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Microbial Fuel Cell-driven caustic potash production from wastewater for carbon sequestration (2016)
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Gajda, I., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C., Santoro, C., & Ieropoulos, I. (2016). Microbial Fuel Cell-driven caustic potash production from wastewater for carbon sequestration. Bioresource Technology, 215, 285-289. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2016.04.004

© 2016 The Authors. This work reports on the novel formation of caustic potash (KOH) directly on the MFC cathode locking carbon dioxide into potassium bicarbonate salt (kalicinite) while producing, instead of consuming electrical power. Using potassi... Read More about Microbial Fuel Cell-driven caustic potash production from wastewater for carbon sequestration.

Detection of fibre fracture and ply fragmentation in thin-ply UD carbon/glass hybrid laminates using acoustic emission (2016)
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Fotouhi, M., Suwarta, P., Jalalvand, M., Czel, G., & Wisnom, M. R. (2016). Detection of fibre fracture and ply fragmentation in thin-ply UD carbon/glass hybrid laminates using acoustic emission. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 86, 66-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesa.2016.04.003

© 2016 The Authors. This paper investigates the link between acoustic emission (AE) events and the corresponding damage modes in thin-ply UD carbon/glass hybrid laminates under tensile loading. A novel configuration was investigated which has not pre... Read More about Detection of fibre fracture and ply fragmentation in thin-ply UD carbon/glass hybrid laminates using acoustic emission.

Science in Culture: Audiences’ Perspective on Engaging With Science at a Summer Festival (2016)
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Sardo, A. M., & Grand, A. (2016). Science in Culture: Audiences’ Perspective on Engaging With Science at a Summer Festival. Science Communication, 38(2), 251-260. https://doi.org/10.1177/1075547016632537

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. In this commentary, we explore the factors that contributed to festival goers’ choice to attend science-based events at a summer cultural festival. We evaluated the impact of such events on the audiences: their levels of... Read More about Science in Culture: Audiences’ Perspective on Engaging With Science at a Summer Festival.

Bilirubin oxidase based enzymatic air-breathing cathode: Operation under pristine and contaminated conditions (2016)
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Atanassov, P., Schuler, A., Erable, B., Babanova, S., & Santoro, C. (2016). Bilirubin oxidase based enzymatic air-breathing cathode: Operation under pristine and contaminated conditions. Bioelectrochemistry, 108, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioelechem.2015.10.005

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. The performance of bilirubin oxidase (BOx) based air breathing cathode was constantly monitored over 45days. The effect of electrolyte composition on the cathode oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) output was investigated. Particular... Read More about Bilirubin oxidase based enzymatic air-breathing cathode: Operation under pristine and contaminated conditions.

Gender and gaze gesture recognition for human-computer interaction (2016)
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Zhang, W., Smith, M. L., Smith, L. N., & Farooq, A. (2016). Gender and gaze gesture recognition for human-computer interaction. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 149, 32-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cviu.2016.03.014

© 2016 Elsevier Inc. The identification of visual cues in facial images has been widely explored in the broad area of computer vision. However theoretical analyses are often not transformed into widespread assistive Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) s... Read More about Gender and gaze gesture recognition for human-computer interaction.

Adaptive synchronised tracking control for multiple robotic manipulators with uncertain kinematics and dynamics (2016)
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Zhao, D., Li, S., & Zhu, Q. (2016). Adaptive synchronised tracking control for multiple robotic manipulators with uncertain kinematics and dynamics. International Journal of Systems Science, 47(4), 791-804. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207721.2014.906681

© 2014 Taylor & Francis. In this study, a new adaptive synchronised tracking control approach is developed for the operation of multiple robotic manipulators in the presence of uncertain kinematics and dynamics. In terms of the system synchronisati... Read More about Adaptive synchronised tracking control for multiple robotic manipulators with uncertain kinematics and dynamics.

Emergency response in complex buildings: Automated selection of safest and balanced routes (2016)
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Zverovich, V., Mahdjoubi, L., Boguslawski, P., Fadli, F., & Barki, H. (2016). Emergency response in complex buildings: Automated selection of safest and balanced routes. Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 31(8), 617-632. https://doi.org/10.1111/mice.12197

The extreme importance of emergency response in complex buildings during natural and human-induced disasters has been widely acknowledged. In particular, there is a need for efficient algorithms for finding safest evacuation routes, which would take... Read More about Emergency response in complex buildings: Automated selection of safest and balanced routes.

Using DEWIS and R for multi-staged statistics e-Assessments (2016)
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Henderson, K. L., Weir, I. S., Rhys Gwynllyw, D., Gwynllyw, R., Weir, I., & Henderson, K. (2016). Using DEWIS and R for multi-staged statistics e-Assessments. Teaching Mathematics and its Applications, 35(1), 14-26. https://doi.org/10.1093/teamat/hrv018

© The Author 2015. We demonstrate how the DEWIS e-Assessment system may use embedded R code to facilitate the assessment of students' ability to perform involved statistical analyses. The R code has been written to emulate SPSS output and thus the st... Read More about Using DEWIS and R for multi-staged statistics e-Assessments.

Time-based fault location method for LVdistributionsystems (2016)
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Alamuti, M. M., Nouri, H., Mohammadi, M., & Montakhab, M. (2016). Time-based fault location method for LVdistributionsystems. Electrical Engineering, 98(1), 87-96. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00202-015-0346-1

© 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Due to the utilization of fundamental frequency, current impedance-based fault location methods are able to locate only permanent and linear faults. The duration of the arc in low and medium voltage systems... Read More about Time-based fault location method for LVdistributionsystems.

Quantifying turbulence from field measurements at a mixed low tidal energy site (2016)
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Bouferrouk, A., Hardwick, J. P., Colucci, A. M., & Johanning, L. (2016). Quantifying turbulence from field measurements at a mixed low tidal energy site. Renewable Energy, 87(1), 478-492. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2015.10.046

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. This study explores typical characteristics of the mean and turbulent profiles at a mixed low tidal energy site (40 m mean water depth) where the waves have limited effects on the currents. The turbulence profiles were derived fr... Read More about Quantifying turbulence from field measurements at a mixed low tidal energy site.

Independent force and position control for cooperating manipulators handling an unknown object and interacting with an unknown environment (2016)
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Ryu, J. H., Jafari, A., & Jee-Hwan, R. (2016). Independent force and position control for cooperating manipulators handling an unknown object and interacting with an unknown environment. Journal of The Franklin Institute, 353(4), 857-875. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfranklin.2015.12.010

© 2016 The Franklin Institute. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This paper presents a unified framework for system design and control in cooperative robotic systems. It introduces a highly generalized cooperative system configuration t... Read More about Independent force and position control for cooperating manipulators handling an unknown object and interacting with an unknown environment.

Gender recognition from facial images: Two or three dimensions? (2016)
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Zhang, W., Smith, M. L., Smith, L. N., & Farooq, A. (2016). Gender recognition from facial images: Two or three dimensions?. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 33(3), 333-344. https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.33.000333

© 2016 Optical Society of America. This paper seeks to compare encoded features from both two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) face images in order to achieve automatic gender recognition with high accuracy and robustness. The Fisher vecto... Read More about Gender recognition from facial images: Two or three dimensions?.

Eye center localization and gaze gesture recognition for human-computer interaction (2016)
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Zhang, W., Smith, M. L., Smith, L. N., & Farooq, A. (2016). Eye center localization and gaze gesture recognition for human-computer interaction. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 33(3), 314-325. https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.33.000314

© 2016 Optical Society of America. This paper introduces an unsupervised modular approach for accurate and real-time eye center localization in images and videos, thus allowing a coarse-to-fine, global-to-regional scheme. The trajectories of eye cent... Read More about Eye center localization and gaze gesture recognition for human-computer interaction.

An Analytical Capacitance Model for Through-Silicon Vias in Floating Silicon Substrate (2016)
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Weerasekera, R., Katti, G., Dutta, R., Zhang, S., Chang, K. F., Zhou, J., & Bhattacharya, S. (2016). An Analytical Capacitance Model for Through-Silicon Vias in Floating Silicon Substrate. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 63(3), 1182-1188. https://doi.org/10.1109/TED.2016.2522501

© 2016 IEEE. Through-silicon via (TSV) is an integral part of 2.5-D IC technology leveraged for multichip heterogeneous integration to achieve shorter interconnects, faster speed, and lower power consumption in the state-of-the-art circuit systems. T... Read More about An Analytical Capacitance Model for Through-Silicon Vias in Floating Silicon Substrate.

Human sit-to-stand transfer modeling towards intuitive and biologically-inspired robot assistance (2016)
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Geravand, M., Korondi, P. Z., Werner, C., Hauer, K., & Peer, A. (2017). Human sit-to-stand transfer modeling towards intuitive and biologically-inspired robot assistance. Autonomous Robots, 41(3), 575-592. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-016-9553-5

© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York. Sit-to-stand (STS) transfers are a common human task which involves complex sensorimotor processes to control the highly nonlinear musculoskeletal system. In this paper, typical unassisted and assiste... Read More about Human sit-to-stand transfer modeling towards intuitive and biologically-inspired robot assistance.

Walking assistance using artificial primitives: A novel bioinspired framework using motor primitives for locomotion assistance through a wearable cooperative exoskeleton (2016)
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Ruiz Garate, V., Parri, A., Yan, T., Munih, M., Molino Lova, R., Vitiello, N., & Ronsse, R. (2016). Walking assistance using artificial primitives: A novel bioinspired framework using motor primitives for locomotion assistance through a wearable cooperative exoskeleton. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 23(1), 83-95. https://doi.org/10.1109/MRA.2015.2510778

Bioinspiration in robotics deals with applying biological principles to the design of better performing devices. In this article, we propose a novel bioinspired framework using motor primitives for locomotion assistance through a wearable cooperative... Read More about Walking assistance using artificial primitives: A novel bioinspired framework using motor primitives for locomotion assistance through a wearable cooperative exoskeleton.

Towards effective small scale microbial fuel cells for energy generation from urine (2016)
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Chouler, J., Padgett, G. A., Cameron, P. J., Preuss, K., Titirici, M. M., Ieropoulos, I., & Di Lorenzo, M. (2016). Towards effective small scale microbial fuel cells for energy generation from urine. Electrochimica Acta, 192, 89-98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2016.01.112

© 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. To resolve an increasing global demand in energy, a source of sustainable and environmentally friendly energy is needed. Microbial fuel cells (MFC) hold great potential as a sustainable and green bioener... Read More about Towards effective small scale microbial fuel cells for energy generation from urine.

Is the 2D unlabelled data adequate for facial expression recognition? (2016)
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recognition?. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 31(3), 19-29

Automatic facial expression recognition is one of the important challenges for computer vision and machine learning. Despite the fact that many successes have been achieved in the recent years, several important but unresolved problems still remain.... Read More about Is the 2D unlabelled data adequate for facial expression recognition?.

Iconic gestures for robot avatars, recognition and integration with speech (2016)
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Bremner, P., & Leonards, U. (2016). Iconic gestures for robot avatars, recognition and integration with speech. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00183

© 2016 Bremner and Leonards. Co-verbal gestures are an important part of human communication, improving its efficiency and efficacy for information conveyance. One possible means by which such multi-modal communication might be realized remotely is t... Read More about Iconic gestures for robot avatars, recognition and integration with speech.

Determination of the anisotropic elastic properties of rocksalt Ge2Sb2Te5 by XRD, residual stress, and DFT (2016)
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Cecchini, R., Kohary, K., Fernández, A., Cabibbo, M., & Marmier, A. (2016). Determination of the anisotropic elastic properties of rocksalt Ge2Sb2Te5 by XRD, residual stress, and DFT. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 120(10), 5624-5629. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b09867

© 2016 American Chemical Society. The chalcogenide material Ge2Sb2Te5 is the prototype phase-change material, with widespread applications for optical media and random access memory. However, the full set of its independent elastic properties has not... Read More about Determination of the anisotropic elastic properties of rocksalt Ge2Sb2Te5 by XRD, residual stress, and DFT.