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Eclipsing Binary Stars: the Royal Road to Stellar Astrophysics (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Taylor. (2012). Eclipsing Binary Stars: the Royal Road to Stellar Astrophysics. In Proceedings of the workshop "Orbital Couples: Pas de Deux in the Solar System and the Milky Way" (51-58)

Russell (1948) famously described eclipses as the "royal road" to stellar astrophysics. From photometric and spectroscopic observations it is possible to measure the masses and radii (to 1% or better!), and thus surface gravities and mean densities,... Read More about Eclipsing Binary Stars: the Royal Road to Stellar Astrophysics.

Face: Fractal Analysis in Cell Engineering (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Lam, K. P., Collins, D. J., & Richardson, J. B. (2013). Face: Fractal Analysis in Cell Engineering. In Innovations and Advances in Computer, Information, Systems Sciences, and Engineering (1151-1164). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3535-8_95

Most fractal compression schemes encode an image as a collection of transforms that analyse image detail at every scale, typically allowing a receiver to regenerate or synthesize the output using “instructions” from the transmitter. Conceived in the... Read More about Face: Fractal Analysis in Cell Engineering.

Markerless Video Analysis for Movement Quantification in Pediatric Epilepsy Monitoring (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Lu, H., Eng, H., Mandal, B., Chan, D. W., & Ng, Y. (2011). Markerless Video Analysis for Movement Quantification in Pediatric Epilepsy Monitoring. . https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6092040

This paper proposes a markerless video analytic system for quantifying body part movements in pediatric epilepsy monitoring. The system utilizes colored pajamas worn by a patient in bed to extract body part movement trajectories, from which various f... Read More about Markerless Video Analysis for Movement Quantification in Pediatric Epilepsy Monitoring.

Cantabrian Thrust Belt: basin history of the North Gondwana passive margin – rifting, glaciations? More rifting and collision. (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Doherty, H., Ferriday, T., Kelly, M., Montenari, M., Rogers, S., & Williams, G. (2010). Cantabrian Thrust Belt: basin history of the North Gondwana passive margin – rifting, glaciations? More rifting and collision.

The Variscan thrust belt of the Cantabrian Mountains in NW Spain preserves a Palaeozoic stratigraphy that developed during the evolution of the north Gondwana passive margin through multiple rift phases, drifting and eventual collision and collapse... Read More about Cantabrian Thrust Belt: basin history of the North Gondwana passive margin – rifting, glaciations? More rifting and collision..

The GAMes aphids play (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Bell, J., Harrington, R., Welham, S., Clark, S., & Pickup, J. (2009). The GAMes aphids play.

Comparison of time-lapse GPR and resistivity over simulated clandestine graves (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Pringle, J., Jervis, J., & Tuckwell, G. (2009). Comparison of time-lapse GPR and resistivity over simulated clandestine graves. . https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.20146988

Forensic geophysics should be an invaluable tool to assist search teams to detect and locate clandestine graves of buried murder victims. At present however, geophysics is under-utilised and currently used techniques may not be optimal for specific t... Read More about Comparison of time-lapse GPR and resistivity over simulated clandestine graves.

The impact of reduced mass loss rates on the evolution of massive stars (2008)
Conference Proceeding
Hirschi, R. (2008). The impact of reduced mass loss rates on the evolution of massive stars.

Mass loss is a very important aspect of the life of massive stars. After briefly reviewing its importance, we discuss the impact of the recently proposed downward revision of mass loss rates due to clumping (difficulty to form Wolf-Rayet stars and pr... Read More about The impact of reduced mass loss rates on the evolution of massive stars.

ASTRA Spectrophotometer: Reduction and Flux Calibrations (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Smalley, B., F. Gulliver, A., & J. Adelman, S. (2007). ASTRA Spectrophotometer: Reduction and Flux Calibrations.

The ASTRA Cassegrain Spectrophotometer and its automated 0.5-m telescope at Fairborn Observatory in Arizona will produce a large quantity of high precision stellar flux distributions. A separate paper (Adelman et al. 2007) presented a review of the d... Read More about ASTRA Spectrophotometer: Reduction and Flux Calibrations.

The evolution of massive stars in the context of V838 Monocerotis (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Hirschi, R. (2007). The evolution of massive stars in the context of V838 Monocerotis.

The aim of this paper is to look at the evolution of massive stars in order to determine whether or not the progenitor of V838 Mon may be a massive star. In the first part of this paper, the evolution of massive stars around solar metallicity is desc... Read More about The evolution of massive stars in the context of V838 Monocerotis.

Developments in physics of massive stars (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Meynet, G., Ekström, S., Maeder, A., Hirschi, R., Georgy, C., & Beffa, C. (2007). Developments in physics of massive stars. . https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921308020449

New constraints on stellar models are provided by large surveys of massive stars, interferometric observations and asteroseismology. After a review of the main results so far obtained, we present new results from rotating models and discuss compariso... Read More about Developments in physics of massive stars.

A coarse-grained spectral signature generator (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Lam, K., Austin, J., & Day, C. (2007). A coarse-grained spectral signature generator. . https://doi.org/10.1117/12.736723

This paper investigates the method for object fingerprinting in the context of element specific x-ray imaging. In particular, the use of spectral descriptors that are illumination invariant and viewpoint independent for pattern identification was exa... Read More about A coarse-grained spectral signature generator.

Rotating massive stars @ very low Z: high C and N production (2006)
Conference Proceeding
Hirschi, R. (2006). Rotating massive stars @ very low Z: high C and N production. . https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2234385

Two series of models and their yields are presented in this paper. The first series consists of 20 Mo models with varying initial metallicity (solar down to $Z=10^{-8}$) and rotation (Vini=0-600 km/s). The second one consists of models with an initia... Read More about Rotating massive stars @ very low Z: high C and N production.

Pre-suprenova evolution of rotating massive stars (2005)
Conference Proceeding
Hirschi, R., Meynet, G., Maeder, A., & Goriely, S. (2005). Pre-suprenova evolution of rotating massive stars. . https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26633-X_28

The Geneva evolutionary code has been modified to study the advanced stages (Ne, O, Si burnings) of rotating massive stars. Here we present the results of four 20 solar mass stars at solar metallicity with initial rotational velocities of 0, 100, 200... Read More about Pre-suprenova evolution of rotating massive stars.

Improved Bayesian Approach for Face Recognition (2005)
Conference Proceeding
Jiang, X., Mandal, B., & Kot, A. (2005). Improved Bayesian Approach for Face Recognition. In 2005 5th International Conference on Information Communications & Signal Processing, Bangkok, 2005 (162-166). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICICS.2005.1689026

In subspace face recognition, PCA, LDA and Bayesian are the most commonly used methods. Each of them has their own advantages and disadvantages in recognizing human faces. Their recognition rates depend much on the methodologies used in selecting/tra... Read More about Improved Bayesian Approach for Face Recognition.

Young stars and their circumstellar disks in the Sigma Orionis cluster (2004)
Conference Proceeding
M. Oliveira, J., D. Jeffries, R., Th. van Loon, J., & J. Kenyon, M. (2004). Young stars and their circumstellar disks in the Sigma Orionis cluster. In Open Issues in Local Star Formation (55–62). https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2600-5_6

The sigma Orionis cluster is a young association evolving under the disruptive influence of its massive O-star namesake. We are analysing this cluster as part of a program to characterise the influence of O-stars on the early stages of stellar evolut... Read More about Young stars and their circumstellar disks in the Sigma Orionis cluster.

Eclipsing binaries in open clusters (2003)
Conference Proceeding
Southworth, J., Maxted, P., & Smalley, B. (2003). Eclipsing binaries in open clusters.

Accurate physical parameters have been determined for two early-type detached eclipsing binaries in the open cluster h Persei (NGC 869). Masses accurate to 1.5% are derived from high-resolution spectroscopy and radii accurate to 4--6% have been obtai... Read More about Eclipsing binaries in open clusters.