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Acceptance of Smartphone-Based Mobile Shopping: Mobile Benefits, Customer Characteristics, Perceived Risks, and the Impact of Application Context (2017)
Journal Article
Hubert, M., Blut, M., Brock, C., Backhaus, C., & Eberhardt, T. (2017). Acceptance of Smartphone-Based Mobile Shopping: Mobile Benefits, Customer Characteristics, Perceived Risks, and the Impact of Application Context. Psychology and Marketing, 34(2), 175-194. https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.20982

Despite their generally increasing use, the adoption of mobile shopping applications often differs across purchase contexts. In order to advance our understanding of smartphone‐based mobile shopping acceptance, this study integrates and extends exist... Read More about Acceptance of Smartphone-Based Mobile Shopping: Mobile Benefits, Customer Characteristics, Perceived Risks, and the Impact of Application Context.

Phenotiki: an open software and hardware platform for affordable and easy image-based phenotyping of rosette-shaped plants (2017)
Journal Article
Minervini, M., Giuffrida, M. V., Perata, P., & Tsaftaris, S. A. (2017). Phenotiki: an open software and hardware platform for affordable and easy image-based phenotyping of rosette-shaped plants. Plant Journal, 90(1), 204-216. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.13472

Phenotyping is important to understand plant biology, but current solutions are costly, not versatile or are difficult to deploy. To solve this problem, we present Phenotiki, an affordable system for plant phenotyping that, relying on off-the-shelf p... Read More about Phenotiki: an open software and hardware platform for affordable and easy image-based phenotyping of rosette-shaped plants.

Travel Plans for New Developments: A Global Review (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
De Gruyter, C., Rose, G., Currie, G., & Rye, T. (2017, January). Travel Plans for New Developments: A Global Review. Presented at Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting

Travel plans, also known as Transportation Demand Management (TDM) plans, can be required for new infill and greenfield developments through the land use planning and approvals process. They aim to manage car use through delivering a package of trans... Read More about Travel Plans for New Developments: A Global Review.

A pilot study: Evaluation of sensor system design for optical fibre humidity sensors subjected to aggressive air sewer environment (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alwis, L. S. M., Bustamante, H., Bremer, K., Roth, B., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. T. V. (2016, October). A pilot study: Evaluation of sensor system design for optical fibre humidity sensors subjected to aggressive air sewer environment. Presented at 2016 IEEE SENSORS

Research has identified that humidity plays a fundamental role on the conversion of hydrogen sulphide into sulphuric acid during corrosion of concrete in gravity sewers and that potentially minor reductions in humidity can reduce corrosion rates. The... Read More about A pilot study: Evaluation of sensor system design for optical fibre humidity sensors subjected to aggressive air sewer environment.

A new efficient cross-layer relay node selection model for Wireless Community Mesh Networks (2017)
Journal Article
Zhao, L., Al-Dubai, A., Li, X., Chen, G., & Min, G. (2017). A new efficient cross-layer relay node selection model for Wireless Community Mesh Networks. Computers and Electrical Engineering, 61, 361-372. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2016.12.031

Current networking technologies are not perfectly equipped to support Quality of Service (QoS), which is vital for real-time multimedia applications in Wireless Community Mesh Networks (WCNs). Therefore, there is a need to devise innovative routing a... Read More about A new efficient cross-layer relay node selection model for Wireless Community Mesh Networks.

Faculty perceptions on publishing research (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pennington, D. R., Swanson, A., Akwaowo, E., & Zobisch, P. (2016, September). Faculty perceptions on publishing research. Presented at 19th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, Belfast

Today’s researchers have not only the traditional publications, but the open access publishing method whereby research papers can be published via the Internet as well as print publications. Researchers must carefully scrutinize the open access publi... Read More about Faculty perceptions on publishing research.

Towards Trust and Governance in Integrated Health and Social Care Platforms (2017)
Book Chapter
Buchanan, W., Thuemmler, C., Spyra, G., Smales, A., & Prajapati, B. (2017). Towards Trust and Governance in Integrated Health and Social Care Platforms. In Health 4.0: How Virtualization and Big Data are Revolutionizing Healthcare (219-231). (1). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47617-9_11

The way we are sharing health and care data will be changing considerably over the years to come. One of the reasons is an increasing move towards patient-centric approaches where services are built around the citizens, rather than citizens integrate... Read More about Towards Trust and Governance in Integrated Health and Social Care Platforms.

Security for Cyber-Physical Systems in Healthcare (2017)
Book Chapter
Saleem, K., Tan, Z., & Buchanan, W. (2017). Security for Cyber-Physical Systems in Healthcare. In Health 4.0: How Virtualization and Big Data are Revolutionizing Healthcare (233-251). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47617-9_12

The great leap forward of cyber-physical systems has made provision for future personalized medicine. However, these systems are prone to cyber attacks. To provide patients with secure and reliable healthcare experience, the security issues of cyber-... Read More about Security for Cyber-Physical Systems in Healthcare.

Size Exponents for Scaling Maximal Oxygen Uptake in Over 6500 Humans: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2017)
Journal Article
Lolli, L., Batterham, A. M., Weston, K. L., & Atkinson, G. (2017). Size Exponents for Scaling Maximal Oxygen Uptake in Over 6500 Humans: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Sports Medicine, 47(7), 1405-1419. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-016-0655-1

Background
Maximal oxygen uptake (V˙O 2max) is conventionally normalized to body size as a simple ratio or using an allometric exponent < 1. Nevertheless, the most appropriate body size variable to use for scaling and the value of the exponent are s... Read More about Size Exponents for Scaling Maximal Oxygen Uptake in Over 6500 Humans: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Making the Most of Masters: Employer Engagement in the Postgraduate Student Experience (2017)
Report
Allford, R. (2017). Making the Most of Masters: Employer Engagement in the Postgraduate Student Experience. University of Stirling

Making the Most of Most of Masters (MMM) began in 2011 as a pilot programme designed to test and embed the use of external Work Based Projects (WBPs) as an alternative to the traditional academic Masters dissertation. Such has been the success and im... Read More about Making the Most of Masters: Employer Engagement in the Postgraduate Student Experience.

Community Council Liaison Officer questionnaire data for IL-DEM project November - December 2016 (2017)
Data
Hall, H., Cruickshank, P., & Ryan, B. (2017). Community Council Liaison Officer questionnaire data for IL-DEM project November - December 2016. [Data]. https://doi.org/10.17869/ENU.2017.682243

Results of questionnaire emailed to all Community Council Liaison Officers (1) in Scotland. Questions were around their Community Councils' use of information skills, for a project around information literacy in community-level democracy.

(1) Com... Read More about Community Council Liaison Officer questionnaire data for IL-DEM project November - December 2016.

Community Councillors survey data for IL-DEM project November -December 2016 (2017)
Data
Hall, H., Cruickshank, P., & Ryan, B. (2017). Community Councillors survey data for IL-DEM project November -December 2016. [Data]. https://doi.org/10.17869/ENU.2017.682227

Results of online survey of Community Councillors around Scotland. Most questions were around their use of information skills, for a project around information literacy in community-level democracy, but some questions were about their general roles a... Read More about Community Councillors survey data for IL-DEM project November -December 2016.

A clinical decision support tool to assist with the interpretation of the 12-lead electrocardiogram (2017)
Journal Article
Breen, C., Bond, R., & Finlay, D. (2019). A clinical decision support tool to assist with the interpretation of the 12-lead electrocardiogram. Health Informatics Journal, 25(1), 51-61. https://doi.org/10.1177/1460458216683534

This article reports the design and testing of a novel interactive method, abbreviated to ANALYSE (systemAtic aNALYsiS of Electrocardiography) to assist interpretation of 12-lead electrocardiogram. 15 participants interpreted a total of 150 12-lead e... Read More about A clinical decision support tool to assist with the interpretation of the 12-lead electrocardiogram.

Controlling venetian blinds based on parametric design; via implementing Grasshopper’s plugins: A case study of an office building in Cairo (2017)
Journal Article
Eltaweel, A., & Su, Y. (2017). Controlling venetian blinds based on parametric design; via implementing Grasshopper’s plugins: A case study of an office building in Cairo. Energy and Buildings, 139, 31-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2016.12.075

Venetian blinds are common type of shading devices and are increasingly operated automatically to overcome the limitations of using manual operation. Automated blinds need to be controlled to maximize benefits of daylight on the aspects of redirectin... Read More about Controlling venetian blinds based on parametric design; via implementing Grasshopper’s plugins: A case study of an office building in Cairo.

Autism and Visual Impairment: a Review of the Literature (2017)
Journal Article
Butchart, M., Long, J. J., Brown, M., McMillan, A., Bain, J., & Karatzias, T. (2017). Autism and Visual Impairment: a Review of the Literature. Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 4(2), 118-131. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40489-016-0101-1

Purpose
This review presents the evidence on the prevalence of visual impairments in children and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and the similar behavioural traits associated with both visual impairment and autism.

Method
A systemat... Read More about Autism and Visual Impairment: a Review of the Literature.

Comparative study on equine and ovine gluteus medius muscle activity pattern during treadmill trot (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zsoldos, R., Voegele, A., Valentin, S., Weber, A., & Licka, T. (2017, January). Comparative study on equine and ovine gluteus medius muscle activity pattern during treadmill trot. Poster presented at Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology 2017 (SICB Annual Meeting 2017), New Orleans, United States

From a dynamic perspective, terrestrial mammals of very different sizes move in a similar way as they have very similar Froude numbers, even though the dynamic properties of the tissues such as muscle do not change with the different sizes. In the pr... Read More about Comparative study on equine and ovine gluteus medius muscle activity pattern during treadmill trot.

Use of ubiquitous real-time passenger information. (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Islam, F., Fonzone, A., MacIver, A., & Dickinson, K. (2017, January). Use of ubiquitous real-time passenger information. Paper presented at 49th Annual UTSG Conference