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Influences on student motivation and independent learning skills: cross-cultural differences between Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. (2023)
Journal Article
LO, N.P.-K., BREMNER, P.A.M. and FORBES-MCKAY, K.E. 2023. Influences on student motivation and independent learning skills: cross-cultural differences between Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. Frontiers in education [online], 8, article number 1334357. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1334357

This study examined the ways in which different influences on student motivation and the development of independent learning (IL) skills might be constituted across students learning within different educational cultures. Previous studies on student... Read More about Influences on student motivation and independent learning skills: cross-cultural differences between Hong Kong and the United Kingdom..

Accelerating grid-based renewable electricity sector transition in Nigeria. (2023)
Conference Proceeding
ADEDOKUN, R., STRACHAN, P. and SINGH, A. 2023. Accelerating grid-based renewable electricity sector transition in Nigeria. In Montgomery, J. (ed.) Proceedings of the 2023 AMPS (Architecture, media, politics, society) New York - livable cities: a conference on issues affecting life in cities, 14-16 June 2023, New York, USA. AMPS proceedings series, 34.2. New York: AMPS [online], pages 257-268. Available from: https://amps-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Amps_Proceedings_Series_34.2.pdf

This paper advances the academic and practice of building urban resilience and sustainable cities by investigating the planning process and governance to identify challenges of on-grid renewable energy deployment across the 36 states of Nigeria. Furt... Read More about Accelerating grid-based renewable electricity sector transition in Nigeria..

Tensile and impact properties of melt-blended nylon 6/ethylene-octene copolymer/graphene oxide nanocomposites. (2023)
Conference Proceeding
ATTAR, S., CHEN, B., CATALANOTTI, G. and FALZON, B.G. 2023. Tensile and impact properties of melt-blended nylon 6/ethylene-octene copolymer/graphene oxide nanocomposites. In Falzon, B.G. and McCarthy, C. (eds.) Proceedings of the 23rd International conference on composite materials 2023 (ICCM 23), 30 July - 04 August 2023, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Belfast: Queen's University Belfast. Hosted on ICCM-central [online], paper 253. Available from: http://www.iccm-central.org/Proceedings/ICCM23proceedings/index.htm

The addition of stiff nanoparticles to a polymer matrix usually proves beneficial for the enhancement in stiffness and strength, however, the impact strength is usually lowered. Conversely, the use of elastomeric additives can enhance the toughness a... Read More about Tensile and impact properties of melt-blended nylon 6/ethylene-octene copolymer/graphene oxide nanocomposites..

Building time, cost and quality performance of modern methods of construction in a live research project. (2023)
Conference Proceeding
ATANASOV, V., GREENWOOD, D.J., MADEBWE, T.M. and COX, R. 2023. Building time, cost and quality performance of modern methods of construction in a live research project. In Tutesigensi, A. and Neilson, C.J. (eds.) Proceedings of the 39th Association of Researchers in Construction Management annual conference (ARCOM 2023), 4-6 September 2023, Leeds, UK. London: ARCOM [online], pages 457-466. Available from: https://www.arcom.ac.uk/-docs/archive/2023-Indexed-Papers.pdf

The use of modern methods of construction (MMC) has been embraced by the construction sector of many countries, largely due to assertions that some MMC processes can be economically effective and efficient. MMC have been received as opportunities by... Read More about Building time, cost and quality performance of modern methods of construction in a live research project..

Optimising linear regression for modelling the dynamic thermal behaviour of electrical machines using NSGA-II, NSGA-III and MOEA/D. (2023)
Conference Proceeding
BANDA, T.M., ZĂVOIANU, A.-C., PETROVSKI, A., WÖCKINGER, D. and BRAMERDORFER, G. 2024. Optimising linear regression for modelling the dynamic thermal behaviour of electrical machines using NSGA-II, NSGA-III and MOEA/D. In Stratulat, S., Marin, M., Negru, V. and Zaharie, D. (eds.) Proceedings of the 25th International symposium on symbolic and numeric algorithms for scientific computing (SYNASC 2023), 11-14 September 2023, Nancy, France. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society [online], pages 186-193. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/SYNASC61333.2023.00032

For engineers to create durable and effective electrical assemblies, modelling and controlling heat transfer in rotating electrical machines (such as motors) is crucial. In this paper, we compare the performance of three multi-objective evolutionary... Read More about Optimising linear regression for modelling the dynamic thermal behaviour of electrical machines using NSGA-II, NSGA-III and MOEA/D..

International crimes in United Kingdom and Japanese law and practice. (2023)
Journal Article
ARNELL, P. and KAWAI, T. 2023. International crimes in United Kingdom and Japanese law and practice. Nihon University comparative law, 39, pages 89-103. Available from: https://tinyurl.com/39ejnjtp

The incorporation and application of international criminal law by states is critical if the gravest acts are to be deterred and punished. International law and institutions cannot alone meet the challenge of addressing these crimes. That the princip... Read More about International crimes in United Kingdom and Japanese law and practice..

European values. (2023)
Book Chapter
ZEĆO, M. 2023. European values. In DeLappe, J. and Leuzzi, L. (eds.) Incite: digital art and activism. Aberdeen: peacock and the worm, chapter 1111, pages 57-60.

This chapter - a selection of quotes within variously decorated pages - forms Maja Zećo's contribution to the collaborative artists' book, "INCITE: Digital Art and Activism", edited by Joseph DeLappe and Laura Leuzzi. The book sought to collate respo... Read More about European values..

In dialogue: for an approach to activist curating. (2023)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2023. In dialogue: for an approach to activist curating. In DeLappe, J. and Leuzzi, L. (eds.) Incite: digital art and activism. Aberdeen: peacock and the worm, chapter 1110, pages 53-56.

This chapter - a short essay - forms Laura Leuzzi's chapter contribution to the collaborative artists' book, "INCITE: Digital Art and Activism", edited by Joseph DeLappe and Laura Leuzzi. The book sought to collate responses from artists, scholars an... Read More about In dialogue: for an approach to activist curating..

Aphorisms on art and activism. (2023)
Book Chapter
BLACKWOOD, J. 2023. Aphorisms on art and activism. In DeLappe, J. and Leuzzi, L. (eds.) Incite: digital art and activism. Aberdeen: peacock and the worm, chapter 1100, pages 45-48.

This chapter - a compilation of aphorisms - forms Jon Blackwood's contribution to the collaborative artists' book, "INCITE: Digital Art and Activism", edited by Joseph DeLappe and Laura Leuzzi. The book sought to collate responses from artists, schol... Read More about Aphorisms on art and activism..

A reflection on: preparing the dietetic workforce of the future: developing innovative placements in social care settings. (2023)
Journal Article
MACKENZIE, M. and NEWMAN, E. 2023. A reflection on: preparing the dietetic workforce of the future: developing innovative placements in social care settings. International journal of practice-based learning in health and social care [online], 11(2), pages 60-71. Available from: https://doi.org/10.18552/ijpblhsc.v11i2.1037

Looking back eight years, and reflecting on this project, we consider on our professional and personal learning. This pilot project came about because there is always pressure on practice placements in clinical practice, and we were aware of the chan... Read More about A reflection on: preparing the dietetic workforce of the future: developing innovative placements in social care settings..

On the role of dialogue models in the age of large language models. (2023)
Conference Proceeding
WELLS, S. and SNAITH, M. 2023. On the role of dialogue models in the age of large language models. In Grasso, F., Green, N.L., Schneider, J. and Wells, S. (eds.) Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on computational models of natural argument (CMNA 2023), 3 December 2023, [virtual event]. CEUR workshop proceedings, 3614. Aachen: CEUR-WS [online], pages 49-51. Available from: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3614/abstract2.pdf

We argue that Machine learning, in particular the currently prevalent generation of Large Language Models (LLMs), can work constructively with existing normative models of dialogue as exemplified by dialogue games, specifically their computational ap... Read More about On the role of dialogue models in the age of large language models..

An improved bidirectional gate recurrent unit combined with smoothing flter algorithm for state of energy estimation of lithium-ion batteries. (2023)
Conference Proceeding
WU, F., WANG, S., LIU, D., CAO, W. and FERNANDEZ, C. 2023. An improved bidirectional gate recurrent unit combined with smoothing filter algorithm for state of energy estimation of lithium-ion batteries. In Proceedings of the 3rd New energy and energy storage system control summit forum 2023 (NEESSC 2023), 26-28 September 2023, Mianyang, China. Piscataway: IEEE [online], pages 363-368. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/NEESSC59976.2023.10349332

The accurate estimation of state of energy (SOE) is the key to the rational energy distribution of lithium-ion battery based energy storage equipment. This paper proposes an improved bidirectional gate recursive element combined with a time-varying b... Read More about An improved bidirectional gate recurrent unit combined with smoothing flter algorithm for state of energy estimation of lithium-ion batteries..

An improved robust function correction-adaptive extended Kalman filtering algorithm for SOC estimation of lithium-ion batteries. (2023)
Conference Proceeding
ZHU, C., WANG, S., YU, C., HAI, N., FERNANDEZ, C. and SUN, Z. 2023. An improved robust function correction-adaptive extended Kalman filtering algorithm for SOC estimation of lithium-ion batteries. In Proceedings of the 3rd New energy and energy storage system control summit forum 2023 (NEESSC 2023), 26-28 September 2023, Mianyang, China. Piscataway: IEEE [online], pages 358-362. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/NEESSC59976.2023.10349263

State of Charge (SOC) is one of the key indicators for evaluating the state of electric vehicles. In order to cope with the uncertainty of random noise in nonlinear systems, an improved robust function correction-adaptive extended Kalman filtering (R... Read More about An improved robust function correction-adaptive extended Kalman filtering algorithm for SOC estimation of lithium-ion batteries..

An improved genetic-backpropagation neural network for state of charge estimation of lithium-ion batteries. (2023)
Conference Proceeding
WANG, S., HAI, N., YANG, J. and FERNANDEZ, C. 2023. An improved genetic-backpropagation neural network for state of charge estimation of lithium-ion batteries. In Proceedings of the 3rd New energy and energy storage system control summit forum 2023 (NEESSC 2023), 26-28 September 2023, Mianyang, China. Piscataway: IEEE [online], pages 369-372. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/NEESSC59976.2023.10349297

The state of charge estimation with high precision plays an important role in the usage of lithium-ion batteries in electronic vehicles. An improved genetic-backpropagation neural network (GA-BPNN) is proposed to predict the state of charge with high... Read More about An improved genetic-backpropagation neural network for state of charge estimation of lithium-ion batteries..

MicroConceptBERT: concept-relation based document information extraction framework. (2023)
Conference Proceeding
SILVA, K., SILVA, T. and NANAYAKKARA, G. 2023. MicroConceptBERT: concept-relation based document information extraction framework. In Proceedings of the 7th SLAAI (Sri Lanka Association for Artificial Intelligence) International conference on artificial intelligence 2023 (SLAAI-ICAI 2023), 23-24 November 2023, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article number 10365022. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109...ICAI59257.2023.10365022

Extracting information from documents is a crucial task in natural language processing research. Existing information extraction methodologies often focus on specific domains, such as medicine, education or finance, and are limited by language constr... Read More about MicroConceptBERT: concept-relation based document information extraction framework..

A weighted ensemble of regression methods for gross error identification problem. (2023)
Conference Proceeding
DOBOS, D., DANG, T., NGUYEN, T.T., MCCALL, J., WILSON, A., CORBETT, H. and STOCKTON, P. 2023. A weighted ensemble of regression methods for gross error identification problem. In Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Symposium series on computational intelligence (SSCI 2023), 5-8 December 2023, Mexico City, Mexico. Piscataway: IEEE [online], pages 413-420. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/SSCI52147.2023.10371882

In this study, we proposed a new ensemble method to predict the magnitude of gross errors (GEs) on measurement data obtained from the hydrocarbon and stream processing industries. Our proposed model consists of an ensemble of regressors (EoR) obtaine... Read More about A weighted ensemble of regression methods for gross error identification problem..

In search of a philosophy of computing education. (2023)
Conference Proceeding
MCDERMOTT, R., DANIELS,M. and FREZZA, S. 2023. In search of a philosophy of computing eduction. In Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Frontiers in education conference (FIE 2023), 18-21 October 2023, College Station, TX, USA. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article 10343513. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE58773.2023.10343513

In this paper, we present a preliminary description of the field of inquiry encompassed by the philosophy of computing education. We first attempt to identify a general framework for investigating characteristic questions of a philosophical nature th... Read More about In search of a philosophy of computing education..

Evaluating a pass/fail grading model in first year undergraduate computing. (2023)
Conference Proceeding
ZARB, M., MCDERMOTT, R., MARTIN, K., YOUNG, T. and MCGOWAN, J. 2023. Evaluating a pass/fail grading model in first year undergraduate computing. In Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Frontiers in education conference (FIE 2023), 18-21 October 2023, College Station, TX, USA. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article 10343276. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE58773.2023.10343276

This Innovative Practice Full Paper investigates the implications of implementing a Pass/Fail marking scheme within the undergraduate curriculum, specifically across first year computing modules in a Scottish Higher Education Institution. The motivat... Read More about Evaluating a pass/fail grading model in first year undergraduate computing..

What is Skill? (and why does it matter?). (2023)
Conference Proceeding
MCDERMOTT, R. and DANIELS, M. 2023. What is skill? (and why does it matter?). In Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Frontiers in education conference (FIE 2023), 18-21 October 2023, College Station, TX, USA. Piscataway: IEEE [online], article 10343520. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE58773.2023.10343520

This Research-to-Practice Full Paper seeks to investigate the concept of Skill within a Competency Framework, such as that described by the CC2020 document. The notion of skill is fundamental to modern educational discourse. As educators, we strive,... Read More about What is Skill? (and why does it matter?)..

Incite: digital art and activism. (2023)
Book
DELAPPE, J. and LEUZZI, L. (eds.) 2023. Incite: digital art and activism. Aberdeen: peacock and the worm.

INCITE: Digital Art and Activism is a collaborative artists' book, featuring creative responses from artists, scholars and activists connected through the Digital Art and Activism Network, and edited by Joseph DeLappe (Abertay University) and Laura L... Read More about Incite: digital art and activism..