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Cluster-randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of computer-assisted intervention delivered by educators for children with speech sound disorders (2017)
Journal Article
Howland, C., McLeod, S., Baker, E., McCormack, J., Wren, Y., Roulstone, S., …White, P. (2017). Cluster-randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of computer-assisted intervention delivered by educators for children with speech sound disorders. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60(7), 1891-1910. https://doi.org/10.1044/2017_JSLHR-S-16-0385

© 2017 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Purpose: The aim was to evaluate the effectiveness of computer-assisted input-based intervention for children with speech sound disorders (SSD). Method: The Sound Start Study was a cluster-randomiz... Read More about Cluster-randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of computer-assisted intervention delivered by educators for children with speech sound disorders.

Evaluation of flipped teaching (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Henderson, K., Hobbs, C., & Last, K. (2017, July). Evaluation of flipped teaching. Paper presented at Mathematics Education beyond 16: Pathways and Transitions, Birmingham, England

We report on our evaluation of flipping the classroom for two modules: a compulsory first year calculus module and an optional second year coding theory module taken by Mathe-matics students at the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE). F... Read More about Evaluation of flipped teaching.

Are women part of mankind? Vicarious experience and self-efficacy (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Fogg Rogers, L., & Boushel, C. (2017, July). Are women part of mankind? Vicarious experience and self-efficacy. Presented at Science in Public: How do science and technology affect what it means to be human?, Sheffield, England

This talk presented Laura's research on ‘Robots vs Animals’; a science communication project aimed at broadening the appeal of engineering for girls, which is a highly male-dominated profession (93% male in the UK). Drawing on social cognitive theory... Read More about Are women part of mankind? Vicarious experience and self-efficacy.

Thermally actuated composite helical lattices (2017)
Conference Proceeding
O'Donnell, M. P., Watts, T., & Pirrera, A. (2017). Thermally actuated composite helical lattices. In Mechcomp3. 3rd international Conference of mechanics of composites

En-situ EXAFS investigation of zeolite supported Pt electrocatalyst structure (2017)
Journal Article
Yao, J., & Yao, Y. (2017). En-situ EXAFS investigation of zeolite supported Pt electrocatalyst structure. Materials Technology, 32(14), 862-869. https://doi.org/10.1080/10667857.2017.1348013

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Experimental investigation was carried out for Pt electrochemical performance and Pt particle size using 1.5 and 5 wt% Pt loading on zeolite electrocatalysts made by Pt(NH3)4(NO3)2 or Pt... Read More about En-situ EXAFS investigation of zeolite supported Pt electrocatalyst structure.

From flying toys to flying taxis (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Wright, S. (2017, July). From flying toys to flying taxis. Presented at Future Transport World Conference, Cologne, Germany

Quads, UAVs, Drones: call them what you will. One thing is clear: power, communications and control technologies have converged to cause a breakthrough in capability and cost, and create a new industry. The usage envelope is now expanding into safety... Read More about From flying toys to flying taxis.

Tetrahedral mesh improvement by shell transformation (2017)
Journal Article
Chen, J., Zheng, J., Zheng, Y., Xiao, Z., Si, H., & Yao, Y. (2017). Tetrahedral mesh improvement by shell transformation. Engineering with Computers, 33(3), 393-414. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00366-016-0480-z

© 2016, Springer-Verlag London. Existing flips for tetrahedral meshes simply make a selection from a few possible configurations within a single shell (i.e., a polyhedron that can be filled up with a mesh composed of a set of elements that meet each... Read More about Tetrahedral mesh improvement by shell transformation.

Feather-inspired sensor for stabilizing unmanned aerial vehicles in turbulent conditions (2017)
Book Chapter
Kouppas, C., Pearson, M. J., Dean, P., & Anderson, S. (2017). Feather-inspired sensor for stabilizing unmanned aerial vehicles in turbulent conditions. In M. Mangan, M. Cutkosky, A. Mura, P. Verschure, T. Prescott, & N. Lepora (Eds.), Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems (230-241). Springer link

Stabilizing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in turbulent conditions is a challenging problem. Typical methods of stabilization do not use feedforward information about the airflow disturbances but only UAV attitude feedback signals, e.g. from an iner... Read More about Feather-inspired sensor for stabilizing unmanned aerial vehicles in turbulent conditions.

An adaptive modular recurrent cerebellum-inspired controller (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Maheri, K., Lenz, A., & Pearson, M. J. (2017). An adaptive modular recurrent cerebellum-inspired controller. In M. Mangan, C. Mark, A. Mura, P. Verschure, T. Prescott, & L. Nathan (Eds.), . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63537-8_23

Animals and robots face the common challenge of interacting with an unstructured environment. While animals excel and thrive in such environments, modern robotics struggles to effectively execute simple tasks. To help improve performance in the face... Read More about An adaptive modular recurrent cerebellum-inspired controller.

Evaluation of road traffic energy harvesting using piezoelectricity (2017)
Journal Article
Nouri, H. (2017). Evaluation of road traffic energy harvesting using piezoelectricity. https://doi.org/10.18488/journal.77.2017.31.17.23

In modern day society, cleaner, more sustainable forms of electrical power are needed to keep costs lower and to ensure a healthier environment for future generations. The use of piezoelectric devices installed within a road would enable the capturin... Read More about Evaluation of road traffic energy harvesting using piezoelectricity.

Experimental optimization of Rolls-Royce AE3007 sump design (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Chandra, B., Collicott, S., & Munson, J. (2017, June). Experimental optimization of Rolls-Royce AE3007 sump design. Paper presented at ASME Turbo Expo 2017: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

The original sump design of Rolls-Royce AE3007 central sump is a tangential sump. An experimental program at Purdue University was conducted to investigate the characteristics of a tangential sump design. The research employed a bespoke experimental... Read More about Experimental optimization of Rolls-Royce AE3007 sump design.

Computational study of a customised shallow-sump aero-engine bearing chamber with inserts to improve oil residence volume (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Adeniyi, A., Chandra, B., & Simmons, K. (2017, June). Computational study of a customised shallow-sump aero-engine bearing chamber with inserts to improve oil residence volume. Paper presented at ASME Turbo Expo 2017: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition, North Carolina, USA

An aero-engine bearing chamber is a structure that is used to contain and collect oil used in lubricating and cooling the bearings supporting the high-speed engine shafts. There are various bearings in an aero-engine. Within the bearing chambers, the... Read More about Computational study of a customised shallow-sump aero-engine bearing chamber with inserts to improve oil residence volume.

Stroke: Ineffective tube securement reduces nutrition and drug treatment (2017)
Journal Article
Taylor, S. J., Brazier, S., Allan, K., Clemente, R., & Toher, D. (2017). Stroke: Ineffective tube securement reduces nutrition and drug treatment. British Journal of Nursing, 26(12), 656-663. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2017.26.12.656

© 2017 MA Healthcare Ltd. Stroke patients with dysphagia often depend on nutrition, hydration and medication via nasogastric (NG) feeding tubes. Securing tubes using tape is associated with repeated tube loss. In this study, the authors determined ca... Read More about Stroke: Ineffective tube securement reduces nutrition and drug treatment.

Electricity production from human urine in ceramic microbial fuel cells with alternative non-fluorinated polymer binders for cathode construction (2017)
Journal Article
Salar-Garcia, M. J., Ortiz-Martinez, V., Gajda, I., Greenman, J., Hernández-Fernández, F. J., & Ieropoulos, I. (2017). Electricity production from human urine in ceramic microbial fuel cells with alternative non-fluorinated polymer binders for cathode construction. Separation and Purification Technology, 187, 436-442. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2017.06.025

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is one of the most common binders employed to prepare cathode electrodes in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) and yet this fluorinated polymer is neither sustainable nor environmentally friendly. In this... Read More about Electricity production from human urine in ceramic microbial fuel cells with alternative non-fluorinated polymer binders for cathode construction.

Ex-situ exafs investigation of zeolite supported pt electrocatalyst structure (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Yao, J., & Yao, Y. (2017, June). Ex-situ exafs investigation of zeolite supported pt electrocatalyst structure. Paper presented at The Seventh International Symposium on Physics of Fluids (ISPF7), Guiyang, China

The electrochemical performance of zeolite supported 1.5 wt% Pt electrocatalyst in fuel cell has been discussed in previous studies [1, 2]. This work will focus on investigating the influence of Pt loading and Pt deposition methods on Pt electrochemi... Read More about Ex-situ exafs investigation of zeolite supported pt electrocatalyst structure.

CoilMove: An actuated to-body energy transfer system (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Worgan, P., & Fraser, M. (2017). CoilMove: An actuated to-body energy transfer system. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems - DIS '17 (791-795). https://doi.org/10.1145/3064663.3064693

Today, users are an integral part of charging their mobile and wearable computing devices, including smartphones, smartwatches, fitness trackers and music players. In this paper CoilMove is presented. CoilMove is an actuated wireless energy transfer... Read More about CoilMove: An actuated to-body energy transfer system.

Load flow analysis in a 110/20 kV Romanian substation (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Nouri, H., & Czumbil, L. (2017, June). Load flow analysis in a 110/20 kV Romanian substation. Paper presented at The 7th International Conference on Modern Power Systems (MPS 2017), Cluj, Romania

The paper performs a load analysis in a Romanian substation. To respond to the increasing energy demand, consumption relocation and to reduce internal losses the substation has been recently retrofitted replacing old IO type circuit breakers with new... Read More about Load flow analysis in a 110/20 kV Romanian substation.

Large-scale secondary vortices in the turbulent channel flow induced by active wall actuations (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Ni, W., Lu, L., Fang, J., Yao, Y., & Moulinec, C. (2017, June). Large-scale secondary vortices in the turbulent channel flow induced by active wall actuations. Paper presented at The Seventh International Symposium on Physics of Fluids (ISPF7), Guiyang, China

Direct numerical simulations (DNS) of the turbulent channel flow with spanwise alternatively distributed out-of-phase (OP) and in-phase (IP) wall actuations strips (SADS) are conducted to investigate the characteristics of the large-scale streamwise... Read More about Large-scale secondary vortices in the turbulent channel flow induced by active wall actuations.

Test statistics for the comparison of means for two samples that include both paired and independent observations (2017)
Journal Article
Derrick, B., Russ, B., Toher, D., & White, P. (2017). Test statistics for the comparison of means for two samples that include both paired and independent observations. Journal of modern applied statistical methods : JMASM, 16(1), 137-157. https://doi.org/10.22237/jmasm/1493597280

©2017 JMASM, Inc. Standard approaches for analyzing the difference in two means, where partially overlapping samples are present, are less than desirable. Here are introduced two test statistics, making reference to the t-distribution. It is shown th... Read More about Test statistics for the comparison of means for two samples that include both paired and independent observations.

Multiple human tracking in RGB-depth data: A survey (2017)
Journal Article
Camplani, M., Paiement, A., Mirmehdi, M., Damen, D., Hannuna, S., Burghardt, T., & Tao, L. (2017). Multiple human tracking in RGB-depth data: A survey. IET Computer Vision, 11(4), 265-285. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-cvi.2016.0178

© The Institution of Engineering and Technology. Multiple human tracking (MHT) is a fundamental task in many computer vision applications. Appearance-based approaches, primarily formulated on RGB data, are constrained and affected by problems arising... Read More about Multiple human tracking in RGB-depth data: A survey.