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Differences in dietary specialization, habitat use and susceptibility to human disturbance influence feeding rates and resource partitioning between two migratory Numenius curlew species (2020)
Journal Article
Li, D., Zhang, J., Liu, Y., Lloyd, H., Pagani-Núñez, E., & Zhang, Z. (2020). Differences in dietary specialization, habitat use and susceptibility to human disturbance influence feeding rates and resource partitioning between two migratory Numenius curlew species. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 245, Article 106990. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2020.106990

Migratory shorebirds select stopover sites to fuel their migration across heterogeneous coastal landscapes with abundant prey resources. Quantifying the degree of dietary specialization between closely-related species and how they partition resources... Read More about Differences in dietary specialization, habitat use and susceptibility to human disturbance influence feeding rates and resource partitioning between two migratory Numenius curlew species.

Experimental Analysis of Gravity and Buoyancy Powered Energy Generation Storage Systems (2020)
Book Chapter
Kashem, S. B. A., Ngambi, D. T., Ahmed, J., Qidwai, U., & Suresh, P. (2020). Experimental Analysis of Gravity and Buoyancy Powered Energy Generation Storage Systems. In P. Suresh, U. Saravanakumar, & M. S. H. Al Salameh (Eds.), Advances in Smart System Technologies: Select Proceedings of ICFSST 2019 (813-826). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5029-4_70

The concept of harnessing energy from buoyancy as well as the ability to have underwater energy storage is an area of research that, compared to other renewable energy generation techniques, is relatively unexplored. This study presents an experiment... Read More about Experimental Analysis of Gravity and Buoyancy Powered Energy Generation Storage Systems.

Autonomous Vehicle Sunshade Using Aluminum Panels (2020)
Book Chapter
Kashem, S. B. A., Shahid, F., Qidwai, U., Suresh, P., Ahmed, J., & Saravanakumar, U. (2020). Autonomous Vehicle Sunshade Using Aluminum Panels. In P. Suresh, U. Saravanakumar, & M. S. H. Al Salameh (Eds.), Advances in Smart System Technologies: Select Proceedings of ICFSST 2019 (679-688). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5029-4_56

The heat build-up inside of a vehicle cabin due to the direct composure of thermal energy when parked outside during the day can be a huge dilemma, the intensity of the problem can be decreased by covering the windows of the automobile, but drivers a... Read More about Autonomous Vehicle Sunshade Using Aluminum Panels.

Influence of appendicular skeletal muscle mass on resting metabolic equivalents in patients with cardiovascular disease: Implications for exercise training and prescription (2020)
Journal Article
Nichols, S., O'Doherty, A., Carroll, S., & Ingle, L. (2020). Influence of appendicular skeletal muscle mass on resting metabolic equivalents in patients with cardiovascular disease: Implications for exercise training and prescription. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 27(9), 1001–1003. https://doi.org/10.1177/2047487319856432

The metabolic equivalent (MET) is a widely used physiological concept for quantifying levels of habitual physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) by conveying oxygen consumption requirements of physical activities as multiples of resting... Read More about Influence of appendicular skeletal muscle mass on resting metabolic equivalents in patients with cardiovascular disease: Implications for exercise training and prescription.

Analysis of Safety Benefits and Security Concerns from the Use of Autonomous Vehicles: A Grouped Random Parameters Bivariate Probit Approach with Heterogeneity in Means (2020)
Journal Article
Ahmed, S. S., Pantangi, S. S., Eker, U., Fountas, G., Still, S. E., & Anastasopoulos, P. C. (2020). Analysis of Safety Benefits and Security Concerns from the Use of Autonomous Vehicles: A Grouped Random Parameters Bivariate Probit Approach with Heterogeneity in Means. Analytic Methods in Accident Research, 28, Article 100134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amar.2020.100134

This paper investigates public perceptions towards potential safety benefits, and safety- and security-related concerns from the future use of autonomous vehicles by utilizing data collected from an online survey. The survey includes responses from... Read More about Analysis of Safety Benefits and Security Concerns from the Use of Autonomous Vehicles: A Grouped Random Parameters Bivariate Probit Approach with Heterogeneity in Means.

The effects of customer involvement on perceived service performance and word-of-mouth: The mediating role of service co-creation (2020)
Journal Article
Cheung, M., & To, W. M. (2021). The effects of customer involvement on perceived service performance and word-of-mouth: The mediating role of service co-creation. Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, 33(4), 1014-1032. https://doi.org/10.1108/APJML-04-2020-0221

Purpose
This study aims to use the framework of customer dominant logic to explore the mediating role of service co-creation on the relationships between customer involvement and perceived service performance and between customer involvement and wor... Read More about The effects of customer involvement on perceived service performance and word-of-mouth: The mediating role of service co-creation.

‘Stick them to the cross’: Anti-trafficking apps and the production of ignorance (2020)
Journal Article
Mendel, J., & Sharapov, K. (2022). ‘Stick them to the cross’: Anti-trafficking apps and the production of ignorance. Journal of Human Trafficking, 8(3), 233-249. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322705.2020.1801284

There is a long history of ignorance production around trafficking in human beings. A proliferation of anti-trafficking apps plays an important role in the reinforcement of this ignorance. Anti-trafficking apps work in different ways to other (mis)in... Read More about ‘Stick them to the cross’: Anti-trafficking apps and the production of ignorance.

Making the shift to sustainable transport in Scotland (2020)
Journal Article
Davis, A., & Whyte, B. (2022). Making the shift to sustainable transport in Scotland. Cities and Health, 6(2), 267-274. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2020.1812332

Transport sector decarbonisation is a Scottish Government policy aim. Recent legislation and funding announcements are beginning a shift away from support for habitual car use. Sustainable transport is augmented by co-benefits of active travel itself... Read More about Making the shift to sustainable transport in Scotland.

Invoking Deaf Heritage: A case for the future-making capacity of critical design (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K., & Discepoli, M. (2020, August). Invoking Deaf Heritage: A case for the future-making capacity of critical design. Paper presented at Association of Critical Heritage Studies 2020, Online

Design is inseparable from heritage in its capacity to invoke the material presence of the past, but as this pa- per argues, it is critical design’s future-making capacity that offers critical heritage a much-needed speculative representational frame... Read More about Invoking Deaf Heritage: A case for the future-making capacity of critical design.

Antagonism as Method: Critical Heritage Meets Critical Design (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K., & Discepoli, M. (2020, August). Antagonism as Method: Critical Heritage Meets Critical Design. Paper presented at Association of Critical Heritage Studies 2020, Online

This paper reflects upon the critical intent of an inter-lingual and inter-modal heritage research project that brought together Scotland’s heritage professionals and Deaf activists. We describe how the collaborative methods of critical design facili... Read More about Antagonism as Method: Critical Heritage Meets Critical Design.

Block-Sparse Coding-Based Machine Learning Approach for Dependable Device-Free Localization in IoT Environment (2020)
Journal Article
Zhao, L., Huang, H., Su, C., Ding, S., Huang, H., Tan, Z., & Li, Z. (2021). Block-Sparse Coding-Based Machine Learning Approach for Dependable Device-Free Localization in IoT Environment. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 8(5), 3211-3223. https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2020.3019732

Device-free localization (DFL) locates targets without equipping with wireless devices or tag under the Internet-of-Things (IoT) architectures. As an emerging technology, DFL has spawned extensive applications in IoT environment, such as intrusion de... Read More about Block-Sparse Coding-Based Machine Learning Approach for Dependable Device-Free Localization in IoT Environment.

Strengthening the Principle of Non-Refoulement (2020)
Journal Article
Moran, C. F. (2021). Strengthening the Principle of Non-Refoulement. International Journal of Human Rights, 25(6), 1032-1052. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2020.1811690

This work examines the origins of the principle of non-refoulement and how it has evolved during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Non-refoulement, or the right not to be repelled or returned, was agreed upon by States as a narrow protection... Read More about Strengthening the Principle of Non-Refoulement.

Digi-Mapping: Unpacking meaning of place through Creative Technology (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Grandison, T., Flint, T., Jamieson, K., & Muir, L. (2020, August). Digi-Mapping: Unpacking meaning of place through Creative Technology. Paper presented at ACHS 2020 FUTURES – Association of Critical Heritage Studies 5th Biennial Conference, University College London, UK

Personal meaning attached to space through digital media gives rise to contested narratives and reveals a polyvocality of place (Farman, 2018). Attributing meaning or ensoulment (Blevis & Stolterman 2007) plays a key role in understanding the complex... Read More about Digi-Mapping: Unpacking meaning of place through Creative Technology.

Collision avoidance head-up display: design considerations for emergency services' vehicles (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bram-Larbi, K., Charissis, V., Harrison, D., Khan, M. S., Lagoo, R., & Drikakis, D. (2020, January). Collision avoidance head-up display: design considerations for emergency services' vehicles. Presented at 2020 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), Las Vegas, NV, USA

Emergency Services' (ES) vehicles primary objective is to attend an accident or other incident scenes in a fast, safe and efficient manner. Yet this task is becoming increasingly difficult due to the increasing population and the plethora of emergenc... Read More about Collision avoidance head-up display: design considerations for emergency services' vehicles.

A Comparative Performance Evaluation of A load-balancing Algorithm using Contiki: “RPL vs QU-RPL” (2020)
Journal Article
Stoyanov, S., Ghaleb, B., & Ghaleb, S. (2020). A Comparative Performance Evaluation of A load-balancing Algorithm using Contiki: “RPL vs QU-RPL”. International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering, 9(4), 6834-6839. https://doi.org/10.30534/ijatcse/2020/384942020

The RPL (Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks) has emerged within constrained networks as the de-facto IPv6 routing standard, which entangles many concepts that make it a complex, albeit a rather flexible protocol. However, load balancin... Read More about A Comparative Performance Evaluation of A load-balancing Algorithm using Contiki: “RPL vs QU-RPL”.

The development and psychometric testing of three instruments that measure person‐centred caring as three concepts – Personalization, participation and responsiveness (2020)
Journal Article
Strachan, H., Williamson, L., Elders, A., Sutherland, B., Hibberd, C., & Williams, B. (2020). The development and psychometric testing of three instruments that measure person‐centred caring as three concepts – Personalization, participation and responsiveness. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 76(11), 3190-3203. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14484

Aim
To develop and test the psychometric properties of three instruments that measure Person‐centred Caring: as Personalization, Participation and Responsiveness.

Design
A three‐phase mixed methods design used two frameworks: content validity de... Read More about The development and psychometric testing of three instruments that measure person‐centred caring as three concepts – Personalization, participation and responsiveness.

Lp-improving for discrete spherical averages (2020)
Journal Article
Hughes, K. (2020). Lp-improving for discrete spherical averages. Annales Henri Lebesgue, 3, 959-980. https://doi.org/10.5802/ahl.50

We initiate the theory of -improving inequalities for arithmetic averages over hypersurfaces and their maximal functions. In particular, we prove -improving estimates for the discrete spherical averages and some of their generalizations. As an applic... Read More about Lp-improving for discrete spherical averages.

Assessment of maximum power point trackers performance using direct and indirect control methods (2020)
Journal Article
Kermadi, M., Mekhilef, S., Salam, Z., Ahmed, J., & Berkouk, E. M. (2020). Assessment of maximum power point trackers performance using direct and indirect control methods. International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, 30(10), Article e12565. https://doi.org/10.1002/2050-7038.12565

The direct and indirect control methods are commonly used for maximum power point tracker (MPPT) of photovoltaic (PV) systems. Due to the absence of the literature that assess their performance in a comprehensive way, this work attempts to analyze th... Read More about Assessment of maximum power point trackers performance using direct and indirect control methods.

Sound Design (2020)
Book
McGregor, I. (2020). Sound Design. (3rd)

This book explores the underlying principles of sound design for linear and interactive media, and specifically how they apply to theatre, radio and film. The focus of the text is about how to design effective sound so that audiences' experiences are... Read More about Sound Design.