Outputs (310)

Special Issue “BIM Implementation to Meet the Changing Demands of the Construction Industry” (2023)
Journal Article
Coates, S. P. (2023). Special Issue “BIM Implementation to Meet the Changing Demands of the Construction Industry”. Applied Sciences, 13(10), 6089. https://doi.org/10.3390/app13106089

Effective Building Information Modelling implementation continues to evolve, aligning itself to the changing needs of the construction industry. These activities can be considered from a range of perspectives. We can adopt a people-centric, process c... Read More about Special Issue “BIM Implementation to Meet the Changing Demands of the Construction Industry”.

Social media paradox: Utilizing social media technology for creating better value for better social outcomes: Case of developing countries (2023)
Journal Article
Sarwar, B., Sarwar, A., Mugahed Al-Rahmi, W., Almogren, A. S., Salloum, S., & Habes, M. (2023). Social media paradox: Utilizing social media technology for creating better value for better social outcomes: Case of developing countries. Cogent Business and Management, 10(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/23311975.2023.2210888

This study presents a research framework based on the underlying richness of social media capacity (usefulness) at the individual level of youngsters regarding their contribution to building social capital and civic engagement, which significantly le... Read More about Social media paradox: Utilizing social media technology for creating better value for better social outcomes: Case of developing countries.

Assessment of active LiDAR data and passive optical imagery for double-layered mangrove leaf area index estimation: a case study in Mai Po, Hong Kong (2023)
Journal Article
Li, Q., Wong, F. K. K., Kwan, F., Wong, K., Fung, T., Brown, L. A., & Dash, J. (2023). Assessment of active LiDAR data and passive optical imagery for double-layered mangrove leaf area index estimation: a case study in Mai Po, Hong Kong. Remote Sensing, 15(10), 2551. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15102551

Remote sensing technology is a timely and cost-efficient method for leaf area index (LAI) estimation, especially for less accessible areas such as mangrove forests. Confounded by the poor penetrability of optical images, most previous studies focused... Read More about Assessment of active LiDAR data and passive optical imagery for double-layered mangrove leaf area index estimation: a case study in Mai Po, Hong Kong.

Advances in the Measurement and Human Response to Noise of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (2023)
Journal Article
Green, N., Ramos-Romero, C., & Torija Martinez, A. (2023). Advances in the Measurement and Human Response to Noise of Unmanned Aircraft Systems. SAE Technical Papers, https://doi.org/10.4271/2023-01-1108

The sound produced by Unmanned Aerial Systems (known as UAS or Drones) is often considered to be one of the main barriers (alongside privacy and safety concerns) preventing the widespread use of these vehicles in environments where they may be in clo... Read More about Advances in the Measurement and Human Response to Noise of Unmanned Aircraft Systems.

Critical Failure Factors of Flood Early Warning and Response Systems (FEWRS): A Structured Literature Review and Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM) Analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Samansiri, S., Fernando, T., & Ingirige, B. (2023). Critical Failure Factors of Flood Early Warning and Response Systems (FEWRS): A Structured Literature Review and Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM) Analysis. Geosciences, 13(5), 137. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences13050137

Flood warning and response systems are essential components of risk reduction strategies with the potential to reduce loss of life and impact on personal assets. However, recent flood incidents have caused significant loss of human lives due to failu... Read More about Critical Failure Factors of Flood Early Warning and Response Systems (FEWRS): A Structured Literature Review and Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM) Analysis.

Designing and Implementing a Blockchain-based Platform for the Exchange of Peerto-Peer Energy Trading and Modelling Vehicle-to-Grid(V2G) Residential Community (2023)
Journal Article
Debrah, P., & Saraee, M. (2023). Designing and Implementing a Blockchain-based Platform for the Exchange of Peerto-Peer Energy Trading and Modelling Vehicle-to-Grid(V2G) Residential Community. #Journal not on list, 6(1), 68

The expansion of renewable energy on the national grid has been a struggle throughout the past decade. Rooftop solar photovoltaics (PV) and electric vehicle to Grid (V2G) can function as either load or distributed energy sources. Consequently, presum... Read More about Designing and Implementing a Blockchain-based Platform for the Exchange of Peerto-Peer Energy Trading and Modelling Vehicle-to-Grid(V2G) Residential Community.

Classification of aesthetic natural scene images using statistical and semantic features (2023)
Journal Article
Biswas, K., Shivakumara, P., Pal, U., Lu, T., Blumenstein, M., & Lladós, J. (2023). Classification of aesthetic natural scene images using statistical and semantic features. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 82, 13507–13532. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-022-13924-7

Aesthetic image analysis is essential for improving the performance of multimedia image retrieval systems, especially from a repository of social media and multimedia content stored on mobile devices. This paper presents a novel method for classifyin... Read More about Classification of aesthetic natural scene images using statistical and semantic features.

Validation of Simplified Level 2 Prototype Processor Sentinel-2 fraction of canopy cover, fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation and leaf area index products over North American forests (2023)
Journal Article
Fernandes, R., Brown, L., Canisius, F., Dash, J., He, L., Hong, G., …Sun, L. (in press). Validation of Simplified Level 2 Prototype Processor Sentinel-2 fraction of canopy cover, fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation and leaf area index products over North American forests. Remote Sensing of Environment, 293, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113600

Canopy biophysical variables such as the fraction of canopy cover (fCOVER), fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (fAPAR), and leaf area index (LAI) are widely used for ecosystem modelling and monitoring. The Sentinel-2 mission was... Read More about Validation of Simplified Level 2 Prototype Processor Sentinel-2 fraction of canopy cover, fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation and leaf area index products over North American forests.

Aerodynamics and Wake Flow Characteristics of a Four-Cylinder Cluster (2023)
Journal Article
Nguyen, C., Inam, S., Lasagna, D., & Xie, Z. (2023). Aerodynamics and Wake Flow Characteristics of a Four-Cylinder Cluster. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 110, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10494-023-00419-0

The aerodynamic behaviour and wake flow of a cluster of two-dimensional sharp-edged bluff bodies exhibits extremely complex unsteady phenomena in both near and far fields. Due to the high cost of wind-tunnel experiments and numerical simulations, a c... Read More about Aerodynamics and Wake Flow Characteristics of a Four-Cylinder Cluster.

Testing the accuracy of wearable technology to assess sleep behaviour in domestic dogs: a prospective tool for animal welfare assessment in kennels (2023)
Journal Article
Schork, I. G., Manzo, I. A., Oliveira, M. R. B. D., Costa, F. V., Young, R. J., & De Azevedo, C. S. (in press). Testing the accuracy of wearable technology to assess sleep behaviour in domestic dogs: a prospective tool for animal welfare assessment in kennels. Animals, 13(9), 1467. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13091467

Sleep is a physiological process that has been shown to impact both physical and psychological heath of individuals when compromised; hence, it has the potential to be used as an indicator of animal welfare. Nonetheless, evaluating sleep in non-human... Read More about Testing the accuracy of wearable technology to assess sleep behaviour in domestic dogs: a prospective tool for animal welfare assessment in kennels.