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Shear wave propagation in layered composites with degraded matrices at locations of imperfect bonding (2018)
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(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.

An Explicit Formula for the Magnetic Polarizability Tensor for Object Characterization (2018)
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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)
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(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.

Social Learning and Cultural Evolution in Artificial Life (2018)
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(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.

SynBioHub: A Standards-Enabled Design Repository for Synthetic Biology. (2018)
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McLaughlin, J., Ofiteru, I., Goñi Moreno, A., Zundel, Z., Misirli, G., Zhang, M., …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..

Commuting Hopf-Galois structures on a separable extension (2018)
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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)
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(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.

Automatic Detection and Distinction of Retinal Vessel Bifurcations and Crossings in Colour Fundus Photography (2018)
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Pratt, H., Williams, B. M., Ku, J. Y., Vas, C., McCann, E., Al-Bander, B., …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)
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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)
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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.

Enhanced Collision Avoidance for Distributed LTE Vehicle to Vehicle Broadcast Communications (2018)
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Fan. (2018). Enhanced Collision Avoidance for Distributed LTE Vehicle to Vehicle Broadcast Communications. IEEE Communications Letters, 630 - 633. https://doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2018.2791399

In this letter, we investigate the distributed autonomous resource selection for LTE vehicle to vehicle (V2V) broadcast. The effectiveness of collision avoidance and location based resource allocation enhancements is examined. It is found that collis... Read More about Enhanced Collision Avoidance for Distributed LTE Vehicle to Vehicle Broadcast Communications.

Tool Features to Support Systematic Reviews in Software Engineering: A Cross Domain Study (2018)
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(2018). Tool Features to Support Systematic Reviews in Software Engineering: A Cross Domain Study. https://doi.org/10.5277/e-Inf180104

Context: Previously, the authors had developed and evaluated a framework to evaluate systematic review (SR) lifecycle tools. Goal: The goal of this study was to use the experiences of researchers in other domains to further evaluate and refine the... Read More about Tool Features to Support Systematic Reviews in Software Engineering: A Cross Domain Study.

Evaluation of AllergiSense Smartphone Tools for Adrenaline Injection Training (2017)
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Hernandez-Munoz, L., Woolley, S., Luyt, D., Stiefel, G., Kirk, K., Makwana, N., …Diwakar, L. (2017). Evaluation of AllergiSense Smartphone Tools for Adrenaline Injection Training. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 21(1), 272-282. https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2015.2497717

Anaphylaxis is an increasingly prevalent life-threatening allergic condition that requires people with anaphylaxis and their caregivers to be trained in the avoidance of allergen triggers and in the administration of adrenaline autoinjectors. The pro... Read More about Evaluation of AllergiSense Smartphone Tools for Adrenaline Injection Training.

Turning Models Inside Out (2017)
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(2017). Turning Models Inside Out. CEUR Workshop Proceedings,

We present an approach for change-based (as opposed to state-based) model persistence that can facilitate highperformance incremental model processing (e.g. validation, transformation) by minimising the cost of change identification when models evolv... Read More about Turning Models Inside Out.

Layer formation in horizontally forced stratified turbulence: connecting exact coherent structures to linear instabilities (2017)
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(2017). Layer formation in horizontally forced stratified turbulence: connecting exact coherent structures to linear instabilities. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 409-437. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2017.661

We consider turbulence in a stratified \u2018Kolmogorov\u2019 flow, driven by horizontal shear in the form of sinusoidal body forcing in the presence of an imposed background linear stable stratification in the third direction. This flow configuratio... Read More about Layer formation in horizontally forced stratified turbulence: connecting exact coherent structures to linear instabilities.

Critical Mutation Rate has an Exponential Dependence on Population Size for Eukaryotic-length Genomes with Crossover (2017)
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Channon. (2017). Critical Mutation Rate has an Exponential Dependence on Population Size for Eukaryotic-length Genomes with Crossover. Scientific reports, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-14628-x

The critical mutation rate (CMR) determines the shift between survival-of-the-fittest and survival of individuals with greater mutational robustness (“flattest”). We identify an inverse relationship between CMR and sequence length in an in silico sys... Read More about Critical Mutation Rate has an Exponential Dependence on Population Size for Eukaryotic-length Genomes with Crossover.

Approaches to analysis with infinitesimals following Robinson, Nelson, and others (2017)
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Fletcher, P., Hrbacek, K., Kanovei, V., Katz, M. G., Lobry, C., & Sanders, S. (2017). Approaches to analysis with infinitesimals following Robinson, Nelson, and others. Real Analysis Exchange, 1 -59. https://doi.org/10.14321/realanalexch.42.2.0193

This is a survey of several approaches to the framework for working with infinitesimals and infinite numbers, originally developed by Abraham Robinson in the 1960s, and their constructive engagement with the Cantor-Dedekind postulate and the Intended... Read More about Approaches to analysis with infinitesimals following Robinson, Nelson, and others.

Irreversible mixing by unstable periodic orbits in buoyancy dominated stratified turbulence (2017)
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(2017). Irreversible mixing by unstable periodic orbits in buoyancy dominated stratified turbulence. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2017.695

We consider turbulence driven by a large-scale horizontal shear in Kolmogorov flow (i.e. with sinusoidal body forcing) and a background linear stable stratification with buoyancy frequency N-B(2) imposed in the third, vertical direction in a fluid wi... Read More about Irreversible mixing by unstable periodic orbits in buoyancy dominated stratified turbulence.