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Experiencias de enseñanza a estudiantes de informática con discapacidad en Universidades del Reino Unido (2008)
Book Chapter
Tompsett, B. (2008). Experiencias de enseñanza a estudiantes de informática con discapacidad en Universidades del Reino Unido. Tecnologias de la Informacion Y Las Comunicaciones en la Autonomia Personal, Dependencia y Accesibilidad (371 - 398). Fundacion Alfredo Brana Cursos Superiores de Verano en Galicia

El cambio en el entorno legal, social y educativo en el Reino Unido ha resultado en un incremento del número de estudiantes con discapacidad que entran en la enseñanza universitaria. Algunas materias han ido experimentando esta expansión en el número... Read More about Experiencias de enseñanza a estudiantes de informática con discapacidad en Universidades del Reino Unido.

A generic strategy for fault-tolerance in control systems distributed over a network (2007)
Journal Article
Patton, R. J., Kambhampati, C., Casavola, A., Zhang, P., Ding, S., & Sauter, D. (2007). A generic strategy for fault-tolerance in control systems distributed over a network. European journal of control / EUCA, European Control Association, 13(2-3), 280-296. https://doi.org/10.3166/ejc.13.280-296

This paper provides a tutorial overview, of a number of aspects and approaches to Control over the Network for Network Control Systems (NCS) that are likely to lead to good fault-tolerant control properties, subject to network faults. In order to ana... Read More about A generic strategy for fault-tolerance in control systems distributed over a network.

Gyro-scope: An individual-based computer model to forecast gyrodactylid infections on fish hosts (2007)
Journal Article
Wright, H., Cable, J., Potter, R., & van Oosterhout, C. (2008). Gyro-scope: An individual-based computer model to forecast gyrodactylid infections on fish hosts. International journal for parasitology, 38(5), 541-548. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2007.09.016

Individual-based computer models (IBM) feature prominently in current theoretical ecology but have only been applied in a small number of parasitological studies. Here we designed an IBM to simulate the infection dynamics of gyrodactylid parasites an... Read More about Gyro-scope: An individual-based computer model to forecast gyrodactylid infections on fish hosts.

Estimation of end curvatures from planar point data (2007)
Book Chapter
Ma, X., & Cripps, R. J. (2007). Estimation of end curvatures from planar point data. In R. Martin, M. Sabin, & J. Winkler (Eds.), . Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73843-5_19

Given a string of discrete planar points, the estimation of principal curvature vectors using circle fitting and Richardson’s extrapolation principle has been considered by several authors. However, these methods can not be directly applied to end po... Read More about Estimation of end curvatures from planar point data.

An interaction predictive approach to fault-tolerant control in network control systems (2007)
Journal Article
Kambhampati, C., Perkgoz, C., Patton, R. J., & Ahamed, W. (2007). An interaction predictive approach to fault-tolerant control in network control systems. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, 221(6), 885-894. https://doi.org/10.1243/09596518jsce377

This paper illustrates some of the capabilities of previously proposed network control system (NCS) architectures to carry on functioning in the event of faults, without recourse to system reconfiguration. The principle of interaction prediction is u... Read More about An interaction predictive approach to fault-tolerant control in network control systems.

Personal internet security (2007)
Book Chapter
(2007). Personal internet security. Personal internet security: 5th report of session 2006-07: Vol. 2 Evidence (438 - 439). HMSO

Evidence for House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology investigation into Personal Internet Security

Steering via the image in local, distributed and collaborative settings (2007)
Journal Article
Wright, H., & Wood, J. D. (2008). Steering via the image in local, distributed and collaborative settings. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 20(3), 265-276. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.1197

Computational steering is a valuable mechanism for scientific investigation in which the parameters of a running program can be altered and the results visualized immediately. In a previous paper we put forward an architecture for computational steer... Read More about Steering via the image in local, distributed and collaborative settings.

Smooth piecewise polynomial blending operations for implicit shapes (2007)
Journal Article
Li, Q. (2007). Smooth piecewise polynomial blending operations for implicit shapes. Computer graphics forum : journal of the European Association for Computer Graphics, 26(2), 157-171. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2007.01011.x

In this paper, we present a new set of blending operations for implicitly defined geometric shapes. The proposed shape operators are piecewise polynomial and blending range controllable, and can be constructed to any required degree of smoothness. Th... Read More about Smooth piecewise polynomial blending operations for implicit shapes.

Synthesis and analysis of temporal fault trees with PANDORA: the time of Priority AND gates (2007)
Journal Article
Walker, M., & Papadopoulos, Y. (2008). Synthesis and analysis of temporal fault trees with PANDORA: the time of Priority AND gates. Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, 2(2), 368-382. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nahs.2006.05.003

Classical Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) can determine the effects of combinations of failure events on a system but cannot capture the significance of the temporal order of events, which may be critical. In this paper, we propose an extension based on fo... Read More about Synthesis and analysis of temporal fault trees with PANDORA: the time of Priority AND gates.

Immersive visualization with automated collision detection for radiotherapy treatment planning (2007)
Journal Article
Ward, J. W., Phillips, R., Williams, T., Shang, C., Page, L., Prest, C., & Beavis, A. W. (2007). Immersive visualization with automated collision detection for radiotherapy treatment planning. Studies in health technology and informatics, 125, 491 - 496

Intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) is a technique for treating cancer tumours using external delivery of radiation. To create a treatment plan the directions of the external radiation beams (typically 5 to 9) need to be specified. Normally the b... Read More about Immersive visualization with automated collision detection for radiotherapy treatment planning.

Radiotherapy training tools for yesterday’s future (2007)
Book Chapter
(2007). Radiotherapy training tools for yesterday’s future. Imaging and Oncology (30 - 35). Deeson Group

Radiotherapy techniques have evolved rapidly in recent years. However, the uptake and clinical implementation of novel techniques, such as intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), was slower than was initially anticipated. One of the reasons often gi... Read More about Radiotherapy training tools for yesterday’s future.

Fuzzy geometric object modelling (2007)
Book Chapter
Li, Q., & Guo, S. (2007). Fuzzy geometric object modelling. Advances in Soft Computing; Fuzzy Information and Engineering (551-563). Berlin, Heidelberg: Spinger. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71441-5_60

Fuzzy geometric object modelling has been one of the fundamental tasks in computer graphics. In this paper, we investigated and developed techniques for modelling fuzzy objects based on fuzzy set theory. With the proposed techniques any conventional... Read More about Fuzzy geometric object modelling.

The role of exploratory action in face encoding (2006)
Journal Article
Liu, C., & Ward, J. (2006). The role of exploratory action in face encoding. Perception, 35(ECVP Abstract Supplement), 212 - 212

Research on face recognition has mainly relied on methods where observers are relatively passive viewers of face stimuli. We investigated whether active exploration of 3-D face stimuli could facilitate recognition performance. A yoked design was empl... Read More about The role of exploratory action in face encoding.

Virtual reality based tools in oncology teaching (2006)
Journal Article
Beavis, A., Bridge, P., Appleyard, R., Phillips, R., & Ward, J. (2006). Virtual reality based tools in oncology teaching. Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, 81(Supplement 1), S69 - S69

Entanglement transition of randomly branched polymers in the hyperbranched class (2006)
Journal Article
Kunamaneni, S., Buzza, D. M. A., Read, D. J., Parker, D., Kenwright, A. M., Feast, W. J., & Larsen, A. L. (2006). Entanglement transition of randomly branched polymers in the hyperbranched class. Macromolecules, 39(19), 6720-6736. https://doi.org/10.1021/ma0603276

We study the melt rheology of randomly branched polymers in the hyperbranched polymer (HBP) class which are formed by the co-condensation of AB and AB2 type monomers. Specifically, we study the effect of branch length Mx on the entanglement transitio... Read More about Entanglement transition of randomly branched polymers in the hyperbranched class.

MO‐D‐230A‐02: an immersive virtual environment for training of radiotherapy students and developing clinical experience (2006)
Journal Article
Beavis, A., Ward, J., Bridge, P., Appleyard, R., & Phillips, R. (2006). MO‐D‐230A‐02: an immersive virtual environment for training of radiotherapy students and developing clinical experience. Medical physics, 33(6 part 15), 2164-2165. https://doi.org/10.1118/1.2241428

Purpose: Radiotherapy equipment and techniques are rapidly developing and so efficient training is invaluable. However, the demands on clinical systems and the lack of trained personnel make it difficult to achieve. As an alternative approach we have... Read More about MO‐D‐230A‐02: an immersive virtual environment for training of radiotherapy students and developing clinical experience.

The polynomial degree of the Grassmannian G1,n,2 (2006)
Journal Article
Shaw, R., & Gordon, N. A. (2006). The polynomial degree of the Grassmannian G1,n,2. Designs, codes, and cryptography, 39(2), 289-306. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-005-4524-4

For a subset ψ of PG(N, 2) a known result states that ψ has polynomial degree ≤ r, r ≤ N, if and only if ψ intersects every r-flat of PG(N, 2) in an odd number of points. Certain refinements of this result are considered, and are then applied in the... Read More about The polynomial degree of the Grassmannian G1,n,2.

Systemic arterial pressure wave reflections during acute hemorrhage (2006)
Journal Article
Dark, P., Little, R., Nirmalan, M., & Purdy, J. (2006). Systemic arterial pressure wave reflections during acute hemorrhage. Critical Care Medicine, 34(5), 1497-1505. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.CCM.0000215451.26971.89

Objective: To determine the effects of hemorrhage on wave-reflection-induced systolic pressure augmentation in the aorta. Design: Randomized, controlled laboratory experiment. Setting. University research laboratory. Subjects: Twenty-five anesthetize... Read More about Systemic arterial pressure wave reflections during acute hemorrhage.