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Expanding depth and meaning within urban design processes through the application of complexity and evolutionary theories (2021)
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Miguel, M., Laing, R., Leon, M., & Baxter, S. (2021). Expanding depth and meaning within urban design processes through the application of complexity and evolutionary theories. Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 45(2), 131-142. https://doi.org/10.3846/jau.2021.14772

Previous research has established the value of regarding cities as complex systems, and as systems which will evolve over time. The research reported in this paper concerns the development of an approach to urban design and management which recognise... Read More about Expanding depth and meaning within urban design processes through the application of complexity and evolutionary theories.

Adaptive neural control of a class of uncertain state and input-delayed systems with input magnitude and rate constraints (2021)
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Xing, X., Liu, J., & Yang, C. (2021). Adaptive neural control of a class of uncertain state and input-delayed systems with input magnitude and rate constraints. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics: Systems, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1109/tsmc.2021.3103276

This article aims at proposing an adaptive neural control strategy for a class of nonlinear time-delay systems with input delays and unknown control directions. Different from previous researches that investigated delays and constraints separately, t... Read More about Adaptive neural control of a class of uncertain state and input-delayed systems with input magnitude and rate constraints.

Electrosynthesis, modulation, and self-driven electroseparation in microbial fuel cells (2021)
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Gajda, I., You, J., Mendis, B. A., Greenman, J., & Ieropoulos, I. A. (2021). Electrosynthesis, modulation, and self-driven electroseparation in microbial fuel cells. iScience, 24(8), Article 102805. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102805

Microbial electrosynthesis (MES) represents a sustainable platform that converts waste into resources, using microorganisms within an electrochemical cell. Traditionally, MES refers to the oxidation/reduction of a reactant at the electrode surface wi... Read More about Electrosynthesis, modulation, and self-driven electroseparation in microbial fuel cells.

Protocol for a national cohort study to explore the long-term clinical and patient-reported outcomes and cost-effectiveness of implant-based and autologous breast reconstruction after mastectomy for breast cancer: The Brighter Study (2021)
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Johnson, L., Holcombe, C., O’Donoghue, J. M., Jeevan, R., Browne, J., Fairbrother, P., …Potter, S. (2021). Protocol for a national cohort study to explore the long-term clinical and patient-reported outcomes and cost-effectiveness of implant-based and autologous breast reconstruction after mastectomy for breast cancer: The Brighter Study. BMJ Open, 11(8), Article e054055. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054055

Introduction Breast reconstruction (BR) is offered to improve quality of life for women with breast cancer undergoing mastectomy. As most women will be long-Term breast cancer survivors, high-quality information regarding the long-Term outcomes of di... Read More about Protocol for a national cohort study to explore the long-term clinical and patient-reported outcomes and cost-effectiveness of implant-based and autologous breast reconstruction after mastectomy for breast cancer: The Brighter Study.

Quantitative potato tuber phenotyping by 3D imaging (2021)
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Liu, J., Xu, X., Liu, Y., Rao, Z., Smith, M., Jin, L., & Li, B. (2021). Quantitative potato tuber phenotyping by 3D imaging. Biosystems Engineering, 210, 48-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2021.08.001

The accurate phenotyping of the external quality attributes of potato tubers is important in potato breeding. Currently, the assessment of potato tuber shape, together with eye density and depth, are based on subjective naked eye visual evaluation. H... Read More about Quantitative potato tuber phenotyping by 3D imaging.

Public engagement promotes consumer choice in favour of sustainable palm oil (2021)
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Hobbs, L., Phillips, J., Staff, A., Goss, A., Fogg-Rogers, L., & Ellwood, F. (2022). Public engagement promotes consumer choice in favour of sustainable palm oil. Journal of Oil Palm Research, 34(2), 248-260. https://doi.org/10.21894/jopr.2021.0033

Despite the superior productivity, utility and economic benefits of palm oil compared with other oil crops, the palm oil industry often receives negative publicity for its environmental impact and there is widespread confusion over the perception of... Read More about Public engagement promotes consumer choice in favour of sustainable palm oil.

The role of broken fibres on crack migration into 0° surface plies in adhesively bonded carbon fibre composite joints (2021)
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Paul, A., Xu, X., Shimizu, T., & Wisnom, M. (2021). The role of broken fibres on crack migration into 0° surface plies in adhesively bonded carbon fibre composite joints. Composite Structures, 276, Article 114530. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2021.114530

Crack migration into the composite in adhesively bonded joints can cause a major degradation of strength. This usually occurs via cracks in the surface plies, but this paper demonstrates that crack migration can occur in joints even with 0° surface p... Read More about The role of broken fibres on crack migration into 0° surface plies in adhesively bonded carbon fibre composite joints.

Auxetic metamaterial optimisation for head impact mitigation in American football (2021)
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Hanna, B., Adams, R., Townsend, S., Robinson, M., Soe, S., Stewart, M., …Theobald, P. (2021). Auxetic metamaterial optimisation for head impact mitigation in American football. International Journal of Impact Engineering, 157, Article 103991. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2021.103991

American football has a comparatively high rate of sports-related concussions, despite mitigating strategies including the use of protective helmets. The traditional energy absorbing component, elastomeric foam pads, have limited scope for leveraging... Read More about Auxetic metamaterial optimisation for head impact mitigation in American football.

Patient reported psychosocial functioning following successful ptosis surgery (2021)
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Richards, H., Jenkinson, E., White, P., & Harrad, R. (2021). Patient reported psychosocial functioning following successful ptosis surgery. Eye, 36, 1651–1655. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41433-021-01685-w

Background: Ptosis may result in increased anxiety, appearance-related distress and social avoidance, and impacts visual function. Previous work demonstrates the benefits of ptosis surgery for health-related quality of life, but there is a paucity of... Read More about Patient reported psychosocial functioning following successful ptosis surgery.

IEEE P7001: A proposed standard on transparency (2021)
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Winfield, A. F. T., Booth, S., Dennis, L. A., Egawa, T., Hastie, H., Jacobs, N., …Watson, E. (2021). IEEE P7001: A proposed standard on transparency. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 8, Article 665729. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2021.665729

This paper describes IEEE P7001, a new draft standard on transparency of autonomous systems. In the paper, we outline the development and structure of the draft standard. We present the rationale for transparency as a measurable, testable property. W... Read More about IEEE P7001: A proposed standard on transparency.

Thermal control for electric vehicle based on the multistack fuel cells (2021)
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Chetouane, M. A., Negrou, B., Becherif, M., Settou, N., Bouferrouk, A., & Ramadan, M. (2021). Thermal control for electric vehicle based on the multistack fuel cells. Energy Technology, 9(9), Article 2100242. https://doi.org/10.1002/ente.202100242

Pollution, global climate change, and the scarcity of fossil fuel reserves have forced the automotive industry to step up its research efforts on clean fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). In fact, these systems can be considered relatively pollution... Read More about Thermal control for electric vehicle based on the multistack fuel cells.

Governing AI safety through independent audits (2021)
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Falco, G., Shneiderman, B., Badger, J., Carrier, R., Dahbura, A., Danks, D., …Yeong, Z. K. (2021). Governing AI safety through independent audits. Nature Machine Intelligence, 3(7), 566-571. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-021-00370-7

Highly automated systems are becoming omnipresent. They range in function from self-driving vehicles to advanced medical diagnostics and afford many benefits. However, there are assurance challenges that have become increasingly visible in high-profi... Read More about Governing AI safety through independent audits.

Optimal design of grid-connected rooftop PV systems: An overview and a new approach with application to educational buildings in arid climates (2021)
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Mokhtara, C., Negrou, B., Settou, N., Bouferrouk, A., & Yao, Y. (2021). Optimal design of grid-connected rooftop PV systems: An overview and a new approach with application to educational buildings in arid climates. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 47, Article 101468. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seta.2021.101468

Recently, rooftop photovoltaic (PV) systems are widely deployed due to their technical, economic and socio-environmental benefits. This paper presents a new design approach, which combines spatial analysis with techno-economic optimization for a robu... Read More about Optimal design of grid-connected rooftop PV systems: An overview and a new approach with application to educational buildings in arid climates.

Technology and risk considerations in shaping future drone legislation (2021)
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Wright, S., & Studley, M. (2021). Technology and risk considerations in shaping future drone legislation. International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management, 21(2), 128-139. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTPM.2021.116513

The global aviation industry has decades-old and highly successful legislation enforcing safety in conventional manned aerospace. This framework has been evolved gradually around a set of mature technologies with particular goals and implementations,... Read More about Technology and risk considerations in shaping future drone legislation.

Exploring the symbol processing 'time interval' parametric constraint in a Belousov-Zhabotinsky operated chemical Turing machine (2021)
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Draper, T. C., Dueñas-Díez, M., & Pérez-Mercader, J. (2021). Exploring the symbol processing 'time interval' parametric constraint in a Belousov-Zhabotinsky operated chemical Turing machine. RSC Advances, 11(37), 23151-23160. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1ra03856g

Chemical reactions are powerful molecular recognition machines. This power has been recently harnessed to build actual instances of each class of experimentally realizable computing automata, using exclusively small-molecule chemistry (i.e. without r... Read More about Exploring the symbol processing 'time interval' parametric constraint in a Belousov-Zhabotinsky operated chemical Turing machine.

Techno-economic modelling of micro-hydropower mini-grids in Nepal to improve financial sustainability and enable electric cooking (2021)
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Clements, W., Pandit, S., Bajracharya, P., Butchers, J., Williamson, S., Gautam, B., & Harper, P. (2021). Techno-economic modelling of micro-hydropower mini-grids in Nepal to improve financial sustainability and enable electric cooking. Energies, 14(14), Article 4232. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14144232

In rural Nepal, micro-hydropower plant mini-grids provide renewable electricity to thou-sands of communities but the plants often have poor financial sustainability. Widespread uptake of electric cooking in such communities is currently not feasible... Read More about Techno-economic modelling of micro-hydropower mini-grids in Nepal to improve financial sustainability and enable electric cooking.

Propofol detection for monitoring of intravenous anaesthesia: A review (2021)
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Ferrier, D., Kiely, J., & Luxton, R. (2022). Propofol detection for monitoring of intravenous anaesthesia: A review. Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing, 36, 315-323. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10877-021-00738-5

This paper presents a review of established and emerging methods for detecting and quantifying the intravenous anaesthetic propofol in solution. There is growing evidence of numerous advantages of total intravenous anaesthesia using propofol compared... Read More about Propofol detection for monitoring of intravenous anaesthesia: A review.

Role-play as responsible robotics: The virtual witness testimony role-play interview for investigating hazardous human-robot interactions (2021)
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Webb, H., Dumitru, M., van Maris, A., Winkle, K., Jirotka, M., & Winfield, A. (2021). Role-play as responsible robotics: The virtual witness testimony role-play interview for investigating hazardous human-robot interactions. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 8, Article 644336. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2021.644336

The development of responsible robotics requires paying attention to responsibility within the research process in addition to responsibility as the outcome of research. This paper describes the preparation and application of a novel method to explor... Read More about Role-play as responsible robotics: The virtual witness testimony role-play interview for investigating hazardous human-robot interactions.

State filtering and parameter estimation for two input two output systems with time delay (2021)
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Gu, Y., Zhu, Q., Li, C., Zhu, P., & Nouri, H. (2021). State filtering and parameter estimation for two input two output systems with time delay. IET Control Theory and Applications, 15(16), 2053-2066. https://doi.org/10.1049/cth2.12161

This paper focuses on presenting a new identification algorithm to estimate the parameters and state variables for two-input two-output dynamic systems with time delay based on canonical state space models. First, the related input-output equation is... Read More about State filtering and parameter estimation for two input two output systems with time delay.

DMPs-based skill learning for redundant dual-arm robotic synchronized cooperative manipulation (2021)
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Lu, Z., Wang, N., & Shi, D. (2022). DMPs-based skill learning for redundant dual-arm robotic synchronized cooperative manipulation. Complex and Intelligent Systems, 8, 2873–2882. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40747-021-00429-3

Dual-arm robot manipulation is applicable to many domains, such as industrial, medical, and home service scenes. Learning from demonstrations (LfD) is a highly effective paradigm for robotic learning, where a robot learns from human actions directly... Read More about DMPs-based skill learning for redundant dual-arm robotic synchronized cooperative manipulation.