TMP: Tele-Medicine Protocol for Slotted 802.15.4 With Duty-Cycle Optimization in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks
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Akbar, M. S., Yu, H., & Cang, S. (2017)
TMP: Tele-Medicine Protocol for Slotted 802.15.4 With Duty-Cycle Optimization in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks. IEEE Sensors Journal, 17(6), 1925-1936. https://doi.org/10.1109/jsen.2016.2645612
Recently, adaptive duty cycle-based medium access control (MAC) protocols based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard have been proposed to address the quality of service (QoS) requir...
Whole-life embodied carbon in multi-storey buildings: steel, concrete and timber structures
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Hart, J., D'Amico, B., & Pomponi, F. (2021)
Whole-life embodied carbon in multi-storey buildings: steel, concrete and timber structures. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 25(2), 403-418. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13139
Buildings and the construction industry are top contributors to climate change, and structures account for the largest share of the upfront greenhouse gas emissions. Whilst a ...
Topology optimization of multi-material structures with elastoplastic strain hardening model
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Li, M., Deng, Y., Zhang, H., Wong, S. H. F., Mohamed, A., Zheng, Y., …Kuang, J. S. (2021)
Topology optimization of multi-material structures with elastoplastic strain hardening model. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 64, 1141-1160. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00158-021-02905-3
The paper presents a new multi-material topology optimization method with novel adjoint sensitivity analysis that can accommodate not only multiple plasticity but also multipl...
New Circularly-Polarised Conical-Beam Microstrip Patch Antenna Array For Short-Range Communication Systems
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Zhou, D., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., See, C. H., McEwan, N. J., & Excell, P. S. (2009)
New Circularly-Polarised Conical-Beam Microstrip Patch Antenna Array For Short-Range Communication Systems. Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 51(1), 78-81. https://doi.org/10.1002/mop.23956
A circularly‐polarized conical‐beam microstrip patch antenna, with a coplanar conductor pattern, is realized as an array of a number of stripline‐fed slotted patches whose dia...
Scalability analysis comparisons of cloud-based software services
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Ahmad, A. A., & Andras, P. (2019)
Scalability analysis comparisons of cloud-based software services. Journal of cloud computing: advances, systems and applications, 8, Article 10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13677-019-0134-y
Performance and scalability testing and measurements of cloud-based software services are necessary for future optimizations and growth of cloud computing. Scalability, elasti...
Air-Conditioning and the Transmission of COVID-19 in Indoor Environment
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Oye, T. T., Gupta, N., Goh, K., & Oye, T. K. (2021)
Air-Conditioning and the Transmission of COVID-19 in Indoor Environment. Environmental management and sustainable development, 10(3), https://doi.org/10.5296/emsd.v10i3.18461
Substandard ventilation in restricted air-conditioning indoor places is allied with upsurge in the respiratory infections’ transmission. There have been several COVID-19 sprea...
Energetic, environmental and economic performance of electric vehicles: Experimental evaluation
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Muneer, T., Milligan, R., Smith, I., Doyle, A., Pozuelo, M., & Knez, M. (2015)
Energetic, environmental and economic performance of electric vehicles: Experimental evaluation. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 35, 40-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2014.11.015
Fuelled by a rapidly rising human global population, an increasing demand for freedom to travel and the affordability made possible by modern manufacturing there has been an e...
Developing performance-based standards for external timber cladding
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Davies, I. (2015)
Developing performance-based standards for external timber cladding. Energy Procedia, 78, 183-188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2015.11.137
This paper reviews the background to, and development of, new British Standards for external timber cladding. The standards are being produced because timber has become a wide...
Naturalistic measurement of driver eye height and object height using photogrammetry
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Llewellyn, R., Sarkar, P., & Taylor, M. D. (2021)
Naturalistic measurement of driver eye height and object height using photogrammetry. Proceedings of the ICE - Transport, 174(7), 430-440. https://doi.org/10.1680/jtran.18.00124
Driver eye height and object height are key factors in the derivation of basic parameters for safe and economically efficient highway design. This study critically reviews pr...
Explanation-based learning with analogy for impasse resolution
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Timperley, M., Mokhtar, M., Bellaby, G., & Howe, J. (2016)
Explanation-based learning with analogy for impasse resolution. Expert Systems with Applications, 61, 181-191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2016.05.030
This paper proposes an algorithm for the inclusion of analogy into Explanation-Based Learning (EBL). Analogy can be used when an impasse is reached to extend the deductive clo...