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A hybrid PDMS/paper passive pump for slow-release/delivery of drugs in chronic dermal wounds (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rahimi, R., Ochoa, M., Zhou, J., Tamayol, A., Dokmeci, M. R., Khademhosseini, A., Ghaemmaghami, A., & Ziaie, B. (2014, October). A hybrid PDMS/paper passive pump for slow-release/delivery of drugs in chronic dermal wounds. Presented at 18th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2014, San Antonio, Texas, USA

© 14CBMS. In this paper, we present a hybrid PDMS/paper-based passive pump for slow drug delivery in chronic wounds. The pump consists of a PDMS microfluidic network that is irreversibly bonded to the polyethylene-coated (hydrophobic) side of a comme... Read More about A hybrid PDMS/paper passive pump for slow-release/delivery of drugs in chronic dermal wounds.

HOG active appearance models (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Antonakos, E., Alabort-i-Medina, J., Tzimiropoulos, G., & Zafeiriou, S. (2014, October). HOG active appearance models. Presented at 2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Paris, France

We propose the combination of dense Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) features with Active Appearance Models (AAMs). We employ the efficient Inverse Compositional optimization technique and show results for the task of face fitting. By taking adv... Read More about HOG active appearance models.

Development and usability of a website-based depression literacy intervention for university students in Nottingham (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davies, E. B., Morriss, R. K., & Glazebrook, C. Development and usability of a website-based depression literacy intervention for university students in Nottingham. Presented at International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII) - 7th Scientific Meeting

Purpose: A large proportion of university students experience mental health difficulties, with one review reporting a 30% prevalence rate of depression in this population. Depression affects students’ quality of life and academic performance. Mental... Read More about Development and usability of a website-based depression literacy intervention for university students in Nottingham.

Method of efficiently predicting the conducted emissions of multiple VSCs (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ivry, P. M., Oke, O., Thomas, D. W., & Sumner, M. Method of efficiently predicting the conducted emissions of multiple VSCs. Presented at IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC Europe 2014)

Various types of power converters including Voltage Source Converters (VSCs) have been known to produce conducted emissions. The net effect of simultaneously operating multiple VSCs is non-linear and this makes the prediction of the emission level mo... Read More about Method of efficiently predicting the conducted emissions of multiple VSCs.

Mechanical and thermal management design of a motor for an aircraft wheel actuator (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Xu, Z., Galea, M., Tighe, C., Hamiti, T., Gerada, C., & Pickering, S. (2014, October). Mechanical and thermal management design of a motor for an aircraft wheel actuator. Presented at 2014 17th International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS), Hangzhou, China

A permanent magnet motor is designed as an actuator for taxiing large aircraft in an airport. The motor is attached to the main aircraft wheel to provide a direct drive. A special topology for this machine is developed selected and designed. Due to a... Read More about Mechanical and thermal management design of a motor for an aircraft wheel actuator.

Soft morphological filter optimization using a genetic algorithm for noise elimination (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ercal, T., Özcan, E., & Asta, S. (2014, September). Soft morphological filter optimization using a genetic algorithm for noise elimination. Presented at UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI2014), Bradford, UK

Digital image quality is of importance in almost all image processing applications. Many different approaches have been proposed for restoring the image quality depending on the nature of the degradation. One of the most common problems that cause su... Read More about Soft morphological filter optimization using a genetic algorithm for noise elimination.

Background voltage distortion and percentage of nonlinear load impacts on the harmonics produced by a group of personal computers (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rawa, M., Thomas, D. W., & Sumner, M. Background voltage distortion and percentage of nonlinear load impacts on the harmonics produced by a group of personal computers. Presented at 2014 International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC Europe 2014

The penetration of nonlinear loads on power systems increases distortion levels and can cause severe problems to power systems. Many factors affect the degree of generated harmonics including the background voltage distortion and percentage of nonlin... Read More about Background voltage distortion and percentage of nonlinear load impacts on the harmonics produced by a group of personal computers.

Identification of soil-structure interaction effects based on geodetic monitoring of a railway bridge (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Psimoulis, P., Stiros, S., & Moschas, F. Identification of soil-structure interaction effects based on geodetic monitoring of a railway bridge. Presented at 2nd International Conference on Bridges "Innovations on Bridges and Soil-Bridge Interaction"

The monitoring of bridges using geodetic methodologies permits the direct measurement of displacements and potential identification of effects of soil-structure interaction. In this study the response of the historical Gorgopotamos railway (Central G... Read More about Identification of soil-structure interaction effects based on geodetic monitoring of a railway bridge.

The optimization of thermal performance in power electronics modules (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Evans, P., Castellazzi, A., Johnson, C. M., Lu, H., & Bailey, C. (2014, August). The optimization of thermal performance in power electronics modules. Presented at 2014 15th International Conference on Electronic Packaging Technology, Chengdu, China

The development of a framework for the analysis and design optimization of power electronics module is described in this paper. This framework consists of analysis software that is capable of carrying out detailed dynamic as well as steady state elec... Read More about The optimization of thermal performance in power electronics modules.

Declarative modelling for Bayesian inference by shallow embedding (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nilsson, H., & Nielsen, T. A. Declarative modelling for Bayesian inference by shallow embedding. Presented at 6th International Workshop on Equation-Based Object-Oriented Modeling Languages and Tools (EOOLT 2014)

A common problem across science and engineering is that aspects of models have to be estimated from observed data. An instance of this familiar to control engineers is system identification. Bayesian inference is a principled way to estimate paramete... Read More about Declarative modelling for Bayesian inference by shallow embedding.

A hybrid inverter system for medium voltage applications using a low voltage auxiliary CSI (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Papadopoulos, S., Rashed, M., Klumpner, C., & Wheeler, P. (2014, September). A hybrid inverter system for medium voltage applications using a low voltage auxiliary CSI. Presented at 2014 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Hybrid converters consist of a main inverter processing the bulk of the power with poor waveform performance and a fast and versatile auxiliary inverter to correct the distortion. In this paper, the main converter is a medium voltage NPC inverter and... Read More about A hybrid inverter system for medium voltage applications using a low voltage auxiliary CSI.

Design Optimisation of High-Brightness Laser Diodes for External Cavity Operation in the BRIDLE Project (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Larkins, E., Bull, S., Kaunga-Nyirenda, S., Helal, M., Vilokkinen, V., Uusimaa, P., Crump, P., & Erbert, G. (2014, September). Design Optimisation of High-Brightness Laser Diodes for External Cavity Operation in the BRIDLE Project. Presented at 2014 International Semiconductor Laser Conference (ISLC), Palma de Mallorca, Spain

We report on the design aspects of high performance diode lasers for application in high-brightness spectral beam combining and coherent beam combining modules. Key performance trade-offs are identified and potential solutions are explored.

Modified choice function heuristic selection for the Multidimensional Knapsack Problem (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Drake, J. H., Özcan, E., & Burke, E. K. (2014, October). Modified choice function heuristic selection for the Multidimensional Knapsack Problem. Presented at Eighth International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, Nanchang, China

Hyper-heuristics are a class of high-level search methods used to solve computationally difficult problems, which operate on a search space of low-level heuristics rather than solutions directly. Previous work has shown that selection hyper-heuristic... Read More about Modified choice function heuristic selection for the Multidimensional Knapsack Problem.

Implementation and experimental validation of Dynamic Movement Primitives for object handover (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Prada, M., Koene, A., Remazeilles, A., & Endo, S. Implementation and experimental validation of Dynamic Movement Primitives for object handover. Presented at 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014), Chicago, IL, USA

This article presents the implementation and experimental validation of a control system dedicated to human robot physical interaction during object handovers. Our control law defines the trajectory of the robotic arm towards a previously unknown han... Read More about Implementation and experimental validation of Dynamic Movement Primitives for object handover.

Power flow control for power and voltage management in future smart energy communities (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fazeli, A., Sumner, M., Christopher, E., & Johnson, C. M. Power flow control for power and voltage management in future smart energy communities. Presented at 3rd Renewable Power Generation Conference (RPG 2014)

The Community Power Flow Control (CPFC) Algorithm has been proposed as a technique for managing electrical power and energy within small communities. The CPFC manages the resources in the community (DSM, energy storage, RES) in order to control the c... Read More about Power flow control for power and voltage management in future smart energy communities.

A simulation scenario based mixed integer programming approach to airline reserve crew scheduling under uncertainty (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bayliss, C. D., de Maere, G., Atkin, J., & Paelinck, M. A simulation scenario based mixed integer programming approach to airline reserve crew scheduling under uncertainty. Presented at 10th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2014)

Airlines operate in an uncertain environment for many reasons, for example due to the efects of weather, traffic or crew unavailability (due to delay or sickness). This work focuses on airline reserve crew scheduling under crew absence and journey ti... Read More about A simulation scenario based mixed integer programming approach to airline reserve crew scheduling under uncertainty.

Interactive knowledge-based kernel PCA (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Oglic, D., Paurat, D., & Gartner, T. (2014, September). Interactive knowledge-based kernel PCA. Presented at Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Nancy, France

Data understanding is an iterative process in which domain experts combine their knowledge with the data at hand to explore and confirm hypotheses. One important set of tools for exploring hypotheses about data are visualizations. Often, however, tra... Read More about Interactive knowledge-based kernel PCA.

Energy advisors at work: charity work practices to support people in fuel poverty (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fischer, J. E., Costanza, E., Ramchurn, S. D., Colley, J. A., & Rodden, T. Energy advisors at work: charity work practices to support people in fuel poverty. Presented at ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2014)

We present an ethnographic study of energy advisors working for a charity that provides support, particularly to people in fuel poverty. Our fieldwork comprises detailed observations that reveal the collaborative, interactional work of energy advisor... Read More about Energy advisors at work: charity work practices to support people in fuel poverty.