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Ontology‐driven disability‐aware e‐learning personalisation with ONTODAPS (2012)
Journal Article
Nganji, J. T., Brayshaw, M., & Tompsett, B. (2012). Ontology‐driven disability‐aware e‐learning personalisation with ONTODAPS. Campus-Wide Information Systems, 30(1), 17-34. https://doi.org/10.1108/10650741311288797

Purpose- The purpose of this paper is to show how personalisation of learning resources and services can be achieved for students with and without disabilities, particularly responding to the needs of those with multiple disabilities in e-learning sy... Read More about Ontology‐driven disability‐aware e‐learning personalisation with ONTODAPS.

Diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease with an intelligent decision-making support system (2012)
Journal Article
Bohacik, J., & Davis, D. (2012). Diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease with an intelligent decision-making support system. ULAB journal of science and engineering, 3(1), Article 42888

Cardiovascular disease is the principal cause of death in most European countries and may have a major negativeimpact on the patients' functional status, productivity, and quality of life. It seems an automatic decision support system couldlower thes... Read More about Diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease with an intelligent decision-making support system.

Adaptive probability scheme for behaviour monitoring of the elderly using a specialised ambient device (2012)
Journal Article
Winkley, J., & Jiang, P. (2014). Adaptive probability scheme for behaviour monitoring of the elderly using a specialised ambient device. International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 5(2), 293-307. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13042-012-0134-4

A Hidden Markov Model (HMM) modified to work in combination with a Fuzzy System is utilised to determine the current behavioural state of the user from information obtained with specialised hardware. Due to the high dimensionality and not-linearly-se... Read More about Adaptive probability scheme for behaviour monitoring of the elderly using a specialised ambient device.

Activating cognitive activities among students through the application of WebPA in teaching knowledge on mathematical operations in upper secondary schools of Vietnam (2012)
Journal Article
Nguyen, T., & Gordon, N. (2012). Activating cognitive activities among students through the application of WebPA in teaching knowledge on mathematical operations in upper secondary schools of Vietnam

In Vietnam, the inspection and evaluation in education is usually performed by traditional assessments, including regular testing and periodic examination. The biggest advantage of these assessments are that they are easy to deploy and fairly accurat... Read More about Activating cognitive activities among students through the application of WebPA in teaching knowledge on mathematical operations in upper secondary schools of Vietnam.

Verity: An ambient assisted living platform (2012)
Journal Article
Winkley, J., Jiang, P., & Jiang, W. (2012). Verity: An ambient assisted living platform. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 58(2), 364-373. https://doi.org/10.1109/tce.2012.6227435

A new and innovative system intended for the monitoring of the elderly and those requiring passive care is developed, with a wrist-wearable wireless sensor node and a mobile platform to form a remotely accessible body area network. The system utilise... Read More about Verity: An ambient assisted living platform.

Personalized content provision for virtual learning environments via the semantic web (2012)
Journal Article
Wen, L., Brayshaw, M., & Gordon, N. (2012). Personalized content provision for virtual learning environments via the semantic web. Innovation in teaching and learning in information and computer sciences, 11(1), 14-26. https://doi.org/10.11120/ital.2012.11010014

In this paper we discuss how we may personalize e-learning along three distinct axes, namely: teaching and learning pedagogical philosophies, personalized educational processes to taste and the coordination of these processes during execution. In doi... Read More about Personalized content provision for virtual learning environments via the semantic web.

WE-G-BRA-06: calibrating an ionisation chamber: gaining experience using a dosimetry 'flight simulator' (2012)
Journal Article
Beavis, A., Saunderson, J., & Ward, J. (2012). WE-G-BRA-06: calibrating an ionisation chamber: gaining experience using a dosimetry 'flight simulator'. Medical physics, 39(6Part28), 3970-3970. https://doi.org/10.1118/1.4736201

Purpose: Recently there has been great interest in the use of simulation training, with the view to enhance safety within radiotherapy practice. We have developed a Virtual Environment for Radiotherapy Training (VERT) which facilitates this, includin... Read More about WE-G-BRA-06: calibrating an ionisation chamber: gaining experience using a dosimetry 'flight simulator'.

WE-G-BRA-04: the development of a virtual reality dosimetry training platform for physics training (2012)
Journal Article
Beavis, A., & Ward, J. (2012). WE-G-BRA-04: the development of a virtual reality dosimetry training platform for physics training. Medical physics, 39(6Part28), 3969-3969. https://doi.org/10.1118/1.4736199

Purpose: Recently there has been a great deal of interest in the application of Simulation methodologies for training. We have previously developed a Virtual Environment for Radiotherapy Training, VERT, which simulates a fully interactive and functio... Read More about WE-G-BRA-04: the development of a virtual reality dosimetry training platform for physics training.

A versatile optical model for hybrid rendering of volume data (2012)
Journal Article
Xiang, D., Yang, F., Tian, J., Cao, Y., & Li, Q. (2012). A versatile optical model for hybrid rendering of volume data. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 18(6), 925 - 937. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2011.113

In volume rendering, most optical models currently in use are based on the assumptions that a volumetric object is acollection of particles and that the macro behavior of particles, when they interact with light rays, can be predicted based on thebeh... Read More about A versatile optical model for hybrid rendering of volume data.

Compositional synthesis of temporal fault trees from state machines (2012)
Journal Article
Papadopoulos, Y., Walker, M., & Mahmud, N. (2012). Compositional synthesis of temporal fault trees from state machines. Performance Evaluation Review, 39(4), 79-88. https://doi.org/10.1145/2185395.2185444

Dependability analysis of a dynamic system which is embedded with several complex interrelated components raises two main problems. First, it is difficult to represent in a single coherent and complete picture how the system and its constituent parts... Read More about Compositional synthesis of temporal fault trees from state machines.

Alert rules for remote monitoring of cardiovascular patients (2012)
Journal Article
Bohacik, J., & Davis, D. (2012). Alert rules for remote monitoring of cardiovascular patients. Journal of information technologies, 5(1), 16 - 23

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in most European countries and its prevention requires major life-style changes using limited health-care resources. Remote cardiovascular decision support seems to allow cardiovascular patients to... Read More about Alert rules for remote monitoring of cardiovascular patients.

Formal framework of XML document schema design (2012)
Journal Article
Wang, B., & Zainol, Z. (2012). Formal framework of XML document schema design. International Journal of Information Retrieval Research, 2(1), 21-64. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijirr.2012010103

Designing “good” XML documents is a very difficult task for a database designer. Although many theories for XML database design have proposed, none of commercial design tool for XML document design has been developed to assist the XML document design... Read More about Formal framework of XML document schema design.