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The politics of humanitarian intervention: A critical analogy of the British response to end the slave trade and the civil war in Sierra Leone (2010)
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Shaw, I. S. (2010). The politics of humanitarian intervention: A critical analogy of the British response to end the slave trade and the civil war in Sierra Leone. Journal of Global Ethics, 6(3), 273-282. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449626.2010.524799

A leading scholar of humanitarian intervention, Brown (2002) refers to British internal politics to satisfy the influential church and other non-conformist libertarian community leaders, and above all 'undermining Britain's competitors, such as Spain... Read More about The politics of humanitarian intervention: A critical analogy of the British response to end the slave trade and the civil war in Sierra Leone.

Autonomous morphogenesis in self-assembling robots using IR-based sensing and local communications (2010)
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Liu, W., & Winfield, A. F. (2010). Autonomous morphogenesis in self-assembling robots using IR-based sensing and local communications. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 6234 LNCS, 107-118. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15461-4_10

This paper presents a simple decentralised morphology control mechanism for a swarm of self-assembling robots. Each robot in the system is fully autonomous and controlled using a behaviour-based approach with only infrared-based local sensing and com... Read More about Autonomous morphogenesis in self-assembling robots using IR-based sensing and local communications.

The validation and verification of CFD models of heat transfer and airflow within CPV modules (2010)
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Adkins, D. (2010). The validation and verification of CFD models of heat transfer and airflow within CPV modules. Conference Record IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 827-830. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2010.5617190

Simulation models are used for predicting a photovoltaic concentrator's performance. It is desirable to analyse theoretically any given system as extensively as possible before embarking on expensive construction. Calculation of the flow fields both... Read More about The validation and verification of CFD models of heat transfer and airflow within CPV modules.

Privacy compliance and enforcement on European healthgrids: An approach through ontology (2010)
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Rahmouni, H. B., Solomonides, T., Mont, M. C., & Simon Shiu, S. (2010). Privacy compliance and enforcement on European healthgrids: An approach through ontology. Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 368(1926), 4057-4072. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0169

The sharing of medical data between different healthcare organizations in Europe must comply with the legislation of the Member State where the data were originally collected. These legal requirements may differ from one state to another. Privacy req... Read More about Privacy compliance and enforcement on European healthgrids: An approach through ontology.

Nonlinear stability of the one-domain approach to modelling convection in superposed fluid and porous layers (2010)
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Hill, A. A., & Carr, M. (2010). Nonlinear stability of the one-domain approach to modelling convection in superposed fluid and porous layers. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 466(2121), 2695-2705. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2010.0014

Studies of the nonlinear stability of fluid/porous systems have been developed very recently. A two-domain modelling approach has been adopted in previous works, but was restricted to specific configurations. The extension to the more general case of... Read More about Nonlinear stability of the one-domain approach to modelling convection in superposed fluid and porous layers.

The role of organisational culture in occupational well being and quality of care: A literature review (2010)
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Gerogiannis, I., Montgomery, A., & Panagopoulou, E. (2010). The role of organisational culture in occupational well being and quality of care: A literature review. Psychology and Health, 137-376. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2010.502762

Objectives: Organisational culture determines how individuals behave, what people pay attention to, and how they respond to different situations, and how they socialise with new members and exclude those who do not fit in. There is a direct link betw... Read More about The role of organisational culture in occupational well being and quality of care: A literature review.

On the numerical prediction of stability in thin wall machining (2010)
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Adetoro, O. B., Vepa, R., Sim, W. M., & Wen, P. H. (2010). On the numerical prediction of stability in thin wall machining. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 60 LNEE, 681-690. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8776-8_58

In this chapter, the numerical prediction of stability margin in thin wall machining is introduced. The Nyquist criterion is applied to the stability model presented by Adetoro, while a newly discovered damping prediction approach is presented, which... Read More about On the numerical prediction of stability in thin wall machining.

Numerical study of hole shape effect on blade cooling effectiveness (2010)
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Yao, J., Sian, S., Yao, Y., & Davis, T. W. (2010). Numerical study of hole shape effect on blade cooling effectiveness. Modern Physics Letters B, 24(13), 1295-1298. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217984910023463

Numerical study of hole shape effect on blade adiabatic cooling effectiveness has been carried out on four geometry models comprising a standard cylindrical hole, a cylindrical hole with an upstream ramp, a shaped diffuser, and a double console slot.... Read More about Numerical study of hole shape effect on blade cooling effectiveness.

Women as paid organizers and propagandists for the British Labour Party between the wars (2010)
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Hannam, J. (2010). Women as paid organizers and propagandists for the British Labour Party between the wars. International Labor and Working-Class History, 77(1), 69-88. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0147547909990251

This article contributes to recent debates about the complicated ways in which women involved in the interwar British Labour Party negotiated their political identities through an examination of the activities and aims of a neglected group, the paid... Read More about Women as paid organizers and propagandists for the British Labour Party between the wars.

A hybrid microbial dielectric elastomer generator for autonomous robots (2010)
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Anderson, I. A., Ieropoulos, I., McKay, T., O'Brien, B., & Melhuish, C. (2010). A hybrid microbial dielectric elastomer generator for autonomous robots. Proceedings of SPIE, 7642, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.847379

We are developing a hybrid Dielectric Elastomer Generator (DEG)-Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) energy harvester. The system is for EcoBot, an Autonomous Robot (AR) that currently uses its MFCs to extract electrical energy from biomass, in the form of flie... Read More about A hybrid microbial dielectric elastomer generator for autonomous robots.

Optimization of bio-inspired multi-segment IPMC cilia (2010)
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Sareh, S., Conn, A. T., Rossiter, J. M., Ieropoulos, I., & Walters, P. (2010). Optimization of bio-inspired multi-segment IPMC cilia. Proceedings of SPIE, 7642, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.847552

In nature, unidirectional fluid flows are often induced at micro-scales by cilia and related organelles. A controllable unidirectional flow is beneficial at these scales for a range of novel robotic and medical applications, whether the flow is used... Read More about Optimization of bio-inspired multi-segment IPMC cilia.

Pixel and spatial mechanisms of color constancy (2010)
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Rizzi, A., McCann, J. J., & Parraman, C. (2010). Pixel and spatial mechanisms of color constancy. Proceedings of SPIE, 7528, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.838736

Color constancy remains an important subject of research on color standards, computer imaging, and human color vision. There are many different theories and algorithms that interpret and predict constancy. This paper analyzes three different approach... Read More about Pixel and spatial mechanisms of color constancy.

Burning velocities of alternative gaseous fuels at elevated temperature and pressure (2010)
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Bagdanavicius, A., Bowen, P. J., Syred, N., Kay, P., Crayford, A., Sims, G., & Wood, J. (2010). Burning velocities of alternative gaseous fuels at elevated temperature and pressure. AIAA Journal, 48(2), 317-329. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.43225

This study has been undertaken to investigate turbulent burning velocities of alternative gaseous fuels at elevated temperature and pressure using the established Bunsen burner method. The experiments were conducted in the industrial scale high-press... Read More about Burning velocities of alternative gaseous fuels at elevated temperature and pressure.

Practical zero-knowledge proofs for circuit evaluation (2009)
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Ghadafi, E., Smart, N. P., & Warinschi, B. (2009). Practical zero-knowledge proofs for circuit evaluation. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 5921 LNCS, 469-494. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10868-6_28

Showing that a circuit is satisfiable without revealing information is a key problem in modern cryptography. The related (and more general) problem of showing that a circuit evaluates to a particular value if executed on the input contained in a publ... Read More about Practical zero-knowledge proofs for circuit evaluation.

Reasoning about other agents' beliefs under bounded resources (2009)
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Alechina, N., Logan, B., Nguyen, H. N., & Rakib, A. (2009). Reasoning about other agents' beliefs under bounded resources. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 5605 LNAI, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05301-6_1

There exists a considerable body of work on epistemic logics for bounded reasoners where the bound can be time, memory, or the amount of information the reasoners can exchange. In much of this work the epistemic logic is used as a meta-logic to reaso... Read More about Reasoning about other agents' beliefs under bounded resources.

Genomic and proteomic analyses of plant response to radiation in the environment-an abiotic stress context (2009)
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Willey, N., Heinekamp, Y. J., & Burridge, A. (2009). Genomic and proteomic analyses of plant response to radiation in the environment-an abiotic stress context. Radioprotection, 44(5), 887-890. https://doi.org/10.1051/radiopro/20095158

Genomic and proteomic techniques provide the opportunity to investigate plant response to ionising radiation in unprecedented detail. Understanding plant molecular responses to ionising radiation might be useful for radioprotection but also for under... Read More about Genomic and proteomic analyses of plant response to radiation in the environment-an abiotic stress context.

A robust solution to multi-modal image registration by combining mutual information with multi-scale derivatives (2009)
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Morgan, J. E., Rosin, P. L., Legg, P., & Marshall, D. (2009). A robust solution to multi-modal image registration by combining mutual information with multi-scale derivatives. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 5761 LNCS(PART 1), 616-623. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04268-3_76

In this paper we present a novel method for performing image registration of different modalities. Mutual Information (MI) is an established method for performing such registration. However, it is recognised that standard MI is not without some probl... Read More about A robust solution to multi-modal image registration by combining mutual information with multi-scale derivatives.

Expressing properties of coalitional ability under resource bounds (2009)
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Alechina, N., Logan, B., Nga, N. H., & Rakib, A. (2009). Expressing properties of coalitional ability under resource bounds. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 5834 LNAI, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04893-7_1

We introduce Coalition Logic for Resource Games (CLRG) which extends Coalition Logic by allowing explicit reasoning about resource endowments of coalitions of agents and resource bounds on strategies. We show how to express interesting properties of... Read More about Expressing properties of coalitional ability under resource bounds.