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Effect of mental challenge induced by movie clips on action potential duration in normal human subjects independent of heart rate (2014)
Journal Article
Child, N., Hanson, B., Bishop, M., Rinaldi, C. A., Bostock, J., Western, D., …Taggart, P. (2014). Effect of mental challenge induced by movie clips on action potential duration in normal human subjects independent of heart rate. Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, 7(3), 518-523. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCEP.113.000909

Background-Mental stress and emotion have long been associated with ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death in animal models and humans. The effect of mental challenge on ventricular action potential duration (APD) in conscious healthy humans has no... Read More about Effect of mental challenge induced by movie clips on action potential duration in normal human subjects independent of heart rate.

Trail laying during tandem-running recruitment in the ant Temnothorax albipennis (2014)
Journal Article
Basari, N., Laird-Hopkins, B. C., Sendova-Franks, A. B., & Franks, N. R. (2014). Trail laying during tandem-running recruitment in the ant Temnothorax albipennis. Naturwissenschaften, 101(7), 549-556. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-014-1191-1

Tandem running is a recruitment strategy whereby one ant leads a single naïve nest mate to a resource. While tandem running progresses towards the goal, the leader ant and the follower ant maintain contact mainly by tactile signals. In this paper, we... Read More about Trail laying during tandem-running recruitment in the ant Temnothorax albipennis.

The distributed co-evolution of an on-board simulator and controller for swarm robot behaviours (2014)
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O'Dowd, P., Studley, M., & Winfield, A. F. (2014). The distributed co-evolution of an on-board simulator and controller for swarm robot behaviours. Evolutionary Intelligence, 7(2), 95-106. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12065-014-0112-8

We investigate the reality gap, specifically the environmental correspondence of an on-board simulator. We describe a novel distributed co-evolutionary approach to improve the transference of controllers that co-evolve with an on-board simulator. A n... Read More about The distributed co-evolution of an on-board simulator and controller for swarm robot behaviours.

The Canadian contribution to the otolaryngology literature: A five year bibliometric analysis (2014)
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Nunez, D. A., Lin, J. R., Gurberg, J., Akbari, E., & White, P. (2014). The Canadian contribution to the otolaryngology literature: A five year bibliometric analysis. Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 43(November), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40463-014-0047-1

© 2014 Gurberg et al. Objectives: To assess the 2008-2012 Canadian contribution to the Otolaryngology literature. Methods: All articles published from January 2008 - December 2012 in 5 Otolaryngology journals were reviewed. Nationality, number of aut... Read More about The Canadian contribution to the otolaryngology literature: A five year bibliometric analysis.

Decentralised control for complex systems - An invited survey (2014)
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Yan, X. G., Zhang, Q., Spurgeon, S. K., Zhu, Q., & Fridman, L. M. (2014). Decentralised control for complex systems - An invited survey. International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control, 22(4), 285-297. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMIC.2014.066260

© 2014 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. With the advancement of science and technology, practical systems are becoming more complex. Decentralised control has been recognised as a practical, feasible and powerful tool for application to large scale inte... Read More about Decentralised control for complex systems - An invited survey.

Damage Classification of Sandwich Composites Using Acoustic Emission Technique and k-means Genetic Algorithm (2014)
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Pashmforoush, F., Khamedi, R., Fotouhi, M., Hajikhani, M., & Ahmadi, M. (2014). Damage Classification of Sandwich Composites Using Acoustic Emission Technique and k-means Genetic Algorithm. Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, 33(4), 481-492. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10921-014-0243-y

© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York. In this study acoustic emission (AE) technique was used for monitoring mode I delamination test of sandwich composites. Since, during mode I delamination test various damage mechanisms appear, their c... Read More about Damage Classification of Sandwich Composites Using Acoustic Emission Technique and k-means Genetic Algorithm.

Investigation of the mixed-mode delamination in polymer-matrix composites using acoustic emission technique (2014)
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Fotouhi, M., & Ahmadi Najafabadi, M. (2014). Investigation of the mixed-mode delamination in polymer-matrix composites using acoustic emission technique. Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, 33(19), 1767-1782. https://doi.org/10.1177/0731684414544391

© The Author(s) 2014 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav. This paper is a novel application of acoustic emission (AE) technique to investigate the actual occurring modes of delamination damage (i.e. mode I, mode II and the... Read More about Investigation of the mixed-mode delamination in polymer-matrix composites using acoustic emission technique.

High speed switched, multi-channel drive for high voltage dielectric actuation of a biomimetic sensory array (2014)
Journal Article
Pearson, M., & Assaf, T. (2014). High speed switched, multi-channel drive for high voltage dielectric actuation of a biomimetic sensory array. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 8608 LNAI, 414-416. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09435-9_47

Electro-Active Polymers (EAP) have been described as artificial muscles due to their composition andmuscle-like dynamics [1]. Consequently they have attracted a lot of attention from the biomimetic robotics research community and heralded as a potent... Read More about High speed switched, multi-channel drive for high voltage dielectric actuation of a biomimetic sensory array.

Knowledge Integration and Open Innovation in the Brazilian Cosmetics Industry (2014)
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Celadon, K. L. (2014). Knowledge Integration and Open Innovation in the Brazilian Cosmetics Industry. Journal of Technology Management and Innovation, 9(3), 34-50. https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-27242014000300003

© Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Facultad de Economía y Negocios. This article is based on a thesis that examined open innovation in the Brazilian cosmetics sector and its relationship with knowledge integration, comparing less open and more open firms... Read More about Knowledge Integration and Open Innovation in the Brazilian Cosmetics Industry.

Action recognition using ensemble weighted multi-instance learning (2014)
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Chen, G., Giuliani, M., Clarke, D., Gaschler, A., & Knoll, A. (2014). Action recognition using ensemble weighted multi-instance learning. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 4520-4525. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907519

© 2014 IEEE. This paper deals with recognizing human actions in depth video data. Current state-of-the-art action recognition methods use hand-designed features, which are difficult to produce and time-consuming to extend to new modalities. In this p... Read More about Action recognition using ensemble weighted multi-instance learning.

Hybrid force-motion control of coordinated robots interacting with unknown environments (2014)
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Jafari, A., & Ryu, J. H. (2014). Hybrid force-motion control of coordinated robots interacting with unknown environments. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCAS.2014.6987966

© 2014 Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems (ICROS). This paper presents a unified framework for system design and control in cooperative robotic systems. It introduces a highly general cooperative system configuration involving any number of m... Read More about Hybrid force-motion control of coordinated robots interacting with unknown environments.

Wearable self sufficient MFC communication system powered by urine (2014)
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Taghavi, M., Stinchcombe, A., Greenman, J., Mattoli, V., Beccai, L., Mazzolai, B., …Ieropoulos, I. (2014). Wearable self sufficient MFC communication system powered by urine. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 8717 LNAI, 131-138. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10401-0_12

A new generation of self-sustainable and wearable Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) is introduced. Two different types of energy - chemical energy found in urine and mechanical energy harvested by manual pumping - were converted to electrical energy. The w... Read More about Wearable self sufficient MFC communication system powered by urine.

New Chattering Attenuation Sliding Mode Control of a Flexible Spacecraft (2014)
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Nemati, H., & Hokamoto, S. (2014). New Chattering Attenuation Sliding Mode Control of a Flexible Spacecraft. Transactions of the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, 12(ists29), Pd_71-Pd_77. https://doi.org/10.2322/tastj.12.pd_71

An improved sliding mode control (SMC) strategy for the attitude control problem of a nonlinear spacecraft with an elastic appendage is investigated. Since conventional sliding mode controllers include a discontinuous function, a significant problem... Read More about New Chattering Attenuation Sliding Mode Control of a Flexible Spacecraft.

Environmental Hazard Analysis - a Variant of Preliminary Hazard Analysis for Autonomous Mobile Robots (2014)
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Dogramadzi, S., Giannaccini, M. E., Harper, C., Woodman, R., Sobhani, M., & Choung, J. (2014). Environmental Hazard Analysis - a Variant of Preliminary Hazard Analysis for Autonomous Mobile Robots. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 76(1), 73-117. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-013-0020-7

© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. Robot manufacturers will be required to demonstrate objectively that all reasonably foreseeable hazards have been identified in any robotic product design that is to be marketed commercially. This is... Read More about Environmental Hazard Analysis - a Variant of Preliminary Hazard Analysis for Autonomous Mobile Robots.

Mechanical characterisation of Duraform® Flex for FEA hyperelastic material modelling (2014)
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Soe, S., Martindale, N., Constantinou, C., & Robinson, M. R. (2014). Mechanical characterisation of Duraform® Flex for FEA hyperelastic material modelling. Polymer Testing, 34, 103-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymertesting.2014.01.004

Laser Sintering (LS) is widely accepted as a leading additive manufacturing process with a proven capability for manufacturing complex lattice structures using a group of specially developed powder based materials. However, to date, very little resea... Read More about Mechanical characterisation of Duraform® Flex for FEA hyperelastic material modelling.

Task-based evaluation of context-sensitive referring expressions in human–robot dialogue (2014)
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Foster, M. E., Giuliani, M., & Isard, A. (2014). Task-based evaluation of context-sensitive referring expressions in human–robot dialogue. Language Cognition and Neuroscience, 29(8), 1018-1034. https://doi.org/10.1080/01690965.2013.855802

© 2013 Taylor & Francis. The standard referring-expression generation task involves creating stand-alone descriptions intended solely to distinguish a target object from its context. However, when an artificial system refers to objects in the cours... Read More about Task-based evaluation of context-sensitive referring expressions in human–robot dialogue.

The psychological well-being and appearance concerns of patients presenting with ptosis (2014)
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White, P., Rumsey, N., Jenkinson, E., Richards, H. S., Jenkinson, E., Rumsey, N., …Harrad, R. A. (2014). The psychological well-being and appearance concerns of patients presenting with ptosis. Eye, 28(3), 296-302. https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.2013.264

PurposePtosis affects both the function and appearance of the eyes and face, because of drooping of the eyelids. Previous research has focused on functional impairment; however, similar appearance altering eye conditions have been demonstrated to hav... Read More about The psychological well-being and appearance concerns of patients presenting with ptosis.

Thin-plate forming by thixo- and rheoforging (2014)
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Jin, C. K., Bolouri, A., Kang, C. G., & Hwang, G. W. (2014). Thin-plate forming by thixo- and rheoforging. Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2014, 371469. https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/371469

Copyright © 2014 Chul Kyu Jin et al. Thin plates with a thickness of 1.2 mm are fabricated using two processes, thixoforging and rheoforging, which are semisolid forming techniques. The die design, formability, microstructure, and mechanical properti... Read More about Thin-plate forming by thixo- and rheoforging.

Effect of forming conditions on mechanical properties of rheoformed thin plates with microchannels using electromagnetic stirring (2014)
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Jang, C. H., Jin, C. K., Bolouri, A., & Kang, C. G. (2014). Effect of forming conditions on mechanical properties of rheoformed thin plates with microchannels using electromagnetic stirring. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 228(3), 399-412. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954405413496403

Rheoforming is a near net-shape manufacturing technology for fabricating components from light alloys in their semisolid states with improved mechanical properties. In this work, a feasibility study on the fabrication of Silafont 36 aluminum thin pla... Read More about Effect of forming conditions on mechanical properties of rheoformed thin plates with microchannels using electromagnetic stirring.

A novel bio-inspired tactile tumour detection concept for capsule endoscopy (2014)
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Pipe, T., Winstone, B., Melhuish, C., Dogramadzi, S., Pipe, A. G., & Callaway, M. (2014). A novel bio-inspired tactile tumour detection concept for capsule endoscopy. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 8608 LNAI, 442-445. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09435-9_56

Examination of the gastrointestinal(GI) tract has traditionally been performed using endoscopy tools that allow a surgeon to see the inside of the lining of the digestive tract. Endoscopes are rigid or flexible tubes that use fibre-optics or cameras... Read More about A novel bio-inspired tactile tumour detection concept for capsule endoscopy.