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Effort assessment: foreign-flagged vessels in coastal state exclusive economic zones (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Richardson, A. (2020, October). Effort assessment: foreign-flagged vessels in coastal state exclusive economic zones. Presented at 17th IOTC Compliance Committee, Online/Virtual

This report summarises the results of geospatial mapping of fishing effort as published by IOTC for the
period 2016-2018. This was an analysis of activities within the Western Indian Ocean, conducted on
behalf of the International Pole and Line Fou... Read More about Effort assessment: foreign-flagged vessels in coastal state exclusive economic zones.

Opportunities for gamified learning in purchasing and supply management education (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Kelly, S., Vangorp, P., Stek, K., & Delke, V. (2020, September). Opportunities for gamified learning in purchasing and supply management education. Presented at ECGBL 2020 14th European Conference on Game-Based Learning, Brighton, United Kingdom

Gamification has been used in a wide variety of subject-specific education contexts. Examples of such usage in the
Supply Chain Management (SCM) context include the oft-played beer distribution game, developed by MIT Sloan School of
Management (For... Read More about Opportunities for gamified learning in purchasing and supply management education.

The impact of baseline wall U-value on energy performance of solid wall insulation (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Seifhashemi, M., Elkadi, H., & Fitton, R. (2020, September). The impact of baseline wall U-value on energy performance of solid wall insulation. Poster presented at 5th Building Simulation and Optimization 2020 Conference, Virtual

Solid wall dwellings are in high energy demand and need to be treated by energy retrofit measures such as internal wall insulation (IWI). U-value is the key parameter for energy saving evaluations. There are uncertainties about the U-values of solid... Read More about The impact of baseline wall U-value on energy performance of solid wall insulation.

Smart supply chain: Are the procurers ready for industry 4.0 (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Kelly, S., Tkac, M., & Stek, K. (2020, September). Smart supply chain: Are the procurers ready for industry 4.0. Presented at 28th Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks: Digitalized Economy, Society and Information Management, IDIMT 2020, Kutna Hora, Czech Republic

Industry 4.0 brings changes to the supply chain environment and companies that want to benefit from these changes must be prepared to implement them. However, successful implementation requires skilled and trained personnel who will embrace these cha... Read More about Smart supply chain: Are the procurers ready for industry 4.0.

Construction procurement systems for refurbishment projects (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Egbu, C. (2020, August). Construction procurement systems for refurbishment projects. Presented at COBRA 2000: RICS Construction and Building Research Conference: The Millennium Conference, The University of Greenwich, England, UK

Responses to insects recorded on the Costa Blanca (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Brissenden, P., Williams, A., Wise, T., & Dyroy, E. (2020, July). Responses to insects recorded on the Costa Blanca. Presented at Festival of Research 2020, University of Salford

This piece was commissioned as part of a collaboration between the Adelphi Contemporary Music Group here at the University of Salford, and the Beauty and the Beasts; Falling in love with Insects exhibition at the Manchester Museum. This project is pa... Read More about Responses to insects recorded on the Costa Blanca.

Developing digitally capable graduates (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Leigh, J., Vasilica, C., Dron, R., Davis, D., & Etherington, S. (2020, July). Developing digitally capable graduates. Presented at Education 4.0: Our Next Phase to Curriculum and Assessment Design International Virtual Series, University of Hong Kong (Online)

During the current coronavirus pandemic, undergraduate nurse teaching is facing many challenges. United Kingdom (UK) Universities have had to close their campuses, which means that academics are working from home and may be coping with unfamiliar tec... Read More about Developing digitally capable graduates.

Re-reading Alan Moore's "lost" essay on Stan Lee and Marvel Comics (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Flanagan, M. (2020, July). Re-reading Alan Moore's "lost" essay on Stan Lee and Marvel Comics. Presented at International Graphic Novels and Comics Conference (IGNCC 2020), UAL - London and online

When Marvel UK’s The Daredevils anthology began publication under editor Bernie Jaye in the early 1980s, Alan Moore was a central contributor for several issues. Presenting its flagship character Captain Britain with art by Alan Davis, (alongside rep... Read More about Re-reading Alan Moore's "lost" essay on Stan Lee and Marvel Comics.

Playing with things : representing medieval material culture through video-games (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Hiriart, J. (2020, June). Playing with things : representing medieval material culture through video-games. Presented at The Middle Ages in Modern Games Twitter Conference, Online (Twitter)

In the same way that an empty room deprived of any objects to relate to becomes uninhabitable, an empty desert does not allow life to take place (Gibson, 1979). It is only through the perception and everyday use of the things of the world (i.e. build... Read More about Playing with things : representing medieval material culture through video-games.

Movies emotional analysis using textual contents (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Kayhani, A., Meziane, F., & Chiky, R. (2020, June). Movies emotional analysis using textual contents. Presented at 25th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2020, Saarbrücken, Germany

In this paper, we use movies and series subtitles and applied text mining and Natural Language Processing methods to evaluate emotions in videos. Three different word lexicons were used and one of the outcomes of this research is the generation of a... Read More about Movies emotional analysis using textual contents.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and UK organisations : a year of implementation of GDPR (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Addis, C., & Kutar, M. (2020, March). General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and UK organisations : a year of implementation of GDPR. Presented at 25th UK Academy for Information Systems International Conference 2020, Online conference

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became enforceable in May 2018 and its impact is globally
significant. Meanwhile, a growing number of organisations are increasingly adopting AI technologies. This paper
explores the effects of the GDPR... Read More about General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and UK organisations : a year of implementation of GDPR.

Presence metadata in the Internet of Things challenges and opportunities (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Hegarty, R., & Haggerty, J. (2020, February). Presence metadata in the Internet of Things challenges and opportunities. Presented at 6th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, Valletta, Malta

The Internet of Things is an emerging computing paradigm that promises to revolutionise society. The
widespread capture and aggregation of data from sensors and smart devices combined with processing using
machine learning in cloud computing platfo... Read More about Presence metadata in the Internet of Things challenges and opportunities.

Predicting average annual electricity outage using electricity distribution network operator's performance indicators (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Silva, C., & Saraee, M. (2020, February). Predicting average annual electricity outage using electricity distribution network operator's performance indicators. Presented at 2020 Advances in Science and Engineering Technology International Conferences (ASET), Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Electricity Distribution network operators (DNO) may receive a monetary reward or have a penalty reliant on their performance against the target set by the regulators. Customer minutes lost (CML) is one of the primary performance indicators which lea... Read More about Predicting average annual electricity outage using electricity distribution network operator's performance indicators.

Electricity distribution network : seasonality and the dynamics of equipment failures related network faults (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Silva, C., & Saraee, M. (2020, February). Electricity distribution network : seasonality and the dynamics of equipment failures related network faults. Presented at 2020 Advances in Science and Engineering Technology International Conferences (ASET), Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Power systems are inclined to frequent failures due to equipment malfunctions in the network. Equipment malfunctions can occur in any of the equipment in the network such as transformers, switchgear, overground cables or underground cables. Any failu... Read More about Electricity distribution network : seasonality and the dynamics of equipment failures related network faults.

Fast speech intelligibility estimation using a neural network trained via distillation (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Cox, T., Bailey, W., & Tang, Y. (2020, January). Fast speech intelligibility estimation using a neural network trained via distillation. Poster presented at 12th Speech in Noise Workshop, Toulouse, France

Objective measures of speech intelligibility have many uses, including the evaluation of degradation during transmission and the development of processing algorithms. One intrusive approach is to use a method based on the audibility of speech glimpse... Read More about Fast speech intelligibility estimation using a neural network trained via distillation.