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UNDERWORLDS: Cascading situation assessment for robots (2018)
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Wallhridge, C., Lemaignan, S., Sallami, Y., Wallbridge, C., Clodic, A., Belpaeme, T., & Alami, R. (2018). UNDERWORLDS: Cascading situation assessment for robots. Proceedings of the ... IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 7750-7757. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2018.8594094

© 2018 IEEE. We introduce UNDERWORLDS, a novel lightweight framework for cascading spatio-temporal situation assessment in robotics. UNDERWORLDS allows programmers to represent the robot's environment as real-time distributed data structures, contain... Read More about UNDERWORLDS: Cascading situation assessment for robots.

Enhancing the Command-Following Bandwidth for Transparent Bilateral Teleoperation (2018)
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Singh, H., Jafari, A., Ryu, J. H., & Peer, A. (2018). Enhancing the Command-Following Bandwidth for Transparent Bilateral Teleoperation. Proceedings of the ... IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 4972-4979. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2018.8593866

© 2018 IEEE. Enhancing transparency of a teleoperation system by increasing the command-following bandwidth has not received lots of attention so far. This is considered a challenging task since in a teleoperation system the command-following bandwid... Read More about Enhancing the Command-Following Bandwidth for Transparent Bilateral Teleoperation.

Joint editorial: Invigorating hydrological research through journal publications (2018)
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Quinn, N., Blöschl, G., Bárdossy, A., Castellarin, A., Clark, M., Cudennec, C., …Zehe, E. (2018). Joint editorial: Invigorating hydrological research through journal publications. Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 380, 3-8. https://doi.org/10.5194/piahs-380-3-2018

Editors of several journals in the field of hydrology met during the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) in Vienna in April 2017. This event was a follow-up of similar meetings held in 2013 and 2015. These meetings enable the gro... Read More about Joint editorial: Invigorating hydrological research through journal publications.

Hydroponics and community gardens: Insights on the interaction between urban farmers and technology (2018)
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Caputo, S., Rumble, H., & Schaefer, M. (2018). Hydroponics and community gardens: Insights on the interaction between urban farmers and technology. Acta Horticulturae, 1215, 397-404. https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2018.1215.72

Large-scale hydroponic systems, a highly resource and space efficient form of cultivation, already contribute substantially to global food production. Recognising the value of such an efficiency, a few hydroponic/aquaponics community projects and sma... Read More about Hydroponics and community gardens: Insights on the interaction between urban farmers and technology.

Multi-instrument multi-scale experimental damage mechanics for fibre reinforced composites (2018)
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Lomov, S. V., Breite, C., Carrella-Payan, D., Carvelli, V., Ersoy, N., Gigliotti, M., …Gorbatikh, L. (2018). Multi-instrument multi-scale experimental damage mechanics for fibre reinforced composites. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 406(1), 012057. https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/406/1/012057

© Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. Reliable investigation of damage in fibre reinforced composites requires concurrent in- and ex-situ application of multiple instruments at different scale: digital image correlation, acoustic emission... Read More about Multi-instrument multi-scale experimental damage mechanics for fibre reinforced composites.

Extending indoor open street mapping environments to navigable 3D citygml building models: Emergency response assessment (2018)
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Fadli, F., Kutty, N., Wang, Z., Zlatanova, S., Mahdjoubi, L., Boguslawski, P., & Zverovich, V. (2018). Extending indoor open street mapping environments to navigable 3D citygml building models: Emergency response assessment. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 42(4), 241-247. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-4-161-2018

© Authors 2018. Disaster scenarios in high-rise buildings such as the Address Downtown, Dubai or Grenfell Tower, London have showed ones again the importance of data information availability for emergency management in buildings. 3D visualization of... Read More about Extending indoor open street mapping environments to navigable 3D citygml building models: Emergency response assessment.

Sensibuildity: The design of a communication system to identify and prevent work-related injuries in the construction industry (2018)
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Alzayed, M. A., Costa, E. C. E., Agarwal, P., Kakarlamudi, S., Bilén, S. G., & Miller, S. (2018). Sensibuildity: The design of a communication system to identify and prevent work-related injuries in the construction industry. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 62, 1631-1635. https://doi.org/10.1177/1541931218621369

Up to 14 billion dollars are spent in the construction industry annually as a result of work-related injuries. The current study was developed in an effort to minimize the costs associated with these short-and long-term injuries through the use of we... Read More about Sensibuildity: The design of a communication system to identify and prevent work-related injuries in the construction industry.

Enhanced visual attention in university hockey players (2018)
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Clark, K., & Maddocks, M. (2018). Enhanced visual attention in university hockey players. Journal of Vision, 18(10),

Elite athletes exhibit enhanced cognitive abilities related to sport, and athletes' perceptual-cognitive expertise may also transfer to computer-based cognitive tasks in the laboratory (see Voss et al., 2010 for a meta-analysis). The research in this... Read More about Enhanced visual attention in university hockey players.

A method for bidirectional active vibration control of structure using discrete-time sliding mode (2018)
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Paul, S., Yu, W., & Jafari, R. (2018). A method for bidirectional active vibration control of structure using discrete-time sliding mode. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 51(13), 361-365. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.07.305

© 2018 In this paper, a novel discrete-time sliding mode control is proposed in order to attenuate structural vibration due to earthquake forces. The analysis is based on the lateral-torsional vibration under the bidirectional waves. The proposed fuz... Read More about A method for bidirectional active vibration control of structure using discrete-time sliding mode.

Mapping wildlife species distribution with social media: Augmenting text classification with species names (2018)
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Jeawak, S. S., Jones, C. B., & Schockaert, S. (2018). Mapping wildlife species distribution with social media: Augmenting text classification with species names. LIPIcs, 114, https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2018.34

© Shelan S. Jeawak, Christopher B. Jones, and Steven Schockaert. Social media has considerable potential as a source of passive citizen science observations of the natural environment, including wildlife monitoring. Here we compare and combine two ma... Read More about Mapping wildlife species distribution with social media: Augmenting text classification with species names.

Developing a Community of Practice to support the space engineering higher education community (2018)
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Glester, A. (2018). Developing a Community of Practice to support the space engineering higher education community. International Journal of Engineering Education, 34(5), 1562-1568

The UK-based “Space Universities Network” (SUN) was formed in 2016 with the aim of enhancing the quality of learning and teaching by providing support and resources to the space science and engineering higher education community. The goal of this res... Read More about Developing a Community of Practice to support the space engineering higher education community.

Managing Congestion in Vehicular Networks Using Tabu Search (2018)
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Ishaq, M., Malik, M. H., & Aydin, M. E. (2018). Managing Congestion in Vehicular Networks Using Tabu Search. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 893, 118-129. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98204-5_10

© 2018, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. In this era of communication, exponentially growing networks bring a lot of challenges to address for smoother network functionalities. Among them is efficiency in handling packet traffic to avoid and control c... Read More about Managing Congestion in Vehicular Networks Using Tabu Search.

Biomimetic knee design to improve joint torque and life for bipedal robotics (2018)
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Steele, A., Hunt, A., & Etoundi, A. C. (2018). Biomimetic knee design to improve joint torque and life for bipedal robotics. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 10965 LNAI, 91-102. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96728-8_8

© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018. This paper details the design, construction, and performance analysis of a biologically inspired knee joint for use in bipedal robotics. The design copies the condylar surfaces of... Read More about Biomimetic knee design to improve joint torque and life for bipedal robotics.

Does Lycra sleeve alter acromion-greater tuberosity distance, muscle activity, and scapula position in people with post-stroke hemiplegia (2018)
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Kumar, P., Macleod, L., Mohan, P., Wheeler, C., & Wai Tse, G. (2018). Does Lycra sleeve alter acromion-greater tuberosity distance, muscle activity, and scapula position in people with post-stroke hemiplegia. Clinical Rehabilitation, 32, 1406– 1417. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269215518784346

Background: Glenohumeral subluxation (GHS) is reported in up to 81% of patients with stroke. Our previous studies found that a Lycra sleeve can reduce acromion-greater tuberosity distance (used for assessment of GHS) in people with chronic stroke (n... Read More about Does Lycra sleeve alter acromion-greater tuberosity distance, muscle activity, and scapula position in people with post-stroke hemiplegia.

Exploring the usability of a connected autonomous vehicle human machine interface designed for older adults (2018)
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Morgan, P. L., Voinescu, A., Alford, C., & Caleb-Solly, P. (2019). Exploring the usability of a connected autonomous vehicle human machine interface designed for older adults. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 786, 591-603. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93885-1_54

Users of Level 4–5 connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) should not need to intervene with the dynamic driving task or monitor the driving environment, as the system will handle all driving functions. CAV human-machine interface (HMI) dashboards for s... Read More about Exploring the usability of a connected autonomous vehicle human machine interface designed for older adults.

Exploring Older Adult Susceptibility to Fraudulent Computer Pop-Up Interruptions (2018)
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Morgan, P., Williams, E., Zook, N., & Christopher, G. (2019). Exploring Older Adult Susceptibility to Fraudulent Computer Pop-Up Interruptions. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 782, 56-68. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94782-2_6

© 2019, Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature. The proliferation of Internet connectivity and accessibility has been accompanied by an increase in cyber-threats, including fraudulent communications. Fake computer updates, whic... Read More about Exploring Older Adult Susceptibility to Fraudulent Computer Pop-Up Interruptions.

Analysis of residual transverse stresses in a thick UD glass/polyester pultruded profile using hole drilling with strain gage and digital image correlation (2018)
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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.

The effect of simvastatin on novel exploratory biomarkers of cartilage degradation (2018)
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Quasnichka, H., Budd, E., Tarlton, J., Roberts, S., Jackson, C., Caterson, B., & Mobasheri, A. (2018). The effect of simvastatin on novel exploratory biomarkers of cartilage degradation. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 26(Supplement 1), S192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2018.02.411

There is emerging evidence of an association between osteoarthritis (OA) and atherosclerosis, with an underlying metabolic syndrome potentially driving the progression of both diseases. Proteomic analysis of OA synovial fluid, degenerative cartilage... Read More about The effect of simvastatin on novel exploratory biomarkers of cartilage degradation.

Metabolomics and metabolic function analysis of the secretome of articular cartilage and isolated chondrocytes in response to pro-inflammatory cytokines (2018)
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Fellows, C., Quasnichka, H., Chowdhury, N., Budd, E., Skene, D., & Mobasheri, A. (2018). Metabolomics and metabolic function analysis of the secretome of articular cartilage and isolated chondrocytes in response to pro-inflammatory cytokines. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 26(Supplement 1), S172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2018.02.373

Chondrocytes rely primarily on glycolysis to meet their energy requirements, but possess the metabolic flexibility to support cell survival and matrix synthesis during periods of nutrient stress, by enhancing glycolysis with mitochondrial respiration... Read More about Metabolomics and metabolic function analysis of the secretome of articular cartilage and isolated chondrocytes in response to pro-inflammatory cytokines.

A systematic review of interaction in search-based software engineering (2018)
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Ramirez, A., Romero, J. R., & Simons, C. (2019). A systematic review of interaction in search-based software engineering. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 45(8), 760-781. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2018.2803055

IEEE Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE) has been successfully applied to automate a wide range of software development activities. Nevertheless, in those software engineering problems where human evaluation and preference are crucial, such insi... Read More about A systematic review of interaction in search-based software engineering.