Remote intelligent geotechnical seabed surveys - Technology emerging from the Riggs JIP
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Dynamic penetration of a sphere in clay
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Rapid evidence assessment: Liveable and low traffic neighbourhoods
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The Bristol Advisory Committee on Climate Change (BACCC) has produced this rapid assessment of policy proposals linked to the theme of 'Low Traffic Neighbourhoods' (LTC) and 'Liveable Neighbourhoods' (LN).
LNs became a part of mainstream policy disc... Read More about Rapid evidence assessment: Liveable and low traffic neighbourhoods.
Ethical considerations of (contextually) affective robot behaviour
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The use of social robots can bring many benefits, but raises ethical concerns as well. One of these concerns, emotional deception, was investigated in this research. First, affective robot behaviour is validated, followed by a user study to investiga... Read More about Ethical considerations of (contextually) affective robot behaviour.
The need for ethical principles and guidelines in social robots
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This paper stresses the importance of establishing ethical principles regarding possible (psychological) effects of interactions with (social) robots. It highlights existing principles and standards regarding artificial intelligence systems and robot... Read More about The need for ethical principles and guidelines in social robots.
Twin delayed hierarchical actor-critic
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Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (HRL) addresses the common problem in sparse rewards environments of having to manually craft a reward function. We present a modified version of the Hierarchical Actor-Critic (HAC) architecture called Twin Delayed... Read More about Twin delayed hierarchical actor-critic.
Spicing up your space education with CanSats rockets and hackathons... - the Space Universities Network Recipe Book
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The UK-based “Space Universities Network” (SUN) was formed in 2016 with the aim of enhancing the quality of learning and teaching by providing support and resources to the space science and engineering higher education community. It now has 60 member... Read More about Spicing up your space education with CanSats rockets and hackathons... - the Space Universities Network Recipe Book.
Terrorism financing and fraud: The FATF’s mutual evaluation on the United Kingdom
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This presentation focused on the results of the United Kingdom's Fourth Mutual Report by the Financial Action Task Force. The paper presented evidence that questioned some of the findings of Mutual Evaluation Report.
Intra, extra et in muros : Reflecting on a potential multi-disciplinary method to inform a new, urbanist understanding of liminality and temporality in contemporary urban borders
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Urban boundaries are multitudinous. Urban design and associated disciplines concerned with shaping place often base their readings of space and the implementation of urban projects around tangible, mapped legal and administrative borders. Yet, despit... Read More about Intra, extra et in muros : Reflecting on a potential multi-disciplinary method to inform a new, urbanist understanding of liminality and temporality in contemporary urban borders.
Three observations on filming tactility and movement in crafts-based practice: A preliminary investigation
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This extended abstract accompanies a research film submission.
This film makes three observations on the filming of tactility and movement in order to adequately convey tacit knowledge in embodied ways. The author, Wuon-Gean Ho, studied the craft... Read More about Three observations on filming tactility and movement in crafts-based practice: A preliminary investigation.
“It’s not therapy; I’m not a therapist”: Exploring the perspectives of Arts Health Practitioners on how arts on referral can improve psychosocial outcomes in adults with health conditions
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Introduction
The rationale for this research was to explore the perspectives of art for health practitioners about how art interventions can improve psychosocial outcomes for adults with physical health conditions. Existing literature tends to foc... Read More about “It’s not therapy; I’m not a therapist”: Exploring the perspectives of Arts Health Practitioners on how arts on referral can improve psychosocial outcomes in adults with health conditions.
A mixed-methods evaluation of the longitudinal impact of arts on prescription
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Art on prescription is one pathway in social prescribing schemes that involves referral by health workers to visual arts programmes, for individuals experiencing social isolation and low to moderate levels of stress, anxiety and depres... Read More about A mixed-methods evaluation of the longitudinal impact of arts on prescription.
Assessing and addressing ethical risk from anthropomorphism and deception in socially assistive robots
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In this paper we apply the recent concept of robot Ethical Risk Assessment to an exemplar Socially Assistive Robot (SAR); specifically considering ethical risks posed by anthropomorphism in this context. We draw on two complimentary studies to demons... Read More about Assessing and addressing ethical risk from anthropomorphism and deception in socially assistive robots.
Towards an ontological framework for environmental survey hazard analysis of autonomous systems
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This paper presents current progress in the development of Environmental Survey Hazard Analysis (ESHA), a method of preliminary hazard identification aimed at autonomous system application problems. In addition to performing their design mission, aut... Read More about Towards an ontological framework for environmental survey hazard analysis of autonomous systems.
“Nobody can fail at it, everybody succeeds”: Perceived processes of change following attendance at an arts on prescription programme
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Introduction
As the delivery of social prescribing schemes is increasing nationally (NHS England, 2019; Fixsen & Polley, 2019), evaluation of their impact and efficacy is pressing: quantitative, qualitative and econometric (Public Health England, 20... Read More about “Nobody can fail at it, everybody succeeds”: Perceived processes of change following attendance at an arts on prescription programme.
An evaluation of the impact of an arts intervention on the wellbeing of women who have experienced sexual violence
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The study evaluated the impact of a four-session creative workshop on well-being and mood among women who had experienced sexual violence, run through Somerset and Avon Rape and Sexual Abuse Support (SARSAS; https://www.sarsas.org.uk/).... Read More about An evaluation of the impact of an arts intervention on the wellbeing of women who have experienced sexual violence.
Novel tow termination method for delamination suppression in tapered composite laminates
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An experimental investigation into the stacking sequence effects of quasi-isotropic carbon/epoxy laminates under compressive loads
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On the application of fracture mechanics to a full-scale stiffened composite panel test
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Partially structure-preserving signatures: Lower bounds, constructions and more
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In this work we first provide a framework for defining a large subset of pairing-based digital signature schemes which we call Partially Structure-Preserving Signature (PSPS) schemes. PSPS schemes are similar in nature to structure-preserving signatu... Read More about Partially structure-preserving signatures: Lower bounds, constructions and more.