All Outputs (2069)
James Buchanan and the secession crisis
Book Chapter
An account of the actions, motives, successes and failure of President James Buchanan as he confronted the collapse of the American nation in 1860-1861
Safe drinking water for expanding cities
Book Chapter
The rapid urbanization and industrialization since 1978 have posed some serious environmental challenges for sustainable development in China, with pollution and water shortages ranking among the most pressing issues. Although China is rich in water... Read More about Safe drinking water for expanding cities.
Can background baroque music help to improve the memorability of graphical passwords?
Book Chapter
Graphical passwords have been proposed as an alternative to alphanumeric passwords with their advantages in usability and security. However,they still tend to follow predictable patterns that are easier for attackers to exploit,probably due to users’... Read More about Can background baroque music help to improve the memorability of graphical passwords?.
The transfer of evolved artificial immune system behaviours between small and large scale robotic platforms
Book Chapter
This paper demonstrates that a set of behaviours evolved in simulation on a miniature robot (epuck) can be transferred to a much larger scale platform (a virtual Pioneer P3-DX) that also differs in shape, sensor type, sensor configuration and progra... Read More about The transfer of evolved artificial immune system behaviours between small and large scale robotic platforms.
System dynamics modelling of the processes involving the maintenance of the naive T cell repertoire
Book Chapter
The study of immune system aging, i.e. immunosenescence, is a relatively new research topic. It deals with understanding the processes of immuno-degradation that indicate signs of functionality loss possibly leading to death. Even though it is not po... Read More about System dynamics modelling of the processes involving the maintenance of the naive T cell repertoire.
Error estimation and adaptive mesh refinement for aerodynamic flows
Book Chapter
This lecture course covers the theory of so-called duality-based a posteriori error estimation of DG finite element methods. In particular, we formulate consistent and adjoint consistent DG methods for the numerical approximation of both the compress... Read More about Error estimation and adaptive mesh refinement for aerodynamic flows.
Optimisation of a crossdocking distribution centre simulation model
Book Chapter
This paper reports on continuing research into the modelling of an order picking process within a Crossdocking distribution centre using Simulation Optimisation. The aim of this project is to optimise a discrete event simulation model and to unde... Read More about Optimisation of a crossdocking distribution centre simulation model.
Gender and European Welfare States
Book Chapter
An idiotypic immune network as a short-term learning architecture for mobile robots
Book Chapter
A combined Short-Term Learning (STL) and Long-Term Learning (LTL) approach to solving mobile robot navigation problems is presented and tested in both real and simulated environments. The LTL consists of rapid simulations that use a Genetic Algorith... Read More about An idiotypic immune network as a short-term learning architecture for mobile robots.
This chapter will start by providing an overview of current knowledge about young people with learning disabilities who sexually abuse. Research cited will, unless otherwise indicated, be limited to UK studies since international variations in the de... Read More about Young people with learning disabilities who sexually abuse: understanding, identifying and responding from within generic education and welfare services.
Health and Health Policy
Book Chapter
Modelling Immunological Memory
Book Chapter
Accurate immunological models offer the possibility of performing highthroughput experiments in silico that can predict, or at least suggest, in vivo phenomena. In this chapter, we compare various models of immunological memory. We first validate an... Read More about Modelling Immunological Memory.
Bayesian Optimisation Algorithm for Nurse Scheduling, Scalable Optimization via Probabilistic Modeling
Book Chapter
Our research has shown that schedules can be built mimicking a human scheduler by using a set of rules that involve domain knowledge. This chapter presents a Bayesian Optimization Algorithm (BOA) for the nurse scheduling problem that chooses such su... Read More about Bayesian Optimisation Algorithm for Nurse Scheduling, Scalable Optimization via Probabilistic Modeling.
Gender and Citizenship under New Labour
Book Chapter
Abstract To what extent has citizenship been transformed under the New Labour government to include women as equal citizens? This chapter will examine New Labour’s record in terms of alternative conceptions of citizenship: a model based on equal obl... Read More about Gender and Citizenship under New Labour.
Review of order fulfilment models for Catalogue Mass Customization
Book Chapter
Mass Customization (MC) is not a mature business strategy and hence it is not clear that a single or small group of operational models are dominating. Companies tend to approach MC from either a mass production or a customization origin and this in... Read More about Review of order fulfilment models for Catalogue Mass Customization.
RHEED characterisation of the near surface microstructure of Ti-O based biocompatible coatings
Book Chapter
Mechanically polished, annealed, nitric acid treated and aged in boiling water after nitriding, commercially pure Ti substrates have been characterised using reflection high-energy electron diffraction (RHEED) and secondary electron imaging, in terms... Read More about RHEED characterisation of the near surface microstructure of Ti-O based biocompatible coatings.
TEM studies of multilayer ohmic contacts to n-type AlGaN/GaN
Book Chapter
Ti and Pd barrier layers between the Al/Ti diffusion couple and the Au capping layer of multilayer ohmic contacts to n-type AlGaN/GaN field effect transistors were found to be ineffective in preventing the diffusion of Au to the AlGaN following high... Read More about TEM studies of multilayer ohmic contacts to n-type AlGaN/GaN.