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Da literatura abscondita? ou apontamento liminar sobre Baralha de sonhos: António Gil Hernández leitor de Amado L. Caeiro (2010)
Journal Article
Vidal Bouzon, Á. J. (2010). Da literatura abscondita? ou apontamento liminar sobre Baralha de sonhos: António Gil Hernández leitor de Amado L. Caeiro

Confronting the fact that Amado L. Caeiro’s poetry collection Baralha de sonhos comes framed by the interpretations provided through the accompanying texts authoredb by António Gil Hernández (legal name who fabricated Amado’s as his otherbproper name... Read More about Da literatura abscondita? ou apontamento liminar sobre Baralha de sonhos: António Gil Hernández leitor de Amado L. Caeiro.

Detecting anomalous process behaviour using second generation Artificial Immune Systems (2010)
Journal Article
Twycross, J., Aickelin, U., & Whitbrook, A. (2010). Detecting anomalous process behaviour using second generation Artificial Immune Systems. International Journal of Unconventional Computing, 6(3-4),

Artificial Immune Systems have been successfully applied to a number of problem domains including fault tolerance and data mining, but have been shown to scale poorly when applied to computer intrusion detection despite the fact that the biological i... Read More about Detecting anomalous process behaviour using second generation Artificial Immune Systems.

Bidirectional relighting for 3D-aided 2D face recognition (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Toderici, G., Passalis, G., Zafeiriou, S., Tzimiropoulos, G., Petrou, M., Theoharis, T., & Kakadiaris, I. A. Bidirectional relighting for 3D-aided 2D face recognition. Presented at IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

In this paper, we present a new method for bidirectional relighting for 3D-aided 2D face recognition under large pose and illumination changes. During subject enrollment, we build subject-specific 3D annotated models by using the subjects' raw 3D dat... Read More about Bidirectional relighting for 3D-aided 2D face recognition.

Understanding cardiac alternans: a piecewise linear modeling framework (2010)
Journal Article
Thul, R., & Coombes, S. (2010). Understanding cardiac alternans: a piecewise linear modeling framework. Chaos, 20, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3518362

Cardiac alternans is a beat-to-beat alternation in action potential duration (APD) and intracellular calcium (Ca²⁺) cycling seen in cardiac myocytes under rapid pacing that is believed to be a precursor to fibrillation. The cellular mechanisms of the... Read More about Understanding cardiac alternans: a piecewise linear modeling framework.

A combined oxygen and silicon diatom isotope record of Late Quaternary change in Lake El'gygytgyn, North East Siberia (2010)
Journal Article
Swann, G. E., Leng, M. J., Juschus, O., Melles, M., Brigham-Grette, J., & Sloane, H. J. (2010). A combined oxygen and silicon diatom isotope record of Late Quaternary change in Lake El'gygytgyn, North East Siberia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 29(5-6), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.11.024

Determining the response of sites within the Arctic Circle to long-term climatic change remains an essential pre-requisite for assessing the susceptibility of these regions to future global warming and Arctic amplification. To date, existing records... Read More about A combined oxygen and silicon diatom isotope record of Late Quaternary change in Lake El'gygytgyn, North East Siberia.

Salinity changes in the North West Pacific Ocean during the late Pliocene/early Quaternary from 2.73 Ma to 2.52 Ma (2010)
Journal Article
Swann, G. E. (2010). Salinity changes in the North West Pacific Ocean during the late Pliocene/early Quaternary from 2.73 Ma to 2.52 Ma. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 297(1-2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2010.06.035

Recent research has increasingly advocated a role for the North Pacific Ocean in modulating global climatic changes over both the last glacial cycle and further back into the geological record. Here a diatom δ18O record is presented from Ocean Drilli... Read More about Salinity changes in the North West Pacific Ocean during the late Pliocene/early Quaternary from 2.73 Ma to 2.52 Ma.

A comparison of the Si/Al and Si/time wet-alkaline digestion methods for measurement of biogenic silica in lake sediments (2010)
Journal Article
Swann, G. E. (2010). A comparison of the Si/Al and Si/time wet-alkaline digestion methods for measurement of biogenic silica in lake sediments. Journal of Paleolimnology, 44(2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-009-9308-9

Existing techniques for measuring sediment Biogenic Silica (BSi) concentrations rely largely on conventional (Si-only) wet-alkaline digestion methods. Although results have provided detailed palaeoenvironmental information, potential errors can arise... Read More about A comparison of the Si/Al and Si/time wet-alkaline digestion methods for measurement of biogenic silica in lake sediments.

A new penalty term for the BIC with respect to speaker diarization (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stafylakis, T., Tzimiropoulos, G., Katsouros, V., & Carayannis, G. A new penalty term for the BIC with respect to speaker diarization. Presented at ICASSP 2010 - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing

In this paper we examine a new penalty term for the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) that is suited to the problem of speaker diarization. Based on our previous approach of penalizing each cluster only with its effective sample size - an approach... Read More about A new penalty term for the BIC with respect to speaker diarization.

Public perceptions of energy choices: the influence of beliefs about climate change and the environment (2010)
Journal Article
Spence, A., Poortinga, W., Pidgeon, N., & Lorenzoni, I. (2010). Public perceptions of energy choices: the influence of beliefs about climate change and the environment. Energy and Environment, 21(5), https://doi.org/10.1260/0958-305X.21.5.385

Past research has documented high levels of public concern for risks relating to nuclear power, with opposition to nuclear energy particularly being linked with general environmental concern. However recent UK energy policy, and other debates worldwi... Read More about Public perceptions of energy choices: the influence of beliefs about climate change and the environment.

Framing and communicating climate change: the effects of distance and outcome frame manipulations (2010)
Journal Article
Spence, A., & Pidgeon, N. (2010). Framing and communicating climate change: the effects of distance and outcome frame manipulations. Global Environmental Change, 20(4), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.07.002

Communications regarding climate change are increasingly being utilised in order to encourage sustainable behaviour and the way that these are framed can significantly alter the impact that they have on the recipient. This experimental study seeks t... Read More about Framing and communicating climate change: the effects of distance and outcome frame manipulations.

Interregional synchrony of visuomotor tracking: perturbation effects and individual differences (2010)
Journal Article
Spapé, M. M., & Serrien, D. J. (2010). Interregional synchrony of visuomotor tracking: perturbation effects and individual differences. Behavioural Brain Research, 213(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2010.05.029

The present study evaluated the neural and behavioural correlates associated with a visuomotor tracking task during which a sensory perturbation was introduced that created a directional bias between moving hand and cursor position. The results revea... Read More about Interregional synchrony of visuomotor tracking: perturbation effects and individual differences.

A novel framework to elucidate core classes in a dataset (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Soria, D., & Garibaldi, J. M. A novel framework to elucidate core classes in a dataset. Presented at IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2010

In this paper we present an original framework to extract representative groups from a dataset, and we validate it
over a novel case study. The framework specifies the application of different clustering algorithms, then several statistical and visu... Read More about A novel framework to elucidate core classes in a dataset.

The history of the text of Aristophanes (2010)
Book Chapter
Sommerstein, A. H. (2010). The history of the text of Aristophanes. In G. W. Dobrov (Ed.), Brill's companion to the study of Greek comedy. Brill

An account of the transmission of Aristophanes' text from his own time to the present day.

Simulating customer experience and word-of-mouth in retail: a case study (2010)
Journal Article
Siebers, P.-O., Aickelin, U., Celia, H., & Clegg, C. W. (2010). Simulating customer experience and word-of-mouth in retail: a case study. SIMULATION, 86(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/0037549708101575

Agents offer a new and exciting way of understanding the world of work. In this paper we describe the development of agent-based simulation models, designed to help to
understand the relationship between people management practices and retail perfor... Read More about Simulating customer experience and word-of-mouth in retail: a case study.

Scenario analysis, decision trees and simulation for cost benefit analysis of the cargo screening process (2010)
Book Chapter
Sherman, G., Siebers, P.-O., Aickelin, U., & Menachof, D. (2010). Scenario analysis, decision trees and simulation for cost benefit analysis of the cargo screening process. In A. G. Bruzzone, L. Landau, G. G. Cunha, & S. Saetta (Eds.), The International Workshop on Applied Modelling and Simulation: WAMS, Buizos, 2010. COPPE/UFRJ

In this paper we present our ideas for conducting a cost
benefit analysis by using three different methods: scenario analysis, decision trees and simulation. Then we introduce our case study and examine these methods in a real world situation. We sh... Read More about Scenario analysis, decision trees and simulation for cost benefit analysis of the cargo screening process.

Evaluation of cure shrinkage measurement techniques for thermosetting resins (2010)
Journal Article
Shah, D. U., & Schubel, P. J. (2010). Evaluation of cure shrinkage measurement techniques for thermosetting resins. Polymer Testing, 29(6), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymertesting.2010.05.001

Resin chemical shrinkage dictates the surface integrity and the roughness of a composite structure. Thus, to minimize surface failures and to produce a good surface quality it is a requisite to be able to measure and track resin shrinkage during the... Read More about Evaluation of cure shrinkage measurement techniques for thermosetting resins.

Coupling between perception and action timing during sensorimotor synchronization (2010)
Journal Article
Serrien, D. J., & Spapé, M. M. (2010). Coupling between perception and action timing during sensorimotor synchronization. Neuroscience Letters, 486(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2010.09.056

Time is an important parameter in behaviour, especially when synchronization with external events is required. To evaluate the nature of the association between perception and action timing, this study introduced pitch accented tones during performan... Read More about Coupling between perception and action timing during sensorimotor synchronization.

ExoBuilding: breathing Life into architecture (2010)
Book Chapter
Schnädelbach, H., Glover, K., & Irune, A. A. (2010). ExoBuilding: breathing Life into architecture. In E. Þ. Hvannberg, M. K. Lárusdóttir, A. Blandford, & J. Gulliksen (Eds.), NordiCHI 2010: proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, October 16-20, 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland. ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/1868914.1868965

ExoBuilding explores the novel design space that emerges when an individual‟s physiological data and the fabric of building architecture are linked. In its current form ExoBuilding is a tent-like structure that externalises a person‟s physiological d... Read More about ExoBuilding: breathing Life into architecture.