Outputs (215)

Changing times – A decade of empirical insight into the experience of rail passengers in Great Britain (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd In the last decade the number of rail passenger journeys in Great Britain has increased by half and car trips per person are down by a tenth. Meanwhile there has been significant growth in internet use and ownership of smartphones... Read More about Changing times – A decade of empirical insight into the experience of rail passengers in Great Britain.

Dietary patterns by cluster analysis in pregnant women: relationship with nutrient intakes and dietary patterns in 7-year-old offspring (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 The Authors. Maternal & Child Nutrition published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Little is known about how dietary patterns of mothers and their children track over time. The objectives of this study are to obtain dietary patterns in pregnancy... Read More about Dietary patterns by cluster analysis in pregnant women: relationship with nutrient intakes and dietary patterns in 7-year-old offspring.

Evaluation Studies of Robotic Rollators by the User Perspective: A Systematic Review (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 S. Karger AG, Basel. Background: Robotic rollators enhance the basic functions of established devices by technically advanced physical, cognitive, or sensory support to increase autonomy in persons with severe impairment. In the evaluation of... Read More about Evaluation Studies of Robotic Rollators by the User Perspective: A Systematic Review.

Modelling framework for flight dynamics of flexible aircraft (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) Press. The flight dynamics and handling qualities of any flexible aircraft can be analysed within the Cranfield Aircraft Accelerated Loads Model (CA2LM) framework. The modelling techniques and meth... Read More about Modelling framework for flight dynamics of flexible aircraft.

Navigation system for robot-assisted intra-articular lower-limb fracture surgery (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, The Author(s). Purpose: In the surgical treatment for lower-leg intra-articular fractures, the fragments have to be positioned and aligned to reconstruct the fractured bone as precisely as possible, to allow the joint to function correctly ag... Read More about Navigation system for robot-assisted intra-articular lower-limb fracture surgery.

Stable active vibration control of building structure subjected to bidirectional earthquake (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2016 IEEE. Proportional-derivative (PD) is highly favored algorithms in terms of industrial applications. Although, there are infrequent broadcasted theory results of PD controller in connection to structural vibration control applications. In this... Read More about Stable active vibration control of building structure subjected to bidirectional earthquake.

Rapid, automated test, verification and validation for CubeSats (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

From the experiences learned in the ZA-CUBE-1 mission, bringing up of a small-scale mission assurance facility is reported. The first of a series of actions envisaged to accomplish the facility is achieving functional test and verification, and the s... Read More about Rapid, automated test, verification and validation for CubeSats.

Eating, drinking, living, dying and decaying soft robots (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Soft robotics opens up a whole range of possibilities that go far beyond conventional rigid and electromagnetic robotics. New smart materials and new design and modelling methodologies mean we can start to replicate the operations and functionalities... Read More about Eating, drinking, living, dying and decaying soft robots.

Cord blood adipokines and lipids and adolescent nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 by the Endocrine Society. Context: Maternal adiposity in pregnancy is associated with offspring adiposity and metabolic dysfunction postnatally, including greater risk of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Recent genetic analyses sugges... Read More about Cord blood adipokines and lipids and adolescent nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

On the relationship between fracture toughness and specimen thickness for quasi-isotropic carbon/epoxy laminates (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution