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Morphodynamic simulation of sediment deposition patterns on a recently stripped bedrock anastomosed channel (2018)
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Milan, D., Heritage, G., Entwistle, N., & Tooth, S. (2018). Morphodynamic simulation of sediment deposition patterns on a recently stripped bedrock anastomosed channel. Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 377, 51-56. https://doi.org/10.5194/piahs-377-51-2018

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)
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Parker, D., Godof, A., Papadopoulos, Y., & Saintis, L. (2018). A Study of Automatic Allocation of Automotive Safety Requirements in Two Modes: Components and Failure Modes. SAE Technical Papers, 2018-April, https://doi.org/10.4271/2018-01-1076

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.

Prospects for petcoke utilization with CO2 capture in Mexico (2017)
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Font-Palma, C., & Díaz, A. G. (2017). Prospects for petcoke utilization with CO2 capture in Mexico. Energy procedia, 142, 3517-3523. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.12.239

© 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This paper evaluates the introduction of carbon capture and storage (CCS) to Mexico. The gasification technology is presented as a potential alternative to be applied into refinery plants due to high pet... Read More about Prospects for petcoke utilization with CO2 capture in Mexico.

A novel concentrated solar power system using cascade steam-organic Rankine cycle and two-stage accumulators (2017)
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Li, J., Gao, G., Pei, G., Li, P., Su, Y., Ji, J., & Riffat, S. (2017). A novel concentrated solar power system using cascade steam-organic Rankine cycle and two-stage accumulators. Energy procedia, 142, 386-394. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.12.061

A novel direct steam generation solar power system is proposed based on steam screw expander, cascade steam-organic Rankine cycle (SORC) and two-stage accumulators. The high temperature accumulator (HTA) enables smooth power conversion and stores the... Read More about A novel concentrated solar power system using cascade steam-organic Rankine cycle and two-stage accumulators.

Effect of Chemical Impurities on Centrifugal Machine Performance: Implications for Compressor Sizing in A CO 2 Transport Pipeline [QUERY] (2017)
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Okezue, C., & Kuvshinov, D. (2017). Effect of Chemical Impurities on Centrifugal Machine Performance: Implications for Compressor Sizing in A CO 2 Transport Pipeline [QUERY]. Energy procedia, 142, 3675-3682. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.12.261

© 2017 The Author(s). Several research studies have been published on CO 2 pipeline transportation. Most of them focus on developing hydraulic models of entire CO 2 pipeline networks. From these studies, a lot of original knowledge has been produced... Read More about Effect of Chemical Impurities on Centrifugal Machine Performance: Implications for Compressor Sizing in A CO 2 Transport Pipeline [QUERY].

Neutral thermal sensation or dynamic thermal comfort? Numerical and field test analysis of a thermal chair (2017)
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Shahzad, S., Calautit, J. K., Aquino, A. I., Nasir, D. S., & Hughes, B. R. (2017). Neutral thermal sensation or dynamic thermal comfort? Numerical and field test analysis of a thermal chair. Energy procedia, 142, 2189-2194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.12.587

Neutral thermal sensation is considered as the measure of thermal comfort in research, as when participants report feeling neutral regarding the thermal environment, they are considered as thermally comfortable. This is taken for granted, and althoug... Read More about Neutral thermal sensation or dynamic thermal comfort? Numerical and field test analysis of a thermal chair.

Thermodynamic comparison and dynamic simulation of direct and indirect solar organic Rankine cycle systems with PCM storage (2017)
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Alvi, J. Z., Imran, M., Pei, G., Li, J., Gao, G., & Alvi, J. (2017). Thermodynamic comparison and dynamic simulation of direct and indirect solar organic Rankine cycle systems with PCM storage. Energy procedia, 129, 716-723. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.09.103

A thermodynamic comparison between a novel direct solar ORC system (DSOS) and indirect solar ORC system (ISOS) is carried out in this study. A phase change material (PCM) heat storage unit is integrated with both systems to ensure the stability of po... Read More about Thermodynamic comparison and dynamic simulation of direct and indirect solar organic Rankine cycle systems with PCM storage.

Model-connected safety cases (2017)
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Retouniotis, A., Papadopoulos, Y., Sorokos, I., Parker, D., Matragkas, N., & Sharvia, S. (2017). Model-connected safety cases. Lecture notes in computer science, 10437 LNCS, 50-63. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64119-5_4

© 2017, Springer International Publishing AG. We propose the concept of a model-connected safety case that could simplify certification of complex systems. System design models support the synthesis of both the structure of the safety case and the ev... Read More about Model-connected safety cases.

Digital three-dimensional automation of the modified Huddart and Bodenham scoring system for patients with cleft lip and palate (2017)
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Ma, X., Martin, C., McIntyre, G., Lin, P., & Mossey, P. (2017). Digital three-dimensional automation of the modified Huddart and Bodenham scoring system for patients with cleft lip and palate. Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, 54(4), 481-486. https://doi.org/10.1597/15-340

© Copyright 2017 American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association. Objective: The modified Huddart and Bodenham scoring system assesses maxillary arch constriction and surgical outcomes in cleft lip and palate. This project automates modified Huddart a... Read More about Digital three-dimensional automation of the modified Huddart and Bodenham scoring system for patients with cleft lip and palate.

Computational and Field Test Analysis of Thermal Comfort Performance of User-controlled Thermal Department in an Open Plan Office (2017)
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Shahzad, S., Hughes, B., Calautit, J. K., & Nasir, D. S. (2017). Computational and Field Test Analysis of Thermal Comfort Performance of User-controlled Thermal Department in an Open Plan Office. Energy procedia, 105, 2635-2640. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.761

In this study, a thermal Department prototype was developed that allowed personal control over the temperature settings of the back-rest and the seat. Limited research focuses on different methods to provide individual user control over the thermal e... Read More about Computational and Field Test Analysis of Thermal Comfort Performance of User-controlled Thermal Department in an Open Plan Office.

Effect of Urban Street Canyon Aspect Ratio on Thermal Performance of Road Pavement Solar Collectors (RPSC) (2017)
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Nasir, D. S., Hughes, B. R., Calautit, J. K., Aquino, A. I., & Shahzad, S. (2017). Effect of Urban Street Canyon Aspect Ratio on Thermal Performance of Road Pavement Solar Collectors (RPSC). Energy procedia, 105, 4414-4419. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.936

Studies on RPSC (road pavement solar collectors) have shown the potential of reducing the urban heat island effect by dissipating the heat from the pavement for energy harness. In our previous work, performance analysis of RPSC system was carried out... Read More about Effect of Urban Street Canyon Aspect Ratio on Thermal Performance of Road Pavement Solar Collectors (RPSC).

Thermal Comfort and Indoor air Quality Analysis of a Low-energy Cooling Windcatcher (2017)
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Calautit, J. K., Aquino, A. I., Shahzad, S., Nasir, D. S., & Hughes, B. R. (2017). Thermal Comfort and Indoor air Quality Analysis of a Low-energy Cooling Windcatcher. Energy procedia, 105, 2865-2870. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.634

The aim of this work was to investigate the performance of a roof-mounted cooling windcatcher integrated with heat pipes using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and field test analysis. The windcatcher model was incorporated to a 5m x 5m x3 m test r... Read More about Thermal Comfort and Indoor air Quality Analysis of a Low-energy Cooling Windcatcher.

Towards an intraoral-based silent speech restoration system for post-laryngectomy voice replacement (2017)
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Cheah, L. A., Gilbert, J. M., Gonzalez, J. A., Bai, J., Ell, S. R., Green, P. D., & Moore, R. K. (2017). Towards an intraoral-based silent speech restoration system for post-laryngectomy voice replacement. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 690, 22-38. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54717-6_2

© Springer International Publishing AG 2017, Silent Speech Interfaces (SSIs) are alternative assistive speech technologies that are capable of restoring speech communication for those individuals who have lost their voice due to laryngectomy or disea... Read More about Towards an intraoral-based silent speech restoration system for post-laryngectomy voice replacement.

Voice restoration after laryngectomy based on magnetic sensing of articulator movement and statistical articulation-to-speech conversion (2017)
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Gonzalez, J. A., Cheah, L. A., Gilbert, J. M., Bai, J., Ell, S. R., Green, P. D., & Moore, R. K. (2017). Voice restoration after laryngectomy based on magnetic sensing of articulator movement and statistical articulation-to-speech conversion. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 690, 295-316. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54717-6_17

© Springer International Publishing AG 2017. In this work, we present a silent speech system that is able to generate audible speech from captured movement of speech articulators. Our goal is to help laryngectomy patients, i.e. patients who have lost... Read More about Voice restoration after laryngectomy based on magnetic sensing of articulator movement and statistical articulation-to-speech conversion.

Competition and cooperation in pickup and multiple delivery problems (2017)
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Mourdjis, P., Polack, F., Cowling, P., Chen, Y., & Robinson, M. (2017). Competition and cooperation in pickup and multiple delivery problems. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 695, 142-160. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53982-9_9

Logistics is a highly competitive industry; large hauliers use their size to benefit from economies of scale while small logistics companies are often well placed to service local clients. To obtain economies of scale, small hauliers may seek to coop... Read More about Competition and cooperation in pickup and multiple delivery problems.

Palliative care and Parkinson's disease : meeting summary and recommendations for clinical research (2017)
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Kluger, B. M., Galifianakis, N. B., Carter, J. H., Johnson, M. J., Richfield, E. W., Kutner, J. S., …Miyasaki, J. (2017). Palliative care and Parkinson's disease : meeting summary and recommendations for clinical research. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, 37, 19-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parkreldis.2017.01.008

Introduction: Palliative care is an approach to caring for patients and families affected by serious illnesses that focuses on the relief of suffering through the management of medical symptoms, psychosocial issues, advance care planning and spiritua... Read More about Palliative care and Parkinson's disease : meeting summary and recommendations for clinical research.

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.