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Experimental determination of Through-Thickness Compression (TTC) enhancement factor for Mode II fracture energy (2018)
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Mode II fracture energy, GIIC, is a critical parameter for determining the propagation of delamination in composite laminates. Its value can be affected by Through-Thickness Compression (TTC) stress acting on the crack tip and here this effect has be... Read More about Experimental determination of Through-Thickness Compression (TTC) enhancement factor for Mode II fracture energy.

A New Method for Modulation, Control and Power Boosting in Microbial Fuel Cells (2018)
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© 2018 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are energy transducers, which through the metabolic reactions of facultative anaerobic microorganisms, transform the energy in organic matter directly into electricity. E... Read More about A New Method for Modulation, Control and Power Boosting in Microbial Fuel Cells.

Single engine turboprop aeroplane class in small air transport (2018)
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Purpose: This paper aims to present the analysis of introduction of single engine turbo-prop aeroplane class in terms of certification specifications and flight crew licensing regulations. Design/methodology/approach: Following the results of flight... Read More about Single engine turboprop aeroplane class in small air transport.

How can we maximize the diagnostic utility of uroflow?: ICI-RS 2017 (2018)
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© 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Aims: To gauge the current level of diagnostic utility of uroflowmetry and to suggest areas needing research to improve this. Methods: A summary of the debate held at the 2017 meeting of the International Consultation o... Read More about How can we maximize the diagnostic utility of uroflow?: ICI-RS 2017.

Microbial desalination cell with sulfonated sodium (poly(ether ether ketone) as cation exchange membranes for enhancing power generation and salt reduction (2018)
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© 2018 Microbial desalination cell (MDC) is a bioelectrochemical system capable of oxidizing organics, generating electricity, while reducing the salinity content of brine streams. As it is designed, anion and cation exchange membranes play an import... Read More about Microbial desalination cell with sulfonated sodium (poly(ether ether ketone) as cation exchange membranes for enhancing power generation and salt reduction.

Vanishing point detection for visual surveillance systems in railway platform environments (2018)
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© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Visual surveillance is of paramount importance in public spaces and especially in train and metro platforms which are particularly susceptible to many types of crime from petty theft to terrorist activity. Image resolution of vis... Read More about Vanishing point detection for visual surveillance systems in railway platform environments.

Towards on-farm pig face recognition using convolutional neural networks (2018)
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© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Identification of individual livestock such as pigs and cows has become a pressing issue in recent years as intensification practices continue to be adopted and precise objective measurements are required (e.g. weight). Current b... Read More about Towards on-farm pig face recognition using convolutional neural networks.

Arc-to-glow transition approach for practical use in DC low-power, low-voltage electric grids (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 IEEE. This paper presents and discusses results of analysis from investigations of arc-to-glow transformation phenomenon at contact opening, under dc low-energy (≤ 10 J) and low-voltage (≤250 V) inductive loads. Dependence of the duration of a... Read More about Arc-to-glow transition approach for practical use in DC low-power, low-voltage electric grids.

Visual features based boosted classification of weeds for real-time selective herbicide sprayer systems (2018)
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© 2018 Recent years have shown enthusiastic research interest in weed classification for selective herbicide sprayer systems which are helpful in eradicating unwanted plants such as weeds from fields, minimizing the side effects of chemicals on the e... Read More about Visual features based boosted classification of weeds for real-time selective herbicide sprayer systems.

A novel model and method based on Nash equilibrium for medical image segmentation (2018)
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Accurate image segmentation is a very important task in medical image analysis as it can help us to better distinguish tumours from normal tissues. One of the important features of MRI images of glioma (a kind of brain tumour) is that the tumour shap... Read More about A novel model and method based on Nash equilibrium for medical image segmentation.

Inhibition of Surface Chemical Moieties by Tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane: A Key to Understanding Oxygen Reduction on Iron-Nitrogen-Carbon Catalysts (2018)
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© 2018 American Chemical Society. The effect of tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane (Tris) on the activity of metal-nitrogen-carbon (M-N-C) platinum metal group-free (PGM-free) catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is studied. Electrochemical tes... Read More about Inhibition of Surface Chemical Moieties by Tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane: A Key to Understanding Oxygen Reduction on Iron-Nitrogen-Carbon Catalysts.

Exploiting ability for human adaptation to facilitate improved human-robot interaction and acceptance (2018)
Journal Article

© Praminda Caleb-Solly, Sanja Dogramadzi, Claire A.G.J. Huijnen, and Herjan van den Heuvel. This article reports findings from a usability and user experience evaluations conducted in the last 2 years of a 4-year assistive robotics research project u... Read More about Exploiting ability for human adaptation to facilitate improved human-robot interaction and acceptance.

Morphing airfoils analysis using dynamic meshing (2018)
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© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to use dynamic meshing to perform CFD analyses of a NACA 0012 airfoil fitted with a morphing trailing edge (TE) flap when it undergoes static and time-dependent morphing. The s... Read More about Morphing airfoils analysis using dynamic meshing.

PEE POWER® urinal II - Urinal scale-up with microbial fuel cell scale-down for improved lighting (2018)
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© 2018 The Authors A novel design of microbial fuel cells (MFC) fuelled with undiluted urine was demonstrated to be an efficient power source for decentralised areas, but had only been tested under controlled laboratory conditions. Hence, a field-tri... Read More about PEE POWER® urinal II - Urinal scale-up with microbial fuel cell scale-down for improved lighting.

Multi-instrument in-situ damage monitoring in quasi-isotropic CFRP laminates under tension (2018)
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© 2018 Digital Image Correlation monitoring of the surface strains, microscopic in-situ observations of the micro-damage on the specimen edge and Acoustic Emission (AE) are utilized simultaneously during tension tests of quasi-isotropic carbon fibre... Read More about Multi-instrument in-situ damage monitoring in quasi-isotropic CFRP laminates under tension.

Scalable generation of large-scale unstructured meshes by a novel domain decomposition approach (2018)
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© 2018 Elsevier Ltd A parallel algorithm is proposed for scalable generation of large-scale tetrahedral meshes. The key innovation is the use of a mesh-simplification based domain decomposition approach. This approach works on a background mesh with... Read More about Scalable generation of large-scale unstructured meshes by a novel domain decomposition approach.

Core–shell PVA/gelatin nanofibrous scaffolds using co-solvent, aqueous electrospinning: Toward a green approach (2018)
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© 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electrospinning (ES) of gelatin often requires cytotoxic organic solvents or acidic environments, which deteriorate cell recognition sites. In this study, aqueous, non-toxic, co-solvent ES was performed to obtain core–s... Read More about Core–shell PVA/gelatin nanofibrous scaffolds using co-solvent, aqueous electrospinning: Toward a green approach.

Direct numerical simulation of turbulent channel flow with spanwise alternatively distributed strips control (2018)
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© 2018 World Scientific Publishing Company. The effect of spanwise alternatively distributed strips (SADS) control on turbulent flow in a plane channel has been studied by direct numerical simulations to investigate the characteristics of large-scale... Read More about Direct numerical simulation of turbulent channel flow with spanwise alternatively distributed strips control.

Functional/thermal verification and validation of an S-band radio for the nanosatellites (2018)
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© 2018 COSPAR An S-band radio designed with commercial-grade components for the nanosatellites is functionally and thermally characterized for quiet transmission. The QPSK modulation impairments are minor over −20 °C to +50 °C at 24, 26, 28 and 30 dB... Read More about Functional/thermal verification and validation of an S-band radio for the nanosatellites.

Discrete-time sliding mode for building structure bidirectional active vibration control (2018)
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© The Author(s) 2019. In terms of vibrations along bidirectional earthquake forces, several problems are faced when modelling and controlling the structure of a building, such as lateral-torsional vibration, uncertainties surrounding the rigidity and... Read More about Discrete-time sliding mode for building structure bidirectional active vibration control.