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New CRLH-based planar slotted antennas with helical inductors for wireless communication systems, RF-circuits and microwave devices at UHF–SHF bands
Published 2016“…The first PSA comprising five symmetrical unit-cells of slot–inductor–slot configuration operates over a wide bandwidth extending from 1 to 4.2 GHz with a peak gain of 1.5 dBi and efficiency of 35 % at 2 GHz. …”
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Super-Wide Impedance Bandwidth Planar Antenna Based on Metamaterial Concept for Microwave and Millimetre-Wave Applications
Published 2019“…The antenna’s performance of bandwidth, impedance match, and radiation gain were enhanced by etching slots on the patches. …”
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Super-wide impedance bandwidth planar antenna for microwave and millimeter-wave applications
Published 2019“…The antenna’s performance of bandwidth, impedance match, and radiation gain were enhanced by etching slots on the patches. …”
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High-Isolation Leaky-Wave Array Antenna Based on CRLH-Metamaterial Implemented on SIW with ±30o Frequency Beam-Scanning Capability at Millimetre-Waves
Published 2019“…The MTM-shield is shown to suppress the mutual coupling by ~25 dB and to improve the radiation gain and efficiency by ~1 dBi and ~13% on average, respectively.…”
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Interaction suppression technique for high-density antenna arrays for mm-wave 5G MIMO systems
Published 2021“…The array operates across 30–35GHz with average isolation between its radiation elements better than 23 dB, average gain and efficiency of 12 dBi and 85%, respectively. …”
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Metamaterial-based antennas for integration in UWB transceivers and portable microwave handsets
Published 2015“…The T-shaped unit-cell antenna exhibits gain and efficiency of 2–7.1 dBi and 48–91%, respectively. …”
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Intelligent metasurface layer for direct antenna amplitude modulation scheme
Published 2023“…Results show that such a system can modulate electromagnetic signals directly by varying the antenna’s gain from about 2 dBi for Logic-0 to 13.8 dBi for Logic-1. …”
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Low-loss paper-substrate triple-band-frequency reconfigurable microstrip antenna for sub-7 GHz applications
Published 2023“…The proposed antenna achieved peak gain and radiation efficiency of 3.4 dBi and 90%, respectively. …”
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The biosemiotic imagination in the Victorian frames of mind : Newman, Eliot and Welby
Published 2016“…Drawing on nineteenth-century debates on the origin of language and evolutionary theory, the thesis argues that the ideas of John Henry Newman, George Eliot and Lady Victoria Welby were cultural precursors to the biosemiotic thought of the second half of the twentieth century and beyond, specifically in the way in which these three thinkers sought to find a ‘common grammar’ between natural and human practices. …”
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Becoming Writers: Transforming Students' Academic Writing
Published 2017“…Rather than focussing on a deficit student in need of ‘fixing’, we introduce and reflect on the usefulness of free- and creative writing exercises as we explore how we can enable students to find ‘a voice’ as we support them on the way to becoming successful academic writers. …”
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Teaching Research Methods : a pragmatic approach
Published 2007“…Previous studies suggest that students often find such modules challenging and difficult to relate to, and recommend a number of different approaches to lessen these difficulties and to improve the student experience of research methods modules. …”
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Learning on The Move
Published 2011“…The project ‘Making the most of my space’: Students’ use of mobile phones for studying and note making, was funded by the Write Now and Learn Higher CETLs, in conjunction with the Centre for Academic Professional Development. The aim was to find out about student mobile phone ownership, their attitude to using their mobiles for learning, and if they are using them for learning, what they are using them for.…”
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Helping students select a dissertation topic : a motivation-based approach
Published 2012“…It is not unusual for students to struggle to find a dissertation topic. To address this problem, I designed an exercise that helps students to better connect with their motivations, or the inner drives they have, for wanting to choose one topic or another. …”
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Dealing, music and youth violence: neighbourhood relational change, isolation and youth criminality
Published 2023“…The study considers the emergence of drill music, county lines and the lowering of the threshold of when weapons are used to explore the isolated social environments so many young people find themselves in. The book tracks how authorities have transitioned from an enforcement led to a public health approachh to tacking violence. …”
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English Higher Education as 'dressage': investigating academic and student identities within consumerist discourses
Published 2021“…The thesis provides an original contribution to knowledge as it finds that, for most students, the discourse of full-fees has been normalised and accepted. …”
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Integrating Volunteering with the Curriculum: present initiatives and future possibilities
Published 2007“…It also looks at embedding volunteering in the curriculum to encourage students to give their time in order to gain much needed skills.…”
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Labour reallocation and total factor productivity growth in China
Published 2010“…This paper carries out an empirical investigation of the contribution of labour reallocation, which can produce efficiency gains over and above those associated with technical progress, to total factor productivity in China during the pre-reform and post-reform periods. …”
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