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Regenerative Medicine Ecosystems and the Built Environment at Entrepreneurial Universities (2017)
Journal Article
Bock, A. J., & Johnson, D. (2017). Regenerative Medicine Ecosystems and the Built Environment at Entrepreneurial Universities. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017(1), 11914. https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2017.11914abstract

In some technology-intensive sectors, high discovery costs, specialized knowledge requirements and long time frames favor research centralization around research universities. In the case of regenerative medicine, uncertainty about downstream market... Read More about Regenerative Medicine Ecosystems and the Built Environment at Entrepreneurial Universities.

Complex Pleasures: Designing Optional interactions for Public Spaces (2017)
Thesis
Helgason, I. Complex Pleasures: Designing Optional interactions for Public Spaces. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1022893

This research aims to contribute to knowledge about the design of interactive systems sited in public spaces. In particular, the study concerns "optional interactions" where systems invite interaction from passers-by. These systems are action-orienta... Read More about Complex Pleasures: Designing Optional interactions for Public Spaces.

How to Write a Review Paper (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Muhammad Sukki, F. (2017, July). How to Write a Review Paper. Presented at Academic Writing Workshop, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

A cautionary tale: A study of a methane enhancement over the North Sea (2017)
Journal Article
Cain, M., Warwick, N. J., Fisher, R. E., Lowry, D., Lanoisellé, M., Nisbet, E. G., France, J., Pitt, J., O'Shea, S., Bower, K. N., Allen, G., Illingworth, S., Manning, A. J., Bauguitte, S., Pisso, I., & Pyle, J. A. (2017). A cautionary tale: A study of a methane enhancement over the North Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122(14), 7630-7645. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017jd026626

Airborne measurements of a methane (CH4) plume over the North Sea from August 2013 are analyzed. The plume was only observed downwind of circumnavigated gas fields, and three methods are used to determine its source. First, a mass balance calculation... Read More about A cautionary tale: A study of a methane enhancement over the North Sea.

Distributed Adaptive Fuzzy Containment Control of Stochastic Pure-Feedback Nonlinear Multiagent Systems With Local Quantized Controller and Tracking Constraint (2017)
Journal Article
Zhang, L., Hua, C., Yu, H., & Guan, X. (2019). Distributed Adaptive Fuzzy Containment Control of Stochastic Pure-Feedback Nonlinear Multiagent Systems With Local Quantized Controller and Tracking Constraint. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, 49(4), 787-796. https://doi.org/10.1109/tsmc.2017.2701344

This paper studies the distributed adaptive fuzzy containment tracking control for a class of high-order stochastic pure-feedback nonlinear multiagent systems with multiple dynamic leaders and performance constraint requirement. The control inputs ar... Read More about Distributed Adaptive Fuzzy Containment Control of Stochastic Pure-Feedback Nonlinear Multiagent Systems With Local Quantized Controller and Tracking Constraint.

Information Technology – Next Generation: The Impact of 5G on the Evolution of Health and Care Services (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lim, A. K., Thuemmler, C., Paulin, A., Jell, T., & Keow Lim, A. K. (2017, April). Information Technology – Next Generation: The Impact of 5G on the Evolution of Health and Care Services. Presented at Information Technology – Next Generation 14th International Conference on Information Technology

As more and more details of 5G technology specifications unveil and standards emerge it becomes clear that 5G will have an enabling effect on many different verticals including automotive, mobility and health. This paper gives an overview about techn... Read More about Information Technology – Next Generation: The Impact of 5G on the Evolution of Health and Care Services.

Data-to-Text Generation Improves Decision-Making Under Uncertainty (2017)
Journal Article
Gkatzia, D., Lemon, O., & Rieser, V. (2017). Data-to-Text Generation Improves Decision-Making Under Uncertainty. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 12(3), 10-17. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCI.2017.2708998

Decision-making is often dependent on uncertain data, e.g. data associated with confidence scores or probabilities. This article presents a comparison of different information presentations for uncertain data and, for the first time, measures their e... Read More about Data-to-Text Generation Improves Decision-Making Under Uncertainty.

SKiN: Designing pseudo-physiology into personal technology devices to create enhanced interactions through visceral signifiers and behaviours (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
O'Dowd, A. (2017, July). SKiN: Designing pseudo-physiology into personal technology devices to create enhanced interactions through visceral signifiers and behaviours. Presented at Computing Conference 2017

The majority of technology is now personal. Humans, in turn, are expected to and have personal relationships with their devices. The issue is that humans are biological beings and relate to the world as animals, in a biological way. In contrast, pers... Read More about SKiN: Designing pseudo-physiology into personal technology devices to create enhanced interactions through visceral signifiers and behaviours.

Using integrated parametric control to achieve better daylighting uniformity in an office room: A multi-Step comparison study (2017)
Journal Article
Eltaweel, A., & Yuehong, S. (2017). Using integrated parametric control to achieve better daylighting uniformity in an office room: A multi-Step comparison study. Energy and Buildings, 152, 137-148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.07.033

In addition to windows, louvers are the most common architectural elements widely used in office buildings to protect them from excessive daylight and improve daylight penetration as well. Advanced glazing, window blinds, other fenestration systems a... Read More about Using integrated parametric control to achieve better daylighting uniformity in an office room: A multi-Step comparison study.

Measuring the Economic costs of traffic congestion (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jayasooriya, S., & Bandara, Y. (2017, May). Measuring the Economic costs of traffic congestion. Presented at 2017 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

The main concern of this research is to examines traffic congestion costs related with the road passenger transportation. With the rapid urbanization, it is evident that commercial and socio economic activity tending to centralize only in few major c... Read More about Measuring the Economic costs of traffic congestion.

Contrasting drivers of reproductive ageing in albatrosses (2017)
Journal Article
Froy, H., Lewis, S., Nussey, D. H., Wood, A. G., & Phillips, R. A. (2017). Contrasting drivers of reproductive ageing in albatrosses. Journal of Animal Ecology, 86(5), 1022-1032. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12712

1. Age-related variation in reproductive performance is ubiquitous in wild vertebrate populations and has important consequences for population and evolutionary dynamics.

2. The ageing trajectory is shaped by both within-individual processes, such... Read More about Contrasting drivers of reproductive ageing in albatrosses.

Eating Habits of Young Persons for Healthy Aging: An Exploratory Study Involving University Students in Hong Kong (2017)
Book Chapter
Cheung, S. T., & Dawkes, S. (2017). Eating Habits of Young Persons for Healthy Aging: An Exploratory Study Involving University Students in Hong Kong. In B. Fong, A. Ng, & P. Yuen (Eds.), Sustainable Health and Long-Term Care Solutions for an Aging Population (343-356). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2633-9.ch018

Fruits and vegetables are important parts of healthy eating and they provide excellent sources of vitamins, minerals, and dietary fiber in our diet. Those who consume fruits and vegetables regularly have a reduced risk of many chronic diseases. Accor... Read More about Eating Habits of Young Persons for Healthy Aging: An Exploratory Study Involving University Students in Hong Kong.

United Kingdom Health Promotion Initiatives for Healthy Aging (2017)
Book Chapter
Dawkes, S., & Cheung, S. T. (2017). United Kingdom Health Promotion Initiatives for Healthy Aging. In B. Fong, A. Ng, & P. Yuen (Eds.), Sustainable Health and Long-Term Care Solutions for an Aging Population (91-102). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2633-9.ch005

People are living longer but not, unfortunately, living longer healthy lives as there is an increasing number of years spent in ill-health from the age of 65 years onwards. Rates of chronic non-communicable diseases are increasing. This purpose of th... Read More about United Kingdom Health Promotion Initiatives for Healthy Aging.

The effect of landscape funnels in QAPLIB instances (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thomson, S. L., Ochoa, G., Daolio, F., & Veerapen, N. (2017, July). The effect of landscape funnels in QAPLIB instances. Presented at GECCO '17: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Berlin, Germany

The effectiveness of common metaheuristics on combinatorial optimisation problems can be limited by certain characteristics of the fitness landscape. We use the local optima network model to compress the 'inherent structure' of a problem space into a... Read More about The effect of landscape funnels in QAPLIB instances.

Evaluation of a genetic representation for outline shapes (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lapok, P., Lawson, A., & Paechter, B. (2017, July). Evaluation of a genetic representation for outline shapes. Presented at Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion on - GECCO '17

This work in progress focuses on the evaluation of a genetic representation for outline shapes for planar mechanical levers which addresses the first stage of the complex real-world problem of modelling and evolving planar mechanical lever systems. T... Read More about Evaluation of a genetic representation for outline shapes.

Combining parallel coordinates with multi-objective evolutionary algorithms in a real-world optimisation problem (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Urquhart, N. (2017, June). Combining parallel coordinates with multi-objective evolutionary algorithms in a real-world optimisation problem. Presented at Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion on - GECCO '17

Optimisation problems based upon real-world instances often contain many objectives. Many existing Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm techniques return a set of solutions from which the user must make a final selection; typically such a set of so... Read More about Combining parallel coordinates with multi-objective evolutionary algorithms in a real-world optimisation problem.

Cellulose microfibrils as a pore former in electroless co-deposited anodes for solid oxide fuel cells. (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Turnbull, R. J., Shearer, N., & Wilson, C. (2017, July). Cellulose microfibrils as a pore former in electroless co-deposited anodes for solid oxide fuel cells. Presented at 15th International Symposium on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC-XV), Hollywood, Florida, US

A study was conducted to investigate the feasibility of Cellulose Microfibrils (CMF) as a pore former in the manufacture of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) anodes using Electroless Co-Deposition (ECD). Previous work into the use of ECD to produce SOFC a... Read More about Cellulose microfibrils as a pore former in electroless co-deposited anodes for solid oxide fuel cells..