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Wigner-Current in One-Dimensional Bound-State Systems
(2019-03-27)
The behaviour of classical systems is characterised by their phase portraits; the collections of their trajectories. In quantum mechanics phase portraits are still considered impossible to compute due to the complexity of ...
Millimetre-Wave Fibre-Wireless Technologies for 5G Mobile Fronthaul
(2019-03-19)
The unprecedented growth in mobile data traffic, driven primarily by bandwidth rich applications and high definition video is accelerating the development of fifth generation (5G) mobile network. As mobile access network ...
Reducing Errors in Optical Data Transmission Using Trainable Machine Learning Methods
(2019-03-15)
Reducing Bit Error Ratio (BER) and improving performance of modern coherent optical communication system is a significant issue. As the distance travelled by the information signal increases, the bit error ratio will ...
The Anishinaabe Worldview and the Child Reader in Louise Erdrich's The Birchbark House series
(2019-03-11)
Louise Erdrich is an award-winning Anishinaabe-American author, whose works of fiction have attracted a significant body of scholarly interest. To date, her output of children's fiction has received comparatively less ...
The Impact of Ethnicity on Doctors' Responses to Employee Engagement Practices in English NHS Hospital Trusts
(2019-03-11)
The NHS is the fifth largest employer in the world and has heavily depended on a foreign skilled labour force since its inception. This has resulted in the NHS employing the highest number of ethnic minority staff in the ...
Adaptive Mid-term and Short-term Scheduling of Mixed-criticality Systems
(2019-02-22)
A mixed-criticality real-time system is a real-time system having multiple tasks classified according to their criticality. Research on mixed-criticality systems started to provide an effective and cost efficient a priori ...
Influences of Time of Day on Teaching and Learning of Adolescents in Secondary School
(2019-02-08)
This study uses a mixed methods approach to explore the possible influences of time of day on the teaching and learning of adolescents in secondary school. School scheduling has always been an issue within schools with ...
Face De-Identification for Privacy Protection
(2019-02-07)
The ability to record, store and analyse images of faces economically, rapidly and on a vast scale brings people’s attention to privacy. The current privacy protection approaches for face images are mainly through masking, ...
Examining the Adoption, Use and Diffusion of Tablet and Mobile Devices by Older Adults in Hertfordshire County, UK
(2019-02-04)
Ubiquitous or mobile computing is the new trend of this modern era whereby information can be accessed anytime and anywhere. It is anticipated that this form of computing will be more effective than the Internet because ...
Changing the Tune: Conceptualising the Effects of the Global Financial Crisis on Stakeholder Perceptions of Corporate Value
(2019-01-31)
Could shareholder primacy, with its assumed short-termist practices, have had its day when it comes to managerial activity centered on creating corporate value? Many business and opinion leaders appear to take this position, ...