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Optimal vaneless diffuser design for a high-end centrifugal compressor. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
AHMED, N., ASIM, T., MISHRA, R., SIVAGNANASUNDARAM, S. and EYNON, P. 2015. Optimal vaneless diffuser design for a high-end centrifugal compressor. In Proceedings of 28th Condition monitoring and diagnostic engineering management international congress 2015 (COMADEM 2015), co-located with 10th regional Congress on non-destructive and structural testing (X CORENDE), 1-4 December 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Birmingham: COMADEM International, pages 406-413.

Turbochargers are widely used in the automotive industry to reduce engine emissions and to increase the power. Centrifugal compressors are an integral part of turbochargers. Centrifugal compressors comprises primarily of inducer, impeller, diffuser a... Read More about Optimal vaneless diffuser design for a high-end centrifugal compressor..

Analysis of indoor climate and occupants' behaviour in traditional Scottish dwellings. (2015)
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HERRERA GUTIERREZ-AVELLANOSA, D. and BENNADJI, A. 2015. Analysis of indoor climate and occupants' behaviour in traditional Scottish dwellings. Energy procedia [online], 78: Proceedings of the 6th international building physics conference (IBPC 2015), 14-17 June 2015, Torino, Italy, pages 639-644. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2015.11.046

Due to the relevance of the internal boundary conditions and the lack of specific data for the Scottish context, an exploration of the internal environment of traditional dwellings is needed. In this study the indoor climate of 24 properties with dif... Read More about Analysis of indoor climate and occupants' behaviour in traditional Scottish dwellings..

Music recommendation: audio neighbourhoods to discover music in the long tail. (2015)
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CRAW, S., HORSBURGH, B. and MASSIE, S. 2015. Music recommendation: audio neighbourhoods to discover music in the long tail. In Hüllermeier, E. and Minor, M. (eds.) Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on case-based reasoning research and development (ICCBR 2015), 28-30 September 2015, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Lecture notes in computer science, 9343. Cham: Springer [online], pages 73-87. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24586-7_6

Millions of people use online music services every day and recommender systems are essential to browse these music collections. Users are looking for high quality recommendations, but also want to discover tracks and artists that they do not already... Read More about Music recommendation: audio neighbourhoods to discover music in the long tail..

Development of the 'Water-specific P3 risk model': risks identified. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
KORAYEM, M.I., OGUNLANA, O.S. and BOATENG, P. 2015. Development of the 'Water-specific P3 risk model': risks identified. Proceedings of CIB2015: 'going north for sustainability': leveraging knowledge and innovation for sustainable and development, 23-25 November 2015, London, UK. London: IBEA Publications [online], pages 92-103. Available from: http://www.irbnet.de/daten/iconda/CIB_DC28858.pdf

Risk assessment is one of the key success factors of public-private partnerships (PPP) water projects. Factors such as utility condition problems, unsustained increase in water supply requirements, socio-technical issues and changes in government pol... Read More about Development of the 'Water-specific P3 risk model': risks identified..

Use of social media in construction industry: a case study. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
PERERA, S., VICTORIA, M.F. and BRAND, S. 2015. Use of social media in construction industry: a case study. In Egbu, C. (ed.) Proceedings of the 2015 CIB international conference (CIB2015): going north for sustainability: leveraging knowledge and innovation for sustainable construction and development, 23-25 November 2015, London, UK. London: IBEA Publications [online], pages 462-473. Available from: http://www.irbnet.de/daten/iconda/CIB_DC28892.pdf

Social media evolved in the early 2000's with the birth of Facebook and Flickr in 2004. It is hard to ignore the current influence of social media upon modern lifestyle with the continuous development of many social media platforms over the past deca... Read More about Use of social media in construction industry: a case study..

DC fault isolation study of bidirectional dual active bridge DC/DC converter for DC transmission grid application. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HARRYE, Y.A., AHMED, K.H. and ABOUSHADY, A.A. 2015. DC fault isolation study of bidirectional dual active bridge DC/DC converter for DC transmission grid application. In Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Industrial Electronics Society annual conference (IECON 2015), 9-12 November 2015, Yokohama, Japan. Piscataway: IEEE [online], pages 3193-3198. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2015.7392592

Fast isolation and detection of DC faults is currently a limiting factor in high power DC transmission grid development. Recent research has shown that the role of DC/DC converters is becoming increasingly important in solving various DC grid challen... Read More about DC fault isolation study of bidirectional dual active bridge DC/DC converter for DC transmission grid application..

RGyoU listening? Stakeholder communication and digital interface: a case study of a Scottish university. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
CRAWFORD, I. 2015. RGyoU listening? Stakeholder communication and digital interface: a case study of a Scottish university. Presented at 2015 Aberdeen Business School (ABS) 50 conference (ABS 50): the business of business schools; learning from the past, building for the future, 12-13 November 2015, Aberdeen, UK.

Rapidly evolving digital media platforms have created an environment where communication can take place between anyone at any time and the traditional boundaries between internal and external communication have become porous and unpredictable. The te... Read More about RGyoU listening? Stakeholder communication and digital interface: a case study of a Scottish university..

Critical effectiveness of the implementation of responsible management education (RME) within UK Business Schools: a process change perspective. (2015)
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NDUBUKA, N. 2015. Critical effectiveness of the implementation of responsible management education (RME) within UK Business Schools: a process change perspective. Presented at the 2015 Aberdeen Business School at 50 conference (ABS50): the business of business schools: learning from the past, building for the future, 12-13 November 2015 Aberdeen, UK.

This study highlights that Responsible Management Education (RME) is of growing importance to business schools, yet implementation remains a challenge. Some of the challenges are slow adoption of RME, lack of consensus about best practice for RME imp... Read More about Critical effectiveness of the implementation of responsible management education (RME) within UK Business Schools: a process change perspective..

Second skin iterations: programmes and prototypes. (2015)
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STEED, J. and FAIRBURN, S. 2015. Second skin iterations: programmes and prototypes. In Britt, H., Morgan, L. and Walton, K. (eds.) Proceedings of Futurescan 3: intersecting identities, 11-12 November 2015, Glasgow, UK. Loughborough: FTC [online], pages 231-239. Available from: http://www.ftc-online.org.uk/publications/conference/

As an emerging area of research, blending science, technology, design: product, textiles and fashion, this paper speculates on ways to use 3D realisation and embedded technologies to address and enhance our ability to live well. There is clearly a si... Read More about Second skin iterations: programmes and prototypes..

Insourcing a government information system an analysis using institutions and the capability approach. (2015)
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OMAR, A., BASS, J.M. and LOWIT, P. 2015. Insourcing a government information system an analysis using institutions and the capability approach. In Proceedings of the 2015 International conference on information society (i-Society 2015), 9-11 November 2015, London, UK. PiscatawayJ: IEEE [online], pages 91-96. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/i-Society.2015.7366866

This study explores the effectiveness of insourcing in the Malaysian Government. The research discusses the factors and issues of insourcing in a Malaysian government agency in the context of post contract termination of an outsourcing agreement. A q... Read More about Insourcing a government information system an analysis using institutions and the capability approach..

Multiple source localization for partial discharge monitoring in electrical substation. (2015)
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ZHANG, Y., UPTON, D., JABER, A., AHMED, H., KHAN, U., SAEED, B., MATHER, P., LAZARIDIS, P., ATKINSON, R., VIEIRA, M.F.Q. and GLOVER, I.A. 2015. Multiple source localization for partial discharge monitoring in electrical substation. In Proceedings of 2015 Loughborough antennas and propagation conference (LAPC 2015), 2-3 November 2015, Loughbrough, UK. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article ID 7366001. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/LAPC.2015.7366001

This paper studies novel localization methods of multiple partial discharge sources in electrical substations. The three compressive sensing algorithms of Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (OMP), Homotopy technique, and Dichotomous coordinate descent (DCD)... Read More about Multiple source localization for partial discharge monitoring in electrical substation..

Hooray for Holyrood? (2015)
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BAXTER, G. 2015. Hooray for Holyrood? Twelve years of research into the use of the internet by political actors in Scotland. Presented at the Scottish info polity seminar, 30 October 2015, Edinburgh, UK.

This presentation was delivered at a seminar that formed part of the "Informing the Good Society (InGSoc)" project (https://www.informingthegoodsociety.com/). The presentation provided an overview of the key results of a longitudinal series of studie... Read More about Hooray for Holyrood?.

Yukos case: background and the main themes. (2015)
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KOTELNIKOV, A. 2015. Yukos case: background and the main themes. Presented at the 2015 Energy arbitration conference: challenged and opportunities for the next decade: lessons from recent awards, 29 October 2015, Edinburgh, UK.

Arbitral awards in investor-state disputes are often so extensively commented upon that, for those who take an interest in the area, it can become hard to say which is more voluminous - the actual case record or it's academic and media coverage. Such... Read More about Yukos case: background and the main themes..

How images actually work: settling a longstanding debate. (2015)
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HAMLYN, J. 2015. How images actually work: settling a longstanding debate. Presented at the 6th International conference of the image: media materiality: towards critical economies of 'new' media, 29-30 October 2015, Berkeley, USA.

As a cultural innovation, image-making is perhaps one of our most enduring forms of new media. The many technical developments necessary for the production of convincing images have emerged over the last 40,000 years, yet there is still widespread di... Read More about How images actually work: settling a longstanding debate..

Online news videos: the UX of subtitle position. (2015)
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CRABB, M., JONES, R., ARMSTRONG, M. and HUGHES, C.J. 2015. Online news videos: the UX of subtitle position. In Proceedings of the 17th International Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGACCESS conference on computers and accessibility (ASSETS '15), 26-28 October 2015, Lisbon, Portugal. New York: ACM [online], pages 215-222. Available from: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2700648.2809866

Millions of people rely on subtitles when watching video content. The current change in media viewing behaviour involving computers has resulted in a large proportion of people turning to online sources as opposed to regular television for news infor... Read More about Online news videos: the UX of subtitle position..

Green, amber, red: a study of the changing status of low priority 'green' patients in a clinical pharmacy patient 'triage' system. (2015)
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TURNER, N. and CUNNINGHAM, S. 2015. Green, amber, red: a study of the changing status of low priority 'green' patients in a clinical pharmacy patient 'triage' system. Presented at the 44th European symposium on clinical pharmacy (ESCP 2015), 28-30 October 2015, Lisbon, Portugal.

Prescription for Excellence is a programme that maps the future of pharmacy in Scotland, highlighting the importance of access to clinical pharmacy services. Clinical pharmacy resources are limited and pharmaceutical care cannot be provided to all pa... Read More about Green, amber, red: a study of the changing status of low priority 'green' patients in a clinical pharmacy patient 'triage' system..

The development of a framework for understanding the UX of subtitles. (2015)
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CRABB, M., JONES, R. and ARMSTRONG, M. 2015. The development of a framework for understanding the UX of subtitles. In Proceedings of the 17th International Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGACCESS conference on computers and accessibility (ASSETS '15), 26-28 October 2015, Lisbon, Portugal. New York: ACM [online], pages 347-348. Available from: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2700648.2811372

Approximately 10% of the television audience use subtitles (captioning) to support their viewing experience. Subtitles enable viewers to participate in an experience that is often taken for granted by the general audience. However, when reviewing sub... Read More about The development of a framework for understanding the UX of subtitles..

The transport disruption ontology. (2015)
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CORSAR, D., MARKOVIC, M., EDWARDS, P. and NELSON, J.D. 2015. The transport disruption ontology. In Arenas, M., Corcho, O., Simperl, E., Strohmaier, M., d'Aquin, M., Srinivas, K., Groth, P., Dumontier, M., Heflin, J., Thirunarayan, K. and Staab, S. (eds.). The sematic web - ISWC 2015: proceedings of the 14th International semantic web conference 2015 (ISWC 2015), 11-15 October 2015, Bethleham, PA, USA, 9367. Lecture notes in computer science. Cham: Springer [online], pages 329-336. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25010-6_22

This paper presents the Transport Disruption ontology, a formal framework for modelling travel and transport related events that have a disruptive impact on traveller's journeys. We discuss related models , describe how transport events and their imp... Read More about The transport disruption ontology..

A comparative analysis of two globally distributed group projects: a perspective from CSCW/CSCL research. (2015)
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MCDERMOTT, R., DANIELS, M., CAJANDER, A., BASS, J. and LALCHANDANI, J.P. 2015. A comparative analysis of two globally distributed group projects: a perspective from CSCW/CSCL research. In Proceedings of the 2015 Frontiers in education conference (FIE 2015): launching a new vision in engineering education, 21-24 October 2015, El Paso, USA. New York: IEEE [online], article number 7344344. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2015.7344344

Globally distributed group projects are becoming an attractive and increasingly common feature in computer science education. They provide opportunities for students to engage in activities that enhance both their technical skills and wider professio... Read More about A comparative analysis of two globally distributed group projects: a perspective from CSCW/CSCL research..

Competencies for paradigm shift 'survival'. (2015)
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DANIELS, M., CAJANDER, A., ECKERDAL, A., LIND, M., NYLEN, A., CLEAR, T. and MCDERMOTT, R. 2015. Competencies for paradigm shift 'survival'. In Proceedings of the 2015 Frontiers in education conference (FIE 2015): launching a new vision in engineering education, 21-24 October 2015, El Paso, USA. New York: IEEE [online], article number 7344255. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2015.7344255

The rapid development in the IT area brings a series of shifts, in underlying theories, technology and work practices. In the normal course of events, most changes are evolutionary, with small, incremental improvements being made to theoretical under... Read More about Competencies for paradigm shift 'survival'..