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Rough justice? Information access and environmental justice relating to two controversial coastal developments in North East Scotland. (2014)
Presentation / Conference
BAXTER, G. 2014. Rough justice? Information access and environmental justice relating to two controversial coastal developments in North East Scotland. Presented at the 2014 Socio-Legal Studies Association annual conference (SLSA 2014), 9-11 April 2014, Aberdeen, UK.

This proposed paper will explore the relationship between information access and environmental justice through an historical comparison of two controversial coastal developments in North East Scotland: the construction of a gas terminal by the Britis... Read More about Rough justice? Information access and environmental justice relating to two controversial coastal developments in North East Scotland..

Scottish artists bring nature into healthcare. (2014)
Presentation / Conference
FREMANTLE, C. 2014. Scottish artists bring nature into healthcare. Presented at the 2014 Global Alliance for Arts and Health conference, 9-12 April 2014, Houston, USA.

Scotland has a strong portfolio of arts and health projects including both public art installations within healthcare buildings and participatory programmes, in particular with people with long term conditions. This presentation will focus on public... Read More about Scottish artists bring nature into healthcare..

Encounter in art. (2014)
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DOUGLAS, A. 2014. Encounter in art. Presented at the 2014 Art and encounter seminar: beyond audience development: why do artists engage publics in participation? 14-30 March 2014, Melbourne, Australia.

This presentation explores how 'encounter' is different from 'event' and making this differentiation has important implications on how we imagine the relationship of art to audience. The author introduces some theoretical foundations to the notion of... Read More about Encounter in art..

Leading through art: exploring action and improvisation. (2014)
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DOUGLAS, A. 2014. Leading through art: exploring action and improvisation. Keynote presentation at the Macgeorge fellowship, Centre for creative partnerships, 4 March 2014, Melbourne, Australia.

A keynote such as this raises the expectations of a new beginning to a discourse, of presenting another way of thinking about a shared set of issues. The process of arriving at the focus of the keynote has been collaborative and discursive through a... Read More about Leading through art: exploring action and improvisation..

Local heroes or village idiots? (2014)
Presentation / Conference
BAXTER, G. 2014. Local heroes or village idiots? Press portrayal of opponents of two controversial coastal developments in North East Scotland. Presented at the 2014 Media Communications and Cultural Studies Association annual conference (MeCCSA 2014), 8-10 January 2014, Bournemouth, UK.

This conference paper presented the main results of the comparative analysis of newspaper coverage of two controversial coastal developments in North East Scotland: the building of a North Sea gas reception terminal at St. Fergus in the 1970s; and th... Read More about Local heroes or village idiots?.

Numerical analysis of a closed thermo-syphon hot water solar system under steady and transient loading conditions. (2013)
Presentation / Conference
FREEGAH, B., ASIM, T., and MISHRA, R. 2013. Numerical analysis of a closed thermo-syphon hot water solar system under steady and transient loading conditions. Presented at 40th National conference on fluid mechanics and fluid power 2013 (NCFMFP 2013), 12-14 December 2013, Hamirpur, India.

Solar energy is one of the most important sources of alternative energy. This energy source is inexhaustible and the cleanest of all known energy sources. One of the most important systems which can be used to exploit energy stored in the solar rays... Read More about Numerical analysis of a closed thermo-syphon hot water solar system under steady and transient loading conditions..

Effects of a moving surface boundary layer control device (MSBC) on the drag reduction in heavy commercial vehicles. (2013)
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ASIM, T., SENDANAYAKE, I., MISHRA, R., ZALA, K. and UBBI, K. 2013. Effects of a moving surface boundary layer control devise (MSBC) on the drag reduction in heavy commercial vehicles. Presented at 40th National conference on fluid mechanics and fluid power 2013 (NCFMFP 2013), 12-14 December 2013, Hamirpur, India.

Rapid escalation in fuel prices has motivated the manufacturers of heavy commercial vehicles to focus their attention towards efficient aerodynamic design of surface transport systems such as trucks–trailers, railways etc. In order to reduce the drag... Read More about Effects of a moving surface boundary layer control device (MSBC) on the drag reduction in heavy commercial vehicles..

Numerical analysis of atherosclerosis and aneurysm in carotid bifurcations using computational fluid dynamics. (2013)
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ASIM, T., SENDANAYAKE, I. and MISHRA, S. 2013. Numerical analysis of atherosclerosis and aneurysm in carotid bifurcations using computational fluid dynamics. Presented at 40th National conference on fluid mechanics and fluid power 2013 (NCFMFP 2013), 12-14 December 2013, Hamirpur, India.

Atherosclerosis and Aneurysm are some of the conditions in patients suffering from vascular diseases. These vascular defects can cause severe damage to cardiovascular system (CVS), if not properly diagnosed. The advent of advanced numerical and compu... Read More about Numerical analysis of atherosclerosis and aneurysm in carotid bifurcations using computational fluid dynamics..

A systems view of youth business start-ups in the Arab countries: influences and barriers. (2013)
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BELOUCIF, A. and BOUGUERRA, A. 2013. A systems view of youth business start-ups in the Arab countries: influences and barriers. Presented at the 2nd International conference on emerging research paradigms in business and social studies (ERPBSS 2013), 26-28 November 2013, Dubai, UAE.

Purpose: After the Arab spring, much attention has been devoted recently to diffuse the boiling situation across the Arab world. A number of policies have been introduced by governments. Amongst of them, it is to encourage youth job creation and entr... Read More about A systems view of youth business start-ups in the Arab countries: influences and barriers..

Placentofagia, ¿una opción mas? (2013)
Presentation / Conference
VELO HIGUERAS, M., CAMPOS LÓPEZ, M.R. and RAMOS GARCÍA, I. 2013. Placentofagia, ¿una opción mas? Presented at the 2nd Congress of ANAMA (Asociación de Matronas de la Región de Murcia), co-located with 12th congress of FAME (Federación de Asociaciones de Matronas de España) 2013, 17-19 October 2013, Pamplona, Spain. Hosted on Blogger [online]. Available from: http://matronataurt.blogspot.com/2013/10/placentofagia-una-opcion-mas.html

Placentophagy is common practice in most mammals. Ancestral human being could have practiced it in the past, but they could stop doing it in some time in our evolutive history. In last few years, placentophagy is a trend, standing up for its potentia... Read More about Placentofagia, ¿una opción mas?.

Practising equality: issues for co-creative and participatory practices addressing social justice and equality. (2013)
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FREMANTLE, C. and HARRIS, P. 2013. Practising equality: issues for co-creative and participatory practices addressing social justice and equality. Presented at the 2013 Moving targets conference, 15-16 October 2013, Dundee, UK. Aberdeen: Robert Gordon University. Held on Vimeo [online]. Available from: https://vimeo.com/77427158

This exercise started from a hunch that it would be useful to break out of the somewhat enclosed discourses in the respective fields of media and art to see if there were useful experiences and even lessons by assuming that participation and co-creat... Read More about Practising equality: issues for co-creative and participatory practices addressing social justice and equality..

Security lessons learned building concept apps for webinos. (2013)
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FAILY, S. and LYLE, J. 2013. Security lessons learned building concept apps for webinos. Presented at the Human aspects in mobile apps engineering workshop (HAMAE 2013), part of the 27th International BCS human computer interaction conference (HCI 2013): the Internet of Things, 9 September 2013, London, UK.

Concept applications provide a means for tackling security infrastructure problems. Not only do they provide feedback to infrastructure design, they can also inform subsequent research activities. However, to directly influence the architectural desi... Read More about Security lessons learned building concept apps for webinos..

Structural flax/PLA biocomposites: understanding of their thermo-mechanical behaviour. (2013)
Presentation / Conference
NASSIOPOULOS, E., ABHYANKAR, H. and NJUGUNA, J. 2013. Structural flax/PLA biocomposites: understanding of their thermo-mechanical behaviour. Presented at the 21st annual international conference on composites/nano engineering (ICCE-NANO 21), 21-27 July 2013, Tenerife, Spain.

The extended use of bio-composites for the manufacturing of vehicle components would largely benefit the industry. However, the properties of biocomposites, their mechanical performance under different environments and the effect of different loading... Read More about Structural flax/PLA biocomposites: understanding of their thermo-mechanical behaviour..

Biting the league table that feeds: reflections on managerialism at work within UK university sustainability agendas. (2013)
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JONES, D.R. 2013. Biting the league table that feeds: reflections on managerialism at work within UK university sustainability agendas. Presented at the 8th International critical management studies conference, 10-13 July 2013, Manchester, UK.

Most proponents of ecological sustainability within universities seem to have found a space where they feel they can more or less shrug off the need for such meaningful critical reflection. There has been a preoccupation with the instrumental and pra... Read More about Biting the league table that feeds: reflections on managerialism at work within UK university sustainability agendas..

Open for business? (2013)
Presentation / Conference
BAXTER, G. 2013. Open for business? An historical, comparative study of public access to information about two controversial coastal developments in North-east Scotland. Presented at the 4th Information: interactions and impact conference (i3 2013), 25-28 June 2013, Aberdeen, UK.

This study looks at two controversial coastal developments in north-east Scotland. It aims to identify the information was made publicly available and what impact this may have had on public engagement around planning and decision-making processes in... Read More about Open for business?.

Formal evaluation of persona trustworthiness with EUSTACE. (2013)
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FAILY, S., POWER, D., ARMSTRONG, P. and FLÉCHAIS, I. 2013. Formal evaluation of persona trustworthiness with EUSTACE. Presented at the 6th International conference on trust and trustworthy computing (TRUST 2013), 17-19 June 2013, London, UK.

Personas are useful for considering how users of a system might behave, but problematic when accounting for hidden behaviours not obvious from their descriptions alone. Formal methods can potentially identify such subtleties in interactive systems, b... Read More about Formal evaluation of persona trustworthiness with EUSTACE..

Hybrid hydrogen energy production and storage system model as a tool for real-world systems integrity assessment. (2013)
Presentation / Conference
GAZEY, R., ALI, D. and AKLIL, D. 2013. Hybrid hydrogen energy production and storage system model as a tool for real-world systems integrity assessment. Presented at the 10th Hypothesis anniversary conference 2013, 11-12 June 2013, Edinburgh, UK.

Within Scotland ambitious national targets are focused on achieving renewable generation of 100% by 2020. However, existing electrical infrastructure is becoming increasingly constrained.

Numerical investigation of the effect of bed height and coefficient of restitution on the minimum fluidization velocity of a cylindrical fluidized bed. (2013)
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KARNIK, A., RANGARAJAN, A. and TANDON, A. 2013. Numerical investigation of the effect of bed height and coefficient of restitution on the minimum fluidization velocity of a cylindrical fluidized bed. Presented at the 8th International conference on multiphase flow (ICMF 2013), 26-31 May 2013, Jeju, Korea.

Numerical simulation for 4 different ratios of initial bed heights (H) to base diameter (D), were performed; viz. 0.5, 1, 2 and 3. Glass beads of density 2600kg/m3 and with an average diameter of 550μm were used for all the simulations. Simulations w... Read More about Numerical investigation of the effect of bed height and coefficient of restitution on the minimum fluidization velocity of a cylindrical fluidized bed..

Decision making criteria in adopting renewable energies in the built environment. (2013)
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BENNADJI, A. and HERRERA, D. 2013. Decision making criteria in adopting renewable energies in the built environment. Presented at the 2013 All-Energy exhibition and conference (All Energy 2013), 22-23 May 2013, Aberdeen, UK.

The best system for a particular property is strongly linked to the occupiers. User’s energy needs vary depending on type and size of building they occupy. A deeper analysis of the heating and electricity demand should include detailed assessment of... Read More about Decision making criteria in adopting renewable energies in the built environment..

Energy efficient homes: implementation of renewable energies in retrofitted buildings. (2013)
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HERRERA, D. and BENNADJI, A. 2013. Energy efficient homes: implementation of renewable energies in retrofitted buildings. Presented at the 2013 All-Energy exhibition and conference (All-Energy 2013), 22-23 May 2013, Aberdeen, UK.

According to the Climate change (Scotland) Act 2009, by 2020 total carbon emission should be reduced 42% respect 1990 levels (and 80% lower than the baseline by 2050). In this context, it is important to highlight that buildings are responsible of 45... Read More about Energy efficient homes: implementation of renewable energies in retrofitted buildings..