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Influence of a low-carbohydrate diet on endothelial microvesicles in overweight women (2016)
Journal Article
Wekesa, A. L., Doyle, L. M., Fitzmaurice, D., O’Donovan, O., Phelan, J. P., Ross, M. D., Cross, K. S., & Harrison, M. (2016). Influence of a low-carbohydrate diet on endothelial microvesicles in overweight women. Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, 41(5), 522-527. https://doi.org/10.1139/apnm-2015-0507

Low-carbohydrate diets (LCD) are increasing in popularity, but their effect on vascular health has been questioned.
Endothelial microvesicles (EMV) are membrane-derived vesicles with the potential to act as a sensitive prognostic biomarker of vascul... Read More about Influence of a low-carbohydrate diet on endothelial microvesicles in overweight women.

Fully spray-coated organic solar cells on woven polyester cotton fabrics for wearable energy harvesting applications (2016)
Journal Article
Arumugam, S., Li, Y., Senthilarasu, S., Torah, R., Kanibolotsky, A., Inigo, A., Skabara, P., & Beebya, S. (2016). Fully spray-coated organic solar cells on woven polyester cotton fabrics for wearable energy harvesting applications. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 4(15), 5561-5568. https://doi.org/10.1039/C5TA03389F

This paper presents the novel use of spray-coating to fabricate organic solar cells on fabrics for wearable energy harvesting applications. The surface roughness of a standard woven 65/35 polyester cotton fabric used in this work is of the order of 1... Read More about Fully spray-coated organic solar cells on woven polyester cotton fabrics for wearable energy harvesting applications.

Theoretical investigation considering manufacturing errors of a high concentrating photovoltaic of cassegrain design and its experimental validation (2016)
Journal Article
Shanks, K., Sarmah, N., Ferrer-Rodriguez, J. P., Senthilarasu, S., Reddy, K., Fernández, E. F., & Mallick, T. (2016). Theoretical investigation considering manufacturing errors of a high concentrating photovoltaic of cassegrain design and its experimental validation. Solar Energy, 131, 235-245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2016.02.050

A compact high concentrating photovoltaic module based on cassegrain optics is presented; consisting of a primary parabolic reflector, secondary inverse parabolic reflector and a third stage homogeniser. The effect of parabolic curvatures, reflector... Read More about Theoretical investigation considering manufacturing errors of a high concentrating photovoltaic of cassegrain design and its experimental validation.

Accidents involving pedestrians with their backs to traffic or facing traffic: an evaluation of crash characteristics and injuries. (2016)
Journal Article
Chen, P.-L., Jou, R.-C., Saleh, W., & Pai, C.-W. (2016). Accidents involving pedestrians with their backs to traffic or facing traffic: an evaluation of crash characteristics and injuries. Journal of advanced transportation, 50(5), 736-751. https://doi.org/10.1002/atr.1372

This paper examines pedestrian anatomical injuries and crash characteristics in back-to-traffic and facing-traffic crashes. Pedestrian crashes involving pedestrians walking along streets (i.e. with their backs to traffic or facing traffic) have been... Read More about Accidents involving pedestrians with their backs to traffic or facing traffic: an evaluation of crash characteristics and injuries..

Effects of High Dissolved Inorganic and Organic Carbon Availability on the Physiology of the Hard Coral Acropora millepora from the Great Barrier Reef (2016)
Journal Article
Meyer, F. W., Vogel, N., Diele, K., Kunzmann, A., Uthicke, S., & Wild, C. (2016). Effects of High Dissolved Inorganic and Organic Carbon Availability on the Physiology of the Hard Coral Acropora millepora from the Great Barrier Reef. PLOS ONE, 11, Article e0149598. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0149598

Coral reefs are facing major global and local threats due to climate change-induced
increases in dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and because of land-derived increases in
organic and inorganic nutrients. Recent research revealed that high availabil... Read More about Effects of High Dissolved Inorganic and Organic Carbon Availability on the Physiology of the Hard Coral Acropora millepora from the Great Barrier Reef.

A New Spatio-Temporal Saliency-Based Video Object Segmentation (2016)
Journal Article
Tu, Z., Abel, A., Zhang, L., Luo, B., & Hussain, A. (2016). A New Spatio-Temporal Saliency-Based Video Object Segmentation. Cognitive Computation, 8(4), 629-647. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-016-9387-7

Humans and animals are able to segment visual scenes by having the natural cognitive ability to quickly identify salient objects in both static and dynamic scenes. In this paper, we present a new spatio-temporal-based approach to video object segment... Read More about A New Spatio-Temporal Saliency-Based Video Object Segmentation.

Franki Raffles Archive (2016)
Digital Artefact
Scott, A. J. (2016). Franki Raffles Archive

Franki Raffles (1955-94) was a feminist social documentary photographer.
She was based in Edinburgh but travelled widely, photographing women at work and in their everyday lives, in Scotland, and across the world.

Her tragic early death, at the... Read More about Franki Raffles Archive.

Social cohesion and interpersonal conflicts in projects (2016)
Journal Article
Ojiako, U., Manville, G., Zouk, N., & Chipulu, M. (2016). Social cohesion and interpersonal conflicts in projects. Proceedings of the ICE - Management, Procurement and Law, 169(2), 77-84. https://doi.org/10.1680/jmapl.14.00038

One particular area of project management literature that has continued to gain momentum is its social dimension, with a number of scholars emphasising the fact that there is a considerable social dimension to every project activity. Within this cont... Read More about Social cohesion and interpersonal conflicts in projects.

The effects of H2O dilution in CH4/air autoignition and NOx generation (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tingas, S., Kyritsis, D., & Goussis, D. (2016, March). The effects of H2O dilution in CH4/air autoignition and NOx generation. Poster presented at Future Fuels Workshop, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Tingas, S., Kyritsis, D., & Goussis, D. (2016, March). The effects of H2O dilution in CH4/air autoignition and NOx generation. Poster presented at Future Fuels Workshop, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.

Towards a Biologically Inspired Soft Switching Approach for Cloud Resource Provisioning (2016)
Journal Article
Ullah, A., Li, J., Hussain, A., & Yang, E. (2016). Towards a Biologically Inspired Soft Switching Approach for Cloud Resource Provisioning. Cognitive Computation, 8(5), 992-1005. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-016-9391-y

Cloud elasticity augments applications to dynamically adapt to changes in demand by acquiring or releasing computational resources on the fly. Recently, we developed a framework for cloud elasticity utilizing multiple feedback controllers simultaneou... Read More about Towards a Biologically Inspired Soft Switching Approach for Cloud Resource Provisioning.

Metamaterial-based wideband electromagnetic wave absorber (2016)
Journal Article
La Spada, L., & Vegni, L. (2016). Metamaterial-based wideband electromagnetic wave absorber. Optics express, 24(6), 5763. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.24.005763

In this paper, an analytical and numerical study of a new type of electromagnetic absorber, operating in the infrared and optical regime, is proposed. Absorption is obtained by exploiting Epsilon-Near-Zero materials. The structure electromagnetic pro... Read More about Metamaterial-based wideband electromagnetic wave absorber.

How to run successful e-internships: a case for organizational learning (2016)
Journal Article
Jeske, D., & Axtell, C. M. (2016). How to run successful e-internships: a case for organizational learning. Development and Learning in Organizations, 30(2), 18-21. https://doi.org/10.1108/dlo-09-2015-0073

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline unique learning experience that virtual/e-internships can offer small and medium-sized enterprises and start-up organizations.
Design/methodology/approach – We interviewed 18 experts on e-internships... Read More about How to run successful e-internships: a case for organizational learning.

Nitrogen accumulation and partitioning in a High Arctic tundra ecosystem from extreme atmospheric N deposition events (2016)
Journal Article
Choudhary, S., Blaud, A., Osborn, A. M., Press, M. C., & Phoenix, G. K. (2016). Nitrogen accumulation and partitioning in a High Arctic tundra ecosystem from extreme atmospheric N deposition events. Science of the Total Environment, 554-555, 303-310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.02.155

Arctic ecosystems are threatened by pollution from recently detected extreme atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition events in which up to 90% of the annual N deposition can occur in just a few days. We undertook the first assessment of the fate of N fro... Read More about Nitrogen accumulation and partitioning in a High Arctic tundra ecosystem from extreme atmospheric N deposition events.

Engaging with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence: Practical Techniques for Early Intervention, Kate Iwi and Chris Newman (2016)
Journal Article
Soliman, F. (2016). Engaging with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence: Practical Techniques for Early Intervention, Kate Iwi and Chris Newman. British Journal of Social Work, 46(2), 571-572. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcw011

While social workers receive comprehensive training on how to support survivors and their children in the presence of intra-familial violence, they are unlikely to feel adequately trained and/or confident in working directly with the perpetrators of... Read More about Engaging with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence: Practical Techniques for Early Intervention, Kate Iwi and Chris Newman.

'Chain Reaction' Torness Nuclear Power Station (2016)
Exhibition / Performance
Innes, M. 'Chain Reaction' Torness Nuclear Power Station. Performed at Torness, East Lothian. 4 March 2016 - 13 March 2016

Temporary projection art installation onto the facade of the nuclear power station. Commissioned as part of the Dunbar Science Festival.

Child Welfare Hearing Reports (2016)
Journal Article
Whitecross, R. (2016). Child Welfare Hearing Reports. SCOLAG : Scottish Legal Action Group bulletin,

Communities of practice in Life Sciences and the need for brokering. (2016)
Journal Article
Tierney, A. (2016). Communities of practice in Life Sciences and the need for brokering. F1000Research, 5, 280. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.7695.1

Etienne Wenger’s work on communities of practice is influential in teaching and learning in higher education. A core work of many postgraduate certificate in teaching and learning (PGCert) courses for new lecturers, it is studied, in the main, as a m... Read More about Communities of practice in Life Sciences and the need for brokering..

Rationale, design and methodology of a trial evaluating three strategies designed to improve sedation quality in intensive care units (DESIST study) (2016)
Journal Article
Weir, C. J., Kydonaki, K., Walsh, T. S., Kydonaki, C. (., Antonelli, J., Stephen, J., Lee, R. J., Everingham, K., Hanley, J., Uutelo, K., Peltola, P., & Weir, C. (2016). Rationale, design and methodology of a trial evaluating three strategies designed to improve sedation quality in intensive care units (DESIST study). BMJ Open, 6(3), Article e010148. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010148

Objectives To describe the rationale, design and methodology for a trial of three novel interventions developed to improve sedation-analgesia quality in adult intensive care units (ICUs).

Participants and Setting 8 clusters, each a Scottish ICU. A... Read More about Rationale, design and methodology of a trial evaluating three strategies designed to improve sedation quality in intensive care units (DESIST study).