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Renewable Energy: Current Trends and Future Prospects (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ayub, A., & Muhammad Sukki, F. (2019, April). Renewable Energy: Current Trends and Future Prospects. Presented at Research Seminar, Universiti Kuala Lumpur BMI, Gombak, Selangor, Malaysia

Storytelling and Sense of Place - Beyond the Restaurant (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Urie, G. (2019, April). Storytelling and Sense of Place - Beyond the Restaurant. Presented at Food Tourism Innovation 2019 Workshop: Storytelling and Sense of Place, Edinburgh

Urie, G. (2019, April). Storytelling and Sense of Place - Beyond the Restaurant. Presented at Food Tourism Innovation 2019 Workshop: Storytelling and Sense of Place, Interface, Edinburgh.

Examining the meanings and motivations for working within the Scottish microbrewing industry (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ellis, V., & Richards, J. (2019, April). Examining the meanings and motivations for working within the Scottish microbrewing industry. Paper presented at International Labour Process Conference

Brewing has experienced a considerable revival in recent years with the number of brewers in the UK being at its highest level since the 1930s (Cask Report, 2018). After decades of mergers and takeovers saw the emergence of a small number of global b... Read More about Examining the meanings and motivations for working within the Scottish microbrewing industry.

Unkettling the unions? An action research study of surmounting the Trade Union Act 2016 in the UK higher education sector (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Richards, J., & Ellis, V. (2019, April). Unkettling the unions? An action research study of surmounting the Trade Union Act 2016 in the UK higher education sector. Paper presented at International Labour Process Conference

The paper responds to calls for the sharing of ‘best practice’ were trade unions have successfully met turnout levels required of the Trade Union Act 2016 (the Act). The study is based on an action research case study of one higher education (HEI) br... Read More about Unkettling the unions? An action research study of surmounting the Trade Union Act 2016 in the UK higher education sector.

Improved Design of a DC-DC Converter in Residential Solar Photovoltaic System (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Darameičikas, M., Muhammad-Sukki, F., Abu-Bakar, S., Sellami, N., Bani, N., Abubakar Mas’ud, A., & Ardila-Rey, J. (2019, April). Improved Design of a DC-DC Converter in Residential Solar Photovoltaic System. Paper presented at 2019 International Conference on Engineering and Computing (ICEEComp2019), Langkawi, Malaysia

With growing demand in renewable energy, solar photovoltaic (PV) technology is becoming more popular. A number of research has been carried out to increase the efficiency of the PV system. One of them is improving the Switch Mode Power Supplies (SMPS... Read More about Improved Design of a DC-DC Converter in Residential Solar Photovoltaic System.

Potential of Floating Solar Technology in Malaysia (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamaluddin, M., Muhammad-Sukki, F., Abu-Bakar, S., Ramlee, F., Munir, A., Bani, N., Muhtazaruddin, M., Abubakar Mas’ud, A., Ardila-Rey, J., Ayub, A., & Sellami, N. (2019, April). Potential of Floating Solar Technology in Malaysia. Paper presented at 2019 International Conference on Engineering and Computing (ICEEComp2019), Langkawi, Malaysia

Optimal Distributed Generation in Green Building Assessment towards Line Loss Reduction for Malaysian Public Hospital (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Amran, M., Muhtazaruddin, M., Bani, N., Mad Kaidi, H., Hassan, M., Sarip, S., & Muhammad-Sukki, F. (2019, April). Optimal Distributed Generation in Green Building Assessment towards Line Loss Reduction for Malaysian Public Hospital. Paper presented at 2019 International Conference on Engineering and Computing (ICEEComp2019), Langkawi, Malaysia

Windowed Attention Mechanisms for Speech Recognition (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhang, S., Loweimi, E., Bell, P., & Renals, S. (2019, May). Windowed Attention Mechanisms for Speech Recognition. Presented at ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brighton, United Kingdom

The usual attention mechanisms used for encoder-decoder models do not constrain the relationship between input and output sequences to be monotonic. To address this we explore windowed attention mechanisms which restrict attention to a block of sourc... Read More about Windowed Attention Mechanisms for Speech Recognition.

On the Usefulness of Statistical Normalisation of Bottleneck Features for Speech Recognition (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Loweimi, E., Bell, P., & Renals, S. (2019, May). On the Usefulness of Statistical Normalisation of Bottleneck Features for Speech Recognition. Presented at ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brighton, United Kingdom

DNNs play a major role in the state-of-the-art ASR systems. They can be used for extracting features and building probabilistic models for acoustic and language modelling. Despite their huge practical success, the level of theoretical understanding h... Read More about On the Usefulness of Statistical Normalisation of Bottleneck Features for Speech Recognition.

A LSTM-Based Approach to Haze Prediction Using a Self-organizing Single Hidden Layer Scheme (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, X., Liu, Q., Zou, Y., & Liu, Q. (2018, December). A LSTM-Based Approach to Haze Prediction Using a Self-organizing Single Hidden Layer Scheme. Presented at International Conference on Security with Intelligent Computing and Big-data Services, Guilin, China

The air quality in urban areas seriously affects the physical and mental health of human beings. And PM2.5 (a particulate matter whose diameter is smaller than or equal to 2.5 microns) is the chief culprit causing haze-fog. Since the meteorological d... Read More about A LSTM-Based Approach to Haze Prediction Using a Self-organizing Single Hidden Layer Scheme.

Making an Impact: Student Learning Journeys in Tourism and Hospitality Programmes (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wight, C. (2019, April). Making an Impact: Student Learning Journeys in Tourism and Hospitality Programmes. Paper presented at The 2019 Vienna International Academic Conference, Vienna, Austria

Stakeholders involved in shaping the future of tourism and hospitality business management degrees have faced a dilemma over recent years. On the one hand, graduates who are taken on by the industry require practical skills that the industry wants, b... Read More about Making an Impact: Student Learning Journeys in Tourism and Hospitality Programmes.

Collaboration for The Common Future? Integrative Public Leadership in Local Governance Practice (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cui, T., & Osborne, S. (2019, April). Collaboration for The Common Future? Integrative Public Leadership in Local Governance Practice. Paper presented at International Research Society for Public Management Conference (IRSPM), Wellington, New Zealand

In today’s increasingly complex, fragmented and interdependent world, public managers are confronted by many major public issues which threaten the sustainable development of future human society. Addressing these ‘future public issues’ requires the... Read More about Collaboration for The Common Future? Integrative Public Leadership in Local Governance Practice.

Different options for multi‐rotor wind turbine grid connection (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Givaki, K. (2018, April). Different options for multi‐rotor wind turbine grid connection. Presented at The 9th International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives, Liverpool, UK

In this paper, different options for integration of the multi-rotor wind turbine concept is investigated. The intra-turbine collection network of the multi-rotor wind turbine can be designed in either AC or DC. The reliability and costs associated wi... Read More about Different options for multi‐rotor wind turbine grid connection.

Turbulent Burning Characteristics of Hydrogen/Air Premixed Flames in Different Combustion Regimes (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Song, W., Tingas, S., Hernández Pérez, F. E., & Im, H. G. (2019, April). Turbulent Burning Characteristics of Hydrogen/Air Premixed Flames in Different Combustion Regimes. Paper presented at 9th European Combustion Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal

Song, W., Tingas, S., Hernández Pérez, F. E., & Im, H. G. (2019, April). Turbulent Burning Characteristics of Hydrogen/Air Premixed Flames in Different Combustion Regimes. Paper presented at 9th European Combustion Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal.

Lyric Clinic (in association with PRS for Music) (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hook, D. (2019, April). Lyric Clinic (in association with PRS for Music). Presented at Wide Days: Scotland's Music Conference, Edinburgh

Join leading Scottish wordsmith Dr Dave Hook (aka Solareye) and guests for a session about effective writing techniques, how approaches vary according genre, avoiding rhyme crimes and the key considerations for lyrical collaborations.

Can Future Smart Cities Powered by 100% Renewables and Made Cyber Secured-A Analytical Approach (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shaik Honnurvali, M., Gupta, N., Goh, K., Umar, T., Kabbani, A., & Nazecma, N. (2019, January). Can Future Smart Cities Powered by 100% Renewables and Made Cyber Secured-A Analytical Approach. Presented at 2019 IEEE 12th International Conference on Global Security, Safety and Sustainability (ICGS3), London, United Kingdom

A smart city main objective is to provide a better living for the citizens by managing the resources both in a sustainable and cost-effective way to benefit the people at maximum., One of the key building factors of future smart cities is to generate... Read More about Can Future Smart Cities Powered by 100% Renewables and Made Cyber Secured-A Analytical Approach.

Identifying Vulnerabilities Using Internet-wide Scanning Data (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
O'Hare, J., Macfarlane, R., & Lo, O. (2019, January). Identifying Vulnerabilities Using Internet-wide Scanning Data. Presented at 12th International Conference on Global Security, Safety and Sustainability - ICGS3-19, London, United Kingdom

Internet-wide scanning projects such as Shodan and Censys, scan the Internet and collect active reconnaissance results for online devices. Access to this information is provided through associated websites. The Internet-wide scanning data can be used... Read More about Identifying Vulnerabilities Using Internet-wide Scanning Data.