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Robust deformable shape reconstruction from monocular video with manifold forests (2016)
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Matuszewski, B. J., Tao, L., & Matuszewski, B. (2016). Robust deformable shape reconstruction from monocular video with manifold forests. Machine Vision and Applications, 27(6), 801-819. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00138-016-0769-3

© 2016, The Author(s). Existing approaches to recover structure of 3D deformable objects and camera motion parameters from an uncalibrated images assume the object’s shape could be modelled well by a linear subspace. These methods have been proven ef... Read More about Robust deformable shape reconstruction from monocular video with manifold forests.

An enhanced linear Kalman filter (EnLKF) algorithm for parameter estimation of nonlinear rational models (2016)
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Zhu, Q., Yu, D., & Zhao, D. (2017). An enhanced linear Kalman filter (EnLKF) algorithm for parameter estimation of nonlinear rational models. International Journal of Systems Science, 48(3), 451-461. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207721.2016.1186243

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. In this study, an enhanced Kalman Filter formulation for linear in the parameters models with inherent correlated errors is proposed to build up a new framework for nonlinear rational mo... Read More about An enhanced linear Kalman filter (EnLKF) algorithm for parameter estimation of nonlinear rational models.

Dynamic NF-κb and E2F interactions control the priority and timing of inflammatory signalling and cell proliferation (2016)
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Harper, C. V., Adamson, A. D., White, M. R., Jones, N. A., Jackson, D. A., Ankers, J. M., …White, M. R. (2016). Dynamic NF-κb and E2F interactions control the priority and timing of inflammatory signalling and cell proliferation. eLife, 5(MAY2016), https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.10473

© Ankers et al. Dynamic cellular systems reprogram gene expression to ensure appropriate cellular fate responses to specific extracellular cues. Here we demonstrate that the dynamics of Nuclear Factor kappa B (NF-κB) signalling and the cell cycle are... Read More about Dynamic NF-κb and E2F interactions control the priority and timing of inflammatory signalling and cell proliferation.

Effect of PVDF nanofibers on the fracture behavior of composite laminates for high-speed woodworking machines (2016)
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Fotouhi, M., Saghafi, H., Brugo, T., Minak, G., Fragassa, C., Zucchelli, A., & Ahmadi, M. (2017). Effect of PVDF nanofibers on the fracture behavior of composite laminates for high-speed woodworking machines. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 231(1), 31-43. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954406216650711

© 2016 Institution of Mechanical Engineers. The use of light composites when designing fast moving parts for machine tools is emerging as a very efficient solution for improving productivity. Nevertheless, several aspects of these materials have to b... Read More about Effect of PVDF nanofibers on the fracture behavior of composite laminates for high-speed woodworking machines.

Electricity and disinfectant production from wastewater: Microbial Fuel Cell as a self-powered electrolyser (2016)
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Gajda, I., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C., & Ieropoulos, I. A. (2016). Electricity and disinfectant production from wastewater: Microbial Fuel Cell as a self-powered electrolyser. Scientific Reports, 6(25571), https://doi.org/10.1038/srep25571

This study presents a simple and sustainable Microbial Fuel Cell as a standalone, self-powered reactor for in situ wastewater electrolysis, recovering nitrogen from wastewater. A process is proposed whereby the MFC electrical performance drives the e... Read More about Electricity and disinfectant production from wastewater: Microbial Fuel Cell as a self-powered electrolyser.

An immune-inspired swarm aggregation algorithm for self-healing swarm robotic systems (2016)
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Winfield, A. F., Timmis, J., Ismail, A. R., Bjerknes, J. D., & Winfield, A. F. (2016). An immune-inspired swarm aggregation algorithm for self-healing swarm robotic systems. BioSystems, 146, 60-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2016.04.001

© 2016 Elsevier Ireland Ltd Swarm robotics is concerned with the decentralised coordination of multiple robots having only limited communication and interaction abilities. Although fault tolerance and robustness to individual robot failures have ofte... Read More about An immune-inspired swarm aggregation algorithm for self-healing swarm robotic systems.

Stochastic network models for logistics planning in disaster relief (2016)
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Alem, D., Clark, A., & Moreno, A. (2016). Stochastic network models for logistics planning in disaster relief. European Journal of Operational Research, 255(1), 187-206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2016.04.041

© 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Emergency logistics in disasters is fraught with planning and operational challenges, such as uncertainty about the exact nature and magnitude of the disaster, a lack of reliable information about the locatio... Read More about Stochastic network models for logistics planning in disaster relief.

Morphological Characterization of ALD and Doping Effects on Mesoporous SnO2 Aerogels by XPS and Quantitative SEM Image Analysis (2016)
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Agrios, A. G., Atanassov, P., Artyushkova, K., Correa-Baena, J. P., & Santoro, C. (2016). Morphological Characterization of ALD and Doping Effects on Mesoporous SnO2 Aerogels by XPS and Quantitative SEM Image Analysis. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 8(15), 9849-9854. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.6b00019

© 2016 American Chemical Society. Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is unsurpassed in its ability to create thin conformal coatings over very rough and/or porous materials. Yet although the coating thickness on flat surfaces can be measured by ellipsomet... Read More about Morphological Characterization of ALD and Doping Effects on Mesoporous SnO2 Aerogels by XPS and Quantitative SEM Image Analysis.

An oscillator-based smooth real-time estimate of gait phase for wearable robotics (2016)
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Yan, T., Parri, A., Ruiz Garate, V., Cempini, M., Ronsse, R., & Vitiello, N. (2017). An oscillator-based smooth real-time estimate of gait phase for wearable robotics. Autonomous Robots, 41(3), 759-774. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-016-9566-0

This paper presents a novel methodology for estimating the gait phase of human walking through a simple sensory apparatus. Three subsystems are combined: a primary phase estimator based on adaptive oscillators, a desired gait event detector and a pha... Read More about An oscillator-based smooth real-time estimate of gait phase for wearable robotics.

Study of the effects of ionic liquid-modified cathodes and ceramic separators on MFC performance (2016)
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Ieropoulos, I., Hernández-Fernández, F. J., Greenman, J., Salar-García, M. J., Gajda, I., Ortiz-Martínez, V. M., …Ieropoulos, I. (2016). Study of the effects of ionic liquid-modified cathodes and ceramic separators on MFC performance. Chemical Engineering Journal, 291, 317-324. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2016.01.084

© 2016 Elsevier B.V. Ceramic-based MFC designs have proven to be a low cost alternative for power production and wastewater treatment. The use of ionic liquids in ceramic MFCs is explored for the first time in the present work in order to improve pow... Read More about Study of the effects of ionic liquid-modified cathodes and ceramic separators on MFC performance.

Control of Ca2+ Influx and Calmodulin Activation by SK-Channels in Dendritic Spines (2016)
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Mellor, J. R., Griffith, T., Tsaneva-Atanasova, K., & Mellor, J. (2016). Control of Ca2+ Influx and Calmodulin Activation by SK-Channels in Dendritic Spines. PLoS Computational Biology, 12(5), e1004949. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004949

© 2016 Griffith et al. The key trigger for Hebbian synaptic plasticity is influx of Ca2+ into postsynaptic dendritic spines. The magnitude of [Ca2+] increase caused by NMDA-receptor (NMDAR) and voltage-gated Ca2+ -channel (VGCC) activation is thought... Read More about Control of Ca2+ Influx and Calmodulin Activation by SK-Channels in Dendritic Spines.

The non-contact detection and identification of blood stained fingerprints using visible wavelength reflectance hyperspectral imaging: Part 1 (2016)
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Cadd, S., Li, B., Beveridge, P., O'Hare, W. T., Campbell, A., & Islam, M. (2016). The non-contact detection and identification of blood stained fingerprints using visible wavelength reflectance hyperspectral imaging: Part 1. Science and Justice, 56(3), 181-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2016.01.004

© 2016 The Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences. Blood is one of the most commonly encountered types of biological evidence found at scenes of violent crime and one of the most commonly observed fingerprint contaminants. Current visualisation metho... Read More about The non-contact detection and identification of blood stained fingerprints using visible wavelength reflectance hyperspectral imaging: Part 1.

The non-contact detection and identification of blood stained fingerprints using visible wavelength hyperspectral imaging: Part II effectiveness on a range of substrates (2016)
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Cadd, S., Li, B., Beveridge, P., O'Hare, W. T., Campbell, A., & Islam, M. (2016). The non-contact detection and identification of blood stained fingerprints using visible wavelength hyperspectral imaging: Part II effectiveness on a range of substrates. Science and Justice, 56(3), 191-200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2016.01.005

© 2016 The Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences. Biological samples, such as blood, are regularly encountered at violent crime scenes and successful identification is critical for criminal investigations. Blood is one of the most commonly encounter... Read More about The non-contact detection and identification of blood stained fingerprints using visible wavelength hyperspectral imaging: Part II effectiveness on a range of substrates.

A fuzzy rule induction algorithm for discovering classification rules (2016)
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Afifi, A. (2016). A fuzzy rule induction algorithm for discovering classification rules. Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, 30(6), 3067-3085. https://doi.org/10.3233/IFS-152034

© 2016 - IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved. Recently, the topic of data mining has attracted considerable attention from both academia and industry. Data mining is the process of extracting useful knowledge from large amounts of data. Am... Read More about A fuzzy rule induction algorithm for discovering classification rules.

DES study of blade trailing edge cutback cooling performance with various lip thicknesses (2016)
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Effendy, M., Yao, Y. F., Yao, J., & Marchant, D. R. (2016). DES study of blade trailing edge cutback cooling performance with various lip thicknesses. Applied Thermal Engineering, 99, 434-445. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2015.11.103

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Three-dimensional detached-eddy simulation (DES) study has been carried out to evaluate the cooling performance of a trailing-edge cutback turbine blade with various lip thickness to slot height ratios (t/H).... Read More about DES study of blade trailing edge cutback cooling performance with various lip thicknesses.

Regeneration of the power performance of cathodes affected by biofouling (2016)
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Pasternak, G., Greenman, J., & Ieropoulos, I. (2016). Regeneration of the power performance of cathodes affected by biofouling. Applied Energy, 173, 431-437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.04.009

© 2016 The Authors. Air cathode microbial fuel cells (MFCs) were used in a cascade-system, to treat neat human urine as the fuel. Their long-term operation caused biodeterioration and biofouling of the cathodes. The cathodes were made from two graphi... Read More about Regeneration of the power performance of cathodes affected by biofouling.

Self-powered supercapacitive microbial fuel cell: The ultimate way of boosting and harvesting power (2016)
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Atanassov, P., Arbizzani, C., Serov, A., Soavi, F., & Santoro, C. (2016). Self-powered supercapacitive microbial fuel cell: The ultimate way of boosting and harvesting power. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 78, 229-235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2015.11.026

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. In this work, for the first time, we demonstrate a supercapacitive microbial fuel cell which integrates the energy harvesting function of a microbial fuel cell (MFC) with the high-power operation of an internal supercapacitor. Th... Read More about Self-powered supercapacitive microbial fuel cell: The ultimate way of boosting and harvesting power.

Advancing the detection of steady-state visual evoked potentials in brain-computer interfaces (2016)
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Abu-Alqumsan, M., & Peer, A. (2016). Advancing the detection of steady-state visual evoked potentials in brain-computer interfaces. Journal of Neural Engineering, 13(3), https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-2560/13/3/036005

© 2016 IOP Publishing Ltd. Objective. Spatial filtering has proved to be a powerful pre-processing step in detection of steady-state visual evoked potentials and boosted typical detection rates both in offline analysis and online SSVEP-based brain-co... Read More about Advancing the detection of steady-state visual evoked potentials in brain-computer interfaces.

Custom Design Multi-Axial Engine Mount Load-Cell Development for Road Load Identification and Fatigue Life Estimation (2016)
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Ozturk, U. E., Ucar, L., Shahidi, K., Ersoy, N., Zobi, O., Bagdat, U., …Elmalı, S. (2016). Custom Design Multi-Axial Engine Mount Load-Cell Development for Road Load Identification and Fatigue Life Estimation. SAE International Journal of Materials and Manufacturing, 9(3), 642-648. https://doi.org/10.4271/2016-01-0413

Copyright © 2016 SAE International. Internal combustion engines are attached on the vehicle body using engine mounts composed of two cast iron brackets and a rubber isolator connecting them. Engine mount road load identification during vehicle durabi... Read More about Custom Design Multi-Axial Engine Mount Load-Cell Development for Road Load Identification and Fatigue Life Estimation.