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Phase shift of the current under a single-phase short-circuit in the stator winding of a turbogenerator with double winding per phase (2015)
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Nouri, H., & Fjałkowski, Z. (2015). Phase shift of the current under a single-phase short-circuit in the stator winding of a turbogenerator with double winding per phase. Electrical Engineering, 97(3), 251-259. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00202-015-0331-8

© 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. An equivalent model of a faulty turbogenerator under a single-phase short-circuit in the stator winding is presented. The model is based on modified voltage–current equations for the positive-sequence compon... Read More about Phase shift of the current under a single-phase short-circuit in the stator winding of a turbogenerator with double winding per phase.

Experimental study of characteristics of bimetallic Pt-Fe nano-particle fuel cell electrocatalyst (2015)
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Yao, J., & Yao, Y. (2015). Experimental study of characteristics of bimetallic Pt-Fe nano-particle fuel cell electrocatalyst. Renewable Energy, 81, 182-196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2015.03.031

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. The characteristics of 1.5wt% Platinum (Pt) loading on Fe incorporated Y zeolite (Pt-Fe/Y zeolite) nano-electrocatalysts have been experimentally studied by the extended X-ray adsorption fine structure (EXAFS) and cyclic voltamme... Read More about Experimental study of characteristics of bimetallic Pt-Fe nano-particle fuel cell electrocatalyst.

Energy-harvesting mechanisms for UAV flight by dynamic soaring (2015)
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Bonnin, V., Benard, E., Moshetta, J., & Toomer, C. (2015). Energy-harvesting mechanisms for UAV flight by dynamic soaring. International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles, 7(3), 213-229. https://doi.org/10.1260/1756-8293.7.3.213

Dynamic Soaring is a flying technique which extracts energy from an environment where wind gradients form, with the potential to increase the endurance of small unmanned vehicles. The feasibility to use dynamic soaring flight is questioned here; it r... Read More about Energy-harvesting mechanisms for UAV flight by dynamic soaring.

Model selection of the effect of binary exposures over the life course (Epidemiology (2015) 26 (719-726)) (2015)
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Smith, A. D. A. C., Heron, J., Mishra, G., Gilthorpe, M. S., Ben-Shlomo, Y., & Tilling, K. (2015). Model selection of the effect of binary exposures over the life course (Epidemiology (2015) 26 (719-726)). Epidemiology, 26(5), 719-726. https://doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0000000000000348

Epidemiologists are often interested in examining the effect on a later-life outcome of an exposure measured repeatedly over the life course. When different hypotheses for this effect are proposed by competing theories, it is important to identify th... Read More about Model selection of the effect of binary exposures over the life course (Epidemiology (2015) 26 (719-726)).

Industrial insights into lot sizing and schedulingmodeling (2015)
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Almada-Lobo, B., Clark, A., Guimarães, L., Figueira, G., & Amorim, P. (2015). Industrial insights into lot sizing and schedulingmodeling. Pesquisa Operacional, 35(3), 439-464. https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-7438.2015.035.03.0439

© 2015 Brazilian Operations Research Society. Lot sizing and scheduling by mixed integer programming has been a hot research topic inthe last 20 years. Researchers have been trying to develop stronger formulations, as well as to incorporatereal-world... Read More about Industrial insights into lot sizing and schedulingmodeling.

The safety of general anaesthesia in paediatric patients undergoing the application of Biobrane® for small scalds (2015)
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Young, A. E., Lobo, C. A., Warwicker, S. J., Warwicker, S., Lobo, C., Dailami, N., & Young, A. (2015). The safety of general anaesthesia in paediatric patients undergoing the application of Biobrane® for small scalds. Burns, 41(6), 1221-1226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2015.02.007

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd and ISBI. All rights reserved. Background Each year more than 5000 children present to English and Welsh hospitals for the management of scalds; 60% of these are small scalds of less than 10% body surface area. There are no agreed... Read More about The safety of general anaesthesia in paediatric patients undergoing the application of Biobrane® for small scalds.

Evaluation of the swirl characteristics of a tidal stream turbine wake (2015)
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Morris, C. E., O'Doherty, D. M., Mason-Jones, A., & O'Doherty, T. (2016). Evaluation of the swirl characteristics of a tidal stream turbine wake. International Journal of Marine Energy', 14, 198-214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijome.2015.08.001

© 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Tidal stream turbines (TSTs) produce a rotating downstream wake. This paper describes the characteristics of the swirl flow in the wake of a TST with a view of comparing these against classical swirl the... Read More about Evaluation of the swirl characteristics of a tidal stream turbine wake.

Analysis of the damage mechanisms in mixed-mode delamination of laminated composites using acoustic emission data clustering (2015)
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Fotouhi, M., Sadeghi, S., Jalalvand, M., & Ahmadi, M. (2017). Analysis of the damage mechanisms in mixed-mode delamination of laminated composites using acoustic emission data clustering. Journal of Thermoplastic Composite Materials, 30(3), 318-340. https://doi.org/10.1177/0892705715598362

© The Author(s) 2015. In this study, acoustic emission (AE) technique is used to investigate different time-to-failure mechanisms of delamination in glass/epoxy composite laminates. Woven and unidirectional layups were subjected to the double cantile... Read More about Analysis of the damage mechanisms in mixed-mode delamination of laminated composites using acoustic emission data clustering.

Damage evaluation of composite materials using acoustic emission features and Hilbert transform (2015)
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Nazmdar Shahri, M., Yousefi, J., Fotouhi, M., & Ahmadi Najfabadi, M. (2016). Damage evaluation of composite materials using acoustic emission features and Hilbert transform. Journal of Composite Materials, 50(14), 1897-1907. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021998315597555

© SAGE Publications. Acoustic emission (AE) has good potential to characterize failure mechanisms in laminated composite materials. One of the difficult issues using this method can be to establish a good correlation between occurred failure mechanis... Read More about Damage evaluation of composite materials using acoustic emission features and Hilbert transform.

A complete characterisation of local existence for semilinear heat equations in Lebesgue spaces (2015)
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Laister, R., Robinson, J. C., Sierzega, M., & Vidal-Lopez, A. (2016). A complete characterisation of local existence for semilinear heat equations in Lebesgue spaces. Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare (C) Non Linear Analysis, 33(6), 1519-1538. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anihpc.2015.06.005

We consider the scalar semilinear heat equation ut−Δu=f(u), where f:[0,∞)→[0,∞) is continuous and non-decreasing but need not be convex. We completely characterise those functions f for which the equation has a local solution bounded in Lq(Ω) for all... Read More about A complete characterisation of local existence for semilinear heat equations in Lebesgue spaces.

Choral singing therapy following stroke or Parkinsons disease: An exploration of participants experiences (2015)
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Fogg-Rogers, L., Buetow, S., Talmage, A., Mccann, C. M., Leão, S. H., Tippett, L., …Purdy, S. C. (2016). Choral singing therapy following stroke or Parkinsons disease: An exploration of participants experiences. Disability and Rehabilitation, 38(10), 952-962. https://doi.org/10.3109/09638288.2015.1068875

© 2015 Informa UK Ltd. Purpose: People with stroke or Parkinsons disease (PD) live with reduced mood, social participation and quality of life (QOL). Communication difficulties affect 90% of people with PD (dysarthria) and over 33% of people with str... Read More about Choral singing therapy following stroke or Parkinsons disease: An exploration of participants experiences.

A systematic typology for negative Poisson's ratio materials and the prediction of complete auxeticity in pure silica zeolite JST (2015)
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Siddorn, M., Coudert, F. X., Evans, K. E., & Marmier, A. (2015). A systematic typology for negative Poisson's ratio materials and the prediction of complete auxeticity in pure silica zeolite JST. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 17(27), 17927-17933. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5cp01168j

© the Owner Societies 2015. Single crystals can commonly have negative Poisson's ratio in a few directions; however more generalised auxeticity is rarer. We propose a typology to distinguish auxetic materials. We characterise numerous single crystals... Read More about A systematic typology for negative Poisson's ratio materials and the prediction of complete auxeticity in pure silica zeolite JST.

Fade to Green: A Biodegradable Stack of Microbial Fuel Cells (2015)
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Winfield, J., Chambers, L. D., Rossiter, J., Stinchcombe, A., Walter, X. A., Greenman, J., & Ieropoulos, I. (2015). Fade to Green: A Biodegradable Stack of Microbial Fuel Cells. ChemSusChem, 8(16), 2705-2712. https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201500431

© 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. The focus of this study is the development of biodegradable microbial fuel cells (MFCs) able to produce useful power. Reactors with an 8mL chamber volume were designed using all biodegradable produ... Read More about Fade to Green: A Biodegradable Stack of Microbial Fuel Cells.

Systematic analysis of video data from different human-robot interaction studies: A categorisation of social signals during error situations (2015)
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Giuliani, M., Mirnig, N., Stollnberger, G., Stadler, S., Buchner, R., & Tscheligi, M. (2015). Systematic analysis of video data from different human-robot interaction studies: A categorisation of social signals during error situations. Frontiers in Psychology, 6(931), https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00931

Human–robot interactions are often affected by error situations that are caused by either the robot or the human. Therefore, robots would profit from the ability to recognize when error situations occur. We investigated the verbal and non-verbal soci... Read More about Systematic analysis of video data from different human-robot interaction studies: A categorisation of social signals during error situations.

How ants use quorum sensing to estimate the average quality of a fluctuating resource (2015)
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Franks, N. R., Stuttard, J. P., Doran, C., Esposito, J. C., Master, M. C., Sendova-Franks, A. B., …Britton, N. F. (2015). How ants use quorum sensing to estimate the average quality of a fluctuating resource. Scientific Reports, 5(11890), https://doi.org/10.1038/srep11890

© 2015, Nature Publishing Group. All rights reserved. We show that one of the advantages of quorum-based decision-making is an ability to estimate the average value of a resource that fluctuates in quality. By using a quorum threshold, namely the num... Read More about How ants use quorum sensing to estimate the average quality of a fluctuating resource.

Bridging eHealth and the Internet of Things: The SPHERE Project (2015)
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Zhu, N., Diethe, T., Camplani, M., Tao, L., Burrows, A., Twomey, N., …Craddock, I. (2015). Bridging eHealth and the Internet of Things: The SPHERE Project. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 30(4), 39-46

There is a widely-accepted need to revise current forms of healthcare provision. Of particular interest are sensing systems in the home, which have been central to a number of studies in this area. This paper presents an overview of this rapidly grow... Read More about Bridging eHealth and the Internet of Things: The SPHERE Project.

Ptu-024 - photometric stereo reconstruction for surface analysis of mucosal tissue (2015)
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Poullis, A., Groves, C., Slabaugh, G., Emrith, K., & Smith, M. (2015). Ptu-024 - photometric stereo reconstruction for surface analysis of mucosal tissue. BMJ, 64(1), 68-69

This paper provides a novel approach for real-time detection of polyps. Using a photometric stereo sensor for endoscopy imaging in a porcine model, the 3D surface geometry of a porcine gut is recovered. Shape features are extracted from the 3D surfac... Read More about Ptu-024 - photometric stereo reconstruction for surface analysis of mucosal tissue.

Surface modification for enhanced biofilm formation and electron transport in Shewanella anodes (2015)
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Atanassov, P., Schuler, A. J., Ista, L., Artyushkova, K., Babanova, S., Lopez, C., …Santoro, C. (2015). Surface modification for enhanced biofilm formation and electron transport in Shewanella anodes. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 162(9), H597-H603. https://doi.org/10.1149/2.0271509jes

© The Author(s) 2015. Published by ECS. In this study a simple, fast and effective surface modification method for enhanced biofilm formation, increased electron transfer rate and higher current density generation from microbial fuel cell (MFC) has b... Read More about Surface modification for enhanced biofilm formation and electron transport in Shewanella anodes.

Negative linear compressibility in common materials (2015)
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Miller, W., Evans, K. E., & Marmier, A. (2015). Negative linear compressibility in common materials. Applied Physics Letters, 106(23), Article 231903. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4922460

© 2015 AIP Publishing LLC. Negative linear compressibility (NLC) is still considered an exotic property, only observed in a few obscure crystals. The vast majority of materials compress axially in all directions when loaded in hydrostatic compression... Read More about Negative linear compressibility in common materials.

On general frameworks and threshold functions for multiple domination (2015)
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Zverovich, V. (2015). On general frameworks and threshold functions for multiple domination. Discrete Mathematics, 338(11), 2095-2104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.disc.2015.05.003

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. We consider two general frameworks for multiple domination, which are called (r,s)-domination and parametric domination. They generalise and unify {k}-domination, k-domination, total k-domination and k-tuple... Read More about On general frameworks and threshold functions for multiple domination.