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Unpacking the Role of Mindfulness in Conscientiousness and Spirituality (2014)
Journal Article
Boyce, M., & Sawang, S. (2014). Unpacking the Role of Mindfulness in Conscientiousness and Spirituality. Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion, 10(6),

This study examined relationships between conscientiousness and intrinsic spirituality, with the proposed trait "mindfulness" as mediator. The results from 161 functioning adults in Australia revealed that mindfulness was significantly predicted by c... Read More about Unpacking the Role of Mindfulness in Conscientiousness and Spirituality.

How to benefit from studying in the EU (2014)
Journal Article
Kunertová, T. (2014). How to benefit from studying in the EU. The Lawyer Quarterly, 4(1), 23-29

In accordance with the Directive 2004/38/EC, the Member States are not entitled to grant the Union citizen the maintenance aid for studies prior the acquisition of the right of permanent residence permit. Such entitlement does not concern workers, se... Read More about How to benefit from studying in the EU.

IBriS project (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MacVicar, S. (2014, December). IBriS project. Presented at Doctoral Midwifery Research Society, University of West Scotland, Ayr

IBRIS project- oral presentation of intervention supporting women with substance use disorder in pregnancy. Doctoral study of development and evaluation of a behavioural change intervention to support women and neonates exposed to substance use dis... Read More about IBriS project.

Intervention supporting breastfeeding in substance use disorders (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MacVicar, S. (2014, December). Intervention supporting breastfeeding in substance use disorders. Presented at Scottish National Neonatal Group annual conference, University of West of Scotland, Paisley

Oral presentation of Intervention supporting breastfeeding for infants at risk of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome. Implications for practice and policy. Review of clinical guidelines.

Two Alternative Frameworks for Deploying Spoken Dialogue Systems to Mobile Platforms for Evaluation “In the Wild” (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hastie, H., Aufaure, M.-A., Alexopoulos, P., Bouchard, H., Cuayáhuitl, H., Dethlefs, N., Gašic, M., Guimeráns, A. G., Henderson, J., Lemon, O., others, & Yu, Y. (2014, September). Two Alternative Frameworks for Deploying Spoken Dialogue Systems to Mobile Platforms for Evaluation “In the Wild”. Presented at 18th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Edinburgh

We demonstrate two alternative frameworks for testing and evaluating spoken dialogue systems on mobile devices for use “in the wild”. We firstly present a spoken dialogue system that uses third party ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) and TTS (Text-T... Read More about Two Alternative Frameworks for Deploying Spoken Dialogue Systems to Mobile Platforms for Evaluation “In the Wild”.

Emotionalisierte Berichterstattung? Wie die Presse in Großbritannien, den USA und Deutschland über die Folgen des Erdbebens und des Tsunamis in Japan berichtete (2014)
Book Chapter
Zeller, F., Arlt, D., & Wolling, J. (2014). Emotionalisierte Berichterstattung? Wie die Presse in Großbritannien, den USA und Deutschland über die Folgen des Erdbebens und des Tsunamis in Japan berichtete. In J. Wolling, & D. Arlt (Eds.), Fukushima und die Folgen - Medienberichterstattung, Öffentliche Meinung, Politische Konsequenzen (183-209). Universitätsverlag Ilmenau

Development and evaluation of prototype virtual reality telemedicine system for asynchronous gait analysis (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khan, M. S., Chan, W., Sakellariou, S., Harrison, D. K., & Charissis, V. (2014, September). Development and evaluation of prototype virtual reality telemedicine system for asynchronous gait analysis. Presented at Appropriate Healthcare Technologies for Low Resource Settings (AHT 2014), London

Various rehabilitation and diagnostic methods related to musculoskeletal injuries or diseases however, can be challenging to monitor and record over long time periods. Furthermore, patients in remote locations, which represent a substantial proportio... Read More about Development and evaluation of prototype virtual reality telemedicine system for asynchronous gait analysis.

Enhancing human responses through augmented reality head-up display in vehicular environment (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charissis, V. (2014, October). Enhancing human responses through augmented reality head-up display in vehicular environment. Presented at 2014 11th International Conference & Expo on Emerging Technologies for a Smarter World (CEWIT), Melville, NY, USA

Contemporary needs for constant provision of information and communication has crowded the modern vehicle's interior with a variety of instrumentation displays. This abundance of automotive infotainment devices can reduce significantly driver's decis... Read More about Enhancing human responses through augmented reality head-up display in vehicular environment.

Rotated Hybrid, Energy-Efficient and Distributed (R-HEED) Clustering Protocol in WSN (2014)
Journal Article
Mardini, W., Yassein, M. B., Khamayseh, Y., & Ghaleb, B. (2014). Rotated Hybrid, Energy-Efficient and Distributed (R-HEED) Clustering Protocol in WSN. WSEAS Transactions on Communications, 13, 275-290

Minimizing the energy consumption for data transmission is one of the most important design considerations in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The clustering approach is considered one of the most effective methods to prolong the network lifetime in... Read More about Rotated Hybrid, Energy-Efficient and Distributed (R-HEED) Clustering Protocol in WSN.

Compound Parabolic Concentrator Design for Equatorial Africa (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Naman, G. Z., Sellami, N., Sarmah, N., Ivaturi, A., Senthilarasu, S., Bobbili, P., Upadhyaya, H., & Mallick, T. (2014, March). Compound Parabolic Concentrator Design for Equatorial Africa. Presented at 1st Africa Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Durban, South Africa

Compound Parabolic Concentrators (CPC) design uses interposed optical devices (such as parabolic trough, parabolic dish, linear Fresnel reflectors, etc) between the source of radiation (Sun in this case) and the energy absorbing surface (solar cell).... Read More about Compound Parabolic Concentrator Design for Equatorial Africa.

Development of a concentrated photovoltaic thermal hybrid system for heat and power generation in Nigeria (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zamani Naman, G., Ivaturi, A., Sundaram, S., Bobbili, P., Sellami, N., Sarmah, N., Mallick, T. K., & Upadhyaya, H. (2014, April). Development of a concentrated photovoltaic thermal hybrid system for heat and power generation in Nigeria. Presented at PVSAT-10: 10th Photovoltaic Science, Applications and Technology Conference, Loughborough University

From ‘Multiculturalism’ to ‘Interculturalism’ – A commentary on the Impact of De-racing and De-classing the Debate (2014)
Journal Article
Keval, H. (2014). From ‘Multiculturalism’ to ‘Interculturalism’ – A commentary on the Impact of De-racing and De-classing the Debate. New Diversities, 16(2), 125-139

Recent discourses surrounding the so-called death or decline of multiculturalism are characterised by a movement towards notions and practices of ‘Interculturality’, ‘Interculturalism’ and what have been called ‘new frameworks’ for diversity and race... Read More about From ‘Multiculturalism’ to ‘Interculturalism’ – A commentary on the Impact of De-racing and De-classing the Debate.

Ontology based classification for multi-label image annotation (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reshma, I. A., Ullah, M. Z., & Aono, M. (2014, August). Ontology based classification for multi-label image annotation. Presented at 2014 International Conference of Advanced Informatics: Concept, Theory and Application (ICAICTA), Bandung, Indonesia

Image annotation has been an important task for visual information retrieval. It usually involves a multi-class multi-label classification problem. To solve this problem, many researches have been conducted during last two decades, although most of t... Read More about Ontology based classification for multi-label image annotation.

Query subtopic mining for search result diversification (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ullah, M. Z., & Aono, M. (2014, August). Query subtopic mining for search result diversification. Presented at 2014 International Conference of Advanced Informatics: Concept, Theory and Application (ICAICTA), Bandung, Indonesia

Web search queries are usually short, ambiguous, and contain multiple aspects or subtopics. Different users may have different search intents (or information needs) when submitting the same query. The task of identifying the subtopics underlying a qu... Read More about Query subtopic mining for search result diversification.

Analysis of Project Failure Factors for Infrastructure Projects in Saudi Arabia: A Multivariate Approach (2014)
Journal Article
Ikediashi, D. I., Ogunlana, S. O., & Alotaibi, A. (2014). Analysis of Project Failure Factors for Infrastructure Projects in Saudi Arabia: A Multivariate Approach. Journal of Construction in Developing Countries, 19(1), 35-52

The rapidly changing face of the Saudi construction industry occasioned by the boost in oil revenue means that the best project management practices must be given priority to be able to confront the challenges associated with the management of infras... Read More about Analysis of Project Failure Factors for Infrastructure Projects in Saudi Arabia: A Multivariate Approach.

Optical performances of refractive Crossed Compound Parabolic Concentrator CCPC (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sellami, N., & Mallick, T. (2014, September). Optical performances of refractive Crossed Compound Parabolic Concentrator CCPC. Presented at 29th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Amsterdam

The design of solar concentrators depends on its application (thermal or PV) and on the tracking system that will be used. Low geometrical concentration ratios (Cg) are <10x and generally tend to be static concentrators; in this case they have to be...

Mapping on surfaces: Supporting collaborative work using interactive tabletop (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sinmai, K., & Andras, P. (2014, September). Mapping on surfaces: Supporting collaborative work using interactive tabletop. Presented at Collaboration and Technology: 20th International Conference, CRIWG 2014, Santiago, Chile

We investigate the usability of our mindmap application using a tabletop integrated with four Android tablets in the context of support for collaborative work. This paper presents two empirical studies that compares the conventional paper-and-pen app... Read More about Mapping on surfaces: Supporting collaborative work using interactive tabletop.

Heat Exchanger Networks Retrofitted with Simultaneous Pressure Recovery (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Onishi, V., Ravagnani, M., & Caballero, J. A. (2014, October). Heat Exchanger Networks Retrofitted with Simultaneous Pressure Recovery. Presented at XX Brazilian Congress of Chemical Engineering – COBEQ 2014, Florianópolis-SC, Brazil

This paper presents a new optimization model for the retrofit of heat exchanger networks (HENs), in which the pressure recovery of streams is used to enhance heat integration. Especially important in sub-ambient processes, the HEN retrofit with press... Read More about Heat Exchanger Networks Retrofitted with Simultaneous Pressure Recovery.