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Acoustic Model Adaptation from Raw Waveforms with Sincnet (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Fainberg, J., Klejch, O., Loweimi, E., Bell, P., & Renals, S. (2019). Acoustic Model Adaptation from Raw Waveforms with Sincnet. In 2019 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU). https://doi.org/10.1109/asru46091.2019.9003974

Raw waveform acoustic modelling has recently gained interest due to neural networks' ability to learn feature extraction, and the potential for finding better representations for a given scenario than hand-crafted features. SincNet has been proposed... Read More about Acoustic Model Adaptation from Raw Waveforms with Sincnet.

Innovating in Digital Platforms: An Integrative Approach (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Neves da Rocha, F., & Pollock, N. (2019). Innovating in Digital Platforms: An Integrative Approach. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS (505-515). https://doi.org/10.5220/0007711105050515

Increasing competitive pressures are leading companies to innovate through digital platforms. The dominant theme within extant research on innovation in these platforms conceptualises two different processes: Generativity (Tilson et al., 2010; Yoo e... Read More about Innovating in Digital Platforms: An Integrative Approach.

European Union Regulation of Insurance Industry in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis (2019)
Journal Article
Emond, I., & Kunertová, T. (2019). European Union Regulation of Insurance Industry in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis. The Lawyer Quarterly, 9(2), 140-149

At the time of writing of this article we have reached the tenth anniversary of the peak of the financial crisis of 2007 to 2008. The 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath provide the backdrop to regulatory actions in the field of insurance. The ar... Read More about European Union Regulation of Insurance Industry in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis.

Collaborative Streaming: Trust Requirements for Price Sharing (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Grubenmann, T., Dell'Aglio, D., & Bernstein, A. (2019). Collaborative Streaming: Trust Requirements for Price Sharing. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). https://doi.org/10.1109/bigdata47090.2019.9005470

Stream Processing (SP) is an important Big Data technology enabling continuous querying of data streams. The stream setting offers the opportunity to exploit synergies and, theoretically, share the access and processing costs between multiple differe... Read More about Collaborative Streaming: Trust Requirements for Price Sharing.

Why Introduce People to the Raspberry Pi (2019)
Other
Berberich, R. (2019). Why Introduce People to the Raspberry Pi. [Report]

Learn why I consider the Raspberry Pi one of our best opportunities to invite more people to the open source community.

Adapt or Perish – But How (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Berberich, R. (2019, December). Adapt or Perish – But How. Paper presented at PMI Congress 2019, Delft, Netherlands

Conference Presentation at the PMI Congress 2019 in Delft Netherlands

The day students scooped the established media: the extreme experiential learning in a pop-up multiplatform newsroom (2019)
Journal Article
Ebel, I., & Canner, A. (2019). The day students scooped the established media: the extreme experiential learning in a pop-up multiplatform newsroom. Journalism Education, 8(2), 103-117

Simulations are not enough to teach student journalists to react to unpredicted situations and produce high-quality content under adverse circumstances. Therefore, the university needs to provide experiential learning activities and training in real-... Read More about The day students scooped the established media: the extreme experiential learning in a pop-up multiplatform newsroom.

Killing Robots (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Blanchet, L. Killing Robots. [Theatre]. 2019 - 2020. (Unpublished)

HitchBot est un robot auto-stoppeur créé par un laboratoire canadien en 2014, pour étudier les interactions entre les hommes et les machines. Il a la taille d’un enfant de six ans ; il a été fabriqué avec des matériaux simples pour ne pas tenter les... Read More about Killing Robots.

How do we feel when a robot dies? Emotions expressed on Twitter before and after hitchBOT's destruction (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Fraser, K. C., Zeller, F., Smith, D. H., Mohammad, S. M., & Rudzicz, F. (2019). How do we feel when a robot dies? Emotions expressed on Twitter before and after hitchBOT's destruction. In Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis, (62-71). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W19-1308

In 2014, a chatty but immobile robot called hitchBOT set out to hitchhike across Canada. It similarly made its way across Germany and the Netherlands, and had begun a trip across the USA when it was destroyed by vandals. In this work, we analyze the... Read More about How do we feel when a robot dies? Emotions expressed on Twitter before and after hitchBOT's destruction.

Great War Dundee: hidden histories (2019)
Other
Donald, I., Kenefick, B., Patrick, D., Sinclair, F., Kenefick, B., Patrick, D., …Jeffrey, A. (2019). Great War Dundee: hidden histories. [Booklet]. Dundee

The Great War had a long and lasting impact on the city of Dundee and its people.Great War Dundee - hidden histories presents research that was carried out by volunteers on behalf of the Great War Dundee Partnership to uncover and make these hidden h... Read More about Great War Dundee: hidden histories.

Great War Dundee: featuring Ragtime soldier (2019)
Digital Artefact
Vaughan, P., Murray, C., Kenefick, B., Donald, I., Patrick, D., Sinclair, F., …Kennedy, I. (2019). Great War Dundee: featuring Ragtime soldier. [Comic]

This comic is part of the Great War Dundee (GWD) Hidden Histories project, which was made possible thanks to the generous support of The National Lottery Heritage Fund. It was developed by Professor Christopher Murray and Phillip Vaughan and tells th... Read More about Great War Dundee: featuring Ragtime soldier.

Thermal performance analysis of BIPV-PDLC window (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Ghosh, A., Sundaram, S., & Mallick, T. K. (2019). Thermal performance analysis of BIPV-PDLC window. In ISES SWC2019 / SHC2019 Conference Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.18086/swc.2019.36.01

Electrically activated switchable glazing is potential to control excessive entering solar gain to an indoor space by altering its state from transparent to opaque or translucent. Electrically operated polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) glazing... Read More about Thermal performance analysis of BIPV-PDLC window.

The Assembly of Embedded Systems for Integrated Photovoltaic windows in Rural Buildings (E-IPB) (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Shanks, K., Baig, H., Knowles, A., Brierley, A., Orr, H., Patel, J., …Mallick, T. (2019). The Assembly of Embedded Systems for Integrated Photovoltaic windows in Rural Buildings (E-IPB). In IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering (012040). https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/556/1/012040

Embedded PV systems are required to help improve the synergy of renewable energy and smart buildings. A novel concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) system embedded as a window for integration into buildings is presented. The system is made up of crossed co... Read More about The Assembly of Embedded Systems for Integrated Photovoltaic windows in Rural Buildings (E-IPB).

Synthesis and Characterization of Electro-spin Deposited Perovskite Nanostructures for Solar Cell Application (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Pitchaiya, S., Natarajan, M., Santhanam, A., Asokan, V., Ramakrishnan, V., Palanichamy, P., …Velauthapillai, D. (2019). Synthesis and Characterization of Electro-spin Deposited Perovskite Nanostructures for Solar Cell Application. In AMCEHA 2019: Symposium on Solar Energy Applications

Perovskite nanostructures have been prepared via electrospinning technique using polyvinyl alcohol and methylammonium lead iodide (CH3NH3PbI3 – perovskite). In the electrospinning experiment, the formation of different nanostructures was observed for... Read More about Synthesis and Characterization of Electro-spin Deposited Perovskite Nanostructures for Solar Cell Application.

Bio-based Carbon Hole Transporting Material Obtained from the Extract of Invasive Species of Aagaya Thamarai Plant (Eichhornia crassipes) for Cost-Effective Carbon Based Perovskite Solar Cells (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Pitchaiya, S., Natarajan, M., Santhanam, A., Asokan, V., Ramakrishnan, V., Palanichamy, P., …Velauthapillai, D. (2019). Bio-based Carbon Hole Transporting Material Obtained from the Extract of Invasive Species of Aagaya Thamarai Plant (Eichhornia crassipes) for Cost-Effective Carbon Based Perovskite Solar Cells. In AMCEHA 2019: Symposium on Solar Energy Applications

Herein, we report a novel and naturally extracted carbon based hole transporting material (HTM) for perovskite solar cells (PSCs) synthesized using an eco-friendly and cost-effective ancient Indian method. Also in this work, the low-cost and bio-base... Read More about Bio-based Carbon Hole Transporting Material Obtained from the Extract of Invasive Species of Aagaya Thamarai Plant (Eichhornia crassipes) for Cost-Effective Carbon Based Perovskite Solar Cells.

Query expansion for microblog retrieval focusing on an ensemble of features (2019)
Journal Article
Chy, A. N., Ullah, M. Z., & Aono, M. (2019). Query expansion for microblog retrieval focusing on an ensemble of features. Journal of Information Processing, 27, 61-76. https://doi.org/10.2197/ipsjjip.27.61

In microblog search, vocabulary mismatch is a persisting problem due to the brevity of tweets and frequent use of unconventional abbreviations. One way of alleviating this problem is to reformulate the query via query expansion. However, finding good... Read More about Query expansion for microblog retrieval focusing on an ensemble of features.

Multi-Antenna Array Topologies Optimization for Future Wireless Networks by Employing Particle Swarm Optimization (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Huang, Y. K., Karadimas, P., & Sohrab, A. P. (2019). Multi-Antenna Array Topologies Optimization for Future Wireless Networks by Employing Particle Swarm Optimization. In 2019 PhotonIcs & Electromagnetics Research Symposium - Spring (PIERS-Spring) (4138-4143). https://doi.org/10.1109/piers-spring46901.2019.9017303

The purpose of this work is to design novel antenna array topologies that maximize channel capacity. Accordingly, we employ the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm as an effective technique in similar electromagnetic problems. We use a novel... Read More about Multi-Antenna Array Topologies Optimization for Future Wireless Networks by Employing Particle Swarm Optimization.

Gig Economy as a Tool for Sustainable Livelihood Strategy for Construction workers in South Africa (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Osunsanmi, T. O., Aigbavboa, C. O., Oke, A. E., & Liphadzi, M. (2019). Gig Economy as a Tool for Sustainable Livelihood Strategy for Construction workers in South Africa. In 14th International Postgraduate Research Conference in the Built Environ ment (IPGRC) (224-232)

The economic meltdown and recession experienced in the country have affected the construction industry negatively in numerous ways. Among them is the shortage of construction work that affects the livelihood of construction workers. Towards improving... Read More about Gig Economy as a Tool for Sustainable Livelihood Strategy for Construction workers in South Africa.