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In vivo in uterus non-invasive methods to predict placental insufficiency and adverse pregnancy outcomes in antiphospholipid syndrome (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Girardi, G., Fraser, J., Bertolaccini, M. L., Lennen, R., Vontell, R., & Hutchison, G. (2014, December). In vivo in uterus non-invasive methods to predict placental insufficiency and adverse pregnancy outcomes in antiphospholipid syndrome

Objectives: To use MRI-based methods to non invasively detect placental insufficiency and predict fetal outcomes in obstetric antiphospholipid syndrome (APS)
Methods and result: A) Ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxide (USPIO) nanoparticles conjug... Read More about In vivo in uterus non-invasive methods to predict placental insufficiency and adverse pregnancy outcomes in antiphospholipid syndrome.

Spectral Green's Function for SPR Meta-Structures (2014)
Journal Article
Iovine, R., La Spada, L., Tarparelli, R., & Vegni, L. (2014). Spectral Green's Function for SPR Meta-Structures. Materials Science Forum, 792, 110-114. https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.792.110

In this paper we propose a new approach to study the electromagnetic field in Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) meta-structures. The geometry is a planar structure infinitely extended with a pulse excitation current embedded in the substrate. The gener... Read More about Spectral Green's Function for SPR Meta-Structures.

Reliable Hierarchical Cluster Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Eshaftri, M., Essa, A., Qasem, M., Romdhani, I., & Al-Dubai, A. (2014, June). Reliable Hierarchical Cluster Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. Paper presented at International Conference on Networking, Distributed Systems and Applications : INDS 2014, Bejaia, Algeria

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have recently become an integral part of a wide range of systems such as surveillance, target tracking, security and health management systems. WSNs deploy a large number of sensor nodes that cooperate to... Read More about Reliable Hierarchical Cluster Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks..

Efficient road topology based broadcast protocol for VANETs (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Kubati, G., Al-Dubai, A., Mackenzie, L., & Pezaros, D. (2014, April). Efficient road topology based broadcast protocol for VANETs. Presented at IEEE International Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2014), Istanbul, Turkey

Intelligent Transportation Systems have been instrumental in reshaping transportation towards safer roads, seamless logistics, and digital business-oriented services under the umbrella of smart city platforms. Broadcasting transmission is an essentia... Read More about Efficient road topology based broadcast protocol for VANETs.

Design and development of Auralization room at Edinburgh Napier University (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Prokofieva, E., Luciani, C., & McGregor, I. (2014, April). Design and development of Auralization room at Edinburgh Napier University. Presented at 136th International AES Convention, Berlin, Germany

The auralization room was designed as a joint project between School of Engineering and Built Environment and the School of Computing of Edinburgh Napier University. The interior acoustic design specialists conducted the acoustic design of the aurali... Read More about Design and development of Auralization room at Edinburgh Napier University.

Ultra-Wideband Dual-Polarized Patch Antenna With Four Capacitively Coupled Feeds (2014)
Journal Article
Zhu, F., Gao, S., Ho, A. T. S., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., See, C. H., Brown, T. W. C., Li, J., Wei, G., & Xu, J. (2014). Ultra-Wideband Dual-Polarized Patch Antenna With Four Capacitively Coupled Feeds. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 62(5), 2440-2449. https://doi.org/10.1109/tap.2014.2308524

A novel dual-polarized patch antenna for ultra-wideband
(UWB) applications is presented. The antenna consists of a
square patch and four capacitively coupled feeds to enhance the
impedance bandwidth. Each feed is formed by a vertical isosceles
tr... Read More about Ultra-Wideband Dual-Polarized Patch Antenna With Four Capacitively Coupled Feeds.

Analysis of the Characteristics of PVA-Coated LPG-Based Sensors to Coating Thickness and Changes in the External Refractive Index. (2013)
Journal Article
Alwis, L., Bremer, K., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. T. V. (2013). Analysis of the Characteristics of PVA-Coated LPG-Based Sensors to Coating Thickness and Changes in the External Refractive Index. IEEE Sensors Journal, 13, 1117-1124. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2012.2230534

Recent research has shown that the transmission spectrum of a long period grating (LPG) written into an optical fiber is sensitive to the thickness and the refractive index (RI) of a thin layer deposited on it, a concept which forms the basis of a nu... Read More about Analysis of the Characteristics of PVA-Coated LPG-Based Sensors to Coating Thickness and Changes in the External Refractive Index..

Analysis of Polyimide-Coated Optical Fiber Long-Period Grating-Based Relative Humidity Sensor (2013)
Journal Article
Alwis, L., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. T. V. (2013). Analysis of Polyimide-Coated Optical Fiber Long-Period Grating-Based Relative Humidity Sensor. IEEE Sensors Journal, 13, 767-771. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2012.2227714

A long-period grating (LPG)-based relative humidity (RH) sensor is developed, based on using a tailored layered polyimide coating on the grating region at the distal end of the fiber probe and allowing it to respond to humidity changes. The attenuati... Read More about Analysis of Polyimide-Coated Optical Fiber Long-Period Grating-Based Relative Humidity Sensor.

Design and performance evaluation of polyvinyl alcohol/polyimide coated optical fibre grating-based humidity sensors. (2013)
Journal Article
Alwis, L., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. T. V. (2013). Design and performance evaluation of polyvinyl alcohol/polyimide coated optical fibre grating-based humidity sensors. Review of Scientific Instruments, 84, 25002. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4789768

Optical fibre grating based sensors make a significant contribution to relative humidity measurement for various applications and a number of different designs and sensor configurations have been produced and discussed in the literature. Recent devel... Read More about Design and performance evaluation of polyvinyl alcohol/polyimide coated optical fibre grating-based humidity sensors..

Fibre optic long period grating-based humidity sensor probe using a Michelson interferometric arrangement. (2013)
Journal Article
Alwis, L., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. T. V. (2013). Fibre optic long period grating-based humidity sensor probe using a Michelson interferometric arrangement. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 178, 694-699. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2012.11.062

Long period gratings (LPG)-based sensors are widely used due to their high sensitivity to a range of suitable measurands. However, a typical configuration involving a single grating-based LPG sensor system frequently has the disadvantage of the probe... Read More about Fibre optic long period grating-based humidity sensor probe using a Michelson interferometric arrangement..

Investigation of transformer turns ratio between feed and slot of aperture coupled slot antenna by using s11 parameter. (2013)
Journal Article
Liu, L., Ghassemlooy, Z., Sambell, A., Danaher, S., & Smith, D. (2013). Investigation of transformer turns ratio between feed and slot of aperture coupled slot antenna by using s11 parameter. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 61, 5785-5787. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2013.2275745

This communication presents a simplified design approach to obtain the turns ratio nf which models the coupling between the microstrip feed and slot line of an aperture coupled slot antenna by using the S11 parameter. Equations are derived using S11... Read More about Investigation of transformer turns ratio between feed and slot of aperture coupled slot antenna by using s11 parameter..

Investigation of the equivalent circuit parameters and design of a dual polarised dual frequency aperture coupled microstrip antenna. (2013)
Journal Article
Liu, L., Korolkiewicz, E., Ghassemlooy, Z., Sambell, A., Danaher, S., & Busawon, K. (2013). Investigation of the equivalent circuit parameters and design of a dual polarised dual frequency aperture coupled microstrip antenna. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 61, 2304-2308. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2013.2241716

This communication presents a simplified approach to the design of a single feed dual polarised, dual frequency (1.9 and 2.4 GHz) aperture coupled microstrip antenna. Using simulation and practical investigation, the coupling between the microstrip f... Read More about Investigation of the equivalent circuit parameters and design of a dual polarised dual frequency aperture coupled microstrip antenna..

Liquid level monitoring using passive RFID tags (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atojoko, A., Bin-Melha, M., Elkazmi, E., Usman, M., Abd-Alhameed, R., & See, C. .. (2013, December). Liquid level monitoring using passive RFID tags. Presented at 2013 Design and Test Symposium (IDT), Marrakesh

Tank flooding have become major causes of pollution both in residential and industrial areas majorly caused by overflows of water(mostly residential) and volatile poisonous industrial liquids from the storage tanks. An effective way of avoiding this... Read More about Liquid level monitoring using passive RFID tags.

Conical Nanoparticles for Blood Disease Detection (2013)
Journal Article
Spada, L. L., Iovine, R., Tarparelli, R., & Vegni, L. (2013). Conical Nanoparticles for Blood Disease Detection. Advances in nanoparticles, 02(03), 259-265. https://doi.org/10.4236/anp.2013.23036

Metallic nanoparticles play an important role in the design of sensing platforms. In this paper, a new electromagnetic study for conical metal nanoparticles, working in the Near Infrared and Visible frequency regime, is proposed. The structures consi... Read More about Conical Nanoparticles for Blood Disease Detection.

Fast and reliable hybrid routing for vehicular ad hoc networks. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Kubati, G., Al-Dubai, A., Mackenzie, L., & Pezaros, D. (2013, November). Fast and reliable hybrid routing for vehicular ad hoc networks

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) have been attracting tremendous attention in both academia and industry due to emerging applications that pave the way towards safer enjoyable journeys and inclusive digital partnerships. Undoubtedly, these I... Read More about Fast and reliable hybrid routing for vehicular ad hoc networks..

Dielectric resonator antenna design for UWB applications (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Elmegri, F., See, C., Abd-Alhameed, R., Zebiri, C., & Excell, P. (2013, November). Dielectric resonator antenna design for UWB applications. Presented at 2013 Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference (LAPC), Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

A small dielectric resonator antenna has been designed for ultra wideband (UWB) communication system applications. The antenna element is a rectangular low permittivity ceramic block, with a dielectric constant of 9.4, and the modified T-shaped feed... Read More about Dielectric resonator antenna design for UWB applications.

Vibration Transient Detection of Broken Rotor Bars by PSH Sidebands (2013)
Journal Article
Climente-Alarcon, V., Antonino-Daviu, J. A., Vedreno-Santos, F., & Puche-Panadero, R. (2013). Vibration Transient Detection of Broken Rotor Bars by PSH Sidebands. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 49(6), 2576-2582. https://doi.org/10.1109/tia.2013.2265872

In recent years, the study of transients of induction motors for diagnosis purposes has gained strength in order to overcome some inherent problems of the classical diagnosis of such machines, which uses Fourier analysis of steady-state quantities. N... Read More about Vibration Transient Detection of Broken Rotor Bars by PSH Sidebands.

Energy efficient gully pot monitoring system using radio frequency identification (RFID) (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atojoko, A., Jan, N., Elmgri, F., Abd-Alhameed, R., See, C., & Noras, J. (2013, November). Energy efficient gully pot monitoring system using radio frequency identification (RFID). Presented at 2013 Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference (LAPC), Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

Sewer and gully flooding have become major causes of pollution particularly in the residential areas majorly caused by blockages in the water system and drainages. An effective way of avoiding this problem will be by deploying some mechanism to monit... Read More about Energy efficient gully pot monitoring system using radio frequency identification (RFID).