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Shape bifurcation of a pressurized ellipsoidal balloon (2016)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Body-Worn Sensors in Parkinson's Disease: Evaluating Their Acceptability to Patients (2016)
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(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.

Hopf-Galois module structure of tame Cp×Cp extensions (2016)
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Truman, P. (2016). Hopf-Galois module structure of tame Cp×Cp extensions. https://doi.org/10.5802/jtnb.953

Let $ p $ be an odd prime number, $ K $ a number field containing a primitive $ p^{th} $ root of unity, and $ L $ a Galois extension of $ K $ with Galois group isomorphic to $ C_{p} \times C_{p} $. We study in detail the local and global structure of... Read More about Hopf-Galois module structure of tame Cp×Cp extensions.

Hopf-Galois module structure of tame biquadratic extensions (2016)
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Truman. (2016). Hopf-Galois module structure of tame biquadratic extensions. https://doi.org/10.5802/jtnb.953

Let $ p $ be an odd prime number, $ K $ a number field containing a primitive $ p^{th} $ root of unity, and $ L $ a Galois extension of $ K $ with Galois group isomorphic to $ C_{p} \times C_{p} $. We study in detail the local and global structure of... Read More about Hopf-Galois module structure of tame biquadratic extensions.

Applications of Poisson-Hidden Markov Model (2015)
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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.