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BEFTIGRE: Behaviour-driven full-tier green evaluation of mobile cloud applications (2017)
Journal Article
Chinenyeze, S. J., Liu, X., & Al-Dubai, A. (2017). BEFTIGRE: Behaviour-driven full-tier green evaluation of mobile cloud applications. Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, 29(2), e1848. https://doi.org/10.1002/smr.1848

With the resource-constrained nature of mobile devices and the resource-abundant offerings of the cloud, several promising optimisation techniques have been proposed by the green computing research community. Prominent techniques and unique methods h... Read More about BEFTIGRE: Behaviour-driven full-tier green evaluation of mobile cloud applications.

Communities at Large: An Archaeological Analysis of the ‘Community’ Within Restorative Justice Policy and Laws (2017)
Journal Article
Maglione, G. (2017). Communities at Large: An Archaeological Analysis of the ‘Community’ Within Restorative Justice Policy and Laws. Critical Criminology, 25(3), 453-469. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-017-9349-8

Within the scholarly literature on restorative justice, the ‘community’, as a distinctive crime stakeholder, has been the target of extensive research. This work provides an original interpretation of the underlying images of the community within pol... Read More about Communities at Large: An Archaeological Analysis of the ‘Community’ Within Restorative Justice Policy and Laws.

Measuring embodied carbon dioxide equivalent of buildings: A review and critique of current industry practice (2017)
Journal Article
De Wolf, C., Pomponi, F., & Moncaster, A. (2017). Measuring embodied carbon dioxide equivalent of buildings: A review and critique of current industry practice. Energy and Buildings, 140, 68-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.01.075

Lowering the embodied carbon dioxide equivalent (embodied CO2e) of buildings is an essential response to national and global targets for carbon reduction. Globally, construction industry is developing tools, databases and practices for measuring embo... Read More about Measuring embodied carbon dioxide equivalent of buildings: A review and critique of current industry practice.

eHealth Literacy: Predictors in a Population With Moderate-to-High Cardiovascular Risk (2017)
Journal Article
Richtering, S. S., Hyun, K., Neubeck, L., Coorey, G., Chalmers, J., Usherwood, T., Peiris, D., Chow, C. K., & Redfern, J. (2017). eHealth Literacy: Predictors in a Population With Moderate-to-High Cardiovascular Risk. JMIR Human Factors, 4(1), e4. https://doi.org/10.2196/humanfactors.6217

Background: Electronic health (eHealth) literacy is a growing area of research parallel to the ongoing development of eHealth interventions. There is, however, little and conflicting information regarding the factors that influence eHealth literacy,... Read More about eHealth Literacy: Predictors in a Population With Moderate-to-High Cardiovascular Risk.

High-dimensional function approximation with neural networks for large volumes of data (2017)
Journal Article
Andras, P. (2018). High-dimensional function approximation with neural networks for large volumes of data. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 29(2), 500-508. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNNLS.2017.2651985

Approximation of high-dimensional functions is a challenge for neural networks due to the curse of dimensionality. Often the data for which the approximated function is defined resides on a low-dimensional manifold and in principle the approximation... Read More about High-dimensional function approximation with neural networks for large volumes of data.

What stops patients from taking their medicines. (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dawkes, S. (2017, January). What stops patients from taking their medicines. Presented at Topics in Research and Education for Nursing Development

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Recruitment to the “Breast—Activity and Healthy Eating After Diagnosis” (B-AHEAD) Randomized Controlled Trial (2017)
Journal Article
Pegington, M., Adams, J. E., Bundred, N. J., Harvie, M. N., Campbell, A., Howell, A., Howell, S. J., Speed, S., Wolstenholme, J., & Harvey, M. (2018). Recruitment to the “Breast—Activity and Healthy Eating After Diagnosis” (B-AHEAD) Randomized Controlled Trial. Integrative Cancer Therapies, 17(1), 131-137. https://doi.org/10.1177/1534735416687850

Excess weight at breast cancer diagnosis and weight gain during treatment are linked to increased breast cancer specific and all-cause mortality. The Breast—Activity and Healthy Eating After Diagnosis (B-AHEAD) trial tested 2 weight loss diet and exe... Read More about Recruitment to the “Breast—Activity and Healthy Eating After Diagnosis” (B-AHEAD) Randomized Controlled Trial.

Development of a cross-cultural HPV community engagement model within Scotland (2017)
Journal Article
Carnegie, E., Whittaker, A., Gray Brunton, C., Hogg, R., Kennedy, C., Hilton, S., Harding, S., Pollock, K. G., & Pow, J. (2017). Development of a cross-cultural HPV community engagement model within Scotland. Health Education Journal, 76(4), 398-410. https://doi.org/10.1177/0017896916685592

Objective
To examine cultural barriers and participant solutions regarding acceptance and uptake of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine from the perspective of Black African, White-Caribbean, Arab, Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani young people.... Read More about Development of a cross-cultural HPV community engagement model within Scotland.

Wireless Body Area Network System Architecture for Real-Time Diabetes Monitoring (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Huzooree, G., Khedo, K. K., & Joonas, N. (2016, November). Wireless Body Area Network System Architecture for Real-Time Diabetes Monitoring. Presented at First International Conference on Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering (ELECOM 2016), Bagatelle, Mauritius

Technological advancement in Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) has gained much interest and became an emerging technology in the remote healthcare monitoring as WBANs are a collection of low-power, intelligent, miniaturized, lightweight, invasive o... Read More about Wireless Body Area Network System Architecture for Real-Time Diabetes Monitoring.

A neuro-inspired visual tracking method based on programmable system-on-chip platform (2017)
Journal Article
Yang, S., Wong-Lin, K., Andrew, J., Mak, T., & McGinnity, T. M. (2018). A neuro-inspired visual tracking method based on programmable system-on-chip platform. Neural Computing and Applications, 30(9), 2697-2708. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-017-2847-5

Using programmable system-on-chip to implement computer vision functions poses many challenges due to highly constrained resources in cost, size and power consumption. In this work, we propose a new neuro-inspired image processing model and implement... Read More about A neuro-inspired visual tracking method based on programmable system-on-chip platform.

The converging-input converging-state property for Lur’e systems (2017)
Journal Article
Bill, A., Guiver, C., Logemann, H., & Townley, S. (2017). The converging-input converging-state property for Lur’e systems. Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems, 29, Article 4 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00498-016-0184-3

Using methods from classical absolute stability theory, combined with recent results on input-to-state stability (ISS) of Lur{\textquoteright}e systems, we derive necessary and sufficient conditions for a class of Lur{\textquoteright}e systems to hav... Read More about The converging-input converging-state property for Lur’e systems.

Exploration de l’altérité culturelle à travers des mots: ponts, déficiences et suffisances (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Penman, C. (2017, January). Exploration de l’altérité culturelle à travers des mots: ponts, déficiences et suffisances. Paper presented at Journée d’études: Traduction et interculturalité, Mulhouse, France

Penman, C. (2017, January). Exploration de l’altérité culturelle à travers des mots: ponts, déficiences et suffisances. Paper presented at Journée d’études: Traduction et interculturalité, Mulhouse, France.

Multi-sensor system for remote environmental (air and water) quality monitoring (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Simic, M., Stojanovic, G. M., Manjakkal, L., & Zaraska, K. (2016, November). Multi-sensor system for remote environmental (air and water) quality monitoring. Presented at 2016 24th Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR), Belgrade, Serbia

In this paper realization of the low-power, portable, low-cost multi-sensor system for air and water quality monitoring is described. Developed system is battery-powered with solar panel-based charger unit, and it is intended for use in remote enviro... Read More about Multi-sensor system for remote environmental (air and water) quality monitoring.

Meshfree formulation for modelling of orthogonal cutting of composites (2017)
Journal Article
Kahwash, F., Shyha, I., & Maheri, A. (2017). Meshfree formulation for modelling of orthogonal cutting of composites. Composite Structures, 166, 193-201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2017.01.021

The Element-Free Galerkin method (EFG) is a prominent member of the meshfree methods family. In this work, EFG is utilised to simulate the orthogonal cutting process of unidirectional composites. The mathematical model is derived from the weak form o... Read More about Meshfree formulation for modelling of orthogonal cutting of composites.

Unraveling Interactions between Ionic Liquids and Phospholipid Vesicles Using Nanoplasmonic Sensing (2017)
Journal Article
Witos, J., Russo, G., Ruokonen, S.-K., & Wiedmer, S. K. (2017). Unraveling Interactions between Ionic Liquids and Phospholipid Vesicles Using Nanoplasmonic Sensing. Langmuir, 33(4), 1066-1076. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b04359

Owing to their unique properties and unlimited structural combinations, the ubiquitous use of ionic liquids (ILs) is steadily increasing. The objective of the present work is to shed light onto the effects of amidinium- and phosphonium-based ILs on p... Read More about Unraveling Interactions between Ionic Liquids and Phospholipid Vesicles Using Nanoplasmonic Sensing.

Surface wave manipulation based on transformation optics: From design to manufacturing (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
La Spada, L., & Hao, Y. (2016, October). Surface wave manipulation based on transformation optics: From design to manufacturing. Presented at 2016 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP), Okinawa, Japan

In the last few years, much interest has grown in the control and manipulation of electromagnetic surface waves. The aim of this paper is to present a new design and manufacturing approach based on Transformation Optics. To validate the proposed desi... Read More about Surface wave manipulation based on transformation optics: From design to manufacturing.

10Gbit/s mode-multiplexed QPSK transmission using MDM-to-MFDM based single coherent receiver for intra- and inter data center networking (2017)
Journal Article
Asif, R., & Haithem, M. (2017). 10Gbit/s mode-multiplexed QPSK transmission using MDM-to-MFDM based single coherent receiver for intra- and inter data center networking. Optics Communications, 391, 106-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2017.01.022

Generalized few-mode-fiber (FMF) transmission uses N coherent receivers for mode detection, where N scales with the number of fiber modes. Multiple coherent receivers increase the cost of optical network units (ONUs) in access networks, specifically... Read More about 10Gbit/s mode-multiplexed QPSK transmission using MDM-to-MFDM based single coherent receiver for intra- and inter data center networking.