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In-flight wing deformation measurements on a glider (2016)
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Meyer, R., Bakunowicz, J., Bakunowicz, J., & Meyer, R. (2016). In-flight wing deformation measurements on a glider. Aeronautical Journal, 120(1234), 1917-1931. https://doi.org/10.1017/aer.2016.98

© 2016 Royal Aeronautical Society. Flight testing is both vital for collecting data for aeronautic research and at the same time fascinating for its contributors. Taking a glider as a versatile test bed example, this paper presents a transnational me... Read More about In-flight wing deformation measurements on a glider.

Toward Energetically Autonomous Foraging Soft Robots (2016)
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Philamore, H., Ieropoulos, I., Stinchcombe, A., & Rossiter, J. (2016). Toward Energetically Autonomous Foraging Soft Robots. Soft Robotics, 3(4), 186-197. https://doi.org/10.1089/soro.2016.0020

© 2016, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. A significant goal of robotics is to develop autonomous machines, capable of independent and collective operation free from human assistance. To operate with complete autonomy robots must be capable of independent movem... Read More about Toward Energetically Autonomous Foraging Soft Robots.

Investigation of three-dimensional shock wave/turbulent-boundary-layer interaction initiated by a single fin (2016)
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Fang, J., Yao, Y., Zheltovodov, A. A., & Lu, L. (2017). Investigation of three-dimensional shock wave/turbulent-boundary-layer interaction initiated by a single fin. AIAA Journal, 55(2), 509-523. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.J055283

Three-dimensional shock wave/turbulent-boundary-layer interaction of a hypersonic flow passing a single fin mounted on a flat plate at a Mach number of five and unit Reynolds number 3.7×10^7 was conducted by a large-eddy simulation approach. The perf... Read More about Investigation of three-dimensional shock wave/turbulent-boundary-layer interaction initiated by a single fin.

Changing times – A decade of empirical insight into the experience of rail passengers in Great Britain (2016)
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Lyons, G., Jain, J., & Weir, I. (2016). Changing times – A decade of empirical insight into the experience of rail passengers in Great Britain. Journal of Transport Geography, 57, 94-104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2016.10.003

© 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)
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Emmett, P. M., Hibbeln, J. R., Pearson, R. M., Smith, A. D., Freitas-Vilela, A. A., Vilela, A. A. F., …Emmett, P. M. (2017). Dietary patterns by cluster analysis in pregnant women: relationship with nutrient intakes and dietary patterns in 7-year-old offspring. Maternal and Child Nutrition, 13(2), e12353. https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12353

© 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.

Modelling framework for flight dynamics of flexible aircraft (2016)
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Portapas, V., Cooke, A., & Lone, M. (2016). Modelling framework for flight dynamics of flexible aircraft. Aviation, 20(4), 173-182. https://doi.org/10.3846/16487788.2016.1264719

© 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)
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Dagnino, G., Georgilas, I., Köhler, P., Morad, S., Atkins, R., & Dogramadzi, S. (2016). Navigation system for robot-assisted intra-articular lower-limb fracture surgery. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 11(10), 1831-1843. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11548-016-1418-z

© 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.

Cord blood adipokines and lipids and adolescent nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (2016)
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Nelson, S. M., Lindsay, R. S., Smith, A. D., Lawlor, D. A., Simpson, J., Smith, A. D. A. C., …Nelson, S. M. (2016). Cord blood adipokines and lipids and adolescent nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 101(12), 4661-4668. https://doi.org/10.1210/jc.2016-2604

© 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.

Miniaturized supercapacitors: key materials and structures towards autonomous and sustainable devices and systems (2016)
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Arbizzani, C., Atanassov, P., Milani, P., Piseri, P., Bettini, L. G., Soavi, F., & Santoro, C. (2016). Miniaturized supercapacitors: key materials and structures towards autonomous and sustainable devices and systems. Journal of Power Sources, 326, 717-725. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2016.04.131

© 2016 The Authors Supercapacitors (SCs) are playing a key role for the development of self-powered and self-sustaining integrated systems for different fields ranging from remote sensing, robotics and medical devices. SC miniaturization and integrat... Read More about Miniaturized supercapacitors: key materials and structures towards autonomous and sustainable devices and systems.

The dawn of biodegradable robots (2016)
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Winfield, J., Rossiter, J., & Ieropoulos, I. (2016). The dawn of biodegradable robots

Robotics is a field that is not normally associated with green technology or sustainability. Robots are generally constructed using materials that are non-biodegradable, toxic and expensive. These factors can limit the potential uses that an artifici... Read More about The dawn of biodegradable robots.

An iTRAQ characterisation of the role of TolC during electron transfer from Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 (2016)
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Fowler, G. J., Pereira-Medrano, A. G., Jaffe, S., Pasternak, G., Pham, T. K., Ledezma, P., …Wright, P. C. (2016). An iTRAQ characterisation of the role of TolC during electron transfer from Shewanella oneidensis MR-1. Proteomics, 16(21), 2764-2775. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmic.201500538

© 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Anodophilic bacteria have the ability to generate electricity in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) by extracellular electron transfer to the anode. We investigated the anode-specific responses of Shewanel... Read More about An iTRAQ characterisation of the role of TolC during electron transfer from Shewanella oneidensis MR-1.

Effects of Iron-Rich Intermetallics and Grain Structure on Semisolid Tensile Properties of Al-Cu 206 Cast Alloys near Solidus Temperature (2016)
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Bolouri, A., Liu, K., & Chen, X. G. (2016). Effects of Iron-Rich Intermetallics and Grain Structure on Semisolid Tensile Properties of Al-Cu 206 Cast Alloys near Solidus Temperature. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 47(12), 6466-6480. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-016-3744-8

© 2016, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society and ASM International. The effects of iron-rich intermetallics and grain size on the semisolid tensile properties of Al-Cu 206 cast alloys near the solidus were evaluated in relation to the mush micr... Read More about Effects of Iron-Rich Intermetallics and Grain Structure on Semisolid Tensile Properties of Al-Cu 206 Cast Alloys near Solidus Temperature.

Carbon-based air-breathing cathodes for microbial fuel cells (2016)
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Merino-Jimenez, I., Santoro, C., Rojas-Carbonell, S., Greenman, J., Ieropoulos, I., & Atanassov, P. (2016). Carbon-based air-breathing cathodes for microbial fuel cells. Catalysts, 6(9), 127. https://doi.org/10.3390/catal6090127

© 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. A comparison between different carbon-based gas-diffusion air-breathing cathodes for microbial fuel cells (MFCs) is presented in this work. A micro-porous layer (MPL) based on carbon black (CB... Read More about Carbon-based air-breathing cathodes for microbial fuel cells.

Anodic biofilms as the interphase for electroactive bacterial growth on carbon veil (2016)
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Marsili, E., Atanassov, P., Mohidin, A. F., Doyle, L. E., Roizman, D., Artyushkova, K., & Santoro, C. (2016). Anodic biofilms as the interphase for electroactive bacterial growth on carbon veil. Biointerphases, 11(3), https://doi.org/10.1116/1.4962264

© 2016 American Vacuum Society. The structure and activity of electrochemically active biofilms (EABs) are usually investigated on flat electrodes. However, real world applications such as wastewater treatment and bioelectrosynthesis require tridimen... Read More about Anodic biofilms as the interphase for electroactive bacterial growth on carbon veil.

Cerebellar-inspired algorithm for adaptive control of nonlinear dielectric elastomerbased artificial muscle (2016)
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Pearson, M. J., Wilson, E. D., Assaf, T., Pearson, M., Rossiter, J. M., Anderson, S. R., …Dean, P. (2016). Cerebellar-inspired algorithm for adaptive control of nonlinear dielectric elastomerbased artificial muscle. Interface, 13(122), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2016.0547

© 2016 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. Electroactive polymer actuators are important for soft robotics, but can be difficult to control because of compliance, creep and nonlinearities. Because biological control mec... Read More about Cerebellar-inspired algorithm for adaptive control of nonlinear dielectric elastomerbased artificial muscle.

Trimming simulation of forming metal sheets isogeometric models by using NURBS surfaces (2016)
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Herrero-Adan, D., Cardoso, R., & Adetoro, O. B. (2016). Trimming simulation of forming metal sheets isogeometric models by using NURBS surfaces. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 734(B), https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/734/3/032144

Some metal sheets forming processes need trimming in a final stage for achieving the net-shape specification and for removing micro-cracks and irregularities. In numerical simulation, since the exact final edge location is a priori unknown in the ori... Read More about Trimming simulation of forming metal sheets isogeometric models by using NURBS surfaces.

A decision support system for strategic maintenance planning in offshore wind farms (2016)
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Li, X., Ouelhadj, D., Song, X., Jones, D., Wall, G., Howell, K. E., …Pertin, E. (2016). A decision support system for strategic maintenance planning in offshore wind farms. Renewable Energy, 99, 784-799. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2016.07.037

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd This paper presents a Decision Support System (DSS) for maintenance cost optimisation at an Offshore Wind Farm (OWF). The DSS is designed for use by multiple stakeholders in the OWF sector with the overall goal of informing mainte... Read More about A decision support system for strategic maintenance planning in offshore wind farms.

Creep deformation mechanisms in a γ titanium aluminide (2016)
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Abdallah, Z., Ding, R., Martin, N., Dixon, M., & Bache, M. (2016). Creep deformation mechanisms in a γ titanium aluminide. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 673, 616-623. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2016.07.109

Titanium aluminides (TiAl) are considered as potential alternatives to replace nickel-based alloys of greater density for selected components within future gas turbine aero-engines. This is attributed to the high specific strength as well as the good... Read More about Creep deformation mechanisms in a γ titanium aluminide.

On gradient descriptor distribution-based dimensionality reduction analysis: A case of recognizing plastic surgery sample faces (2016)
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Olisah, C. C., Ogedebe, P., & Sulong, G. (2016). On gradient descriptor distribution-based dimensionality reduction analysis: A case of recognizing plastic surgery sample faces. Indian Journal of Science and Technology, 9(28), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.17485/ijst/2016/v9i28/93968

Objectives: To analyze the influence of the sparseness distribution characteristics of gradient-based descriptor data on reduction of high-dimensional data, this paper presents experimental analysis on learned samples of gradient descriptor data. Met... Read More about On gradient descriptor distribution-based dimensionality reduction analysis: A case of recognizing plastic surgery sample faces.

Microbial fuel cell – A novel self-powered wastewater electrolyser for electrocoagulation of heavy metals (2016)
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Gajda, I., Stinchcombe, A., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C., & Ieropoulos, I. (2017). Microbial fuel cell – A novel self-powered wastewater electrolyser for electrocoagulation of heavy metals. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 42(3), 1813-1819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2016.06.161

© 2016 The Authors This paper describes the suitability of the Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) for generation of electrical power with a simultaneous synthesis of active catholyte in the form of caustic solution. The active solution formed inside a terraco... Read More about Microbial fuel cell – A novel self-powered wastewater electrolyser for electrocoagulation of heavy metals.