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Mechanical properties and microstructure of thin plates of A6061 wrought aluminum alloy using rheology forging process with electromagnetic stirring (2013)
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Jin, C. K., Bolouri, A., & Kang, C. G. (2014). Mechanical properties and microstructure of thin plates of A6061 wrought aluminum alloy using rheology forging process with electromagnetic stirring. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 45(3), 1068-1080. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11663-013-9993-7

We propose the possibility of fabricating A6061 thin plates using the rheology forging process. Electromagnetic stirring (EMS) is used to fabricate a semi-solid slurry. A thin plate is formed by injecting the slurry into the forging die. When the pun... Read More about Mechanical properties and microstructure of thin plates of A6061 wrought aluminum alloy using rheology forging process with electromagnetic stirring.

Improving the efficiency of Market Information Analysis Systems using GIS, Polygon and Spatial Databases (2013)
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Izadi, O., & Rakib, A. (2013). Improving the efficiency of Market Information Analysis Systems using GIS, Polygon and Spatial Databases. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRIIS.2013.6716764

An organization's future developments are influenced by its managements' decisions. This can only happen by strengthening research and development strategies. Market monitoring and analyzing systems are designed to provide an organized flow of inform... Read More about Improving the efficiency of Market Information Analysis Systems using GIS, Polygon and Spatial Databases.

Unsupervised learning spatio-temporal features for human activity recognition from RGB-D video data (2013)
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Chen, G., Zhang, F., Giuliani, M., Buckl, C., & Knoll, A. (2013). Unsupervised learning spatio-temporal features for human activity recognition from RGB-D video data. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 8239 LNAI, 341-350. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02675-6_34

Being able to recognize human activities is essential for several applications, including social robotics. The recently developed commodity depth sensors open up newpossibilities of dealingwith this problem. Existing techniques extract hand-tuned fea... Read More about Unsupervised learning spatio-temporal features for human activity recognition from RGB-D video data.

Bootstrapping a robot's kinematic model (2013)
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Broun, A., Beck, C., Pipe, T., Mirmehdi, M., & Melhuish, C. (2014). Bootstrapping a robot's kinematic model. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 62(3), 330-339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2013.09.011

We present a system that is able to autonomously build a 3D model of a robot's hand, along with a kinematic model of the robot's arm, beginning with very little information. The system starts by using exploratory motions to locate and centre the robo... Read More about Bootstrapping a robot's kinematic model.

Biomimetic tactile target acquisition, tracking and capture (2013)
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Prescott, T. J., Pearson, M. J., Mitchinson, B., Pearson, M., Pipe, A. G., & Prescott, T. (2014). Biomimetic tactile target acquisition, tracking and capture. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 62(3), 366-375. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2013.08.013

Good performance in unstructured/uncertain environments is an ongoing problem in robotics; in biology, it is an everyday observation. Here, we model a particular biological system - hunting in the Etruscan shrew - as a case study in biomimetic robot... Read More about Biomimetic tactile target acquisition, tracking and capture.

Perception of own and robot engagement in human-robot interactions and their dependence on robotics knowledge (2013)
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Hall, J., Tritton, T., Rowe, A., Pipe, A., Melhuish, C., & Leonards, U. (2014). Perception of own and robot engagement in human-robot interactions and their dependence on robotics knowledge. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 62(3), 392-399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2013.09.012

Communication between socially assistive robots and humans might be facilitated by intuitively understandable mechanisms. To investigate the effects of some key nonverbal gestures on a human's own engagement and robot engagement experienced by humans... Read More about Perception of own and robot engagement in human-robot interactions and their dependence on robotics knowledge.

Formalizing group blind signatures and practical constructions without random oracles (2013)
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Ghadafi, E. (2013). Formalizing group blind signatures and practical constructions without random oracles. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 7959 LNCS, 330-346. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39059-3_23

Group blind signatures combine anonymity properties of both group signatures and blind signatures and offer privacy for both the message to be signed and the signer. The primitive has been introduced with only informal definitions for its required se... Read More about Formalizing group blind signatures and practical constructions without random oracles.

Photosynthetic cathodes for microbial fuel cells (2013)
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Gajda, I., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C., & Ieropoulos, I. (2013). Photosynthetic cathodes for microbial fuel cells. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 38(26), 11559-11564. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2013.02.111

One of the major limiting factors in the practical implementation of Microbial Fuel Cells is finding efficient and sustainable catalysts for the cathode half reaction, in an attempt to avoid expensive and/or toxic catalysts. The use of phototrophic o... Read More about Photosynthetic cathodes for microbial fuel cells.

Power generation and contaminant removal in single chamber microbial fuel cells (SCMFCs) treating human urine (2013)
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Greenman, J., Ieropoulos, I., Santoro, C., Ieropoulos, I., Greenman, J., Cristiani, P., …Li, B. (2013). Power generation and contaminant removal in single chamber microbial fuel cells (SCMFCs) treating human urine. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 38(26), 11543-11551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2013.02.070

The potential of single chamber microbial fuel cells (SCMFC) to treat raw, fresh human urine was investigated. The power generation (55 μW) of the SCMFCs with platinum (Pt)-based cathode was higher than those with Pt-free cathodes (23 μW) at the begi... Read More about Power generation and contaminant removal in single chamber microbial fuel cells (SCMFCs) treating human urine.

Increased power output from micro porous layer (MPL) cathode microbial fuel cells (MFC) (2013)
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Ieropoulos, I., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C., Papaharalabos, G., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C., …Ieropoulos, I. (2013). Increased power output from micro porous layer (MPL) cathode microbial fuel cells (MFC). International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 38(26), 11552-11558. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2013.05.138

Microbial fuel cells are bio-electrochemical transducers that utilise microorganisms to generate electricity, through the oxidation of organic matter. They consist of a negative anode and a positive cathode, separated by an ion selective membrane. Th... Read More about Increased power output from micro porous layer (MPL) cathode microbial fuel cells (MFC).

Efficient signatures of knowledge and DAA in the standard model (2013)
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Bernhard, D., Fuchsbauer, G., & Ghadafi, E. (2013). Efficient signatures of knowledge and DAA in the standard model. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 7954 LNCS, 518-533. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38980-1_33

Direct Anonymous Attestation (DAA) is one of the most complex cryptographic protocols deployed in practice. It allows an embedded secure processor known as a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) to attest to the configuration of its host computer without vi... Read More about Efficient signatures of knowledge and DAA in the standard model.

A note on the volatility of the tradeable and nontradeable sectors (2013)
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Povoledo, L. (2013). A note on the volatility of the tradeable and nontradeable sectors. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 17(5), 1158-1168. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1365100511000782

This note evaluates whether a New Open Economy model can reproduce qualitatively the observed fluctuations of the tradeable and nontradeable sectors of the U.S. economy. The answer is positive: both in the model and in the data, the standard deviatio... Read More about A note on the volatility of the tradeable and nontradeable sectors.

A study of wireless sensor networks for urban traffic monitoring: Applications and architectures (2013)
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Kafi, M. A., Challal, Y., Djenouri, D., Doudou, M., Bouabdallah, A., & Badache, N. (2013). A study of wireless sensor networks for urban traffic monitoring: Applications and architectures. Procedia Computer Science, 19, 617-626. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2013.06.082

With the constant increasing of vehicular traffic around the world, especially in urban areas, existing traffic management solutions become inefficient. This can be clearly seen in our life through persistent traffic jam and rising number of accident... Read More about A study of wireless sensor networks for urban traffic monitoring: Applications and architectures.

Food hygiene challenges in older people: Intergenerational learning as a health asset (2013)
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Orme, J., Wythe, H., Wilkinson, C., Orme, J., Meredith, L., & Weitkamp, E. (2013). Food hygiene challenges in older people: Intergenerational learning as a health asset. https://doi.org/10.2495/EHR130181

Older people are more at risk of contracting foodborne infections; however the majority remain well despite the physical, social and cognitive challenges of older age. Future healthcare strategies targeting older people can be informed by exploring t... Read More about Food hygiene challenges in older people: Intergenerational learning as a health asset.

Effect of mesh topologies on wall heat transfer and pressure loss prediction of a blade coolant passage (2013)
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Effendy, M., Yao, Y., & Yao, J. (2013). Effect of mesh topologies on wall heat transfer and pressure loss prediction of a blade coolant passage. Applied Mechanics and Materials, 315, 216-220. https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.315.216

This paper studies the effect of mesh topologies such as hybrid and structured meshes on the evaluation of wall heat transfer coefficient (HTC) and pressure loss of a blade cooling passage. An experimental model is chosen; it has five-row of stream w... Read More about Effect of mesh topologies on wall heat transfer and pressure loss prediction of a blade coolant passage.

The development of vector based 2.5D print methods for a painting machine (2013)
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Parraman, C. (2013). The development of vector based 2.5D print methods for a painting machine. Proceedings of SPIE, 8652, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2010023

Through recent trends in the application of digitally printed decorative finishes to products, CAD, 3D additive layer manufacturing and research in material perception, [1, 2] there is a growing interest in the accurate rendering of materials and tan... Read More about The development of vector based 2.5D print methods for a painting machine.

Federated broker system for pervasive context provisioning (2013)
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Antonopoulos, N., Kiani, S. L., Anjum, A., Knappmeyer, M., & Bessis, N. (2013). Federated broker system for pervasive context provisioning. Journal of Systems and Software, 86(4), 1107-1123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2012.11.050

Software systems that provide context-awareness related functions in pervasive computing environments are gaining momentum due to emerging applications, architectures and business models. In most context-aware systems, a central broker performs the f... Read More about Federated broker system for pervasive context provisioning.

A formal approach to modelling and verifying resource-bounded context-aware agents (2013)
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Rakib, A., & Faruqui, R. U. (2013). A formal approach to modelling and verifying resource-bounded context-aware agents. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, 109 LNICST, 86-96. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36642-0_9

There has been a move of context-aware systems into safety-critical domains including healthcare, emergency scenarios, and disaster recovery. These systems are often distributed and deployed on resource-bounded devices. Therefore, developing formal t... Read More about A formal approach to modelling and verifying resource-bounded context-aware agents.

Randomized algorithms and upper bounds for multiple domination in graphs and networks (2013)
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Gagarin, A., Poghosyan, A., & Zverovich, V. (2013). Randomized algorithms and upper bounds for multiple domination in graphs and networks. Discrete Applied Mathematics, 161(4-5), 604-611. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2011.07.004

We consider four different types of multiple domination and provide new improved upper bounds for the k- and k-tuple domination numbers. They generalize two classical bounds for the domination number and are better than a number of known upper bounds... Read More about Randomized algorithms and upper bounds for multiple domination in graphs and networks.

Quadratic programming and penalized regression (2013)
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Smith, A. D. A. C. (2013). Quadratic programming and penalized regression. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 42(7), 1363-1372. https://doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2012.732177

Quadratic programming is a versatile tool for calculating estimates in penalized regression. It can be used to produce estimates based on L1 roughness penalties, as in total variation denoising. In particular, it can calculate estimates when the roug... Read More about Quadratic programming and penalized regression.