Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (2790)

Demonstrating a novel configuration of FPSE prototype working at medium temperature range (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Ghozzi, S., & Boukhanouf, R. (2016). Demonstrating a novel configuration of FPSE prototype working at medium temperature range.

Numerous FPSE designs have been demonstrated, tested and maybe commercially produced for different applications since Beale had invented the first design of the FPSE. The proposed design of FPSE is intended to operate at atmosphere pressure and low h... Read More about Demonstrating a novel configuration of FPSE prototype working at medium temperature range.

Real-world uptake of a tailored, text message pregnancy smoking cessation programme (MiQuit) when offered online (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Emery, J., Coleman, T., Sutton, S., Cooper, S., Leonardi-Bee, J., Jones, M., & Naughton, F. (2016). Real-world uptake of a tailored, text message pregnancy smoking cessation programme (MiQuit) when offered online.

Background: Prenatal smoking is a major public health concern and uptake of NHS cessation support is low in this group. Text message-based self-help is a promising intervention for this population but little is known about its likely real-world uptak... Read More about Real-world uptake of a tailored, text message pregnancy smoking cessation programme (MiQuit) when offered online.

Multicentre, randomised controlled trial of a low-cost smoking cessation text message intervention for pregnant smokers (MiQuit) (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Naughton, F., Foster, K., Emery, J., Cooper, S., Sutton, S., Leonardi-Bee, J., …Coleman, T. (2016). Multicentre, randomised controlled trial of a low-cost smoking cessation text message intervention for pregnant smokers (MiQuit).

Background: Text message cessation programmes have potential to change smoking behaviour during pregnancy but their effectiveness is unknown. This study aimed to estimate key parameters, including effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, for delivering... Read More about Multicentre, randomised controlled trial of a low-cost smoking cessation text message intervention for pregnant smokers (MiQuit).

Ice as a granular material (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Turnbull, B., Swift, M., & Hill, R. (2016). Ice as a granular material.

Ice is a unique material, fundamental to vital processes on earth, in the atmosphere [1] and as planets and comets form [2]. In this work, we introduce two experiments investigating ice as a granular material, to provide snippets of insight into thos... Read More about Ice as a granular material.

Transfer operator approach for cavities with apertures (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Gradoni, G., Creagh, S. C., & Tanner, G. (2016). Transfer operator approach for cavities with apertures. In 2016 URSI International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory (EMTS) (682-685). https://doi.org/10.1109/URSI-EMTS.2016.7571490

We describe a representation of the boundary integral equations for wave propagation in enclosures which leads to a direct description of transport and dynamical characteristics of the problem. The formalism is extended to account for arbitrary and p... Read More about Transfer operator approach for cavities with apertures.

Status of TIGA activities at the British Isles continuous GNSS Facility and the University of Luxembourg (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Hunegnaw, A., Teferle, F., Bingley, R., & Hansen, D. (2016). Status of TIGA activities at the British Isles continuous GNSS Facility and the University of Luxembourg. In IAG 150 Years: Proceedings of the 2013 IAG Scientific Assembly, Potsdam, Germany, 1–6 September, 2013 (617–623). https://doi.org/10.1007/1345_2015_77

In 2013 the International GNSS Service (IGS) Ti-de Gauge Benchmark Monitoring (TIGA) Working Group started their reprocessing campaign which proposes to re-analyse all relevant GPS observations from 1995 to the end of 2012 in order to provide high qu... Read More about Status of TIGA activities at the British Isles continuous GNSS Facility and the University of Luxembourg.

Complex functional surface design for additive manufacturing (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Morris, S., Dudman, J., Körner, L., Melo, P., Newton, L., & Clare, A. T. (2016). Complex functional surface design for additive manufacturing.

This paper presents a new methodology for the creation of advanced surfaces which can be produced by Additive Manufacturing (AM) methods. Since there is no cost for enhanced complexity, AM allows for new capabilities in surface design. Micro-scale su... Read More about Complex functional surface design for additive manufacturing.

Particle filter for context sensitive indoor pedestrian navigation (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Peltola, P., Hill, C., & Moore, T. (2016). Particle filter for context sensitive indoor pedestrian navigation. In Proceedings of 2016 International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS.2016.7533865

Novel particle filter design combines foot mounted inertial (IMU), bluetooth low energy (BLE) and ultra-wideband (UWB) technologies along with map matching into a seamless integrated navigation system for indoors. The system was evaluated by 10 test... Read More about Particle filter for context sensitive indoor pedestrian navigation.

“We don’t sell blocks” exploring Minecraft’s commissioning market (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Koutsouras, P., Martindale, S., & Crabtree, A. (2016). “We don’t sell blocks” exploring Minecraft’s commissioning market.

In recent years, we have experienced the proliferation of videogames that have, as their main mode of play, the creation of in-game content. Even though existing literature has looked into various characteristics of these games, one of their aspects... Read More about “We don’t sell blocks” exploring Minecraft’s commissioning market.

The non-technical challenges of Location Based Services markets: Are the users' concerns being ignored? (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Basiri, A., Moore, T., Hill, C., & Bhatia, P. (2016). The non-technical challenges of Location Based Services markets: Are the users' concerns being ignored?. In Proceedings of2016 International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS.2016.7533866

Location Based Services (LBS) market is growing rapidly, however it has faced several challenges and issues, including the availability of reliable positioning services seamlessly (indoors and outdoors), the privacy protection issues, and the relati... Read More about The non-technical challenges of Location Based Services markets: Are the users' concerns being ignored?.

Characterising refractive index dispersion in chalcogenide glasses (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Fang, Y., Sójka, L., Jayasuriya, D., Furniss, D., Tang, Z. Q., Markos, C., …Benson, T. M. (2016). Characterising refractive index dispersion in chalcogenide glasses. In 2016 18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON) (1-5). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2016.7550618

Much effort has been devoted to the study of glasses that contain the chalcogen elements (sulfur, selenium and tellurium) for photonics’ applications out to MIR wavelengths. In this paper we describe some techniques for determining the refractive ind... Read More about Characterising refractive index dispersion in chalcogenide glasses.

Verifying existence of resource-bounded coalition uniform strategies (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Alechina, N., Dastani, M., & Logan, B. (2016). Verifying existence of resource-bounded coalition uniform strategies.

We consider the problem of whether a coalition of agents has a knowledge-based strategy to ensure some outcome under a resource bound. We extend previous work on verification of multi-agent systems where actions of agents produce and consume resource... Read More about Verifying existence of resource-bounded coalition uniform strategies.

An extended ANFIS architecture and its learning properties for type-1 and interval type-2 models (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Chen, C., John, R., Twycross, J., & Garibaldi, J. M. (2016). An extended ANFIS architecture and its learning properties for type-1 and interval type-2 models.

In this paper, an extended ANFIS architecture is proposed. By incorporating an extra layer for the fuzzification process, the extended architecture is able to fit both type-1 and interval type-2 models. The learning properties of the proposed archite... Read More about An extended ANFIS architecture and its learning properties for type-1 and interval type-2 models.

A comparative study of fuzzy parameter control in a general purpose local search metaheuristic (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Jackson, W. G., Özcan, E., & John, R. I. (2016). A comparative study of fuzzy parameter control in a general purpose local search metaheuristic. . https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2016.7743787

There is a growing number of studies on general purpose metaheuristics that are directly applicable to multiple domains. Parameter setting is a particular issue considering that many of such search methods come with a set of... Read More about A comparative study of fuzzy parameter control in a general purpose local search metaheuristic.

Influence of design parameters on the short-circuit ruggedness of SiC Power MOSFETs (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Romano, G., Riccio, M., Maresca, L., Fayyaz, A., & Castellazzi, A. (in press). Influence of design parameters on the short-circuit ruggedness of SiC Power MOSFETs.

This work aims to present an investigation on short-circuit (SC) failure behaviour of SiC Power MOSFETs due to the onset of thermal runaway. As inferable from experimental outcomes, it is related to the formation of hotspot, whose exact location is m... Read More about Influence of design parameters on the short-circuit ruggedness of SiC Power MOSFETs.

21st Century life and career skills: building an employability pathway in an international University in Vietnam (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Bouilheres, F. (2016). 21st Century life and career skills: building an employability pathway in an international University in Vietnam. In Towards Excellence in Leadership and Management in Higher Education. , (103-111)

The P21’s Framework for 21st Century Learning was developed to illustrate the skills that 21st Century students need to thrive in a changing world including life and career skills. Employability is ‘a set of achievements – skills, understandings and... Read More about 21st Century life and career skills: building an employability pathway in an international University in Vietnam.

Positioning buried utilities in difficult environments (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Zhang, P., Hancock, C., Lau, L., Roberts, G. W., de Ligt, H., & Quan, Y. (2016). Positioning buried utilities in difficult environments.

Recently an increasing number of underground pipes have been established, particularly in city centres, for different applications such as sewage, electricity, gas, water and drainage. How to detect and make a precise 3-dimensional survey of buried p... Read More about Positioning buried utilities in difficult environments.

A Genetic Algorithm for a Workforce Scheduling and Routing Problem (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Algethami, H., Pinheiro, R. L., & Landa-Silva, D. (2016). A Genetic Algorithm for a Workforce Scheduling and Routing Problem.

The Workforce Scheduling and Routing Problem refers to the assignment of personnel to visits across various geographical locations. Solving this problem demands tackling scheduling and routing constraints while aiming to minimise the total operationa... Read More about A Genetic Algorithm for a Workforce Scheduling and Routing Problem.

Parity-time symmetric chain resonators (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Phang, S., Vukovic, A., Creagh, S., Gradoni, G., Sewell, P., & Benson, T. M. (2016). Parity-time symmetric chain resonators.

A simple tight-binding model to study the band-structure of an infinite length Parity-time (PT) symmetric chain of resonators is presented in this paper. In the talk, we will investigate the impact of having a structure of finite length and consider... Read More about Parity-time symmetric chain resonators.

Contrasting singleton type-1 and interval type-2 non-singleton type-1 fuzzy logic systems (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Aladi, J. H., Wagner, C., & Pourabdollah, A. (2016). Contrasting singleton type-1 and interval type-2 non-singleton type-1 fuzzy logic systems.

Most applications of both type-1 and type-2 fuzzy logic systems are employing singleton fuzzification due to its simplicity and reduction in its computational speed. However, using singleton fuzzification assumes that the input data (i.e., measuremen... Read More about Contrasting singleton type-1 and interval type-2 non-singleton type-1 fuzzy logic systems.