The Research and Innovation of Smart Specialisation Strategies: The Transition from the Triple to Quadruple Helix
Conference Proceeding
Deakin, M., Mora, L., & Reid, A. (2018)
The Research and Innovation of Smart Specialisation Strategies: The Transition from the Triple to Quadruple Helix. In M. Bozina Beros, N. Recker, & M. Kozina (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th International Scientific Conference on Economic and Social Development, (94-103
This article suggests the Entrepreneurial Discovery Process (EPD) that underlies Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3) is not so much caught in th...
Current technologies and location based services
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Ahmad, I., Asif, R., Abd-Alhameed, R., Alhassan, H., Elmegri, F., Noras, J., …Jones, S. (2017)
Current technologies and location based services. https://doi.org/10.1109/itecha.2017.8101958
This paper examines the benefits and drawbacks of these services, reviewing differences in infrastructure, power requirements, sensing devices, and other factors. Technologies...
Metamaterial biosensor for cancer detection
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La Spada, L., Bilotti, F., & Vegni, L. (2012)
Metamaterial biosensor for cancer detection. In SENSORS, 2011 IEEEdoi:10.1109/icsens.2011.6127103
In this study a low-cost, compact, and high-performing metamaterial-based biosensor operating in the GHz regime is presented. The sensor is designed to detect the presence of ...
Stylized Facts on Smart Specialisation Research
Conference Proceeding
Mora, L., Deakin, M., & Reid, A. (2018)
Stylized Facts on Smart Specialisation Research. In M. Bozina Beros, N. Recker, & M. Kozina (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th International Scientific Conference on Economic and Social Development, (176-185
Smart Specialisation has generated a paradigmatic change in regional innovation policies and the European Union has shown a strong interest in supporting research that investi...
The smart region: governing the transition to intelligent small urban areas
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Mora, L., Branzanti, C., & Bolici, R. (2012)
The smart region: governing the transition to intelligent small urban areas. In Smart, creative, sustainable, inclusive: territorial development strategies in the age of austerity
Cities and megacities are getting smart. This strategic transition might be considered as an effective tool to cope with a number of current issues such as the urban populatio...
Surface wave cloaking using transformation optics
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La Spada, L., & Hao, Y. (2015)
Surface wave cloaking using transformation optics. In 2015 1st URSI Atlantic Radio Science Conference (URSI AT-RASC)doi:10.1109/ursi-at-rasc.2015.7302892
Recently, there has been an increasing interest in the study of manipulating surface waves from microwave to optical frequencies [1, 2], especially for the design of conformal...
Nanorod-based glucose sensor.
Conference Proceeding
La Spada, L., Iovine, R., Bilotti, F., & Vegni, L. (2012)
Nanorod-based glucose sensor. In Metamorphose VI: Proceedings of Metamaterials '2012: The Sixth International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics
In this paper, a metamaterial-based sensor consisting of an array of nanorods is proposed. An analytical model, describing the electromagnetic response of the nanorods, is pro...
Smart City Development Paths: Insights from the First Two Decades of Research
Conference Proceeding
Mora, L., Deakin, M., & Reid, A. (2018)
Smart City Development Paths: Insights from the First Two Decades of Research. In A. Bisello, D. Vettorato, P. Laconte, & S. Costa (Eds.), Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions: Results of SSPCR 2017, (403-420). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75774-2
More than 20 years have now passed since the concept of smart city first appeared in a scholarly publica-tion, marking the beginning of a new era in urban innovation. Since th...
A Chain Topology for Efficient Monitoring of Food Grain Storage using Smart Sensors
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Kumar Mishra, A., Kumar Tripathy, A., Obaidat, M. S., Tan, Z., Prasad, M., Sadoun, B., & Puthal, D. (2018)
A Chain Topology for Efficient Monitoring of Food Grain Storage using Smart Sensors. In Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications, (89-98). https://doi.org/10.5220/0006850602550264
Due to lack of an efficient monitoring system to periodically record environmental parameters for food grain storage, a huge loss of food grains in storage is reported every y...
A Miniaturised Monopole Wideband Antenna with Reconfigurable Band Rejection for WLAN/WiMAX
Conference Proceeding
Elfergani, I. T. E., Hussaini, A. S., See, C. H., Rodriguez, J., Abd-Alhameed, R., & Marques, P. (2015)
A Miniaturised Monopole Wideband Antenna with Reconfigurable Band Rejection for WLAN/WiMAX. In S. Mumtaz, J. Rodriguez, M. Katz, C. Wang, & A. Nascimento (Eds.), International Wireless Internet Conference WICON 2014: Wireless Internet, 298-304. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18802-7_40
This paper proposes a tuneable band-rejected miniaturised monopole antenna. The band-notching was achieved by printing an inner chorded crescent shape over the surface of the ...