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Mental Health Engagement Network (MHEN) (2013)
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Forchuk, C., Edwards, B., Rudnick, A., Osuch, E., Hoch, J., Norman, R., …McKillop, M. (2013). Mental Health Engagement Network (MHEN). International Journal on Advances in Life Sciences, 5(1&2), 1-10

This research study introduces, delivers, and evaluates the benefits of using web and mobile technology to provide consistent supportive health care to individuals living within London, Ontario and the surrounding area who have been diagnosed with a... Read More about Mental Health Engagement Network (MHEN).

Beyond the playlist: Looking at user-generated collocation of cultural products through social tagging (2013)
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Desrochers, N., Quan-Haase, A., Pennington, D. R., Laplante, A., Martin, K., & Spiteri, L. (2013). Beyond the playlist: Looking at user-generated collocation of cultural products through social tagging. Proceedings of the American Society for Information

Social tagging has become a common practice across a variety of platforms on the Web. In this panel, we propose to start with one title, Casino Royale, a James Bond novel by Ian Fleming, and the other cultural products that emanated from it (e.g., tw... Read More about Beyond the playlist: Looking at user-generated collocation of cultural products through social tagging.

Storisphere: From TV watching to community story telling (2013)
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Mu, M., Simpson, S., Bojko, C., Broadbent, M., Brown, J., Mauthe, A., …Hutchison, D. (2013). Storisphere: From TV watching to community story telling. IEEE Communications Magazine, 51(8), 112-119. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2013.6576348

Conventional television services have been increasingly challenged by the more interactive and user-centric video sharing applications. With the growing popularity of social networks and video services, users are becoming the editors and broadcasters... Read More about Storisphere: From TV watching to community story telling.

Improved Grating Monopole antenna with zigzag for DVB-T application (2013)
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Zebiri, C., Ney, M., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Benabdelaziz, F., Lashab, M., & See, C. H. (2013). Improved Grating Monopole antenna with zigzag for DVB-T application. Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters, 41, 39-49. https://doi.org/10.2528/PIERL130501

This work presents a novel broadband monopole antenna for digital video broadcasting-terrestrial (DVB-T) application. The proposed antenna consists of a grating zigzag patch and a concave rectangular ground plane. The zigzag patch is used to enable t... Read More about Improved Grating Monopole antenna with zigzag for DVB-T application.

Hybrid computational scheme for antenna-human body interaction. (2013)
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Ramli, K., Abd-Alhameed, R., See, C., Excell, P., & Noras, J. (2013). Hybrid computational scheme for antenna-human body interaction. Progress in electromagnetics research B: PIER B, 133, 117-136

A new hybrid method of moments (MoM)/finite-difference time-domain (FDTD), with a sub-gridded finite-difference time-domain (SGFDTD) approach is presented. The method overcomes the drawbacks of homogeneous MoM and FDTD simulations, and so permits acc... Read More about Hybrid computational scheme for antenna-human body interaction..

Tables and chairs go au naturel (2013)
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Hussain, A. (2013). Tables and chairs go au naturel. InTents, 20,

Functional and aesthetic—tables and chairs provide structure and warmth to an event. Tables and chairs are the bones of an event. They provide the foundation upon which the rest of the event can be built. While glitz and glam still have their place,... Read More about Tables and chairs go au naturel.

A novel SAR target detection algorithm based on contextual knowledge (2013)
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Gao, F., Ru, A., Sun, J., & Hussain, A. (2013). A novel SAR target detection algorithm based on contextual knowledge. Progress In Electromagnetics Research, 142, 123-140. https://doi.org/10.2528/PIER13062403

This paper proposes a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) vehicle target detection algorithm based on contextual knowledge. The proposed algorithm firstly obtains the general classification of SAR image with a Markov Random Field (MRF)-based segmentation... Read More about A novel SAR target detection algorithm based on contextual knowledge.

Statistical analysis of refractivity gradient and β₀ parameter in the Gulf Region. (2013)
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AbouAlmal, A., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Al-Ansari, K., AlAhmad, H., See, C. H., Jones, S. M. R., & Noras, J. M. (2013). Statistical analysis of refractivity gradient and β₀ parameter in the Gulf Region. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 61(12)

In this communication, nine years of local radiosonde meteorological data, from 1997 to 2005, have been used to calculate the vertical refractivity gradient, ΔΝ, in the lowest atmospheric layer above the ground surface. The values obtained are used t... Read More about Statistical analysis of refractivity gradient and β₀ parameter in the Gulf Region..

Conical Nanoparticles for Blood Disease Detection (2013)
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Spada, L. L., Iovine, R., Tarparelli, R., & Vegni, L. (2013). Conical Nanoparticles for Blood Disease Detection. Advances in nanoparticles, 02(03), 259-265. https://doi.org/10.4236/anp.2013.23036

Metallic nanoparticles play an important role in the design of sensing platforms. In this paper, a new electromagnetic study for conical metal nanoparticles, working in the Near Infrared and Visible frequency regime, is proposed. The structures consi... Read More about Conical Nanoparticles for Blood Disease Detection.

Machine vision approach for automating vegetation detection on railway tracks. (2013)
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Yella, S., Nyberg, R., Payvar, B., Dougherty, M., & Gupta, N. K. (2013). Machine vision approach for automating vegetation detection on railway tracks. Journal of Intelligent Systems, 22, 179-196. https://doi.org/10.1515/jisys-2013-0017

The presence of vegetation on railway tracks (amongst other issues) threatens track safety and longevity. However, vegetation inspections in Sweden (and elsewhere in the world) are currently being carried out manually. Manually inspecting vegetation... Read More about Machine vision approach for automating vegetation detection on railway tracks..

Creating a sense of place with a deliberately constrained virtual environment (2013)
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Turner, P., Turner, S., & Burrows, L. (2013). Creating a sense of place with a deliberately constrained virtual environment. International Journal of Cognitive Performance Support, 1, 54-68. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCPS.2013.053554

This study took as its starting point the premise that a high degree of realism is not a necessary condition for the creation of a ‘sense of place’ in mediated experiences such as those presented through virtual reality. A sense of place is the sense... Read More about Creating a sense of place with a deliberately constrained virtual environment.

Energy co-operatives in the UK: current and future prospects. (2013)
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Tham, Y. W., & Muneer, T. (2013). Energy co-operatives in the UK: current and future prospects. International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies, 8, 43-51. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijlct/ctr048

The UK is implementing different types of policies to encourage the use of renewable energy for electricity generation. Currently, the UK is falling behind other European countries in this respect.Hence, co-operatives play an important role in helpin... Read More about Energy co-operatives in the UK: current and future prospects..

Review of Facebook Democracy. The Architecture of Disclosure and the Threat to Public Life by J.Marichal (2013)
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Taylor-Smith, E. (2013). Review of Facebook Democracy. The Architecture of Disclosure and the Threat to Public Life by J.Marichal. Information Polity, 18, 367-370. https://doi.org/10.3233/IP-130318

Jose Marichal’s investigation into Facebook, as a setting for democracy and potential influence on the public sphere, identifies something special about Facebook that both makes it popular and unique, even among social networking sites. This enables... Read More about Review of Facebook Democracy. The Architecture of Disclosure and the Threat to Public Life by J.Marichal.

Review of 'Innovations in Participatory Politics' by B. Loader and D. Mercea, eds. (2013)
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Taylor-Smith, E. (2013). Review of 'Innovations in Participatory Politics' by B. Loader and D. Mercea, eds. Information Polity, 18, 93-96. https://doi.org/10.3233/IP-130298

Brian Loader and Dan Mercea rally a group of political/social/media scientists to shed light on social media and democracy. Is social media supporting transformations of democratic power or merely inspiring the latest round of cyber-utopian hype? Cur... Read More about Review of 'Innovations in Participatory Politics' by B. Loader and D. Mercea, eds..

Some Remarks on the Homotopy-Analysis Method and Series Solutions to the Blasius Equation (2013)
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Robin, W. (2013). Some Remarks on the Homotopy-Analysis Method and Series Solutions to the Blasius Equation. International Mathematical Forum, 8, 1205-1213. https://doi.org/10.12988/imf.2013.3478

We present an new angle on the introduction of the homotopy-analysis method of Liao [6]. The homotopy-analysis method is then applied to produce a series solution of the Blasius problem in two different ways and comparison made with the work of Wang... Read More about Some Remarks on the Homotopy-Analysis Method and Series Solutions to the Blasius Equation.

On the Rodrigues Formula Solution of the Hypergeometric-Type Differential Equation (2013)
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Robin, W. (2013). On the Rodrigues Formula Solution of the Hypergeometric-Type Differential Equation. International Mathematical Forum, 8, 1455-1466. https://doi.org/10.12988/imf.2013.37133

In this paper, we present a new systematic approach to the solution of the hypergeometric-like differential equation and its associated equation. The method produces, tout court, the general solution of these equations in the form of a combination of... Read More about On the Rodrigues Formula Solution of the Hypergeometric-Type Differential Equation.

A quality-driven approach to game physics engine development using the Entity Component System. (2013)
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Reilly, C., & Chalmers, K. (2013). A quality-driven approach to game physics engine development using the Entity Component System. The Computer Games Journal, 2, 125

The games industry is a broad, multi-discipline industry, which continues to grow in terms of revenue and cultural significance. Despite the accolades of this “recession-proof” industry, video game projects often fail either to deliver on time and on... Read More about A quality-driven approach to game physics engine development using the Entity Component System..

Use of DEM and elastic stability analysis to explain the influence of the intermediate principal stress on shear strength (2013)
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O'Sullivan, C., Wadee, M., Hanley, K., & Barreto, D. (2013). Use of DEM and elastic stability analysis to explain the influence of the intermediate principal stress on shear strength. Géotechnique, 63(15), 1298-1309. https://doi.org/10.1680/geot.12.p.153

One interesting aspect of soil response is the sensitivity of the mechanical behaviour to the intermediate principal stress. In this study, a fundamental mechanism that explains the influence of the intermediate stress ratio (b) on soil shear strengt... Read More about Use of DEM and elastic stability analysis to explain the influence of the intermediate principal stress on shear strength.

Detecting plants on railway embankment. (2013)
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Nyberg, R., Gupta, N. K., Yella, S., & Dougherty, M. (2013). Detecting plants on railway embankment. Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, 6, 8-12. https://doi.org/10.4236/jsea.2013.63b003

This paper investigates problems concerning vegetation along railways and proposes automatic means of detecting ground vegetation. Digital images of railway embankments have been acquired and used for the purpose. The current work mainly proposes t... Read More about Detecting plants on railway embankment..