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Volunteer ESOL teaching: Local pedagogy or teaching without a theory? (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nickson, M. J. (2012). Volunteer ESOL teaching: Local pedagogy or teaching without a theory?. In K. Donnelly, & F. Formato (Eds.), Papers from the Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics & Language Teaching 2012 (105-140)

In the UK, English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) is a domain of language learning and teaching where teaching strategy in mainstream, accredited provision is influenced not only by pedagogical and language learning theory but also by policy... Read More about Volunteer ESOL teaching: Local pedagogy or teaching without a theory?.

Abstract P2-02-03: the collagen receptor Endo180: a metastatic plasma marker in breast cancer modulated by bisphosphonate treatment (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sturge, J., Caley, M., Purshouse, K., Fonseca, A., Rodriguez-Teja, M., Kogianni, G., …Palmieri, C. (2012). Abstract P2-02-03: the collagen receptor Endo180: a metastatic plasma marker in breast cancer modulated by bisphosphonate treatment. Cancer Research, 72(24 suppl), https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.sabcs12-p2-02-03

Comparison of body surface and intracardiac ECG recordings in patients with atrial fibrillation during electrophysiological studies (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bojarnejad, M., Blake, J., Bourke, J. P., Murray, A., & Langley, P. (2012). Comparison of body surface and intracardiac ECG recordings in patients with atrial fibrillation during electrophysiological studies. IFMBE proceedings, 39 IFMBE, 612-615. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29305-4_160

Atrial fibrillation (AF) dominant frequency (DF) is thought to reflect the degree of organisation of underlying atrial activity (AA). Our aim was to evaluate the relationship between the DFs from the body surface electrocardiogram (ECG) and intracard... Read More about Comparison of body surface and intracardiac ECG recordings in patients with atrial fibrillation during electrophysiological studies.

Comparing historical and current spectrum occupancy measurements in the context of cognitive radio (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mehdawi, M., Riley, N., Ammar, M., & Zolfaghari, M. (2012). Comparing historical and current spectrum occupancy measurements in the context of cognitive radio. In 20th Telecommunications forum TELFOR 2012 (623-626). https://doi.org/10.1109/telfor.2012.6419287

Cognitive radio (CR) technology promises to be one possible solution to solve the problem of lack of frequency spectrum, by allowing access of unlicensed users in licensed bands, based on an opportunistic approach and without interfering with the lic... Read More about Comparing historical and current spectrum occupancy measurements in the context of cognitive radio.

17O(α,γ)21Ne and17O(α, n)20Ne for the weak s process (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Best, A., Görres, J., Beard, M., Couder, M., deBoer, R., Falahat, S., …Wiescher, M. (2012). 17O(α,γ)21Ne and17O(α, n)20Ne for the weak s process. AIP conference proceedings, 1498, 309-313. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4768509

The ratio of the reaction rates of the competing channels 17 O(αγ) 21 Ne and 17 O(α,n) 20 Ne determines the efficiency of 16 O as a neutron poison in the s process in low metallicity rotating stars. It has a large impact on the element production, ei... Read More about 17O(α,γ)21Ne and17O(α, n)20Ne for the weak s process.

Control strategies for robotic manipulators (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khan, M. F., Ul Islam, R., & Iqbal, J. (2012). Control strategies for robotic manipulators. In 2012 International Conference on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (ICRAI) (26-33). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRAI.2012.6413422

This survey is aimed at presenting the major robust control strategies for rigid robot manipulators. The techniques discussed are feedback linearization/Computed torque control, Variable structure compensator, Passivity based approach and Disturbance... Read More about Control strategies for robotic manipulators.

Quantification of priority-OR gates in temporal fault trees (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Edifor, E., Walker, M., & Gordon, N. (2012). Quantification of priority-OR gates in temporal fault trees. Lecture notes in computer science, 7612 LNCS, 99-110. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33678-2_9

Fault Tree Analysis has been used in reliability engineering for many decades and has seen various modifications to enable it to analyse fault trees with dynamic and temporal gates so it can incorporate sequential failure in its analysis. Pandora is... Read More about Quantification of priority-OR gates in temporal fault trees.

Describing and assessing image descriptions for visually impaired web users with IDAT (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brayshaw, M., Nganji, J. T., Brayshaw, M., & Tompsett, B. (2013). Describing and assessing image descriptions for visually impaired web users with IDAT. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 179, 27-37. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31603-6_3

People with visual impairments, particularly blind people face alot of difficulties browsing the web with assistive technologies such as screen readers, when websites do not conform to accessibility standards and are thus inaccessible. HTML is the ba... Read More about Describing and assessing image descriptions for visually impaired web users with IDAT.

Risk estimation of cardiovascular patients using Weka (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bohacik, J., Davis, D., & Benedikovic, M. (2012). Risk estimation of cardiovascular patients using Weka.

Cardiovascular diseases remain the most prevalent cause of deaths worldwideand their prevention requires major life-style changes using limited health-care resources.Remote decision support for cardiovascular patients seems to allow them to lead a pr... Read More about Risk estimation of cardiovascular patients using Weka.

Emotions in robots (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Azeem, M. M., Iqbal, J., Toivanen, P., & Samad, A. (2012). Emotions in robots. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 281, 144-153. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28962-0_15

This article gives a general overview of emotions in robotics. It sheds light on the composition of emotions in human beings and how this information can be used as blue print for creation of emotional robots. It discusses different factors involved... Read More about Emotions in robots.

A comparative study of missing value imputation with multiclass classification for clinical heart failure data (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhang, Y., Kambhampati, C., Davis, D. N., Goode, K., & Cleland, J. G. F. (2012). A comparative study of missing value imputation with multiclass classification for clinical heart failure data. In Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD), 2012 9th International Conference on (2840-2844). https://doi.org/10.1109/fskd.2012.6233805

Clinical data often contains missing values. Imputation is one of the best known schemes to overcome the drawbacks associated with missing values in data mining tasks. In this work, we compared several imputation methods and analyzed their performanc... Read More about A comparative study of missing value imputation with multiclass classification for clinical heart failure data.

System dependability modelling and analysis using AADL and HiP-HOPS (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mian, Z., Bottaci, L., Papadopoulos, Y., & Biehl, M. (2012). System dependability modelling and analysis using AADL and HiP-HOPS. IFAC Proceedings Volumes/ International Federation of Automatic Control, 45(6), 1647-1652. https://doi.org/10.3182/20120523-3-RO-2023.00334

The Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL) is gaining widespread acceptance in aerospace, automobile and avionics industries for designing dependability-critical systems. The design process of dependable systems must address both cost and d... Read More about System dependability modelling and analysis using AADL and HiP-HOPS.

Clinical Reasoning in Medicine: Developing Students' meta-cognitive skills (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hammond, A., & Henderson, J. (2012, May). Clinical Reasoning in Medicine: Developing Students' meta-cognitive skills. Poster presented at University of York Teaching and Learning Conference, York

This poster outlines the progress of the authors’ project in introducing formal Clinical Reasoning Skills sessions. This project was instituted on the basis of observations of students’ performances in live examinations in years 4 / 5 of our five... Read More about Clinical Reasoning in Medicine: Developing Students' meta-cognitive skills.

A directionally tunable but frequency-invariant beamformer on an acoustic velocity-sensor triad to enhance speech perception (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wu, Y. I., Wong, K. T., Yuan, X., Lau, S. K., & Tang, S. K. (2012). A directionally tunable but frequency-invariant beamformer on an acoustic velocity-sensor triad to enhance speech perception. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 131(5), 3891-3902. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3701991

Herein investigated are computationally simple microphone-array beamformers that are independent of the frequency-spectra of all signals, all interference, and all noises. These beamformers allow the listener to tune the desired azimuth-elevation "lo... Read More about A directionally tunable but frequency-invariant beamformer on an acoustic velocity-sensor triad to enhance speech perception.

The impact of safeguarding children training: A review of the literature (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wright, J., Wray, J., & Maggs, C. (2012, April). The impact of safeguarding children training: A review of the literature. Presented at British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse & Neglect, 8th congress, "Keeping children safe in an uncertain world: Learning from evidence and practice"

TITLE: Impact of Child Protection training on professional knowledge, skills and referral activity: a review of the literature. Objectives: The review aimed to assess the extent and quality of contemporary primary research on training in safeguarding... Read More about The impact of safeguarding children training: A review of the literature.

Corrosion resistance study of electrophoretic deposited hydroxyapatite on stainless steel for implant applications (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chew, K. K., Zein, S. H. S., Ahmad, A. L., McPhail, D. S., & Boccaccini, A. R. (2012). Corrosion resistance study of electrophoretic deposited hydroxyapatite on stainless steel for implant applications. Key engineering materials, 507, 141-146. https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.507.141

Stainless steel (SS) is often used for orthopaedic and dental implants because of its excellent mechanical characteristics. However, from an electrochemical perspective, SS can be susceptible to corrosion-related problems. Inorganic bioactive coating... Read More about Corrosion resistance study of electrophoretic deposited hydroxyapatite on stainless steel for implant applications.

Conditional frequency mapping of move reservoir sedimentation models for improved play assessment (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Waltham, D. A., Rowley, P. J., Burgess, P. M., & MacLean, S. (2012, February). Conditional frequency mapping of move reservoir sedimentation models for improved play assessment. Paper presented at Petroleum Play Assessment

Stratigraphic forward models encode what we know about dynamic stratigraphy in the form of a numerical model that can make various types of predictions of stratal geometries and facies distributions. Unfortunately, limited knowledge of the physical l... Read More about Conditional frequency mapping of move reservoir sedimentation models for improved play assessment.