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A vignette study examining the effects of different types of diagnostic procedure and information provision preferences (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Keane, D., Craven, M. P., & Sharples, S. (2012, April). A vignette study examining the effects of different types of diagnostic procedure and information provision preferences. Presented at Contemporary Ergonomics and Human Factors 2012, Blackpool, UK

A vignette study was conducted to examine attitudes in a student population with respect to three different types of diagnostic procedure (blood test, imaging procedure and invasive procedure) and three different disease areas (coronary, gastroentero... Read More about A vignette study examining the effects of different types of diagnostic procedure and information provision preferences.

Finding the creatures of habit: clustering households based on their flexibility in using electricity (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dent, I., Craig, T., Aickelin, U., & Rodden, T. Finding the creatures of habit: clustering households based on their flexibility in using electricity. Presented at Digital Futures 2012: the Third Annual Digital Economy All Hands Conference

Changes in the UK electricity market, particularly with the roll out of smart meters, will provide greatly increased opportunities for initiatives intended to change households' electricity usage patterns for the benefit of the overall system. Users... Read More about Finding the creatures of habit: clustering households based on their flexibility in using electricity.

Investigating the feasibility of using asphalt pavements as a source of heating (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dehdezi, P. K., Dawson, A. R., Hall, M. R., Casey, S., & Miao, F. Investigating the feasibility of using asphalt pavements as a source of heating. Presented at 2nd International Symposium on Asphalt Pavements & Environment

This paper evaluates the feasibility of using asphalt pavements as solar energy collectors with copper pipes embedded below the surfaces. Quartzite was investigated as a replacement for limestone aggregate in asphalt for thermal enhancement. Samples... Read More about Investigating the feasibility of using asphalt pavements as a source of heating.

Advanced geometry modelling of 3D woven reinforcements in polymer composites: processing and performance analysis (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zeng, X., Brown, L. P., Endruweit, A., & Long, A. C. Advanced geometry modelling of 3D woven reinforcements in polymer composites: processing and performance analysis. Presented at Fourth World Conference on 3D Fabrics and their Applications

Numerical methods have become increasingly effective tools for analysis and design of composite materials. This study investigates how the inclusion of geometrical variations in modelling 3D woven fabrics affects the accuracy of numerical predictions... Read More about Advanced geometry modelling of 3D woven reinforcements in polymer composites: processing and performance analysis.

Oscillation analysis of an Active Gate Control circuit for series connected IGBTs (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Teerakawanich, N., Evans, P., & Johnson, C. M. (2012, September). Oscillation analysis of an Active Gate Control circuit for series connected IGBTs. Presented at 2012 15th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (EPE/PEMC), Novi Sad, Serbia

A Quasi Active Gate Control (QAGC) circuit provides an effective way to control static and dynamic voltage sharing to series connected IGBTs. However, different circuit parameters such as balancing capacitors, parasitic inductances, and gate resistan... Read More about Oscillation analysis of an Active Gate Control circuit for series connected IGBTs.

Flexible and dynamic network coding for adaptive data transmission in DTNs (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Radenkovic, M., Zakhary, S., Radenkovic, M., & Zakhary, S. Flexible and dynamic network coding for adaptive data transmission in DTNs. Presented at IWCMC 2012 : the 8th International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference

Existing network coding approaches for Delay-Tolerant Networks (DTNs) do not detect and adapt to congestion in the network. In this paper we describe CafNC (Congestion aware forwarding with Network Coding) that combines adaptive network coding and a... Read More about Flexible and dynamic network coding for adaptive data transmission in DTNs.

Mechanical characterisation of reclaimed asphalt mixes for modelling purposes (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lo Presti, D., Brown, L., Kranthi, K., Grenfell, J., Airey, G., Collop, A., & Scarpas, T. (2012, August). Mechanical characterisation of reclaimed asphalt mixes for modelling purposes. Paper presented at Seventh International Conference on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Pavements and Technological Control, Auckland, New Zealand

Reclaimed Asphalt (RA) is a 100% recyclable material, but at present in Europe the re-use of RA in mixes is limited and a huge amount of it is simply wasted. Furthermore, the recycling of asphalt often involves a certain downgrading of the material.... Read More about Mechanical characterisation of reclaimed asphalt mixes for modelling purposes.

Twist deformations of module homomorphisms and connections (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schenkel, A. Twist deformations of module homomorphisms and connections. Presented at Corfu Summer Institute 2011, Corfu, Greece

Let H be a Hopf algebra, A a left H-module algebra and V a left H-module A-bimodule. We study the behavior of the right A-linear endomorphisms of V under twist deformation. We in particular construct a bijective quantization map to the right A_\star-... Read More about Twist deformations of module homomorphisms and connections.

On the use of dimensioning equations for surface permanent magnet machines (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Branz, L., Degano, M., De Martin, M., & Tessarolo, A. (2012, June). On the use of dimensioning equations for surface permanent magnet machines. Presented at SPEEDAM 2012 - 21st International Symposium on Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion, Sorrento, Italy

Surface permanent magnet (SPM) machines are widely used in a vast variety of industrial, domestic and vehicular applications. In the engineering practice, it is useful to adopt dimensioning equations to quickly predict their size, weight and producti... Read More about On the use of dimensioning equations for surface permanent magnet machines.

A survey of workforce scheduling and routing (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Castillo-Salazar, A., Landa-Silva, D., & Qu, R. A survey of workforce scheduling and routing. Presented at Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2012)

In the context of workforce scheduling, there are many scenarios in which personnel must carry out tasks at different locations hence requiring some form of transportation. Examples of these type of scenarios include nurses visiting patients at home,... Read More about A survey of workforce scheduling and routing.

CFD modelling of an entire synchronous generator for improved thermal management (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Connor, P. H., Pickering, S. J., Gerada, C., Eastwick, C. N., & Micallef, C. (2012, March). CFD modelling of an entire synchronous generator for improved thermal management. Presented at 6th IET International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2012), Bristol, UK

This paper is the first in a series dedicated to investigating the airflow and thermal management of electrical machines. Due to the temperature dependent resistive losses in the machine's windings any improvement in cooling provides a direct reducti... Read More about CFD modelling of an entire synchronous generator for improved thermal management.

Evaluation of a digitally controlled power electronic emulator for supercapattery (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulsangcharoen, P., Rashed, M., Klumpner, C., De, D., Patel, C., Asher, G., & Chen, G. Z. (2012, March). Evaluation of a digitally controlled power electronic emulator for supercapattery. Presented at 6th IET International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2012), Bristol, UK

Newly developed electrochemical energy storage devices are typically produced as single/small quantity and small size devices. This makes their evaluation very difficult in high power applications that would require production of much larger size dev... Read More about Evaluation of a digitally controlled power electronic emulator for supercapattery.

Synchronization of tool tip and tool orientation contour errors in five-axis machining (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
A. El Khalick, M., Uchiyama, N., & Sano, S. (2012, June). Synchronization of tool tip and tool orientation contour errors in five-axis machining. Presented at 2012 American Control Conference (ACC), Montreal, Canada

In current CNC machines, each axis is generally controlled by an individual controller, which tries to minimize the axial position tracking error. However, eliminating the tracking errors of each individual axis in multi-axis feed drive systems may n... Read More about Synchronization of tool tip and tool orientation contour errors in five-axis machining.

Research in the wild: understanding 'in the wild' approaches to design and development (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chamberlain, A., Crabtree, A., Rodden, T., Jones, M., & Rogers, Y. (2012, June). Research in the wild: understanding 'in the wild' approaches to design and development. Presented at DIS Designing Interactive Systems (ACM), Newcastle, UK

We are starting to see a paradigm shift within the field of HCI. We are witnessing researchers leaving the safety and security of their controlled, lab-based environments and moving their research out into ‘the wild’. Their studies are carrying out i... Read More about Research in the wild: understanding 'in the wild' approaches to design and development.