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Localized necking of a dielectric membrane (2018)
Journal Article
Fu. (2018). Localized necking of a dielectric membrane. Extreme Mechanics Letters, 44-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2018.03.005

We first revisit the problem of localized bulging of an inflated rubber tube, and show that the associated bifurcation condition is equivalent to the vanishing of the determinant of the Hessian of the strain-energy density function when the latter is... Read More about Localized necking of a dielectric membrane.

Elastic Chiral Waveguides with Gyro-Hinges (2018)
Journal Article
Carta, G., Nieves, M. J., Jones, I. S., Movchan, N. V., & Movchan, A. B. (2018). Elastic Chiral Waveguides with Gyro-Hinges. Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, 157 - 185. https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/hby001

This article presents a novel chiral structure, consisting of Euler–Bernoulli beams connected to gyroscopic spinners. A new type of boundary condition is introduced, which is referred to as a gyro-hinge. In this system, flexural waves are coupled wit... Read More about Elastic Chiral Waveguides with Gyro-Hinges.

Wearable Patient and Health Worker Monitoring: Opportunities for Improved Outcomes and Open Source Sensing (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
COLLINS, T., WOOLLEY, S., INFANTE SANCHEZ, D., PEMBERTON, P., VEENITH, T., HUME, D., LAVER, K., SMALL, C., & LAPÃO, L. (2018, April). Wearable Patient and Health Worker Monitoring: Opportunities for Improved Outcomes and Open Source Sensing. Paper presented at Medical Informatics Europe 2018, Svenska Mässan, Gothenburg, Sweden

Transient solutions to nonlinear acousto-magneto-mechanical coupling for axisymmetric MRI scanner design: Transient nonlinear acousto-magneto-mechanical coupling in MRI (2018)
Journal Article
Bagwell, S., Ledger, P., Gil, A., & Mallett, M. (2018). Transient solutions to nonlinear acousto-magneto-mechanical coupling for axisymmetric MRI scanner design: Transient nonlinear acousto-magneto-mechanical coupling in MRI. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 115(2), 209-237. https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.5802

In this work, we simulate the coupled physics describing a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner by using a higher-order finite element discretisation and a Newton-Raphson algorithm. To apply the latter, a linearisation of the nonlinear system of... Read More about Transient solutions to nonlinear acousto-magneto-mechanical coupling for axisymmetric MRI scanner design: Transient nonlinear acousto-magneto-mechanical coupling in MRI.

Optimal control of the radius of a rigid circular inclusion in inhomogeneous two-dimensional bodies with cracks (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Optimal control of the radius of a rigid circular inclusion in inhomogeneous two-dimensional bodies with cracks. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Physik, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00033-018-0949-2

A two-dimensional model describing the equilibrium state of a cracked inhomogeneous body with a rigid circular inclusion is investigated. The body is assumed to have a crack that reaches the boundary of the rigid inclusion. We assume that the Signori... Read More about Optimal control of the radius of a rigid circular inclusion in inhomogeneous two-dimensional bodies with cracks.

Localized necking of a dielectric membrane (2018)
Journal Article
Fu. (2018). Localized necking of a dielectric membrane. Extreme Mechanics Letters, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2018.03.005

Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) Version 2.2.0. (2018)
Journal Article
Misirli. (2018). Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) Version 2.2.0. Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics, https://doi.org/10.1515/jib-2018-0001

Synthetic biology builds upon the techniques and successes of genetics, molecular biology, and metabolic engineering by applying engineering principles to the design of biological systems. The field still faces substantial challenges, including long... Read More about Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) Version 2.2.0..

Shear wave propagation in layered composites with degraded matrices at locations of imperfect bonding (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Shear wave propagation in layered composites with degraded matrices at locations of imperfect bonding. Wave Motion, 9-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wavemoti.2017.12.007

Biodegradable polymers find an increasing number of applications in different fields of engineering and medicine due to their environmental-friendly degradation. The process of degradation of biodegradable polymer constituents and the bonding quality... Read More about Shear wave propagation in layered composites with degraded matrices at locations of imperfect bonding.

Dense Fully Convolutional Segmentation of the Optic Disc and Cup in Colour Fundus for Glaucoma Diagnosis (2018)
Journal Article
Al-Bander, B., Williams, B. M., Al-Nuaimy, W., Al-Taee, M. A., Pratt, H., & Zheng, Y. (2018). Dense Fully Convolutional Segmentation of the Optic Disc and Cup in Colour Fundus for Glaucoma Diagnosis. Symmetry, 10(4), 87 - 87. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym10040087

An Explicit Formula for the Magnetic Polarizability Tensor for Object Characterization (2018)
Journal Article
Ledger, P. D., & Lionheart, W. R. B. (2018). An Explicit Formula for the Magnetic Polarizability Tensor for Object Characterization. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 56(6), 3520-3533. https://doi.org/10.1109/tgrs.2018.2801359

The magnetic polarizability tensor (MPT) has attracted considerable interest due to the possibility it offers for characterizing conducting objects and assisting with the identification and location of hidden targets in metal detection. An explicit f... Read More about An Explicit Formula for the Magnetic Polarizability Tensor for Object Characterization.

Reporting Systematic Reviews: Some Lessons from a Tertiary Study (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Reporting Systematic Reviews: Some Lessons from a Tertiary Study. Information and Software Technology, 62-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2017.10.017

Context: Many of the systematic reviews published in software engineering are related to research or methodological issues and hence are unlikely to be of direct benefit to practitioners or teachers. Those that are relevant to practice and teaching n... Read More about Reporting Systematic Reviews: Some Lessons from a Tertiary Study.

Toward Evolving Robust, Deliberate Motion Planning With HyperNEAT (2018)
Book Chapter
Channon, A., & Jolley, B. (2018). Toward Evolving Robust, Deliberate Motion Planning With HyperNEAT. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2017 (3488 -3495)

Previous works have used a novel hybrid network architecture to create deliberative behaviours to solve increasingly challenging tasks in two-dimensional and threedimensional artificial worlds. At the foundation of each is a static hand-designed neur... Read More about Toward Evolving Robust, Deliberate Motion Planning With HyperNEAT.

A Novel Choroid Segmentation Method for Retinal Diagnosis Using Deep Learning (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Bander, B., Williams, B. M., Al-Taee, M. A., Al-Nuaimy, W., & Zheng, Y. (2017, June). A Novel Choroid Segmentation Method for Retinal Diagnosis Using Deep Learning. Presented at 2017 10th International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE), Paris, Frane

Social Learning and Cultural Evolution in Artificial Life (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Social Learning and Cultural Evolution in Artificial Life. Artificial Life, https://doi.org/10.1162/ARTL_a_00250

We describe the questions and discussions raised at the First Workshop on Social Learning and Cultural Evolution held at the Artificial Life Conference 2016 in Cancun, Mexico in July 2016. The purpose of the workshop was to assemble artificial life r... Read More about Social Learning and Cultural Evolution in Artificial Life.

Commuting Hopf-Galois structures on a separable extension (2018)
Journal Article
Truman. (2018). Commuting Hopf-Galois structures on a separable extension. Communications in Algebra, 1420-1427. https://doi.org/10.1080/00927872.2017.1346107

Let L/K be a finite separable extension of local or global fields in any characteristic, let H-1, H-2 be two Hopf algebras giving Hopf-Galois structures on the extension, and suppose that the actions of H-1, H-2 on L commute. We show that a fractiona... Read More about Commuting Hopf-Galois structures on a separable extension.

High-Dimensional Function Approximation with Neural Networks for Large Volumes of Data (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). High-Dimensional Function Approximation with Neural Networks for Large Volumes of Data. IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems, 500-508. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNNLS.2017.2651985

Approximation of high-dimensional functions is a challenge for neural networks due to the curse of dimensionality. Often the data for which the approximated function is defined resides on a low-dimensional manifold and in principle the approximation... Read More about High-Dimensional Function Approximation with Neural Networks for Large Volumes of Data.

SynBioHub: A Standards-Enabled Design Repository for Synthetic Biology. (2018)
Journal Article
McLaughlin, J., Ofiteru, I., Goñi Moreno, A., Zundel, Z., Misirli, G., Zhang, M., Wipat, A., & Myers, C. (2018). SynBioHub: A Standards-Enabled Design Repository for Synthetic Biology. ACS synthetic biology, 682-688. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.7b00403

The SynBioHub repository (synbiohub.org) is an open-source software project which facilitates the sharing of information about engineered biological systems. SynBioHub provides computational access for software and data integration, and a graphical u... Read More about SynBioHub: A Standards-Enabled Design Repository for Synthetic Biology..

Automatic Detection and Distinction of Retinal Vessel Bifurcations and Crossings in Colour Fundus Photography (2018)
Journal Article
Pratt, H., Williams, B. M., Ku, J. Y., Vas, C., McCann, E., Al-Bander, B., Zhao, Y., Coenen, F., & Zheng, Y. (2018). Automatic Detection and Distinction of Retinal Vessel Bifurcations and Crossings in Colour Fundus Photography. Journal of Imaging, 4(1), 4 - 4. https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging4010004

The analysis of retinal blood vessels present in fundus images, and the addressing of problems such as blood clot location, is important to undertake accurate and appropriate treatment of the vessels. Such tasks are hampered by the challenge of accur... Read More about Automatic Detection and Distinction of Retinal Vessel Bifurcations and Crossings in Colour Fundus Photography.

Explicit formulation for the Rayleigh wave field induced by surface stresses in an orthorhombic half-plane (2018)
Journal Article
Nobili, A., & Prikazchikov, D. A. (2018). Explicit formulation for the Rayleigh wave field induced by surface stresses in an orthorhombic half-plane. European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids, 70, 86-94

We develop an explicit asymptotic model for the Rayleigh wave field arising in case of stresses prescribed on the surface of an orthorhombic elastic half-plane. The model consists of an elliptic equation governing the behaviour within the half-plane,... Read More about Explicit formulation for the Rayleigh wave field induced by surface stresses in an orthorhombic half-plane.

Distributed Caching in Wireless Cellular Networks Incorporating Parallel Processing (2018)
Journal Article
Fan. (2018). Distributed Caching in Wireless Cellular Networks Incorporating Parallel Processing. IEEE Internet Computing, 52 -61. https://doi.org/10.1109/MIC.2018.112101645

Distributed caching is a promising technique for reducing redundant data traffic and user content access delay in telecommunications systems. This article explores caching technologies with a focus on the processing of content requests in today’s hie... Read More about Distributed Caching in Wireless Cellular Networks Incorporating Parallel Processing.