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Empowering SMEs to embrace the SDGs in a Post-Covid Scotland (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fonseca, A. P., Crossan, K., Hock, T., Bratton, A., & Weaver, M. (2021). Empowering SMEs to embrace the SDGs in a Post-Covid Scotland. In ISBE Conference Papers

The United Nations Environment Programme - UNEP argues that the global coronavirus pandemic has caused unimaginable consequences to the global community's economy, social structure, and ecosystem. Overcoming this situation is only possible when envir... Read More about Empowering SMEs to embrace the SDGs in a Post-Covid Scotland.

Thermal performance evaluation and energy saving potential of semi-transparent CdTe in Façade BIPV (2021)
Journal Article
Alrashidi, H., Issa, W., Sellami, N., Sundaram, S., & Mallick, T. (2022). Thermal performance evaluation and energy saving potential of semi-transparent CdTe in Façade BIPV. Solar Energy, 232, 84-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2021.12.037

Semi-transparent PV glazing are promising in Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) applications. They provide daylight control, energy saving and power generation. The selection of optimal Photovoltaic (PV) glazing requires the accounting for vario... Read More about Thermal performance evaluation and energy saving potential of semi-transparent CdTe in Façade BIPV.

Commercializing University Innovations: A Sense-Making Perspective to Communicate Between Academics and Industry (2021)
Journal Article
Andrews, K., MacIntosh, R., & Sitko, R. (2024). Commercializing University Innovations: A Sense-Making Perspective to Communicate Between Academics and Industry. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 71, 614 - 625. https://doi.org/10.1109/tem.2021.

Technology transfer offices (TTOs) play a key role in helping universities commercialize research and distribute knowledge. Nonetheless, there remains an incomplete understanding of the communication, which takes place between academics, industry par... Read More about Commercializing University Innovations: A Sense-Making Perspective to Communicate Between Academics and Industry.

The ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Nursing (2021)
Book
Jennings, C., Astin, F., Fitzsimons, D., Lambrinou, E., Neubeck, L., & Thompson, D. R. (Eds.). (2021). The ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Nursing. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Predicting CO2 and CH4 Transport in Landfill Gas Using Porous Inorganic Membranes Operated in The Darcy Regime (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gobina, E., Ogunlude, P., Abunumah, O., Giwa, A., & Muhammad-Sukki, F. (2021). Predicting CO2 and CH4 Transport in Landfill Gas Using Porous Inorganic Membranes Operated in The Darcy Regime. In International Congress on Scientific Advances (ICONSAD’21)

The present work is focusing on the utilization of previously fabricated membrane to study the effect of pressure drop and temperature on permeability. Mass transfer considerations were used under previously optimized conditions. Subsequently, gas pe... Read More about Predicting CO2 and CH4 Transport in Landfill Gas Using Porous Inorganic Membranes Operated in The Darcy Regime.

The Potential of Friendship: A Case for Social Resilience and New Care Optics (2021)
Journal Article
Kulpa, R., & Ludwin, K. (2021). The Potential of Friendship: A Case for Social Resilience and New Care Optics. interalia: a journal of queer studies, 16, 82-94. https://doi.org/10.51897/interalia/rgrq6813

In this article, we call for greater recognition of friendship as a basic social relation that should play a pivotal role in re-imagining social resilience if it is to be future-proof in the face of social upheaval, such as the current pandemic. Draw... Read More about The Potential of Friendship: A Case for Social Resilience and New Care Optics.

Recent Advances in Nature-Inspired Solutions for Ground Engineering (NiSE) (2021)
Journal Article
Assadi-Langroudi, A., O’Kelly, B. C., Barreto, D., Cotecchia, F., Dicks, H., Ekinci, A., …van Paassen, L. (2022). Recent Advances in Nature-Inspired Solutions for Ground Engineering (NiSE). International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering

The ground is a natural grand system; it is composed of myriad constituents that aggregate to form several geologic and biogenic systems. These systems operate independently and interplay harmoniously via important networked structures over multiple... Read More about Recent Advances in Nature-Inspired Solutions for Ground Engineering (NiSE).

Using IOTA as an Inter-Vehicular Trust Mechanism in Autonomous Vehicles (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cutajar, O., Moradpoor, N., & Jaroucheh, Z. (2021). Using IOTA as an Inter-Vehicular Trust Mechanism in Autonomous Vehicles. In 2021 14th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN). https://doi.org/10.1109/SIN54109.2021.969932

In a perfect world, coordination and cooperation across distributed autonomous systems would be a trivial task. However, incomplete information, malicious actors and real-world conditions can provide challenges which bring the trust-worthiness of par... Read More about Using IOTA as an Inter-Vehicular Trust Mechanism in Autonomous Vehicles.

VNWTS: A Virtual Water Chlorination Process for Cybersecurity Analysis of Industrial Control Systems (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robles Durazno, A., Moradpoor, N., McWhinnie, J., & Porcel-Bustamante, J. (2021). VNWTS: A Virtual Water Chlorination Process for Cybersecurity Analysis of Industrial Control Systems. In 2021 14th International Conference on Security of Information and N

The rapid development of technology during the last decades has led to the integration of the network capabilities in the devices that are essential in the operation of Industrial Control Systems (ICS). Consequently, the attack surface of these asset... Read More about VNWTS: A Virtual Water Chlorination Process for Cybersecurity Analysis of Industrial Control Systems.

Pluralised responses to policing the Pandemic: Analysing the emergence of informal order maintenance strategies, the changing ‘policing web’, and the impacts of COVID-19 in rural communities. A Report on Interim Findings (2021)
Report
Wooff, A., Horgan, S., & Tatnell, A. (2021). Pluralised responses to policing the Pandemic: Analysing the emergence of informal order maintenance strategies, the changing ‘policing web’, and the impacts of COVID-19 in rural communities. A Report on In

Acknowledging the differential impacts of COVID-19 on communities, this project examines how the policing of rural communities has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. We assessed the changing demands made of the police and other key organisations... Read More about Pluralised responses to policing the Pandemic: Analysing the emergence of informal order maintenance strategies, the changing ‘policing web’, and the impacts of COVID-19 in rural communities. A Report on Interim Findings.

How are we positioning degree apprenticeships? Analysis of adverts (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fabian, K., Taylor-Smith, E., & Smith, S. (2021). How are we positioning degree apprenticeships? Analysis of adverts. In SRHE International Conference on Research into Higher Education

Degree apprentices are recruited by employers, rather than universities, reflecting their status as paid employees, first and foremost. This study analysed job adverts for IT degree apprenticeship roles to investigate the: skills, attributes, and qua... Read More about How are we positioning degree apprenticeships? Analysis of adverts.

Degree Apprentices’ Lockdown Survey: Reflections on working and studying from home (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Taylor-Smith, E., & Fabian, K. (2021). Degree Apprentices’ Lockdown Survey: Reflections on working and studying from home. In SRHE International Conference on Research into Higher Education

During the first UK lockdown period, degree apprentices in two universities in Scotland were invited to complete a short qualitative survey with their reflections on starting to work and study from home. They were encouraged to complete the survey o... Read More about Degree Apprentices’ Lockdown Survey: Reflections on working and studying from home.

Guest Editorial: Special Issue on "Advance in Mobile Edge Computing" (2021)
Journal Article
Yang, X., Tan, Z., & Xu, Y. (2021). Guest Editorial: Special Issue on "Advance in Mobile Edge Computing". Journal of Internet Technology, 22(5),

Cloud computing has a problem for communication-intensive applications, which need to meet the delay requirements. The problem becomes more intense with the huge application of the Internet of Things. Mobile Edge Computing processes data at the neare... Read More about Guest Editorial: Special Issue on "Advance in Mobile Edge Computing".

Design and Construction of High Rise Timber Buildings (2021)
Book
Jäärats, A., Barlow, C., Henriques, D., Vahtramäe, E., Hamadyk, E., Hansen, E., de Brito, J., Silvestre, J., Naimavičienė, J., Lellep, K., Narbutienė, L., Tupenaite, L., Paap, L., Kanapeckiene, L., Guerreiro, L., Kiisa, M., Amado, M., Krutinis, M.,

From a PhD to Assisting BioMusic Research (2021)
Book Chapter
Di Donato, B. (2021). From a PhD to Assisting BioMusic Research. In C. Vear (Ed.), The Routledge International Handbook of Practice-Based Research (642-649). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429324154-50

This chapter describes the author’s practice and experience in transitioning from being a PhD in Music Technology candidate to a research assistant on a large-scale funded project. Both research works were delivered in a multidisciplinary environment... Read More about From a PhD to Assisting BioMusic Research.

A Preliminary Scoping Study of Federated Learning for the Internet of Medical Things (2021)
Book Chapter
Farhad, A., Woolley, S. I., & Andras, P. (2021). A Preliminary Scoping Study of Federated Learning for the Internet of Medical Things. In J. Mantas, L. Stoicu-Tivadar, C. Chronaki, A. Hasman, P. Weber, P. Gallos, …O. Sorina Chirila (Eds.), Public Health

This paper presents a scoping review of federated learning for the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) and demonstrates the limited amount of research work in an area which has potential to improve patient care. Federated Learning and IoMT – as standal... Read More about A Preliminary Scoping Study of Federated Learning for the Internet of Medical Things.

The Task2Dial Dataset: A Novel Dataset for Commonsense-enhanced Task-based Dialogue Grounded in Documents (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Strathearn, C., & Gkatzia, D. (2021). The Task2Dial Dataset: A Novel Dataset for Commonsense-enhanced Task-based Dialogue Grounded in Documents. In Proceedings of The Fourth International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2021)

This paper describes the Task2Dial dataset, a novel dataset of document-grounded task-based dialogues in the food preparation domain , where an Information Giver (IG) provides instructions to an Information Follower (IF) so that the latter can succes... Read More about The Task2Dial Dataset: A Novel Dataset for Commonsense-enhanced Task-based Dialogue Grounded in Documents.

Tracking Stream Quality Issues in Combined Physical and Radar Sensors for IoT-based Data-driven Actuation (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bamgboye, O., Liu, X., Cruickshank, P., Liu, Q., & Zhang, Y. (2021). Tracking Stream Quality Issues in Combined Physical and Radar Sensors for IoT-based Data-driven Actuation. In 2021 CIE International Conference on Radar (Radar). https://doi.org/10.1109

In this paper, a stream quality tracking for measurements from combined radar and physical sensors is developed. The authors proposed the use of RDF stream processing system and semantic rules to provide semantic reasoning for tracking erroneous data... Read More about Tracking Stream Quality Issues in Combined Physical and Radar Sensors for IoT-based Data-driven Actuation.