All Outputs (1511)

Mechanical behavior and constitutive model of sustainable concrete: seawater and sea-sand recycled aggregate concrete (2022)
Journal Article
Feng, W., Tang, Y., Yang, Y., Cheng, Y., Qiu, J., Zhang, H., Isleem, H. F., Tayeh, B. A., & Namdar, A. (2023). Mechanical behavior and constitutive model of sustainable concrete: seawater and sea-sand recycled aggregate concrete. Construction and Building

Resources such as fresh water and river sand have become scarce in some areas around the world because of the considerable increase in infrastructural construction. To overcome this issue, the utilization of recycled aggregates (RAs) in concrete is c... Read More about Mechanical behavior and constitutive model of sustainable concrete: seawater and sea-sand recycled aggregate concrete.

Holocaust heritage digilantism on Instagram (2022)
Journal Article
Wight, C., & Stanley, P. (in press). Holocaust heritage digilantism on Instagram. Tourism Recreation Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2022.2153994

Discursive, netnographic and visual methods have been applied in the past to critique self-images, providing insight into the behaviours of tourists. However, such studies have ignored reactions to self-image posts on social media, and particularly t... Read More about Holocaust heritage digilantism on Instagram.

Explainable AI and Deep Autoencoders Based Security Framework for IoT Network Attack Certainty (Extended Abstract) (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sampath Kalutharage, C., Liu, X., & Chrysoulas, C. (2022, September). Explainable AI and Deep Autoencoders Based Security Framework for IoT Network Attack Certainty (Extended Abstract). Presented at 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security

Over the past few decades, Machine Learning (ML)-based intrusion detection systems (IDS) have become increasingly popular and continue to show remarkable performance in detecting attacks. However, the lack of transparency in their decision-making pro... Read More about Explainable AI and Deep Autoencoders Based Security Framework for IoT Network Attack Certainty (Extended Abstract).

Quantifying Particle Breakage and Its Evolution Using Breakage Indices and Grading Entropy Coordinates (2022)
Journal Article
Leak, J., Barreto, D., Dimitriadi, V., & Imre, E. (2022). Quantifying Particle Breakage and Its Evolution Using Breakage Indices and Grading Entropy Coordinates. Geotechnics, 2(4), 1109-1126. https://doi.org/10.3390/geotechnics2040052

Particle breakage in soils is a well-recognised behaviour. Conventional methods for quantifying the breakage process rely on calculating the area between the particle size distribution (PSD) curves produced before and after crushing. A key aspect of... Read More about Quantifying Particle Breakage and Its Evolution Using Breakage Indices and Grading Entropy Coordinates.

Towards Simple and Accurate Human Pose Estimation With Stair Network (2022)
Journal Article
Jiang, C., Huang, K., Zhang, S., Wang, X., Xiao, J., Niu, Z., & Hussain, A. (2023). Towards Simple and Accurate Human Pose Estimation With Stair Network. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 7(3), 805-817. https://doi.org/10

In this paper, we focus on tackling the precise keypoint coordinates regression task. Most existing approaches adopt complicated networks with a large number of parameters, leading to a heavy model with poor cost-effectiveness in practice. To overcom... Read More about Towards Simple and Accurate Human Pose Estimation With Stair Network.

A framework for live host-based Bitcoin wallet forensics and triage (2022)
Journal Article
Holmes, A., & Buchanan, W. J. (2023). A framework for live host-based Bitcoin wallet forensics and triage. Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation, 44, Article 301486. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsidi.2022.301486

Organised crime and cybercriminals use Bitcoin, a popular cryptocurrency, to launder money and move it across borders with impunity. The UK and other countries have legislation to recover the proceeds of crime from criminals. Recent UK case law has r... Read More about A framework for live host-based Bitcoin wallet forensics and triage.

Canonical cortical graph neural networks and its application for speech enhancement in audio-visual hearing aids (2022)
Journal Article
Passos, L. A., Papa, J. P., Hussain, A., & Adeel, A. (2023). Canonical cortical graph neural networks and its application for speech enhancement in audio-visual hearing aids. Neurocomputing, 527, 196-203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2022.11.081

Despite the recent success of machine learning algorithms, most models face drawbacks when considering more complex tasks requiring interaction between different sources, such as multimodal input data and logical time sequences. On the other hand, th... Read More about Canonical cortical graph neural networks and its application for speech enhancement in audio-visual hearing aids.

Achieving high open circuit voltage for hole transport layer free ambient perovskite solar cells utilizing electric double layer effect (2022)
Journal Article
Sadhukhan, P., Roy, A., Bhandari, S., Mallick, T. K., Das, S., & Sundaram, S. (2023). Achieving high open circuit voltage for hole transport layer free ambient perovskite solar cells utilizing electric double layer effect. Solar Energy Materials and Solar

One of the features of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) that make them stand out among all photovoltaics (PVs) is their high open-circuit voltage (VOC). Owing to their simple manufacturing process, low cost of components, and good stability, carbon elec... Read More about Achieving high open circuit voltage for hole transport layer free ambient perovskite solar cells utilizing electric double layer effect.

81 Steps by Paul Holmes (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Holmes, P. (2022, December). 81 Steps by Paul Holmes. Paper presented at 7th "MEMORY, MELANCHOLY AND NOSTALGIA" International Interdisciplinary Conference, Gdansk, Poland

Most NLG is Low-Resource: here's what we can do about it (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Howcroft, D. M., & Gkatzia, D. (2022). Most NLG is Low-Resource: here's what we can do about it. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM) (336-350)

Many domains and tasks in natural language generation (NLG) are inherently 'low-resource', where training data, tools and linguistic analyses are scarce. This poses a particular challenge to researchers and system developers in the era of machine-lea... Read More about Most NLG is Low-Resource: here's what we can do about it.

Ellipse Encoding for Arbitrary-Oriented SAR Ship Detection Based on Dynamic Key Points (2022)
Journal Article
Gao, F., Huo, Y., Sun, J., Yu, T., Hussain, A., & Zhou, H. (2022). Ellipse Encoding for Arbitrary-Oriented SAR Ship Detection Based on Dynamic Key Points. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 60, Article 5240528. https://doi.org/10.1109/tgr

In recent years, there has been growing interest in developing oriented bounding box (OBB)-based deep learning approaches to detect arbitrary-oriented ship targets in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. However, most existing OBB-based detection m... Read More about Ellipse Encoding for Arbitrary-Oriented SAR Ship Detection Based on Dynamic Key Points.

A survey of intelligent load monitoring in IoT-enabled distributed smart grids (2022)
Journal Article
Gan, J., Zeng, L., Liu, Q., & Liu, X. (2023). A survey of intelligent load monitoring in IoT-enabled distributed smart grids. International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 42(1), 12. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijahuc.2023.127781

Power load monitoring has been a research hotspot since a few years ago. With development of artificial intelligence, construction of smart grid has become the most important part of power load monitoring. At the same time, task scheduling mechanism... Read More about A survey of intelligent load monitoring in IoT-enabled distributed smart grids.

Barriers to BIM for facilities management adoption in Nigeria: a multivariate analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Ikediashi, D. I., Ansa, O. A., Ujene, A. O., & Akoh, S. R. (online). Barriers to BIM for facilities management adoption in Nigeria: a multivariate analysis. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, https://doi.org/10.1108/ijbpa-04-2022

Purpose Building information modelling (BIM) has been established in the literature as a successful platform that creates an intelligent virtual model for processing data from conceptual design through construction to operational stage of a facility... Read More about Barriers to BIM for facilities management adoption in Nigeria: a multivariate analysis.

The role of early Channel 4 commissions in the development of the freelance film and television workforce in Scotland (2022)
Newspaper / Magazine
Correia, N. (2022). The role of early Channel 4 commissions in the development of the freelance film and television workforce in Scotland. [Online magazine]. London

The launch of Channel 4 in 1982 coincided with a period of fundamental change in the Scottish film and television sector. Prior to that, local production activity in Scotland had been limited. The institutional landscape to foster indigenous filmmaki... Read More about The role of early Channel 4 commissions in the development of the freelance film and television workforce in Scotland.

Preparation of Elastomeric Nanocomposites Using Nanocellulose and Recycled Alum Sludge for Flexible Dielectric Materials (2022)
Journal Article
Sun, D., Saw, B. L., Onyianta, A. J., Wang, B., Wilson, C., O'Rourke, D., …Lu, Z. (2023). Preparation of Elastomeric Nanocomposites Using Nanocellulose and Recycled Alum Sludge for Flexible Dielectric Materials. Journal of Advanced Dielectrics, 13(01),

Flexible dielectric materials with environmental-friendly, low-cost and high-energy density characteristics are in increasing demand as the world steps into the new Industrial 4.0 era. In this work, an elastomeric nanocomposite was developed by incor... Read More about Preparation of Elastomeric Nanocomposites Using Nanocellulose and Recycled Alum Sludge for Flexible Dielectric Materials.

Four-Element/Eight-Port MIMO Antenna System with Diversity and Desirable Radiation for Sub 6 GHz Modern 5G Smartphones (2022)
Journal Article
Parchin, N. O., Amar, A. S., Darwish, M., Moussa, K. H., See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., … Mohamed, H. G. (2022). Four-Element/Eight-Port MIMO Antenna System with Diversity and Desirable Radiation for Sub 6 GHz Modern 5G Smartphones. IEEE Access, 10, 1

In this manuscript, a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna array system with identical compact antenna elements providing wide radiation and diversity function is introduced for sub 6 GHz fifth-generation (5G) cellular applications. The intr... Read More about Four-Element/Eight-Port MIMO Antenna System with Diversity and Desirable Radiation for Sub 6 GHz Modern 5G Smartphones.

A forensic analysis of streaming platforms on Android OS (2022)
Journal Article
Murias, J. G., Levick, D., & McKeown, S. (2023). A forensic analysis of streaming platforms on Android OS. Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation, 44, Article 301485. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsidi.2022.301485

This work builds on existing research in streamed video reconstruction on the Android OS, which previously demonstrated that caching occurs in most cases for the Chrome and Firefox Web browsers. Prior work also outlined that streaming application cac... Read More about A forensic analysis of streaming platforms on Android OS.

Numerical assessments of the effects of injected air temperature and well configuration on the cycle performance in compressed air energy storage in aquifers (2022)
Book Chapter
Yang, L., Cai, Z., Li, C., Guo, C., & He, Q. (2023). Numerical assessments of the effects of injected air temperature and well configuration on the cycle performance in compressed air energy storage in aquifers. In J. Miocic, N. Heinemann, K. Edlmann, J.

Aquifers have advantages over salt caverns as the storage vessels for compressed air energy storage due to their wider availability for suitable sites and lower one-off capital investment for construction. We conducted numerical simulations for compr... Read More about Numerical assessments of the effects of injected air temperature and well configuration on the cycle performance in compressed air energy storage in aquifers.

Measurement of SARS-CoV-2 in air and on surfaces in Scottish hospitals (2022)
Journal Article
Loh, M., Yaxley, N., Moore, G., Holmes, D., Todd, S., Smith, A., …Cherrie, J. W. (2023). Measurement of SARS-CoV-2 in air and on surfaces in Scottish hospitals. Journal of Hospital Infection, 133, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2022.11.019

Background There are still uncertainties in our knowledge of the amount of SARS-CoV-2 virus present in the environment; where it can be found, and potential exposure determinants, limiting our ability to effectively model and compare interventions f... Read More about Measurement of SARS-CoV-2 in air and on surfaces in Scottish hospitals.

Continuing Professional Education: A Framework of Participation (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McLean, L. (2022, December). Continuing Professional Education: A Framework of Participation. Paper presented at Mobilities in Higher Education: SRHE International Conference 2022, Online

This paper explores the nature and context of students’ participation in Continuing Professional Education (post-experience), with a focus on the experiences of those engaging in a Masters level, professionally accredited qualification (MSC Human Res... Read More about Continuing Professional Education: A Framework of Participation.