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Graduating from the Classroom to the Boardroom: Supporting HE Students’ Employability. (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brodie, J., Miles, W., & Hutchinson, J. (2018, April). Graduating from the Classroom to the Boardroom: Supporting HE Students’ Employability. Presented at Charted Association of Business Schools Learning and Teaching Student Experience Conference

The Get on Board (GOB) extra-curriculum programme started at Edinburgh Napier University’s Business School in 2013. Its goal is to prepare students to take up board level opportunities in local charities, voluntary sector organisations or public bodi... Read More about Graduating from the Classroom to the Boardroom: Supporting HE Students’ Employability..

Entry on Frederick William Robinson (2018)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2018). Entry on Frederick William Robinson. In K. A. Morrison (Ed.), Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction (201-202). McFarland & Company

This is a biographical author entry in literary companion.

Doing Politics: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse (2018)
Book
Kranert, M., & Horan, G. (2018). M. Kranert, & G. Horan (Eds.). Doing Politics: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse. John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.80

This edited volume explores the discursive, performative and mediated dimensions of contemporary political discourse. The strengths of the volume are manifold: it contains cutting edge interdisciplinary research on political discourses by internation... Read More about Doing Politics: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse.

A New Approach for Patent Use in Student Design Engineering Projects (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maclachlan, R., Wodehouse, A., & Vasantha, G. (2018, September). A New Approach for Patent Use in Student Design Engineering Projects. Presented at 20th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, London, UK

This paper presents a new philosophy for patent use in student design projects; patents are more valuable when viewed as creative and learning resources rather than as a list of prior art to be considered for infringement. A practical approach to pat... Read More about A New Approach for Patent Use in Student Design Engineering Projects.

A Probabilistic Design Reuse Index (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Sherlock, A., Corney, J., & Quigley, J. (2018, August). A Probabilistic Design Reuse Index. Presented at ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2018), Quebec, Canada

The benefits of being able to create a number of product variations from a limited range of components, or sub-assemblies, are widely recognized. Indeed it is clear that companies who can effectively reuse elements of existing designs when creating n... Read More about A Probabilistic Design Reuse Index.

A tool for generating synthetic data (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Peng, T., & Telle, A. (2018, October). A tool for generating synthetic data. Presented at DATA '18 First International Conference on Data Science, E-learning and Information Systems, Madrid, Spain

It is popular to use real-world data to evaluate data mining techniques. However, there are some disadvantages to use real-world data for such purposes. Firstly, real-world data in most domains is difficult to obtain for several reasons, such as budg... Read More about A tool for generating synthetic data.

A Cooperative Learning Approach for the Quadratic Knapsack Problem (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lalla-Ruiz, E., Segredo, E., & Voß, S. (2018, June). A Cooperative Learning Approach for the Quadratic Knapsack Problem. Presented at Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference (LION12), Kalamata, Greece

The Quadratic Knapsack Problem (QKP) is a well-known optimization problem aimed to maximize a quadratic objective function subject to linear capacity constraints. It has several applications in different fields such as telecommunications, graph theor... Read More about A Cooperative Learning Approach for the Quadratic Knapsack Problem.

Ford and the First World War (2018)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2018). Ford and the First World War. In The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford. Routledge

This chapter surveys Ford Madox Ford's writings about war. He was conscious of war writing by the beginning of the twentieth century via his friendship with Stephen Crane; the First World War, however, was the major conflict for Ford. He wrote abou... Read More about Ford and the First World War.

Seeking Compassion in the Measured University: Generosity, Collegiality and Competition in Academic Practice (2018)
Journal Article
Caddell, M., & Wilder, K. (2018). Seeking Compassion in the Measured University: Generosity, Collegiality and Competition in Academic Practice. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 6(3), 14-23

In the context of league tables, national student surveys and increasing competition for students and resources, measurement and comparison is an ever-present – and ever more significant – aspect of contemporary academic life. Institutional definitio... Read More about Seeking Compassion in the Measured University: Generosity, Collegiality and Competition in Academic Practice.

Get Your Project Funded: Using Biometric Data to Understand What Makes People Trust and Support Crowdfunding Campaigns (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mcneill, M., Lawson, A., Raeside, R., & Peisl, T. (2018, July). Get Your Project Funded: Using Biometric Data to Understand What Makes People Trust and Support Crowdfunding Campaigns. Presented at 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2018), Belfast

Creating a good crowdfunding campaign is difficult. By understanding why people contribute to crowdfunding campaigns we can make campaigns better and raise more money. Crowdfunding websites allow entrepreneurs to make a pitch, which is watched by pot... Read More about Get Your Project Funded: Using Biometric Data to Understand What Makes People Trust and Support Crowdfunding Campaigns.

Theory and Games: Developing a method for gamifying Higher Education (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rivera, E. S., & Garden, C. L. P. (2018, July). Theory and Games: Developing a method for gamifying Higher Education. Presented at Edulearn18, Palma, Spain

Gamification, the use of game attributes in non-game context, is used in the private sector as well as education[1]. Research into Gamified Learning (GL) often focuses on case studies of impact or value [2], and can suffer from a lack of parsimony. T... Read More about Theory and Games: Developing a method for gamifying Higher Education.

Putting theory into practice: gamification for student engagement (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Garden, C., & Rivera, E. (2018, July). Putting theory into practice: gamification for student engagement. Presented at Edulearn 18: 10th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Palma, Spain

Gamification is the use of game design elements in a non-game contexts [1]. It is an intervention that has been used in a business setting for a number of years and is now becoming more and more applied in higher education [2]. We present the practic... Read More about Putting theory into practice: gamification for student engagement.

System and method for management of confidential data (2018)
Patent
Buchanan, B., Lo, O., Macfarlane, R., Penrose, P., & Ramsay, B. (2018). System and method for management of confidential data. GB2561176A

This application is for a method of data management to identify confidential digital content on a database by first receiving a management request 302 from a system 304 to carry out data management operations. These include the identification of data... Read More about System and method for management of confidential data.

An optimized Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Local Data Prediction in Heterogeneous Hadoop Environment (2018)
Journal Article
Jin, D.-D., Liu, Q., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2019). An optimized Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Local Data Prediction in Heterogeneous Hadoop Environment. Journal of Computers, 30(3), 130-142. https://doi.org/10.3966/199115992019063003010

Hadoop is a famous parallel computing framework that is applied to process large-scale data, but there exists such a task in hadoop framework, which is called “Straggling task” and has a serious impact on Hadoop. Speculative execution (SE) is an effe... Read More about An optimized Speculative Execution Strategy Based on Local Data Prediction in Heterogeneous Hadoop Environment.

A Dual-spine Approach to Load Error Repair in a HEMS Sensor Network (2018)
Journal Article
Liu, X., Liu, Q., & Sun, M. (2018). A Dual-spine Approach to Load Error Repair in a HEMS Sensor Network. Computers, Materials & Continua, 57(2), 179-194. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2018.04025

In a home energy management system (HEMS), appliances are becoming diversified and intelligent, so that certain simple maintenance work can be completed by appliances themselves. During the measurement, collection and transmission of electricity load... Read More about A Dual-spine Approach to Load Error Repair in a HEMS Sensor Network.

A Look at the Effects of Handheld and Projected Augmented-reality on a Collaborative Task (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mackamul, E. B., & Esteves, A. (2018, October). A Look at the Effects of Handheld and Projected Augmented-reality on a Collaborative Task. Presented at 6th ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction, Berlin, Germany

This paper presents a comparative study between two popular AR systems during a collocated collaborative task. The goal of the study is to start a body of knowledge that describes the effects of different AR approaches in users' experience and perfor... Read More about A Look at the Effects of Handheld and Projected Augmented-reality on a Collaborative Task.

Eidolon360 – A VR Experience (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hood, B., & Flint, T. (2018, July). Eidolon360 – A VR Experience. Presented at 6th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Madrid, Spain

Eidolon360 is a virtual reality artwork and experience that is interacted with through VR headsets. The viewer, reclining on a bed within the exhibition space, experiences a 360 film, shot within a medical simulation centre, that mimics clinical hosp... Read More about Eidolon360 – A VR Experience.

Assessing correlation of human response to vibration through vibrotactile threshold shift with vibration exposure determined on the subject (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maeda, S., Taylor, M. D., Anderson, L., & Mclaughlin, J. (2018, September). Assessing correlation of human response to vibration through vibrotactile threshold shift with vibration exposure determined on the subject. Presented at 53rd UK Conference on Human Responses to Vibration (UK HRV), Ascot, United Kingdom

Existing risk assessment methodologies are based on fixed tool vibration magnitude emission data and tool usage time. The research evaluates the relationship between vibration dose assessment on subjects using wearable sensors with temporary threshol... Read More about Assessing correlation of human response to vibration through vibrotactile threshold shift with vibration exposure determined on the subject.

Implementation and Detection of Novel Attacks to the PLC Memory on a Clean Water Supply System (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robles-Durazno, A., Moradpoor, N., McWhinnie, J., Russell, G., & Maneru-Marin, I. (2018, August). Implementation and Detection of Novel Attacks to the PLC Memory on a Clean Water Supply System. Presented at The 4th International Conference on Technology Trends, Babahoyo, Ecuador

Critical infrastructures such as nuclear plants or water supply systems are mainly managed through electronic control systems. Such systems comprise of a number of elements, such as programmable logic controllers (PLC), networking devices, and actua... Read More about Implementation and Detection of Novel Attacks to the PLC Memory on a Clean Water Supply System.