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Monitoring Stem Cells in Phase Contrast Imaging (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lam, K., Dempsey, K., Collins, D., & Richardson, J. Monitoring Stem Cells in Phase Contrast Imaging. Presented at SPIE BiOS 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Understanding the mechanisms behind the proliferation of Mesenchymal Stem cells (MSCs) can offer a greater insight into the behaviour of these cells throughout their life cycles. Traditional methods of determining the rate of MSC differentiation rely... Read More about Monitoring Stem Cells in Phase Contrast Imaging.

Edge bending waves on an orthotropic elastic plate resting on the Winkler-Fuss foundation (2016)
Journal Article
Prikazchikov, D., & Altobaiti, S. (2016). Edge bending waves on an orthotropic elastic plate resting on the Winkler-Fuss foundation

The propagation of bending edge waves on an orthotropic plate supported by the Winkler-Fuss foundation subject to free edge boundary conditions is investigated. A dispersion relation is derived, with the analysis revealing a cut-off frequency and a l... Read More about Edge bending waves on an orthotropic elastic plate resting on the Winkler-Fuss foundation.

Trends in Machine and Human Face Recognition (2016)
Book Chapter
Mandal, B., Lim, R. Y., Dai, P., Sayed, M. R., Li, L., & Lim, J. H. (2016). Trends in Machine and Human Face Recognition. In Advances in Face Detection and Facial Image Analysis (145-187). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25958-1_7

Face recognition (FR) is a natural and intuitive way for human beings to identify or verify or at least get familiar and interact with other members of the community. Hence, human beings expect and endeavor to develop similar competency in machine re... Read More about Trends in Machine and Human Face Recognition.

A machine learning approach for user localization exploiting connectivity data (2016)
Journal Article
Ortolani. (2016). A machine learning approach for user localization exploiting connectivity data. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 125 - 134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2015.12.015

The growing popularity of Location-Based Services (LBSs) has boosted research on cheaper and more pervasive localization systems, typically relying on such monitoring equipment as Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), which allow to re-use the same instru... Read More about A machine learning approach for user localization exploiting connectivity data.

Technical and economic analysis of hydrogen refuelling (2016)
Journal Article
Fan. (2016). Technical and economic analysis of hydrogen refuelling. Applied Energy, 211 - 220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.10.094

This paper focuses on technical and economic analysis of a hydrogen refilling station to provide operational insight through tight coupling of technical models of physical processes and economic models. This allows the dynamic relationships of the sy... Read More about Technical and economic analysis of hydrogen refuelling.

libSBOLj 2.0: A Java Library to Support SBOL 2.0 (2016)
Journal Article
Misirli. (2016). libSBOLj 2.0: A Java Library to Support SBOL 2.0. IEEE Life Sciences Letters, 34 - 37. https://doi.org/10.1109/LLS.2016.2546546

The Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) is an emerging data standard for representing synthetic biology designs. The goal of SBOL is to improve the reproducibility of these designs and their electronic exchange between researchers and/or genetic d... Read More about libSBOLj 2.0: A Java Library to Support SBOL 2.0.

Buckling of a spherical shell under external pressure and inward concentrated load: asymptotic solution (2016)
Journal Article
Evkin, A., Kolesnikov, M., & Prikazchikov, D. A. (2016). Buckling of a spherical shell under external pressure and inward concentrated load: asymptotic solution. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 22(6), 1425-1437. https://doi.org/10.1177/1081286516635872

An asymptotic solution is suggested for a thin isotropic spherical shell subject to uniform external pressure and concentrated load. The pressure is the main load and a concentrated lateral load is considered as a perturbation that decreases buckling... Read More about Buckling of a spherical shell under external pressure and inward concentrated load: asymptotic solution.

A systematic review of early life factors which adversely affect subsequent lung function (2016)
Journal Article
Kouzouna, A., Gilchrist, F., Ball, V., Kyriacou, T., Henderson, J., Pandyan, A., & Lenney, W. (2016). A systematic review of early life factors which adversely affect subsequent lung function. Paediatric Respiratory Reviews, 20, 67-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prrv.2016.03.003

It has been known for many years that multiple early life factors can adversely affect lung function and future respiratory health. This is the first systematic review to attempt to analyse all these factors simultaneously. We adhered to strict a pri... Read More about A systematic review of early life factors which adversely affect subsequent lung function.

Multi-parametric analysis of strongly inhomogeneous periodic waveguides with internal cutoff frequencies (2016)
Journal Article
Kaplunov. (2016). Multi-parametric analysis of strongly inhomogeneous periodic waveguides with internal cutoff frequencies. Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, 3381-3392. https://doi.org/10.1002/mma.3900

In this paper, we consider periodic waveguides in the shape of a inhomogeneous string or beam partially supported by a uniform elastic Winkler foundation. A multi-parametric analysis is developed to take into account the presence of internal cutoff f... Read More about Multi-parametric analysis of strongly inhomogeneous periodic waveguides with internal cutoff frequencies.

hp-Finite element solution of coupled stationary magnetohydrodynamics problems including magnetostrictive effects (2016)
Journal Article
Jin, D., Ledger, P., & Gil, A. (2016). hp-Finite element solution of coupled stationary magnetohydrodynamics problems including magnetostrictive effects. Computers and Structures, 164, 161-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruc.2015.11.008

The first computational treatment of magnetostritive effects in conducting fluids.Consistent linearisation of the coupled non-linear equations.Computational solution using Newton-Raphson and hp-finite elements.Benchmarking against problems with homog... Read More about hp-Finite element solution of coupled stationary magnetohydrodynamics problems including magnetostrictive effects.

Localized bulging in an inflated cylindrical tube of arbitrary thickness - the effect of bending stiffness (2016)
Journal Article
Francisco, G., Liu, J., & Fu, Y. (2016). Localized bulging in an inflated cylindrical tube of arbitrary thickness - the effect of bending stiffness. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 45-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2016.02.027

We study localized bulging of a cylindrical hyperelastic tube of arbitrary thickness when it is subjected to the combined action of inflation and axial extension. It is shown that with the internal pressure P and resultant axial force F viewed as fun... Read More about Localized bulging in an inflated cylindrical tube of arbitrary thickness - the effect of bending stiffness.

#hayfever; A Longitudinal Study into Hay Fever Related Tweets in the UK (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
de Quincey, E., Kyriacou, T., & Pantin, T. (2016, April). #hayfever; A Longitudinal Study into Hay Fever Related Tweets in the UK. Presented at 6th International Conference on Digital Health, Montreal

This paper describes a longitudinal study that has collected and analysed over 512,000 UK geolocated tweets over 2 years from June 2012 that contained instances of the words "hayfever" and "hay fever". The results indicate that the temporal distribut... Read More about #hayfever; A Longitudinal Study into Hay Fever Related Tweets in the UK.

Shape bifurcation of a pressurized ellipsoidal balloon (2016)
Journal Article
Geng, Y., Huang, J., & Fu, Y. (2016). Shape bifurcation of a pressurized ellipsoidal balloon. International Journal of Engineering Science, 115-125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijengsci.2016.01.003

It is well-known that for most spherical and cylindrical rubber balloons the pressure versus volume curve associated with uniform inflation both has an N-shape, but their shape bifurcation has different characters: whereas a spherical balloon tends t... Read More about Shape bifurcation of a pressurized ellipsoidal balloon.

Refined boundary conditions on the free surface of an elastic half-space taking into account non-local effects (2016)
Journal Article
Kaplunov. (2016). Refined boundary conditions on the free surface of an elastic half-space taking into account non-local effects. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2015.0800

The dynamic response of a homogeneous half-space, with a traction-free surface, is considered within the framework of non-local elasticity. The focus is on the dominant effect of the boundary layer on overall behaviour. A typical wavelength is assume... Read More about Refined boundary conditions on the free surface of an elastic half-space taking into account non-local effects.

A class of reduced-order models in the theory of waves and stability (2016)
Journal Article
Chapman, C., & Sorokin, S. (2016). A class of reduced-order models in the theory of waves and stability. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2015.0703

This paper presents a class of approximations to a type of wave field for which the dispersion relation is transcendental. The approximations have two defining characteristics: (i) they give the field shape exactly when the frequency and wavenumber l... Read More about A class of reduced-order models in the theory of waves and stability.

Canonical Nonclassical Hopf–Galois Module Structure of Nonabelian Galois Extensions (2016)
Journal Article
Truman, P. (2016). Canonical Nonclassical Hopf–Galois Module Structure of Nonabelian Galois Extensions. Communications in Algebra, 1119 - 1130. https://doi.org/10.1080/00927872.2014.999930

Let L/K be a finite Galois extension of local or global fields in any characteristic with nonabelian Galois group G, and let be an ambiguous ideal of L. We show that is free over its associated order in K[G] if and only if it is free over its associa... Read More about Canonical Nonclassical Hopf–Galois Module Structure of Nonabelian Galois Extensions.

WLAN Throughput Management: A Game Theoretic TXOP Scheduling Approach (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhu, Z., Cao, F., & Fan, Z. (2015, September). WLAN Throughput Management: A Game Theoretic TXOP Scheduling Approach. Presented at 2015 IEEE 20th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modelling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), Guildford, UK

This paper investigates the dynamic selection of transmission opportunity (TXOP) which was originally proposed in IEEE 802.11e Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA). A game theoretic optimisation framework is proposed to schedule the optimal TXO... Read More about WLAN Throughput Management: A Game Theoretic TXOP Scheduling Approach.

Body-Worn Sensors in Parkinson's Disease: Evaluating Their Acceptability to Patients (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Body-Worn Sensors in Parkinson's Disease: Evaluating Their Acceptability to Patients. Telemedicine and e-Health, 63 -69. https://doi.org/10.1089/tmj.2015.0026

BACKGROUND: Remote monitoring of symptoms in Parkinson's disease (PD) using body-worn sensors would assist treatment decisions and evaluation of new treatments. To date, a rigorous, systematic evaluation of the acceptability of body-worn sensors in P... Read More about Body-Worn Sensors in Parkinson's Disease: Evaluating Their Acceptability to Patients.