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YouTube as a repository : the creative practice of students as producers of Open Educational Resources (2011)
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Keegan, H., & Bell, F. (2011). YouTube as a repository : the creative practice of students as producers of Open Educational Resources. EURODL, Sp. Is(3), 1-10

In this paper we present an alternative view of Open Educational Resources (OERs). Rather than focusing on open media resources produced by expert practitioners for use by peers and learners, we examine the practice of learners as active agents, prod... Read More about YouTube as a repository : the creative practice of students as producers of Open Educational Resources.

Living with helicopter noise : evaluating sound insulation techniques for domestic dwellings using real helicopters (2011)
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Kerry, G., Waddington, D., & Lomax1, C. (2013). Living with helicopter noise : evaluating sound insulation techniques for domestic dwellings using real helicopters. Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, 34(2), 223-239. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143624411427376

Specific remedial works designed to improve sound installation and reduce the noise level produced by helicopters inside dwellings are described. The theoretical problems and practical solutions to installing high performance acoustic insulation to a... Read More about Living with helicopter noise : evaluating sound insulation techniques for domestic dwellings using real helicopters.

Acoustical properties of double porosity granular materials (2011)
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Venegas, R., & Umnova, O. (2011). Acoustical properties of double porosity granular materials. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 130(5), 2765-2776. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3644915

Granular materials have been conventionally used for acoustic treatment due to their sound absorptive and sound insulating properties. An emerging field is the study of the acoustical properties of multiscale porous materials. An example of these i... Read More about Acoustical properties of double porosity granular materials.

Indirect measurement of acoustic power into a small room at low frequencies (2011)
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de A.C. Duarte, E., Moorhouse, A., & Viveiros, E. (2011). Indirect measurement of acoustic power into a small room at low frequencies. Applied Acoustics, 73(3), 248-255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2011.09.007

An essential step towards improving sound insulation is a reliable means of quantifying the performance. However, for various reasons sound insulation measurements at low frequencies are associated with relatively high uncertainty and wide variance v... Read More about Indirect measurement of acoustic power into a small room at low frequencies.

The use of hydrogel as an electrode-skin interface for electrode array FES applications (2011)
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Cooper, G., Barker, A., Heller, B., Good, T., Kenney, L., & Howard, D. (2011). The use of hydrogel as an electrode-skin interface for electrode array FES applications. Medical Engineering and Physics, 33(8), 967-982. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medengphy.2011.03.008

Functional electrical stimulation is commonly used to restore function in post-stroke patients in upper and lower limb applications. Location of the electrodes can be a problem hence some research groups have begun to experiment with electrode arrays... Read More about The use of hydrogel as an electrode-skin interface for electrode array FES applications.

Giant Goos–Hänchen shifts and radiation-induced trapping of Helmholtz solitons at nonlinear interfaces (2011)
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Helmholtz solitons at nonlinear interfaces. Optics Letters, 36(18), 3605-3607. https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.36.003605

Giant Goos–Hänchen shifts and radiation-induced trapping are studied at the planar boundary separating two focusing Kerr media within the framework of the Helmholtz theory. The analysis, valid for all angles of incidence, reveals that interfaces exhi... Read More about Giant Goos–Hänchen shifts and radiation-induced trapping of Helmholtz solitons at nonlinear interfaces.

A framework for the forensic investigation of unstructured email relationship data (2011)
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Haggerty, J., Karran, A., Lamb, D., & Taylor, M. (2011). A framework for the forensic investigation of unstructured email relationship data. International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics, 3(3), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.4018/jdcf.2011070101

Our continued reliance on email communications ensures that it remains a major source of evidence during a digital investigation. Emails comprise both structured and unstructured data. Structured data provides qualitative information to the forensics... Read More about A framework for the forensic investigation of unstructured email relationship data.

Nano-structured morphological features of pulsed direct current magnetron sputtered Mo films for photovoltaic applications (2011)
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Karthikeyan, S., Hill, A., & Pilkington, R. (2011). Nano-structured morphological features of pulsed direct current magnetron sputtered Mo films for photovoltaic applications. Thin Solid Films, 520(1), 266-271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2011.07.069

Historically, molybdenum thin films have been used as the back contact for Cu(In,Ga)Se2 based solar cells and as such the properties of these layers play an important role in the overall cell structure. This paper describes the production of molybden... Read More about Nano-structured morphological features of pulsed direct current magnetron sputtered Mo films for photovoltaic applications.

The pressure–temperature phase diagram of MgH2 and isotopic substitution (2011)
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Moser, D., Baldissin, G., Bull, D., Riley, D., Morrison, I., Ross, D., …Noreus, D. (2011). The pressure–temperature phase diagram of MgH2 and isotopic substitution. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 23(30), 305403. https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/23/30/305403

Computational thermodynamics using density functional theory ab initio codes is a powerful tool for calculating phase diagrams. The method is usually applied at the standard pressure of p = 1 bar and where the Gibbs energy is assumed to be equal to t... Read More about The pressure–temperature phase diagram of MgH2 and isotopic substitution.

Evaluation of an anthropomorphic user interface in a travel reservation context and affordances (2011)
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Murano, P., Gee, A., & Holt, P. (2011). Evaluation of an anthropomorphic user interface in a travel reservation context and affordances. Journal of computing, 3(8),

This paper describes an experiment and its results concerning research that has been going on for a number ofyears in the area of anthropomorphic user interface feedback. The main aims of the research have been to examine theeffectiveness and user sa... Read More about Evaluation of an anthropomorphic user interface in a travel reservation context and affordances.

A new unsupervised feature selection method for text clustering based on genetic algorithms (2011)
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Shamsinejadbabki, P., & Saraee, M. (2012). A new unsupervised feature selection method for text clustering based on genetic algorithms. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 38(3), 669-684. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10844-011-0172-5

Nowadays a vast amount of textual information is collected and stored in various databases around the world, including the Internet as the largest database of all. This rapidly increasing growth of published text means that even the most avid reader... Read More about A new unsupervised feature selection method for text clustering based on genetic algorithms.

A survey of AI in operations management from 2005 to 2009 (2011)
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Kobbacy, K., & Vadera, S. (2011). A survey of AI in operations management from 2005 to 2009. Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, 22(6), 706-733. https://doi.org/10.1108/17410381111149602

Purpose: the use of AI for operations management, with its ability to evolve solutions, handle uncertainty and perform optimisation continues to be a major field of research. The growing body of publications over the last two decades means that it c... Read More about A survey of AI in operations management from 2005 to 2009.

An empirical comparison of cost-sensitive decision tree induction algorithms (2011)
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Lomax, S., & Vadera, S. (2011). An empirical comparison of cost-sensitive decision tree induction algorithms. Expert Systems, 28(3), 227-268. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0394.2010.00573.x

Decision tree induction is a widely used technique for learning from data which first emerged in the 1980s. In recent years, several authors have noted that in practice, accuracy alone is not adequate, and it has become increasingly important to tak... Read More about An empirical comparison of cost-sensitive decision tree induction algorithms.

A hygienically designed force gripper for flexible handling of variable and easily damaged natural food products (2011)
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Pettersson, A., Ohlsson, T., Davis, S., Gray, J., & Dodd, T. (2011). A hygienically designed force gripper for flexible handling of variable and easily damaged natural food products. Innovative Food Science and Emerging Technologies, 12(3), 344-351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifset.2011.03.002

To overcome present difficulties in robotized food handling a force sensing robot gripper for flexible production is presented. A magnetic coupling is used to completely encapsulate the actuator mechanism, improving hygiene and enabling a future ho... Read More about A hygienically designed force gripper for flexible handling of variable and easily damaged natural food products.

In-situ powder neutron diffraction study of non-stoichiometric phase formation during the hydrogenation of Li3N (2011)
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Bull, D., Sorbic, N., Moser, D., Telling, M., Smith, R., Gregory, D., & Ross, D. (2011). In-situ powder neutron diffraction study of non-stoichiometric phase formation during the hydrogenation of Li3N. Faraday Discussions, 151, https://doi.org/10.1039/c0fd00020e

The hydrogenation of Li3N at low chemical potential has been studied in situ by time-of-flight powder neutron diffraction and the formation of a nonstoichiometric Li4_2xNH phase and Li4NH observed. The results are interpreted in terms of a model for... Read More about In-situ powder neutron diffraction study of non-stoichiometric phase formation during the hydrogenation of Li3N.

Research on nonlinear and quantum optics at the photonics and quantum information group of the University of Valladolid (2011)
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quantum information group of the University of Valladolid. Optica Pura y Aplicada, 44(2), 211-217

We outline the main research lines in Nonlinear and Quantum Optics of the Group of Photonics and Quantum Information at the University of Valladolid. These works focus on Optical Solitons, Quantum Information using Photonic Technologies and the devel... Read More about Research on nonlinear and quantum optics at the photonics and quantum information group of the University of Valladolid.

Evaluation of human-like anthropomorphism in the context of online bidding and affordances (2011)
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Murano, P., & Holt, P. (2011). Evaluation of human-like anthropomorphism in the context of online bidding and affordances. Journal of computing, 3(6),

This paper presents a four condition experiment and the results concerning the wider area of investigating the effectiveness and user satisfaction of using anthropomorphic feedback at the user interface. The specific context used was online bidding.... Read More about Evaluation of human-like anthropomorphism in the context of online bidding and affordances.