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Impact of distributed generators on arcing faults in distribution networks (2011)
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Increased fault level is one of the main concerns connected to the integration of distributed generation (DG) into distribution networks. To accurately calculate fault currents in distribution systems with a high penetration of DG, a realistic fault... Read More about Impact of distributed generators on arcing faults in distribution networks.

Group dynamics and record signals in the ant Temnothorax albipennis (2011)
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Many purely physical complex systems, in which there are both stochasticity and local interactions between the components, exhibit record dynamics. The temporal statistics of record dynamics is a Poisson process operating on a logarithmic rather than... Read More about Group dynamics and record signals in the ant Temnothorax albipennis.

Outcomes from stimulation of the caudal zona incerta and pedunculopontine nucleus in patients with Parkinson's disease (2011)
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Introduction. Axial symptoms including postural instability, falls and failure of gait initiation are some of the most disabling motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD). We performed bilateral deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the pedunculopontine n... Read More about Outcomes from stimulation of the caudal zona incerta and pedunculopontine nucleus in patients with Parkinson's disease.

Digital Games, Gender and Learning in Engineering: Do Females Benefit as Much as Males? (2011)
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The aim of this paper was to explore whether there is a gender difference in the beneficial effects of Racing Academy, which is a video game used to support undergraduate students learning of Mechanical Engineering. One hundred and thirty-eight under... Read More about Digital Games, Gender and Learning in Engineering: Do Females Benefit as Much as Males?.

Blinkered teaching: Tandem running by visually impaired ants (2011)
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During tandem runs, one ant worker recruits another to an important resource. Here, we begin to investigate how dependent are tandem leaders and followers on visual cues by painting over their compound eyes to impair their vision. There are two ways... Read More about Blinkered teaching: Tandem running by visually impaired ants.

The overshoot phenomenon as a function of internal resistance in microbial fuel cells (2011)
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A method for assessing the performance of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) is the polarisation sweep where different external resistances are applied at set intervals (sample rates). The resulting power curves often exhibit an overshoot where both power a... Read More about The overshoot phenomenon as a function of internal resistance in microbial fuel cells.

Haptic human-robot collaboration: Comparison of robot partner implementations in terms of human-likeness and task performance (2011)
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In the past, working spaces of humans and robots were strictly separated, but recent developments have sought to bring robots into closer interaction with humans. In this context, physical human-robot interaction represents a major challenge, as it i... Read More about Haptic human-robot collaboration: Comparison of robot partner implementations in terms of human-likeness and task performance.

The implementation of a direct search approach for the resolution of complex and changing rule-based problems (2011)
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During the evolution of constraint modeling approaches, they have increased in their ability to resolve more and more complex problems. They all rely upon their ability to define the design problem by a set of constraint rules, which are true when th... Read More about The implementation of a direct search approach for the resolution of complex and changing rule-based problems.

Power for robotic artificial muscles (2011)
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Artificial muscles based on the dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) are an attractive technology for autonomous robotic systems. We are currently exploring their use on EcoBot (Ecological roBot), an autonomous robot being developed by Bristol Robotic... Read More about Power for robotic artificial muscles.

Heuristic optimisation (2011)
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