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A permanent Pivot to online learning, or will universities bounce back to normal? (2021)
Journal Article
Gordon, N. (2021). A permanent Pivot to online learning, or will universities bounce back to normal?. Academia Letters, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.20935/al2394

The Coronavirus pandemic has had a profound impact on how universities (higher or tertiary education) globally have taught students, throughout 2020 and into 2021. The response to the Coronavirus pandemic saw a mass pivot towards online learning in m... Read More about A permanent Pivot to online learning, or will universities bounce back to normal?.

Research on College Computer-Computing and Information Literacy online course based on MOOC: Taking the North Minzu University as an example (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mian, Z., Bai, Y., & Ur, R. K. (2022, June). Research on College Computer-Computing and Information Literacy online course based on MOOC: Taking the North Minzu University as an example. Presented at 2021 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Computer Science and Educational Informatization (CSEI), Xinxiang, China

In 2015, North Minzu University (NMU) introduced MOOC teaching method into the teaching practice of computer major. It is the first experiment of this teaching method in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. In the three years of teaching practice, NMU has... Read More about Research on College Computer-Computing and Information Literacy online course based on MOOC: Taking the North Minzu University as an example.

A Navigation System for Safe Routing (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kaur, R., Goyal, V., Gunturi, V. M., Saini, A., Sanadhya, K., Gupta, R., & Ratra, S. (2021, June). A Navigation System for Safe Routing. Presented at International Conference on Mobile Data Management, Toronto, ON, Canada

Globally, women are cautious when planning their routine travel routes. In a recent survey on street harassment, 82% of international respondents reported taking a different route to their destination than the conventional route due to fear of harass... Read More about A Navigation System for Safe Routing.

A TRIANGULATED COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK FOR CONTEMPORARY COMPUTER SCIENCE PROGRAMMES (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Whelan, J. (2021, July). A TRIANGULATED COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK FOR CONTEMPORARY COMPUTER SCIENCE PROGRAMMES. Presented at 13th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Online Conference

Aligning student learning to demonstrable, practical competencies is at the heart of the Transforming Programmes process at the University of Hull (UK). This paper reports on the approach created by the Department of Computer Science and Technology (... Read More about A TRIANGULATED COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK FOR CONTEMPORARY COMPUTER SCIENCE PROGRAMMES.

Regulation of sinus node pacemaking and atrioventricular node conduction by HCN channels in health and disease (2021)
Journal Article
Boyett, M. R., Yanni, J., Tellez, J., Bucchi, A., Mesirca, P., Cai, X., Logantha, S. J. R., Wilson, C., Anderson, C., Ariyaratnam, J., Stuart, L., Nakao, S., Abd Allah, E., Jones, S., Lancaster, M., Stephenson, R., Chandler, N., Smith, M., Bussey, C., Monfredi, O., …D'Souza, A. (in press). Regulation of sinus node pacemaking and atrioventricular node conduction by HCN channels in health and disease. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2021.06.008

The funny current, If, was first recorded in the heart 40 or more years ago by Dario DiFrancesco and others. Since then, we have learnt that If plays an important role in pacemaking in the sinus node, the innate pacemaker of the heart, and more recen... Read More about Regulation of sinus node pacemaking and atrioventricular node conduction by HCN channels in health and disease.

A new data-enabled intelligence framework for evaluating urban space perception (2021)
Journal Article
Ji, H., Qing, L., Han, L., Wang, Z., Cheng, Y., & Peng, Y. (2021). A new data-enabled intelligence framework for evaluating urban space perception. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 10(6), https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi10060400

The urban environment has a great impact on the wellbeing of citizens and it is of great significance to understand how citizens perceive and evaluate places in a large scale urban region and to provide scientific evidence to support human-centered u... Read More about A new data-enabled intelligence framework for evaluating urban space perception.

Dependability Analysis Using Temporal Fault Trees and Monte Carlo Simulation (2021)
Book Chapter
Edifor, E., Gordon, N., & Walker, M. (2021). Dependability Analysis Using Temporal Fault Trees and Monte Carlo Simulation. In W. Zamojski, J. Mazurkiewicz, J. Sugier, T. Walkowiak, & J. Kacprzyk (Eds.), Theory and Engineering of Dependable Computer Systems and Networks (86-96). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76773-0_9

The safety and reliability of high-consequence systems is an issue of utmost importance to engineers because such systems can have catastrophic effects if they fail. Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) is a well-known probabilistic technique for assessing the... Read More about Dependability Analysis Using Temporal Fault Trees and Monte Carlo Simulation.

A Novel Contract Theory-Based Incentive Mechanism for Cooperative Task-Offloading in Electrical Vehicular Networks (2021)
Journal Article
Kazmi, S. M., Dang, T. N., Yaqoob, I., Manzoor, A., Hussain, R., Khan, A., Hong, C. S., & Salah, K. (2022). A Novel Contract Theory-Based Incentive Mechanism for Cooperative Task-Offloading in Electrical Vehicular Networks. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 23(7), 8380-8395. https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2021.3078913

The proliferation of compute-intensive services in next-generation vehicular networks will impose an unprecedented computation demand to meet stringent latency and resource requirements. Vehicular edge or fog computing has been a widely adopted solut... Read More about A Novel Contract Theory-Based Incentive Mechanism for Cooperative Task-Offloading in Electrical Vehicular Networks.

UAVs-UGV Leader Follower Formation Using Adaptive Non-Singular Terminal Super Twisting Sliding Mode Control (2021)
Journal Article
Ullah, N., Mehmood, Y., Aslam, J., Ali, A., & Iqbal, J. (2021). UAVs-UGV Leader Follower Formation Using Adaptive Non-Singular Terminal Super Twisting Sliding Mode Control. IEEE Access, 9, 74385-74405. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3081483

Leader follower formation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) has found numerous applications such as surveillance of critical infrastructure, industrial automation and disaster management emergency. For completion... Read More about UAVs-UGV Leader Follower Formation Using Adaptive Non-Singular Terminal Super Twisting Sliding Mode Control.

Robust Finite-Time Trajectory Tracking Control of Quadrotor Aircraft via Terminal Sliding Mode-Based Active Antidisturbance Approach: A PIL Experiment (2021)
Journal Article
Mechali, O., Iqbal, J., Xie, X., Xu, L., & Senouci, A. (2021). Robust Finite-Time Trajectory Tracking Control of Quadrotor Aircraft via Terminal Sliding Mode-Based Active Antidisturbance Approach: A PIL Experiment. International Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2021, Article 5522379. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/5522379

This paper presents an accurate solution of finite-time Cartesian trajectory tracking control problem of a quadrotor system by designing and implementing a novel robust flight-control algorithm. The quadrotor is subject to nonlinearities, unmodeled d... Read More about Robust Finite-Time Trajectory Tracking Control of Quadrotor Aircraft via Terminal Sliding Mode-Based Active Antidisturbance Approach: A PIL Experiment.