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Numerical study of noise reduction on looped propeller blades with bio-inspired tubercles (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This research investigates the effect of looped propeller blades with bio-inspired sinusoidal leading-edge tubercles. CFD simulations were conducted using ANSYS Fluent, utilising a Detached Eddy Simulation viscous model combined with a Ffowcs William... Read More about Numerical study of noise reduction on looped propeller blades with bio-inspired tubercles.

An updated analysis of air pollution and its management viewed through the lens of the UN sustainable development goals (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Fellowship address to the Institute of Air Quality Management (IAQM) on the occasion of Professor Longhurst being awarded Honorary Fellowship of IAQM.

OCCLUSION: Performative Re-use (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Archival repositories are results of historical narratives, but in turn, are also building blocks of new ones. This 40-minute artistic intervention / performative lecture takes the archival collec tions of mainly the Library of Congress as a starting... Read More about OCCLUSION: Performative Re-use.

LLM-guided instance-level image manipulation with diffusion u-net cross-attention maps (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The advancement of text-to-image synthesis has introduced powerful generative models capable of creating realistic images from textual prompts. However, precise control over image attributes remains challenging, especially at the instance level. Whil... Read More about LLM-guided instance-level image manipulation with diffusion u-net cross-attention maps.

Exploring knowledge management principles for decision-making in low-energy building for sustainable construction (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Low energy building retrofit presents important opportunities for reducing of greenhouse gas emissions in the environment. It has been considered as one of the key approaches to achieving sustainable development in construction industry. Nevertheless... Read More about Exploring knowledge management principles for decision-making in low-energy building for sustainable construction.

Illustration and heritage: Sharing histories to draw out futures' (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

My proposal for Illustration and Heritage: Sharing Histories to Draw out futures symposium
builds on my ongoing exploration into recording man-made technologies and architectural structures within the landscape.
I will discuss how my artistic prac... Read More about Illustration and heritage: Sharing histories to draw out futures'.

Class in the lecture room: Equitable initiations of knowledges (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This article investigates higher education (HE) lecturers’ understandings of their own and others’ social class positioning and its impact on redistributing knowledge in the lecture-room. The literature on class and HE underscores the subtle processe... Read More about Class in the lecture room: Equitable initiations of knowledges.

Cyborg situations: Media extensions for the architect's body (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Architectural thinking and making have been historically attached to and conditioned by representational practices and their corresponding media, most notably of all, drawing. From the Salamis Stone (4th century BC) to medieval tracing floors and con... Read More about Cyborg situations: Media extensions for the architect's body.

Taking stock of progress. Presentation at the Bristol climate and nature partnership gathering (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A review of climate action in Bristol five years after the One City Climate Strategy was published in 2019.

IYOLO-FAM: Improved YOLOv8 with feature attention mechanism for cow behaviour detection (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We introduced IYOLO-FAM (Improved YOLOv8 with Feature Attention Mechanism) for detecting cow behaviours. By leveraging the robust YOLOv8 architecture improved with Feature Attention Mechanisms (FAM), Squeeze-and-Excitation (SE) blocks and data augmen... Read More about IYOLO-FAM: Improved YOLOv8 with feature attention mechanism for cow behaviour detection.

Development of Dyadic mind-body intervention for Relieving Enduring sleep disturbances Among older individuals with deMentia and their caregivers (DREAM) in both white and ethnic minority communities in Bristol (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation details a project focused on co-developing a dyadic mind-body intervention in collaboration with stakeholders, including older adults with dementia and their caregivers from four distinct ethnic communities: White British, Caribbean... Read More about Development of Dyadic mind-body intervention for Relieving Enduring sleep disturbances Among older individuals with deMentia and their caregivers (DREAM) in both white and ethnic minority communities in Bristol.

Modelling generalised symmetry in neural networks (2024)
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Responding to the relationships between stimuli (i.e., relational responding) plays a central role in human intelligence (Colbert, 2017, Cassidy, 2016). Decades of psychological research have shown how relational responding behaviour is first learned... Read More about Modelling generalised symmetry in neural networks.

Mind the gap: Investigating the transfer of digital capabilities from the classroom to the business in SMEs (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Objectives: Digital transformation is critical for business productivity, innovation, and growth (BEIS, 2019; OECD, 2021). However, SMEs often lag behind larger firms in digital adoption (OECD, 2021). Learning factories, designed to improve digital c... Read More about Mind the gap: Investigating the transfer of digital capabilities from the classroom to the business in SMEs.

Science Hunters: Engineering for Sustainable Societies (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Invited as a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering Awardee Excellence Community to exhibit at their conference the Science Hunters project: Engineering for Sustainable Societies.

Systematic review of the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the availability of essential medicines for noncommunicable diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Aims. The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected the global healthcare landscape, significantly impacting the availability
and accessibility of essential medicines. This systematic review aims to assess the impact of the COVID-19 health crisis on... Read More about Systematic review of the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the availability of essential medicines for noncommunicable diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The effects of glucose supplementation on the development of Acinetobacter baumannii biofilms (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background: Acinetobacter baumannii, is an opportunistic pathogen causing pneumonia, bacteraemia, wound and urinary tract infections with high mortality rates due to multidrug resistance. A. baumannii biofilm infections associated with medical equipm... Read More about The effects of glucose supplementation on the development of Acinetobacter baumannii biofilms.

Brain tumor diagnosis through transfer learning with CNNs: A comparative evaluation of Xception, InceptionV3, MobileNetV2, ResNet50, VGG19 and VGG16 models on MRI images (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Early and accurate detection of brain tumors is critical to improving treatment outcomes for affected individuals. Among diagnostic modalities, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has emerged as a potent tool for detecting brain tumors. Nevertheless, ma... Read More about Brain tumor diagnosis through transfer learning with CNNs: A comparative evaluation of Xception, InceptionV3, MobileNetV2, ResNet50, VGG19 and VGG16 models on MRI images.

Deep learning-based detection of surface and buried landmines (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Landmines are explosive weapons that can lie dormant for years and cause disastrous effects on the local populations, who often must learn to live with the threat of landmines. Clearing, or even simply identifying landmines, is dangerous and challeng... Read More about Deep learning-based detection of surface and buried landmines.

KLANG: Live and expressive C++ for audio [ADC24 Workshop] (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This workshop provides a practical introduction to two technologies developed to support C++ audio development: klang, a C++ dialect (language extension) that adds audio DSP semantics to modern C++, and rapIDE (rapid audio prototyping IDE), a complet... Read More about KLANG: Live and expressive C++ for audio [ADC24 Workshop].

Rebecca Goddard; Womens alternative photographic group symposium (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation centres on a project titled ‘The Rubbish Tip Archive’ which considers the past and future lives of matter, waste and contested values of extracted materials within the post-human world.

The project uses a range of experimental p... Read More about Rebecca Goddard; Womens alternative photographic group symposium.