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A comprehensive state-of-the-art on control of industrial articulated robots (2014)
Journal Article
Ajwad, S. A., Ullah, M. I., Baizid, K., & Iqbal, J. (2014). A comprehensive state-of-the-art on control of industrial articulated robots. Journal of the Balkan Tribological Association, 20(4), 499-521

Incredible applications of robotic manipulators especially in the industrial sector have drawn attention to substitute classical control techniques with more sophisticated intelligent approaches. This, consequently, has motivated robotics community t... Read More about A comprehensive state-of-the-art on control of industrial articulated robots.

Online decision support system for finished lamb production (2014)
Journal Article
Morris, W., & Mishra, N. (2014). Online decision support system for finished lamb production. International Journal of Services, Economics and Management, 6(3), 209-221. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSEM.2014.064296

© Copyright 2014 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. This paper describes the design and application of a decision support system to assist sheep farmers, allowing them to assess the impact of lambing date, feeding system and the price of concentrate feed... Read More about Online decision support system for finished lamb production.

Location and the conceptualization of historical frameworks: Early American history and its multiple reconfigurations in the United States and in Europe (2014)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T., & Vidal, C. (2014). Location and the conceptualization of historical frameworks: Early American history and its multiple reconfigurations in the United States and in Europe. In N. Barreyre, M. Heale, S. Tuck, & C. Vidal (Eds.), Historians across borders : writing American history in a global age (141-162). University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520279278.003.0007

This chapter examines early American history (often known as Atlantic history, a recently burgeoning field) and its multiple reconfigurations from the 1960s in order to analyze the impact of location on the conceptualization of historical frameworks.... Read More about Location and the conceptualization of historical frameworks: Early American history and its multiple reconfigurations in the United States and in Europe.

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.

Maxitive Integral of Real-Valued Functions (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cattaneo, M. E. G. V. Maxitive Integral of Real-Valued Functions

The paper pursues the definition of a maxitive integral on all real-valued functions (i.e., the integral of the pointwise maximum of two functions must be the maximum of their integrals). This definition is not determined by maxitivity alone: additio... Read More about Maxitive Integral of Real-Valued Functions.

Development and validation of a new bariatric-specific health-related quality of life instrument ′′bariatric and obesity-specific survey (BOSS)′′ (2014)
Journal Article
Tayyem, R., Atkinson, J., & Martin, C. (2014). Development and validation of a new bariatric-specific health-related quality of life instrument ′′bariatric and obesity-specific survey (BOSS)′′. Journal of postgraduate medicine, 60(4), 357-361. https://doi.org/10.4103/0022-3859.143952

Background: There is a lack of a psychometrically robust bariatric-specific health-related quality of life (HRQOL) tool. Aim: A single centre, prospective study to develop and validate a new bariatric-specific 81-item self-report HRQOL instrument cal... Read More about Development and validation of a new bariatric-specific health-related quality of life instrument ′′bariatric and obesity-specific survey (BOSS)′′.

The importance of detecting and managing comorbidities in people with dementia? (2014)
Journal Article
Fox, C., Smith, T., Maidment, I., Hebding, J., Madzima, T., Cheater, F., Cross, J., Poland, F., White, J., & Young, J. (2014). The importance of detecting and managing comorbidities in people with dementia?. Age and ageing, 43(6), 741-743. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afu101

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.

A predator-prey based mathematical model of the bone remodelling cycle: Exploring the relationship between the model parameters and biochemical factors (2014)
Journal Article
Ji, B., Yang, Q., Genever, P. G., Patton, R. J., & Fagan, M. J. (2014). A predator-prey based mathematical model of the bone remodelling cycle: Exploring the relationship between the model parameters and biochemical factors. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 228(10), 1035-1042. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954411914554633

© IMechE 2014. Bone remodelling is a vital process which enables bone to repair, renew and optimize itself. Disorders in the bone remodelling process are inevitably manifested in bone-related diseases, such as hypothyroidism, primary hyperparathyroid... Read More about A predator-prey based mathematical model of the bone remodelling cycle: Exploring the relationship between the model parameters and biochemical factors.

A new editorial policy of ECSS (2014)
Journal Article
Bianchi, T. S., Elliott, M., Valiela, I., & Wolanski, E. (2014). A new editorial policy of ECSS. Estuarine, coastal and shelf science, 136, 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2013.12.004

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.

Translocal imagination of Hong Kong connections: the shifting of Chow Yun-Fat's star image since 1997 (2014)
Book Chapter
Feng, L. (2014). Translocal imagination of Hong Kong connections: the shifting of Chow Yun-Fat's star image since 1997. In East Asian Film Stars (113-127). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137029195_8

Anyone who is interested in Hong Kong cinema must be familiar with one name: Chow Yun-fat (b. 1955). He rose to film stardom in the 1980s when Hong Kong cinema started to attract global attention beyond East Asia. During his early screen career, Chow... Read More about Translocal imagination of Hong Kong connections: the shifting of Chow Yun-Fat's star image since 1997.

Priests and politicians: Archbishop Michael Gonzi, Dom Mintoff, and the end of empire in Malta (2014)
Journal Article
Smith, S. C. (2014). Priests and politicians: Archbishop Michael Gonzi, Dom Mintoff, and the end of empire in Malta. Journal of Mediterranean studies, 23(1), 113-124

The political contest in Malta at the end of empire involved not merely the British colonial authorities and emerging nationalists, but also the powerful Catholic Church. Under Archbishop Gonzi’s leadership, the Church took an overtly political stanc... Read More about Priests and politicians: Archbishop Michael Gonzi, Dom Mintoff, and the end of empire in Malta.

Anastomosing reach control on hydraulics and sediment distribution on the Sabie River, South Africa (2014)
Journal Article
Entwistle, N., Heritage, G., Tooth, S., & Milan, D. (2014). Anastomosing reach control on hydraulics and sediment distribution on the Sabie River, South Africa. Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 367, 215-219. https://doi.org/10.5194/piahs-367-215-2015

Rivers in the Kruger National Park, South Africa, have variable degrees of bedrock and alluvial influence. Pre-2000 aerial imagery for the Sabie River (catchment area 6320 km2) reveals downstream alternations from alluvial single thread or braided, t... Read More about Anastomosing reach control on hydraulics and sediment distribution on the Sabie River, South Africa.

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.

Thrips domiciles protect larvae from desiccation in an arid environment (2014)
Journal Article
Gilbert, J. D. (2014). Thrips domiciles protect larvae from desiccation in an arid environment. Behavioral ecology, 25(6), 1338-1346. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/aru128

Desiccation is a particular risk for small animals in arid environments. In response, many organisms “construct niches,” favorable microenvironments where they spend part or all of their life cycle. Some maintain such environments for their offspring... Read More about Thrips domiciles protect larvae from desiccation in an arid environment.

Cloud angular momentum and effective viscosity in global SPH simulations with feedback (2014)
Journal Article
Williamson, D. J., Thacker, R. J., Wurster, J., & Gibson, B. K. (2014). Cloud angular momentum and effective viscosity in global SPH simulations with feedback. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 442(4), 3674-3685. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1121

We examine simulations of isolated galaxies to analyse the effects of localized feedback on the formation and evolution of molecular clouds. Feedback contributes to turbulence and the destruction of clouds, leading to a population of clouds that is y... Read More about Cloud angular momentum and effective viscosity in global SPH simulations with feedback.

Quantification of temporal fault trees based on fuzzy set theory (2014)
Journal Article
Kabir, S., Edifor, E., Walker, M., & Gordon, N. (2014). Quantification of temporal fault trees based on fuzzy set theory. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 286, 255-264. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07013-1_24

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014. Fault tree analysis (FTA) has been modified in different ways to make it capable of performing quantitative and qualitative safety analysis with temporal gates, thereby overcoming its limitation i... Read More about Quantification of temporal fault trees based on fuzzy set theory.

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.

Leadership, sustainability and ethics (2014)
Book Chapter
Bottery, M. (2014). Leadership, sustainability and ethics. In C. M. Branson, & S. Gross (Eds.), Handbook of ethical educational leadership (81 - 92). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203747582-12

This chapter is concerned with what educational leaders can lear about the ethics of their practice from a study of environmental systems. It examiners three sources for such learning. One source is from an understanding of the epistemology of these... Read More about Leadership, sustainability and ethics.