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Explicit model for surface waves in a pre-stressed, compressible elastic half-space (2020)
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Prikazchikov, D. (2020). Explicit model for surface waves in a pre-stressed, compressible elastic half-space. https://doi.org/10.26577/ijmph.2020.v11.i1.02

The paper is concerned with the derivation of the hyperbolic-elliptic asymptotic model for surface wave in a pre-stressed, compressible, elastic half-space, within the framework of plane-strain assumption. The consideration extends the existing metho... Read More about Explicit model for surface waves in a pre-stressed, compressible elastic half-space.

A latent-factor-driven endogenous regime-switching non-Gaussian model: Evidence from simulation and application (2020)
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Bu, R., Cheng, J., & Jawadi, F. (2022). A latent-factor-driven endogenous regime-switching non-Gaussian model: Evidence from simulation and application. International Journal of Finance and Economics, 27(4), 3881-3896. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.2192

Abstract Regime-switching models are widely used in empirical economics and finance research for their ability to identify and account for the impact of latent regimes or states on the behaviour of the interested variables. Meanwhile, empirical evide... Read More about A latent-factor-driven endogenous regime-switching non-Gaussian model: Evidence from simulation and application.

A staggered high-dimensional Proper Generalised Decomposition for coupled magneto-mechanical problems with application to MRI scanners (2020)
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Barroso, G., Seoane, M., Gil, A., Ledger, P., Mallett, M., & Huerta, A. (2020). A staggered high-dimensional Proper Generalised Decomposition for coupled magneto-mechanical problems with application to MRI scanners. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 370, 113271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2020.113271

Manufacturing new Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanners represents a computational challenge to industry, due to the large variability in material parameters and geometrical configurations that need to be tested during the early design phase. Thi... Read More about A staggered high-dimensional Proper Generalised Decomposition for coupled magneto-mechanical problems with application to MRI scanners.

The Effect of Pain Conditioning on Experimentally Evoked Cough: Evidence of Impaired Endogenous Inhibitory Control Mechanisms in Refractory Chronic Cough (2020)
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Hilton, E., Satia, I., Holt, K., Woodcock, A. A., Belcher, J., & Smith, J. A. (2020). The Effect of Pain Conditioning on Experimentally Evoked Cough: Evidence of Impaired Endogenous Inhibitory Control Mechanisms in Refractory Chronic Cough. European Respiratory Journal, 56(6), 2001387 - 2001387. https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.01387-2020

Background: The pathophysiology of refractory chronic cough (RCC) is unclear. We hypothesised that endogenous inhibitory control mechanisms, such as those activated by painful stimuli (conditioned pain modulation (CPM)), may be capable of inhibiting... Read More about The Effect of Pain Conditioning on Experimentally Evoked Cough: Evidence of Impaired Endogenous Inhibitory Control Mechanisms in Refractory Chronic Cough.

A mechanism to promote social behaviour in household load balancing (2020)
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(2020). A mechanism to promote social behaviour in household load balancing. Artificial Life, https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00290

Reducing the peak energy consumption of households is essential for the effective use of renewable energy sources, in order to ensure that as much household demand as possible can be met by renewable sources. This entails spreading out the use of hig... Read More about A mechanism to promote social behaviour in household load balancing.

When Specialists Transition to Generalists: Evolutionary Pressure in Lexicase Selection (2020)
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(2020). When Specialists Transition to Generalists: Evolutionary Pressure in Lexicase Selection. Artificial Life, 719-726. https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00254

Generalized behavior is a long standing goal for evolutionary robotics. Behaviors for a given task should be robust to perturbation and capable of operating across a variety of environments. We have previously shown that Lexicase selection evolves hi... Read More about When Specialists Transition to Generalists: Evolutionary Pressure in Lexicase Selection.

Coloured noise time series as appropriate models for environmental variation in artificial evolutionary systems (2020)
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(2020). Coloured noise time series as appropriate models for environmental variation in artificial evolutionary systems. Artificial Life, https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00284

Ecological, environmental and geophysical time series consistently exhibit the characteristics of coloured (1/f^ß ) noise. Here we briefly survey the literature on coloured noise, population persistence and related evolutionary dynamics, before intro... Read More about Coloured noise time series as appropriate models for environmental variation in artificial evolutionary systems.

The Development of a Point of Care Clinical Guidelines Mobile Application Following a User-Centred Design Approach (2020)
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De Quincey. (2020). The Development of a Point of Care Clinical Guidelines Mobile Application Following a User-Centred Design Approach. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49757-6_21

This paper describes the development of a point of care clinical guidelines mobile application. A user-centred design approach was utilised to inform the design of a smartphone application, this included: Observations; a survey; focus groups and an a... Read More about The Development of a Point of Care Clinical Guidelines Mobile Application Following a User-Centred Design Approach.

Characterization and dynamical stability of fully nonlinear strain solitary waves in a fluid-filled hyperelastic membrane tube (2020)
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Fu. (2020). Characterization and dynamical stability of fully nonlinear strain solitary waves in a fluid-filled hyperelastic membrane tube. Acta mechanica, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00707-020-02754-z

We first characterize strain solitary waves propagating in a fluid-filled membrane tube when the fluid is stationary prior to wave propagation and the tube is also subjected to a finite stretch. We consider the parameter regime where all traveling wa... Read More about Characterization and dynamical stability of fully nonlinear strain solitary waves in a fluid-filled hyperelastic membrane tube.

A fog-based hybrid intelligent system for energy saving in smart buildings (2020)
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Ortolani. (2020). A fog-based hybrid intelligent system for energy saving in smart buildings. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 2793-2807. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-019-01375-2

In recent years, the widespread diffusion of pervasive sensing devices and the increasing need for reducing energy consumption have encouraged research in the energy-aware management of smart environments. Following this direction, this paper propose... Read More about A fog-based hybrid intelligent system for energy saving in smart buildings.

Synthetic biology open language (SBOL) version 3.0.0. (2020)
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Bartley, B., Beal, J., McLaughlin, J., Vaidyanathan, P., Baig, H., Fontanarrosa, P., …Myers, C. (2020). Synthetic biology open language (SBOL) version 3.0.0. Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics, https://doi.org/10.1515/jib-2020-0017

Synthetic biology builds upon genetics, molecular biology, and metabolic engineering by applying engineering principles to the design of biological systems. When designing a synthetic system, synthetic biologists need to exchange information about mu... Read More about Synthetic biology open language (SBOL) version 3.0.0..

Evaluation of Wearable Electronics for Epilepsy: A Systematic Review (2020)
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Rukasha, T., Woolley, S. I., Kyriacou, T., & Collins, T. (2020). Evaluation of Wearable Electronics for Epilepsy: A Systematic Review. Electronics, 9(6), Article 968. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics9060968

Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that affects 50 million people worldwide. It is characterised by seizures that can vary in presentation, from short absences to protracted convulsions. Wearable electronic devices that detect seizures have the pote... Read More about Evaluation of Wearable Electronics for Epilepsy: A Systematic Review.

Synthetic biology open language visual (SBOL visual) version 2.2 (2020)
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Baig, H., Fontanarrosa, P., Kulkarni, V., McLaughlin, J., Vaidyanathan, P., Bartley, B., …Myers, C. (2020). Synthetic biology open language visual (SBOL visual) version 2.2. Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics, 17(2-3), Article 20200014. https://doi.org/10.1515/jib-2020-0014

People who are engineering biological organisms often find it useful to communicate in diagrams, both about the structure of the nucleic acid sequences that they are engineering and about the functional relationships between sequence features and oth... Read More about Synthetic biology open language visual (SBOL visual) version 2.2.

Predictive equation for optimal continuous positive airway pressure in children with obstructive sleep apnoea (2020)
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Chong, J., Bajpai, R., Teoh, O. H., Pugalenthi, A., Allen, J. C., Cheng, Z. R., …Thomas, B. (2020). Predictive equation for optimal continuous positive airway pressure in children with obstructive sleep apnoea. ERJ Open Research, 6(2), Article 00312-2019. https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00312-2019

<jats:sec><jats:title>Aim</jats:title><jats:p>A subgroup of children with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) requires treatment with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). This study's aims were: 1) to determine if the optimal CPAP for the treatment... Read More about Predictive equation for optimal continuous positive airway pressure in children with obstructive sleep apnoea.

Report on Workshop: Planning the Future of Agent Simulation (2020)
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(2020). Report on Workshop: Planning the Future of Agent Simulation. Artificial Life, 307 - 313. https://doi.org/10.1162/artl_a_00320

In May 2019, a workshop on principled development of future agent-based simulations was held at Keele University. Participants spanned companies and academia, and a range of domains of interest, as well as participant career stages. This report summa... Read More about Report on Workshop: Planning the Future of Agent Simulation.

What do we need to Probe Upper Ocean Stratification Remotely? (2020)
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Shrira, V., & Almelah, R. (2020). What do we need to Probe Upper Ocean Stratification Remotely?. Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics, 63, 1 - 20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11141-020-10030-2

We consider whether it is possible in principle to retrieve the key parameters of the mixed layer in the upper ocean (its thickness, bulk eddy viscosity and the pycnocline stratification below) using a theoretical model, which assumes the surface vel... Read More about What do we need to Probe Upper Ocean Stratification Remotely?.

Digital Twin: Enabling Technologies, Challenges and Open Research (2020)
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Fuller, A., Fan, Z., Day, C., & Barlow, C. (2020). Digital Twin: Enabling Technologies, Challenges and Open Research. IEEE Access, 108952 - 108971. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2998358

Digital Twin technology is an emerging concept that has become the centre of attention for industry and, in more recent years, academia. The advancements in industry 4.0 concepts have facilitated its growth, particularly in the manufacturing industry... Read More about Digital Twin: Enabling Technologies, Challenges and Open Research.

A refined dynamic finite-strain shell theory for incompressible hyperelastic materials: equations and two-dimensional shell virtual work principle. (2020)
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Fu. (2020). A refined dynamic finite-strain shell theory for incompressible hyperelastic materials: equations and two-dimensional shell virtual work principle. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 20200031 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2020.0031

Based on previous work for the static problem, in this paper, we first derive one form of dynamic finite-strain shell equations for incompressible hyperelastic materials that involve three shell constitutive relations. In order to single out the bend... Read More about A refined dynamic finite-strain shell theory for incompressible hyperelastic materials: equations and two-dimensional shell virtual work principle..

A Decade On, How Has the Visibility of Energy Changed? Energy Feedback Perceptions from UK Focus Groups (2020)
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Fredericks, D., Fan, Z., Woolley, S., de Quincey, E., & Streeton, M. (2020). A Decade On, How Has the Visibility of Energy Changed? Energy Feedback Perceptions from UK Focus Groups. Energies, 13(10), Article ARTN 2566. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13102566

The Smart Meter Rollout Programme in the UK has required energy suppliers to offer new smart meters to customers to provide near real-time energy use information and enable two-way communication between the meter and the central system. The provision... Read More about A Decade On, How Has the Visibility of Energy Changed? Energy Feedback Perceptions from UK Focus Groups.

Brouwer’s Weak Counterexamples and the Creative Subject: A Critical Survey (2020)
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Fletcher. (2020). Brouwer’s Weak Counterexamples and the Creative Subject: A Critical Survey. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 49, 1111-1157. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-020-09551-y

I survey Brouwer’s weak counterexamples to classical theorems, with a view to discovering (i) what useful mathematical work is done by weak counterexamples; (ii) whether they are rigorous mathematical proofs or just plausibility arguments; (iii) the... Read More about Brouwer’s Weak Counterexamples and the Creative Subject: A Critical Survey.