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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.

Gastric Tones: A Study in Sound (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Holmes, P. (2017, November). Gastric Tones: A Study in Sound. Presented at Cumulus conference Bengaluru 2017 – Letters to the Future

In this sound installation, the artist plays back stomach noises recorded before and after a meal, at 1/100th of their normal speed. Douglas Gordon discovered hidden performative meaning in his extreme slow-motion “24 Hour Psycho” (1993). Similarly... Read More about Gastric Tones: A Study in Sound.

Just and Sustainable Places: Extending the Boundaries of Socio-environmental Health. (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Elaine, C., & Inglis, G. (2017, November). Just and Sustainable Places: Extending the Boundaries of Socio-environmental Health. Paper presented at U!REKA Edinburgh 2017: Towards a Research and Education Strategy

Background: Ecological public health encompasses the complex relationship between environment and health - protecting the physical environment and its inhabitants from contamination, building health-promoting and nurturing environments that foster so... Read More about Just and Sustainable Places: Extending the Boundaries of Socio-environmental Health..

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

Underwater Plastic Frankenstein (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2017, November). Underwater Plastic Frankenstein. Paper presented at Gothic Nature, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

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

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). A robust data-driven approach to the decoding of pyloric neuron activity. In 2017 IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS). https://doi.org/10.1109/SiPS.2017.8110017

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.

Machine learning based computer-aided diagnosis of liver tumours (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ali, L., Khelil, K., Wajid, S. K., Hussain, Z. U., Shah, M. A., Howard, A., …Hussain, A. (2017). Machine learning based computer-aided diagnosis of liver tumours. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCI-CC.2017.8109742

Image processing plays a vital role in the early detection and diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC). In this paper, we present a computational intelligence based Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) system that helps medical specialists detect and d... Read More about Machine learning based computer-aided diagnosis of liver tumours.

Formal Ontology Generation by deep machine learning (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, Y., Valipour, M., Zatarain, O., Gavrilova, M., Hussain, A., Howard, N., & Patel, S. (2017). Formal Ontology Generation by deep machine learning. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCI-CC.2017.8109723

An ontology is a taxonomic hierarchy of lexical terms and their syntactic and semantic relations for representing a framework of structured knowledge. Ontology used to be problem-specific and manually built due to its extreme complexity. Based on the... Read More about Formal Ontology Generation by deep machine learning.

Complex-valued computational model of hippocampal CA3 recurrent collaterals (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shiva, A., Gogate, M., Howard, N., Graham, B., & Hussain, A. (2017). Complex-valued computational model of hippocampal CA3 recurrent collaterals. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCI-CC.2017.8109745

Complex planes are known to simplify the complexity of real world problems, providing a better comprehension of their functionality and design. The need for complex numbers in both artificial and biological neural networks is equally well established... Read More about Complex-valued computational model of hippocampal CA3 recurrent collaterals.

Development of 3D Sculpted, Hyper-Realistic Biomimetic Eyes for Humanoid Robots and Medical Ocular Prostheses (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Strathearn, C., & Ma, M. (2017, October). Development of 3D Sculpted, Hyper-Realistic Biomimetic Eyes for Humanoid Robots and Medical Ocular Prostheses. Presented at 2nd International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bio-Inspired Robotics (SWARM 2017), Kyoto, Japan

Hyper-realistic Humanoid Bio-robotic Systems (HHBS) are the precise electro-mechanical bodily emulation of natural human being in materiality, form and function. However, the standardised approach of constructing static ocular prosthesis for implemen... Read More about Development of 3D Sculpted, Hyper-Realistic Biomimetic Eyes for Humanoid Robots and Medical Ocular Prostheses.

Changes in ankle proprioception and neuromuscular function following an acute bout of British Army foot drill: Implications of lower-limb musculoskeletal injury risk (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rawcliffe, A., Simpson, R., Graham, S., Psycharakis, S., Bansbach, H., & Connaboy, C. Changes in ankle proprioception and neuromuscular function following an acute bout of British Army foot drill: Implications of lower-limb musculoskeletal injury risk. Presented at 4th International Congress on Soldiers' Physical Performance, Melbourne, Australia

Introduction: The cyclic high impact loading forces and kinematics of British Army foot-drill suggest that foot-drill may contribute to the high incidence rates of lower-limb musculoskeletal (MSK) injuries reported in recruit populations. Transient a... Read More about Changes in ankle proprioception and neuromuscular function following an acute bout of British Army foot drill: Implications of lower-limb musculoskeletal injury risk.

Innovation in corrosion monitoring in sewers - use of novel photonic sensors for humidity measurements in gravity sewers (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bustamante, H., Alwis, L. S. M., Grattan, K. T. V., Sun, T., Vorreiter, L., & González, J. (2017, May). Innovation in corrosion monitoring in sewers - use of novel photonic sensors for humidity measurements in gravity sewers. Presented at Ozwater'17, Sydney, Australia

Humidity plays a key role in microbiologically induced corrosion of concrete gravity sewers. Minor reductions in humidity can reduce corrosion rates. No reliable long lived (>1 week) humidity sensors are available, thus limiting the development of us... Read More about Innovation in corrosion monitoring in sewers - use of novel photonic sensors for humidity measurements in gravity sewers.

Electromagnetic wave control by metasurfaces: From design to manufacturing (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Spada, L. L., & Hao, Y. (2017, August). Electromagnetic wave control by metasurfaces: From design to manufacturing. Presented at 2017 XXXIInd General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI GASS), Montreal, QC

Recently, there have been a new interest in controlling and manipulating electromagnetic waves in different frequency ranges. The development of new two-dimensional materials, called meta-surfaces, have been used to control and tailor the electromagn... Read More about Electromagnetic wave control by metasurfaces: From design to manufacturing.

Utilising natural cross-modal mappings for visual control of feature-based sound synthesis (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tsiros, A., & Leplâtre, G. (2017, November). Utilising natural cross-modal mappings for visual control of feature-based sound synthesis. Presented at International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 2017

This paper presents the results of an investigation into audio-visual (AV) correspondences conducted as part of the development of Morpheme, a painting interface to control a corpus-based concatenative sound synthesis algorithm. Previous research has... Read More about Utilising natural cross-modal mappings for visual control of feature-based sound synthesis.