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An evaluation of thermal and lighting performance within an ETFE structure (2016)
Book Chapter
Martin, B. A., Masih, D., Lau, B., Beccarelli, P., & Chilton, J. (2016). An evaluation of thermal and lighting performance within an ETFE structure. In M. Dastbaz, & C. Gorse (Eds.), Sustainable ecological engineering design. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32646-7_5

This paper reports on a study into the thermal and lighting environment of an enclosed Ethylene Tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) foil-covered structure. This is based on the on-site monitoring over set periods of time in summer 2014 and winter 2015. ETFE-f... Read More about An evaluation of thermal and lighting performance within an ETFE structure.

Finite element analysis (FEA) modelling of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) repair in offshore risers (2015)
Book Chapter
Johnson, M., Chan, P., Tshai, K., & Li, S. (2015). Finite element analysis (FEA) modelling of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) repair in offshore risers. Rehabilitation of pipelines using fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) composites (177-210). Woodhead Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-85709-684-5.00009-6

The use of relatively inexpensive, high strength to weight ratio fiber reinforced polymer composite (FRPC) as a load bearing pipe repair sleeve is an emerging technology that is becoming common for offshore applications. This chapter will first outli... Read More about Finite element analysis (FEA) modelling of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) repair in offshore risers.

Supercapatteries with Hybrids of Redox Active Polymers and Nanostructured Carbons (2015)
Book Chapter
Stevenson, A. J., Gromadskyi, D. G., Hu, D., Chae, J., Guan, L., Yu, L., & Chen, G. Z. (2015). Supercapatteries with Hybrids of Redox Active Polymers and Nanostructured Carbons. In X. Feng (Ed.), Nanocarbons for Advanced Energy Storage. Volume 1 (179-210). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9783527680054.ch6

© 2015 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA. All rights reserved. This chapter considers the development and role of supercapatteries as practical energy storage devices for commercial development. Current battery technology can produce a high power de... Read More about Supercapatteries with Hybrids of Redox Active Polymers and Nanostructured Carbons.

Challenges of Location-Based Services market analysis: current market description (2015)
Book Chapter
Basiri, A., Moore, T., Hill, C., & Bhatia, P. (2015). Challenges of Location-Based Services market analysis: current market description. In G. Gartner, & H. Huang (Eds.), Progress in Location-Based Services 2014. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11879-6_19

Location-Based Services (LBS) have a huge and rapidly growing market, however LBS market reports do not fully agree about the current market size, the exact number of LBS users, market growth rate, etc. Different market study reports describe LBS mar... Read More about Challenges of Location-Based Services market analysis: current market description.

Developing mHealth Apps with Researchers: Multi-Stakeholder Design Considerations (2014)
Book Chapter
Craven, M. P., Lang, A. R., & Martin, J. L. (2014). Developing mHealth Apps with Researchers: Multi-Stakeholder Design Considerations. In A. Marcus (Ed.), Design, user experience, and usability: user experience design for everyday: Third International Conference, DUXU 2014, held as a part of HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014, proceedings. Part III (15-24). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07635-5_2

The authors have been involved with developing a number of mHealth smartphone Apps for use in health or wellness research in collaboration with researchers, clinicians and patient groups for clinical areas including Sickle Cell Disease, Attention Def... Read More about Developing mHealth Apps with Researchers: Multi-Stakeholder Design Considerations.

Energy Harvesting from Pavements (2014)
Book Chapter
Dawson, A., Mallick, R., Hernandez, A. G., & Dehdezi, P. K. (2014). Energy Harvesting from Pavements. In J. Gopalakrishnan, W. J. Steyn, & J. Harvey (Eds.), Climate change, energy, sustainability and pavements (481-517). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44719-2_18

Against a background of the immense solar radiation incident with available pavement surfaces, the opportunity for energy to be harvested from pavements is investigated. While the emphasis is on the harvesting of solar-derived heat energy, some atten... Read More about Energy Harvesting from Pavements.

Anticipating and Responding to Pavement Performance as Climate Changes (2014)
Book Chapter
Dawson, A. (2014). Anticipating and Responding to Pavement Performance as Climate Changes. In K. Gopalakrishnan, W. J. Steyn, & J. Harvey (Eds.), Climate Change, Energy, Sustainability and Pavements (127-157). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44719-2_4

As climate changes, the performance of pavements can be expected to change too. More rainfall can be expected to lead to softer subgrades and less sup-port to the pavement structure with consequences for more rapid cracking and rut-ting. Even if the... Read More about Anticipating and Responding to Pavement Performance as Climate Changes.

Spatial uncertainty management in pedestrian navigation (2014)
Book Chapter
Basiri, A., Amirian, P., Winstanley, A., Moore, T., & Hill, C. (2014). Spatial uncertainty management in pedestrian navigation. In C. Liu (Ed.), Principle and application progress in location-based services (343-355). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04028-8_23

Location-based services use location as contextual data to exclude irrelevant services from users. However almost all positioning technologies can only provide a location with a certain degree of accuracy. It is necessary to have a framework which ca... Read More about Spatial uncertainty management in pedestrian navigation.

Early stage health technology assessment (HTA) of biomedical devices: the MATCH experience (2013)
Book Chapter
Pecchia, L., & Craven, M. P. (2013). Early stage health technology assessment (HTA) of biomedical devices: the MATCH experience. In M. Long (Ed.), World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, May 26-31 2012, Beijing, China. Springer

Early stage Health Technology Assessment (HTA) of biomedical devices requires different methods than those usually employed for pharmaceuticals. This paper reviews widely used methods for HTA, discusses their limits for early stage evaluation of biom... Read More about Early stage health technology assessment (HTA) of biomedical devices: the MATCH experience.

An Overview of Small Specimen Creep Testing (2013)
Book Chapter
Hyde, T. H., Sun, W., & Hyde, C. J. (2013). An Overview of Small Specimen Creep Testing. In Advanced Materials Modelling for Structures (201-216). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35167-9_19

© 2013, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. In this paper, some commonly used small specimen creep testing methods, including sub-sized uniaxial creep testing, impression creep testing, small punch creep testing, small ring creep testing and small two... Read More about An Overview of Small Specimen Creep Testing.

User requirements for image-guided navigation in spinal surgery (2013)
Book Chapter
Craven, M. P., Pecchia, L., & Martin, J. L. (2013). User requirements for image-guided navigation in spinal surgery. In M. Long (Ed.), World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, May 26-31 2012, Beijing, China. Springer

Advances in image-guided technology have resulted in a number of technologies to support surgeons in the identification of tissue and the tracking and navigation of surgical instruments in spinal surgery. There are various existing and proposed syste... Read More about User requirements for image-guided navigation in spinal surgery.

Nanoscale characterisation of MBE-grown GaMnN / (001) GaAs (2008)
Book Chapter
Fay, M. W., Han, Y., Novikov, S. V., Edmonds, K., Gallagher, B., Campion, R., …Brown, P. D. (2008). Nanoscale characterisation of MBE-grown GaMnN / (001) GaAs. In A. Cullis, & P. Midgley (Eds.), Microscopy of semiconducting materials 2007: proceedings of the 15th conference, 2-5 April 2007, Cambridge, UK. Springer-Verlag

The growth of cubic (Ga,Mn)N/(001)GaAs heterostructures by plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy has been appraised as a function of Ga:N ratio, Mn concentration and growth temperature. The combined analytical techniques of EFTEM, EDX, CBED and dark... Read More about Nanoscale characterisation of MBE-grown GaMnN / (001) GaAs.