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Spatial analysis and simulation of extreme coastal flooding scenarios for national-scale emergency planning (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Wyncoll, D., Haigh, I., Gouldby, B., Hames, D., Laeger, S., Wall, A., …Hammond, A. (2016). Spatial analysis and simulation of extreme coastal flooding scenarios for national-scale emergency planning. In 3rd European Conference on Flood Risk Management. https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160701001

The UK has a long history of coastal flooding, driven by large-scale low-pressure weather systems which can result in flooding over large spatial areas. Traditional coastal flood risk analysis is, however, often undertaken at local scales and hence d... Read More about Spatial analysis and simulation of extreme coastal flooding scenarios for national-scale emergency planning.

Increasing small business resilience to flood risk: Co-production in the development of a prototype e-learning tool to promote small business adaptation to flood risk (2016)
Conference Proceeding
McEwen, L., Wragg, A., & Harries, T. (2016). Increasing small business resilience to flood risk: Co-production in the development of a prototype e-learning tool to promote small business adaptation to flood risk. . https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160708010

© 2016 The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. Flooding of communities is becoming a repeated, widespread issue within the UK, and elsewhere. Small businesses are a crucial part of the UK economy; the UK Summer 2007 flood resulted in flooding of 7,00... Read More about Increasing small business resilience to flood risk: Co-production in the development of a prototype e-learning tool to promote small business adaptation to flood risk.

Exploring the co-production of digital storytelling for lay knowledge exchange within and between flood risk communities: The case of the River Severn, UK (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Holmes, A., McEwen, L., & Hansen, J. G. (2016). Exploring the co-production of digital storytelling for lay knowledge exchange within and between flood risk communities: The case of the River Severn, UK. . https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160715003

© 2016 The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. This paper evaluates the potential role of co-produced digital storytelling as a medium of linking flood memories and lay knowledge exchange around flood preparedness for resilience within flood risk com... Read More about Exploring the co-production of digital storytelling for lay knowledge exchange within and between flood risk communities: The case of the River Severn, UK.

SESAME: Exploring small businesses' behaviour to enhance resilience to flooding (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Coates, G., Wright, N., McGuinness, M., Guan, D., Harries, T., & McEwen, L. (2016). SESAME: Exploring small businesses' behaviour to enhance resilience to flooding. . https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160708011

© 2016 The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. In the United Kingdom, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) account for approximately 99.9% of businesses, 60% of the working population and 47% annual turnover. However, despite the important contr... Read More about SESAME: Exploring small businesses' behaviour to enhance resilience to flooding.

Virtual reality simulation training for student nurse education (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Elliman, J., Loizou, M., & Loizides, F. (2016). Virtual reality simulation training for student nurse education. In 2016 8th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-Games). https://doi.org/10.1109/VS-GAMES.2016.7590377

In this paper, the current developments for Virtual Reality (VR) simulation in the Nursing Education sector is investigated with the design and implementation of a 'serious game' that utilizes the increased immersive user experience of Head-Mounted D... Read More about Virtual reality simulation training for student nurse education.

Stroke event simulator using virtual reality (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Nicolaou, P., Loizou, M., & Loizides, F. (2016). Stroke event simulator using virtual reality. In 2016 8th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-Games). https://doi.org/10.1109/VS-GAMES.2016.7590368

This poster presents the initial stages of an investigation of a realistic virtual reality scenario aimed at increasing the compassion people feel for people that have suffered a stroke. A Bespoke Virtual Reality environment was developed using the U... Read More about Stroke event simulator using virtual reality.

National scale multivariate extreme value modelling of waves, winds and sea levels (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Gouldby, B., Wyncoll, D., Panzeri, M., Franklin, M., Hunt, T., Tozer, N., …Hawkes, P. (2016). National scale multivariate extreme value modelling of waves, winds and sea levels. In 3rd European Conference on Flood Risk Management. https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160701007

It has long been recognised that extreme coastal flooding can arise from the joint occurrence of extreme waves, winds and sea levels. The standard simplified joint probability approach used in England and Wales can result in an underestimation of flo... Read More about National scale multivariate extreme value modelling of waves, winds and sea levels.

Methodology to assess coastal infrastructure resilience to climate change (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Roca, M., Hames, D., Gouldby, B., Zve, E., Rowlands, O., Barter, P., & Grew, J. (2016). Methodology to assess coastal infrastructure resilience to climate change. In 3rd European Conference on Flood Risk Management. https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160702004

The section of railway which runs along the coastline of south Devon in United Kingdom, from Exeter to Newton Abbot, is one of the most photographed sections of railway in the world. It was opened in 1846 with embankments and seawalls protecting and... Read More about Methodology to assess coastal infrastructure resilience to climate change.

Teach a man to fish: A case study of entrepreneurship education in conflict-ridden Maiduguri Nigeria (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Anosike, P., & Oluwaseun, K. (2016). Teach a man to fish: A case study of entrepreneurship education in conflict-ridden Maiduguri Nigeria. In BAM2016 Conference Proceedings

The abduction in April 2014 of more than 250 school girls in Chibok, a small town near Maiduguri Nigeria, drew international attention to the scale of terror unleashed by the dreaded Boko Haram in the region. Stakeholders have recognised the urgent n... Read More about Teach a man to fish: A case study of entrepreneurship education in conflict-ridden Maiduguri Nigeria.

Implementing sustainable construction principles and practices by key stakeholders (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Maduka, N., Greenwood, D., Osborne, A., & Udeaja, C. (2016). Implementing sustainable construction principles and practices by key stakeholders. In Proceedings of the 2016 Modular and Offsite Construction (MOC) Summit (115-122). https://doi.org/10.29173/mocs15

The term ‘sustainable construction’ is used to highlight the responsibility of the construction industry in attaining sustainable development (SD). With the increasing necessity for resource efficiency and climate change adaptation, there is a need f... Read More about Implementing sustainable construction principles and practices by key stakeholders.

Towards a software framework for the autonomous Internet of Things (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Hernandez, M. E., Perez Hernandez, M., & Reiff-Marganiec, S. (2016). Towards a software framework for the autonomous Internet of Things. In 2016 IEEE 4th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud) (220-227). https://doi.org/10.1109/FiCloud.2016.39

IoT promises a world where Smart Objects (SO) are able to autonomously communicate and work together to make the (human) user's life easier. Popular approaches for development of IoT applications take for granted that on-object resources are evenly c... Read More about Towards a software framework for the autonomous Internet of Things.

Stable active vibration control of building structure subjected to bidirectional earthquake (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Paul, S., & Yu, W. (2016). Stable active vibration control of building structure subjected to bidirectional earthquake. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEEE.2016.7751245

© 2016 IEEE. Proportional-derivative (PD) is highly favored algorithms in terms of industrial applications. Although, there are infrequent broadcasted theory results of PD controller in connection to structural vibration control applications. In this... Read More about Stable active vibration control of building structure subjected to bidirectional earthquake.

Eating, drinking, living, dying and decaying soft robots (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Rossiter, J., Winfield, J., & Ieropoulos, I. (2016). Eating, drinking, living, dying and decaying soft robots. In C. Laschi, J. Rossiter, F. Lida, M. Cianchetti, & L. Margheri (Eds.), Soft Robotics: Trends, Applications and Challenges (95-101). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46460-2_12

Soft robotics opens up a whole range of possibilities that go far beyond conventional rigid and electromagnetic robotics. New smart materials and new design and modelling methodologies mean we can start to replicate the operations and functionalities... Read More about Eating, drinking, living, dying and decaying soft robots.

Cost-effectiveness of interventions to prevent road traffic injuries in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Banstola, A., & Mytton, J. (2016). Cost-effectiveness of interventions to prevent road traffic injuries in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

In Low-and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), cost-effective road safety interventions can save not only lives of vulnerable road users but also save costs to society. The objective of this systematic review was to identify, critically appraise, summar... Read More about Cost-effectiveness of interventions to prevent road traffic injuries in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review.

Development of a dynamics model for the Baxter robot (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Smith, A., Yang, C., Li, C., Ma, H., & Zhao, L. (2016). Development of a dynamics model for the Baxter robot. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2016.7558740

© 2016 IEEE. The dynamics model of a robot is important to find the relation between the joint actuator torques and the resulting motion. There are two common methods to do this: The Lagrange formulation, which gives a closed form of the dynamics equ... Read More about Development of a dynamics model for the Baxter robot.

Enhancing student learning of human-computer interaction using a contextual mobile application (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Alnuaim, A., Caleb-Solly, P., & Perry, C. (2016). Enhancing student learning of human-computer interaction using a contextual mobile application. In 2016 SAI Computing Conference (SAI) (952-959). https://doi.org/10.1109/SAI.2016.7556095

© 2016 IEEE. This paper presents findings from the deployment of a mobile application designed to enable students to learn more effectively in field studies. The mobile application supports students in a design task as part of their learning of Human... Read More about Enhancing student learning of human-computer interaction using a contextual mobile application.

Effect of stiffeners on nature of post-critical deformations of thin-walled composite aircraft structures: A combined numerical-experimental study (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Bakunowicz, J., Kopecki, T., Lis, T., & Mazurek, P. (2016). Effect of stiffeners on nature of post-critical deformations of thin-walled composite aircraft structures: A combined numerical-experimental study. In 2016 7th International Conference on Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (ICMAE) (46-53). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMAE.2016.7549506

© 2016 IEEE. This paper presents results of numerical and experimental examination of thin-walled structures which model certain parts of aircraft structures subject to bending and torsion. The considered type of load and deformation corresponds to t... Read More about Effect of stiffeners on nature of post-critical deformations of thin-walled composite aircraft structures: A combined numerical-experimental study.

Mobile App Collusions and Its Cyber Security Implications (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Arabo, A. (2016). Mobile App Collusions and Its Cyber Security Implications. In M. Qiu, L. Tao, & J. Niu (Eds.), 2016 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Cyber Security and Cloud Computing (CSCloud) (178-183). https://doi.org/10.1109/CSCloud.2016.9

© 2016 IEEE. The key focus in securing mobile software systems is substantiality intended in detecting and mitigating vulnerabilities in a single app or apps developed by the same individual. It fails to identify vulnerabilities that arise as a resul... Read More about Mobile App Collusions and Its Cyber Security Implications.