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A guide to fully homomorphic encryption (2015)
Journal Article
Armknecht, F., Boyd, C., Carr, C., Gjøsteen, K., Jäschke, A., Reuter, C. A., & Strand, M. (2015). A guide to fully homomorphic encryption. IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2015, 1192

Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) has been dubbed the holy grail of cryptography, an elusive goal which could solve the IT world’s problems of security and trust. Research in the area exploded after 2009 when Craig Gentry showed that FHE can be real... Read More about A guide to fully homomorphic encryption.

Eco-case based reasoning (Eco-CBR) for supporting sustainable product design (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Romli, A., Setchi, R., Soe, S., & Prickett, P. (2015). Eco-case based reasoning (Eco-CBR) for supporting sustainable product design. In SDM'2015: 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (145-158)

A major challenge for any manufacturer is including aspects of sustainable development in product design. These are related to the social, environmental and economic impacts of the proposed product. This paper proposes the development of an eco- case... Read More about Eco-case based reasoning (Eco-CBR) for supporting sustainable product design.

“Iftar” in Mcdonald’s’: The everyday encroachment of Cairo’s subaltern cosmopolitans (2015)
Book Chapter
Pettit, H. (2015). “Iftar” in Mcdonald’s’: The everyday encroachment of Cairo’s subaltern cosmopolitans. In F. A. Gerges (Ed.), Contentious Politics in the Middle East: Popular Resistance and Marginalized Activism beyond the Arab Uprisings (523-546). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137530868_22

On July 12, 2013, two days into the holy month of Ramadan, I received an invitation to break the fast with Kareem and Islam, two 19-year-old middle-class Egyptians living near downtown Cairo. With both about to commence public university courses, the... Read More about “Iftar” in Mcdonald’s’: The everyday encroachment of Cairo’s subaltern cosmopolitans.

'The love of a pitiable dog': Gregariousness, reciprocity and altruism in early twentieth-century British social psychology (2015)
Book Chapter
Swanson, G. (2015). 'The love of a pitiable dog': Gregariousness, reciprocity and altruism in early twentieth-century British social psychology. In A. Harris, & T. Jones (Eds.), Love and Romance in Britain, 1918 - 1970 (161-187). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137328632

The interwar period is commonly figured as a period of cultural pessimism and uncertainty, as the traumatic wound to hope brought about by of the Great War was translated into an intellectual climate characterized by Richard Overy as a ‘morbid age’.... Read More about 'The love of a pitiable dog': Gregariousness, reciprocity and altruism in early twentieth-century British social psychology.

A Game Theoretical Method for Cost-Benefit Analysis of Malware Dissemination Prevention (2015)
Journal Article
Spyridopoulos, T., Maraslis, K., Mylonas, A., Tryfonas, T., & Oikonomou, G. (2015). A Game Theoretical Method for Cost-Benefit Analysis of Malware Dissemination Prevention. Information Security Journal: A Global Perspective, 24(4-6), 164-176. https://doi.org/10.1080/19393555.2015.1092186

Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Literature in malware proliferation focuses on modeling and analyzing its spread dynamics. Epidemiology models, which are inspired by the characteristics of biological disease spread in human populations, ha... Read More about A Game Theoretical Method for Cost-Benefit Analysis of Malware Dissemination Prevention.

When Children Teach a Robot to Write: An Autonomous Teachable Humanoid Which Uses Simulated Handwriting (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Hood, D., Lemaignan, S., & Dillenbourg, P. (2015). When Children Teach a Robot to Write: An Autonomous Teachable Humanoid Which Uses Simulated Handwriting. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction Conference. , (83-90). https://doi.org/10.1145/2696454.2696479

© 2015 ACM. This article presents a novel robotic partner which children can teach handwriting. The system relies on the learning by teaching paradigm to build an interaction, so as to stimulate meta-cognition, empathy and increased self-esteem in th... Read More about When Children Teach a Robot to Write: An Autonomous Teachable Humanoid Which Uses Simulated Handwriting.

Stipulating citizen's fundamental right to healthcare: Inference from the Constitution of Federal Republic of Nepal 2015 (2015)
Journal Article
Simkhada, P., Regmi, P. R., Pant, P. R., van Teijlingen, E., & Sathian, B. (2015). Stipulating citizen's fundamental right to healthcare: Inference from the Constitution of Federal Republic of Nepal 2015. Nepal Journal of Epidemiology, 5(4), 516-517. https://doi.org/10.3126/nje.v5i4.14257

Nepal has a great opportunity to learn from, and collaborate with, non-governmental development partners and private sectors, and from other governments and organizations around the world, but we must move promptly.

On chirality of slime mould (2015)
Journal Article
Levin, M., Erokhin, V., Dimonte, A., & Adamatzky, A. (2016). On chirality of slime mould. BioSystems, 140, 23-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2015.12.008

© 2015 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. Left-right patterning and lateralised behaviour is an ubiquitous aspect of plants and animals. The mechanisms linking cellular chirality to the large-scale asymmetry of multicellular structures are incompletely understood... Read More about On chirality of slime mould.

Response to an Earthquake in Bangladesh: Experiences and lessons learnt (2015)
Journal Article
Biswas, A., Mashreky, S., Dala, K., & Deave, T. (2016). Response to an Earthquake in Bangladesh: Experiences and lessons learnt. Open Journal of Earthquake Research, 5(1), 1-6

A powerful earthquake occurred in Nepal on 25th April 2015 where the highest measure of the tremor was 7.9 on the Richter scale with a minimum of 6.6. The death toll was around 3000 and thousands were injured in the devastation of the disaster. The e... Read More about Response to an Earthquake in Bangladesh: Experiences and lessons learnt.

Fuzzy PID control of a stand-alone system based on PEM fuel cell (2015)
Journal Article
Rakhtala, S. M., & Shafiee Roudbari, E. (2016). Fuzzy PID control of a stand-alone system based on PEM fuel cell. International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, 78, 576-590. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijepes.2015.12.003

Fuel cell (FC) systems are appropriate candidates as alternative energy sources for use in stand-alone applications. However, the FC generates an unregulated voltage, which is not suitable in stand-alone application usage solely. This paper presents... Read More about Fuzzy PID control of a stand-alone system based on PEM fuel cell.

Recent advances in bidirectional modeling and structural control (2015)
Journal Article
Paul, S., Yu, W., & Li, X. (2016). Recent advances in bidirectional modeling and structural control. Shock and Vibration, 2016, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/6275307

© 2016 Satyam Paul et al. This paper provides an overview of building structure modeling and control under bidirectional seismic waves. It focuses on different types of bidirectional control devices, control strategies, and bidirectional sensors used... Read More about Recent advances in bidirectional modeling and structural control.

A deuterium-based labeling technique for the investigation of rooting depths, water uptake dynamics and unsaturated zone water transport in semiarid environments (2015)
Journal Article
Beyer, M., Koeniger, P., Gaj, M., Hamutoko, J. T., Wanke, H., & Himmelsbach, T. (2016). A deuterium-based labeling technique for the investigation of rooting depths, water uptake dynamics and unsaturated zone water transport in semiarid environments. Journal of Hydrology, 533, 627-643. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.12.037

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. Non- or minimum-invasive methods for the quantification of rooting depths of plants are rare, in particular in (semi-)arid regions; yet, this information is crucial for the parameterization of SVAT (Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Tra... Read More about A deuterium-based labeling technique for the investigation of rooting depths, water uptake dynamics and unsaturated zone water transport in semiarid environments.

Rapid, automated detection of stem canker symptoms in woody perennials using artificial neural network analysis (2015)
Journal Article
Li, B., Hulin, M. T., Brain, P., Mansfield, J. W., Jackson, R. W., & Harrison, R. J. (2015). Rapid, automated detection of stem canker symptoms in woody perennials using artificial neural network analysis. Plant Methods, 11(1), Article 57. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-015-0100-8

© 2015 Li et al. Background: Pseudomonas syringae can cause stem necrosis and canker in a wide range of woody species including cherry, plum, peach, horse chestnut and ash. The detection and quantification of lesion progression over time in woody tis... Read More about Rapid, automated detection of stem canker symptoms in woody perennials using artificial neural network analysis.

Fluorophosphonate-functionalised titanium via a pre-adsorbed alkane phosphonic acid: a novel dual action surface finish for bone regenerative applications (2015)
Journal Article
Ayre, W. N., Scott, T., Hallam, K., Blom, A. W., Denyer, S., Bone, H. K., & Mansell, J. P. (2016). Fluorophosphonate-functionalised titanium via a pre-adsorbed alkane phosphonic acid: a novel dual action surface finish for bone regenerative applications. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, 27(2), Article 36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10856-015-5644-7

© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York. Abstract: Enhancing vitamin D-induced human osteoblast (hOB) maturation at bone biomaterial surfaces is likely to improve prosthesis integration with resultant reductions in the need for revision art... Read More about Fluorophosphonate-functionalised titanium via a pre-adsorbed alkane phosphonic acid: a novel dual action surface finish for bone regenerative applications.

Flexibility in MOFs: Do scalar and group-theoretical counting rules work? (2015)
Journal Article
Marmier, A., & Evans, K. E. (2016). Flexibility in MOFs: Do scalar and group-theoretical counting rules work?. Dalton Transactions, 45(10), 4360-4369. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5dt03586d

© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2016. We investigate the ability of counting rules drafted from engineering to predict the flexibility or rigidity of bar-and-joint or body-and-joint assemblies representing metal organic frameworks. We show that whil... Read More about Flexibility in MOFs: Do scalar and group-theoretical counting rules work?.

Facile aqueous growth of 150 nm ZnO nanowires for energy harvester: Enhanced output voltage using Pt sputtered electrode (2015)
Journal Article
Luxton, R., Ahmad, M., Kiely, J., Luxton, R. W., Jabeen, M., & Khalid, M. (2016). Facile aqueous growth of 150 nm ZnO nanowires for energy harvester: Enhanced output voltage using Pt sputtered electrode. Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research, 7, 141-145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbsr.2015.12.005

© 2015. Facile aqueous growth technique was adopted to grow diameter controlled 150 nm ZnO nanowires on an ITO (indium tin oxide) coated PET (poly ethylene terephthalate) substrate. Prior to nanowire growth, a pure wurtazite structured ZnO seed layer... Read More about Facile aqueous growth of 150 nm ZnO nanowires for energy harvester: Enhanced output voltage using Pt sputtered electrode.