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Computational aspects of model acquisition and join geometry for the virtual reconstruction of the atrahasis cuneiform tablet (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Collins, T., Woolley, S., Gehlken, E., & Ch'ng, E. (2018). Computational aspects of model acquisition and join geometry for the virtual reconstruction of the atrahasis cuneiform tablet. . https://doi.org/10.1109/VSMM.2017.8346284

The epic of Atrahasis is one of the most significant pieces of ancient Mesopotamian literature. The account has survived millennia on sets of clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform script; a sophisticated early writing system comprising signs formed f... Read More about Computational aspects of model acquisition and join geometry for the virtual reconstruction of the atrahasis cuneiform tablet.

DeepPCA Based Objective Function for Melanoma Detection (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Sultana, N. N., Puhan, N. B., & Mandal, B. (2018). DeepPCA Based Objective Function for Melanoma Detection. In 2018 International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT). https://doi.org/10.1109/icit.2018.00025

In this paper, we propose an objective function for the convolutional neural network to acquire the variation separability as opposed to the categorical cross entropy which maximizes according to the target labels. This approach is an unsupervised le... Read More about DeepPCA Based Objective Function for Melanoma Detection.

Characterisation of multiple conducting permeable objects in metal detection by polarizability tensors (2018)
Journal Article
Ledger, P. D., Lionheart, W. R. B., & Amad, A. A. S. (2019). Characterisation of multiple conducting permeable objects in metal detection by polarizability tensors. Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, 42(3), 830-860. https://doi.org/10.1002/mma.5387

Realistic applications in metal detection involve multiple inhomogeneous-conducting permeable objects, and the aim of this paper is to characterise such objects by polarizability tensors. We show that, for the eddy current model, the leading order te... Read More about Characterisation of multiple conducting permeable objects in metal detection by polarizability tensors.

Opposing effects of final population density and stress on Escherichia coli mutation rate (2018)
Journal Article
Channon. (2018). Opposing effects of final population density and stress on Escherichia coli mutation rate. ISME Journal, 2981-2987. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-018-0237-3

Evolution depends on mutations. For an individual genotype, the rate at which mutations arise is known to increase with various stressors (stress-induced mutagenesis-SIM) and decrease at high final population density (density-associated mutation-rate... Read More about Opposing effects of final population density and stress on Escherichia coli mutation rate.

A Genetic Circuit Compiler: Generating Combinatorial Genetic Circuits with Web Semantics and Inference (2018)
Journal Article
Misirli. (2018). A Genetic Circuit Compiler: Generating Combinatorial Genetic Circuits with Web Semantics and Inference. ACS synthetic biology, 2812-2823. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.8b00201

A central strategy of synthetic biology is to understand the basic processes of living creatures through engineering organisms using the same building blocks. Biological machines described in terms of parts can be studied by computer simulation in an... Read More about A Genetic Circuit Compiler: Generating Combinatorial Genetic Circuits with Web Semantics and Inference.

Vibrations and elastic waves in chiral multi-structures (2018)
Journal Article
Nieves. (2018). Vibrations and elastic waves in chiral multi-structures. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 387-408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2018.07.020

We develop a new asymptotic model of the dynamic interaction between an elastic structure and a system of gyroscopic spinners that make the overall multi-structure chiral. An important result is the derivation and analysis of effective chiral boundar... Read More about Vibrations and elastic waves in chiral multi-structures.

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.

Student Centred Design of a Learning Analytics System (2018)
Conference Proceeding
De Quincey, E., Briggs, C., Kyriacou, T., & Waller, R. (2018). Student Centred Design of a Learning Analytics System. In LAK19: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge. https://doi.org/10.1145/3303772.3303793

Current Learning Analytics (LA) systems are primarily designed with University staff members as the target audience; very few are aimed at students, with almost none being developed with direct student involvement and undertaking a comprehensive eval... Read More about Student Centred Design of a Learning Analytics System.

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.

The Usability of E-learning Platforms in Higher Education: A Systematic Mapping Study (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Abuhlfaia, K., & de Quincey, E. (2018). The Usability of E-learning Platforms in Higher Education: A Systematic Mapping Study. . https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.7

The use of e-learning in higher education has increased significantly in recent years, which has led to several studies being conducted to investigate the usability of the platforms that support it. A variety of different usability evaluation methods... Read More about The Usability of E-learning Platforms in Higher Education: A Systematic Mapping Study.

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.

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.

Deep Adaptive Temporal Pooling for Activity Recognition (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Song, S., Cheung, N., Chandrasekhar, V., & Mandal, B. (2018). Deep Adaptive Temporal Pooling for Activity Recognition. . https://doi.org/10.1145/3240508.3240713

Deep neural networks have recently achieved competitive accuracy for human activity recognition. However, there is room for improvement, especially in modeling of long-term temporal importance and determining the activity relevance of different tempo... Read More about Deep Adaptive Temporal Pooling for Activity Recognition.

A Bidirectional Subsethood Based Similarity Measure for Fuzzy Sets (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Kabir, S., Wagner, C., Havens, T. C., & Anderson, D. T. A Bidirectional Subsethood Based Similarity Measure for Fuzzy Sets. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/fuzz-ieee.2018.8491669

Similarity measures are useful for reasoning about fuzzy sets. Hence, many classical set-theoretic similarity measures have been extended for comparing fuzzy sets. In previous work, a set-theoretic similarity measure considering the bidirectional sub... Read More about A Bidirectional Subsethood Based Similarity Measure for Fuzzy Sets.

Fault Detection in Steel-Reinforced Concrete Using Echo State Networks (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Wootton, A. J., Day, C. R., & Haycock, P. W. (2018). Fault Detection in Steel-Reinforced Concrete Using Echo State Networks. In 2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (1-8). https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2018.8489761

The cost of maintaining and repairing the world's ageing reinforced concrete infrastructure continues to increase, and is expected to cost the United States economy alone $58 billion by 2020. Consequently, the use of non-destructive testing technolog... Read More about Fault Detection in Steel-Reinforced Concrete Using Echo State Networks.

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.

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.