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Reanalysis of some in situ compaction test results (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Imre, E., Lorincz, J., Trang, P., Casini, F., Guida, G., Fityus, S., Barreto, D., & Singh, V. (2019, September). Reanalysis of some in situ compaction test results. Presented at The XVII European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ECSMGE 2019), Reykjavik, Iceland

Brandl (1977) presents the grading curve results of an investigation of particle disintegration of natural sandy gravel and crushed stone bedding courses due to in situ compaction and the action of construction traffic in different civil engineering... Read More about Reanalysis of some in situ compaction test results.

A note on seismic induced liquefaction (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Imre, E., Lőrincz, J., Trang, P., Barreto, D., Goudarzy, M., Rahemi, N., Baille, W., Schanz, T., & Singh, V. (2019, September). A note on seismic induced liquefaction. Presented at The XVII European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Reykjavik, Iceland

Any particle size distribution can be characterized by two parameter pairs (derived from the statistical entropy formula of discrete distributions) more effectively than simple diameter values (i.e., d50). The first entropy parameter is a conti... Read More about A note on seismic induced liquefaction.

Use of Compaction Grouting as Ground Improvement Technique in Compressible Solid Waste Landfill (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tsitsas, G., Dimitriadi, V., Barreto, D., & Ciortan, R. (2019, September). Use of Compaction Grouting as Ground Improvement Technique in Compressible Solid Waste Landfill. Presented at The XVII European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Reykjavik, Iceland

Ground improvement methods are increasingly being used as means
to control settlements and improve the shear strength of foundation soils. The compaction grouting (CG) method is a ground improvement method that is used as means... Read More about Use of Compaction Grouting as Ground Improvement Technique in Compressible Solid Waste Landfill.

The Nature of Risk in the Privacy Calculus: a risk ontology (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Haynes, D. (2019, August). The Nature of Risk in the Privacy Calculus: a risk ontology. Paper presented at Centre for Social Informatics Research Seminar, Edinburgh Napier University

This project sets out to address the following research questions: • Is there a reliable typology for personal risk that can be used to analyse the privacy calculus that users engage in? • What is the nature of the interactions and risks that users e... Read More about The Nature of Risk in the Privacy Calculus: a risk ontology.

Trust and West African exporting SME networks (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Amoako, I. O., Omeihe, K. O., Gustafsson, V., & Omeihe, I. (2019, August). Trust and West African exporting SME networks. Paper presented at Centre for African Research on Enterprise and Economic Development 4th Annual Conference, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, United Kingdom

Purpose This paper makes a case for the examination of trust based on the notion that trust differs across contexts. This is important as a study of this nature provides a basis for uncovering new aspects of trust and SME networks. To date most of th... Read More about Trust and West African exporting SME networks.

Weird Sisters: Victorian women’s ghost stories and a new look at the weird tale (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2019, August). Weird Sisters: Victorian women’s ghost stories and a new look at the weird tale. Paper presented at Victorian Renewals: British Association of Victorian Studies Conference 2019, University of Dundee

In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, weird fiction looks like a masculine tradition. While there are numerous women among recent ‘New Weird’ writers, female authorship of early weird tales barely shows up next to the success of H. P.... Read More about Weird Sisters: Victorian women’s ghost stories and a new look at the weird tale.

On Lightweight Method for Intrusions Detection in the Internet of Things (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shakhov, V., Jan, S. U., Ahmed, S., & Koo, I. (2019, June). On Lightweight Method for Intrusions Detection in the Internet of Things. Presented at 2019 IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom), Sochi, Russia

Integration of the internet into the entities of the different domains of human society is emerging as a new paradigm called the Internet of Things. At the same time, the ubiquitous and wide-range systems make them prone to attacks. Security experts... Read More about On Lightweight Method for Intrusions Detection in the Internet of Things.

Design of an absorptive reflective crossed CPC PV/T system (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alamoudi, A., Muhammad-Sukki, F., Prabhu, R., & Sellami, N. (2019, March). Design of an absorptive reflective crossed CPC PV/T system. Presented at 15th International Conference on Concentrator Photovoltaic Systems (CPV-15), Fes, Morocco

Buildings make up 40% of the EU’s primary energy consumption and reducing this consumption through the use of building integrated concentrating photovoltaics (BICPV) is a potential solution to mitigate climate change. This study proposes an absorptiv... Read More about Design of an absorptive reflective crossed CPC PV/T system.

Saliency Tubes: Visual Explanations for Spatio-Temporal Convolutions (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stergiou, A., Kapidis, G., Kalliatakis, G., Chrysoulas, C., Veltkamp, R., & Poppe, R. (2019). Saliency Tubes: Visual Explanations for Spatio-Temporal Convolutions. . https://doi.org/10.1109/icip.2019.8803153

Deep learning approaches have been established as the main methodology for video classification and recognition. Recently, 3-dimensional convolutions have been used to achieve state-of-the-art performance in many challenging video datasets. Because o... Read More about Saliency Tubes: Visual Explanations for Spatio-Temporal Convolutions.

Light Field Synthesis Using Inexpensive Surveillance Camera Systems (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dumbgen, F., Schroers, C., & Mitchell, K. (2019). Light Field Synthesis Using Inexpensive Surveillance Camera Systems. . https://doi.org/10.1109/icip.2019.8804269

We present a light field synthesis technique that achieves accurate reconstruction given a low-cost, wide-baseline camera rig. Our system integrates optical flow with methods for rectification, disparity estimation, and feature extraction, which we t... Read More about Light Field Synthesis Using Inexpensive Surveillance Camera Systems.

Short Paper: Initial Recommendations for the Design of Privacy Management Tools for Smartphones (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Carelli, A., Sinclair, M., & Southee, D. (2019, September). Short Paper: Initial Recommendations for the Design of Privacy Management Tools for Smartphones. Presented at IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Paphos, Cyprus

The continuing rise in the popularity of smartphones has led to an accompanying rise in the exposure of users to privacy threats as in the case of unintended leakage of personal information from apps. To improve transparency and the ability of users... Read More about Short Paper: Initial Recommendations for the Design of Privacy Management Tools for Smartphones.

Exploring female surgeon identity constructions: A qualitative study with female surgeons, their colleagues and patients (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Offiah, G., Cable, S., Rees, C., & Schofield, S. (2019, August). Exploring female surgeon identity constructions: A qualitative study with female surgeons, their colleagues and patients. Paper presented at Association for Medical Education Annual Conference, Vienna, Austria

Background
The numbers of women represented in surgery at consultant level remain low compared to other specialities. While research has shown challenges and barriers for women in surgery, this current research explores the perceptions of female sur... Read More about Exploring female surgeon identity constructions: A qualitative study with female surgeons, their colleagues and patients.

An integrated precision farming application based on 5G, UAV and deep learning technologies (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Razaak, M., Kerdegari, H., Davies, E., Abozariba, R., Broadbent, M., Mason, K., Argyriou, V., & Remagnino, P. (2019, September). An integrated precision farming application based on 5G, UAV and deep learning technologies. Presented at CAIP: International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, Salerno, Italy

Wireless communication technology has made tremendous progress over the last two decades providing extensive coverage, high data-rate and low-latency. The current major upgrade, the fifth generation (5G) wireless technology promises substantial impro... Read More about An integrated precision farming application based on 5G, UAV and deep learning technologies.

Comparative Evaluation of the Effect of Pore Size and Temperature on Gas Transport in Nano-Structured Ceramic Membranes for Biogas Upgrading (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ogunlude, P., Abunumah, O., Orakwe, I., Shehu, H., Muhammad-Sukki, F., & Gobina, E. (2019, August). Comparative Evaluation of the Effect of Pore Size and Temperature on Gas Transport in Nano-Structured Ceramic Membranes for Biogas Upgrading. Paper presented at 4th International Conference on Energy, Environment and Economics (ICEEE2019), Edinburgh Conference Centre, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

As a result of rising economies and environmental constraints, the demand for clean and renewable sources of energy is fast increasing. Biogas is a renewable form of energy that fits all expectations in terms of delivery, cost, and greenhouse emissio... Read More about Comparative Evaluation of the Effect of Pore Size and Temperature on Gas Transport in Nano-Structured Ceramic Membranes for Biogas Upgrading.

Quantification of chemical changes taking place in spruce wood structure following long period thermal treatment (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Popescu, C., Ridley-Ellis, D., & Popescu, M. (2019, August). Quantification of chemical changes taking place in spruce wood structure following long period thermal treatment. Paper presented at 2DCOS-10, The 10th International Symposium on Two-dimensional Correlation Spectroscopy, Changchun, China

Wood is a natural composite polymer containing different amounts of cellulose, lignin and hemicelluloses and some other low molecular compounds (i.e. extractives). Due to its structure wood is susceptible to degradation in the surrounding environment... Read More about Quantification of chemical changes taking place in spruce wood structure following long period thermal treatment.

Printed Temperature Sensor based on Graphene Oxide/PEDOT:PSS (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Soni, M., Bhattacharjee, M., Manjakkal, L., & Dahiya, R. (2019, July). Printed Temperature Sensor based on Graphene Oxide/PEDOT:PSS. Presented at 2019 IEEE International Conference on Flexible and Printable Sensors and Systems (FLEPS), Glasgow, United Kingdom

Temperature is an important physical parameter which need to be monitored for various applications ranging from health monitoring to robotics [1] , [2]. In humans, accurate measurement of the variations in the skin temperature is utilized for investi... Read More about Printed Temperature Sensor based on Graphene Oxide/PEDOT:PSS.

Cloth Based Biocompatiable Temperature Sensor (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Manjakkal, L., Soni, M., Yogeswaran, N., & Dahiya, R. (2019). Cloth Based Biocompatiable Temperature Sensor. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Flexible and Printable Sensors and Systems (FLEPS). https://doi.org/10.1109/fleps.2019.8792319

Circular economy focussing on the reuse and recycling of materials is gaining significant interest these days as the concern for environment sustainability is increasing [1] - [3] . In this regard, printed electronics or green electronics is being pr... Read More about Cloth Based Biocompatiable Temperature Sensor.

Studying the variability of system setting effectiveness by data analytics and visualization (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Déjean, S., Mothe, J., & Ullah, M. Z. (2019, September). Studying the variability of system setting effectiveness by data analytics and visualization. Presented at Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction: 10th International Conference of the CLEF Association (CLEF 2019), Lugano, Switzerland

Search engines differ from their modules and parameters; defining the optimal system setting is challenging the more because of the complexity of a retrieval stream. The main goal of this study is to determine which are the most important system comp... Read More about Studying the variability of system setting effectiveness by data analytics and visualization.

Design and Experimental Study of a New Flexible Driven Parallel Soft Massage Robot (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhao, Y., Wei, H., Li, P., Li, G., Qi, L., & Yu, H. (2019, August). Design and Experimental Study of a New Flexible Driven Parallel Soft Massage Robot. Presented at 12th International Conference, ICIRA 2019, Shenyang, China

In recent years, the demand for massage robots has increased dramatically in the field of Medical care. Traditional massage robots are mostly rigid robots. Compared with rigid robots, soft robots are more suitable for massage because of their softnes... Read More about Design and Experimental Study of a New Flexible Driven Parallel Soft Massage Robot.