All Outputs (38989)

Hourly temperature and precipitation time series characteristics in São Paulo with urban land use type of convection-permitting model (CPM) outputs (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Chun, K., Reboita, M., Rocha, R., Danaila, L., Octavianti, T., Risanto, B., …Prein, A. (2023, August). Hourly temperature and precipitation time series characteristics in São Paulo with urban land use type of convection-permitting model (CPM) outputs. Poster presented at The VII Convective Permitting Climate Modelling 2023 workshop, Bergen, Norway

The influences of regional atmospheric drivers on the joint distribution of temperature and precipitation from a Convection-Permitting Model (CPM) over São Paulo are explored. Time series of temperature and precipitation are extracted from urban land... Read More about Hourly temperature and precipitation time series characteristics in São Paulo with urban land use type of convection-permitting model (CPM) outputs.

Implicit aspects of the psychosocial rehabilitation with a humanoid robot (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Dimitrova, M., Garate, V. R., Withey, D., & Harper, C. (2023). Implicit aspects of the psychosocial rehabilitation with a humanoid robot. In Z. Kubincová, F. Caruso, T. Kim, M. Ivanova, L. Lancia, & M. Pellegrino (Eds.), Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning, Workshops - 13th International Conference (119-128). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42134-1_12

The paper presents an approach to understanding the emergent dynamics of human-robot interaction in the specific case of a humanoid robot taking the role of a co-therapist to the human therapist in psychosocial rehabilitation by focusing on the nonve... Read More about Implicit aspects of the psychosocial rehabilitation with a humanoid robot.

Understanding the role of allied health professional support workers with exercise qualifications in the delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan within allied health professional services in England (2023)
Journal Article
Singh, V., Pollard, K., Okasheh, R., Percival, J., & Cramp, F. (2023). Understanding the role of allied health professional support workers with exercise qualifications in the delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan within allied health professional services in England. BMJ Open Sport and Exercise Medicine, 9(3), Article e001625. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2023-001625

Demand modelling for the allied health professionals (AHPs) workforce showed that significant expansion would be needed to successfully deliver on the National Health Service (NHS) Long Term Plan. The aim was to explore the use of AHP support workers... Read More about Understanding the role of allied health professional support workers with exercise qualifications in the delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan within allied health professional services in England.

Pedagogical constructions of young children’s participative rights across initial teacher education and professional learning in Wales (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Clement, J., Chicken, S., Tyrie, J., Alison, M., Jane, W., Jane, W., …Georgia, F. (2023, August). Pedagogical constructions of young children’s participative rights across initial teacher education and professional learning in Wales. Presented at EECERA, Lisbon

This research aims to understand to what extent programmes within Initial Teacher Education (ITE) and wider Professional Learning (PL), support the Welsh Government vision for pedagogic practice that embeds young children's participative rights withi... Read More about Pedagogical constructions of young children’s participative rights across initial teacher education and professional learning in Wales.

Trans and non-binary experiences of maternity services: Cautioning against acting without evidence (2023)
Journal Article
Webb, K., Rickford, R., Edun, C., & Melamed, A. (2023). Trans and non-binary experiences of maternity services: Cautioning against acting without evidence. British Journal of Midwifery, 31(9), 512-518. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjom.2023.31.9.512

Research into the experiences of trans and non-binary users of maternity services in England was recently commissioned by the Health and Wellbeing Alliance. It was conducted by the LGBT Foundation, culminating in the ‘improving trans and non-binary e... Read More about Trans and non-binary experiences of maternity services: Cautioning against acting without evidence.

Predicting multiple-target search performance using eye movements and individual differences (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Birch-Hurst, K., Jones, A. M., Ong, A., Stoker, K. M., Smith, M. L., Zhang, W., & Clark, K. (2023, August). Predicting multiple-target search performance using eye movements and individual differences. Poster presented at European Conference on Visual Perception, Paphos, Cyprus

Accuracy in visual search – the process of detecting a target amongst distractors – is critical for life-saving career searches such as radiology and airport security. These searches often contain multiple targets (e.g., a tumour and a fracture) and... Read More about Predicting multiple-target search performance using eye movements and individual differences.

Clinical effectiveness of mindfulness-based music therapy on improving emotional regulation in blind older women: A randomized controlled trial (2023)
Journal Article
Chan, S. H., Cheung, M. Y., Chiu, A. T., Leung, M. H., Kuo, M. C., Yip, D. Y., …Yip, C. C. (2023). Clinical effectiveness of mindfulness-based music therapy on improving emotional regulation in blind older women: A randomized controlled trial. Integrative Medicine Research, 12(4), Article 100993. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imr.2023.100993

Background: This study aimed to investigate clinical effectiveness of a structured eight-week mindfulness-based music therapy (MBMT) program on improving mood regulation in older women with blindness. This investigation compared a MBMT group with a m... Read More about Clinical effectiveness of mindfulness-based music therapy on improving emotional regulation in blind older women: A randomized controlled trial.

Disability rights and robotics: Co-producing futures (2023)
Journal Article
Savage, S., & Curran, T. (2023). Disability rights and robotics: Co-producing futures. International Journal of Disability and Social Justice, 3(2), 26-48. https://doi.org/10.13169/intljofdissocjus.3.2.0026

People with lived experience of disability, family carers, students and academics in robotics and social sciences came together as co-researchers to ask: How can robotics technology support disability rights? How can co-production research be d... Read More about Disability rights and robotics: Co-producing futures.

Speed settling of AC-coupled amplifier for active contactless ECG electrode (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Yue, A., Kiely, J., & Errey, K. (2023). Speed settling of AC-coupled amplifier for active contactless ECG electrode. In 2023 IEEE 5th Eurasia Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare and Sustainability (ECBIOS) (100-103). https://doi.org/10.1109/ECBIOS57802.2023.10218677

Contactless electrodes have the ability of long- term wearable physiological recording to meet the massive data requirements in digital health. Active electrodes have been used to avoid noise induced by the high-impedance contactless electrodes for b... Read More about Speed settling of AC-coupled amplifier for active contactless ECG electrode.

Methods for improving robustness against adversarial machine learning attacks (2023)
Thesis
McCarthy, A. Methods for improving robustness against adversarial machine learning attacks. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10492055

Machine learning systems can improve the efficiency of real-world tasks, including in the cyber security domain; however, these models are susceptible to adversarial attacks; indeed, an arms race exists between adversaries and defenders. The benefits... Read More about Methods for improving robustness against adversarial machine learning attacks.

Two iterative reweighted algorithms for systems contaminated by outliers (2023)
Journal Article
Chen, J., Hu, M., Liu, Y., & Zhu, Q. (2023). Two iterative reweighted algorithms for systems contaminated by outliers. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 72, https://doi.org/10.1109/tim.2023.3308255

This study proposes two iterative reweighted (IRE) algorithms for systems whose data are contaminated by outliers. For the negative effect caused by the outliers, traditional least squares (LSs) and gradient descent (GD) algorithms cannot obtain unbi... Read More about Two iterative reweighted algorithms for systems contaminated by outliers.

A systematic review of reverberation and accessibility for B/blind users in virtual environments (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Child, L., Mitchell, T., & Ford, N. (2023). A systematic review of reverberation and accessibility for B/blind users in virtual environments.

Reverberation is often used in linear and non-linear media to convey the acoustic characteristics of a space. This information is presented alongside visual stimuli to create a multi-modal experience, assisting participants in developing visual and a... Read More about A systematic review of reverberation and accessibility for B/blind users in virtual environments.

Maintenance automation using deep learning methods: A case study from the aerospace industry (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Mayhew, P. J., Ihshaish, H., Deza, I., & Del Amo, A. (2023). Maintenance automation using deep learning methods: A case study from the aerospace industry. In Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2023 (295-307). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44204-9_25

In this study, state-of-the-art AI models are employed to classify aerospace maintenance records into categories based on the fault descriptions of avionic components. The classification is performed using short natural language text descriptions pro... Read More about Maintenance automation using deep learning methods: A case study from the aerospace industry.

Learning a flexible neural energy function with a unique minimum for globally stable and accurate demonstration learning (2023)
Journal Article
Jin, Z., Si, W., Liu, A., Zhang, W. A., Yu, L., & Yang, C. (in press). Learning a flexible neural energy function with a unique minimum for globally stable and accurate demonstration learning. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, https://doi.org/10.1109/tro.2023.3303011

Learning a stable autonomous dynamic system (ADS) encoding human motion rules has been shown as an effective way for demonstration learning. However, the stability guarantee may sacrifice the demonstration learning accuracy. This article solves the i... Read More about Learning a flexible neural energy function with a unique minimum for globally stable and accurate demonstration learning.

Home gardening of yellow cassava and orange maize for the prevention of nutritional blindness in children: An economic evaluation and value of information analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Esio-Bassey, C., Wilson, E. C. F., Hooper, L., Rao, N., & Whitty, J. A. (2023). Home gardening of yellow cassava and orange maize for the prevention of nutritional blindness in children: An economic evaluation and value of information analysis. Value in Health Regional Issues, 38, 77-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vhri.2023.07.002

Objectives: Vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of childhood blindness worldwide, affecting mostly Sub-Saharan Africa. We aimed to predict the cost-effectiveness of home gardening (HG) of yellow cassava and orange maize to prevent nutritional b... Read More about Home gardening of yellow cassava and orange maize for the prevention of nutritional blindness in children: An economic evaluation and value of information analysis.

Towards a creative and cultural industries ecosystem perspective (2023)
Book Chapter
Virani, T. (2023). Towards a creative and cultural industries ecosystem perspective. In T. Virani (Ed.), Global Creative Ecosystems: A Critical Understanding of Sustainable Creative and Cultural Production. Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33961-5

The creative and cultural industries are increasingly being examined and understood through the lens of ecosystems as well as ecologies. Using ecosystems, and ecologies, has come on the back of a recognition that forensic efforts around defining, del... Read More about Towards a creative and cultural industries ecosystem perspective.

From strangers to a designer community: An ecosystem perspective of creative hub formation in Taipei City (2023)
Book Chapter
Wu, J. Y., & Virani, T. (2023). From strangers to a designer community: An ecosystem perspective of creative hub formation in Taipei City. In Global Creative Ecosystems: A Critical Understanding of Sustainable Creative and Cultural Production. Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33961-5

This chapter argues that the notion of a creative ecosystem provides a better understanding regarding the intrinsic rationale of how spatial agglomeration in cultural and creative industries work and function. This is where the existing research... Read More about From strangers to a designer community: An ecosystem perspective of creative hub formation in Taipei City.

Global Creative Ecosystems: A Critical Understanding of Sustainable Creative and Cultural Production (2023)
Book
Virani, T. E. (Ed.). (2023). Global Creative Ecosystems: A Critical Understanding of Sustainable Creative and Cultural Production. Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33961-5

This book reorients the lens of global creative economies in order to focus on ecological articulations of cultural production ecosystems. While numerous volumes and studies exist of how cities and regions all over the world produce culture, this vol... Read More about Global Creative Ecosystems: A Critical Understanding of Sustainable Creative and Cultural Production.

Bristol’s film and television industries: An incremental ecosystem (2023)
Book Chapter
Spicer, A. (2023). Bristol’s film and television industries: An incremental ecosystem. In T. E. Virani (Ed.), Global creative ecosystems: A critical understanding of sustainable creative and cultural production (115-133). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33961-5

This chapter explores the growth and characteristics of Bristol’s screen industries, which consist principally of television production companies and a much smaller group engaged in feature film production. In contrast to what one could call ‘enginee... Read More about Bristol’s film and television industries: An incremental ecosystem.

Practical hardware for evolvable robots (2023)
Journal Article
Angus, M., Buchanan, E., Le Goff, L. K., Hart, E., Eiben, A. E., De Carlo, M., …Tyrrell, A. M. (2023). Practical hardware for evolvable robots. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 10, Article 1206055. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2023.1206055

The evolutionary robotics field offers the possibility of autonomously generating robots that are adapted to desired tasks by iteratively optimising across successive generations of robots with varying configurations until a high-performing candidate... Read More about Practical hardware for evolvable robots.