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Study on the effects of the compression ratio and mushy zone heating on the thixotropic microstructure of AA 7075 aluminum alloy via SIMA process (2010)
Journal Article
Bolouri, A., Shahmiri, M., & Kang, C. G. (2011). Study on the effects of the compression ratio and mushy zone heating on the thixotropic microstructure of AA 7075 aluminum alloy via SIMA process. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 509(2), 402-408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2010.09.042

The effects of compression ratios on the microstructure evolution of semisolid Al7075 alloy produced by the strain induced melt activation (SIMA) process were investigated. The samples were cold deformed by compression into the different heights up t... Read More about Study on the effects of the compression ratio and mushy zone heating on the thixotropic microstructure of AA 7075 aluminum alloy via SIMA process.

Synthesis of an interactive haptic dancing partner (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Hölldampf, J., Peer, A., & Buss, M. (2010, September). Synthesis of an interactive haptic dancing partner. Paper presented at 19th International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Viareggio, Italy

Human subjectivity to apparent randomness of surface textures (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Emrith, K., Chantler, M. J., Green, P. R., Smith, M., & Smith, L. (2010, September). Human subjectivity to apparent randomness of surface textures. Presented at 2nd CIE Expert Symposium on Appearance, Gent, Belgium

Numerical studies of multiple droplet impacts onto a flat substrate (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Yokoi, K., Kay, P. J., Bowen, P., & Phillips, T. (2010, September). Numerical studies of multiple droplet impacts onto a flat substrate. Paper presented at Proceedings of 23rd European conference on Liquid Atomisation Sprays Systems, Brno

Face recognition based on ridgelet transforms (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Kautkar, S., Koche, R., Keskar, T., Pande, A., Rane, M., & Atkinson, G. (2010, September). Face recognition based on ridgelet transforms. Paper presented at International Conference and Exhibition on Biometrics Technology, Coimbatore, India

Baseline face recognition using photometric stereo data (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Zafeiriou, S., Hansen, M. F., Atkinson, G., Petrou, M., & Smith, M. (2010, September). Baseline face recognition using photometric stereo data. Paper presented at International Conference and Exhibition on Biometrics Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, 2010, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Multi-scale depth from slope with weights (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Saracchini, R., Stolfi, J., Leitão, H., Atkinson, G., & Smith, M. (2010, September). Multi-scale depth from slope with weights. Poster presented at British Machine Vision Conference, Aberystwyth, Wales

We describe a robust method to recover the depth coordinate from a normal or slope map of a scene, obtained e.g. through photometric stereo or interferometry. The key feature of our method is the fast solution of the Poisson-like integration equation... Read More about Multi-scale depth from slope with weights.

Development of a multi-modal multi-user telepresence and teleaction system (2010)
Journal Article
Buss, M., Peer, A., Schauß, T., Stefanov, N., Unterhinninghofen, U., Behrendt, S., …Sarkis, M. (2010). Development of a multi-modal multi-user telepresence and teleaction system. International Journal of Robotics Research, 29(10), 1298-1316. https://doi.org/10.1177/0278364909351756

The presented multi-user telepresence and teleaction system enables two teleoperators, which are independently controlled by two human operators, to perform collaborative actions in a remote environment. The system provides the operators with visual,... Read More about Development of a multi-modal multi-user telepresence and teleaction system.

A correlation test-based validity monitoring procedure for online detecting the quality of nonlinear adaptive noise cancellation (2010)
Journal Article
Zhu, Q., Zhang, L. F., & Longden, A. (2010). A correlation test-based validity monitoring procedure for online detecting the quality of nonlinear adaptive noise cancellation. International Journal of Systems Science, 41(9), 1043-1055. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207720903199598

In the present study, a new correlation test-based nonlinear adaptive noise cancellation (ANC) validity monitoring procedure is proposed by following the insight and formulations which were developed by the authors for validating identified nonlinear... Read More about A correlation test-based validity monitoring procedure for online detecting the quality of nonlinear adaptive noise cancellation.

A quantitative comparison of psychological and emotional health measures in 360 plastic surgery candidates: Is there a difference between aesthetic and reconstructive patients? (2010)
Journal Article
Butler, P. E., Psych, D., Cordeiro, C. N., Clarke, A., White, P., Sivakumar, B., & Ong, J. (2010). A quantitative comparison of psychological and emotional health measures in 360 plastic surgery candidates: Is there a difference between aesthetic and reconstructive patients?. Annals of Plastic Surgery, 65(3), 349-353. https://doi.org/10.1097/SAP.0b013e3181c1fe5e

This study examines the utility of the aesthetic and reconstructive categorization for making treatment decisions in patients seeking facial surgery. A total of 360 patients with aesthetic or combined functional aesthetic deficits were included. Vali... Read More about A quantitative comparison of psychological and emotional health measures in 360 plastic surgery candidates: Is there a difference between aesthetic and reconstructive patients?.

Safe adaptive compliance control of a humanoid robotic arm with anti-windup compensation and posture control (2010)
Journal Article
Spiers, A., Pipe, T., Khan, S. G., Herrmann, G., Pipe, A. G., & Melhuish, C. (2010). Safe adaptive compliance control of a humanoid robotic arm with anti-windup compensation and posture control. International Journal of Social Robotics, 2(3), 305-319. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-010-0058-7

Safety is very important for physical human-robot interaction. Compliance control can solve an important aspect of the safety problem by dealing with impact and other forces arising during close contact between humans and robots. An adaptive complian... Read More about Safe adaptive compliance control of a humanoid robotic arm with anti-windup compensation and posture control.

Modelling of the activation of G-protein coupled receptors: Drug free constitutive receptor activity (2010)
Journal Article
Woodroffe, P. J., Bridge, L., King, J. R., Chen, C. Y., & Hill, S. J. (2010). Modelling of the activation of G-protein coupled receptors: Drug free constitutive receptor activity. Journal of Mathematical Biology, 60(3), 313-346. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00285-009-0268-5

G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) form a crucial component of approximately 80% of hormone pathways. In this paper, the most popular mechanism for activation of GPCRs-the shuttling mechanism-is modelled mathematically. An asymptotic analysis of thi... Read More about Modelling of the activation of G-protein coupled receptors: Drug free constitutive receptor activity.

Single end low voltage arcing fault location using time based formulation (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Alamuti, M. M., Nouri, H., Montakhab, M., & Polycarpou, A. (2010, August). Single end low voltage arcing fault location using time based formulation. Paper presented at The 45th International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC 2010), University of Cardiff, Wales

Discrepancy and signed domination in graphs and hypergraphs (2010)
Journal Article
Poghosyan, A., & Zverovich, V. (2010). Discrepancy and signed domination in graphs and hypergraphs. Discrete Mathematics, 310(15-16), 2091-2099. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.disc.2010.03.030

For a graph G, a signed domination function of G is a two-colouring of the vertices of G with colours +1 and -1 such that the closed neighbourhood of every vertex contains more +1's than -1's. This concept is closely related to combinatorial discrepa... Read More about Discrepancy and signed domination in graphs and hypergraphs.

EcoBot-III: A robot with guts (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Ieropoulos, I., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C., & Horsfield, I. (2010). EcoBot-III: A robot with guts. In H. Fellermann, M. Dörr, M. M. Hanczyc, L. L. Laursen, S. Maurer, D. Merkle, …S. Rasmussen (Eds.), Artificial Life XII: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, ALIFE 2010. , (733-740)

This paper describes the work carried out to develop EcoBot- III, which is a robot with an artificial digestion system. The robot is powered by Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) and it is designed to collect food and water from the environment, digest the... Read More about EcoBot-III: A robot with guts.

Perceptions of nonhuman primates in human-wildlife conflict scenarios (2010)
Journal Article
Hill, C. M., & Webber, A. D. (2010). Perceptions of nonhuman primates in human-wildlife conflict scenarios. American Journal of Primatology, 72(10), 919-924. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.20845

Nonhuman primates (referred to as primates in this study) are sometimes revered as gods, abhorred as evil spirits, killed for food because they damage crops, or butchered for sport. Primates' perceived similarity to humans places them in an anomalous... Read More about Perceptions of nonhuman primates in human-wildlife conflict scenarios.

3D face reconstructions from photometric stereo using near infrared and visible light (2010)
Journal Article
Hansen, M. F., Atkinson, G., Smith, L., & Smith, M. (2010). 3D face reconstructions from photometric stereo using near infrared and visible light. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 114(8), 942-951. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cviu.2010.03.001

This paper seeks to advance the state-of-the-art in 3D face capture and processing via novel Photometric Stereo (PS) hardware and algorithms. The first contribution is a new high-speed 3D data capture system, which is capable of acquiring four raw im... Read More about 3D face reconstructions from photometric stereo using near infrared and visible light.

Characterization and heat release model development of SI-CAI hybrid combustion and its application to a 4-stroke gasoline engine operating with highly diluted mixtures (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Zhang, Y., Zhao, H., Xie, H., Hou, S., & Yang, C. (2010, August). Characterization and heat release model development of SI-CAI hybrid combustion and its application to a 4-stroke gasoline engine operating with highly diluted mixtures. Paper presented at 33rd International Symposium of Combustion, Beijing, China

During the research and development of Controlled Autoignition (CAI) combustion in gasoline engines, the hybrid CAI and spark ignition (SI) combustion has been observed in certain operating conditions. In this paper, the characteristics of the SI-C... Read More about Characterization and heat release model development of SI-CAI hybrid combustion and its application to a 4-stroke gasoline engine operating with highly diluted mixtures.