Outputs (630)

Multi-criteria evaluation of renewable and nuclear resources for electricity generation in Kazakhstan (2017)
Journal Article
Ahmada, S., Nadeem, A., Akhanova, G., Houghton, T., & Muhammad-Sukki, F. (2017). Multi-criteria evaluation of renewable and nuclear resources for electricity generation in Kazakhstan. Energy, 141, 1880-1891. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2017.11.102

Kazakhstan's electricity generation depends heavily on fossil fuels. Renewables and other non-fossil resources provide potential alternatives to diversify the electricity generation system. In this paper, various potential local non-fossil fuel resou... Read More about Multi-criteria evaluation of renewable and nuclear resources for electricity generation in Kazakhstan.

Optical Fibre Sensors technology towards smart cities concept (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alwis, L. S., & Kerrouche, A. (2017, November). Optical Fibre Sensors technology towards smart cities concept. Presented at 2nd International Conference of the Urban Research and Education Knowledge Alliance, Edinburgh, Scotland

With the advancements in material sciences, the sensor research field is heading towards the implementation of an ultimate “nerves system” that can be utilized to sense various, if not all, physical, chemical and biological aspects not only of living... Read More about Optical Fibre Sensors technology towards smart cities concept.

What can we learn from simulating commuters? (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Urquhart, N. (2017, November). What can we learn from simulating commuters?. Presented at U!REKA

Commuting affects just about every member of the workforce in the UK, those who do not commute are affected by the congestion and pollution generated by such activities. There is increasing pressure on organisations to adopt practices and measures th... Read More about What can we learn from simulating commuters?.

Towards graduate employment: exploring student identity through a university-wide employability project (2017)
Journal Article
Smith, S., Smith, C., Taylor-Smith, E., & Fotheringham, J. (2019). Towards graduate employment: exploring student identity through a university-wide employability project. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 43(5), 628-640. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877x.2017.1390077

Students have expectations of their university education leading to graduate careers, with universities investing considerable resources in institution-wide initiatives designed to enhance opportunities for student work placements and work-related le... Read More about Towards graduate employment: exploring student identity through a university-wide employability project.

Investigation of Turbulent Hydrogen Premixed Flame Topologies at Different Combustion Regimes Using Computational Singular Perturbation (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tingas, S., Hernandez Perez, F., & Im, H. (2017, November). Investigation of Turbulent Hydrogen Premixed Flame Topologies at Different Combustion Regimes Using Computational Singular Perturbation. Paper presented at 70th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Denver, Colorado

The investigation of turbulent flames at higher Reynolds and Karlovitz numbers has been gaining research interest, due to the advances in the computational power that has facilitated the use of direct numerical simulations (DNS). One of the additiona... Read More about Investigation of Turbulent Hydrogen Premixed Flame Topologies at Different Combustion Regimes Using Computational Singular Perturbation.

Electrical cars: an option for the Gulf states? (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Saleh, W. (2017, November). Electrical cars: an option for the Gulf states?. Presented at International Energy and Environment Summit - 2017

Timber grading update (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ridley-Ellis, D. (2017, November). Timber grading update. Presented at SIRT update seminar

The latest news on timber grading standards and how they effect structural timber production in UK and IE

Sound Synthesis of Objects Swinging through Air Using Physical Models (2017)
Journal Article
Selfridge, R., Moffat, D., & Reiss, J. (2017). Sound Synthesis of Objects Swinging through Air Using Physical Models. Applied Sciences, 7(11), Article 1177. https://doi.org/10.3390/app7111177

A real-time physically-derived sound synthesis model is presented that replicates the sounds generated as an object swings through the air. Equations obtained from fluid dynamics are used to determine the sounds generated while exposing practical par... Read More about Sound Synthesis of Objects Swinging through Air Using Physical Models.

A robust data-driven approach to the decoding of pyloric neuron activity (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
dos Santos, F., Andras, P., Collins, D., & Lam, K. (2017, October). A robust data-driven approach to the decoding of pyloric neuron activity. Presented at 2017 IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS), Lorient, France

The combination of intra and extra-cellular recording of small neuronal circuits such as stomatogastric nervous systems of the crab (Cancer borealis) is well documented and routinely practised. Voltage sensitive dye imaging (VSDi) is a promising tech... Read More about A robust data-driven approach to the decoding of pyloric neuron activity.

Persian Named Entity Recognition (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dashtipour, K., Gogate, M., Adeel, A., Algarafi, A., Howard, N., & Hussain, A. (2017, July). Persian Named Entity Recognition. Presented at 16th International Conference on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC), Oxford, UK

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an important natural language processing (NLP) tool for information extraction and retrieval from unstructured texts such as newspapers, blogs and emails. NER involves processing unstructured text for classification... Read More about Persian Named Entity Recognition.