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RA flares: Inflammatory or avalanche? (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Flurey, C. A., Morris, M., Pollock, J., Richards, P., Hughes, R., & Hewlett, S. (2013, October). RA flares: Inflammatory or avalanche?. Poster presented at 2013 American College of Rheumatology Conference, San Diego, CA

Entry level employment in Bristol's creative industries sector: Findings and recommendations (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Thomson, S. (2013, October). Entry level employment in Bristol's creative industries sector: Findings and recommendations. Presented at Bristol’s Creative & Digital Sectors – Growing Our Own Workforce, Knowle West Media Centre, Bristol

On Friday 25th October 2013 the Entry Level Employment in Bristol’s Creative Industries Sectors (ELEBCIS) report was formally launched at Knowle West Media Centre. Speakers: Carolyn Hassan, Director KWMC Stephen Hilton, Director of Futures Group... Read More about Entry level employment in Bristol's creative industries sector: Findings and recommendations.

Embracing the women: A longitudinal view of attitudes to women service personnel among their peers, 1994 and 2010 (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Ball, R. (2013, October). Embracing the women: A longitudinal view of attitudes to women service personnel among their peers, 1994 and 2010. Paper presented at IUS Chicago 2013, Chicago, USA

In the UK, women are excluded from ground combat roles and other specific close quarter specialities. There have been two assessments of this position by the Ministry of Defence (2002 and 2010) with both concluding that the restriction should remain... Read More about Embracing the women: A longitudinal view of attitudes to women service personnel among their peers, 1994 and 2010.

Age and disability discrimination: Creeping challenges for the military (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Ball, R. (2013, October). Age and disability discrimination: Creeping challenges for the military. Paper presented at IUS Chicago 2013, Chicago, USA

The principle of equality, and its legal rights to non-discrimination, has had a considerable impact on all aspects of society, the military included. The latest evidence of this in the US are the repeal of DADT and the abolition of the restriction o... Read More about Age and disability discrimination: Creeping challenges for the military.

Sliding mode hybrid impedance control of robot manipulators interacting with unknown environments using VSMRC method (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Jafari, A., Ryu, J., Rezaei, M., Monfaredi, R., Talebi, A., & Shiry Ghidary, S. (2013, October). Sliding mode hybrid impedance control of robot manipulators interacting with unknown environments using VSMRC method. Paper presented at The 44th IEEE International Symposium on Robotics (ISR 2013), Seoul, Korea

In the present paper, the objective of hybrid impedance control is specified and a robust hybrid impedance control approach is proposed. Based on the concept of hybrid control, the task space is decomposed into position and force controlled subspaces... Read More about Sliding mode hybrid impedance control of robot manipulators interacting with unknown environments using VSMRC method.

The social vocabulary of Hidden Presence: British History and the need to talk through the silence and acknowledge true stories of African presence (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Sobers, S. (2013, October). The social vocabulary of Hidden Presence: British History and the need to talk through the silence and acknowledge true stories of African presence

When British spaces, rural and otherwise, are full of celebrated and re-told myths and legends – from sites such as Stonehenge through to character based fables such as Robin Hood – why do some resist to allow true stories, which are no less fantasti... Read More about The social vocabulary of Hidden Presence: British History and the need to talk through the silence and acknowledge true stories of African presence.

Towards provenance and traceability in CRISTAL for HEP (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Shamdasani, J., Branson, A., & McClatchey, R. (2013, October). Towards provenance and traceability in CRISTAL for HEP. Paper presented at 20th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP13)., Amsterdam, Netherlands

Traceability is an important feature of workflow based systems, and is a key source of provenance data. This paper presents CRISTAL, a mature software platform developed and used at CERN for experiment construction at the LHC. It is entirely workflow... Read More about Towards provenance and traceability in CRISTAL for HEP.

Enabling autonomous flight capabilities onboard commercial aircraft to improve safety (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Narayan, P. P., & Dogramadzi, S. (2013, October). Enabling autonomous flight capabilities onboard commercial aircraft to improve safety. Paper presented at IEEE/AIAA Digital Avionics Systems Conference, Syracuse, New York, USA

This paper presents the development and implementation of a novel Flight Management System (FMS) to ensure onboard passenger safety of commercial aircraft in the event of an emergency scenario where the pilot must relinquish control of the aircraft (... Read More about Enabling autonomous flight capabilities onboard commercial aircraft to improve safety.

Managing a changing appearance (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Harcourt, D. (2013, October). Managing a changing appearance. Paper presented at Vitiligo Society Open Day, Bristol, UK

Kaleidoscopic City: Through the looking lens (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Banou, S. (2013, October). Kaleidoscopic City: Through the looking lens. Presented at Plenitude and Emptiness: Symposium on Architectural Research by Design, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh: Inspace

This project critically addresses the ways that the city has been represented, in architectural practice and beyond, while seeking new ways to articulate the complex unseen weave of movements that forms the contemporary city. As the transition from s... Read More about Kaleidoscopic City: Through the looking lens.

Puzzle-based games as a metaphor for designing in situ learning activities (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Melero, J., Santos, P., Hernández-Leo, D., & Blat, J. (2013, October). Puzzle-based games as a metaphor for designing in situ learning activities. Paper presented at The 7th European Conference on Games Based Learning, Porto, Portugal

In situ learning activities are recently becoming of higher interest in education because they facilitate contextualized learning experiences. A particular case is the creation of learning routes containing geo-located questions. In this line, teache... Read More about Puzzle-based games as a metaphor for designing in situ learning activities.

Making films in Somerset (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Banks, L. (2013, October). Making films in Somerset. Presented at Making films in Somerset, Red Brick Building, Glastonbury, Somerset, UK

A talk to young filmmakers about my work as a filmmaker, growing up in Somerset and how to get films made. Tips and contacts given to encourage young filmmakers to apply for BFI funding schemes and film academies in Bristol and Somerset. Also screene... Read More about Making films in Somerset.

The use of digital image correlation technique for monitoring masonry arch bridges (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Koltsida, I., Tomor, A., & Booth, C. (2013, October). The use of digital image correlation technique for monitoring masonry arch bridges. Paper presented at 7th International Conference on Arch Bridges, Split, Croatia

Non-destructive monitoring of the infrastructure is becoming an increasingly important issue for asset management. Masonry arch bridges represent around 40% of the European bridge stock, many of them over 100 years old and in increasing need for main... Read More about The use of digital image correlation technique for monitoring masonry arch bridges.

Towards provenance and traceability in CRISTAL for HEP (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Shamdasani, J., Branson, A., & McClatchey, R. (2013, October). Towards provenance and traceability in CRISTAL for HEP. Paper presented at 20th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP13), Amsterdam, Netherlands

This paper discusses the CRISTAL object lifecycle management system and its use in provenance data management and the traceability of system events. This software was initially used to capture the construction and calibration of the CMS ECAL detector... Read More about Towards provenance and traceability in CRISTAL for HEP.

The psychological impact of looking different (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Rumsey, N. (2013, September). The psychological impact of looking different. Paper presented at 41st Annual Meeting of the International Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery (ISPN), Mainz, Germany

Using nasal curves matching for expression robust 3D nose recognition (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Emambakhsh, M., Evans, A., & Smith, M. (2013, September). Using nasal curves matching for expression robust 3D nose recognition. Paper presented at IEEE Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS2013), Washington DC, USA

The development of 3D face recognition algorithms that are robust to variations in expression has been a challenge for researchers over the past decade. One approach to this problem is to utilize the most stable parts on the face surface. The nasa... Read More about Using nasal curves matching for expression robust 3D nose recognition.