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Place of death: Is home always best? (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macleod, U. Place of death: Is home always best?

Place of death is now a quality marker of end of life care. Decisions around place of death are complex. This article considers the extent to which place of death is an appropriate way to determine good end of life care.

A hierarchical method for the reduction of temporal expressions in Pandora (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Papadopoulos, Y., & Walker, M. A hierarchical method for the reduction of temporal expressions in Pandora. Presented at Proceedings of the First Workshop on DYnamic Aspects in DEpendability Models for Fault-Tolerant Systems - DYADEM-FTS '10

Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) is a popular safety analysis technique used to determine the logical combination of events needed to cause a particular system failure. However, FTA is purely combinatorial and cannot analyse the effects of sequences of even... Read More about A hierarchical method for the reduction of temporal expressions in Pandora.

Automatic allocation of safety integrity levels (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Papadopoulos, Y., Walker, M., Reiser, M.-O., Weber, M., Chen, D., Törngren, M., Servat, D., Abele, A., Stappert, F., Lonn, H., Berntsson, L., Johansson, R., Tagliabo, F., Torchiaro, S., & Sandberg, A. (2010, April). Automatic allocation of safety integrity levels. Presented at Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Critical Automotive applications Robustness & Safety - CARS '10

In this paper, we describe a concept for the automatic allocationof general Safety Integrity Levels (SILs) to subsystems andcomponents of complex hierarchical networked architectures thatdeliver sets of safety critical functions. The concept is gener... Read More about Automatic allocation of safety integrity levels.

Dynamic effect of perfect preventive maintenance on system reliability and cost using HiP-HOPS (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nggada, S. H., Parker, D. J., & Papadopoulos, Y. I. Dynamic effect of perfect preventive maintenance on system reliability and cost using HiP-HOPS

The occurrence of failure in a safety critical engineering system can be reduced through the use of preventive maintenance (PM). Each time a component of the system is maintained its effective age is reduced; the extent of this age reduction depends... Read More about Dynamic effect of perfect preventive maintenance on system reliability and cost using HiP-HOPS.

Dysphonia measures in parkinson's disease and their use in prediction of its progression (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kambhampati, C., Sarangdhar, M., & Poolsawad, N. (2010, October). Dysphonia measures in parkinson's disease and their use in prediction of its progression. Presented at International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development, Valencia, Spain

Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that impairs the motor skills, speech and general muscle coordination. The progression of PD is assessed using a clinically defined rating scale known as Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scal... Read More about Dysphonia measures in parkinson's disease and their use in prediction of its progression.

Stimulus reconstruction from a Hodgkin-Huxley neural response: A numerical solution (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sarangdhar, M., & Kambhampati, C. (2010, June). Stimulus reconstruction from a Hodgkin-Huxley neural response: A numerical solution. Presented at World Congress on Engineering 2010

Neural responses are the fundamental expressions of any neural activity. Information carried by a neural response is determined by the nature of a neural activity. In majority of cases the underlying stimulus that triggers it remains largely... Read More about Stimulus reconstruction from a Hodgkin-Huxley neural response: A numerical solution.

Evaluation of a silent speech interface based on magnetic sensing (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hofe, R., Ell, S. R., Fagan, M. J., Gilbert, J. M., Green, P. D., Moore, R. K., & Rybchenko, S. I. (2010, September). Evaluation of a silent speech interface based on magnetic sensing. Presented at INTERSPEECH 2010, 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association

This paper reports on isolated word recognition experiments using a novel silent speech interface. The interface consist of magnetic pellets that are fixed to relevant speech articulators, and a set of magnetic field sensors that measure changes in t... Read More about Evaluation of a silent speech interface based on magnetic sensing.

Design of an RFID-enabled fresh meat retail supply chain (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sergeyev, Y., Butcher, T., & Grant, D. (2010, July). Design of an RFID-enabled fresh meat retail supply chain. Presented at 15th International Symposium on Logistics, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

This paper reports on a research project to evaluate the benefits of using radio frequency identification (RFID) in a fresh meat retail supply chain.

Local hybrid level-set method for MRA image segmentation (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hong, Q., Li, Q., & Tian, J. (2010, June). Local hybrid level-set method for MRA image segmentation. Presented at 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, CIT-2010, 7th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, ICESS-2010, ScalCom-2010

In this paper, a local hybrid level-set method for medical image segmentation is presented. In proposed method, a locally fitted binary energy function is introduced into the hybrid level-set framework proposed by Zhang et al.. Compared with the glob... Read More about Local hybrid level-set method for MRA image segmentation.

The fate of oilfield corrosion inhibitors in multiphase systems (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Horsup, D. I., Clark, J. C., Binks, B. P., Fletcher, P. D. I., & Hicks, J. T. The fate of oilfield corrosion inhibitors in multiphase systems

Corrosion inhibitors have been used for many years to protect oil and gas pipelines, The application of small quantifies of an inhibitor to production fluids is often one of the most cost-effective methods for, imparting corrosion protection in a sys... Read More about The fate of oilfield corrosion inhibitors in multiphase systems.

Time to judge sex of speaker: Effect of glottal-pulse rate and vocal-tract length (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, D. R. (2010, August). Time to judge sex of speaker: Effect of glottal-pulse rate and vocal-tract length. Presented at 20th International Congress on Acoustics, ICA 2010, Sydney, Australia

When listening to someone's voice: what stimulus duration is required to tell whether the person speaking is a man or a woman; what are the acoustic cues in speech that influence such judgements; and how does manipulations in these acoustic cues infl... Read More about Time to judge sex of speaker: Effect of glottal-pulse rate and vocal-tract length.