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Median frequency and sum of amplitude changes in rising slope: Two potential non-invasive indicators for differentiating DU from BOO in males (2018)
Journal Article

It remains a challenge to non-invasively differentiate detrusor underactivity (DU) from bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) in males, and the gold standard is pressure flow studies, which is invasive, relatively expensive and may cause bleeding and infe... Read More about Median frequency and sum of amplitude changes in rising slope: Two potential non-invasive indicators for differentiating DU from BOO in males.

Multivariate analysis of variance for maximising the diagnosing accuracy in differentiating DU from BOO in males (2018)
Journal Article

Detrusor underactivity (DU) and bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) bother almost half of elder men. Although the treatment is different for these two lower urinary tract symptoms, invasive pressure flow studies remains the only gold standard for diagno... Read More about Multivariate analysis of variance for maximising the diagnosing accuracy in differentiating DU from BOO in males.

Urine flow rate shape template and intermittent flow in males (2018)
Journal Article

Uroflowmetry serves as a preliminary urodynamic test for physicians to indicate the possible cause of lower urinary tract symptoms. Alongside the most researched parameter maximum flow rate (Qmax), the shape of urine flow rate curve is also reported... Read More about Urine flow rate shape template and intermittent flow in males.

Urine flow rate curve shapes and their descriptors (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Aims: To review the descriptors and definitions of urine flow rate curve shape with a view to promoting greater clarity and to propose standard terms. Methods: A search was made in the PubMed and ICS standardization do... Read More about Urine flow rate curve shapes and their descriptors.

Meso-scale process modelling strategies for pultrusion of unidirectional profiles (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The resin injection pultrusion is an automated composite manufacturing method in which the resin is injected in a chamber. The flow and the thermo chemical mechanical (TCM) models have been studied for the pultrusion process to improve the reliabilit... Read More about Meso-scale process modelling strategies for pultrusion of unidirectional profiles.

Design of a real-sized composite drive shaft and critical points from beginning to end (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this study, the replacement of a metal drive shaft by a composite counterapart was investigated. The drive shaft considered here is a thin walled tube with an internal diameter of 60 mm and a length of 1200 mm. These dimensions correspond to the d... Read More about Design of a real-sized composite drive shaft and critical points from beginning to end.

Design of anatomy-based 3D patient-specific knee replacement implant model from medical imaging (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper focuses on the design of an anatomy-based 3D patient-specific knee replacement implant model, which is derived from medical imaging. The investigation extracted the knee profiles from MRI scans to develop a 3D model of the knee, including... Read More about Design of anatomy-based 3D patient-specific knee replacement implant model from medical imaging.

Finding the power for the electric revolution (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Electrical storage and power technologies have made a breakthrough in capability to create a new industry of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, and the usage envelope has expanded such that personal-transport systems are being proposed. However, the very tech... Read More about Finding the power for the electric revolution.

Decentralized adaptive force/position control of reconfigurable manipulator based on soft sensors (2018)
Journal Article

© IMechE 2018. Two soft sensor control methods are proposed to deal with force/position control of reconfigurable manipulator without using wrist force sensors. First, modeling uncertainties and coupled interconnection terms between the subsystems ar... Read More about Decentralized adaptive force/position control of reconfigurable manipulator based on soft sensors.

Mathematical analysis of the male urine flow rate curve for differentiating between DU and BOO (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Mathematical analysis of the male urine flow rate curve for non-invasive differentiating between DU and BOO

Single engine turboprop aeroplane class in small air transport (2018)
Journal Article

Purpose: This paper aims to present the analysis of introduction of single engine turbo-prop aeroplane class in terms of certification specifications and flight crew licensing regulations. Design/methodology/approach: Following the results of flight... Read More about Single engine turboprop aeroplane class in small air transport.

How can we maximize the diagnostic utility of uroflow?: ICI-RS 2017 (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Aims: To gauge the current level of diagnostic utility of uroflowmetry and to suggest areas needing research to improve this. Methods: A summary of the debate held at the 2017 meeting of the International Consultation o... Read More about How can we maximize the diagnostic utility of uroflow?: ICI-RS 2017.

Morphing airfoils analysis using dynamic meshing (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to use dynamic meshing to perform CFD analyses of a NACA 0012 airfoil fitted with a morphing trailing edge (TE) flap when it undergoes static and time-dependent morphing. The s... Read More about Morphing airfoils analysis using dynamic meshing.

G-codes and free-form motions (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The usual route from computer aided design to manufacture is firstly to use computer aided manufacturing software to obtain suitable paths for the cutter of the required machine tool. This path needs to be transferred to the controller of the machine... Read More about G-codes and free-form motions.

Analysis of residual transverse stresses in a thick UD glass/polyester pultruded profile using hole drilling with strain gage and digital image correlation (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2018 Author(s). Process induced stresses inherently exist in fiber reinforced polymer composites particularly in thick parts due to the presence of non-uniform cure, shrinkage and thermal expansion/contraction during manufacturing. In order to incr... Read More about Analysis of residual transverse stresses in a thick UD glass/polyester pultruded profile using hole drilling with strain gage and digital image correlation.

Scalable generation of large-scale unstructured meshes by a novel domain decomposition approach (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd A parallel algorithm is proposed for scalable generation of large-scale tetrahedral meshes. The key innovation is the use of a mesh-simplification based domain decomposition approach. This approach works on a background mesh with... Read More about Scalable generation of large-scale unstructured meshes by a novel domain decomposition approach.

Direct numerical simulation of turbulent channel flow with spanwise alternatively distributed strips control (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 World Scientific Publishing Company. The effect of spanwise alternatively distributed strips (SADS) control on turbulent flow in a plane channel has been studied by direct numerical simulations to investigate the characteristics of large-scale... Read More about Direct numerical simulation of turbulent channel flow with spanwise alternatively distributed strips control.

Functional/thermal verification and validation of an S-band radio for the nanosatellites (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 COSPAR An S-band radio designed with commercial-grade components for the nanosatellites is functionally and thermally characterized for quiet transmission. The QPSK modulation impairments are minor over −20 °C to +50 °C at 24, 26, 28 and 30 dB... Read More about Functional/thermal verification and validation of an S-band radio for the nanosatellites.

Analytical friction model for sliding bodies with coupled longitudinal and transverse vibration (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd An analytical friction model is developed to calculate the drive force required to slide a body over a surface that is subjected to coupled longitudinal and transverse vibration. Previously, this computation was only possible unde... Read More about Analytical friction model for sliding bodies with coupled longitudinal and transverse vibration.

Multivariance analysis on non-invasive urodynamic parameters for Differentiating DU with BOO in male (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Differentiating detrusor underactivity (DU) with bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) can only be done by pressure flow studies. Although a few parameters have been proposed for diagnosing voiding abnormalities, such as flow index1, Delta Q2, peak counti... Read More about Multivariance analysis on non-invasive urodynamic parameters for Differentiating DU with BOO in male.