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Applications of Poisson-Hidden Markov Model (2015)
Journal Article
Huang, X., & Cheng, J. (2015). Applications of Poisson-Hidden Markov Model. International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Statistics (IJAMAS), 53(4),

Some real discrete time-series counts can be considered as the random variables which follow Poisson distribution governed by Hidden Markov Chain. In this paper, a Poisson-Hidden Markov Model is employed to capture the switching between two states in... Read More about Applications of Poisson-Hidden Markov Model.

Multi-parametric analysis of the lowest natural frequencies of strongly inhomogeneous elastic rods (2015)
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Prikazchikov, D., Kaplunov, J., & Sergushova, O. (2016). Multi-parametric analysis of the lowest natural frequencies of strongly inhomogeneous elastic rods. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 366, 264-276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2015.12.008

The results of a multi-parametric analysis of the near-rigid body motions of a three-component strongly inhomogeneous elastic rod are presented. It is demonstrated that the values of the associated lowest natural frequencies tend to zero at large/sma... Read More about Multi-parametric analysis of the lowest natural frequencies of strongly inhomogeneous elastic rods.

Understanding the magnetic polarizability tensor (2015)
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Ledger, P. D., & Lionheart, W. R. B. (2016). Understanding the magnetic polarizability tensor. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 52(5), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1109/tmag.2015.2507169

The aim of this paper is to provide new insights into the properties of the rank 2 polarizability tensor M̆ proposed by Ledger and Lionheart for describing the perturbation in the magnetic field caused by the presence of a conducting object in the ed... Read More about Understanding the magnetic polarizability tensor.

DEP2SA: A Decentralized Efficient Privacy-Preserving and Selective Aggregation Scheme in Advanced Metering Infrastructure (2015)
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Fan, Z., Mustafa, M. A., Zhang, N., & Kalogridis, G. (2015). DEP2SA: A Decentralized Efficient Privacy-Preserving and Selective Aggregation Scheme in Advanced Metering Infrastructure. IEEE Access, 3, 2828-2846. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2015.2506198

This paper proposes a novel solution, called a decentralized, efficient, privacy-preserving, and selective aggregation (DEP2SA) scheme, designed to support secure and user privacy-preserving data collection in the advanced metering infrastructure. DE... Read More about DEP2SA: A Decentralized Efficient Privacy-Preserving and Selective Aggregation Scheme in Advanced Metering Infrastructure.

Celebrating the Centenary of Timoshenko's Study of Effects of Shear Deformation and Rotary Inertia (2015)
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Elishakoff, I., Kaplunov, J., & Nolde, E. (2015). Celebrating the Centenary of Timoshenko's Study of Effects of Shear Deformation and Rotary Inertia. Applied Mechanics Reviews, 67(6), Article ARTN 060802. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4031965

This study revisits Timoshenko beam theory (TBT). It discusses at depth a more consistent and simpler governing differential equation. The so-called second spectrum is also addressed. Then, we provide the asymptotic justification of the aforementione... Read More about Celebrating the Centenary of Timoshenko's Study of Effects of Shear Deformation and Rotary Inertia.

Remarks on explicit strong ellipticity conditions for anisotropic or pre-stressed incompressible solids. (2015)
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Pichugin, A., & Prikazchikov, D. (2016). Remarks on explicit strong ellipticity conditions for anisotropic or pre-stressed incompressible solids. Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, 69(1), 67-81. https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/hbv017

We present a set of explicit conditions, involving the components of the elastic stiffness tensor, which are necessary and sufficient to ensure the strong ellipticity of an orthorhombic incompressible medium. The derivation is based on the procedure... Read More about Remarks on explicit strong ellipticity conditions for anisotropic or pre-stressed incompressible solids..

Annotation of rule-based models with formal semantics to enable creation, analysis, reuse and visualization. (2015)
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Gilfellon, O., Honorato-Zimmer, R., Pocock, M., Madsen, C., Waites, W., Cavaliere, M., …Wipat, A. (2015). Annotation of rule-based models with formal semantics to enable creation, analysis, reuse and visualization. Bioinformatics, 908 - 917. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btv660

MOTIVATION: Biological systems are complex and challenging to model and therefore model reuse is highly desirable. To promote model reuse, models should include both information about the specifics of simulations and the underlying biology in the for... Read More about Annotation of rule-based models with formal semantics to enable creation, analysis, reuse and visualization..

An asymptotic analysis of the period-doubling secondary bifurcation in a film/substrate bilayer (2015)
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Fu, Y., & Cai, Z. (2015). An asymptotic analysis of the period-doubling secondary bifurcation in a film/substrate bilayer. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 2381-2395. https://doi.org/10.1137/15M1027103

It has previously been observed experimentally and simulated numerically that when a thin film bonded to a much softer substrate is subjected to a uni-axial compression parallel to the interface, the initial buckled pattern will suffer a secondary bi... Read More about An asymptotic analysis of the period-doubling secondary bifurcation in a film/substrate bilayer.

Localized standing waves in a hyperelastic membrane tube and their stabilization by a mean flow (2015)
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Fu, Y. B., & Il'ichev, A. T. (2015). Localized standing waves in a hyperelastic membrane tube and their stabilization by a mean flow. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 20(10), 1198-1214. https://doi.org/10.1177/1081286513517129

We first give a complete analysis of the dispersion relation for travelling waves propagating in a pre-stressed hyperelastic membrane tube containing a uniform flow. We present an exact formula for the so-called pulse wave velocity, and demonstrate t... Read More about Localized standing waves in a hyperelastic membrane tube and their stabilization by a mean flow.

Bifurcation of a dielectric elastomer balloon under pressurized inflation and electricactuation (2015)
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Fu, Y., Xie, Y., & Liu, J. (2015). Bifurcation of a dielectric elastomer balloon under pressurized inflation and electricactuation. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 182-188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2015.08.027

It is previously known that under inflation alone a spherical rubber membrane balloon may bifurcate into a pear shape when the tension in the membrane reaches a maximum, but the existence of such a maximum depends on the material model used: the maxi... Read More about Bifurcation of a dielectric elastomer balloon under pressurized inflation and electricactuation.

ISOLATING INFORMATIVE BLOCKS FROM LARGE WEB PAGES USING HTML TAG PRIORITY ASSIGNMENT BASED APPROACH (2015)
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Kabir, R., Kabir, S., & Amin, S. (2015). ISOLATING INFORMATIVE BLOCKS FROM LARGE WEB PAGES USING HTML TAG PRIORITY ASSIGNMENT BASED APPROACH. Electrical & Computer Engineering: An International Journal (ECIJ), 4(3),

Searching useful information from the web, a popular activity, often involves huge irrelevant contents or noises leading to difficulties in extracting useful information. Indeed, search engines, crawlers and information agents may often fail to separ... Read More about ISOLATING INFORMATIVE BLOCKS FROM LARGE WEB PAGES USING HTML TAG PRIORITY ASSIGNMENT BASED APPROACH.

The edge waves on a Kirchhoff plate bilaterally supported by a two-parameter elastic foundation (2015)
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Kaplunov. (2015). The edge waves on a Kirchhoff plate bilaterally supported by a two-parameter elastic foundation. Journal of Vibration and Control, 2014-2022. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077546315606838

In this paper, the bending waves propagating along the edge of a semi-infinite Kirchhoff plate resting on a two-parameter Pasternak elastic foundation are studied. Two geometries of the foundation are considered: either it is infinite or it is semi-i... Read More about The edge waves on a Kirchhoff plate bilaterally supported by a two-parameter elastic foundation.

Development and validation of a Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM) for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other rheumatic conditions (2015)
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O'Brien, A., Bosworth, A., Cox, M., Jones, P., Sargeant, I., Elliot, A., & Bukhari, M. (2015). Development and validation of a Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM) for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other rheumatic conditions. Current Rheumatology Reviews, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.2174/1573397111666150522093712

Methods: Focus groups were held with RA patients to identify key elements of the patient experience. These were mapped against the UK Department of Health Patient Experience Framework and a PREM questionnaire developed with questions specifically rel... Read More about Development and validation of a Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM) for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other rheumatic conditions.

Final-year projects using open source OpenEEG (2015)
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Collins, T., Woolley, S. I., Rawson, N. C., & Haroon, L. (2016). Final-year projects using open source OpenEEG. Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 24(1), 156 - 164. https://doi.org/10.1002/cae.21682

Electronic Engineering undergraduates are increasingly interested in final-year individual projects that involve brain–computer interfacing. This paper outlines the challenges of resourcing these types of medical instrumentation projects and describe... Read More about Final-year projects using open source OpenEEG.

Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) Version 2.0.0. (2015)
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(2015). Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) Version 2.0.0. Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics, 272 - ?. https://doi.org/10.2390/biecoll-jib-2015-272

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 2.0.0..

Sparse Malicious False Data Injection Attacks and Defense Mechanisms in Smart Grids (2015)
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Fan. (2015). Sparse Malicious False Data Injection Attacks and Defense Mechanisms in Smart Grids. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 1198 - 1209. https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2015.2475695

This paper discusses malicious false data injection attacks on the wide area measurement and monitoring system in smart grids. Firstly, methods of constructing sparse stealth attacks are developed for two typical scenarios: random attacks in which ar... Read More about Sparse Malicious False Data Injection Attacks and Defense Mechanisms in Smart Grids.

Rule Induction-Based Knowledge Discovery for Energy Efficiency (2015)
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Fan. (2015). Rule Induction-Based Knowledge Discovery for Energy Efficiency. IEEE Access, 1423 - 1436. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2015.2472355

Rule induction is a practical approach to knowledge discovery. Provided that a problem is developed, rule induction is able to return the knowledge that addresses the goal of this problem as if-then rules. The primary goals of knowledge discovery are... Read More about Rule Induction-Based Knowledge Discovery for Energy Efficiency.

Characterizing the shape and material properties of hidden targets from magnetic induction data (2015)
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Ledger, P. D., & Lionheart, W. R. B. (in press). Characterizing the shape and material properties of hidden targets from magnetic induction data. IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, hxv015. https://doi.org/10.1093/imamat/hxv015

The aim of this paper is to show that, for the eddy current model, the leading order term for the perturbation in the magnetic field, due to the presence of a small conducting magnetic inclusion, can be expressed in terms of a symmetric rank 2 polari... Read More about Characterizing the shape and material properties of hidden targets from magnetic induction data.

Buckling of a coated elastic half-space when the coating and substrate have similar material properties (2015)
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Fu, Y., & Ciarletta, P. (2015). Buckling of a coated elastic half-space when the coating and substrate have similar material properties. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2014.0979

This study investigates the buckling of a uni-axially compressed neo-Hookean thin film bonded to a neo-Hookean substrate. Previous studies have shown that the elastic bifurcation is supercritical if r=µf/µs>1.74 and subcritical if r1.74. In this pape... Read More about Buckling of a coated elastic half-space when the coating and substrate have similar material properties.

A computational framework for the analysis of linear piezoelectric beams using hp-FEM (2015)
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Poya, R., Gil, A. J., & Ledger, P. D. (2015). A computational framework for the analysis of linear piezoelectric beams using hp-FEM. Computers and Structures, 152, 155-172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruc.2015.01.012

A new computational framework for 3D linear piezoelectric beams using hp-FEM.Framework suitable for statics, dynamics, actuation and energy harvesting problems.Framework suitable for any anisotropy or electric polarisation orientation.New set of beam... Read More about A computational framework for the analysis of linear piezoelectric beams using hp-FEM.