Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (591)

Deep Residual Network with Regularized Fisher Framework for Detection of Melanoma (2018)
Journal Article
Mandal, B. (2018). Deep Residual Network with Regularized Fisher Framework for Detection of Melanoma. IET Computer Vision, 1096-1104. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-cvi.2018.5238

Of all the skin cancer that is prevalent, melanoma has the highest mortality rates. Melanoma becomes life threatening when it penetrates deep into the dermis layer unless detected at an early stage, it becomes fatal since it has a tendency to migrate... Read More about Deep Residual Network with Regularized Fisher Framework for Detection of Melanoma.

Dispersion of elastic waves in a layer interacting with a Winkler foundation (2018)
Journal Article
Kaplunov. (2018). Dispersion of elastic waves in a layer interacting with a Winkler foundation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5079640

ABSTRACT Dispersion of plane harmonic waves in an elastic layer interacting with a one- or two-sided Winkler foundation is analyzed. The long-wave low-frequency polynomial approximations of the full transcendental dispersion relations are derived fo... Read More about Dispersion of elastic waves in a layer interacting with a Winkler foundation.

Harmonizing semantic annotations for computational models in biology (2018)
Journal Article
Misirli. (2018). Harmonizing semantic annotations for computational models in biology. Briefings in bioinformatics, bby087 - bby087. https://doi.org/10.1093/bib/bby087

Life science researchers use computational models to articulate and test hypotheses about the behavior of biological systems. Semantic annotation is a critical component for enhancing the interoperability and reusability of such models as well as for... Read More about Harmonizing semantic annotations for computational models in biology.

Design of a chiral elastic structure supporting interfacial waveforms (2018)
Journal Article
Nieves. (2018). Design of a chiral elastic structure supporting interfacial waveforms. https://doi.org/10.1109/MetaMaterials.2018.8534138

An infinite heterogeneous elastic triangular lattice connected to a non-uniform array of gyroscopic spinners is considered. An algorithm is described for generating interfacial waves that propagate along the boundaries of subdomains containing inhomo... Read More about Design of a chiral elastic structure supporting interfacial waveforms.

Environmental pleiotropy and demographic history direct adaptation under antibiotic selection (2018)
Journal Article
Channon. (2018). Environmental pleiotropy and demographic history direct adaptation under antibiotic selection. Heredity, 438-448. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-018-0137-3

Evolutionary rescue following environmental change requires mutations permitting population growth in the new environment. If change is severe enough to prevent most of the population reproducing, rescue becomes reliant on mutations already present.... Read More about Environmental pleiotropy and demographic history direct adaptation under antibiotic selection.

Asymptotic strategy for matching homogenized structures. Conductivity problem (2018)
Journal Article
Kolpakov, A. G., Andrianov, I. V., & Prikazchikov, D. A. (2018). Asymptotic strategy for matching homogenized structures. Conductivity problem. Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, 71(4), 519-535. https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/hby017

The paper is concerned with application of the homogenization theory to bodies containing macroinhomogeneities or bodies, parts of which cannot be homogenized (partial homogenization). This situation arises, in particular, for problems of joining hom... Read More about Asymptotic strategy for matching homogenized structures. Conductivity problem.

Social Learning in Repeated Cooperation Games in Uncertain Environments (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Social Learning in Repeated Cooperation Games in Uncertain Environments. Cognitive Systems Research, 24-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2018.04.013

Cooperation and social learning are fundamental mechanisms that maintain social organisation among animals and humans. Social institutions can be conceptualised abstractly as cooperation games with social learning. In some ca ses potential cooperatio... Read More about Social Learning in Repeated Cooperation Games in Uncertain Environments.

Nonlinear tubular organ modeling and analysis for tracheal angioedema by swelling-morphoelasticity (2018)
Journal Article
Fu. (2018). Nonlinear tubular organ modeling and analysis for tracheal angioedema by swelling-morphoelasticity. Journal of Engineering Mathematics, 95 - 117. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10665-018-9967-5

We study one of the important human tubular organs, the trachea, under deformation caused by the disease angioedema. This pathology can suddenly increase the volume of the trachea and cause serious breathing difficulty. Two popular theories, the swel... Read More about Nonlinear tubular organ modeling and analysis for tracheal angioedema by swelling-morphoelasticity.

An evaluation of the Gent and Gent-Gent material models using inflation of a plane membrane (2018)
Journal Article
Fu. (2018). An evaluation of the Gent and Gent-Gent material models using inflation of a plane membrane. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 39-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2018.07.035

The Gent material model is the simplest extension of the neo-Hookean material model that can describe the finite extensibility of the polymeric chains comprising the elastomer network. However, it is known that its fitting to experimental results of... Read More about An evaluation of the Gent and Gent-Gent material models using inflation of a plane membrane.

Making a maths degree work for the workplace (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Making a maths degree work for the workplace. Higher Education Pedagogies, 403-416. https://doi.org/10.1080/23752696.2018.1499420

This article will provide ideas for teaching methods that aim to provide undergraduate students with the experience of working with mathematics in a business context. These teaching methods have been employed at a mainstream U.K. university in a fina... Read More about Making a maths degree work for the workplace.

A reduced model for electrodes-coated dielectric plates (2018)
Journal Article
Fu. (2018). A reduced model for electrodes-coated dielectric plates. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 60-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2018.09.001

We derive a reduced theory describing the incremental deformation of an electrodes-coated dielectric plate that takes the leading-order thickness effect into account. By focusing on deformations that are symmetric with respect to the mid-plane, a pow... Read More about A reduced model for electrodes-coated dielectric plates.

Reproducibility of Studies on Text Mining for Citation Screening in Systematic Reviews: Evaluation and Checklist (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Reproducibility of Studies on Text Mining for Citation Screening in Systematic Reviews: Evaluation and Checklist. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2017.07.010

CONTEXT: Independent validation of published scientific results through study replication is a pre-condition for accepting the validity of such results. In computation research, full replication is often unrealistic for independent results validatio... Read More about Reproducibility of Studies on Text Mining for Citation Screening in Systematic Reviews: Evaluation and Checklist.

Hyperbolic-elliptic model for surface wave in a pre-stressed incompressible elastic half-space (2018)
Journal Article
Khajiyeva, L., Prikazchikov, D., & Prikazchikova, L. (2018). Hyperbolic-elliptic model for surface wave in a pre-stressed incompressible elastic half-space. Mechanics Research Communications, 92, 49-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechrescom.2018.07.006

The paper aims at derivation of the asymptotic model for surface wave propagating in a pre-stressed incompressible elastic half-space, subject to prescribed surface loading. The approach relies on the slow-time perturbation procedure, extending the p... Read More about Hyperbolic-elliptic model for surface wave in a pre-stressed incompressible elastic half-space.

Asymptotic analysis of an anti-plane dynamic problem for a three-layered strongly inhomogeneous laminate (2018)
Journal Article
Prikazchikova, L., Ece Aydın, Y., Erbaş, B., & Kaplunov, J. (2018). Asymptotic analysis of an anti-plane dynamic problem for a three-layered strongly inhomogeneous laminate. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 25(1), 3-16. https://doi.org/10.1177/1081286518790804

Anti-plane dynamic shear of a strongly inhomogeneous dynamic laminate with traction-free faces is analysed. Two types of contrast are considered, including those for composite structures with stiff thick or thin outer layers. In both cases, the valu... Read More about Asymptotic analysis of an anti-plane dynamic problem for a three-layered strongly inhomogeneous laminate.

Interfacial waveforms in chiral lattices with gyroscopic spinners (2018)
Journal Article
Garau, M., Carta, G., Nieves, M., Jones, I., Movchan, N., & Movchan, A. (2018). Interfacial waveforms in chiral lattices with gyroscopic spinners. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 474(2215), https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2018.0132

We demonstrate a new method of achieving topologically protected states in an elastic hexagonal system of trusses by attaching gyroscopic spinners, which bring chirality to the system. Dispersive features of this medium are investigated in detail, an... Read More about Interfacial waveforms in chiral lattices with gyroscopic spinners.

An asymptotic strategy to couple homogenized elastic structures (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). An asymptotic strategy to couple homogenized elastic structures. International Journal of Engineering Science, 26-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijengsci.2018.04.006

A two-scale methodology to calculate the local stress-strain state (SSS) in structures composed of connected elements is proposed. The methodology is based on the assumption that the connecting unit has a size small in comparison to the objects being... Read More about An asymptotic strategy to couple homogenized elastic structures.

Tiebreaks and Diversity: Isolating Effects in Lexicase Selection (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Tiebreaks and Diversity: Isolating Effects in Lexicase Selection. https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00109

A primary goal of evolutionary robotics (ER) is generalized control. That is, a robot controller should be capable of solving a variety of tasks in a domain, rather than only addressing specific instances of a task. Prior work has shown that Lexicase... Read More about Tiebreaks and Diversity: Isolating Effects in Lexicase Selection.

Evolving Robust, Deliberate Motion Planning With a Shallow Convolutional Neural Network (2018)
Journal Article
Channon. (2018). Evolving Robust, Deliberate Motion Planning With a Shallow Convolutional Neural Network. https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00099

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets) have seen great success on machine learning tasks in recent years but have shown difficulty with tasks that require long-term deliberative planning. Whereas, purpose-built hybrid network architectures hav... Read More about Evolving Robust, Deliberate Motion Planning With a Shallow Convolutional Neural Network.

Cooperation in Repeated Rock-Paper-Scissors Games in Uncertain Environments (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Cooperation in Repeated Rock-Paper-Scissors Games in Uncertain Environments. Artificial Life, 404-411. https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00078

Cooperation among selfish individuals provides the fundamentals for social organization among animals and humans. Cooperation games capture this behavior at an abstract level and provide the tools for the analysis of the evolution of cooperation. Her... Read More about Cooperation in Repeated Rock-Paper-Scissors Games in Uncertain Environments.