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Optimal Manufacturing Configuration Selection: Sequential Decision Making and Optimization using Reinforcement Learning (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Torayev, A., Abadia, J. J. P., Martínez-Arellano, G., Cuesta, M., Chaplin, J. C., Larrinaga, F., Sanderson, D., Arrazola, P. J., & Ratchev, S. (2023, October). Optimal Manufacturing Configuration Selection: Sequential Decision Making and Optimization using Reinforcement Learning. Presented at 56th CIRP Conference onManufacturing Systems, CIRP CMS ‘23, Cape Town

In manufacturing, different costs must be considered when selecting the optimal manufacturing configuration. Costs include manufacturing costs, material costs, labor costs, and overhead costs. Optimal manufacturing configurations are those that minim... Read More about Optimal Manufacturing Configuration Selection: Sequential Decision Making and Optimization using Reinforcement Learning.

Legal Arguments and Citations in the 13th-Century Court of Canterbury (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
White, S. (2023). Legal Arguments and Citations in the 13th-Century Court of Canterbury. In F. Demoulin-Auzary, N. Laurent-Bonne, & F. Roumy (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law: Paris, 17-23 July 2016 (585-600)

Reduced Computational Burden of Modulated Model-Predictive Control for Synchronous Reluctance Motor Drive Applications (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Riccio, J., Karamanakos, P., Degano, M., Gerada, C., & Zanchetta, P. (2023). Reduced Computational Burden of Modulated Model-Predictive Control for Synchronous Reluctance Motor Drive Applications. In 2023 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) (4995-5002). https://doi.org/10.1109/ECCE53617.2023.10362110

This paper introduces a novel geometric approach to significantly reduce the computational burden of modulated predictive controllers while maintaining the same steady-state performance and satisfactory dynamic behavior. The proposed geometric method... Read More about Reduced Computational Burden of Modulated Model-Predictive Control for Synchronous Reluctance Motor Drive Applications.

Design and Controllability Trade-Off in Dual Three-Phase Winding PMSMs (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhu, S., Qayyum, N., Ernest, E., Paciura, K., Zou, T., & Gerada, C. (2023). Design and Controllability Trade-Off in Dual Three-Phase Winding PMSMs. In 2023 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) (4147-4154). https://doi.org/10.1109/ecce53617.2023.10361990

Designing and controlling dual three-phase motor poses significant challenges. The conventional mathematical model of such motors only considers fundamental components, thereby failing to capture the complete characteristics of the motors. In this st... Read More about Design and Controllability Trade-Off in Dual Three-Phase Winding PMSMs.

Investigating ApoE4‐mediated metabolic alteration of H4 neuroglioma cells of Alzheimer’s disease (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lu, L., Kotowska, A., Kern, S., Fang, M., Rudd, T. R., Alexander, M., …Zhu, Z. (2023). Investigating ApoE4‐mediated metabolic alteration of H4 neuroglioma cells of Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 19(S24), Article e082458. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.082458

Background Metabolites and proteins in ApoE4‐carried H4 neuroglioma cells were analyzed to investigate the potential mechanism of the risk gene ApoE4 involved in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Method Metabolomics of ApoE4‐carried and wild‐type H4 cel... Read More about Investigating ApoE4‐mediated metabolic alteration of H4 neuroglioma cells of Alzheimer’s disease.

Optically Controlled Memristor Using Hybrid ZnO Nanorod/Polymer Material (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jaafar, A. H., & Kemp, N. T. (2023). Optically Controlled Memristor Using Hybrid ZnO Nanorod/Polymer Material. In NANOARCH '23: Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures. https://doi.org/10.1145/3611315.3633257

Controlling of resistive switching properties by optical means opens the route to new optoelectronics that can be written optically and read electronically. In this work, we demonstrate optically controlled memristors realized with a hybrid material... Read More about Optically Controlled Memristor Using Hybrid ZnO Nanorod/Polymer Material.

Enhanced Switching in Solid Polymer Electrolyte Memristor Devices via the addition of Interfacial Barriers and Quantum Dots (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gater, M., Adawi, A., & Kemp, N. (2023). Enhanced Switching in Solid Polymer Electrolyte Memristor Devices via the addition of Interfacial Barriers and Quantum Dots. In NANOARCH '23: Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures. https://doi.org/10.1145/3611315.3633275

We report on the electrical effects of single and double polymer (polymethacrylate) barriers on polyethylene oxide (PEO) based memristors. The single barrier device with an active layer embedded with WS2 quantum dots is also investigated. The additio... Read More about Enhanced Switching in Solid Polymer Electrolyte Memristor Devices via the addition of Interfacial Barriers and Quantum Dots.

X-Band Reconfigurable Phase Shifters Based on SIW and Liquid Metal Technologies (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alkaraki, S., Quan Wei Lin, Q., Jilani, S. F., Wong, H., Borja, A., Tang, S., …Kelly, J. (2023, December). X-Band Reconfigurable Phase Shifters Based on SIW and Liquid Metal Technologies. Paper presented at 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2024), Glasgow, UK

This paper presents three reconfigurable phase shifters operate at X-band and designed utilizing liquid metal (LM). The phase shifters operate at 10 GHz and they have very low insertion loss performance and able to handle high levels of radio frequen... Read More about X-Band Reconfigurable Phase Shifters Based on SIW and Liquid Metal Technologies.

Assessing relative contribution of Environmental, Behavioural and Social factors on Life Satisfaction via mobile app data (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milligan, G., Harvey, J., Dowthwaite, L., Vallejos, E. P., Nica-Avram, G., & Goulding, J. (2023). Assessing relative contribution of Environmental, Behavioural and Social factors on Life Satisfaction via mobile app data. In Proceedings: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data: Dec 15 - Dec 18, 2023 Sorrento, Italy. https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData59044.2023.10386740

Life satisfaction significantly contributes to wellbe-ing and is linked to positive outcomes for individual people and society more broadly. However, previous research demonstrates that many factors contribute to the life satisfaction of an individua... Read More about Assessing relative contribution of Environmental, Behavioural and Social factors on Life Satisfaction via mobile app data.

Who consumes anthocyanins and anthocyanidins? Mining national retail data to reveal the influence of socioeconomic deprivation and seasonality on polyphenol dietary intake (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harvey, J., Long, G., Welham, S., Mansilla, R., Rose, P., Thomas, M., …Goulding, J. (2023). Who consumes anthocyanins and anthocyanidins? Mining national retail data to reveal the influence of socioeconomic deprivation and seasonality on polyphenol dietary intake. In Proceedings: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) (4530-4538). https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData59044.2023.10386220

Anthocyanins are a class of polyphenols that have received widespread recent attention due to their potential health benefits. However, estimating the dietary intake of anthocyanins at a population level is a challenging task, due to the difficulty o... Read More about Who consumes anthocyanins and anthocyanidins? Mining national retail data to reveal the influence of socioeconomic deprivation and seasonality on polyphenol dietary intake.

Guidelines for the implementation of SMARTI: Sustainable Multifunctional Automated Resilient Transport Infrastructure (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lo Presti, D., Hautiere, N., Hornych, P., Nkwanga, H., Mignini, C., McLoughlin, A., Di Mino, G., Airey, G., Chailleux, E., del Rubio Gámez, M. C., Pouget, S., Audley, M., Levenberg, E., & Doherty, P. (2022, November). Guidelines for the implementation of SMARTI: Sustainable Multifunctional Automated Resilient Transport Infrastructure. Presented at TRA Lisbon 2022 Conference Proceedings Transport Research Arena (TRA Lisbon 2022), Lisboa, Portugal

The World's transport infrastructures (TI) network is facing fast changes due to population growth, mobility, business trades and globalization. More challenges are coming from unforeseen natural and human-induced hazards, including climate change's... Read More about Guidelines for the implementation of SMARTI: Sustainable Multifunctional Automated Resilient Transport Infrastructure.

Non-reacting Numerical Simulation of Axisymmetric Trapped Vortex Combustor (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
DAKKA, S., Singh, K., Jefferson-Loveday, R., & Serhat, H. (2023). Non-reacting Numerical Simulation of Axisymmetric Trapped Vortex Combustor.

This paper will focus on suitability of trapped vortex combustor as a candidate for gas turbine combustor objective to minimize pressure drop across combustor and investigating aerodynamic performance. Non-reacting simulation of axisymmetric cavity t... Read More about Non-reacting Numerical Simulation of Axisymmetric Trapped Vortex Combustor.

Flow Matching for Scalable Simulation-Based Inference (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wildberger, J., Dax, M., Green, S., Buchholz, S., Macke, J., & Schölkopf, B. (2023, December). Flow Matching for Scalable Simulation-Based Inference. Poster presented at Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023), New Orleans, USA

Neural posterior estimation methods based on discrete normalizing flows have become established tools for simulation-based inference (SBI), but scaling them to high-dimensional problems can be challenging. Building on recent advances in generative mo... Read More about Flow Matching for Scalable Simulation-Based Inference.

Manufacturable Edgewise Winding Solutions Considering Parallel Slot and Parallel Tooth Stator Structures (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
George, L., Walker, A., Zhang, F., Vakil, G., & Gerada, C. (2023). Manufacturable Edgewise Winding Solutions Considering Parallel Slot and Parallel Tooth Stator Structures. . https://doi.org/10.1109/oncon60463.2023.10431188

Due to climate concerns, the push towards transportation electrification to deliver electric machines capable of high-power density performance is becoming increasingly critical. A key component of this is the structure and manufacture of the winding... Read More about Manufacturable Edgewise Winding Solutions Considering Parallel Slot and Parallel Tooth Stator Structures.

Exploring the role of sociological research in curriculum documents and the eyes of Norwegian, Hungarian and English students (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hordosy, R., Yasdiman, M. B., & Lashari, A. (2023, December). Exploring the role of sociological research in curriculum documents and the eyes of Norwegian, Hungarian and English students. Paper presented at 2023 SRHE Conference, Birmingham, UK

Over the past few decades, there have been increased discussions on the relationships between research and teaching in higher education, subject to influence from a variety of structural and agentical factors that change over time. This paper is base... Read More about Exploring the role of sociological research in curriculum documents and the eyes of Norwegian, Hungarian and English students.

Enabling transformative university transitions: becoming a student and a graduate (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hordosy, R. (2023, December). Enabling transformative university transitions: becoming a student and a graduate. Paper presented at Society for Research in Higher Education Annual Conference, Aston University, Birmingham, UK

Drawing on a longitudinal research project that followed the undergraduate entrants of 2013 into, and through their university time, this paper provides a novel conceptualisation of transformative transitions via looking at the four dimensions of non... Read More about Enabling transformative university transitions: becoming a student and a graduate.

Gatekeepers and producers of global sociological knowledge: exploring the stated aims, editorial boards and author networks of disciplinary journals (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hordosy, R., Brown, E., Vega Castillo, M. A., & Lee, G. (2023, December). Gatekeepers and producers of global sociological knowledge: exploring the stated aims, editorial boards and author networks of disciplinary journals. Paper presented at SRHE International Conference 2023, Birmingham, UK

This paper aims to analyse leading international sociology journals regarding the interplay of the centre-periphery relations as observed within their aims, editorial boards and author networks. As such, it explores the geographies of knowledge in th... Read More about Gatekeepers and producers of global sociological knowledge: exploring the stated aims, editorial boards and author networks of disciplinary journals.

From being social, to becoming academic, and leaving as a graduate - Transformative university transitions (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HORDOSY, R. (2023, December). From being social, to becoming academic, and leaving as a graduate - Transformative university transitions. Paper presented at SRHE International Conference 2023, Birmingham, UK

Drawing on a longitudinal research project that followed the undergraduate entrants of 2013 into, and through their university time, this paper provides a novel conceptualisation of transformative transitions via looking at the four dimensions of non... Read More about From being social, to becoming academic, and leaving as a graduate - Transformative university transitions.