All Outputs (452)

Adversarial Large-scale Root Gap Inpainting (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chen, H., Giuffrida, M. V., Doerner, P., & Tsaftaris, S. A. (2019). Adversarial Large-scale Root Gap Inpainting.

Root imaging of a growing plant in a non-invasive, affordable , and effective way remains challenging. One approach is to image roots by growing them in a rhizobox, a soil-filled transparent container, imaging them with digital cameras, and segmentin... Read More about Adversarial Large-scale Root Gap Inpainting.

Performance of Superconducting Generators with Different Topologies under Fault Conditions (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Guan, Y., Vedreno Santos, F., Azar, Z., Thomas, A., Li, G., Odavic, M., & Zhu, Z. (2018, April). Performance of Superconducting Generators with Different Topologies under Fault Conditions. Presented at The 9th International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2018), Liverpool, UK

This paper compares the short-circuit performance of superconducting (SC) generators with three different topologies, i.e., iron-cored stator and rotor, iron-cored stator and air-cored rotor, and air-cored stator and rotor. The analysis is based on t... Read More about Performance of Superconducting Generators with Different Topologies under Fault Conditions.

Intelligent On-line Exam Management and Evaluation System (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tashu, T. M., Esclamado, J. P., & Horvath, T. (2019, June). Intelligent On-line Exam Management and Evaluation System. Presented at 15th International Conference, ITS 2019, Kingston, Jamaica

Educational assessment plays a central role in the teaching-learning process as a tool for evaluating students’ knowledge of the concepts associated with the learning objectives. The evaluation and scoring of essay answers is a process, besides being... Read More about Intelligent On-line Exam Management and Evaluation System.

Reducing Annotation Effort in Automatic Essay Evaluation Using Locality Sensitive Hashing (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tashu, T. M., Szabó, D., & Horváth, T. (2019, June). Reducing Annotation Effort in Automatic Essay Evaluation Using Locality Sensitive Hashing. Presented at ITS2019 Conference, Kingston, Jamaica

Automated essay evaluation systems use machine learning models to predict the score for an essay. For such, a training essay set is required which is usually created by human requiring time-consuming effort. Popular choice for scoring is a nearest ne... Read More about Reducing Annotation Effort in Automatic Essay Evaluation Using Locality Sensitive Hashing.

Liquid Otherness – network commensality and the transient social interactions of others (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Urie, G. (2019, May). Liquid Otherness – network commensality and the transient social interactions of others. Paper presented at Critical Hospitality Studies Symposium, Groningen, The Netherlands

Urie, G. (2019, May). Liquid Otherness – network commensality and the transient social interactions of others. Paper presented at Critical Hospitality Studies Symposium, Groningen, The Netherlands.

Evaluation of Risk Management Practice in the Nigeria Construction Industry (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ugwu, M. C., Osunsanmi, T. O., & Aigbavboa, C. O. (2019). Evaluation of Risk Management Practice in the Nigeria Construction Industry. In Proceedings of the 2019 Modular and Offsite Construction Summit (373-380). https://doi.org/10.29173/mocs116

The construction industry is an essential contributor to a country's economic growth. Unfortunately, the sector's contribution to the economy is hindered by numerous risk surrounding a construction project. Despite the harmful effect of construction... Read More about Evaluation of Risk Management Practice in the Nigeria Construction Industry.

Appraisal of Strategy Adopted by Construction Professionals for Coping with Stress (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Osunsanmi, T. O., Oke, A. E., & Aigbavboa, C. O. (2019, May). Appraisal of Strategy Adopted by Construction Professionals for Coping with Stress. Presented at Modular and Offsite Construction, Banff, AB, Canada

Stress has been identified as a significant hindrance to construction professional's performance on site. Unfortunately, stress cannot be eliminated on site, but it can only be managed with different stress coping strategies. Therefore, this study ai... Read More about Appraisal of Strategy Adopted by Construction Professionals for Coping with Stress.

Lean Construction Supply Chain: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Knowledge Base (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Osunsanmi, T., Oke, A. E., & Aigbavboa, C. O. (2019). Lean Construction Supply Chain: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Knowledge Base. In Proceedings of the 2019 Modular and Offsite Construction Summit (325-332). https://doi.org/10.29173/mocs110

The construction industry known for its adoption of ideas from other industries has also adopted lean thinking from the manufacturing sector for managing construction supply chains. Towards the successful adoption of this concept, there is a need to... Read More about Lean Construction Supply Chain: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Knowledge Base.

Decision Support Tool for Enhancing the Economic Impact of Construction using Offsite Systems (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Duncheva, T., & Hairstans, R. (2019). Decision Support Tool for Enhancing the Economic Impact of Construction using Offsite Systems. In Proceedings of the 2019 Modular and Offsite Construction (MOC) Summit (116-123). https://doi.org/10.29173/mocs84

The construction industry is facing productivity stagnation across the globe, and several hypotheses to explain this phenomenon exist, most often associated with low use of digitisation, skills shortages and unpredictable market trends. Yet the econo... Read More about Decision Support Tool for Enhancing the Economic Impact of Construction using Offsite Systems.

Change (Y)our Future: Clean Technology Research at RGU (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Muhammad Sukki, F., Sellami, N., & Ayub, A. (2019, May). Change (Y)our Future: Clean Technology Research at RGU. Presented at Oil Tech to Clean Tech Conference, Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom

Understanding the education and support needs of those providing children's palliative care in Scotland (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Malcolm, C., McGirr, D., & Grant, J. (2019, May). Understanding the education and support needs of those providing children's palliative care in Scotland. Paper presented at 16th World Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care, Berlin, Germany

Aim - To identify the current and future education, learning and continuing professional development requirements of staff and volunteers working in children’s palliative care.

Design – Employing a qualitative exploratory design, data was collecte... Read More about Understanding the education and support needs of those providing children's palliative care in Scotland.

Working Together for Justice (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Morrison, K. (2019, May). Working Together for Justice. Paper presented at 'Futures for Justice: the next 40 Years.' Howard League Scotland 40th Anniversary Conference, Edinburgh

Delivering on sustainable logistics by thinking inside the box – a case study of a successful business model (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cowie, J., & Fisken, K. (2019, May). Delivering on sustainable logistics by thinking inside the box – a case study of a successful business model. Paper presented at 22nd annual Scottish Transport Applications and Research (STAR), Glasgow Caledonian University

Much research and EU research funding has been devoted to identifying the key factors that lead to a financially sustainable urban freight consolidation centre. Despite much ‘success’ with this at the academic level, to date no EU funded pilot has s... Read More about Delivering on sustainable logistics by thinking inside the box – a case study of a successful business model.

A note on accounting for underlying injury-severity states in statistical modeling of injury accident data (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fountas, G., & Rye, T. (2019, April). A note on accounting for underlying injury-severity states in statistical modeling of injury accident data. Presented at 10th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT), Leuven, Belgium

This study provides an empirical analysis of the severity outcomes of injury accidents (i.e., accidents that resulted in an injury-involved outcome) by exploring the possibility of two underlying injury-severity states: the minor-injury state and the... Read More about A note on accounting for underlying injury-severity states in statistical modeling of injury accident data.

Do Metrics Matter? (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Innes, M., & Rosenfeld, S. (2019, May). Do Metrics Matter?. Presented at LightFair International 2019, Philadelphia, USA

Lighting metrics are neither absolute quantitative nor purely qualitative experiential measurements. Possibly uniquely amongst the SI system of physical measurements, the Candela is a pseudo-objective measurement based on the human visual experience.... Read More about Do Metrics Matter?.

Nan Shepherd, Scotland and the nature of rural modernism (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2019, May). Nan Shepherd, Scotland and the nature of rural modernism. Presented at Modernist Legacies and Futures: Modernist Studies Ireland inaugural conference, NUI Galway, Ireland

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An Examination of Accounting Practices and Challenges of Microbusinesses: Empirical Evidence from Scotland (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ahammed, S. U., Beloucif, A., & Tarbert, H. (2019, November). An Examination of Accounting Practices and Challenges of Microbusinesses: Empirical Evidence from Scotland. Presented at The 42nd Annual Conference of the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom

In Scotland, there are more than 94% of enterprises which are defined as microbusinesses. Previous studies have thoroughly investigated accounting practices in SME sector internationally in addition to the UK. However, despite the prevalence of micro... Read More about An Examination of Accounting Practices and Challenges of Microbusinesses: Empirical Evidence from Scotland.

Energy autonomous eSkin (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Manjakkal, L., Nunez, C. G., & Dahiya, R. (2019). Energy autonomous eSkin. In Proceedings SPIE 10982: Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications XI. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2520757

The energy autonomy is a critical feature that would enable better portability and longer operation times for wearable systems. In the next generation of prosthesis and robotics, the operation of multiple components (from few sensors to millions of e... Read More about Energy autonomous eSkin.

Unsuccessful Transitions: Understanding Dropout from the Athletes’ Perspective (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Andronikos, G., Westbury, T., & Martindale, R. (2019, May). Unsuccessful Transitions: Understanding Dropout from the Athletes’ Perspective. Presented at 19th International Conference on Sports: Economic, Management, Marketing and Social Aspects, Athens, Greece

Limited studies have investigated the experiences of athletes who did not ‘make it’ to elite level. To target this research gap, this study accessed and investigated this hard to reach population in order to understand the development and transition... Read More about Unsuccessful Transitions: Understanding Dropout from the Athletes’ Perspective.

Advanced Hybrid Technique in Detecting Cloud Web Application’s Attacks (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Amar, M., Lemoudden, M., & El Ouahidi, B. (2018, November). Advanced Hybrid Technique in Detecting Cloud Web Application’s Attacks. Presented at International Conference on Machine Learning for Networking, Paris, France

Recently cloud computing has emerged the IT world. It eventually promoted the acquisition of resources and services as needed, but it has also instilled fear and user’s renunciations. However, Machine learning processing has proven high robustness in... Read More about Advanced Hybrid Technique in Detecting Cloud Web Application’s Attacks.