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Non contact pulmonary functional testing through an improved photometric stereo approach (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Ahmad, J., Sun, J., Smith, L., & Smith, M. (2014, July). Non contact pulmonary functional testing through an improved photometric stereo approach. Paper presented at Medical Image Understanding and Analysis 2014, City University London

A non-contact computer vision based system is developed for Pulmonary Functional Testing. The unique and novel features of the system are that it views the patients from both front and back and creates a 3D structure of the whole torso. By observing... Read More about Non contact pulmonary functional testing through an improved photometric stereo approach.

Photometric stereo reconstruction for surface analysis of mucosal tissue (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Emrith, K., Slabaugh, G., Poullis, A. P., Goves, C., & Smith, M. (2014, July). Photometric stereo reconstruction for surface analysis of mucosal tissue. Paper presented at Medical Image Understanding and Analysis 2014, City University London

We introduce photometric stereo reconstruction for surface analysis of mucosal tissue. Photometric stereo captures images of a surface from a single camera, but illuminated from different light sources. From the set of images, a detailed surface rec... Read More about Photometric stereo reconstruction for surface analysis of mucosal tissue.

Dietary patterns and changes in body composition in children between 9 and 11 years (2014)
Journal Article
Smith, A. D. A. C., Emmett, P. M., Newby, P. K., & Northstone, K. (2014). Dietary patterns and changes in body composition in children between 9 and 11 years. Food and Nutrition Research, 58, 22769. https://doi.org/10.3402/fnr.v58.22769

Objective: Childhood obesity is rising and dietary intake is a potentially modifiable factor that plays an important role in its development. We aim to investigate the association between dietary patterns, obtained through principal components analys... Read More about Dietary patterns and changes in body composition in children between 9 and 11 years.

Study on dimensional and corrosion properties of thixoformed A356 and AA7075 aluminum bipolar plates for proton exchange membrane fuel cells (2014)
Journal Article
Bolouri, A., & Kang, C. G. (2014). Study on dimensional and corrosion properties of thixoformed A356 and AA7075 aluminum bipolar plates for proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Renewable Energy, 71, 616-628. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2014.06.021

Metallic bipolar plates for polymer exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells are currently manufactured by stamping of thin sheets. However, there are dimensional and shape errors of microchannels because of forming limitation such as spring back of thin s... Read More about Study on dimensional and corrosion properties of thixoformed A356 and AA7075 aluminum bipolar plates for proton exchange membrane fuel cells.

FuzzySRI-II A fuzzy rule induction algorithm for numerical output prediction (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Afifi, A. (2014, July). FuzzySRI-II A fuzzy rule induction algorithm for numerical output prediction. Paper presented at World Congress on Engineering (WCE-2014), London, UK, London, UK

Current inductive learning algorithms have difficulties handling attributes with numerical output values. This paper presents FuzzySRI-II, a new fuzzy rule induction algorithm for the prediction of numerical outputs. FuzzySRI-II integrates the compre... Read More about FuzzySRI-II A fuzzy rule induction algorithm for numerical output prediction.

Feature extraction and selection for emotion recognition from EEG (2014)
Journal Article
Jenke, R., Peer, A., & Buss, M. (2014). Feature extraction and selection for emotion recognition from EEG. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 5(3), 327-339. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2014.2339834

© 2014 IEEE. Emotion recognition from EEG signals allows the direct assessment of the 'inner' state of a user, which is considered an important factor in human-machine-interaction. Many methods for feature extraction have been studied and the selecti... Read More about Feature extraction and selection for emotion recognition from EEG.

Environmental auditing of a packaging system for redesign: A case study exploration (2014)
Journal Article
Matthews, J., Parr, C., Araoye, O., & McManus, M. (2014). Environmental auditing of a packaging system for redesign: A case study exploration. https://doi.org/10.7763/JOCET.2014.V2.138

Within the United Kingdom a significant portion of the energy consumed each year is done so through industry. It is therefore desirable to take measures that reduce this consumption. A process common to all manufacturing sectors is that of packaging,... Read More about Environmental auditing of a packaging system for redesign: A case study exploration.

Mapping and analysis of research and KE funding sources for operational research in the UK (2014)
Report
Clark, A. (2014). Mapping and analysis of research and KE funding sources for operational research in the UK

This project came about in 2013 after a discussion with the Chair of the Education and Research Committee of the Operational Research Society (ORS) about obtaining a clearer idea of the range and characteristics of sources of funding for research in... Read More about Mapping and analysis of research and KE funding sources for operational research in the UK.

Direct numerical simulation of supersonic turbulent flow in an expansion-compression corner at mach=2.9 (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Fang, J., Yao, Y., Lu, L., & Zheltovodov, A. A. (2014, June). Direct numerical simulation of supersonic turbulent flow in an expansion-compression corner at mach=2.9. Paper presented at ICMAR 2014, Novosibirsk, Russia

Shock-wave/turbulent boundary layer interactions (SWTBLI) are prevalent phenomena in high-speed flights, which could cause large flow separation and high wall heat flux and strong pressure fluctuation, therefore, affect significantly the aero-thermod... Read More about Direct numerical simulation of supersonic turbulent flow in an expansion-compression corner at mach=2.9.

Numerical simulations of two-dimensional and three-dimensional shock wave/turbulent boundary layer interactions (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Fang, J., Yao, Y., Zheltovodov, A. A., & Lu, L. (2014, June). Numerical simulations of two-dimensional and three-dimensional shock wave/turbulent boundary layer interactions. Paper presented at ICMAR 2014, Novosibirsk, Russia

The impinging shock-wave/flat-plate boundary layer interaction is a standard CFD case for two-dimensional (2D) SWTBLI, which represents the simplest SWTBLI configuration for the validation of turbulence models and computational methods. Although plen... Read More about Numerical simulations of two-dimensional and three-dimensional shock wave/turbulent boundary layer interactions.

Algal 'lagoon' effect for oxygenating MFC cathodes (2014)
Journal Article
Gajda, I., Stinchcombe, A., Greenman, J., Melhuish, C., & Ieropoulos, I. (2014). Algal 'lagoon' effect for oxygenating MFC cathodes. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 39(36), 21857-21863. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.05.173

© 2014, Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This paper describes the active oxygenation performed by photosynthetic organisms in the cathode of a two-chamber Microbial Fuel Cell system. The algal biomass... Read More about Algal 'lagoon' effect for oxygenating MFC cathodes.

An experimental investigation into size effects in quasi-isotropic carbon/epoxy laminates with sharp and blunt notches (2014)
Journal Article
Xu, X., Wisnom, M. R., Mahadik, Y., & Hallett, S. R. (2014). An experimental investigation into size effects in quasi-isotropic carbon/epoxy laminates with sharp and blunt notches. Composites Science and Technology, 100, 220-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compscitech.2014.06.002

An experimental investigation into size effects in notched [45/90/-45/0]4s carbon/epoxy laminates is carried out. The in-plane dimensions of the quasi-isotropic laminates are scaled up by a factor of up to 8. Larger Scale 16 specimens with only their... Read More about An experimental investigation into size effects in quasi-isotropic carbon/epoxy laminates with sharp and blunt notches.

Artificial homeostasis for vehicle control architecture of unmanned spacecraft (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Insaurralde, C. C., & Vassev, E. (2014). Artificial homeostasis for vehicle control architecture of unmanned spacecraft. https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO.2014.6836431

Current space missions are increasingly demanding more autonomy in control architectures for Unmanned Space Vehicles (USVs), so unmanned long-term missions can be afforded. Continuous assurance of effective adaptation to unpredictable internal and ex... Read More about Artificial homeostasis for vehicle control architecture of unmanned spacecraft.

The next big thing(s) in robotics (2014)
Book Chapter
Winfield, A. F. (2014). The next big thing(s) in robotics. In S. Westlake (Ed.), Our Work Here is Done: Visions of a Robot Economy (38-44). London: NESTA

A novel photometric stereo imaging sensor for endoscopy imaging: Proof of concept studies on a porcine model (2014)
Journal Article
Poullis, A., Groves, C., Slabaugh, G., Emrith, K., & Smith, M. (2014). A novel photometric stereo imaging sensor for endoscopy imaging: Proof of concept studies on a porcine model. Gut, 63(S1), A46-A47. https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2014-307263.96

The American Society of Gastroenterology Endoscopy led Preservation and Incorporation of Valuable Endoscopy Innovations initiative has identified real time poly diagnosis as one of the next major technology driven changes in endoscopy (1). A number o... Read More about A novel photometric stereo imaging sensor for endoscopy imaging: Proof of concept studies on a porcine model.

SMARTPOP: Inferring the impact of social dynamics on genetic diversity through high speed simulations (2014)
Journal Article
Cox, M. P., Guillot, E. G., Guillot, E., & Cox, M. P. (2014). SMARTPOP: Inferring the impact of social dynamics on genetic diversity through high speed simulations. BMC Bioinformatics, 15(1), 175. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-15-175

Background: Social behavior has long been known to influence patterns of genetic diversity, but the effect of social processes on population genetics remains poorly quantified - partly due to limited community-level genetic sampling (which is increas... Read More about SMARTPOP: Inferring the impact of social dynamics on genetic diversity through high speed simulations.