Empowering programme Leaders to unlock learning: choices, challenges and changes
Presentation / Conference
Howson, F. (2012, October)
Empowering programme Leaders to unlock learning: choices, challenges and changes. Presented at Leadership Innovation and Transformation in HE: Unlocking Learning, London
Given the centrality of the Programme Leader role in influencing the student learning experience, this session will explore the implementation of a university-wide strategy de...
Powers in the Land?
Journal Article
Duff, A. (2008)
Powers in the Land?. Journalism Practice, 2, 230-244. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512780801999386
The expansion of opinion is one of the key developments in the British press, as elsewhere. The article analyses the role of one of the most important types of commentator, ne...
Questioning women’s empowerment through tourism entrepreneurship opportunities: The case of Omani women
Thesis
Salim Al Mazro'ei, L. B. Questioning women’s empowerment through tourism entrepreneurship opportunities: The case of Omani women. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/995563
This thesis adopts critical feminist theory, which is a combination of both critical theory and feminist theory, to explore the nature and experiences of Omani women involved ...
Lengthening the moment arm of the patella confers enhanced extensor mechanism power following total knee arthroplasty
Journal Article
Hamilton, D. F., Simpson, A. H. R., Burnett, R., Patton, J. T., Moran, M., Clement, N. D., …Gaston, P. (2013)
Lengthening the moment arm of the patella confers enhanced extensor mechanism power following total knee arthroplasty. Journal of Orthopaedic Research, 31(8), 1201-1207. https://doi.org/10.1002/jor.22344
We investigated whether a postulated biomechanical advantage conferred to the extensor mechanism by a change in knee implant design was detectable in patients by direct physic...
Empowering programme leaders through institutional dialogue
Presentation / Conference
Howson, F. (2011, May)
Empowering programme leaders through institutional dialogue. Presented at SEDA Spring Teaching Learning and assessment Conference 2011 - Academics for the 21st Century, Edinburgh
Programme Leaders have a pivotal role within universities and how they carry out that role
can significantly impact on their programmes, their teams and their students. But th...
Basic Home Automation Using Smart Sockets with Power Management
Journal Article
Ahmed, J., Then, Y. L., Asif, N., & Kashem, S. (2021)
Basic Home Automation Using Smart Sockets with Power Management. International Journal of Integrated Engineering, 13(2), 99-108
The power generated in today’s time is dominated using fossil fuels that may get exhausted within the coming decades. Monitoring and management of the energy consumption hold ...
An effective hybrid maximum power point tracker of photovoltaic arrays for complex partial shading conditions
Journal Article
Kermadi, M., Salam, Z., Ahmed, J., & Berkouk, E. M. (2019)
An effective hybrid maximum power point tracker of photovoltaic arrays for complex partial shading conditions. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 66(9), 6990-7000. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2018.2877202
This paper proposes an improved maximum power point tracker (MPPT) for photovoltaic (PV) system. The scheme is a hybrid between the adaptive perturb and observe and particle s...
Optimum Power Transfer in RF Front End Systems Using Adaptive Impedance Matching Technique
Journal Article
Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B. S., Azpilicueta, L., See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R., Althuwayb, A. A., …Limiti, E. (2021)
Optimum Power Transfer in RF Front End Systems Using Adaptive Impedance Matching Technique. Scientific Reports, 11, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-91355-4
Matching the antenna’s impedance to the RF-front-end of a wireless communications system is challenging as the impedance varies with its surround environment. Autonomously mat...
The Development of a Cross-Border Energy Trade Cooperation Model of Interconnected Virtual Power Plants Using Bilateral Contracts
Journal Article
Ullah, Z., Arshad, & Ahmad, J. (2022)
The Development of a Cross-Border Energy Trade Cooperation Model of Interconnected Virtual Power Plants Using Bilateral Contracts. Energies, 15(21), Article 8171. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15218171
By coordinating the operation of regionally interconnected virtual power plants (VPPs), the growing penetration problem of renewable energy sources (RESs) into the power syste...
Wind power potentials in Cameroon and Nigeria: lessons from South Africa
Journal Article
Mas'ud, A. A., Wirba, A. V., Ardila-Rey, J. A., Albarracín, R., Muhammad-Sukki, F., Duque, Á. J., …Munir, A. B. (2017)
Wind power potentials in Cameroon and Nigeria: lessons from South Africa. Energies, 10(4), https://doi.org/10.3390/en10040443
Wind energy has seen a tremendous growth for electricity generation worldwide and reached 456 GW by the end of June 2016. According to the World Wind Energy Association, globa...