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An autonomous image-guided robotic system simulating industrial applications (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Islam, R. U., Iqbal, J., Manzoor, S., Khalid, A., & Khan, S. (2012, July). An autonomous image-guided robotic system simulating industrial applications. Presented at 2012 7th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE), Genova, Italy

This paper presents a robotic system based on a serial manipulator. The robot is a vertical articulated arm with 5 revolute joints having 6 Degree Of Freedom. Actuated with six precise servo motors, the system offers positional accuracy of ±0.5mm wit... Read More about An autonomous image-guided robotic system simulating industrial applications.

Brain controlled human robot interface (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Naveed, K., Iqbal, J., & Ur Rehman, H. (2012, October). Brain controlled human robot interface. Presented at 2012 International Conference on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (ICRAI)

This Paper emphasizes on the ever increasing need of better communication medium between a human and a robot in order to control it precisely. Brain Computer Interface (BCI) is the most suitable mean of communication between them, especially for the... Read More about Brain controlled human robot interface.

A comparative study of the implementation status of lean Six Sigma in South Korea and the UK (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lee, J. H., Garza-Reyes, J. A., Kumar, V., Rocha-Lona, L., & Mishra, N. A comparative study of the implementation status of lean Six Sigma in South Korea and the UK. Presented at 23rd International Conference on Flexible Automation & Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM 2013), Porto, Portugal

Fierce competition and more complex customer needs and demands have forced organizations to continuously improve their operations and the quality of their products and services. Over the last decades, two of the most popular and effective strategies... Read More about A comparative study of the implementation status of lean Six Sigma in South Korea and the UK.

Ultrafast X-ray imaging and modelling of ultrasonic cavitations in liquid metal (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lee, T. L., Khong, J. C., Fezzaa, K., & Mi, J. Ultrafast X-ray imaging and modelling of ultrasonic cavitations in liquid metal

The dynamics of ultrasonic bubbles in liquid metal are captured in-situ for the first time using the ultrafast X-ray phase contrast imaging facility housed at the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, in the USA. The experimental obser... Read More about Ultrafast X-ray imaging and modelling of ultrasonic cavitations in liquid metal.

High speed imaging study of the dynamics of ultrasonic bubbles at a liquid-solid interface (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tan, D., & Mi, J. High speed imaging study of the dynamics of ultrasonic bubbles at a liquid-solid interface

High speed imaging, including the ultrafast synchrotron X-ray imaging facility at the beamline 32-ID-B of the Advanced Photon Source (APS), was used to study in-situ (1) the dynamics of ultrasonic bubbles inside a water suspension with an acoustic fi... Read More about High speed imaging study of the dynamics of ultrasonic bubbles at a liquid-solid interface.

Volunteer ESOL teaching: Local pedagogy or teaching without a theory? (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nickson, M. J. Volunteer ESOL teaching: Local pedagogy or teaching without a theory?

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.-V., Rodriguez-Teja, M., Kogianni, G., Waxman, J., & Palmieri, C. (2012, December). Abstract P2-02-03: the collagen receptor Endo180: a metastatic plasma marker in breast cancer modulated by bisphosphonate treatment. Presented at Abstracts: Thirty-Fifth Annual CTRC‐AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium‐‐ Dec 4‐8, 2012; San Antonio, TX

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. Comparison of body surface and intracardiac ECG recordings in patients with atrial fibrillation during electrophysiological studies. Presented at World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering May 26-31, 2012, Beijing, China

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.

Control strategies for robotic manipulators (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khan, M. F., Ul Islam, R., & Iqbal, J. (2012, October). Control strategies for robotic manipulators. Presented at 2012 International Conference on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (ICRAI), Rawalpindi, Pakistan

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.

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, November). Comparing historical and current spectrum occupancy measurements in the context of cognitive radio. Presented at 2012 20th Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR)

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., Güray, R. T., Kontos, A., Kratz, K.-L., LeBlanc, P. J., Li, Q., O'Brien, S., Özkan, N., Pignatari, M., Sonnabend, K., Talwar, R., Tan, W., Uberseder, E., & Wiescher, M. 17O(α,γ)21Ne and17O(α, n)20Ne for the weak s process. Presented at EXOTIC NUCLEI AND NUCLEAR/PARTICLE ASTROPHYSICS (IV). FROM NUCLEI TO STARS: Carpathian Summer School of Physics 2012, Sinaia, Romania

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.

Quantification of priority-OR gates in temporal fault trees (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Edifor, E., Walker, M., & Gordon, N. Quantification of priority-OR gates in temporal fault trees

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. Describing and assessing image descriptions for visually impaired web users with IDAT

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. Risk estimation of cardiovascular patients using Weka. Presented at International Conference on Open Source Software in Education, Research and IT Solution, Zilina, Slovakia

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. Emotions in robots

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.

System dependability modelling and analysis using AADL and HiP-HOPS (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mian, Z., Bottaci, L., Papadopoulos, Y., & Biehl, M. System dependability modelling and analysis using AADL and HiP-HOPS

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.

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. A comparative study of missing value imputation with multiclass classification for clinical heart failure data. Presented at 2012 9th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery

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.