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3D segmentation of the whole heart vasculature using improved multi-threshold Otsu and white top-hat scale space hessian based vessel filter (2016)
Conference Proceeding

Quantification of vessel density helps to know the stage of the disease during diagnosis and patient's response to treatment. However, this requires presence of all vessels in the image. The available segmentation techniques that are manual based are... Read More about 3D segmentation of the whole heart vasculature using improved multi-threshold Otsu and white top-hat scale space hessian based vessel filter.

Is It Harmful when Advisors Only Pretend to Be Honest? (2016)
Conference Proceeding

The Professionalisation of the Civil Service between Politics and Administration: 8th ReSPA Annual Conference Proceedings, 12-13 November 2015 (2016)
Conference Proceeding

Can non-profit boards adequately constrain earnings management? The case of UK charities (2016)
Conference Proceeding

This paper aims to investigate the monitoring ability of a typically unpaid board of directors (or trustees) in the context of not-for-profit organizations (NFPOs). More specifically, since it has been found that NFPOs may be involved in managing the... Read More about Can non-profit boards adequately constrain earnings management? The case of UK charities.

Axial position estimation of conical shaped motor for green taxiing application (2016)
Conference Proceeding

This paper considers the possibility of adopting a conical shaped motor for Green Taxiing (GT) application. This topology of motor has been selected in order to obviate the presence of external declutching system (i.e. mechanical or electromagnetic c... Read More about Axial position estimation of conical shaped motor for green taxiing application.

Modular plug-in high performance integrated single-phase inverter (2016)
Conference Proceeding

The recent research exercises have targeted the transfer of the sandwich package benefits to application bespoke switch design, including flip-chip and device stacking topology [1]. This work presents the development of a highly integrated power swit... Read More about Modular plug-in high performance integrated single-phase inverter.

Trajectory optimisation for avionics-based GNSS integrity augmentation system (2016)
Conference Proceeding

© 2016 IEEE. In this paper, trajectory optimisation algorithms developed specifically for the Global Navigation satellite System (GNSS) Avionics-Based Integrity Augmentation (ABIA) system are presented. The ABIA system is designed to increase the lev... Read More about Trajectory optimisation for avionics-based GNSS integrity augmentation system.

Predictors of depressive symptoms in older adults living in care homes in Thailand (2016)
Conference Proceeding

Background: Most Thai people reject the idea of letting their ageing parents live in a care home due to the belief that a care home is a place for poor older adults who have no family. These beliefs could influence the perception of living in a care... Read More about Predictors of depressive symptoms in older adults living in care homes in Thailand.

Submodule power losses balancing algorithms for the modular multilevel converter (2016)
Conference Proceeding

Tolerance and component aging can cause significant differences in the capacitance values of the submodules (SMs) in a modular multilevel converter (MMC). Depending on the modulation technique, capacitance mismatches may produce uneven switching tran... Read More about Submodule power losses balancing algorithms for the modular multilevel converter.

Digital dead-beat and repetitive combined control for stand-alone four-leg VSI (2016)
Conference Proceeding

This paper deals with a newly conceived combine control topology. Dead-Beat and Repetitive controllers are proposed to operate jointly in 4-leg VSI for stand-alone applications. In such mode of operation, dedicated controller has to regulate the inve... Read More about Digital dead-beat and repetitive combined control for stand-alone four-leg VSI.

Measuring agreement on linguistic expressions in medical treatment scenarios (2016)
Conference Proceeding

Quality of life assessment represents a key process of deciding treatment success and viability. As such, patients’ perceptions of their functional status and well-being are important inputs for impairment assessment. Given that patient completed que... Read More about Measuring agreement on linguistic expressions in medical treatment scenarios.

Realisability of production recipes (2016)
Conference Proceeding

There is a rising demand for customised products with a high degree of complexity. To meet these demands, manufacturing lines are increasingly becoming autonomous, networked, and intelligent, with production lines being virtualised into a manufacturi... Read More about Realisability of production recipes.

Control of a modular multilevel converter with pulsed DC load (2016)
Conference Proceeding

This paper focuses on a Modular Multilevel Converter grid interface for a klystron modulator system that behaves as a pulsed DC load. With such a load, and without mitigating control, the MMC suffers from cell capacitor voltage imbalance between the... Read More about Control of a modular multilevel converter with pulsed DC load.

Vehicular suspension and propulsion using double sided linear induction machines (2016)
Conference Proceeding

This paper presents a new method of combined electromagnetic levitation and propulsion using a double sided pair of linear induction machines and a simple conductive sheet secondary. If the supply phase angle of one primary is modified with respect t... Read More about Vehicular suspension and propulsion using double sided linear induction machines.

Experimental validation of the solid state substation with embedded energy storage concept (2016)
Conference Proceeding

This paper proposes the concept of integrating the energy storage within a Medium Voltage to Low Voltage solid state substation in order to provide new features compatible with the requirements from future more intelligent grids. The principles for t... Read More about Experimental validation of the solid state substation with embedded energy storage concept.

Ultra-low inductance design for a GaN HEMT based 3L-ANPC inverter (2016)
Conference Proceeding

In this paper, an ultra-low inductance power cell design for a 3L-ANPC based on 650 V GaN HEMT devices is presented. The 3L-ANPC topology with GaN HEMT devices and the selected modulation scheme suitable for wide-bandgap (WBG) devices are presented.... Read More about Ultra-low inductance design for a GaN HEMT based 3L-ANPC inverter.

Integrated bi-directional SiC MOSFET power switches for efficient, power dense and reliable matrix converter assembly (2016)
Conference Proceeding

This paper presents an innovative device packaging and system integration approach aimed at optimizing the electro-thermal, electro-magnetic and thermo-mechanical performance of the switches in a power converter. In particular, the focus is on state-... Read More about Integrated bi-directional SiC MOSFET power switches for efficient, power dense and reliable matrix converter assembly.

UIS failure mechanism of SiC power MOSFETs (2016)
Conference Proceeding

This paper investigates the failure mechanism of SiC power MOSFETs during avalanche breakdown under unclamped inductive switching (UIS) test regime. Switches deployed within motor drive applications could experience undesired avalanche breakdown even... Read More about UIS failure mechanism of SiC power MOSFETs.

A Venturini based modulation technique for a new isolated AC/AC power converter (2016)
Conference Proceeding

The Future Global Electricity Network is expected to have large integration of renewable generators, and to be widely interconnected. As a consequence, the multi-modular bidirectional AC/AC power conversion architectures will play a major role in imp... Read More about A Venturini based modulation technique for a new isolated AC/AC power converter.

Learning Energy Storage in Hybrid/Electric Vehicles: Erasmus Mundus Master Course in Sustainable Transportation & Electrical Power Systems (2016)
Conference Proceeding

The "Erasmus Mundus Master Course in Sustainable Transportation & Electrical Power Systems" is supported by three universities, located in Spain, Italy and United Kingdom, and a Polytechnic Institute in Portugal. One of the main goals is the training... Read More about Learning Energy Storage in Hybrid/Electric Vehicles: Erasmus Mundus Master Course in Sustainable Transportation & Electrical Power Systems.