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Developing patient reported outcomes measures (PROMs) in child, adolescent and adult burn care (2015)
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Second-order model for rotary traveling wave ultrasonic motors (2015)
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Ultrasonic motors are compact actuators with high precision and high stall torque. They feature a friction-based actuation principle and offer an alternative to standard
actuators such as direct current motors. However, their nonlinear dynamics, the... Read More about Second-order model for rotary traveling wave ultrasonic motors.

Toledo and the trinity of death in Mexico: Dia de los Muertos, La Catrina y La Santa Muerte (2015)
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As part of the British Museum's Day of the Dead season, Angus Fraser was invited to talk about the work of the prominent Mexican artist Francisco Toledo in relation to Angus Fraser's recent publication 'Santa Muerte' More specifically, attention was... Read More about Toledo and the trinity of death in Mexico: Dia de los Muertos, La Catrina y La Santa Muerte.

Cyber Security Challenges within the Connected Home Ecosystem Futures (2015)
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© 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Cybercrime and threats of cyber security is much closer to connected home ecosystems futures that ever been expected. Most of the research effort is focused on the defense mechanisms of cooperate and nat... Read More about Cyber Security Challenges within the Connected Home Ecosystem Futures.

Using Tilted Façade to Reduce Thermal Discomfort in a UK Passivhaus Dwelling for a Warming Climate (2015)
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© 2015 The Authors. This study investigated the potential negative impacts of future UK climate change on dwellings. In particular, the risk of overheating was considered for a Passivhaus dwelling in London. The study used dynamic simulation modellin... Read More about Using Tilted Façade to Reduce Thermal Discomfort in a UK Passivhaus Dwelling for a Warming Climate.

Red Moon workshop (2015)
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A discussion and research workshop for women around issues concerning the menopause, used as preparation and research for the film Red Moon Diaries.

Visual search training in occupational therapy - An example of expert practice in community-based stroke rehabilitation (2015)
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© The Author(s) 2015. Introduction: Visual searching is an essential component of many everyday activities. Search training is practised as part of occupational therapy to improve performance skills both in people with hemianopia and those with spati... Read More about Visual search training in occupational therapy - An example of expert practice in community-based stroke rehabilitation.

An automated 3D indoor topological navigation network modelling (2015)
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Indoor navigation is important for various applications such as disaster management and safety analysis. In the last decade, indoor environment has been a focus of wide research; that includes developing techniques for acquiring indoor data (e.g. Ter... Read More about An automated 3D indoor topological navigation network modelling.

3D indoor building environment reconstruction using calibration of rangefinder data (2015)
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Nowadays, municipalities intend to have 3D city models for facility management, disaster management and architectural planning. 3D data acquisition can be done by laser scanning for indoor environment which is a costly and time consuming process. Cur... Read More about 3D indoor building environment reconstruction using calibration of rangefinder data.

Autonomous and self controlling smart objects for the future internet (2015)
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Development of IoT applications relies heavily on middleware architectures. Multiple solutions have been proposed using service and agent paradigms, which consequently impose a specific application development model. We observe a trend towards a data... Read More about Autonomous and self controlling smart objects for the future internet.

Visualizing the insider threat: Challenges and tools for identifying malicious user activity (2015)
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One of the greatest challenges for managing organisational cyber security is the threat that comes from those who operate within the organisation. With entitled access and knowledge of organisational processes, insiders who choose to attack have the... Read More about Visualizing the insider threat: Challenges and tools for identifying malicious user activity.

Intellibility assessment in a square shaped preschool classroom according to the grouping of children of 3 to 5 year of age (2015)
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Architecture and Acoustic are intimately related, been sound an extremely important part of the human natural environment. Sounds give specific qualities to spaces establishing whether or not a hearing condition is pleasant or annoying to those who i... Read More about Intellibility assessment in a square shaped preschool classroom according to the grouping of children of 3 to 5 year of age.

Air Pollution. Why we fail to learn the lessons of history (2015)
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This presentation explores contemporary issues of air pollution through the lens provided by history. It presents a perspective drawn from an analysis of historical, and mostly failed, attempts to manage air pollution from classical times until to... Read More about Air Pollution. Why we fail to learn the lessons of history.

Does sleep restriction make driving with distractions worse? A comparison of listening to the radio, texting, eating and drinking whilst on a short 10 minute drive (2015)
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Evaluating a methodology for providing individualised feedback on quality of life and its importance in community and primary care, using the WHOQOL-BREF (2015)
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AIMS
Research suggests that wellbeing is at its lowest when individuals’ quality of life (QoL) dimensions are rated poor and also very important. We aimed to find out how people evaluated guided individualised feedback when a graphical profile of su... Read More about Evaluating a methodology for providing individualised feedback on quality of life and its importance in community and primary care, using the WHOQOL-BREF.

Financial regulation: An essential or incidental component in the anti-corruption toolkit? (2015)
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The aim of this paper is to review the relationship between financial regulation and the enforcement of the Bribery Act 2010. The paper concentrates on the role of the Financial Conduct Authority and the Serious Fraud Office.

Briefing for design commission evidence session 2: Health and wellbeing (2015)
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Briefing Notes and Context
The debate about the extent to which, and in what ways, our behaviour is affected by the built environment is not new.
Whilst we might use emerging technology, visualising techniques and different data streams to extrapol... Read More about Briefing for design commission evidence session 2: Health and wellbeing.

Fault-tolerant generator telecontrol over a microgrid IP network (2015)
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© 2015 IEEE. The liberalization of the energy markets, combined with the drive towards a low-carbon economy, has led to the development of the concept of the smart grid. The smart grid is an energy distribution network that enables real-time informat... Read More about Fault-tolerant generator telecontrol over a microgrid IP network.

Physiologically-inspired self-regulation for Factory Automation: Towards Artificial Homeostasis for Shopfloors (2015)
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© 2015 IEEE. Many Factory Automation Systems (FASs) are been increasingly required to provide 24/7 in-service operation. This demands increasingly-higher levels of autonomy, and makes FAS control architectures include extra regulating capabilities in... Read More about Physiologically-inspired self-regulation for Factory Automation: Towards Artificial Homeostasis for Shopfloors.

Capacidade de absorção e Inovação aberta na Indústria de cosméticos brasileira (portuguese) (2015)
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There is a growing interest in the concepts and practices of open innovation and especially with regard to the role played by involved in these practices. This requires a more in-depth knowledge of the concepts, since the fundamental basis of any ope... Read More about Capacidade de absorção e Inovação aberta na Indústria de cosméticos brasileira (portuguese).