Heterogeneous data fusion for the improved non-destructive detection of steel-reinforcement defects using echo state networks (2022)
Journal Article
Wootton, A. J., Day, C., & Haycock, P. W. (2022). Heterogeneous data fusion for the improved non-destructive detection of steel-reinforcement defects using echo state networks. Structural Health Monitoring, 21(6), 2910-2921. https://doi.org/10.1177/14759217221080718

The degradation of roads is an expensive problem: in the UK alone, £27 billion was spent on road repairs between 2013 and 2019. One potential cost-saver is the early, non-destructive detection of faults. There are many available techniques, each with... Read More about Heterogeneous data fusion for the improved non-destructive detection of steel-reinforcement defects using echo state networks.

Axisymmetric necking versus Treloar–Kearsley instability in a hyperelastic sheet under equibiaxial stretching (2022)
Journal Article
Fu. (2022). Axisymmetric necking versus Treloar–Kearsley instability in a hyperelastic sheet under equibiaxial stretching. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, https://doi.org/10.1177/10812865211072897

We consider bifurcations from the homogeneous solution of a circular or square hyperelastic sheet that is subjected to equibiaxial stretching under either force- or displacement-controlled edge conditions. We derive the condition for axisymmetric nec... Read More about Axisymmetric necking versus Treloar–Kearsley instability in a hyperelastic sheet under equibiaxial stretching.

Stabilisation of exact coherent structures in two-dimensional turbulence using time-delayed feedback (2022)
Journal Article
Lucas, D., & Yasuda, T. (2022). Stabilisation of exact coherent structures in two-dimensional turbulence using time-delayed feedback. Physical Review Fluids, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.7.014401

Time-delayed feedback control, attributed to Pyragas (1992 Physics Letters 170(6) 421-428), is a method known to stabilise periodic orbits in low dimensional chaotic dynamical systems. A system of the form $\dot{\mathbf{x}}(t)=f(\mathbf{x})$ has an a... Read More about Stabilisation of exact coherent structures in two-dimensional turbulence using time-delayed feedback.

Virtual Parts Repository 2: Model-Driven Design of Genetic Regulatory Circuits (2021)
Journal Article
Yang, B., James, K., Wipat, A., & Misirli, G. (2021). Virtual Parts Repository 2: Model-Driven Design of Genetic Regulatory Circuits. ACS synthetic biology, 3304-3315. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.1c00157

Engineering genetic regulatory circuits is key to the creation of biological applications that are responsive to environmental changes. Computational models can assist in understanding especially large and complex circuits for which manual analysis i... Read More about Virtual Parts Repository 2: Model-Driven Design of Genetic Regulatory Circuits.

A Review of Wearable Multi-wavelength Photoplethysmography (2021)
Journal Article
Ray, D., Collins, T., Woolley, S., & Ponnapalli, P. (2023). A Review of Wearable Multi-wavelength Photoplethysmography. IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, 16, 136-151. https://doi.org/10.1109/RBME.2021.3121476

Optical pulse detection photoplethysmography (PPG) provides a means of low cost and unobtrusive physiological monitoring that is popular in many wearable devices. However, the accuracy, robustness and generalizability of single-wavelength PPG sensing... Read More about A Review of Wearable Multi-wavelength Photoplethysmography.

Post-buckling of an elastic half-space coated by double layers (2021)
Journal Article
Fu. (2021). Post-buckling of an elastic half-space coated by double layers. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, https://doi.org/10.1177/10812865211010886

We investigate the buckling and post-buckling properties of a hyperelastic half-space coated by two hyperelastic layers when the composite structure is subjected to a uniaxial compression. In the case of a half-space coated with a single layer, it is... Read More about Post-buckling of an elastic half-space coated by double layers.

Deep Regularized Discriminative Network (2021)
Journal Article
Mandal, B. (2021). Deep Regularized Discriminative Network. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-021-00647-z

Traditional linear discriminant analysis (LDA) approach discards the eigenvalues which are very small or equivalent to zero, but quite often eigenvectors corresponding to zero eigenvalues are the important dimensions for discriminant analysis. We pro... Read More about Deep Regularized Discriminative Network.

A family of languages for trustworthy agent-based simulation (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). A family of languages for trustworthy agent-based simulation. https://doi.org/10.1145/3426425.3426929

Simulation is a key tool for researching complex system behaviour. Agent-based simulation has been applied across domains, such as biology, health, economics and urban sciences. However, engineering robust, efficient, maintainable, and reliable agent... Read More about A family of languages for trustworthy agent-based simulation.

Synthetic biology open language visual (SBOL visual) version 2.2 (2020)
Journal Article
Baig, H., Fontanarrosa, P., Kulkarni, V., McLaughlin, J., Vaidyanathan, P., Bartley, B., …Myers, C. (2020). Synthetic biology open language visual (SBOL visual) version 2.2. Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics, 17(2-3), Article 20200014. https://doi.org/10.1515/jib-2020-0014

People who are engineering biological organisms often find it useful to communicate in diagrams, both about the structure of the nucleic acid sequences that they are engineering and about the functional relationships between sequence features and oth... Read More about Synthetic biology open language visual (SBOL visual) version 2.2.

Computer Simulation of the Incorporation of V2+, V3+, V4+, V(5+)and Mo3+, Mo4+, Mo5+, Mo(6+)Dopants in LiNbO3 (2020)
Journal Article
Jackson. (2020). Computer Simulation of the Incorporation of V2+, V3+, V4+, V(5+)and Mo3+, Mo4+, Mo5+, Mo(6+)Dopants in LiNbO3. Crystals, https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst10060457

The doping of LiNbO(3)with V2+, V3+, V(4+)and V(5+)as well as Mo3+, Mo4+, Mo(5+)and Mo(6+)ions is of interest in enhancing its photorefractive properties. In this paper, possible incorporation mechanisms for these ions in LiNbO(3)are modelled, using... Read More about Computer Simulation of the Incorporation of V2+, V3+, V4+, V(5+)and Mo3+, Mo4+, Mo5+, Mo(6+)Dopants in LiNbO3.

A Decade On, How Has the Visibility of Energy Changed? Energy Feedback Perceptions from UK Focus Groups (2020)
Journal Article
Fredericks, D., Fan, Z., Woolley, S., de Quincey, E., & Streeton, M. (2020). A Decade On, How Has the Visibility of Energy Changed? Energy Feedback Perceptions from UK Focus Groups. Energies, 13(10), Article ARTN 2566. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13102566

The Smart Meter Rollout Programme in the UK has required energy suppliers to offer new smart meters to customers to provide near real-time energy use information and enable two-way communication between the meter and the central system. The provision... Read More about A Decade On, How Has the Visibility of Energy Changed? Energy Feedback Perceptions from UK Focus Groups.

Reduced model for the surface dynamics of a generally anisotropic elastic half-space (2020)
Journal Article
Prikazchikov, Kaplunov, & Fu. (2020). Reduced model for the surface dynamics of a generally anisotropic elastic half-space. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 20190590 - 20190590. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2019.0590

Near-surface resonance phenomena often arise in semi-infinite solids. For instance, when a moving load with a speed v close to the surface wave speed vR is applied to the surface of an elastic half-space, it will give rise to a large-amplitude distur... Read More about Reduced model for the surface dynamics of a generally anisotropic elastic half-space.

A gyro-elastic device for cloaking of elastic waves in micro-structured materials (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Garau, M., Nieves, M., Carta, G., & Brun, M. (2019). A gyro-elastic device for cloaking of elastic waves in micro-structured materials. . https://doi.org/10.1109/MetaMaterials.2019.8900841

The design of a structured gyro-elastic system capable of being used as a cloaking device for a discrete medium is discussed. The efficiency of the gyro-elastic cloak, composed of springs connecting periodically placed masses, attached to gyroscopic... Read More about A gyro-elastic device for cloaking of elastic waves in micro-structured materials.

Evaluating the Usability of an e-Learning Platform within Higher Education from a Student Perspective (2019)
Presentation / Conference
De Quincey. (2019, November). Evaluating the Usability of an e-Learning Platform within Higher Education from a Student Perspective. Presented at 3rd International Conference on Education and E-Learning (ICEEL 2019)., Barcelona

With the advancement in information technologies, e-learning has become an integral part of the modern higher education system. As part of this progression, Universities have increasingly adopted Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) that enable learne... Read More about Evaluating the Usability of an e-Learning Platform within Higher Education from a Student Perspective.

Meta-analysis for families of experiments in software engineering: a systematic review and reproducibility and validity assessment (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Meta-analysis for families of experiments in software engineering: a systematic review and reproducibility and validity assessment. Empirical Software Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-019-09747-0

Context
Previous studies have raised concerns about the analysis and meta-analysis of crossover experiments and we were aware of several families of experiments that used crossover designs and meta-analysis.

Objective
To identify families of exp... Read More about Meta-analysis for families of experiments in software engineering: a systematic review and reproducibility and validity assessment.

Scalability performance measurement and testing of cloud-based software services (2019)
Thesis
Al-Said Ahmad, A. (2019). Scalability performance measurement and testing of cloud-based software services. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/414329

Cloud-based software services have become more popular and dependable and are ideal for businesses with growing or changing workload demands. These services are increasing rapidly due to the reduced hosting costs and the increased availability and ef... Read More about Scalability performance measurement and testing of cloud-based software services.

The use of bibliography enriched features for automatic citation screening (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). The use of bibliography enriched features for automatic citation screening. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2019.103202

Context
Citation screening (also called study selection) is a phase of systematic review process that has attracted a growing interest on the use of text mining (TM) methods to support it to reduce time and effort. Search results are usually imbalan... Read More about The use of bibliography enriched features for automatic citation screening.

Cloud-based Software Services Delivery from the Perspective of Scalability (2019)
Journal Article
Al-Said Ahmad, A., & Andras, P. (2019). Cloud-based Software Services Delivery from the Perspective of Scalability. International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, 36(2), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445760.2019.1617864

Measuring and testing the scalability and performance of cloud-based software services is critical for the delivery of such services, and the development of cloud computing. There are three interconnected Cloud-based software services’ performance as... Read More about Cloud-based Software Services Delivery from the Perspective of Scalability.

Problems with Statistical Practice in Software Engineering Research (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Kitchenham, B., Madeyski, L., & Brereton, P. (2019). Problems with Statistical Practice in Software Engineering Research. In EASE '19 Proceedings of the Evaluation and Assessment on Software Engineering (134-143). https://doi.org/10.1145/3319008.3319009

Background
Examples of questionable statistical practice, when published in high quality software engineering (SE) journals, may lead to novice researchers adopting incorrect statistical practices.

Objective
Our goal is to highlight issues contr... Read More about Problems with Statistical Practice in Software Engineering Research.

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.