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Exact fuzzy k-Nearest neighbor classification for big datasets (2017)
Conference Proceeding

The k-Nearest Neighbors (kNN) classifier is one of the most effective methods in supervised learning problems. It classifies unseen cases comparing their similarity with the training data. Nevertheless, it gives to each labeled sample the same import... Read More about Exact fuzzy k-Nearest neighbor classification for big datasets.

Pharmacy Leadership and Management module: An evaluation of the student experience and its perceived usefulness for future employment (2017)
Conference Proceeding

Background: Pharmacy Leadership and Management is a 12-day, final-year synoptic experiential learning simulation. Student teams of six run a primary care-based pharmacy business and are presented with approximately 180 scenarios and over 400 medicine... Read More about Pharmacy Leadership and Management module: An evaluation of the student experience and its perceived usefulness for future employment.

Pharmacy Leadership and Management: A new high fidelity simulation to prepare students for their future practise (2017)
Conference Proceeding

Objective: To design and deliver a synoptic experiential learning experience drawing on leadership and management skills coupled with clinical problem solving in a high fidelity simulation. Our vision is to produce world leading pharmacists by provid... Read More about Pharmacy Leadership and Management: A new high fidelity simulation to prepare students for their future practise.

Interval-valued sensory evaluation for customized beverage product formulation and continuous manufacturing (2017)
Conference Proceeding

Understanding of consumer preferences and perceptions is a vital challenge for the food and beverage industry. Food and beverage product development is a very complex process that deals with highly uncertain factors, including consumer perceptions an... Read More about Interval-valued sensory evaluation for customized beverage product formulation and continuous manufacturing.

The Stakeholder Experience of a large scale final year undergraduate social community research project (2017)
Conference Proceeding

Objective: In 2014 The School of Pharmacy at the University of Nottingham needed to deliver individual research methods supervision by a small number of academic staff to a large number of final year students. There are limited opportunities for stud... Read More about The Stakeholder Experience of a large scale final year undergraduate social community research project.

Using performance and leadership mentors to support students during a simulated pharmacy business module (2017)
Conference Proceeding

Objective: To design and deliver a synoptic experiential learning experience drawing on leadership and management skills coupled with clinical problem solving in a high fidelity simulation. To provide undergraduates with a mentor employed to support... Read More about Using performance and leadership mentors to support students during a simulated pharmacy business module.

Diversity-based adaptive genetic algorithm for a Workforce Scheduling and Routing Problem (2017)
Conference Proceeding

The Workforce Scheduling and Routing Problem refers to the assignment of personnel to visits across various geographical locations. Solving this problem demands tackling numerous scheduling and routing constraints while aiming to minimise total opera... Read More about Diversity-based adaptive genetic algorithm for a Workforce Scheduling and Routing Problem.

Tuning a Simulated Annealing metaheuristic for cross-domain search (2017)
Conference Proceeding

Simulated Annealing is a well known local search metaheuristic used for solving computationally hard optimization problems. Cross-domain search poses a higher level issue where a single solution method is used with minor, preferably no modification f... Read More about Tuning a Simulated Annealing metaheuristic for cross-domain search.

Information core optimization using Evolutionary Algorithm with Elite Population in recommender systems (2017)
Conference Proceeding

Recommender system (RS) plays an important role in helping users find the information they are interested in and providing accurate personality recommendation. It has been found that among all the users, there are some user groups called “core users”... Read More about Information core optimization using Evolutionary Algorithm with Elite Population in recommender systems.

Change detection in SAR images based on the salient map guidance and an accelerated genetic algorithm (2017)
Conference Proceeding

This paper proposes a change detection algorithm in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images based on the salient image guidance and an accelerated genetic algorithm (S-aGA). The difference image is first generated by logarithm ratio operator based on t... Read More about Change detection in SAR images based on the salient map guidance and an accelerated genetic algorithm.

A first attempt on global evolutionary undersampling for imbalanced big data (2017)
Conference Proceeding

The design of efficient big data learning models has become a common need in a great number of applications. The massive amounts of available data may hinder the use of traditional data mining techniques, especially when evolutionary algorithms are i... Read More about A first attempt on global evolutionary undersampling for imbalanced big data.

Speed control for multi-three phase synchronous electrical motors in fault condition (2017)
Conference Proceeding

The growth of electrification transportation systems is an opportunity for delving into new feasible solutions for more reliable and fault tolerant arrangements. So far, many investigations distant from the market have been carried out. Most of the w... Read More about Speed control for multi-three phase synchronous electrical motors in fault condition.

ECCert: Evaluating the Care Certificate (2017)
Conference Proceeding

The Care Certificate Evaluation: an overview (2017)
Conference Proceeding

BACKGROUND: Front line care workers play a key role in health and social care provision for older people and this has been reflected in training innovations aiming to improve the care provided by these workers. One recent training initiative has bee... Read More about The Care Certificate Evaluation: an overview.

Multi-start methods for the capacitated clustering problem (2017)
Conference Proceeding

In this work, we investigate the adaptation of the Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure (GRASP) and Iterated Greedy methodologies to the Capacitated Clustering Problem (CCP). In particular, we focus on the effect of the balance between randomi... Read More about Multi-start methods for the capacitated clustering problem.

Reduction of IAA methyltransferase activity compensates for high-temperature male sterility in arabidopsis (2017)
Conference Proceeding

Children thermal comfort in primary schools in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam (2017)
Conference Proceeding

Indoor environmental quality significantly impacts on students’ performance and productivity, particularly thermal comfort levels. Currently in Vietnam, very few studies have dealt with the issue and the current trend is to install energy-intensive a... Read More about Children thermal comfort in primary schools in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.

Variability of human behaviour in outdoor public spaces, associated with the thermal environment (2017)
Conference Proceeding

This paper presents part of the outcomes of a programme of research into the influence of the thermal environment on human behaviour in an outdoor public seating area. The research was conducted during one month in summer, autumn and winter of 2015 a... Read More about Variability of human behaviour in outdoor public spaces, associated with the thermal environment.

Spatial configuration shapes student social and informal learning activities in educational complexes (2017)
Conference Proceeding

Notable gains have been made in understanding the factors that influence student experiences in higher education, particularly in the area of spatial configuration. Indeed, studies have found that spatial configuration affects spatial behaviour and m... Read More about Spatial configuration shapes student social and informal learning activities in educational complexes.

Oil film thickness measurements on surfaces close to an aeroengine ball bearing using optical techniques (2017)
Conference Proceeding

In a civil aero-engine transmission system a number of bearings are used for shaft location and load support. A bespoke experimental test facility in the University of Nottingham's Gas Turbine and Transmissions Research Centre (G2TRC) was created to... Read More about Oil film thickness measurements on surfaces close to an aeroengine ball bearing using optical techniques.