All Outputs (101)

Urine utilisation by microbial fuel cells; Energy fuel for the future (2012)
Journal Article

This communication reports for the first time the direct utilisation of urine in MFCs for the production of electricity. Different conversion efficiencies were recorded, depending on the amount treated. Elements such as N, P, K can be locked into new... Read More about Urine utilisation by microbial fuel cells; Energy fuel for the future.

Thermomechanical crystal plasticity finite element analysis and experimental validation of HCP materials (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Cyclic crystal plasticity finite element analysis and experimental validation of HCP materials (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Psychological experiments in haptic collaboration research (2012)
Book Chapter

Immersive Multimodal Interactive Presence (2012)
Book

Social haptic interaction with virtual characters (2012)
Book Chapter

Convergence across Spanish provinces: Cross-section and pairwise evidence (2012)
Journal Article

Distribution free statistics are employed to investigate biennial income per capita convergence across 52 Spanish provinces over the period 1955-1997. Based upon ideas of concordance and discordance that capture convergence and divergence properties,... Read More about Convergence across Spanish provinces: Cross-section and pairwise evidence.

Face recognition in 2D and 2.5D using ridgelets and photometric stereo (2012)
Journal Article

A new technique for face recognition - Ridgefaces - is presented. The method combines the well-known Fisherface method with the ridgelet transform and high-speed Photometric Stereo (PS). The paper first derives ridgelet projections for 2D/2.5D face i... Read More about Face recognition in 2D and 2.5D using ridgelets and photometric stereo.

Microbial fuel cells for robotics: Energy autonomy through artificial symbiosis (2012)
Journal Article

The development of the microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology has seen an enormous growth over the last hundred years since its inception by Potter in 1911. The technology has reached a level of maturity that it is now considered to be a field in its o... Read More about Microbial fuel cells for robotics: Energy autonomy through artificial symbiosis.

Effect of customer demand type on optimization of distributed generation for minimization of energy loss (2012)
Journal Article

Intelligent marking in summative e-assessments (2012)
Journal Article

This paper describes our experiences of employing the algorithmic e-assessment approachto summative assessments in a large cohort first year engineering module at the Universityof the West of England, Bristol (UWE). The philosophy of this approach, w... Read More about Intelligent marking in summative e-assessments.

Constructing a coherent STEM strategy with schools (2012)
Journal Article

Most universities run STEM enrichment activities with local schools. At UWE we have run activities with respect to mathematics (Maths Challenge, Maths Event Day, FUNMaths Roadshows), Engineering (Engineering activity day, Bloodhound), Science (Scienc... Read More about Constructing a coherent STEM strategy with schools.

Maximum urethral closure pressure in women: Normative data and evaluation as a diagnostic test (2012)
Journal Article

Introduction and hypothesis: Our goal was to identify correlates of maximum urethral closure pressure (MUCP) and MUCP as a diagnostic test for stress urinary incontinence (SUI). Methods: This study was a retrospective review of women with non-neurolo... Read More about Maximum urethral closure pressure in women: Normative data and evaluation as a diagnostic test.

Detection of high resistive ground faults in MV mining networks basing on a phase relationship of selected current harmonics (2012)
Journal Article

Towards tactile sensing applied to underwater autonomous vehicles for near shore survey and de-mining (2012)
Journal Article

Artificial tactile whisker sensors demonstrate an approach to localisation that is robust to harsh environmental disturbances, endowing autonomous systems with the ability to operate effectively in confined, noisy and visually occluded spaces, such a... Read More about Towards tactile sensing applied to underwater autonomous vehicles for near shore survey and de-mining.

Flow topology of symmetric crossing shock wave boundary layer interactions (2012)
Book Chapter

Three-dimensional crossing-shock-wave and turbulent boundary-layer interactions can generate intense wall heat flux rates, high pressure levels, and large-scale flow separations on high-speed vehicle surfaces. To reproduce such complex flow physics,... Read More about Flow topology of symmetric crossing shock wave boundary layer interactions.

Emergent swarm morphology control of wireless networked mobile robots (2012)
Book Chapter

We describe a new class of decentralised control algorithms that link local wireless connectivity to low-level robot motion control in order to maintain both swarm aggregation and connectivity, which we term “coherence”, in unbounded space. We invest... Read More about Emergent swarm morphology control of wireless networked mobile robots.

Shock induced separating flows in scramjet intakes (2012)
Journal Article

Shock induced separating flows in a scramjet intake has been studied by using a computational fluid dynamics approach. A configuration of scramjet intake geometry consisting of two exterior compression ramps, followed by a subsequent inlet and interi... Read More about Shock induced separating flows in scramjet intakes.

Intermittent fault location in distribution feeders (2012)
Journal Article

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 can be as short as a quarter of a cycle. T... Read More about Intermittent fault location in distribution feeders.

Distinguishing possible mechanisms for auxin-mediated developmental control in Arabidopsis: Models with two Aux/IAA and ARF proteins, and two target gene-sets (2012)
Journal Article

New models of gene transcriptional responses to auxin signalling in Arabidopsis are presented. This work extends a previous model of auxin signalling to include networks of gene-sets which may control developmental responses along auxin gradients. Ke... Read More about Distinguishing possible mechanisms for auxin-mediated developmental control in Arabidopsis: Models with two Aux/IAA and ARF proteins, and two target gene-sets.