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Interactive digital television and the ‘new’ citizen. (2006)
Book Chapter
Webster, W., & Smith, C. F. (2006). Interactive digital television and the ‘new’ citizen. In V. Bekkers, H. van Duivenboden, & M. Thaens (Eds.), Information and Communication Technology and Public Innovation: assessing the ICT-driven modernization of public administration (121-137). IOS Press

This chapter presents a case study of the use of interactive digital television (iDTV) to deliver electronic public services in the UK. It reviews a number of innovative iDTV initiatives which have sought to test the feasibility of using iDTV technol... Read More about Interactive digital television and the ‘new’ citizen..

Mobile Multicast Route Optimisation (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Romdhani, I., Munoz, J., Bettahar, H., & Bouabdallah, A. (2006, June). Mobile Multicast Route Optimisation. Presented at 2006 IEEE International Conference on Communications

The multiparty nature of multicast applications presents new challenges for Mobile IP users. Unfortunately, when a multicast receiver is mobile, it will experience additional delay in receiving multicast packets due to handover delay, join latency, a... Read More about Mobile Multicast Route Optimisation.

The place probe: exploring a sense of place in real and virtual environments. (2006)
Journal Article
McCall, R., Benyon, D., Smyth, M., O'Neill, S., McCall, R., & Carroll, F. (2006). The place probe: exploring a sense of place in real and virtual environments. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 15(6), 668-687. https://doi.org/10.1162/pres.15.6.668

This paper describes the design, application, and refinement of a qualitative tool designed to study sense of place. The Place Probe incorporates a range of stimuli and techniques aimed at articulating a person's sense of place. It has been developed... Read More about The place probe: exploring a sense of place in real and virtual environments..

Fast conversion for large Canonical OR-coincidence functions. (2006)
Journal Article
Yang, M., Wang, L. Y., & Almaini, A. E. A. (2006). Fast conversion for large Canonical OR-coincidence functions. Circuits and Systems, 1643-1646. https://doi.org/10.1109/APCCAS.2006.342080

Fixed Polarity Canonical OR-coincidence (COC) expansions based on inclusive-OR and OR operations are dual forms of fixed polarity Reed-Muller expansions. Traditionally, they are obtained from maxterms of Canonical Products-of-sum (CPOS) expansions. T... Read More about Fast conversion for large Canonical OR-coincidence functions..

Energy efficiency improvements through sunspace augmented positive input ventilation of buildings. (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Currie, J., Capper, G., & Holmes, J. (2006, November). Energy efficiency improvements through sunspace augmented positive input ventilation of buildings. Presented at EPIC 2006 AIVC Vol 3

Positive input ventilation (PIV) systems were installed in a new build housing development in Ballantrae in south west Scotland; utilising a glazed sunspace on the south elevation of each dwelling to augment the energy saving potential of the install... Read More about Energy efficiency improvements through sunspace augmented positive input ventilation of buildings..

Harmonic errors associated with the use of choppers in optical experiments (2006)
Journal Article
Benjamin, K., Armitage, A., & South, R. B. (2006). Harmonic errors associated with the use of choppers in optical experiments. Measurement : journal of the International Measurement Confederation, 39(8), 764-770. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2006.02.008

Rotating chopper wheels are used to modulate optical radiation in many experimental systems, typically for measuring the frequency response of an optical system. The assumption is often made that the chopped radiation varies sinusoidally. In practice... Read More about Harmonic errors associated with the use of choppers in optical experiments.

PN code acquisition with a CA-CFAR adaptive digital matched filter and its realisation using FPGA. (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wie, B., Sharif, M., Almaini, A. E. A., & Binnie, D. (2006, September). PN code acquisition with a CA-CFAR adaptive digital matched filter and its realisation using FPGA. Presented at Proceedings of IEEE 13th International Conference on Systems, Signals & Image Processing, IWSSIP’06,

In this paper the performance of a Cell Averaging Constant False Alarm Rate (CA-CFAR) Pseudo-Noise (PN) code adaptive detector is analysed for a single path communication channel. The detection process uses a digital Matched Filter (MF) and is implem... Read More about PN code acquisition with a CA-CFAR adaptive digital matched filter and its realisation using FPGA..

Hierarchical Home Agent Architecture for Mobile IP Communications (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Romdhani, I., Munoz, J., Bettahar, H., & Bouabdallah, A. (2006, June). Hierarchical Home Agent Architecture for Mobile IP Communications. Presented at 11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'06)

While the Mobile IP protocol does not exclude the use of multiple Home Agents (HAs), it does not impose any particular model either. Recent solutions propose that a mobile node uses multiple HAs located in different physical links in his home network... Read More about Hierarchical Home Agent Architecture for Mobile IP Communications.

Study of stratification in a (ICSSWH) Integrated CollectorStorage Solar Water Heater. (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Junaidi, H., Henderson, D., Muneer, T., Grassie, T., & Currie, J. (2006, June). Study of stratification in a (ICSSWH) Integrated CollectorStorage Solar Water Heater. Presented at 9th AIAA/ASME Joint Thermophysis & Heat Transfer Conference

Stratification inside the water storage tank of a solar heater is a desirable natural phenomenon that improves the collector output. For an ICS storage heater type, where the storage tank is in direct contact with the heating surface (absorber plate)... Read More about Study of stratification in a (ICSSWH) Integrated CollectorStorage Solar Water Heater..

An approach to obtain compact multi-level mixed polarity Reed-Muller functions with onset table. (2006)
Journal Article
Wang, L. Y., Xia, Y., Yang, M., & Almaini, A. E. A. (2006). An approach to obtain compact multi-level mixed polarity Reed-Muller functions with onset table. WSEAS Transactions on Circuits and Systems, 5, 625-632

In this paper, an approach to obtain the compact multi-level mixed polarity Reed-Muller (MMPRM) from an FPRM function is discussed. By operating on the onset table with rows (columns) swapping and table dividing, some operators such as extraction of... Read More about An approach to obtain compact multi-level mixed polarity Reed-Muller functions with onset table..

Transparent Handover for Mobile Multicast Sources (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Romdhani, I., Bettahar, H., & Bouabdallah, A. (2006, April). Transparent Handover for Mobile Multicast Sources. Presented at International Conference on Networking, International Conference on Systems and International Conference on Mobile Communications and Learning Technologies (ICNICONSMCL'06)

The Internet research community has proposed many routing protocols to support efficient multicast application. However, these protocols were developed for multicast parties whose members are topologically stationary, and they thus do not support bot... Read More about Transparent Handover for Mobile Multicast Sources.

DS-CDMA PN code acquisition in Rayleigh Fading Channel. (2006)
Journal Article
Sharif, M., Obiebi, J., & Sharp, J. (2006). DS-CDMA PN code acquisition in Rayleigh Fading Channel. The Mediterranean journal of electronics and communications, 2, 59-71

In this paper, an adaptive double dwell PN code acquisition circuit suitable for use in DS-CDMA systems is proposed. The adaptive nature of the circuit is based on the cell averaging constant false alarm rate technique. It is analysed in a Rayleigh f... Read More about DS-CDMA PN code acquisition in Rayleigh Fading Channel..

Gaining Public Support for Congestion Charging: Lessons from Referendum in Edinburgh, Scotland. (2006)
Journal Article
Gaunt, M., Rye, T., & Ison, S. (2006). Gaining Public Support for Congestion Charging: Lessons from Referendum in Edinburgh, Scotland. Transportation research record, 1960, 87-93. https://doi.org/10.3141/1960-11

Until February 25, 2005, the City of Edinburgh in Scotland, United Kingdom, had advanced plans for a congestion charging scheme. However, these plans were abandoned because of public acceptability problems and in particular to a referendum on the iss... Read More about Gaining Public Support for Congestion Charging: Lessons from Referendum in Edinburgh, Scotland..

Life cycle assessment of a medium-sized photovoltaic facility at a high latitude location (2006)
Journal Article
Muneer, T., Younes, S., Lambert, N., & Kubie, J. (2006). Life cycle assessment of a medium-sized photovoltaic facility at a high latitude location. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy, 220(6), 517-524. https://doi.org/10.1243/09576509jpe253

Performance of a 160 m 2 photovoltaic installation at the Napier University's Merchiston Campus, situated 3 km from Edinburgh's city centre, is presented. The alternative current and direct current electrical outputs have been recorded since the inst... Read More about Life cycle assessment of a medium-sized photovoltaic facility at a high latitude location.