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Community Council Liaison Officer questionnaire data for IL-DEM project November - December 2016 (2017)
Data
Hall, H., Cruickshank, P., & Ryan, B. (2017). Community Council Liaison Officer questionnaire data for IL-DEM project November - December 2016. [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.17869/ENU.2017.682243

Results of questionnaire emailed to all Community Council Liaison Officers (1) in Scotland. Questions were around their Community Councils' use of information skills, for a project around information literacy in community-level democracy.

(1) Com... Read More about Community Council Liaison Officer questionnaire data for IL-DEM project November - December 2016.

Community Councillors survey data for IL-DEM project November -December 2016 (2017)
Data
Hall, H., Cruickshank, P., & Ryan, B. (2017). Community Councillors survey data for IL-DEM project November -December 2016. [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.17869/ENU.2017.682227

Results of online survey of Community Councillors around Scotland. Most questions were around their use of information skills, for a project around information literacy in community-level democracy, but some questions were about their general roles a... Read More about Community Councillors survey data for IL-DEM project November -December 2016.

A clinical decision support tool to assist with the interpretation of the 12-lead electrocardiogram (2017)
Journal Article
Breen, C., Bond, R., & Finlay, D. (2019). A clinical decision support tool to assist with the interpretation of the 12-lead electrocardiogram. Health Informatics Journal, 25(1), 51-61. https://doi.org/10.1177/1460458216683534

This article reports the design and testing of a novel interactive method, abbreviated to ANALYSE (systemAtic aNALYsiS of Electrocardiography) to assist interpretation of 12-lead electrocardiogram. 15 participants interpreted a total of 150 12-lead e... Read More about A clinical decision support tool to assist with the interpretation of the 12-lead electrocardiogram.

Controlling venetian blinds based on parametric design; via implementing Grasshopper’s plugins: A case study of an office building in Cairo (2017)
Journal Article
Eltaweel, A., & Su, Y. (2017). Controlling venetian blinds based on parametric design; via implementing Grasshopper’s plugins: A case study of an office building in Cairo. Energy and Buildings, 139, 31-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2016.12.075

Venetian blinds are common type of shading devices and are increasingly operated automatically to overcome the limitations of using manual operation. Automated blinds need to be controlled to maximize benefits of daylight on the aspects of redirectin... Read More about Controlling venetian blinds based on parametric design; via implementing Grasshopper’s plugins: A case study of an office building in Cairo.

Autism and Visual Impairment: a Review of the Literature (2017)
Journal Article
Butchart, M., Long, J. J., Brown, M., McMillan, A., Bain, J., & Karatzias, T. (2017). Autism and Visual Impairment: a Review of the Literature. Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 4(2), 118-131. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40489-016-0101-1

Purpose
This review presents the evidence on the prevalence of visual impairments in children and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and the similar behavioural traits associated with both visual impairment and autism.

Method
A systemat... Read More about Autism and Visual Impairment: a Review of the Literature.

Comparative study on equine and ovine gluteus medius muscle activity pattern during treadmill trot (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zsoldos, R., Voegele, A., Valentin, S., Weber, A., & Licka, T. (2017, January). Comparative study on equine and ovine gluteus medius muscle activity pattern during treadmill trot. Poster presented at Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology 2017 (SICB Annual Meeting 2017), New Orleans, United States

From a dynamic perspective, terrestrial mammals of very different sizes move in a similar way as they have very similar Froude numbers, even though the dynamic properties of the tissues such as muscle do not change with the different sizes. In the pr... Read More about Comparative study on equine and ovine gluteus medius muscle activity pattern during treadmill trot.

Use of ubiquitous real-time passenger information. (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Islam, F., Fonzone, A., MacIver, A., & Dickinson, K. (2017, January). Use of ubiquitous real-time passenger information. Paper presented at 49th Annual UTSG Conference

Paradox of the institution: findings from a hospital labour ward ethnography (2017)
Journal Article
Newnham, E. C., McKellar, L. V., & Pincombe, J. I. (2017). Paradox of the institution: findings from a hospital labour ward ethnography. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 17(1), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-016-1193-4

Background
Interest in the influence of culture on birth practices is on the rise, and with it comes a sense of urgency to implement practices that aid the normalisation and humanisation of birth. This groundswell is occurring despite a broader cult... Read More about Paradox of the institution: findings from a hospital labour ward ethnography.

Electrical and optical properties of aluminium doped zinc oxide transparent conducting oxide films prepared by dip coating technique (2017)
Journal Article
Manjakkal, L., Packia Selvam, I., Potty, S., & Shinde, R. (2017). Electrical and optical properties of aluminium doped zinc oxide transparent conducting oxide films prepared by dip coating technique. Microelectronics International, 34(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1108/mi-06-2015-0058

Purpose
Aluminium-doped zinc oxide thin films exhibit interesting optoelectronic properties, which make them suitable for fabrication of photovoltaic cell, flat panel display electrode, etc. It has been shown that aluminium dopant concentration and... Read More about Electrical and optical properties of aluminium doped zinc oxide transparent conducting oxide films prepared by dip coating technique.

The analysis and presentation of patents to support engineering design (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Corney, J., Maclachlan, R., & Wodehouse, A. (2016, June). The analysis and presentation of patents to support engineering design. Presented at 7th International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition, Evanston (Chicago), United States

This paper explores the role of patents in engineering design, and how the extraction and presentation of patent data could be improved for designers. We propose the use of crowdsourcing as a means to post tasks online for a crowd of people to partic... Read More about The analysis and presentation of patents to support engineering design.

Implementation of the concept of “politically exposed persons (PEPs)” in India (2017)
Journal Article
Chhina, R. K. (2017). Implementation of the concept of “politically exposed persons (PEPs)” in India. Journal of Money Laundering Control, 20(1), 89-98. https://doi.org/10.1108/jmlc-01-2016-0001

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the concept of “politically exposed persons (PEPs)” as provided under the Indian anti-money laundering (AML) regime, particularly focussing on the Reserve Bank of India guidelines to its sup... Read More about Implementation of the concept of “politically exposed persons (PEPs)” in India.

Carbon management in the logistics and transportation sector: an overview and new research directions (2017)
Journal Article
Herold, D. M., & Lee, K. (2017). Carbon management in the logistics and transportation sector: an overview and new research directions. Carbon Management, 8(1), 79-97. https://doi.org/10.1080/17583004.2017.1283923

While many studies have addressed the issue of environmental sustainability within the supply chain as a whole, so far no attempt has been made to specifically investigate the current status of carbon management issues in the logistics and freight tr... Read More about Carbon management in the logistics and transportation sector: an overview and new research directions.

The Future of BIM Technologies in Africa: Prospects and Challenges (2017)
Book Chapter
Ogwueleka, A. C., & Ikediashi, D. I. (2017). The Future of BIM Technologies in Africa: Prospects and Challenges. In P. Wu, H. Li, & X. Wang (Eds.), Integrated Building Information Modelling (307-314). Bentham Science Publishers

The construction industry is undergoing a radical change as project owners are demanding for more project visibility at lower cost and better risk management; this has increased the use of new technologies in project implementations. The concept of i... Read More about The Future of BIM Technologies in Africa: Prospects and Challenges.

Mathematical Model for Calibration of Potential Detection of Nonlinear Responses in Biological Media Exposed to RF Energy (2017)
Journal Article
See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Mirza, A. F., McEwan, N. J., Excell, P. S., & Balzano, Q. (2017). Mathematical Model for Calibration of Potential Detection of Nonlinear Responses in Biological Media Exposed to RF Energy. The Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal, 32(1), 1-7

An efficient way to test for potential unsymmetrical nonlinear responses in biological tissue samples exposed to a microwave signal is to observe the second harmonic in a cavity resonant at the two frequencies, with collocated antinodes. Such a respo... Read More about Mathematical Model for Calibration of Potential Detection of Nonlinear Responses in Biological Media Exposed to RF Energy.

Get on Board Networking Event (2017)
Exhibition / Performance
Weaver, M. Get on Board Networking Event. Performed at Birmingham. 2 January 2017 - 25 May 2017

No abstract available.

Nasal pseudotumour in a haemophilic: A case report (2017)
Journal Article
Balakrishna, S., Pujary, K., Kurien, A., D’Souza, A., & Varghese, R. (2017). Nasal pseudotumour in a haemophilic: A case report. Manipal Journal of Nursing and Health Sciences, 3(1), 53-57

Haemophilia is an X linked inherited coagulation disorder. A haemophilic pseudotumour is one of the rarer complications of haemophilia, which results from repetitive bleeding. These have become scarcer over the years with better treatment facilities... Read More about Nasal pseudotumour in a haemophilic: A case report.

The violent, post-truth 2017 predicted in The Running Man? We’re living in it (2017)
Newspaper / Magazine
Bishop, D. (2017). The violent, post-truth 2017 predicted in The Running Man? We’re living in it. https://theconversation.com/the-violent-post-truth-2017-predicted-in-the-running-man-were-living-in-it-70726

Welcome to a world where fake news stories are used to manipulate public opinion. Dissent is no longer tolerated and all your communications are monitored; the economy is not functioning and reality TV is used to distract you from harsher realities.... Read More about The violent, post-truth 2017 predicted in The Running Man? We’re living in it.

An exploration of the sustainable and aesthetic possibilities of 3D printing onto textiles as an alternative to traditional surface decoration (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Burn, K., Vettese, S., & Shackleton, J. (2017). An exploration of the sustainable and aesthetic possibilities of 3D printing onto textiles as an alternative to traditional surface decoration. In Circular Transitions Proceedings (141-154)

Embellishment, in a fashion and textile context, can be considered an extraneous decorative process that has a significant detrimental impact on the environment. However, aesthetic and cultural theories, in addition to consumer appeal, show that it i... Read More about An exploration of the sustainable and aesthetic possibilities of 3D printing onto textiles as an alternative to traditional surface decoration.

Preliminary Investigation of the Effectiveness of High-Visibility Crosswalks on Pedestrian Safety Using Crash Surrogates (2017)
Journal Article
Sarwar, M. T., Fountas, G., Bentley, C., Anastasopoulos, P. C., Blatt, A., Pierowicz, J., Majka, K., & Limoges, R. (2017). Preliminary Investigation of the Effectiveness of High-Visibility Crosswalks on Pedestrian Safety Using Crash Surrogates. Transportation research record, 2659, 182-191. https://doi.org/10.3141/2659-20

This paper, with the use of data from the SHRP 2 naturalistic driving study, provides a preliminary evaluation of the effectiveness of high-visibility crosswalks (HVCs) in improving pedestrian safety at un-controlled locations. This evaluation was ac... Read More about Preliminary Investigation of the Effectiveness of High-Visibility Crosswalks on Pedestrian Safety Using Crash Surrogates.