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Enhanced performance controller design for stochastic systems by adding extra state estimation onto the existing closed loop control (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhou, Y., Zhang, Q., & Wang, H. (2016, August). Enhanced performance controller design for stochastic systems by adding extra state estimation onto the existing closed loop control. Presented at 2016 UKACC 11th International Conference on Control (CONTROL), Belfast, United Kingdom

To enhance the performance of the tracking property, this paper presents a novel control algorithm for a class of linear dynamic stochastic systems with unmeasurable states, where the performance enhancement loop is established based on Kalman filter... Read More about Enhanced performance controller design for stochastic systems by adding extra state estimation onto the existing closed loop control.

A Comparative Study of Methods for Modelling the Structural Stiffness of Generator Components (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jaen-Sola, P., & Mcdonald, A. (2016, April). A Comparative Study of Methods for Modelling the Structural Stiffness of Generator Components. Presented at 8th IET International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2016), Glasgow, UK

Direct-drive generators are low speed electrical machines requiring robust and large supporting structures designed to resist the significant loads present during assembly and operation. Generator structures have to be stiff, especially in the radial... Read More about A Comparative Study of Methods for Modelling the Structural Stiffness of Generator Components.

Ventilator associated events and outcome: preliminary results (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wojcik, G., Walsh, T. S., & Craven, T. H. (2016, November). Ventilator associated events and outcome: preliminary results. Poster presented at Scottish Intensive Care Society 2016, St. Andrews, Scotland

Ventilator associated events and outcome: preliminary results.

Implementation of a novel surveillance algorithm for VAP and attributable antibiotic use: are we on the right tracks? (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wojcik, G., Craven, T. H., & Walsh, T. S. (2016, November). Implementation of a novel surveillance algorithm for VAP and attributable antibiotic use: are we on the right tracks?. Poster presented at Scottish Intensive Care Society 2016

Implementation of a novel surveillance algorithm for VAP and attributable antibiotic use: are we on the right tracks?

How to Talk to Strangers: generating medical reports for first time users (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gkatzia, D., Rieser, V., & Lemon, O. (2016). How to Talk to Strangers: generating medical reports for first time users. In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2016.7737739

We propose a novel approach for handling first-time
users in the context of automatic report generation from timeseries
data in the health domain. Handling first-time users is
a common problem for Natural Language Generation (NLG)
and interactive... Read More about How to Talk to Strangers: generating medical reports for first time users.

Follow up after cancer treatment: Improving access to supported self-management through testing of a GP led Active Inclusion Pathway (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Johnston, L., Bradshaw, S., Campbell, K., & Durie, R. (2016, November). Follow up after cancer treatment: Improving access to supported self-management through testing of a GP led Active Inclusion Pathway. Poster presented at National Cancer Research Institute, Liverpool

Background
The Transforming Care After Treatment (TCAT) programme aims to improve the aftercare for people living with and beyond cancer in Scotland. It is a partnership between the Scottish Government, Macmillian Cancer Support, NHS Scotland, Local... Read More about Follow up after cancer treatment: Improving access to supported self-management through testing of a GP led Active Inclusion Pathway.

Investigating the molecular mechanisms driving neuroendocrine differentiation in androgen deprived prostate cancer cells (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sutton, J., Hutchison, G., Fraser, J., & Poole, A. (2016). Investigating the molecular mechanisms driving neuroendocrine differentiation in androgen deprived prostate cancer cells

Background: Neuroendocrine differentiation is commonplace in prostate tumors treated with androgen deprivation therapy and is associated with castrate-resistant disease progression and poor prognosis. The molecular mechanisms driving neuroendocrine d... Read More about Investigating the molecular mechanisms driving neuroendocrine differentiation in androgen deprived prostate cancer cells.

Influence of aerial manoeuvres on surfing performance (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ferrier, B., Secomb, J., Parsonage, J., Dowse, R., Newton, R., Sheppard, J., & Nimphius, S. (2016, November). Influence of aerial manoeuvres on surfing performance. Poster presented at 2016 Australian Strength and Conditioning Annual Conference, Melbourne, Australia

Modelling the restoration of activity in a biological neural network (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dos Santos, F., Steyn, J. S., & Andras, P. (2016). Modelling the restoration of activity in a biological neural network. In 2016 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (4672-4679). https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2016.7727813

Understanding the mechanisms of restoration of activity in biological neural systems following exposure to damage is key for design of future neuro-prosthetic devices and restorative treatments. The pyloric rhythm network within the crustacean stomat... Read More about Modelling the restoration of activity in a biological neural network.

User-centred design criteria in next generation vehicle consoles (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gibson, Z., Butterfield, J., & Marzano, A. (2016, October). User-centred design criteria in next generation vehicle consoles. Presented at 5th CIRP Global Web Conference, Patras, Greece

The purpose of this work is to gauge user opinions on vehicle dashboard design to ascertain the criteria important to consumers for the next generation of automobile dashboards. The results provide insight into the aspects of dashboard design that us... Read More about User-centred design criteria in next generation vehicle consoles.

Polypharmacy management: an under recognized public health issue (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McIntosh, J., Alonso, A., Codina, C., & Mair, A. (2016). Polypharmacy management: an under recognized public health issue. European Journal of Public Health, 26(suppl_1), https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckw174.050

Background
Multiple chronic diseases in individuals increase the risk of inappropriate polypharmacy, an under recognised public health issue. SIMPATHY (Stimulating Innovation Management of Polypharmacy and Adherence in The Elderly) aims to develop c... Read More about Polypharmacy management: an under recognized public health issue.

Young men with intellectual disabilities’ constructions of the human papillomavirus and vaccine (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Carnegie, E., Whittaker, A., Gray Brunton, C., Harding, S., Hilton, S., Hogg, R., Kennedy, C., Pollock, K., Pow, J., & Willis, D. (2016, November). Young men with intellectual disabilities’ constructions of the human papillomavirus and vaccine. Presented at 9th European Public Health Conference All for Health, Vienna, Austria

Scotland is one European country offering a national schoolbased
HPV vaccination programme to at least one age-cohort of females, however it does not include young men. A substantial body of literature explores and measures attitudes of young people... Read More about Young men with intellectual disabilities’ constructions of the human papillomavirus and vaccine.

Cultural reflections on the Scottish HPV vaccination programme (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Carnegie, E., Whittaker, A., Gray Brunton, C., Hanif, N., Harding, S., Hilton, S., Hogg, R., Kennedy, C., Pollock, K., & Pow, J. (2016, November). Cultural reflections on the Scottish HPV vaccination programme. Presented at 9th European Public Health Conference All for Health, Vienna, Austria

Background
The Scottish HPV vaccination programme serves young women aged 11 to 18 years and reports consistently high uptake rates, yet these figures may conceal levels of understanding and antecedents to decision-making. Evidence from other Europe... Read More about Cultural reflections on the Scottish HPV vaccination programme.

Effectiveness of motivational interviewing on adult behaviour change in health and social care settings: an overview of reviews (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frost, H., Campbell, P., Maxwell, M., O’Carroll, R., Dombrowski, S., Cheyne, H., Williams, B., & Pollock, A. (2016, November). Effectiveness of motivational interviewing on adult behaviour change in health and social care settings: an overview of reviews. Presented at 4th European Congress of the European Region of the World Confederation of Physical Therapy, Liverpool, UK

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An Introduction of Non-intrusive Load Monitoring and Its Challenges in System Framework (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, Q., Lu, M., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2016). An Introduction of Non-intrusive Load Monitoring and Its Challenges in System Framework. In Cloud Computing and Security (254-263). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48674-1_23

With the increasing of energy demand and electricity price, researchers gain more and more interest among the residential load monitoring. In order to feed back the individual appliance’s energy consumption instead of the whole-house energy consumpti... Read More about An Introduction of Non-intrusive Load Monitoring and Its Challenges in System Framework.

A Survey of Speculative Execution Strategy in MapReduce (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liu, Q., Jin, D., Liu, X., & Linge, N. (2016). A Survey of Speculative Execution Strategy in MapReduce. In A. Liu, H. C. Chao, E. Bertino, & X. Sun (Eds.), Cloud Computing and Security (296-307). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48671-0_27

MapReduce is a parallel computing programming model designed to process large-scale data. Therefore, the accuracy and efficiency for computing are needed to be assured and speculative execution is an efficient method for calculation of fault toleranc... Read More about A Survey of Speculative Execution Strategy in MapReduce.

Cellulose as a Pore Former in Electroless Co-Deposited Anodes for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Turnbull, R., Davidson, A., Shearer, N., & Wilson, C. (2016). Cellulose as a Pore Former in Electroless Co-Deposited Anodes for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells. In Proceedings of the 12th EUROPEAN SOFC & SOE FORUM (1-11)

A study was conducted to investigate the feasibility of cellulose as a pore former in the manufacture of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) anodes using Electroless Co-Deposition (ECD). Previous work into the use of ECD to produce SOFC anodes has found tha... Read More about Cellulose as a Pore Former in Electroless Co-Deposited Anodes for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells.

HI-risk: A method to analyse health information risk intelligence (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, W. J., & van Deursen, N. (2016, September). HI-risk: A method to analyse health information risk intelligence. Presented at 2016 IEEE 18th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)

Information security threat intelligence is a prevalent topic amongst researchers, long-established IT-vendors and start-ups. The possibilities of Big Data analytics to security threat and vulnerability scanning offer a significant development in the... Read More about HI-risk: A method to analyse health information risk intelligence.

Reorienting cultures of nursing care through the development of a psychosocial safe space (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sharp, S., Broadbent, M., & Mcallister, M. (2016, October). Reorienting cultures of nursing care through the development of a psychosocial safe space. Paper presented at 2nd Critical Perspectives in Nursing and Health Care, Sydney, Australia

Building on the findings of a critical ethnography that investigated the impact of workplace culture on the delivery of person centred care in an acute surgical ward in regional Queensland, this presentation outlines a solution to the problem of dehu... Read More about Reorienting cultures of nursing care through the development of a psychosocial safe space.