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On the feasibility of attribute-based encryption on smartphone devices (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Ambrosin, M., Conti, M., & Dargahi, T. (2015, May). On the feasibility of attribute-based encryption on smartphone devices. Presented at 2015 Workshop on IoT challenges in Mobile and Industrial Systems (IoT-Sys'15), Florence, Italy

Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) is a powerful cryptographic tool that allows fine-grained access control over data. Due to its features, ABE has been adopted in several applications, such as encrypted storage or access control systems. Recently, res... Read More about On the feasibility of attribute-based encryption on smartphone devices.

Empty homes research in North West England (2015)
Presentation / Conference
McCourt, A. (2015, April). Empty homes research in North West England. Presented at Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago

Affective response to amplitude modulated wind turbine noise (2015)
Presentation / Conference
von Hünerbein, S., & Piper, B. (2015, April). Affective response to amplitude modulated wind turbine noise. Presented at Wind Turbine Noise 2015, Glasgow

Residents living adjacent to wind farms are exposed to a combination of turbine noise and background noise with all its environmental and local constituents. As the amplitude modulation character in turbine sounds is thought to specifically contribut... Read More about Affective response to amplitude modulated wind turbine noise.

Of anime myths and author cult. Tezuka and Miyazaki consideration through authorship film criticism (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Hernandez Perez, M. (2015, April). Of anime myths and author cult. Tezuka and Miyazaki consideration through authorship film criticism. Presented at Exploring 30 Years of Studio Ghibli: Spirited Discussion, Cardiff University

In the world of Japanese anime, few animators’ works have been appreciated by both communities of scholarship and journalism for their valuable and singular forms of authorship. This paper will focus on one of the most prominent figures, namely Hayao... Read More about Of anime myths and author cult. Tezuka and Miyazaki consideration through authorship film criticism.

'Troubled Families’ : Policy continuity and discontinuity? (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Shannon, M. (2015, April). 'Troubled Families’ : Policy continuity and discontinuity?. Presented at British Sociological Association Conference 2015 Societies in Transition : Progression or Regression?, Glasgow Caledonian University

The discourse around families perceived to have complex needs has developed at a policy level, very much reinforced
by media representations. The notion of the troubled family has recently been generated as a result of Coalition
Government policy... Read More about 'Troubled Families’ : Policy continuity and discontinuity?.

Detailed directivity measurements of aerodynamic sound sources (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Elliott, A., Meggitt, J., & Moorhouse, A. (2015, April). Detailed directivity measurements of aerodynamic sound sources. Presented at Noise and Vibration - Emerging Technologies, Dubrovnik, Croatia

The sound radiated by a vibrating surface can be modelled using combinations of elementary sources but for aerodynamic noise sources it less clear how to do so. It is proposed here that the arrangement and number of ideal sources required to represen... Read More about Detailed directivity measurements of aerodynamic sound sources.

Mars image segmentation with most relevant features among wavelet and color features (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Rashno, A., Saraee, M., & Sadri, S. (2015, April). Mars image segmentation with most relevant features among wavelet and color features. Presented at AI & Robotics (IRANOPEN), 2015

Mars rover is a robot which explores the Mars surface, is equipped to front-line Panoramic Camera (Pancam). Automatic processing and segmentation of images taken by Pancam is one of the most important and most significant tasks of Mars rover since th... Read More about Mars image segmentation with most relevant features among wavelet and color features.

Supporting children & families : A comparison in service delivery (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Shannon, M., & Smyth, B. (2015, April). Supporting children & families : A comparison in service delivery. Presented at British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (BASPCAN) Congress 2015, Edinburgh University

Objectives: This paper aims to present the results of a small scale comparative research project undertaken in 2012 that explored intensive preventative services targeted at children already in, or on the borderline of child protection input. Althoug... Read More about Supporting children & families : A comparison in service delivery.

The research methodology for the development of a kaizen costing framework suitable for indigenous construction firms in Lagos, Nigeria (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Omotayo, T., & Kulatunga, U. (2015, April). The research methodology for the development of a kaizen costing framework suitable for indigenous construction firms in Lagos, Nigeria. Presented at Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) Doctoral workshop, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland

The need for a cost management paradigm shift in the construction industry is imperative because of the prevailing challenges of managing construction cost during construction. Small and medium scale construction firms in
Nigeria are faced with the... Read More about The research methodology for the development of a kaizen costing framework suitable for indigenous construction firms in Lagos, Nigeria.

Applying case study approach and triangulation methods of data collection in the ICT context in Libya (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Allali, B., & Kulatunga, U. (2015, April). Applying case study approach and triangulation methods of data collection in the ICT context in Libya. Presented at Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) Doctoral workshop, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland

In the last few decades concepts such as organizational culture (OC) and knowledge sharing (KS) have been
conceived as being interrelated phenomena where each one influences the other. In the current business and
technology literature, there is a... Read More about Applying case study approach and triangulation methods of data collection in the ICT context in Libya.

Convergence, net neutrality and European Media Policy (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Simpson, S. (2015, April). Convergence, net neutrality and European Media Policy. Presented at FACE conference, ‘European Media Policy 2015: New Contexts, New Approaches’,, Helsinki

Net Neutrality - in its origins the idea that Internet Service Providers should treat without discrimination communication traffic of a broadly similar kind - was once in Europe thought a technically arcane subject with little policy relevance beyond... Read More about Convergence, net neutrality and European Media Policy.

Mess and method : Researching others' realities (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Etherington, S. (2015, April). Mess and method : Researching others' realities. Poster presented at International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL) Research Special Interest Group Pre-conference Event 2015, Manchester Conference Centre, Manchester

Now you see us. Now you don't. (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Sales, N. (2015, April). Now you see us. Now you don't. Poster presented at LILAC Conference, Newcastle

The University of Salford has radically overhauled their approach to new student welcome and induction activities. During induction fortnight, the library team traditionally delivered an induction programme of compulsory computer based training sessi... Read More about Now you see us. Now you don't..

Automatic retrieval of closed captions for web clips from broadcast TV content (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Hughes, C., & Armstrong, M. (2015, April). Automatic retrieval of closed captions for web clips from broadcast TV content. Presented at 2015 NAB Broadcast Engineering Conference, Las Vegas, USA

As broadcasters’ web sites become more media
rich it would be prohibitively expensive to manually caption
all of the videos provided. However, many of these videos
have been clipped from broadcast television and would have
been captioned at the p... Read More about Automatic retrieval of closed captions for web clips from broadcast TV content.

Becoming an independent researcher : reflections on the career transitions of social science and humanities doctorate holders across Europe (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Coey, C. (2015, March). Becoming an independent researcher : reflections on the career transitions of social science and humanities doctorate holders across Europe. Presented at Transition to research independence across the European Research Area How do variations in national policies, incentives and funding mechanisms influence the success of young researchers?, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Drawing on the findings of the POCARIM study of 13 countries, this paper explores the experiences of social science and humanities doctorate holders as they make the transition from early-career post-doctoral researchers to fully-fledged independent... Read More about Becoming an independent researcher : reflections on the career transitions of social science and humanities doctorate holders across Europe.

Ecstasi project : Using technology to encourage creativity in the assessment process (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Kutar, M., Griffiths, M., & Wood, J. (2015, March). Ecstasi project : Using technology to encourage creativity in the assessment process. Presented at UK Academy for Information Systems (UKAIS) 2015, Oxford, UK

The notion of creativity has attracted increasing attention in Higher Education in recent years, and is seen to be of importance in a variety of disciplines, not just those which are closely associated with the creative industries. This provides a ch... Read More about Ecstasi project : Using technology to encourage creativity in the assessment process.