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Assessment of source contributions to the urban air quality for the Bristol claircity pilot case (2019)
Journal Article
Oliveira, K., Rodrigues, V., Coelho, S., Patrícia Fernandes, A., Rafael, S., Faria, C., …Lopes, M. (2019). Assessment of source contributions to the urban air quality for the Bristol claircity pilot case. WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 236, 89-98. https://doi.org/10.2495/AIR190091

The world's population has been growing continuously, with most people inhabiting urban settlements. Furthermore, air pollution has become a growing concern, mainly in densely populated cities, where human health is threatened by acute air pollution... Read More about Assessment of source contributions to the urban air quality for the Bristol claircity pilot case.

Birth order does not affect ability to detect kin (2019)
Journal Article
Fasolt, V., Holzleitner, I. J., Lee, A. J., O’Shea, K. J., & Debruine, L. M. (2019). Birth order does not affect ability to detect kin. Collabra: Psychology, 5(1), Article 35. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.235

Previous studies suggest that birth order affects kinship detection ability. Kaminski et al. (2010) argued that firstborns use contextual cues (e.g., maternal perinatal association) to assess kinship in their own family, leading to a disadvantage in... Read More about Birth order does not affect ability to detect kin.

A reverse-engineering methodology for medical enhancement processes (2019)
Journal Article
Rahmouni, H. B. (2019). A reverse-engineering methodology for medical enhancement processes. Procedia Computer Science, 164, 714-723. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2019.12.240

© 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This study was initiated for the benefit of the Tunisian Ministry of Health and the Informatics Centre of the Ministry of Health (CIMSP). The scope of our study is restricted to two university hospitals:... Read More about A reverse-engineering methodology for medical enhancement processes.

Enhanced privacy governance in Health Information Systems through business process modelling and HL7 (2019)
Journal Article
Rahmouni, H. B., Essefi, I., & Ladeb, M. F. (2019). Enhanced privacy governance in Health Information Systems through business process modelling and HL7. Procedia Computer Science, 164, 706-713. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2019.12.239

© 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Medical data privacy is nowadays an alarming issue thanks to the technological revolution witnessed in the medical field and the ease of data access and exchange leveraged by newly implemented Hospital I... Read More about Enhanced privacy governance in Health Information Systems through business process modelling and HL7.

Brexit: Chronicle of a crisis foretold (2019)
Journal Article
Dadomo, C. (2019). Brexit: Chronicle of a crisis foretold. International Comparative Jurisprudence, 5(2), 108-118. https://doi.org/10.13165/j.icj.2019.12.001

European regional integration seemed to be unstoppable and unbreakable despite the many political and economic crises it navigated since the 70s, and more recently in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. Yet, for the first time in its history,... Read More about Brexit: Chronicle of a crisis foretold.

Altered body perception and comfort after stroke: An embodied interpretive phenomenological analysis (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Stott, H., Cramp, M., McClean, S., & Turton, A. (2019). Altered body perception and comfort after stroke: An embodied interpretive phenomenological analysis. . https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406918819362

Stroke can cause changes to how the body is perceived, and survivors often experience altered sense of limb position, movement, sensation, weight, awareness, and pain. However, there is little literature capturing experiential accounts of these chang... Read More about Altered body perception and comfort after stroke: An embodied interpretive phenomenological analysis.

A debris clearance robot for extreme environments (2019)
Journal Article
West, C., Giuliani, M., Lennox, B., Cheah, W., Arvin, F., West, A., & Watson, S. (2019). A debris clearance robot for extreme environments. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 11649 LNAI, 148-159. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23807-0_13

© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. The need for nuclear decommissioning is increasing globally, as power stations and other facilities utilising nuclear reaches the end of their operational life. Currently the majority of decommissioning tasks ar... Read More about A debris clearance robot for extreme environments.

Estimation of EMG-Based force using a neural-network-based approach (2019)
Journal Article
Luo, J., Liu, C., & Yang, C. (2019). Estimation of EMG-Based force using a neural-network-based approach. IEEE Access, 7, 64856-64865. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2917300

© 2013 IEEE. The dynamics of human arms has a high impact on the humans' activities in daily life, especially when a human operates a tool such as interactions with a robot with the need for high dexterity. The dexterity of human arms depends largely... Read More about Estimation of EMG-Based force using a neural-network-based approach.

A Wave Variable Approach with Multiple Channel Architecture for Teleoperated System (2019)
Journal Article
Luo, J., Liu, C., Wang, N., & Yang, C. (2019). A Wave Variable Approach with Multiple Channel Architecture for Teleoperated System. IEEE Access, 7, 143912-143920. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2945674

© 2013 IEEE. Performance of teleoperation can be greatly influenced by time delay in the process of tele-manipulation with respect to accuracy and transparency. Wave variable is an effective algorithm to achieve a good stable capability. However, som... Read More about A Wave Variable Approach with Multiple Channel Architecture for Teleoperated System.

Encoding Multiple Sensor Data for Robotic Learning Skills from Multimodal Demonstration (2019)
Journal Article
Zeng, C., Yang, C., Zhong, J., & Zhang, J. (2019). Encoding Multiple Sensor Data for Robotic Learning Skills from Multimodal Demonstration. IEEE Access, 7, 145604-145613. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2945484

© 2013 IEEE. Learning a task such as pushing something, where the constraints of both position and force have to be satisfied, is usually difficult for a collaborative robot. In this work, we propose a multimodal teaching-by-demonstration system whic... Read More about Encoding Multiple Sensor Data for Robotic Learning Skills from Multimodal Demonstration.

Social robots: The influence of human and robot characteristics on acceptance (2019)
Journal Article
Bishop, L., van Maris, A., Dogramadzi, S., & Zook, N. (2019). Social robots: The influence of human and robot characteristics on acceptance. Paladyn, 10(1), 346-358. https://doi.org/10.1515/pjbr-2019-0028

Research in social robotics is focused on the development of robots that can provide physical and cognitive support in a socially interactive way. Whilst some studies have previously investigated the importance of user characteristics (age, gender, e... Read More about Social robots: The influence of human and robot characteristics on acceptance.

The Blue Economy in the Caribbean (2019)
Book Chapter
Clegg, P., McConney, P., Mahon, R., & Oxenford, H. (2019). The Blue Economy in the Caribbean. In Europa Regional Surveys of the World - South America, Central America and the Caribbean. (27th). Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Science Live -articulating the aims and ethos of science event practitioners in the USA and UK (2019)
Journal Article
Fogg-Rogers, L., Wiehe, B., Comerford, D., Fooshee, J., & Durant, J. (2019). Science Live -articulating the aims and ethos of science event practitioners in the USA and UK. JCOM: Journal of Science Communication, 18(04), Article NO1. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.18040801

Live science events engage publics with science in a social context. This article articulates the aims and ethos of this growing sector within a research context. Semi-structured interviews (N=13) and focus groups (N=77) were conducted with event pra... Read More about Science Live -articulating the aims and ethos of science event practitioners in the USA and UK.

Environmental reporting disclosure in South Africa: A comparative study of the expectations of selected groups of preparers and users (2019)
Journal Article
Mitchell, C. G., & Quinn, N. (2019). Environmental reporting disclosure in South Africa: A comparative study of the expectations of selected groups of preparers and users. Meditari Accountancy Research, 13(2), 17-33. https://doi.org/10.1108/10222529200500010

© 2005, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. This study measures and compares the expectations of two different groups – the first is selected preparers of environmental reports (ERs) in South Africa (companies and professional environmental consultants... Read More about Environmental reporting disclosure in South Africa: A comparative study of the expectations of selected groups of preparers and users.

Small aircraft infrared radiation measurements supporting the engine airframe aero-thermal integration (2019)
Journal Article
Rohacs, J., Jankovics, I., Gal, I. L., Bakunowicz, J., Mignione, G., & Carozza, A. (2019). Small aircraft infrared radiation measurements supporting the engine airframe aero-thermal integration. Periodica Polytechnica Transportation Engineering, 47(1), 51-63. https://doi.org/10.3311/PPtr.11514

© 2018 Budapest University of Technology and Economics. All rights reserved. The large, EU Supported ESPOSA (Efficient Systems and propulsion for Small Aircraft) project has developed new small gas turbines for small aircraft. One of the important ta... Read More about Small aircraft infrared radiation measurements supporting the engine airframe aero-thermal integration.

The Discursive Construction of Blame: The Language of Public Inquiries (2019)
Book
Murphy, J. (2019). The Discursive Construction of Blame: The Language of Public Inquiries. Basingstoke: Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50722-8

This book examines the language of public inquiries to reveal how blame is assigned, avoided, negotiated and discussed in this quasi-legal setting. In doing so, the author adds a much-needed linguistic perspective to the study of blame – previously t... Read More about The Discursive Construction of Blame: The Language of Public Inquiries.