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Vanishing point detection for visual surveillance systems in railway platform environments (2018)
Journal Article
Tarrit, K., Molleda, J., Atkinson, G. A., Smith, M. L., Wright, G. C., & Gaal, P. (2018). Vanishing point detection for visual surveillance systems in railway platform environments. Computers in Industry, 98, 153-164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2018.03.005

© 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.

A novel model and method based on Nash equilibrium for medical image segmentation (2018)
Journal Article
Zhang, T., Zhang, J., Zhang, J., Smith, M., & Hancock, E. (2018). A novel model and method based on Nash equilibrium for medical image segmentation. Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, 8(5), 872-880

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.

How can we maximize the diagnostic utility of uroflow?: ICI-RS 2017 (2018)
Journal Article
Gammie, A., Posier, P., Li, R., & Harding, C. (2018). How can we maximize the diagnostic utility of uroflow?: ICI-RS 2017. Neurourology and Urodynamics, 37(S4), S20-S24. https://doi.org/10.1002/nau.23472

© 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.

Inhibition of Surface Chemical Moieties by Tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane: A Key to Understanding Oxygen Reduction on Iron-Nitrogen-Carbon Catalysts (2018)
Journal Article
Santoro, C. (2018). Inhibition of Surface Chemical Moieties by Tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane: A Key to Understanding Oxygen Reduction on Iron-Nitrogen-Carbon Catalysts. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 1(5), 1942-1949. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.8b00020

© 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
Caleb-Solly, P., Dogramadzi, S., Huijnen, C. A., & van den Heuvel, H. (2018). Exploiting ability for human adaptation to facilitate improved human-robot interaction and acceptance. Information Society, 34(3), 153-165. https://doi.org/10.1080/01972243.2018.1444255

© 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.

A study of heuristic evaluation measures in fuzzy rule induction (2018)
Book Chapter
Afifi, A. (2018). A study of heuristic evaluation measures in fuzzy rule induction. In L. Iliadis, I. Maglogiannis, & V. Plagianakos (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (533-545). Springer, Tiergartenstraße 17, 69121 Heidelberg, Germany

The rule induction process could be conceived as a search process,and hence an evaluation metric is needed to estimate the quality of rules found in the search space and to direct the search towards the best rule. The evaluation measure is the most... Read More about A study of heuristic evaluation measures in fuzzy rule induction.

3D-printable cathode electrode for monolithically printed microbial fuel cells (MFCs) (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Theodosiou, P., Ieropoulos, I., & Greenman, J. (2018, May). 3D-printable cathode electrode for monolithically printed microbial fuel cells (MFCs). Presented at 233rd ECS Meeting, Seattle, WA

Biological fuel cells (BFCs) are an increasingly growing area of research as it beholds long-term sustainable advantages over conventional fuel cells. Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) are just one type of BFCs, which as the name implies, employ microbial... Read More about 3D-printable cathode electrode for monolithically printed microbial fuel cells (MFCs).

Towards tactile sensing active capsule endoscopy (2018)
Thesis
Winstone, B. Towards tactile sensing active capsule endoscopy. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/868181

Examination of the gastrointestinal(GI) tract has traditionally been performed using tethered endoscopy tools with limited reach and more recently with passive untethered capsule endoscopy with limited capability. Inspection of small intestines is on... Read More about Towards tactile sensing active capsule endoscopy.

Ontologies in Aeronautics (2018)
Book Chapter
Insaurralde, C. C., & Blasch, E. (2018). Ontologies in Aeronautics. In U. Durak, J. Becker, S. Hartmann, & N. Voros (Eds.), Advances in Aeronautical Informatics (67-85). Switzerland: Springer (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75058-3_6

Avionics systems are getting increasingly sophisticated, airspaces are densely occupied, and aircraft are desired to fly in more adverse weather conditions. These conditions increase the complexity of Air TrafficManagement (ATM) as aviators and airsp... Read More about Ontologies in Aeronautics.

Morphing airfoils analysis using dynamic meshing (2018)
Journal Article
Abdessemed, C., Yao, Y., Bouferrouk, A., & Narayan, P. P. (2018). Morphing airfoils analysis using dynamic meshing. International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, 28(5), 1117-1133. https://doi.org/10.1108/HFF-06-2017-0261

© 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)
Journal Article
Walter, X. A., Merino-Jiménez, I., Greenman, J., & Ieropoulos, I. (2018). PEE POWER® urinal II - Urinal scale-up with microbial fuel cell scale-down for improved lighting. Journal of Power Sources, 392, 150-158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2018.02.047

© 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)
Journal Article
Oz, F. E., Ersoy, N., Mehdikhani, M., & Lomov, S. V. (2018). Multi-instrument in-situ damage monitoring in quasi-isotropic CFRP laminates under tension. Composite Structures, 196, 163-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2018.05.006

© 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.

Analysis of residual transverse stresses in a thick UD glass/polyester pultruded profile using hole drilling with strain gage and digital image correlation (2018)
Journal Article
Yuksel, O., Baran, I., Ersoy, N., & Akkerman, R. (2018). Analysis of residual transverse stresses in a thick UD glass/polyester pultruded profile using hole drilling with strain gage and digital image correlation. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1960, 020040. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5034841

© 2018 Author(s). Process induced stresses inherently exist in fiber reinforced polymer composites particularly in thick parts due to the presence of non-uniform cure, shrinkage and thermal expansion/contraction during manufacturing. In order to incr... Read More about Analysis of residual transverse stresses in a thick UD glass/polyester pultruded profile using hole drilling with strain gage and digital image correlation.

Scalable generation of large-scale unstructured meshes by a novel domain decomposition approach (2018)
Journal Article
Chen, J., Xiao, Z., Zheng, Y., Zou, J., Zhao, D., & Yao, Y. (2018). Scalable generation of large-scale unstructured meshes by a novel domain decomposition approach. Advances in Engineering Software, 121, 131-146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advengsoft.2018.04.005

© 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)
Journal Article
Sengor, M., Ozgun, A., Corapcioglu, G., Ipekoglu, M., Garipcan, B., Ersoy, N., & Altintas, S. (2018). Core–shell PVA/gelatin nanofibrous scaffolds using co-solvent, aqueous electrospinning: Toward a green approach. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 135(32), 46582. https://doi.org/10.1002/app.46582

© 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.

Neural Network Approach to Solving Fully Fuzzy Nonlinear Systems (2018)
Book Chapter
Razvarz, S., Jafari, R., Gegov, A., Yu, W., & Paul, S. (2018). Neural Network Approach to Solving Fully Fuzzy Nonlinear Systems. In D. Mullins, & T. Harvey (Eds.), Fuzzy Modeling and Control: Methods, Applications and Research. Novel Publications

The value of fuzzy designs improves whenever a system cannot be validated in precise mathematical terminologies. In this book chapter, two types of neural networks are applied to obtain the approximate solutions of the fully fuzzy nonlinear system (... Read More about Neural Network Approach to Solving Fully Fuzzy Nonlinear Systems.

Direct numerical simulation of turbulent channel flow with spanwise alternatively distributed strips control (2018)
Journal Article
Ni, W., Lu, L., Fang, J., Moulinec, C., & Yao, Y. (2018). Direct numerical simulation of turbulent channel flow with spanwise alternatively distributed strips control. Modern Physics Letters B, 32(12-13), 1840004. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217984918400043

© 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)
Journal Article
Zaidi, Y., Fitz-Coy, N. G., & van Zyl, R. (2018). Functional/thermal verification and validation of an S-band radio for the nanosatellites. Advances in Space Research, 62(12), 3405-3422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2018.04.015

© 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)
Journal Article
Paul, S., Yu, W., & Li, X. (2019). Discrete-time sliding mode for building structure bidirectional active vibration control. Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, 41(2), 433-446. https://doi.org/10.1177/0142331218764581

© 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.