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Restoring Speech Following Total Removal of the Larynx (2017)
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Gonzalez, J. A., Cheah, L. A., Green, P. D., Gilbert, J. M., Ell, S. R., Moore, R. K., & Holdsworth, E. (2017). Restoring Speech Following Total Removal of the Larynx. Studies in health technology and informatics, 242, 314-321. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-798-6-314

© 2017 The authors and IOS Press. All rights reserved. By speech articulator movement and training a transformation to audio we can restore the power of speech to someone who has lost their larynx. We sense changes in magnetic field caused by movemen... Read More about Restoring Speech Following Total Removal of the Larynx.

Evaluation of a silent speech interface based on magnetic sensing and deep learning for a phonetically rich vocabulary (2017)
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Gonzalez, J. A., Cheah, L. A., Green, P. D., Gilbert, J. M., Ell, S. R., Moore, R. K., & Holdsworth, E. (2017). Evaluation of a silent speech interface based on magnetic sensing and deep learning for a phonetically rich vocabulary. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 2017-August, 3986-3990. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2017-802

Copyright © 2017 ISCA. To help people who have lost their voice following total laryngectomy, we present a speech restoration system that produces audible speech from articulator movement. The speech articulators are monitored by sensing changes in m... Read More about Evaluation of a silent speech interface based on magnetic sensing and deep learning for a phonetically rich vocabulary.

Development of cross-curricular key skills using a 3D immersive learning environment in schools (2017)
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Abbott, D., Jeffrey, S., Gouseti, A., Burden, K., & Maxwell, M. (2017). Development of cross-curricular key skills using a 3D immersive learning environment in schools. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 725, 60-74. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60633-0_6

© Springer International Publishing AG 2017. Pedagogical opportunities offered by 3D immersive environments are not restricted to subject-based knowledge but also include non-disciplinary and cross-curricular key skills. This pilot study introduced a... Read More about Development of cross-curricular key skills using a 3D immersive learning environment in schools.

Processing and exploitation of multisensor optical data for coastal water applications-The HIGHROC project (2016)
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Ruddick, K., Brockmann, C., Créach, V., De Keukelaere, L., Doxaran, D., Forster, R., …Vanhellemont, Q. (2016). Processing and exploitation of multisensor optical data for coastal water applications-The HIGHROC project. ESA SP, SP-740,

The FP7/HIGHROC ("HIGH spatial and temporal Resolution Ocean Colour") Project is developing the next generation of optical products for coastal water services. These products are based on both mainstream ocean colour sensors (Sentinel-3/OLCI, VIIRS)... Read More about Processing and exploitation of multisensor optical data for coastal water applications-The HIGHROC project.

CofiFab: Coarse-to-fine fabrication of large 3D objects (2016)
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Song, P., Deng, B., Wang, Z., Dong, Z., Li, W., Fu, C., & Liu, L. (2016). CofiFab: Coarse-to-fine fabrication of large 3D objects. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 35(4), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1145/2897824.2925876

This paper presents CofiFab, a coarse-to-fine 3D fabrication solution, which combines 3D printing and 2D laser cutting for cost-effective fabrication of large objects at lower cost and higher speed. Our key approach is to first build coarse internal... Read More about CofiFab: Coarse-to-fine fabrication of large 3D objects.

Inhomogeneous chemical evolution of r-process elements (2016)
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Wehmeyer, B., Pignatari, M., & Thielemann, F. (2016). Inhomogeneous chemical evolution of r-process elements. AIP conference proceedings, 1743, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4953301

We report the results of a galactic chemical evolution (GCE) study for r-process- and alpha elements. For this work, we used the inhomogeneous GCE model "ICE", which allows to keep track of the galactic abundances of elements produced by different as... Read More about Inhomogeneous chemical evolution of r-process elements.

Evaluating hyperheuristics and local search operators for periodic routing problems (2016)
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Chen, Y., Mourdjis, P., Polack, F., Cowling, P., & Remde, S. (2016). Evaluating hyperheuristics and local search operators for periodic routing problems. Lecture notes in computer science, 9595, 104-120. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30698-8_8

Meta-heuristics and hybrid heuristic approaches have been successfully applied to Periodic Vehicle Routing Problems (PVRPs). However, to be competitive, these methods require careful design of specific search strategies for each problem. By contrast,... Read More about Evaluating hyperheuristics and local search operators for periodic routing problems.

Abnormal heart sounds detected from short duration unsegmented phonocardiograms by wavelet entropy (2016)
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Langley, P., & Murray, A. (2016). Abnormal heart sounds detected from short duration unsegmented phonocardiograms by wavelet entropy. Computing in cardiology, 43, 545-548. https://doi.org/10.22489/cinc.2016.156-268

© 2016 CCAL. Segmentation of the characteristic heart sounds is thought to be an essential requirement for the automatic classification of phonocardiograms. The aim of this work was to test the feasibility of classification using short duration, unse... Read More about Abnormal heart sounds detected from short duration unsegmented phonocardiograms by wavelet entropy.

The U wave in atrial fibrillation (2016)
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Langley, P., Bourke, J. P., & Murray, A. (2016). The U wave in atrial fibrillation. Computing in cardiology, 42, 833-836. https://doi.org/10.1109/cic.2015.7411040

The U wave in ECGs of patients is difficult to observe because it is hidden under the atrial fibrillatory wave. Measurement and characteristics of the U wave in atrial fibrillation have not previously been described. Beat averaging was used to reveal... Read More about The U wave in atrial fibrillation.

Using robots to understand animal social cognition (2016)
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Frohnwieser, A., Murray, J., Pike, T., & Wilkinson, A. (2016). Using robots to understand animal social cognition. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 105(1), 14-22. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.193

In recent years, robotic animals and humans have been used to answer a variety of questions related to behavior. In the case of animal behavior, these efforts have largely been in the field of behavioral ecology. They have proved to be a useful tool... Read More about Using robots to understand animal social cognition.

Analytical modeling for switched damping electromagnetic energy harvester (2016)
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Ooi, B. L., Gilbert, J. M., Aziz, A. R. A., & Thein, C. K. (2016). Analytical modeling for switched damping electromagnetic energy harvester. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 379, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30117-4_1

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. This paper presents a novel switched damping method which is able to improve the operational bandwidth of a linear electromagnetic energy harvester. In this system, different damping coefficients,... Read More about Analytical modeling for switched damping electromagnetic energy harvester.

Searching for health information online for my child: A perspective from South East Asia (2015)
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Inthiran, A., & Soyiri, I. (2015). Searching for health information online for my child: A perspective from South East Asia. Lecture notes in computer science, 9469, 76-81. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27974-9_8

Research studies investigating online health information searching behavior are abundant. While there is research pertaining to the online health information seeking behavior of parents in developed countries, similar information for countries with d... Read More about Searching for health information online for my child: A perspective from South East Asia.

Guided mesh normal filtering (2015)
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Zhang, W., Deng, B., Zhang, J., Bouaziz, S., & Liu, L. (2015). Guided mesh normal filtering. Computer graphics forum : journal of the European Association for Computer Graphics, 34(7), 23-34. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12742

The joint bilateral filter is a variant of the standard bilateral filter, where the range kernel is evaluated using a guidance signal instead of the original signal. It has been successfully applied to various image processing problems, where it prov... Read More about Guided mesh normal filtering.

Experimental neutron capture data of 58Ni from the CERN n_TOF facility (2015)
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Žugec, P., Barbagallo, M., Colonna, N., Bosnar, D., Altstadt, S., Andrzejewski, J., …Wright, T. (2015). Experimental neutron capture data of 58Ni from the CERN n_TOF facility. EPJ Web of Conferences, 93, 02009. https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20159302009

The neutron capture cross section of 58 Ni was measured at the neutron time of flight facility n-TOF at CERN, from 27 meV to 400 keV neutron energy. Special care has been taken to identify all the possible sources of background, with the so-called ne... Read More about Experimental neutron capture data of 58Ni from the CERN n_TOF facility.

Constraining the 12C+12C fusion cross section for astrophysics (2015)
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Bucher, B., Fang, X., Tang, X., Tan, W., Almaraz-Calderon, S., Alongi, A., …Wiescher, M. (2015). Constraining the 12C+12C fusion cross section for astrophysics. EPJ Web of Conferences, 93, 03009. https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20159303009

The 12 C+ 12 C reaction is one of the single most important nuclear reactions in astrophysics. It strongly influences late evolution of massive stars as well as the dynamics of type Ia supernovae and x-ray superbursts. An accurate estimation of the c... Read More about Constraining the 12C+12C fusion cross section for astrophysics.

Interaction between colloidal particles on an oil-water interface in dilute and dense phases (2015)
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Parolini, L., Law, A. D., Maestro, A., Buzza, D. M. A., & Cicuta, P. (2015). Interaction between colloidal particles on an oil-water interface in dilute and dense phases. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 27(19), 194119. https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/27/19/194119

The interaction between micron-sized charged colloidal particles at polar/non-polar liquid interfaces remains surprisingly poorly understood for a relatively simple physical chemistry system. By measuring the pair correlation function g(r) for differ... Read More about Interaction between colloidal particles on an oil-water interface in dilute and dense phases.

Process simulation and thermodynamic analysis of a micro turbine with post-combustion CO2 capture and exhaust gas recirculation (2014)
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Ali, U., Best, T., Finney, K. N., Palma, C. F., Hughes, K. J., Ingham, D. B., & Pourkashanian, M. (2014). Process simulation and thermodynamic analysis of a micro turbine with post-combustion CO2 capture and exhaust gas recirculation. Energy procedia, 63, 986-996. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2014.11.107

With the effects of the emissions from power plants causing global climate change, the trend towards lower emission systems such as natural gas power plant is increasing. In this paper a Turbec T100 micro gas turbine is studied. The system is assesse... Read More about Process simulation and thermodynamic analysis of a micro turbine with post-combustion CO2 capture and exhaust gas recirculation.

Experimental and process modelling study of integration of a micro-turbine with an amine plant (2014)
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Agbonghae, E. O., Best, T., Finney, K. N., Palma, C. F., Hughes, K. J., & Pourkashanian, M. (2014). Experimental and process modelling study of integration of a micro-turbine with an amine plant. Energy procedia, 63, 1064-1073. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2014.11.114

An integrated model of a micro-turbine coupled to a CO2 capture plant has been developed with Aspen Plus, and validated with experimental data obtained from a Turbec T100 microturbine at the PACT facilities in the UKCCS Research Centre, Beighton, UK.... Read More about Experimental and process modelling study of integration of a micro-turbine with an amine plant.

Decoding the message from meteoritic stardust silicon carbide grains (2014)
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Lewis, K. M., Lugaro, M., Gibson, B. K., & Pilkington, K. (2014). Decoding the message from meteoritic stardust silicon carbide grains. AIP conference proceedings, 1594, 301-306. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4874086

SiC mainstream grains are presolar grains believed to form in the envelopes of carbon rich asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars with masses between 1.5 and 3 solar masses. These grains represent a conundrum as the 29Si and 30Si abundances indicate tha... Read More about Decoding the message from meteoritic stardust silicon carbide grains.

Investigating the efficacy of bisphosphonates treatment against multiple myeloma induced bone disease using a computational model (2014)
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Ji, B., Yang, Q., Genever, P. G., & Fagan, M. J. (2014). Investigating the efficacy of bisphosphonates treatment against multiple myeloma induced bone disease using a computational model. Bio-medical materials and engineering, 24(6), 3373-3378. https://doi.org/10.3233/BME-141160

Multiple myeloma (MM)-induced bone disease is mortal for most MM patients. Bisphosphonates are first-line treatment for MM-induced bone disease, since it can inhibit osteoclast activity and the resultant bone resorption by suppressing the differentia... Read More about Investigating the efficacy of bisphosphonates treatment against multiple myeloma induced bone disease using a computational model.