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YouTube as a repository : the creative practice of students as producers of Open Educational Resources (2011)
Journal Article
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.

Investigation of pulsed D.C magnetron sputtering for the component layers of CuInSe2 baseed solar cells (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Karthikeyan, S., Hill, A., & Pilkington, R. (2011, December). Investigation of pulsed D.C magnetron sputtering for the component layers of CuInSe2 baseed solar cells. Presented at Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 2011, Lancashire County Cricket Club, Manchester , UK

Pulsed D.C Magnetron Sputtering (PDMS) has been used to deposit the component layers required in the production of CuInSe2 (CIS), thin film solar cells. PDMS employs high plasma densities and is widely used for the reactive sputtering of dielectric... Read More about Investigation of pulsed D.C magnetron sputtering for the component layers of CuInSe2 baseed solar cells.

Two-colour optical fields: modulational instabilities and vector spatial solitons (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Bostock, C., Christian, J., & McDonald, G. (2011, November). Two-colour optical fields: modulational instabilities and vector spatial solitons. Presented at 2nd CSE Doctoral School Postgraduate Research Conference, University of Salford, Greater Manchester

The propagation of a light beam at a single optical frequency – or colour – in a Kerr-type planar waveguide is an elementary configuration in photonics [1,2]. Under two classic assumptions: (i) that the transverse extent of the beam is much greater... Read More about Two-colour optical fields: modulational instabilities and vector spatial solitons.

New management scenarios for weaving sections using micro-simulation models (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Jameel, H. (2011, November). New management scenarios for weaving sections using micro-simulation models. Presented at CSE 2nd, Salford University

Traffic simulation models have been proved to be more effective methods of dealing with weaving sections than traditional methods such as the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) 1950 to HCM 2000, Leisch method -1981and Fazio -1986. These have proved to be... Read More about New management scenarios for weaving sections using micro-simulation models.

Novel low temperature pulsed d.c. magnetron sputtering of single phase β-In2S3 buffer layers for CIGS solar cell application (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Karthikeyan, S., Hill, A., & Pilkington, R. (2011, November). Novel low temperature pulsed d.c. magnetron sputtering of single phase β-In2S3 buffer layers for CIGS solar cell application. Presented at 2nd Computing, Science and Engineering Postgraduate Research Doctoral Scholl Conference 2011, University of Salford

This work explores the possibilities of using the pulsed d.c. magnetron sputtering (PDMS) process for depositing the buffer layer for copper indium diselenide - CuInSe2 (CIS) - based solar cells. The use of PDMS can give a high plasma density and pro... Read More about Novel low temperature pulsed d.c. magnetron sputtering of single phase β-In2S3 buffer layers for CIGS solar cell application.

Living with helicopter noise : evaluating sound insulation techniques for domestic dwellings using real helicopters (2011)
Journal Article
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.

Aletheia - An advanced document layout and text ground-truthing system for production environments (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Clausner, C., Pletschacher, S., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2011). Aletheia - An advanced document layout and text ground-truthing system for production environments. In 2011 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition ICDAR 2011. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2011.19

Large-scale digitisation has led to a number of new possibilities with regard to adaptive and learning based methods in the field of Document Image Analysis and OCR. For ground truth production of large corpora, however, there is still a gap in terms... Read More about Aletheia - An advanced document layout and text ground-truthing system for production environments.

Numerical investigations on nonlinear nonparaxial beam propagation using graphics processing units (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Chamorro-Posada, P., Sánchez-Curto, J., & McDonald, G. (2011, November). Numerical investigations on nonlinear nonparaxial beam propagation using graphics processing units. Presented at 8th Iberian Meeting on Computational Electromagnetics, Sesimbra, Lisbon, Potugal

We study the performance of a nonparaxial beam propagation method accelerated using massively parallel computation in graphic processing units. The implementation is tested in two different NVIDIA hardware architectures, Tesla and Fermi, and the resu... Read More about Numerical investigations on nonlinear nonparaxial beam propagation using graphics processing units.

Acoustical properties of double porosity granular materials (2011)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Hybrid rule threshold adjustment system for intrusion detection (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Moghimi, M., & Saraee, M. (2011, September). Hybrid rule threshold adjustment system for intrusion detection. Presented at The 8th International ISC Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ISCISC 2011), September 14-15, 2011 - Ferdowsi University of Mashhad,, Mashhad, Iran

Generally, multiple IDSs generates huge volume of alerts every minute and to manage these alerts, rule-based alert management systems are very important. It is critical to keep the rules inside these systems updated, based on the ever changing networ... Read More about Hybrid rule threshold adjustment system for intrusion detection.

Giant Goos–Hänchen shifts and radiation-induced trapping of Helmholtz solitons at nonlinear interfaces (2011)
Journal Article
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.

Optical fractals: characterization, cavities, coherence and connections (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Mcdonald, G., Christian, J., Walsh, T., & Huang, J. (2011, September). Optical fractals: characterization, cavities, coherence and connections. Presented at 11th International Conference on Laser and Fiber Optics Networks Modeling, LFNM'2011, Kharkov, Ukraine

Uniform and regular systems can generate optical fractals. After characterizing different fractal-generating systems, emphasis is placed on the roles of boundary conditions and cavity feedback. New aspects of linear and nonlinear optical fractals are... Read More about Optical fractals: characterization, cavities, coherence and connections.

Contextual interaction support in 3D worlds (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Murray, N. (2011, September). Contextual interaction support in 3D worlds. Presented at 15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications, Salford Quays

With the increasing use of 3D displays and input devices we need to be sure that when 3D worlds are created that their users can easily learn how to operate within these 3D worlds. To do this we can provide the user with contextual interaction supp... Read More about Contextual interaction support in 3D worlds.

A framework for the forensic investigation of unstructured email relationship data (2011)
Journal Article
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.

Combining panoramic image and 3D audio capture with conventional coverage for immersive and interactive content production (2011)
Book
Thomas, G., Schreer, O., Shirley, B., & Spille, J. (2011). Combining panoramic image and 3D audio capture with conventional coverage for immersive and interactive content production. IBC

The media industry is currently being pulled in the often-opposing directions of increased realism (high resolution, stereoscopic, large screen) and personalisation (selection and control of content, availability on many devices). A capture, producti... Read More about Combining panoramic image and 3D audio capture with conventional coverage for immersive and interactive content production.

Format-Agnostic approach for 3d audio (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Kropp, H., Spille, J., Batke, J., Abeling, S., Keiler, F., Oldfield, R., & Shirley, B. (2011, September). Format-Agnostic approach for 3d audio. Presented at IBC, Amsterdam

In the market exists a large variety of media devices, reaching from mobile handsets equipped with headphones up to an ultra-high resolution display connected with a large loudspeaker setup. This makes it difficult for the broadcast industry to provi... Read More about Format-Agnostic approach for 3d audio.