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Onshoring through automation; Perpetuating inequality? (2021)
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Studley, M. (2021). Onshoring through automation; Perpetuating inequality?. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 8, Article 634297. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2021.634297

Many analyses of the ethical, legal and societal impacts of robotics are focussed on Europe and the United States. In this article I discuss the impacts of robotics on developing nations in a connected world, and make the case that international equi... Read More about Onshoring through automation; Perpetuating inequality?.

Anatomy of air entrapment in drop impact on a solid surface (2021)
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Wu, Z., Cao, Y., & Yao, Y. (2021). Anatomy of air entrapment in drop impact on a solid surface. International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 142, Article 103724. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2021.103724

When a drop impacts on a solid surface, a thin air film is entrapped first and later evolves into a spherical air bubble at the center inside the drop. The problem involves several complex physical processes, including two-phase fluid flow interactio... Read More about Anatomy of air entrapment in drop impact on a solid surface.

Safety assessment review of a dressing assistance robot (2021)
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Delgado Bellamy, D., Chance, G., Caleb-Solly, P., & Dogramadzi, S. (2021). Safety assessment review of a dressing assistance robot. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 8, Article 667316. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2021.667316

Hazard analysis methods such as HAZOP and STPA have proven to be effective methods for assurance of system safety for years. However, the dimensionality and human factors uncertainty of many assistive robotic applications challenges the capability of... Read More about Safety assessment review of a dressing assistance robot.

A novel iterative identification based on the optimised topology for common state monitoring in wireless sensor networks (2021)
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Lu, Z., Wang, N., & Yang, C. (2022). A novel iterative identification based on the optimised topology for common state monitoring in wireless sensor networks. International Journal of Systems Science, 53(1), 25-39. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207721.2021.1936275

Power consumption and data redundancy of wireless sensor networks (WSN) are widely considered for a distributed state monitoring network. For reducing the energy consumption and data amount, we propose a topology optimisation and an iterative paramet... Read More about A novel iterative identification based on the optimised topology for common state monitoring in wireless sensor networks.

Ambulatory management of secondary spontaneous pneumothorax: A randomised controlled trial (2021)
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Walker, S. P., Keenan, E., Bintcliffe, O., Stanton, A. E., Roberts, M., Pepperell, J., …Maskell, N. A. (2021). Ambulatory management of secondary spontaneous pneumothorax: A randomised controlled trial. European Respiratory Journal, 57(6), Article 2003375. https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.03375-2020

Secondary spontaneous pneumothorax (SSP) is traditionally managed with an intercostal chest tube attached to an underwater seal. We investigated whether use of a one-way flutter valve shortened patients' length of stay (LoS). This open-label randomis... Read More about Ambulatory management of secondary spontaneous pneumothorax: A randomised controlled trial.

Review of the techniques used in motor‐cognitive human‐robot skill transfer (2021)
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Guan, Y., Wang, N., & Yang, C. (2021). Review of the techniques used in motor‐cognitive human‐robot skill transfer. Cognitive Computation and Systems, 3(3), 229-252. https://doi.org/10.1049/ccs2.12025

A conventional robot programming method extensively limits the reusability of skills in the developmental aspect. Engineers programme a robot in a targeted manner for the realisation of predefined skills. The low reusability of general-purpose robot... Read More about Review of the techniques used in motor‐cognitive human‐robot skill transfer.

Negative updating applied to the best-of-n problem with noisy qualities (2021)
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Lee, C., Lawry, J., & Winfield, A. F. (2021). Negative updating applied to the best-of-n problem with noisy qualities. Swarm Intelligence, 15, 111-143. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11721-021-00188-4

The ability to perform well in the presence of noise is an important consideration when evaluating the effectiveness of a collective decision-making framework. Any system deployed for real-world applications will have to perform well in complex and u... Read More about Negative updating applied to the best-of-n problem with noisy qualities.

“They were aware of who I was as a person”: Patients’ and health professionals’ experiences of using the PEGASUS intervention to facilitate decision-making around breast reconstruction (2021)
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Tollow, P., Paraskeva, N., Clarke, A., White, P., Powell, J., Cox, D., & Harcourt, D. (in press). “They were aware of who I was as a person”: Patients’ and health professionals’ experiences of using the PEGASUS intervention to facilitate decision-making around breast reconstruction. European Journal of Cancer Care, Article e13464. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecc.13464

Objective: Many women choose to have breast reconstruction after mastectomy, however, decision-making can be difficult and expectations are often unmet. The PEGASUS intervention (Patient Expectations and Goals: Assisting Shared Understanding of Surge... Read More about “They were aware of who I was as a person”: Patients’ and health professionals’ experiences of using the PEGASUS intervention to facilitate decision-making around breast reconstruction.

Low-frequency oscillation damping control for large-scale power system with simplified virtual synchronous machine (2021)
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Sebaa, K., Zhou, Y., Li, Y., Gelen, A., & Nouri, H. (2021). Low-frequency oscillation damping control for large-scale power system with simplified virtual synchronous machine. Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, 9(6), 1424-1435. https://doi.org/10.35833/MPCE.2020.000340

This study focuses on a virtual synchronous machine (VSM) based on voltage source converters to mimic the behavior of synchronous machines (SMs) and improve the damping ratio of the power system. The VSM model is simplified according to some assumpti... Read More about Low-frequency oscillation damping control for large-scale power system with simplified virtual synchronous machine.

The quiet revolution in machine vision - A state-of-the-art survey paper, including historical review, perspectives, and future directions (2021)
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Smith, M. L., Smith, L. N., & Hansen, M. F. (2021). The quiet revolution in machine vision - A state-of-the-art survey paper, including historical review, perspectives, and future directions. Computers in Industry, 130, Article 103472. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2021.103472

Over the past few years, what might not unreasonably be described as a true revolution has taken place in the field of machine vision, radically altering the way many things had previously been done and offering new and exciting opportunities for tho... Read More about The quiet revolution in machine vision - A state-of-the-art survey paper, including historical review, perspectives, and future directions.

Near stall unsteady flow responses to morphing flap deflections (2021)
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Abdessemed, C., Yao, Y., & Bouferrouk, A. (2021). Near stall unsteady flow responses to morphing flap deflections. Fluids, 6(5), Article 180. https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids6050180

The unsteady flow characteristics and responses of an NACA 0012 airfoil fitted with a bio-inspired morphing trailing edge flap (TEF) at near-stall angles of attack (AoA) undergoing downward deflections are investigated at a Reynolds number of 0.62 ×... Read More about Near stall unsteady flow responses to morphing flap deflections.

Shedding smart light on the effectiveness of chemotherapy: using Raman spectroscopy and machine learning to differentiate the effects of Cytarabine toxicity and crosstalk of leukaemic and bone marrow stromal cells (2021)
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Gynn, L., Lamb-Riddell, K., Cox, T., Hansen, M., Conway, M., & May, J. (2021). Shedding smart light on the effectiveness of chemotherapy: using Raman spectroscopy and machine learning to differentiate the effects of Cytarabine toxicity and crosstalk of leukaemic and bone marrow stromal cells. British Journal of Haematology, 193(S1), 46-47

Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) protect leukaemic cells from drug-induced toxicity within the bone marrow niche, with increasing evidence of leukaemic impact on supportive stroma. The nucleoside analogue, cytarabine (ara-C), is a front-line agent for... Read More about Shedding smart light on the effectiveness of chemotherapy: using Raman spectroscopy and machine learning to differentiate the effects of Cytarabine toxicity and crosstalk of leukaemic and bone marrow stromal cells.

Robot learning system based on dynamic movement primitives and neural network (2021)
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Zhang, Y., Li, M., & Yang, C. (2021). Robot learning system based on dynamic movement primitives and neural network. Neurocomputing, 451, 205-214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2021.04.034

In the process of Human-robot skill transfer, we require the robot to reproduce the trajectory of teacher and expect that the robot can generalize the learned trajectory. For the trajectory after generalization, we expect that the robot arm can accur... Read More about Robot learning system based on dynamic movement primitives and neural network.

Protocol for a mixed-method study to inform the feasibility of undertaking a large-scale multicentre study comparing the clinical and patient-reported outcomes of oncoplastic breast conservation as an alternative to mastectomy with or without immediate breast reconstruction in women unsuitable for standard breast-conserving surgery (the ANTHEM Feasibility Study) (2021)
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Davies, C., Holcombe, C., Skillman, J., Whisker, L., Hollingworth, W., Conefrey, C., …Potter, S. (2021). Protocol for a mixed-method study to inform the feasibility of undertaking a large-scale multicentre study comparing the clinical and patient-reported outcomes of oncoplastic breast conservation as an alternative to mastectomy with or without immediate breast reconstruction in women unsuitable for standard breast-conserving surgery (the ANTHEM Feasibility Study). BMJ Open, 11(4), Article e046622. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046622

Introduction: Approximately 40% of the 55,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer each year in the UK undergo mastectomy because they are considered unsuitable for standard breast conserving surgery (BCS) due to tumour size or multiple tumour foci. Ma... Read More about Protocol for a mixed-method study to inform the feasibility of undertaking a large-scale multicentre study comparing the clinical and patient-reported outcomes of oncoplastic breast conservation as an alternative to mastectomy with or without immediate breast reconstruction in women unsuitable for standard breast-conserving surgery (the ANTHEM Feasibility Study).

Fuzzy tuned PID controller for envisioned agricultural manipulator (2021)
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Paul, S., Arunachalam, A., Khodadad, D., Andreasson, H., & Rubanenko, O. (2021). Fuzzy tuned PID controller for envisioned agricultural manipulator. International Journal of Automation and Computing, 18(4), 568–580. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-021-1280-5

The implementation of image-based phenotyping systems has become an important aspect of crop and plant science research which has shown tremendous growth over the years. Accurate determination of features using images requires stable imaging and very... Read More about Fuzzy tuned PID controller for envisioned agricultural manipulator.

Acceptability and preliminary efficacy of a school-based body image intervention in urban India: A pilot randomised controlled trial (2021)
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Garbett, K., Lewis-Smith, H., Chaudhry, A., Schroff, H., Dhillon, M., White, P., & Diedrichs, P. C. (2021). Acceptability and preliminary efficacy of a school-based body image intervention in urban India: A pilot randomised controlled trial. Body Image, 37, 282-290. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2021.02.011

This pilot study evaluated the acceptability and preliminary efficacy of a culturally adapted school-based body image intervention, Dove Confident Me, for use in urban India. Two private schools in New Delhi were randomly assigned at the school level... Read More about Acceptability and preliminary efficacy of a school-based body image intervention in urban India: A pilot randomised controlled trial.

A concept design stages protocol to support collaborative processes in architecture, engineering and construction projects (2021)
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Leon, M., & Laing, R. (2022). A concept design stages protocol to support collaborative processes in architecture, engineering and construction projects. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 20(3), 777-799. https://doi.org/10.1108/jedt-10-2020-0399

Purpose: This paper proposes and tests, through a series of structured multi-disciplinary design activities, a “Concept Design Stages Protocol” (CDS Protocol) to structure project initiation, to attain smoother collaboration and greater consensus amo... Read More about A concept design stages protocol to support collaborative processes in architecture, engineering and construction projects.

Robust standard gradient descent algorithm for ARX models using Aitken acceleration technique (2021)
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Chen, J., Gan, M., Zhu, Q., Narayan, P., & Liu, Y. (2022). Robust standard gradient descent algorithm for ARX models using Aitken acceleration technique. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 52(9), 9646-9655. https://doi.org/10.1109/tcyb.2021.3063113

A robust standard gradient descent (SGD) algorithm for ARX models using the Aitken acceleration method is developed. Considering that the SGD algorithm has slow convergence rates and is sensitive to the step size, a robust and accelerative SGD (RA-SG... Read More about Robust standard gradient descent algorithm for ARX models using Aitken acceleration technique.

2008 financial crisis versus 2020 economic fallout: How COVID-19 might influence fertility treatment and live births (2021)
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Gromski, P. S., Smith, A. D., Lawlor, D. A., Sharara, F. I., & Nelson, S. M. (2021). 2008 financial crisis versus 2020 economic fallout: How COVID-19 might influence fertility treatment and live births. Reproductive BioMedicine Online, 42(6), 1087-1096. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rbmo.2021.03.017

Research question The economic and reproductive medicine response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in the USA has reduced the affordability and accessibility of fertility care. What is the impact of the 2008 financial recession an... Read More about 2008 financial crisis versus 2020 economic fallout: How COVID-19 might influence fertility treatment and live births.

Applying social learning to climate communications- visualising 'people like me' in air pollution and climate change data (2021)
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Fogg-Rogers, L., Hayes, E., Vanherle, K., Pápics, P. I., Chatterton, T., Barnes, J., …Longhurst, J. (2021). Applying social learning to climate communications- visualising 'people like me' in air pollution and climate change data. Sustainability, 13(6), Article 3406. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13063406

Technological approaches to carbon emission and air pollution data modelling consider where the issues are located and what is creating emissions. This paper argues that more focus should be paid to people-the drivers of vehicles or households burnin... Read More about Applying social learning to climate communications- visualising 'people like me' in air pollution and climate change data.