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Cold sintered, temperature-stable CaSnSiO5-K2MoO4 composite microwave ceramics and its prototype microstrip patch antenna (2021)
Journal Article
Ji, Y., Song, K., Zhang, S., Lu, Z., Wang, G., Li, L., Zhou, D., Wang, D., & Reaney, I. M. (2021). Cold sintered, temperature-stable CaSnSiO5-K2MoO4 composite microwave ceramics and its prototype microstrip patch antenna. Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 41(1), 424-429. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2020.08.053

Dense (1-x)wt%CaSnSiO5-xwt%K2MoO4 (CSSO-KMO) composite ceramics were fabricated by the cold sintering process at 180 °C under 400 MPa for 60 min. X-ray diffraction, Energy dispersive X-ray and Raman spectroscopy confirmed that CSSO and KMO coexisted... Read More about Cold sintered, temperature-stable CaSnSiO5-K2MoO4 composite microwave ceramics and its prototype microstrip patch antenna.

Public Policy and Projects: Impact of Intranational Jurisdictional Concurrency on Construction Disputes (2021)
Journal Article
Ojiako, G., Chipulu, M., Marshall, A., & Bashir, H. (2021). Public Policy and Projects: Impact of Intranational Jurisdictional Concurrency on Construction Disputes. Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction, 13(2), https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29LA.1943-+4170.0000456

Without conclusive settlement of disputes, uses of public sector infrastructure projects as public policy instruments might risk impeachment. With this in mind, we set out in this study to explore how public policy impacts the finality of dispute res... Read More about Public Policy and Projects: Impact of Intranational Jurisdictional Concurrency on Construction Disputes.

Transport Policy Review: Where does Ireland stand on Climate Change for Transport and Logistics Sectors? (2021)
Report
Plant, E., & Zhang, X. (2021). Transport Policy Review: Where does Ireland stand on Climate Change for Transport and Logistics Sectors?. Dublin: CILT Ireland

In response to the increasing climate disruption and global effort towards low-carbon transition, the Irish Government has set out to pursue a climate-resilient economy and become carbon neutral by 2050. This was set out in the Climate Action Bill... Read More about Transport Policy Review: Where does Ireland stand on Climate Change for Transport and Logistics Sectors?.

Career First: A new way of thinking about welfare-to-work programmes (2021)
Journal Article
Robertson, P., Fuertes, V., & McQuaid, R. (2021). Career First: A new way of thinking about welfare-to-work programmes. Career Matters, 9(1), 28-29

In the UK, career guidance services are deeply involved with supporting students and young people. Their involvement with unemployed adults and jobseekers has been patchier and more limited in scope. It has often been Job Centres or agencies with DWP... Read More about Career First: A new way of thinking about welfare-to-work programmes.

The value of mass-digitised cultural heritage content in creative contexts (2021)
Journal Article
Coleman, S., Terras, M., Thornton, P., Smyth, M., Schafer, B., Drost, S., …Speed, C. (2021). The value of mass-digitised cultural heritage content in creative contexts. Big Data and Society, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211006165

How can digitised assets of Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums be reused to unlock new value? What are the implications of viewing large-scale cultural heritage data as an economic resource, to build new products and services upon? Drawing up... Read More about The value of mass-digitised cultural heritage content in creative contexts.

The Political Role of Philippine Children and Young People as Represented in Youth Fiction (2021)
Journal Article
Faire, R. (2021). The Political Role of Philippine Children and Young People as Represented in Youth Fiction. International Research in Children's Literature, 14(1), 39-51. https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2021.0376

Lualhati Bautista's Dekada '70 (1983) is a mainstay of Philippine high school reading. It tells the story of Amanda Bartolome and her five sons during the titular decade as they live under the shadow of Martial Law. And while youth activism is at the... Read More about The Political Role of Philippine Children and Young People as Represented in Youth Fiction.

COVID 19 - Mass Gathering Events and Attendee Safety Protocol for Turbulent times (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hutton, A., Robertson, M., & Ranse, J. (2021, February). COVID 19 - Mass Gathering Events and Attendee Safety Protocol for Turbulent times. Presented at CAUTHE 2021 Conference Online - Transformations in uncertain times: future perfect in tourism, hospitality and events, Online

This paper forwards a psychosocial perspective of event safety management. In a time of social and economic upheaval - exasperated by the Covid-19 pandemic, safety has become increasingly significant in the vocabulary of researchers, managers, fundin... Read More about COVID 19 - Mass Gathering Events and Attendee Safety Protocol for Turbulent times.

Sampled-data integral control of multivariable linear infinite-dimensional systems with input nonlinearities (2021)
Journal Article
Gilmore, M. E., Guiver, C., & Logemann, H. (2022). Sampled-data integral control of multivariable linear infinite-dimensional systems with input nonlinearities. Mathematical Control and Related Fields, 12(1), 17-47. https://doi.org/10.3934/mcrf.2021001

A low-gain integral controller with anti-windup component is presented for exponentially stable, linear, discrete-time, infinite-dimensional control systems subject to input nonlinearities and external disturbances. We derive a disturbance-to-state... Read More about Sampled-data integral control of multivariable linear infinite-dimensional systems with input nonlinearities.

Ground Control and Cloud Booths: Using Dante to break geographical barriers to music production (2021)
Book Chapter
Ferguson, P., & Hook, D. (2021). Ground Control and Cloud Booths: Using Dante to break geographical barriers to music production. In R. Hepworth-Sawyer, R. Toulson, & J. Paterson (Eds.), Innovation in Music: Future Opportunities (89-105). Routledge

In January 2013 the authors became early adopters of Focusrite RedNet. The RedNet Dante-based audio-over-IP interfaces gave their studios and performance areas very flexible connectivity and this was presented at the first Innovation in Music confere... Read More about Ground Control and Cloud Booths: Using Dante to break geographical barriers to music production.

The mediation of bond strain by vacancies and displacive disorder in A-site-deficient perovskites (2021)
Journal Article
Levin, I., Krayzman, V., Playford, H., Woicik, J., Maier, R., Lu, Z., Bruma, A., Eremenko, M., & Tucker, M. (2021). The mediation of bond strain by vacancies and displacive disorder in A-site-deficient perovskites. Acta materialia, 207, Article 116678. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2021.116678

Local distortions in perovskite-like A-site-deficient (Sr,La)TiO3 solid solutions have been determined by refining large-scale atomic configurations against neutron/X-ray total-scattering and extended-X-ray-absorption-fine-structure data. Structural... Read More about The mediation of bond strain by vacancies and displacive disorder in A-site-deficient perovskites.

Relationship between the talent development environment and motivation, commitment, and confidence (2021)
Journal Article
Andronikos, G., Souglis, A., & Martindale, R. J. J. (2021). Relationship between the talent development environment and motivation, commitment, and confidence. Journal of Physical Education and Sport, 21(1), 208-217. https://doi.org/10.7752/jpes.2021.01028

Introduction: Examining the influence of the talent development environment on athletes is crucial for understanding sport participation and the identifying the characteristics of effective talent development.Purpose:The purpose of the study was to e... Read More about Relationship between the talent development environment and motivation, commitment, and confidence.

Determinants of Equity Ownership Stake in Foreign Entry Decisions: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda (2021)
Journal Article
Chhabra, A., Popli, M., & Li, Y. (2021). Determinants of Equity Ownership Stake in Foreign Entry Decisions: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda. International Journal of Management Reviews, 23(2), 244-276. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12248

In international business (IB), the level of equity ownership adopted by a firm is an important decision. In this study, we review and synthesize the findings of 105 empirical studies published in prominent IB and management journals on the determina... Read More about Determinants of Equity Ownership Stake in Foreign Entry Decisions: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda.

Investigating New Types of Engagement, Response And Contact Technology in Policing (2021)
Other
Aston, E. (2021). Investigating New Types of Engagement, Response And Contact Technology in Policing. [Blog post]

A major new research project will examine how police-public engagement is being changed by the use of new technologies. Public URL: https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/enuapplyscience/2021/01/29/investigating-new-types-of-engagement-response%e2%80%afand%e2... Read More about Investigating New Types of Engagement, Response And Contact Technology in Policing.

A guide to modeling the geotechnical behavior of soils using the discrete element method (2021)
Book Chapter
Barreto Gonzalez, D., & Leak, J. (2021). A guide to modeling the geotechnical behavior of soils using the discrete element method. In P. Samui, S. Kumari, V. Makarov, & P. Kurup (Eds.), Modeling in geotechnical engineering (79-100). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821205-9.00016-2

This article describes the discrete element method (DEM) for the modeling of the geotechnical behavior of soils. Emphasis is made on a description of the algorithms and capabilities of the method rather than on the implementation details and equation... Read More about A guide to modeling the geotechnical behavior of soils using the discrete element method.

A Novel Heuristic Data Routing for Urban Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (2021)
Journal Article
Hawbani, A., Wang, X., Al-Dubai, A., Zhao, L., Busaileh, . O., Liu, P., & Al-qaness, M. (2021). A Novel Heuristic Data Routing for Urban Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 8(11), 8976-8989. https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2021.3055504

This work is devoted to solving the problem of multi-criteria multi-hop routing in vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs), aiming at three goals, increasing the end-to-end delivery ratio, reducing the end-to-end latency, and minimizing the network overhe... Read More about A Novel Heuristic Data Routing for Urban Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks.

“He’s Just a Wee Laddie”: The Relative Age Effect in Male Scottish Soccer (2021)
Journal Article
Dugdale, J. H., McRobert, A. P., & Unnithan, V. B. (2021). “He’s Just a Wee Laddie”: The Relative Age Effect in Male Scottish Soccer. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 633469. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.633469

Significant structural, developmental, and financial constraints exist in Scottish soccer that may predicate a different approach to talent identification and development. To our knowledge, no published reports exist evaluating the prevalence of the... Read More about “He’s Just a Wee Laddie”: The Relative Age Effect in Male Scottish Soccer.

Events As Platforms, Networks, and Communities (2021)
Journal Article
Richards, G., & Jarman, D. (2021). Events As Platforms, Networks, and Communities. Event Management, 25(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.3727/152599520x15894679115420

This introduction to the special issue on events as platforms, networks, and communities reviews recent research on these subjects. It outlines the previous work of the ATLAS Events Group in developing a "network approach to events," as well as conce... Read More about Events As Platforms, Networks, and Communities.

Via-less Electromagnetic Band-Gap-Enabled Antenna based on Textile Material for Wearable Applications (2021)
Journal Article
Elamin, N., Zubair, . M., Ashyap, A. I., Dahlan, S. H., Abidin, Z., See, C. H., Fadhali, A., Mukred, J. A. A., Salehv, . G., & Esmail, . B. F. (2021). Via-less Electromagnetic Band-Gap-Enabled Antenna based on Textile Material for Wearable Applications. PLOS ONE, 16(1), Article e0246057. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246057

A compact fabric antenna structure integrated with a miniature electromagnetic band-gap structures (EBGs) covering the desired frequency spectrum between 2.36 GHz and 2.40 GHz of the Medical Wireless Body Networks (MBANs), is introduced. To satisfy t... Read More about Via-less Electromagnetic Band-Gap-Enabled Antenna based on Textile Material for Wearable Applications.

Natural Jute Fibre‐Based Supercapacitors and Sensors for Eco‐Friendly Energy Autonomous Systems (2021)
Journal Article
Manjakkal, L., Franco, F. F., Pullanchiyodan, A., González‐Jiménez, M., & Dahiya, R. (2021). Natural Jute Fibre‐Based Supercapacitors and Sensors for Eco‐Friendly Energy Autonomous Systems. Advanced Sustainable Systems, 5(3), Article 2000286. https://doi.org/10.1002/adsu.202000286

Environmentally friendly energy devices and systems are of increasing interest for the circular economy and sustainable information and communications technology. To this end, an energy-autonomous system comprised of natural jute fiber-based supercap... Read More about Natural Jute Fibre‐Based Supercapacitors and Sensors for Eco‐Friendly Energy Autonomous Systems.