. (Eds.). (2011). De-Centring Western Sexualities: Central and Eastern European Perspectives. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315576107

De-Centring Western Sexualities critically assesses the current state of knowledge about sexualities outside the framings of 'The West', by focusing on gender and sexuality within the context of Central and Eastern Europe. Providing rich case studies... Read More about De-Centring Western Sexualities: Central and Eastern European Perspectives.

Optimisation of concentrator in the solar photonic optoelectronic transformer: Optical gain analysis (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Muhammad-Sukki, C., Ramirez-Iniguez, R., McMeekin, S., Stewart, B., & Clive, B. (2011, September). Optimisation of concentrator in the solar photonic optoelectronic transformer: Optical gain analysis. Presented at IET Conference on Renewable Power Generation (RPG 2011), Edinburgh, UK

The Solar Photonic Optoelectronic Transformer (SPOT) is one of the components of the SolarBrane, a Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) system developed by SolarEmpower Ltd. Recently, an optimised design for the optical concentrator in the SPOT ha... Read More about Optimisation of concentrator in the solar photonic optoelectronic transformer: Optical gain analysis.

Comic: The New Abbess [Fantomen 24/2011] (2011)
Other
Bishop, D. (2011). Comic: The New Abbess [Fantomen 24/2011]. Sweden

A comic written for publisher Egmont, illustrated by artist Cesar Spadari. Originally published in Swedish, it was subsequently reprinted in English by Frew Comics in Australia.

Assessing motor performance with PCA (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hammerla, N. Y., Plötz, T., Andras, P., & Olivier, P. (2011). Assessing motor performance with PCA. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Frontiers in Activity Recognition using Pervasive Sensing (18-23)

Information about the motor performance, i.e. how well an activity is performed, is valuable information for a variety of novel applications in Activity Recognition (AR). Its assessment represents a significant challenge, as requirements depend on th... Read More about Assessing motor performance with PCA.

Design of a Cost Effective Off-Grid Wind-Diesel Hybrid Power System in an Island of Bangladesh (2011)
Journal Article
Nahid-Al-Masood, Mirza, R., Ahmed, J., Abedin, A. H., Deeba, S., Hafiz, F., Begum, M., & Chowdhury, A. H. (2011). Design of a Cost Effective Off-Grid Wind-Diesel Hybrid Power System in an Island of Bangladesh. International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 5(12), 312-315

Bangladesh is a developing country with large population. Demand of electrical energy is increasing day by day because of increasing population and industrialization. But due to limited resources, people here are suffering from power crisis problem w... Read More about Design of a Cost Effective Off-Grid Wind-Diesel Hybrid Power System in an Island of Bangladesh.