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Designing Zero Carbon Buildings: Embodied and Operational Emissions in Achieving True Zero (2024)
Book

In this significantly revised third edition, Designing Zero Carbon Buildings combines embodied and operational emissions into a structured approach for achieving zero emissions by a specific year with certainty.

Simulation and quantitative methods... Read More about Designing Zero Carbon Buildings: Embodied and Operational Emissions in Achieving True Zero.

Enhanced Energy Aware and Void Avoidance Routing Protocol Based on Vector Based Forwarding for Underwater Acoustic Wireless Sensor Network (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Almost seventy one percent of the earth is covered with water, making it crucial to human survival. Over the years, monitoring, and discovery of natural resources such as salt, crude oil etc has increased the importance of the oceanic world. With the... Read More about Enhanced Energy Aware and Void Avoidance Routing Protocol Based on Vector Based Forwarding for Underwater Acoustic Wireless Sensor Network.

Oldest record of a crown anomaluroid rodent from sub-Saharan Africa: a new genus and species from the early Oligocene Topernawi formation of northern Kenya (2024)
Journal Article
Seiffert, E. R., Heritage, S., de Vries, D., Sallam, H. M., Vitek, N. S., Aoron, E., & Princehouse, P. (2024). Oldest record of a crown anomaluroid rodent from sub-Saharan Africa: a new genus and species from the early Oligocene Topernawi formation of northern Kenya. Historical Biology, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2024.2370015

Anomaluroid rodents (i.e. Anomaluridae + Zenkerellidae) have a long evolutionary history in Africa dating back to at least the middle Eocene, but Palaeogene fossil members of the anomaluroid crown group have never been found south of the Sahara. Here... Read More about Oldest record of a crown anomaluroid rodent from sub-Saharan Africa: a new genus and species from the early Oligocene Topernawi formation of northern Kenya.

Looking at AI Fairness from a Marketing Lenz: The Influence of Ethnicity on Facial Expression Recognition based on expert judgement and AI models (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This research investigates the influence of ethnicity on facial expression perception using insights from marketing experts and Computer Vision techniques. Marketing professionals were highly adept at recognizing expressions across varying ethnicitie... Read More about Looking at AI Fairness from a Marketing Lenz: The Influence of Ethnicity on Facial Expression Recognition based on expert judgement and AI models.

Architectural ‘Αναπλασης’ (‘Anaplasis’=Regeneration In Greek) And Environmental Vulnerability; Paphos World Heritage Site (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Yioutani-Iacovides, M. (2024, July). Architectural ‘Αναπλασης’ (‘Anaplasis’=Regeneration In Greek) And Environmental Vulnerability; Paphos World Heritage Site. Paper presented at AMPS Conference, Barcelona 2024: Urban Futures-Cultural Pasts., Barcelona (in person and online) Presentation was online

Recognition of Cultural and Architectural Heritage as World Heritage Site and its subsequent regeneration increases the economic value of a Place but could potentially disregard its environmental vulnerability.
People, Place and Policy may not be al... Read More about Architectural ‘Αναπλασης’ (‘Anaplasis’=Regeneration In Greek) And Environmental Vulnerability; Paphos World Heritage Site.

Evaluation of the EUROSEM on soil erosion simulation for loess plateau, northern China (2024)
Journal Article
Su, C., Wang, Y., Fu, |. X., & Wang, Z. (2024). Evaluation of the EUROSEM on soil erosion simulation for loess plateau, northern China. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5919

The Loess Plateau region features fragmented landforms, sparse vegetation, and short but intense summer rainstorms that can easily cause severe soil erosion. To evaluate its applicability to a typical Loess Plateau in northern China, an indoor labora... Read More about Evaluation of the EUROSEM on soil erosion simulation for loess plateau, northern China.

Bridging the Language Gap in FND Care: A Comparative Analysis of Neurologists and Psychologists (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This study compares the communication in Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) care between neurologists and psychologists through VADER sentiment analysis and LDA topic modeling. It reveals a stark contrast in language use: neurologists prefer clin... Read More about Bridging the Language Gap in FND Care: A Comparative Analysis of Neurologists and Psychologists.

Examining the Drivers to Support Improved Construction and Demolition Waste Management for a Circular Economy: A Comprehensive Review Using a Systematic Approach (2024)
Journal Article

With the rapid pace of global urbanisation, construction demolition waste (CDW) constitutes roughly 36% of the total solid waste deposited in landfill sites worldwide, thereby posing a significant challenge to the sustainability of the construction i... Read More about Examining the Drivers to Support Improved Construction and Demolition Waste Management for a Circular Economy: A Comprehensive Review Using a Systematic Approach.

An exploration of the measured and modelled thermal characteristics of structural thermal breaks in UK buildings (2024)
Thesis

This research explores the measured and modelled thermal characteristics of structural thermal breaks (STBs) in UK buildings. Thermal bridging (TB) in building envelopes can significantly affect the fabric heat loss of a building, leading to higher e... Read More about An exploration of the measured and modelled thermal characteristics of structural thermal breaks in UK buildings.

Fixed-Time Consensus for Multiagent Systems Under Switching Topology: A Distributed Zeroing Neural Network-Based Method (2024)
Journal Article
Xiao, L., Luo, J., Li, J., Jia, L., & Li, J. (2024). Fixed-Time Consensus for Multiagent Systems Under Switching Topology: A Distributed Zeroing Neural Network-Based Method. IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine, 10(3), 44-55. https://doi.org/10.1109/msmc.2024.3358050

The zeroing neural network (ZNN) has been utilized in various control applications, such as tracking and motion control. While ZNN has been widely employed, its utilization in consensus control schemes is rarely reported. In this study, we propose a... Read More about Fixed-Time Consensus for Multiagent Systems Under Switching Topology: A Distributed Zeroing Neural Network-Based Method.

Practical implementation of automated next generation audio production for live sports (2024)
Journal Article
Moulson, A., Walley, M., Grewe, Y., Oldfield, R., Shirley, B., & Scuda, U. (2024). Practical implementation of automated next generation audio production for live sports. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 72(7/8), 517-525

Producing a high-quality audio mix for a live sports production is a demanding task for
mixing engineers. The management of many microphone signals and monitoring of various
broadcast feeds mean engineers are often stretched, overseeing many tasks... Read More about Practical implementation of automated next generation audio production for live sports.

Electroosmosis-induced Williamson hybrid magnetic nanofluid blood flow in stenosed arteries: A Numerical Approach (2024)
Journal Article

Modern studies have focused on blood circulation in diseased arteries and nanoparticle dispersion under non-dimensional conditions. This study explores the complex interactions of electro-magnetohydrodynamics in the human circulatory system. We caref... Read More about Electroosmosis-induced Williamson hybrid magnetic nanofluid blood flow in stenosed arteries: A Numerical Approach.

Sffl: Self-Aware Fairness Federated Learning Framework for Heterogeneous Data Distributions (2024)
Working Paper
Zhang, J., Li, Y., Wu, D., Zhao, Y., & Palaiahnakote, S. Sffl: Self-Aware Fairness Federated Learning Framework for Heterogeneous Data Distributions

Recent years have witnessed increasing development towards federated learning. However, federated learning has been proven to show biased predictions against certain demographic groups, such as sex or race, especially under heterogeneous data distrib... Read More about Sffl: Self-Aware Fairness Federated Learning Framework for Heterogeneous Data Distributions.

Assessing Performance of Morphology Particle Swarm Optimization (Morph-PSO) on Standard Benchmark Functions (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The search boundary is a critical aspect of optimization problems. Understanding the limits of the search boundary can help prevent solutions from exiting the search area and assist optimization algorithms in converging more rapidly. Typi-cally, opti... Read More about Assessing Performance of Morphology Particle Swarm Optimization (Morph-PSO) on Standard Benchmark Functions.

Water quality level estimation using IoT sensors and probabilistic machine learning model (2024)
Journal Article
TR, M., Bhatia Khan, S., Balajee, A., Almusharraf, A., Gadekallu, T. R., Albalawi, E., & Kumar, V. (in press). Water quality level estimation using IoT sensors and probabilistic machine learning model. Hydrology Research, 55(7), 775–789. https://doi.org/10.2166/nh.2024.048

Drinking water purity analysis is an essential framework that demands several real-world parameters to ensure the quality of water. So far, sensor-based analysis of water quality in specific environments is done concerning certain parameters includin... Read More about Water quality level estimation using IoT sensors and probabilistic machine learning model.

Towards structurally new cyanine dyes—investigating the photophysical and potential antifungal properties of linear substituted heptamethine dyes (2024)
Journal Article

The synthesis of a range of new linear substituted heptamethine dyes has been designed and described. The photophysical properties of all the dyes were investigated, with many exhibiting improved fluorescent quantum yields when compared with indocyan... Read More about Towards structurally new cyanine dyes—investigating the photophysical and potential antifungal properties of linear substituted heptamethine dyes.

Stability and dynamic analyses of hybrid laminates using refined higher-order zigzag theory (2024)
Journal Article

This article presents a comparative study on the stability and dynamic response of hybrid laminated composite plates over monolithically produced laminated composite plates. A Refined Higher-order Zigzag Theory (RHZT) is formulated and implemented us... Read More about Stability and dynamic analyses of hybrid laminates using refined higher-order zigzag theory.

Transnational Education for Decarbonisation (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Coucill, L. (2024, July). Transnational Education for Decarbonisation. Paper presented at Teaching and Learning Conference 2024: Future-Focused Education: Innovation, Inclusion, and Impact, Nottingham Trent University, UK

Intersecting Zero-Carbon Goals with Architectural Heritage Practices: Experiences from a Transnational Design Studio
Dr. Sherif Goubran1, Dr. Laura Coucill2, Prof. Tom Jefferies3, Prof. Gary Boyd3

American University in Cairo
University of Sa... Read More about Transnational Education for Decarbonisation.

Perceptions of built environment professionals on intelligent office buildings: The interplay between technology, design for sustainability and responsiveness (2024)
Journal Article
Gündoğan, H., Dikmen, İ., & Atasoy, G. (2024). Perceptions of built environment professionals on intelligent office buildings: The interplay between technology, design for sustainability and responsiveness. Journal of Building Engineering, 95, Article 110088. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2024.110088

The confluence of technological advances, climate mitigation efforts, and evolving user expec-
tations has significantly transformed how the built environment is conceptualized, designed, and
delivered; Intelligent Buildings (IBs) are not an except... Read More about Perceptions of built environment professionals on intelligent office buildings: The interplay between technology, design for sustainability and responsiveness.

Evaluating the implementation of online exam proctoring on physiology module attainment and student experience. (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Jones, M., & Miklavc, P. (2024, July). Evaluating the implementation of online exam proctoring on physiology module attainment and student experience. Presented at Physiology in Focus 2024, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom

Introduction
Online examination is a widely utilised strategy for higher education assessment due to its numerous benefits for universities, academic staff, and students. Exemplar benefits of online assessment include increased student flexibility t... Read More about Evaluating the implementation of online exam proctoring on physiology module attainment and student experience..