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Control of flexible joint robotic manipulator: Design and prototyping (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alam, W., Ali, N., Wahaj Aziz, H. M., & Iqbal, J. (2018). Control of flexible joint robotic manipulator: Design and prototyping. In 2018 International Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEE.2018.8566796

Robots are now an integral part of automation sector, thus indicating the importance of the associated control strategies. In contrast with conventional rigid manipulators, flexible arms offer several benefits in terms of light weight and power effic... Read More about Control of flexible joint robotic manipulator: Design and prototyping.

TIMAEUS: Three-dimensional Illuminated Media Augmented Sculptures (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Torrao, L., Mckie, D., & Papadopoulos, Y. (2017, December). TIMAEUS: Three-dimensional Illuminated Media Augmented Sculptures. Presented at 20th Generative Art Conference

TIMAEUS is a digital art studio environment that enables creation of personalised 3-dimensional sculptures built with expanding spherical volumes or interconnected tetrahedra and possibly other atomic blocks in the future. These sculptures can be cus... Read More about TIMAEUS: Three-dimensional Illuminated Media Augmented Sculptures.

Geological aspects of Banda Sea ecosystems and how they shape the oceanographical profile (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pownall, J. M., Hall, R., Lister, G. S., & Trihatmojo, A. Geological aspects of Banda Sea ecosystems and how they shape the oceanographical profile. Presented at International Symposium on Banda Sea Ecosystem (ISBSE) 2017, Jakarta, Indonesia

The Banda Sea is a collage of young oceanic basins and fragmented Australian continental crust located at the heart of the Australia–SE Asia collision zone where Australian and Asian biogeographic regions converge. The formation of the sea was govern... Read More about Geological aspects of Banda Sea ecosystems and how they shape the oceanographical profile.

Performance of lyotropic liquid crystal-based photoelectrochemical capacitors for solar-to- electrical energy conversion (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Halls, J. E., Ward, H. J., Althali, A. A., Testut, L., Kocsis, D., Alhassan, H. S., Kelly, S. M., Lawrence, N. S., & Wadhawan, J. D. (2018, November). Performance of lyotropic liquid crystal-based photoelectrochemical capacitors for solar-to- electrical energy conversion. Presented at Sustainable industrial processing summit and exhibition, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Regenerative photoelectrochemical capacitors, adapted from a experimental system previously reported (J. E. Halls, J. D. Wadhawan, Energy Environ. Sci., 2012, 5, 6541) and based on the doping of a lamellar lyotropic liquid crystal with visible light... Read More about Performance of lyotropic liquid crystal-based photoelectrochemical capacitors for solar-to- electrical energy conversion.

Exploring environmental sustainability and performance of global logistics hubs (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shaw, S., Grant, D., Hassan, S., & Creazza, A. (2018, September). Exploring environmental sustainability and performance of global logistics hubs. Presented at Managing business for policy and integrated sustainable logistics operations: Annual LRN conference 2018, Plymouth, UK

Globalization has had different effects on the world since the concept emerged. Globalization impact on supply chains and logistics has revolutionized global trade. It has resulted in new levels of speed, efficiency, effectiveness and endless options... Read More about Exploring environmental sustainability and performance of global logistics hubs.

Development and validation of the Multidimensional Turnover Intentions Scale (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Menezes, I. G., Menezes, A. C., Ruggeri, K., Moraes, E. R., Lozado, J. A., Sandbrand, D., & Muszynski, P. Development and validation of the Multidimensional Turnover Intentions Scale

The purpose of this study is to make available to researchers and practitioners a new instrument to measure turnover intentions based on a compensatory Multidimensional Item Response Theory (MIRT) model. Since extrinsic and intrinsic aspects are meas... Read More about Development and validation of the Multidimensional Turnover Intentions Scale.

Towards Low-Cost Image-based Plant Phenotyping using Reduced-Parameter CNN. (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Atanbori, J., Chen, F., French, A. P., & Pridmore, T. (2018, September). Towards Low-Cost Image-based Plant Phenotyping using Reduced-Parameter CNN. Paper presented at British Machine Vision Conference 2018, BMVC 2018, Northumbria University

© 2018. The copyright of this document resides with its authors. Segmentation is the core of most plant phenotyping applications. Current state-of-the-art plant phenotyping applications rely on deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, thes... Read More about Towards Low-Cost Image-based Plant Phenotyping using Reduced-Parameter CNN..

Thin Implicit Utah Teapot: Design for Additive Manufacturing (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Qi, Q., & Li, Q. (2018, July). Thin Implicit Utah Teapot: Design for Additive Manufacturing. Presented at The 18th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology

© 2018 IEEE. Converting a surface-based geometric object into a thin solid is an essential requirement for additive manufacturing. Although offset surface and thickening techniques have been widely used for this task, it is in general difficult to mo... Read More about Thin Implicit Utah Teapot: Design for Additive Manufacturing.

Taxi model of unmanned aerial vehicle: Formulation and simulation (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wasim, M., Ullah, M., & Iqbal, J. (2018). Taxi model of unmanned aerial vehicle: Formulation and simulation. In 2018 1st International Conference on Power, Energy and Smart Grid (ICPESG). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPESG.2018.8384506

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles cannot work efficiently without a control system. Before any form of control is applied to it, modeling of the system is necessary. This work focuses on the development of a Taxi model of UAV. The reformulated model has been... Read More about Taxi model of unmanned aerial vehicle: Formulation and simulation.

Towards efficient loading of change-based models (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yohannis, A., Rodriguez, H. H., Polack, F., & Kolovos, D. (2018). Towards efficient loading of change-based models. Lecture notes in computer science, 10890 LNCS, 235-250. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92997-2_15

This paper proposes and evaluates an efficient approach for loading models stored in a change-based format. The work builds on language-independent change-based persistence (CBP) of models conforming to object-oriented metamodelling architectures suc... Read More about Towards efficient loading of change-based models.

CFD analysis and experimental validation of magnetic droplet generation and deflection across multilaminar flow streams (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gómez-Pastora, J., Karampelas, I. H., Alorabi, A. Q., Tarn, M. D., Bringas, E., Iles, A., Paunov, V. N., Pamme, N., Furlani, E. P., & Ortiz, I. (2018, June). CFD analysis and experimental validation of magnetic droplet generation and deflection across multilaminar flow streams. Presented at TechConnect Briefs 2018 - Advanced Materials

© 2018 OOSV. All rights reserved. The use of droplet-based microfluidic systems has increased in the last decade due to the advantages these systems present such as compatibility with many chemical and biological reagents, capability of performing a... Read More about CFD analysis and experimental validation of magnetic droplet generation and deflection across multilaminar flow streams.

Chua mem-components for adaptive RF metamaterials (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Georgiou, J., Kossifos, K. M., Antoniades, M. A., Jaafar, A., & Kemp, N. T. (2018, May). Chua mem-components for adaptive RF metamaterials. Presented at 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)

Chua's mem-components are ideal for creating adaptive metasurfaces for manipulating EM waves given that they hold their state without external biases. In this paper, we propose a generic adaptive reactive element that is in fact a memcapacitor/memind... Read More about Chua mem-components for adaptive RF metamaterials.

An Optically-Programmable Absorbing Metasurface (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kossifos, K. M., Antoniades, M. A., Georgiou, J., Jaafar, A. H., & Kemp, N. T. (2018, May). An Optically-Programmable Absorbing Metasurface. Presented at 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)

A tunable metasurface absorber is presented in this work using an optically-programmable capacitor as the tuning element. The tuning element does not employ conventional semiconductor technologies to operate but rather a bases its tuning by changing... Read More about An Optically-Programmable Absorbing Metasurface.

Design and analysis of 300MW solar configuration and its comparison with Quaid-e-Azam solar park (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Akram, I., Awais, M., Bashir, A., Khan, R. A. J., & Iqbal, J. (2018). Design and analysis of 300MW solar configuration and its comparison with Quaid-e-Azam solar park. In International Conference on Engineering and Emerging Technologies (ICEET). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEET1.2018.8338638

Pakistan's recent energy crisis demands efficient utilization of renewable energy resources. The country, being richest with respect to solar potential, is experiencing a remarkable progress in power generation from Photovoltaic sources. Quaid-e-Azam... Read More about Design and analysis of 300MW solar configuration and its comparison with Quaid-e-Azam solar park.

Morphodynamic simulation of sediment deposition patterns on a recently stripped bedrock anastomosed channel (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milan, D., Heritage, G., Entwistle, N., & Tooth, S. Morphodynamic simulation of sediment deposition patterns on a recently stripped bedrock anastomosed channel. Presented at IAHS Scientific Assembly 2017, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Some mixed bedrock-alluvial dryland rivers are known to undergo cycles of alluvial building during low flow periods, punctuated by stripping events during rare high magnitude flows. We focus on the Olifants River, Kruger National Park, South Africa,... Read More about Morphodynamic simulation of sediment deposition patterns on a recently stripped bedrock anastomosed channel.

A Study of Automatic Allocation of Automotive Safety Requirements in Two Modes: Components and Failure Modes (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Parker, D., Godof, A., Papadopoulos, Y., & Saintis, L. (2018, April). A Study of Automatic Allocation of Automotive Safety Requirements in Two Modes: Components and Failure Modes. Presented at SAE Technical Papers

ISO 26262 describes a safety engineering approach in which the safety of a system is considered from the early stages of design through a process of elicitation and allocation of system safety requirements. These are expressed as automotive safety in... Read More about A Study of Automatic Allocation of Automotive Safety Requirements in Two Modes: Components and Failure Modes.

International skills and competencies: tools for teaching in secondary education (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jones, S. L. (2018, March). International skills and competencies: tools for teaching in secondary education. Presented at 12th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Valencia, Spain

In a shrinking, more connected world where we all face common challenges, such as those posed by economic recessions, mass migration or climate change, the acquisition of international skills and transversal competencies has become increasingly impor... Read More about International skills and competencies: tools for teaching in secondary education.

What concerns do medical students have when faced with caring for a dying patient? (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dietsch, B., Wale, J., & Saunders, Z. (2018, March). What concerns do medical students have when faced with caring for a dying patient?. Poster presented at The APM’s Annual Supportive and Palliative Care Conference, in association with the Palliative Care Congress, “Towards evidence based compassionate care”, Bournemouth International Centre

Background Existing research suggests that: Students are highly interested in palliative care competencies and appreciate formal curriculum covering competencies, in conjunction with opportunity to learn skills experientially. Palliative ca... Read More about What concerns do medical students have when faced with caring for a dying patient?.