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Effects of sound incidence angle on the effectiveness of noise reduction measures applied to acoustic windows (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Leung, M., Tang, S. K., & Fung, M. L. (2019). Effects of sound incidence angle on the effectiveness of noise reduction measures applied to acoustic windows. In Proceedings of inter-noise 2019 : the 48th International Congress and Exhibition on Noise Control Engineering

With more residential buildings being built close to road network systems in Hong Kong, there is an increasing need to find method to combat excessive traffic noise exposure in residentials unit. Several measures have been employed in various places,... Read More about Effects of sound incidence angle on the effectiveness of noise reduction measures applied to acoustic windows.

Sound insulation of plenum windows installed with rigid cylinder array (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, X., & Tang, S. K. (2019). Sound insulation of plenum windows installed with rigid cylinder array. In Proceedings of inter-noise 2019. The 48th International Congress and Exhibition on Noise Control Engineering

In this study, a 1:4 scale down model was established to investigate the acoustical performance of plenum window installed with a rigid cylinder array. A total of 6 rigid cylinders were vertically placed as a 2x3 array inside the central cavity of a... Read More about Sound insulation of plenum windows installed with rigid cylinder array.

Generalised geometric swimming for Stokes flow (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Koens, L., & Lauga, E. (2019). Generalised geometric swimming for Stokes flow. In 72nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics. Meeting Abstracts

Shapere and Wilczek first demonstrated that the displacement of a microscopic swimmer was related to path integrals over a gauge field. This field is a function of the swimmers configuration and laboratory frame position. For simple 1D swimmers, Stok... Read More about Generalised geometric swimming for Stokes flow.

Thermoelectric generator performance enhancement by the application of pulsed heat power (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shittu, S., Li, G., Zhao, X., & Ma, X. (2019). Thermoelectric generator performance enhancement by the application of pulsed heat power. . https://doi.org/10.11159/ffhmt19.146

Thermoelectric generator (TEG) is usually studied under steady state heating conditions however, the use of pulsed heat power could significantly enhance its performance. Therefore, this paper presents a numerical investigation of the thermal and ele... Read More about Thermoelectric generator performance enhancement by the application of pulsed heat power.

Model-Based Safety and Assessment: 6th International Symposium, IMBSA 2019, Thessaloniki, Greece, October 16–18, 2019, Proceedings (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
(2019). Model-Based Safety and Assessment: 6th International Symposium, IMBSA 2019, Thessaloniki, Greece, October 16–18, 2019, Proceedings. In Y. Papadopoulos, K. Aslansefat, P. Katsaros, & M. Bozzano (Eds.), . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32872-6

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Model-Based Safety and Assessment, IMBSA 2019, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in October 2019. The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected fr... Read More about Model-Based Safety and Assessment: 6th International Symposium, IMBSA 2019, Thessaloniki, Greece, October 16–18, 2019, Proceedings.

Natural Language Generation for Operations and Maintenance in Wind Turbines (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chatterjee, J., & Dethlefs, N. (2019, December). Natural Language Generation for Operations and Maintenance in Wind Turbines. Paper presented at NeurIPS 2019 Workshop: Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning, Vancouver Convention Center, British Columbia, Canada

Wind energy is one of the fastest-growing sustainable energy sources in the world but relies crucially on efficient and effective operations and maintenance to generate sufficient amounts of energy and reduce downtime of wind turbines and associated... Read More about Natural Language Generation for Operations and Maintenance in Wind Turbines.

Climate Change and Children: Positioning Children as Stakeholders within the Climate Change Debate in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Halstead, F., & Parsons, D. R. (2019, December). Climate Change and Children: Positioning Children as Stakeholders within the Climate Change Debate in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Poster presented at American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2019, San Francisco

Home to almost 20 million people, the Mekong Delta in Vietnam is one of the most at risk regions globally in terms of exposure to climate change and sea-level rise, notably in terms of future flood risk. Societal resilience to climate change and floo... Read More about Climate Change and Children: Positioning Children as Stakeholders within the Climate Change Debate in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam..

Clinical Reasoning Classroom learning: Showcasing learning approaches used in Years 3 and 4 (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hammond, A. (2019, November). Clinical Reasoning Classroom learning: Showcasing learning approaches used in Years 3 and 4. Presented at 3rd National Conference on Clinical Reasoning in Medical Education (CReME), York

Anna Hammond is delighted to have two Year 5 HYMS students running this workshop with her. This parallel session will showcase the approaches used in the HYMS Year 3 and 4 clinical reasoning workshops which were introduced to provide a formal underpi... Read More about Clinical Reasoning Classroom learning: Showcasing learning approaches used in Years 3 and 4.

Threshold concepts and their relevance to clinical reasoning (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hammond, A., & Neve, H. (2019, November). Threshold concepts and their relevance to clinical reasoning. Presented at 3rd National Conference on Clinical Reasoning in Medical Education (CReME), York

This interactive workshop offers you the opportunity to look at clinical reasoning with a new ‘threshold concept’ lens. Identified by Meyer and Land in 2003, ‘thresholds’ are thought to be key to achieving mastery of a subject. We will first introduc... Read More about Threshold concepts and their relevance to clinical reasoning.

A runtime safety analysis concept for open adaptive systems (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kabir, S., Sorokos, I., Aslansefat, K., Papadopoulos, Y., Gheraibia, Y., Reich, J., …Wei, R. (2019). A runtime safety analysis concept for open adaptive systems. Lecture notes in computer science, 11842, 332-346. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32872-6_22

© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. In the automotive industry, modern cyber-physical systems feature cooperation and autonomy. Such systems share information to enable collaborative functions, allowing dynamic component integration and architectu... Read More about A runtime safety analysis concept for open adaptive systems.

Modeling and Robust Control of Twin Rotor MIMO System (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shah, S. H., Khan, S. G., Iqbal, J., & Alharthi, M. (2019). Modeling and Robust Control of Twin Rotor MIMO System. In International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRAI47710.2019.8967355

Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have witnessed immense popularity in various fields, ranging from surveillance, rescue, and fire fighting to other more sophisticated military and commercial applications. However, due to their highly nonline... Read More about Modeling and Robust Control of Twin Rotor MIMO System.

The Education Researcher is Dead; Long Live the Education Researcher! Closure from Crisis in Education Research (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lowing, K., & Govender, N. (2019, September). The Education Researcher is Dead; Long Live the Education Researcher! Closure from Crisis in Education Research. Paper presented at ECER 2019, Hamburg

This paper reconsiders seemingly obsolete paradigm wars in education research, as a means to explain the continuing peripheralization of ‘context’ driven (Koutsouris and Norwich, 2018) qualitative and teacher-centred models of enquiry. Quietly enduri... Read More about The Education Researcher is Dead; Long Live the Education Researcher! Closure from Crisis in Education Research.

Presolar SiC Grains of Type AB with Isotopically Light Nitrogen: Contributions from Supernovae? (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hoppe, P., Pignatari, M., & Amari, S. (2019). Presolar SiC Grains of Type AB with Isotopically Light Nitrogen: Contributions from Supernovae?. Springer Proceedings in Physics, 219, 373-376. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13876-9_68

Primitive solar system materials contain presolar grains that formed in the winds of evolved stars and in the ejecta of stellar explosions. Here, we report on NanoSIMS measurements of C-, N-, Al–Mg-, Si-, and S-isotopic compositions of 10 submicromet... Read More about Presolar SiC Grains of Type AB with Isotopically Light Nitrogen: Contributions from Supernovae?.

Heavy Elements Nucleosynthesis on Accreting White Dwarfs Surface: Seeding the p-Process (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Battino, U., Travaglio, C., Pignatari, M., & Lederer-Woods, C. (in press). Heavy Elements Nucleosynthesis on Accreting White Dwarfs Surface: Seeding the p-Process. Springer Proceedings in Physics, 219, 179-182. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13876-9_29

© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The production of the proton-rich isotopes beyond iron that we observe today in the solar system is still uncertain. Thermonuclear supernovae (SNe Ia) exploding within the single-degenerate scenario have been p... Read More about Heavy Elements Nucleosynthesis on Accreting White Dwarfs Surface: Seeding the p-Process.

Inhomogeneous Chemical Evolution of r-Process Elements in the Galactic Halo (2019)
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Wehmeyer, B., Fröhlich, C., Pignatari, M., & Thielemann, F. K. (in press). Inhomogeneous Chemical Evolution of r-Process Elements in the Galactic Halo. Springer Proceedings in Physics, 219, 91-96. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13876-9_15

© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The origin of the heaviest elements is still a matter of debate. For the rapid neutron capture process (“r-process”), multiple sites have been proposed, e.g., neutron star mergers and (sub-classes) of supernova... Read More about Inhomogeneous Chemical Evolution of r-Process Elements in the Galactic Halo.

H-He Shell Interactions and Nucleosynthesis in Massive Population III Stars (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Clarkson, O., Herwig, F., Andrassy, R., Woodward, P., Pignatari, M., & Mao, H. (in press). H-He Shell Interactions and Nucleosynthesis in Massive Population III Stars. Springer Proceedings in Physics, 219, 321-325. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13876-9_56

© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. We report on our ongoing investigation into the nucleosynthetic and hydrodynamic nature of mixing at the interface between the H- and He-convection zones in massive Pop III stars. Studying recent a grid of 26 1... Read More about H-He Shell Interactions and Nucleosynthesis in Massive Population III Stars.

A Novel Mathematical Model of the Solar Assisted Dehumidification and Regeneration Systems (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Golizadeh Akhlaghi, Y., Badiei, A., & Zhao, X. (2019, August). A Novel Mathematical Model of the Solar Assisted Dehumidification and Regeneration Systems. Paper presented at The 18th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies: Sustainable energy towards the new revolution, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

This paper introduces a state-of-the-art modelling technique to investigate the performance of solar assisted dehumidification and regeneration cycles. The dehumidification/regeneration system investigated in this study employs a solid adsorbent bed... Read More about A Novel Mathematical Model of the Solar Assisted Dehumidification and Regeneration Systems.