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Exploring the challenge for sustainable development in the energy sector : sociomaterial view of two British and Nigerian cases (2018)
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Mohamad, M., & Anuge, J. (2018, September). Exploring the challenge for sustainable development in the energy sector : sociomaterial view of two British and Nigerian cases. Presented at British Academy of Management Conference 2018 : Critical Management Studies Track, Bristol, UK

The global pressure on green environment has been a major issue to attaining future Sustainable Development (SD). In this study, the researchers explore the recent challenges of SD in the power sectors in the UK (as a European North country) and in N... Read More about Exploring the challenge for sustainable development in the energy sector : sociomaterial view of two British and Nigerian cases.

The laminal space occupied by a PhD student teacher (2018)
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Davis, D. (2018, September). The laminal space occupied by a PhD student teacher. Presented at 29th International Networking for Healthcare Education Conference, Churchill College, Cambridge

A PhD student teacher role is relegated to the status of a peripheral/marginal participant. Unlike their teaching peers, they do not have an acknowledged space nor a ‘teaching’ identity but a ubiquitous label of ‘student’. Moreover, their lack of eng... Read More about The laminal space occupied by a PhD student teacher.

A model for early stage estimation of Operational Expenses (OPEX) in commercial buildings (2018)
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Hemba Geekiyanage, M., Ramachandra, T., & Thurairajah, N. (2018, September). A model for early stage estimation of Operational Expenses (OPEX) in commercial buildings. Presented at 34th Annual ARCOM Conference, Belfast, UK

Usually, Operational Expenses (OPEX) consume a substantial share (70-80%) of Life Cycle Cost (LCC) of commercial buildings. Despite its contribution to the LCC structure, often OPEX is given less focus in investment decision making and investors t... Read More about A model for early stage estimation of Operational Expenses (OPEX) in commercial buildings.

Exploration of time delay and cost overrun in Libyan public housing projects (2018)
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Higham, A., & Troug, M. (2018, September). Exploration of time delay and cost overrun in Libyan public housing projects. Presented at ARCOM Annual Conference, Belfast, UK

There is great concern in Libya about the delays in public sector projects. Libyan construction projects habitually deviate from estimated timelines and financial profiles. Such frequent failures impose a financial burden on the state and causes sign... Read More about Exploration of time delay and cost overrun in Libyan public housing projects.

Classification of advance malware for autonomous vehicles by using stochastic logic (2018)
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Alsadat tabatabaei, S., Saraee, M., & Dehghantanha, A. (2018, September). Classification of advance malware for autonomous vehicles by using stochastic logic. Presented at 11th IEEE International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering DeSE2018, Cambridge, UK

Connectivity of vehicles allows the seamless power of communication over the internet but is not without its cyber risks. Many IoT communication systems - such as vehicle-to-vehicle or vehicle-to-roadside - may require latencies below a few tens of... Read More about Classification of advance malware for autonomous vehicles by using stochastic logic.

Diabetes self-management system : review of existing systems and potential enhancements (2018)
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systems and potential enhancements. Presented at 11th IEEE International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE2018), Cambridge, UK

Diabetes is a global pandemic with growing devastating human, social and economic impacts. By 2025 it is estimated that in the UK five million people will be diagnosed with diabetes and by 2030 diabetes will claim three lives every ten minutes. Accor... Read More about Diabetes self-management system : review of existing systems and potential enhancements.

Logging therapy session data via an upper limb FES rehabilitation system (2018)
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Sun, M., Kenney, L., Howard, D., Smith, C., Waring, K., & Luckie, H. (2018, August). Logging therapy session data via an upper limb FES rehabilitation system. Presented at Annual Conference of the International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society, Nottwil, Switzerland

This paper reports on an approach to capturing real-time therapy session data using an upper limb functional electrical stimulation (FES) system to support our under-standing of its usability in clinical environments and to record therapy delivered.... Read More about Logging therapy session data via an upper limb FES rehabilitation system.

Virtual landscapes : a practice-based exploration of natural environment design (2018)
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Ali, U. (2018, August). Virtual landscapes : a practice-based exploration of natural environment design. Presented at RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2018, Cardiff, Wales

This paper presents a theoretical and practical framework for virtual natural environment (VNE) design in computer and video games. By applying a practice-based research methodology, and a methodological ‘bricolage’, combining reflective practice, pa... Read More about Virtual landscapes : a practice-based exploration of natural environment design.

EMA-LAB: Efficient Multi Authorisation Level Attribute Based Access Control (2018)
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Belguith, S., Kaaniche, N., & Russello, G. (2018, August). EMA-LAB: Efficient Multi Authorisation Level Attribute Based Access Control. Presented at International Conference on Network and System Security, Hong Kong, China

Recent years have witnessed the trend of increasingly relying on remote and distributed infrastructures. This increases the complexity of access control to data, where access control policies should be flexible and distinguishable among users with di... Read More about EMA-LAB: Efficient Multi Authorisation Level Attribute Based Access Control.

HiDE : a tool for unrestricted literature based discovery (2018)
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Preiss, J., & Stevenson, M. (2018, August). HiDE : a tool for unrestricted literature based discovery. Presented at 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018), Santa Fe, New-Mexico, USA

As the quantity of publications increases daily, researchers are forced to narrow their attention to their own specialism and are therefore less likely to make new connections with other areas. Literature based discovery (LBD) supports the identifica... Read More about HiDE : a tool for unrestricted literature based discovery.

Ansys simulation of natural convection and radiation in a solar enclosure (2018)
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Kuharat, S., & Beg, O. (2018, August). Ansys simulation of natural convection and radiation in a solar enclosure. Poster presented at ICHTFM 2018 : 20th International Conference on Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics, Istanbul, Turkey

The interest in sustainable and renewable energy systems has witnessed significant expansion in the 21st century. Space solar power (SSP) collectors have multiple advantages over earth-based solar power plants. They receive more sun light, are unaffe... Read More about Ansys simulation of natural convection and radiation in a solar enclosure.

Oblique radiative solar nano-polymer gel coating heat transfer and slip flow: manufacturing simulation (2018)
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Beg, O., Kuharat, S., Mehmood, R., Tabassum, R., & Babaie, M. (2018, August). Oblique radiative solar nano-polymer gel coating heat transfer and slip flow: manufacturing simulation. Poster presented at ICHTFM 2018 : 20th International Conference on Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics, Istanbul, Turkey

In the current work we study numerically the time-independent twodimensional, non-aligned (oblique) slip flow of copper metal-doped water-based nano-polymeric sol gels under radiative heat flux. Reynolds temperature-dependent viscosity model is emplo... Read More about Oblique radiative solar nano-polymer gel coating heat transfer and slip flow: manufacturing simulation.

Thermal stress and CFD analysis of coatings for high-temperature corrosion (2018)
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Kadir, A., & Beg, O. (2018, August). Thermal stress and CFD analysis of coatings for high-temperature corrosion. Poster presented at ICHTFM 2018 : 20th International Conference on Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics, Istanbul, Turkey

Modern gas turbine blades experience significant thermal loading during expected life cycles. Temperatures can attain in excess of 1000 Celsius. It is therefore necessary to coat the blades with thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) which also provide prot... Read More about Thermal stress and CFD analysis of coatings for high-temperature corrosion.

CFD simulation of turbulent convective heat transfer in rectangular mini-channels for rocket cooling applications (2018)
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Beg, O., Zubair, A., Kuharat, S., & Babaie, M. (2018, August). CFD simulation of turbulent convective heat transfer in rectangular mini-channels for rocket cooling applications. Poster presented at ICHTFM 2018 : 20th International Conference on Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics, Istanbul, Turkey

Heat transfer is one of the most critical aspects of the rocket propulsion design process. According to released heat, thermal loads are extremely large, and thermal insulation is frequently necessary in the motor combustion chambers and nozzles. In... Read More about CFD simulation of turbulent convective heat transfer in rectangular mini-channels for rocket cooling applications.

Simulation of a nanofluid-based annular solar collector (2018)
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Kuharat, S., & Beg, O. (2018, August). Simulation of a nanofluid-based annular solar collector. Poster presented at ICHTFM 2018 : 20th International Conference on Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics, Istanbul, Turkey

A numerical study of convective heat transfer in an annular pipe solar collector system is conducted. The inner tube contains pure water and the annular region contains nanofluid. Three-dimensional steady-state incompressible laminar flow comprising... Read More about Simulation of a nanofluid-based annular solar collector.

Numerical simulation of von Karman swirling bioconvection nanofluid flow from a deformable rotating disk (2018)
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Kadir, A., Mishra, S., Shamshuddin, M., & Beg, O. (2018, August). Numerical simulation of von Karman swirling bioconvection nanofluid flow from a deformable rotating disk. Poster presented at ICHTFM 2018 : 20th International Conference on Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics, Istanbul, Turkey

Rotating disk bio-reactors are fundamental to numerous medical and chemical engineering processes including oxygen transfer, chromatography, purification and swirl-assisted pumping. The modern upsurge in biologically-enhanced engineering devices has... Read More about Numerical simulation of von Karman swirling bioconvection nanofluid flow from a deformable rotating disk.

Personality and listening sensitivity correlates of the subjective response to real and simulated sound sources in virtual reality (2018)
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Bailey, W., & Fazenda, B. (2018, August). Personality and listening sensitivity correlates of the subjective response to real and simulated sound sources in virtual reality. Presented at 2018 AES International Conference on Spatial Reproduction - Aesthetics and Science, Tokyo, Japan

It has been reported that personality traits, such as empathy and the tendency to become immersed in tasks, correlate with increased experience of presence in virtual reality. However, it is not clear whether this translates directly to the experienc... Read More about Personality and listening sensitivity correlates of the subjective response to real and simulated sound sources in virtual reality.

An evolutionary-based modelling approach for predicting the effective stress parameter in unsaturated soils (2018)
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Ahangar Asr, A., & Javadi, A. (2018, August). An evolutionary-based modelling approach for predicting the effective stress parameter in unsaturated soils. Presented at The 7th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils UNSAT2018, Hong Kong, China

Effective stress parameter affects the stress equation and is implemented to calculate the effective stress value which directly influences deformations and failures in unsaturated soils. Evolutionary polynomial regression is a data mining-based tech... Read More about An evolutionary-based modelling approach for predicting the effective stress parameter in unsaturated soils.

Preserving access pattern privacy in SGX-assisted encrypted search (2018)
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Cui, S., Belguith, S., Zhang, M., Asghar, M., & Russello, G. (2018, July). Preserving access pattern privacy in SGX-assisted encrypted search. Presented at International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN), Hangzhou, China

Outsourcing sensitive data and operations to untrusted cloud providers is considered a challenging issue. To perform a search operation, even if both the data and the query are encrypted, attackers still can learn which data locations match the quer... Read More about Preserving access pattern privacy in SGX-assisted encrypted search.