• An Accurate Ensemble Classifier for Medical Volume Analysis: Phantom and Clinical PET Study 

  Sharif, Mhd Saeed; Abbod, M.; Al-Bayatti, Ali H.; Amira, Abbes; Alfakeeh, Ahmed; Sanghera, B. (Article)

  The predominant application of positron emission tomography (PET) in the field of oncology and radiotherapy and the significance of medical imaging research have led to an urgent need for effective approaches to PET volume ...

• An investigation on a quantum communication phenomenon between sub-atomic properties of substances by Quantum eraser pattern quantification 

  Orun, A.; Smith, Geoff (Article)

  The proposed novel idea is concerned with the investigation on a probability of sub-atomic quantum communication between the chemical substances by use of “interferometric Quantum eraser” pattern analysis, which would be ...

• Poetical potentials: the value of poems in social impact education 

  Rogerson, Simon (Article)

  For the technologist it is easy to remain in safe technological enclaves with a bespoke language, a community of like minds and a familiar knowledge base. However, progress requires pushing the boundaries, thinking beyond ...

• Policy scenarios as an instrument for policymakers 

  Wright, David; Stahl, Bernd Carsten; Hatzakis, Tally (Article)

  Scenarios are a methodology of futures and foresight research that has been established for more than half a century. Despite the rich literature on scenarios and ways of constructing them, the current scenario methodologies, ...

• 'Smart Homes' 

  Zallio, Matteo; Fisk, Malcolm (Other)

  No Abstract. This Encyclopedia entry notes the origin of smart homes in ‘intelligent buildings’. It tracks a change in focus away from mechanisation, automation and energy usage; towards understandings of the interactions ...

• Telehealth 

  Fisk, Malcolm (Other)

  No Abstract. The Encyclopedia entry offers a definition of telehealth that positions it as embracing both clinical health and people's wider well-being. It eschews other definitions that are focused on the technologies, ...

• Use Of Smartphones for Ensuring Vulnerable Road User Safety through Path Prediction and Early Warning: An In-Depth Review of Capabilities, Limitations and Their Applications in Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems 

  Vourgidis, Ioannis; Maglaras, Leandros; Alfakeeh, Ahmed S.; Al-Bayatti, Ali H.; Ferrag, Mohamed Amine (Article)

  The field of cooperative intelligent transport systems and more specifically pedestrians to vehicles could be characterized as quite challenging, since there is a broad research area to be studied, with direct positive ...

• Developing Socially-Inspired Robotics through the Application of Human Analogy: Capabilities and Social Practice 

  McBride, Neil (Article)

  Socially-inspired robotics involves drawing on the observation and study of human social interactions in order to apply them to the design of sociable robots. As there is increasing expectation that robots may participate ...

• Making Use of Evidence in Commissioning Practice: Insights into the Understanding of a Telecare Study’s Findings 

  Steils, Nicole; Porteus, Jeremy; Fisk, Malcolm; Forsyth, Kirsty; Woolham, John (Article)

  In less than a generation, telecare has become a significant new resource for local authority (LA) Adult Social Care Departments (ASCDs) in England and other European countries to offer to people eligible for social care ...

• Outcomes for Older Telecare Recipients: The Importance of Assessments 

  Woolham, John; Steils, Nicole; Fisk, Malcolm; Porteus, Jeremy; Forsyth, Kirsty (Article)

  Summary This article explores the role of telecare assessment, review and staff training in meeting the needs of older people living at home. Using original empirical data obtained from an online survey of English local ...

• A survey on top security threats in cloud computing 

  Kazim, Muhammad; Zhu, Shao Ying (Article)

  Cloud computing enables the sharing of resources such as storage, network, applications and software through internet. Cloud users can lease multiple resources according to their requirements, and pay only for the services ...

• Human-Centric Cyber Social Computing Model for Hot-Event Detection and Propagation 

  Shi, Lei-Lei; Liu, Lu; Wu, Yan; Jiang, Liang; Kazim, Muhammad; Ali, Haider; Panneerselvam, John (Article)

  Microblogging networks have gained popularity in recent years as a platform enabling expressions of human emotions, through which users can conveniently produce contents on public events, breaking news, and/or products. ...

• Vehicle detection and classification in difficult environmental conditions using deep learning 

  Darmanin, Alessio; Malekmohamadi, Hossein; Amira, Abbes (Conference)

  The time drivers spend stuck in traffic is increasing annually, on a global level. Time lost in traffic imposes costs both economically and socially. Tracking congestion throughout the road network is critical in an ...

• Towards Semantic Segmentation Using Ratio Unpooling 

  Boland, Duncan; Malekmohamadi, Hossein (Conference)

  This paper presents the concept of Ratio Unpooling as a means of improving the performance of an Encoder-Decoder Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) when applied to Semantic Segmentation. Ratio Unpooling allows for 4 ...

• AplhaLogger: Detecting Motion-based Side-Channel Attack Using Smartphone Keystrokes 

  Javed, A.R.; Baker, T.; Asim, M.; Beg, M.O.; Al-Bayatti, Ali Hilal (Article)

  Due to the advancement in technologies and excessive usability of smartphones in various domains (e.g., mobile banking), smartphones became more prone to malicious attacks.Typing on the soft keyboard of a smartphone produces ...

• Exploring the Effect of Mobile Apps on SMEs in Nigeria: A Critical Realist Study 

  Tolani, Adedamola; Owoseni, Adebowale; Twinomurinzi, Hossana (Book chapter)

  An organisation’s dynamic capabilities illustrate how the organisation renews its competencies in response to the evolving environment. This study explored the effect of mobile app usage on the dynamic capabilities (DCs) ...

• Carers’ Involvement in Telecare Provision for Older People in England: Perspectives of Council Telecare Managers and Stakeholders 

  Steils, Nicole; Woolham, John; Fisk, Malcolm; Porteus, Jeremy; Forsyth, Kirsty (Article)

  This paper explores telecare manager and other ‘stakeholder’ perspectives on the nature, extent and impact of family and other unpaid/informal carers’ involvement in the provision of telecare equipment and services for ...

• Gerontology 

  Fisk, Malcolm; Nash, Paul (Book chapter)

  The evolution of gerontology and its position and status as a discipline is explored and discussed. The end point (as noted in the text) as possibly being within 'cultural gerontology' - see as having 'derived from a further ...

• A Framework for Orchestrating Secure and Dynamic Access of IoT Services in Multi-Cloud Environments 

  Kazim, Muhammad; Liu, Lu; Zhu, Shao Ying (Article)

  IoT devices have complex requirements but their limitations in terms of storage, network, computing, data analytics, scalability, and big data management require it to be used it with a technology like cloud computing. IoT ...

• AREA: An adaptive reference-set based evolutionary algorithm for multiobjective optimisation 

  Jiang, Shouyong; Li, Hongru; Guo, Jinglei; Zhong, Mingjun; Yang, Shengxiang; Kaiser, Marcus; Krasnogor, Natalio (Article)

  Population-based evolutionary algorithms have great potential to handle multiobjective optimisation problems. However, the performance of these algorithms depends largely on problem characteristics. There is a need to ...

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