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The Role of Context in the Construction of Police Facial Composites (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Skelton, F., Frowd, C., & Speers, K. (2009, September). The Role of Context in the Construction of Police Facial Composites. Poster presented at British Psychological Society Cognitive Section conference, University of Hertfordshire

Space-Time Finite Element Dynamic Analysis of Transfer Plate Structures in Tall Buildings (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kuang, J., & Zhang, H. (2009, September). Space-Time Finite Element Dynamic Analysis of Transfer Plate Structures in Tall Buildings. Presented at Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing

A new space-time finite element formulation for dynamic analysis of transfer plates is presented. The method is based on an unconventional Hamilton variational principle and a special technique in time domain interpolation is employed. For the simple... Read More about Space-Time Finite Element Dynamic Analysis of Transfer Plate Structures in Tall Buildings.

Wizard of Oz experiments for Companions. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bradley, J., Mival, O., & Benyon, D. (2009). Wizard of Oz experiments for Companions. In Proceedings British HCI 2009 (313-317)

Wizard of Oz experiments allow designers and developers to see the reactions of people as they interact with to-bedeveloped technologies. At the Centre for Interaction Design at Edinburgh Napier University we are developing a Wizard of Oz system... Read More about Wizard of Oz experiments for Companions..

Caricaturing to Improve Face Matching (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hancock, P. J., McIntyre, A. H., & Kittler, J. (2009). Caricaturing to Improve Face Matching. In Symposium on Bio-inspired Learning and Intelligent Systems for Security, 2009. BLISS '09https://doi.org/10.1109/bliss.2009.17

Identity verification by matching face images is a common security task; is this person on a wanted list? With unfamiliar faces, this is surprisingly difficult, with error rates in the region of 30%. With photographic identification increasingly comm... Read More about Caricaturing to Improve Face Matching.

Cardiovascular risk benefits of the CHOICE (choice of health options in prevention of cardiovascular events) program are maintained for four years: randomised controlled trial. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neubeck, L., Redfern, J., Briffa, T., Ascanio, R., Bauman, A., & Freedman, S. B. (2009, August). Cardiovascular risk benefits of the CHOICE (choice of health options in prevention of cardiovascular events) program are maintained for four years: randomised controlled trial. Poster presented at European Society of Cardiology Congress

Dendritic cell trafficking: from Immunology to Engineering. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hart, E., & Davoudani, D. (2009). Dendritic cell trafficking: from Immunology to Engineering. In Artificial Immune Systems (11-13). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03246-2_4

The field of Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) has derived inspiration from many different elements of the natural immune system in order to develop engineered systems that operate in environments with constraints similar to those faced by the immune s... Read More about Dendritic cell trafficking: from Immunology to Engineering..

Design and evaluation of optical fibre sensors in civil engineering applications for Structural Health Monitoring (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Grattan, K. T. V., Kerrouche, A., Sun, T., Grattan, S., Taylor, S. E., & Basheer, P. A. M. (2009, July). Design and evaluation of optical fibre sensors in civil engineering applications for Structural Health Monitoring. Presented at 14th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC), Hong Kong, China

A number of studies on the use of optical fibre sensor techniques for structural monitoring are discussed and results obtained, both in the laboratory and in the field, are reported.

Employability of Older People. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McQuaid, R. W. (2009). Employability of Older People.

[A Scottish demographic study concerning employability of older people in an aging population.]

Performance analysis and evaluation of P2PTV streaming behavior (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alhaisoni, M., Liotta, A., & Ghanbari, M. (2009). Performance analysis and evaluation of P2PTV streaming behavior. In 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (89-94). https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2009.5202402

P2P TV is gradually emerging as a potential alternative to well known client-server applications such as IPTV, VoD and other real-time TV services. Several P2P platforms such as Zattoo, Joost, Sopcast, and PPlive deliver streams using the user termin... Read More about Performance analysis and evaluation of P2PTV streaming behavior.

Improving QoS in P2P video streaming (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alhaisoni, M., Ghanbari, M., & Liotta, A. (2009). Improving QoS in P2P video streaming. In 2009 First International Conference on Advances in Multimedia (98-103). https://doi.org/10.1109/MMEDIA.2009.25

Nowadays, P2P streaming has facilitated the way that people can receive the video content in. Both types of streaming services (Video-On-Demand and Live) have been delivered to the end-users in a P2P paradigm. Thus, P2P networking has shown an altern... Read More about Improving QoS in P2P video streaming.

Integrated many-to-many multicast addressing and access control method (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Romdhani, I., & Yassin Al-Dubai, A. (2009, July). Integrated many-to-many multicast addressing and access control method. Presented at 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Sousse, Tunisia

IP multicast is an efficient method for distributing multimedia content to a large number of receivers while saving the network bandwidth and reducing processing overhead on the source side. However, current IP multicast deployment figure is still fa... Read More about Integrated many-to-many multicast addressing and access control method.

Overlay management for P2PTV streaming (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alhaisoni, M., Liotta, A., & Ghanbari, M. (2009). Overlay management for P2PTV streaming. In 2009 IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management-Workshops (157-160). https://doi.org/10.1109/INMW.2009.5195954

Recently, P2P streaming has received much attention as a new technology for delivering multimedia content over the internet to the end-users on the periphery. This technology is inherent to the overlay network which is constructed by the logical conn... Read More about Overlay management for P2PTV streaming.

Parallelization of the nearest-neighbour search and the cross-validation error evaluation for the kernel weighted k-nn algorithm applied to large data dets in matlab (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rubio, G., Guillen, A., Pomares, H., Rojas, I., Paechter, B., Glosekotter, P., & Torres-Ceballos, C. I. (2009, June). Parallelization of the nearest-neighbour search and the cross-validation error evaluation for the kernel weighted k-nn algorithm applied to large data dets in matlab. Presented at 2009 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation

The kernel weighted k-nearest neighbours (KWKNN) algorithm is an efficient kernel regression method that achieves competitive results with lower computational complexity than Least-Squares Support Vector Machines and Gaussian Processes. This paper pr... Read More about Parallelization of the nearest-neighbour search and the cross-validation error evaluation for the kernel weighted k-nn algorithm applied to large data dets in matlab.

(Mis)Communication and context for childhood vaccinations: a role for critical health psychology? (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kennedy, C., Gray Brunton, C., & Hogg, R. (2009). (Mis)Communication and context for childhood vaccinations: a role for critical health psychology?.

Background: The promotion of childhood vaccinations is complex in the literature. Vaccination is important to ensure protection from infectious diseases but in developed countries rates for vaccinations have fallen in recent years. The Measles, Mumps... Read More about (Mis)Communication and context for childhood vaccinations: a role for critical health psychology?.

Resisting’ Ritalin: parental talk about treatment medication in childhood ADHD (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder)/resistance au Ritalin: entretiens avec les parents sur le traitement medicinal pour traiter le TDAH (Trouble déficitaire de l’attention et/ou hyperactivité) infantile. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gray Brunton, C. (2009, July). Resisting’ Ritalin: parental talk about treatment medication in childhood ADHD (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder)/resistance au Ritalin: entretiens avec les parents sur le traitement medicinal pour traiter le TDAH (Trouble déficitaire de l’attention et/ou hyperactivité) infantile. Presented at 6th Conference of the International Society for Critical Health Psychology

‘Resisting’ Ritalin: Parental Talk about Treatment Medication in Childhood ADHD (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). ABSTRACT Background: Childhood ADHD is a contested public health area in international contexts with rising incidences predi... Read More about Resisting’ Ritalin: parental talk about treatment medication in childhood ADHD (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder)/resistance au Ritalin: entretiens avec les parents sur le traitement medicinal pour traiter le TDAH (Trouble déficitaire de l’attention et/ou hyperactivité) infantile..