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Automated Reconfigurable Antenna Impedance for Optimum Power Transfer

Conference Proceeding
Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B. S., Hwang See, C., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Falcone, F., & Limiti, E. (2020)
Automated Reconfigurable Antenna Impedance for Optimum Power Transfer. https://doi.org/10.1109/APMC46564.2019.9038260
This paper presents an approach to implement an automatically tuning antenna for optimising power transfer suitable for software defined radio (SDR). The automatic tunability ...

Power analysis attacks on the AES-128 S-box using differential power analysis (DPA) and correlation power analysis (CPA)

Journal Article
Lo, O., Buchanan, W. J., & Carson, D. (2016)
Power analysis attacks on the AES-128 S-box using differential power analysis (DPA) and correlation power analysis (CPA). Journal of Cyber Security Technology, 1(2), 88-107. https://doi.org/10.1080/23742917.2016.1231523
This article demonstrates two fundamental techniques of power analysis, differential power analysis (DPA) and correlation power analysis (CPA), against a modern piece of hardw...

Performance evaluation of electric vehicle ventilation using directly powered photovoltaic fans

Conference Proceeding
Kolhe, M. L., Muneer, T., Adhikari, S. K., & Smith, I. (2015)
Performance evaluation of electric vehicle ventilation using directly powered photovoltaic fans. https://doi.org/10.1109/ITEC-India.2015.7386939
Electric vehicles have tremendous potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. One of the main draw-back of the electric vehicle though is the sourcing of energy for air-c...

Polymeric materials for conversion of electromagnetic waves from the sun to electric power

Journal Article
Haque, S. M., Ardila-Rey, J. A., Umar, Y., Rahman, H., Mas'ud, A. A., Muhammad-Sukki, F., & Albarracín, R. (2018)
Polymeric materials for conversion of electromagnetic waves from the sun to electric power. Polymers, 10(3), https://doi.org/10.3390/polym10030307
Solar photoelectric energy converted into electricity requires large surface areas with incident light and flexible materials to capture these light emissions. Currently, sunl...

Active current transformer circuits for low distortion sensing in switched mode power converters.

Journal Article
McNeill, N., Gupta, N. K., & Armstrong, W. (2004)
Active current transformer circuits for low distortion sensing in switched mode power converters. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 19, 908-917. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2004.830075
The current transformer (CT) is frequently used for sensing applications in switched mode power converters. Advantages are that galvanic isolation is inherently incorporated, ...

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...

Wind Power Integration with Smart Grid and Storage System: Prospects and Limitations

Journal Article
Kashem, S. B. A., Chowdhury, M. E., Khandakar, A., Ahmed, J., Ashraf, A., & Shabrin, N. (2020)
Wind Power Integration with Smart Grid and Storage System: Prospects and Limitations. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 11(5), https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110570
Wind power generation is playing a pivotal role in adopting renewable energy sources in many countries. Over the past decades, we have seen steady growth in wind power generat...

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Feasibility Study of Wireless Microwave Power Transfer

2022 - 2023
This project will carry out a feasibility study of building a simple wireless power transfer prototype. Our research team here will work with EnterGaia Technologies to develop this.
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £14,999

Design model predictive control with swarm inspired MPPT algorithms to extract optimum power for a single-stage grid connected PV inverter

2022 - 2023
Brief Description This project aims to develop a control algorithm using Model predictive control with swarm-inspired MPPT algorithm for a single stage grid connected PV inverter. Single-stage PV inv...
Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | Value: £6,680

Scoping an AI Powered Peer Advice System for Creative Freelancers

2021 - 2022
The aim of this project is to conduct an enhanced scoping exercise to establish the feasibility and parameters of creating an AI powered system (such as a ‘chatbot’) to offer advice to creative freela...
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £5,000

Evaluation of 'SWELL': Scottish Workforce Empowerment for Lifelong Learners

2003 - 2005
Scottish Workforce Empowerment for Lifelong Learners (SWELL) was an ESF Equal-funded initiative aiming to provide interventions enabling disadvantaged individuals and groups to overcome barriers to pr...
Value: £1,000

Future Flyer 3 a Day-in-the-life-of HEART

2022 - 2025
In FFC Phase 3, the consortium will develop and mature a range of innovative capabilities to demonstrate a ‘Day-in-the-life-of’ a deployed HEART network, within a commercially relevant target area. Th...
Funder: Innovate UK | Value: £433,649

Swarmchestrate - Application-level Swarm-based Orchestration Across the Cloud-to-Things Continuum

2024 - 2026
The next-generation of intelligent cyber-physical and IoT systems powered by artificial intelligence (AI) are becoming an essential part of our environment. With the ever-growing number of intelligent...
Funder: European Commission | Value: £357,303

SHELTERs: Sustainable Homes Enabling the Long Term Empowerment of Refugees

2020 - 2024
This project addresses this major moral, humanitarian, and knowledge gap by following on from a highly successful seed-funded project, which developed—through participatory design and interdisciplinar...
Funder: Royal Academy of Engineering | Value: £314,324

Design of an electrical circuit testing device

2014 - 2015
Considerable time is currently spent in the testing of plugs and circuitry in new build houses and housing association properties in order to obtain certification of safety This process involves the p...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £5,000

PUNGUZA HEWA KAA : PARTNERS IN CARBON

2017 - 2018
Gazi Bay in southern Kenya has the potential to become a world-leading centre of excellence in the integration of ecosystem science and community development. Work there, led by scientists from Kenya ...
Funder: British Council | Value: £90,234

DISTRO

2015 - 2018
The DISTRO network brings together leading laboratories in Visual Computing and 3D Computer Graphics research across Europe with the aim of training a new generation of scientists, technologists, and ...
Funder: European Commission | Value: £243,804

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Current transformer circuits for power electronics applications

2003 - 2008
This thesis investigates the operation of the current transfonner (CT) when sensing retum-to-zero current pulses in power electronic circ...
Neville Mcneill | Director of Studies: Prof Naren Gupta

Risk and enjoyment in powered two wheeler use

2004 - 2008
Paul Broughton | Director of Studies: Dr Steve Stradling | Second Supervisor: Mike Maher

Visualising Multiple Overlapping Classification Hierarchies

1998 - 2002
The revision or reorganisation of hierarchical data sets can result in many possible hierarchical classifications composed of the same or ove...
Dr Martin Graham | Director of Studies: Prof Jessie Kennedy | Second Supervisor: Prof David Benyon

Performance monitoring and modelling of micro-, midi- and macro-wind turbines

2007 - 2012
This thesis investigates the potential of using wind turbine to offset electricity demand for dwellings or public building....
Ahmad Makkawi | Director of Studies: Prof Tariq Muneer | Second Supervisor: Prof Naren Gupta

Low power design techniques for digital logic circuits

2000 - 2003
Yinshui Xia | Director of Studies: Abid Almaini

Wind resource assessment: statistical and computational fluid dynamic analysis

2008 - 2012
Wind is an important source of renewable energy and is widely available, despite the changing condition. In recent years a...
Wahid Irshad | Director of Studies: Dr Keng Goh | Second Supervisor: Prof Jorge Kubie

Generative aspect-oriented component adaptation

2004 - 2008
Due to the availability of components and the diversity of target applications, mismatches between pre-qualified existing components and the particular r...
Yankui Feng | Director of Studies: Prof Xiaodong Liu | Second Supervisor: Prof Jon Kerridge

Modelling Individuals for Simulating Contemporary Mobility Scenarios

2020 - date
Johannes Nguyen | Director of Studies: Dr Neil Urquhart | Second Supervisor: Dr Simon Powers

Diurnal variation: effect on immune function and athletic performance in elite middle distance runners

2009 - 2015
Purpose: To investigate the physiological, immunological and psychological response to an intense ...
Boukhemiss Boukelia | Director of Studies: Prof G Florida-James

Efficient routing primitives for low-power and lossy networks in internet of things

2015 - 2019
Dr Baraq Ghaleb | Director of Studies: Prof Ahmed Al-Dubai | Second Supervisor: Dr Elias Ekonomou

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The RESIST Project Press Release: Findings from the Work Package 1 Released

9 April 2024
Headline: Europe-wide research reveals how transgender rights, feminism, and LGBTIQ+ advocacy are systematically attacked in politics and media. Lead: A project researching so-called ‘anti-gender’ po...

Call for papers: Special issue of Research in International Business and Finance (CABS 2, SSCI Q1, ABDC B, Impact Factor 6.5). “Integrating Inclusive Finance and Sustainability: Pathways to Carbon Neutrality and Nature-Positive Futures"

15 March 2024
Special issue in Research in International Business and Finance (CABS 2, JCR Q1, ABDC B, Impact factor: 6.5, 6th out of 111 finance journals based on impact factor): Integrating Inclusive Finance and ...

Call for papers: Special issue of Resources Policy (CABS2, Impact factor 8.222) "From Covid-19 to Conflict: Challenges for Natural Resources Policy Making"

4 August 2022
Special issue - From Covid-19 to Conflict: Challenges for Natural Resources Policy Making This special issue investigates and examines the conflict as well as the challenges for natural resources pol...

Science in the City 'Bites' Napier's first public science quiz

16 June 2021
Three-minute videos were pre-recorded by up to 6 voluntary researchers within the School of Applied Sciences (this will include PhD students, lecturers, researchers with priority given to COVID-19 bas...

Japanese vibration expert joins Scottish monitoring firm Reactec

28 July 2019
Professor Setsuo Maeda, one of the world’s most respected experts in human response to vibration, has been appointed as Reactec’s chief scientific liaison – relocating from Japan to Edinburgh for the ...

Alistair Duff Quoted on 'Punk Energy" of ePundits

24 March 2019
School of Arts and Creative Industries professor interviewed by Scotland on Sunday on rising power of new media. Political bloggers, referred to as ePundits, have brought punk energy to politics, alth...

University academic to insist "no such thing as a tree" (to foresters)

13 March 2019
Dan Ridley-Ellis, the Head of the Centre for Wood Science and Technology, will be giving the Royal Forestry Society's Lawrence Pilling Memorial Lecture at the Worcestershire Federation of Young Farmer...

Dr. Simon Powers has been appointed as an Associate Editor for Adaptive Behavior

18 October 2017
Adaptive Behavior is an indexed, international peer reviewed journal that publishes articles on adaptive behavior in biological systems and autonomous artificial systems. Dr. Simon Powers has been inv...

Dr. Simon Powers is invited as the keynote speaker at the Second International Workshop of Social Learning and Cultural Evolution

26 August 2017
Simon Powers will give the keynote talk at the Second International Workshop of Social Learning and Cultural Evolution, part of the European Conference on Artificial Life held in Lyon, France, 4th Sep...

Professor Gives Evidence on Cyber Security and Health Care at Scottish Parliament

19 June 2017
Professor Bill Buchanan was invited to present evidence to the Health and Social Care Committee at the Scottish Parliament on Cyber Security risks within Health Care in Scotland.

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