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Observationally-motivated analysis of simulated galaxies (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gibson, B. K., MacFarlane, B. A., & Miranda, M. S. Observationally-motivated analysis of simulated galaxies. Presented at Proceedings of Science

© Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence. The spatial and temporal relationships between stellar age, kinematics, and chemistry are a fundamental tool for uncovering the p... Read More about Observationally-motivated analysis of simulated galaxies.

Long-term flood controls on semi-arid river form: Evidence from the Sabie and Olifants rivers, eastern South Africa (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Heritage, G., Tooth, S., Entwistle, N., & Milan, D. Long-term flood controls on semi-arid river form: Evidence from the Sabie and Olifants rivers, eastern South Africa

Rivers in the Kruger National Park, eastern South Africa, are characterised by bedrock-influenced ‘macrochannels’ containing variable alluvial thicknesses and riparian vegetation assemblages. Evidence from the Sabie and Olifants rivers suggests that... Read More about Long-term flood controls on semi-arid river form: Evidence from the Sabie and Olifants rivers, eastern South Africa.

Impact of the uncertainty in α-captures on 22Ne on the weak s-process in massive stars (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nishimura, N., Hirschi, R., Pignatari, M., Herwig, F., Beard, M., Imbriani, G., Görres, J., Deboer, R. J., & Wiescher, M. Impact of the uncertainty in α-captures on 22Ne on the weak s-process in massive stars. Presented at ORIGIN OF MATTER AND EVOLUTION OF GALAXIES 2013: Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Origin of Matter and Evolution of Galaxies (OMEG12), Tsukuba, Japan

Massive stars at solar metallicity contribute to the production of heavy elements with atomic masses between A = 60 and A = 90 via the so-called weak s-process (which takes place during core He and shell C burning phases). Furthermore, recent studies... Read More about Impact of the uncertainty in α-captures on 22Ne on the weak s-process in massive stars.

Using simulation to evaluate dynamic systems with weibull or lognormal distributions (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Edifor, E., Gordon, N., Walker, M., & Papadopoulos, Y. Using simulation to evaluate dynamic systems with weibull or lognormal distributions. Presented at Ninth International Conference on Dependability and Complex Systems DepCoS-RELCOMEX, Brunów, Poland

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014. Most techniques for quantitatively analysing the temporal fault trees of safety-critical systems are used with the assumption that the systems under study have exponentially distributed component... Read More about Using simulation to evaluate dynamic systems with weibull or lognormal distributions.

GPU accelerating technique for rendering implicitly represented vasculatures (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hong, Q., Wang, B., Li, Q., Li, Y., & Wu, Q. GPU accelerating technique for rendering implicitly represented vasculatures. Presented at 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology, Wuhan, China

With the flooding datasets of medical Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), implicit modeling techniques are increasingly applied to reconstruct the human organs, especially the vasculature. However, displaying implicitly rep... Read More about GPU accelerating technique for rendering implicitly represented vasculatures.

Assessment Futures: 21st Century methods for 21st Century needs (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Williams, P. (2013, December). Assessment Futures: 21st Century methods for 21st Century needs. Paper presented at London International Conference on Education

Developments in globalisation and new technologies are making significant impacts in higher education. Universities in a global market are increasingly concerned to reorient their degree programmes to meet the vocational needs of the Knowledge Econom... Read More about Assessment Futures: 21st Century methods for 21st Century needs.

Multi-objective architecture optimisation modelling for dependable systems (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mian, Z., & Bottaci, L. Multi-objective architecture optimisation modelling for dependable systems. Presented at 4th IFAC Workshop on Dependable Control of Discrete Systems, York, UK

The design of dependable systems must address both cost and dependability (i.e. safety, reliability, availability and maintainability) concerns. For large systems, the design space of alternatives with respect to both dependability and cost is very l... Read More about Multi-objective architecture optimisation modelling for dependable systems.

Quantification of Simultaneous-AND Gates in Temporal Fault Trees (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Edifor, E., Walker, M., & Gordon, N. Quantification of Simultaneous-AND Gates in Temporal Fault Trees

Fault Tree Analysis has been a cornerstone of safety-critical systems for many years. It has seen various extensions to enable it to analyse dynamic behaviours exhibited by modern systems with redundant components. However, none of these extended FTA... Read More about Quantification of Simultaneous-AND Gates in Temporal Fault Trees.

Chong Acupuncture Meridian, An Ancient Chinese Description of the Vascular System? (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shaw, V. (2013, December). Chong Acupuncture Meridian, An Ancient Chinese Description of the Vascular System?. Presented at Anatomical Society Winter Meeting 2013: Assessment Within Medical Education & Sense Organs, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

The positioning of the acupuncture points in acupuncture is based upon a particular anatomical map known as the jıng luo經絡(meridian network system) which has no obvious correlate in modern anatomy. The generally accepted scholarly opinion is that t... Read More about Chong Acupuncture Meridian, An Ancient Chinese Description of the Vascular System?.

A slot-loaded reduced-size CPW-fed aperture antenna for UWB applications (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zolfaghari, M., Riley, N. G., Mahdawi, M., & Shen, J. (2013, November). A slot-loaded reduced-size CPW-fed aperture antenna for UWB applications. Presented at 2013 Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conference, LAPC 2013

The paper presents a co-planar wave guide (CPW)-fed slot loaded low return loss planar printed antenna with a small size designed for wireless communication and UWB applications. First, a conventional UWB antenna is modeled to provide a reference poi... Read More about A slot-loaded reduced-size CPW-fed aperture antenna for UWB applications.

Developing a novel approach for 3D visualisation of tarland (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, C., Miller, D., Jiang, Y., & Morrice, J. Developing a novel approach for 3D visualisation of tarland. Presented at 17th International Conference on Information Visualisation, 16-18 July 2013, London, UK

The objective of this paper is to report on the development of prototype models for use in raising public awareness of changes in rural areas, focusing on green spaces, and testing responses to scenarios of change. Specifically, the focus is on the d... Read More about Developing a novel approach for 3D visualisation of tarland.

Cooperative wideband spectrum sensing with multi-bit hard decision in cognitive radio (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mehdawi, M. A., Riley, N. G., Ammar, M., Fanan, A., & Zolfaghari, M. (2013, November). Cooperative wideband spectrum sensing with multi-bit hard decision in cognitive radio. Presented at 2013 21st Telecommunications Forum Telfor, TELFOR 2013 - Proceedings of Papers

Cognitive radio offers an increasingly attractive solution to overcome the underutilization problem. A sensor network based cooperative wideband spectrum sensing is proposed in this paper. The purpose of the sensor network is to determine the frequen... Read More about Cooperative wideband spectrum sensing with multi-bit hard decision in cognitive radio.

Phase mixing of popped star clusters (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Candlish, G. N., Smith, R., Fellhauer, M., Gibson, B. K., Kroupa, P., & Assmann, P. (2013, November). Phase mixing of popped star clusters. Presented at XIV Latin American Regional IAU Meeting

As star clusters are expected to form with low star formation efficiencies, the gas in the cluster is expelled quickly and early in their development: the star cluster pops. This leads to an unbound stellar system. Previous N-body simulations have de... Read More about Phase mixing of popped star clusters.

Automatic generation of Temporal Fault Trees from AADL models (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mahmud, N., & Mian, Z. (2013, September). Automatic generation of Temporal Fault Trees from AADL models. Presented at Safety, Reliability and Risk Analysis: Beyond the Horizon - Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2013, Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL) is gaining growing acceptance in the aerospace, automobile and avionics industries. These industries are increasingly concerned with systems exhibiting sequence-dependent failures. About dependabil... Read More about Automatic generation of Temporal Fault Trees from AADL models.

Workshop - Developing Clinical Reasoning Skills in Modern Undergraduate Medical Curricula (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hammond, A., & Henderson, J. (2013, September). Workshop - Developing Clinical Reasoning Skills in Modern Undergraduate Medical Curricula. Presented at 8th HYMS Education Conference, Bishop Burton, East Yorkshire

Objectives:
Following the workshop participants will be able to
* Recognise opportunities to strengthen the teaching of clinical reasoning within their environment
* Evaluate students’ individual clinical reasoning learning needs
* Discuss curre... Read More about Workshop - Developing Clinical Reasoning Skills in Modern Undergraduate Medical Curricula.

Workshop: Helping undergraduate medical students to improve their clinical reasoning in the direct patient encounter - skills for tutors (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hammond, A., & Henderson, J. (2013, July). Workshop: Helping undergraduate medical students to improve their clinical reasoning in the direct patient encounter - skills for tutors. Presented at Association for the Study of Medical Education Annual Scientific Meeting: Changes in healthcare delivery and the effects on medical education, Edinburgh

Workshop Description:
This workshop demonstrates how clinical consultations can be used in a structured way to facilitate student understanding of their own clinical reasoning. Participants will actively explore, analyse and practise some of the sk... Read More about Workshop: Helping undergraduate medical students to improve their clinical reasoning in the direct patient encounter - skills for tutors.