History and manufacturing of glass (2017)
Journal Article
Berenjian, A., & Whittleston, G. (2017). History and manufacturing of glass. American journal of materials science (Online), 7(1), 18-24. https://doi.org/10.5923/j.materials.20170701.03

Glass usage in structures has increased dramatically during the last decades due to its special properties, such as transparency, high theoretical strength, low density, durability and functionality. This paper reviews glass as a material in addition... Read More about History and manufacturing of glass.

Populating the mix space : parametric methods for generating multitrack audio mixtures (2017)
Journal Article
generating multitrack audio mixtures. Applied Sciences, 7(12), 1329. https://doi.org/10.3390/app7121329

The creation of multitrack mixes by audio engineers is a time-consuming activity and creating high-quality mixes requires a great deal of knowledge and experience. Previous studies on the perception of music mixes have been limited by the relatively... Read More about Populating the mix space : parametric methods for generating multitrack audio mixtures.

Towards bio-responsive control for music (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Williams, D., Murphy, D., & Fazenda, B. (2017, December). Towards bio-responsive control for music. Presented at DMRN+12 : Digital Music Research Network, Queen Mary University London

Music and audio applications are well suited to tactile control. In sound and music computing there can be a disconnect between design of human-computer interfacing and application congruent design. A categorical approach is proposed, considering act... Read More about Towards bio-responsive control for music.

Efficient steplike carrier multiplication in percolative networks of epitaxially connected PbSe nanocrystals (2017)
Journal Article
Kulkarni, A., Evers, W., Tomic, S., Beard, M., Vanmaekelbergh, D., & Siebbeles, L. (2017). Efficient steplike carrier multiplication in percolative networks of epitaxially connected PbSe nanocrystals. ACS nano, 12(1), 378-384. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.7b06511

Carrier multiplication (CM) is a process in which a single photon excites two or more electrons. CM is of interest to enhance the efficiency of a solar cell. Until now, CM in thin films and solar cells of semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) has been fou... Read More about Efficient steplike carrier multiplication in percolative networks of epitaxially connected PbSe nanocrystals.

Chirp decoder : influence of noise and reverberation (2017)
Other
Cox, T., & Massaglia, J. (2017). Chirp decoder : influence of noise and reverberation

A non-intrusive method for estimating binaural speech intelligibility from noise-corrupted signals captured by a pair of microphones (2017)
Journal Article
Tang, Y., Liu, Q., Wang, W., & Cox, T. (2018). A non-intrusive method for estimating binaural speech intelligibility from noise-corrupted signals captured by a pair of microphones. Speech Communication, 96, 116-128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2017.12.005

A non-intrusive method is introduced to predict binaural speech intelligibility in noise directly from signals captured using a pair of microphones. The approach combines signal processing techniques in blind source separation and localisation, with... Read More about A non-intrusive method for estimating binaural speech intelligibility from noise-corrupted signals captured by a pair of microphones.

Digital watermarking : applicability for developing trust in medical imaging workflows state of the art review (2017)
Journal Article
Qasim, A., Meziane, F., & Aspin, R. (2017). Digital watermarking : applicability for developing trust in medical imaging workflows state of the art review. Computer Science Review, 27, 45-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosrev.2017.11.003

Medical images can be intentionally or unintentionally manipulated both within the secure medical system environment and outside, as images are viewed, extracted and transmitted. Many organisations have invested heavily in Picture Archiving and Commu... Read More about Digital watermarking : applicability for developing trust in medical imaging workflows state of the art review.

Effect of halite (NaCl) on sandstone permeability and well injectivity during CO2 storage in saline aquifers (2017)
Thesis
Beinashor, R. Effect of halite (NaCl) on sandstone permeability and well injectivity during CO2 storage in saline aquifers. (Thesis). University of Salford

Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) is one of the widely discussed options for decreasing CO2 emissions. This method requires the techniques for capturing purification of anthropogenic CO2 from fossil-fuel power plants, subsequent compression an... Read More about Effect of halite (NaCl) on sandstone permeability and well injectivity during CO2 storage in saline aquifers.

Exploring the impact of hand movement delays and hand appearance on myoelectric prosthesis embodiment using immersive virtual reality (2017)
Journal Article
Hodrien, A., Galpin, A., Roberts, D., & Kenney, L. (2017). Exploring the impact of hand movement delays and hand appearance on myoelectric prosthesis embodiment using immersive virtual reality. Annual review of cybertherapy and telemedicine (Print), 15,

Prosthesis embodiment, the feeling of a prosthesis being part of the user, is reported by some prosthesis users. Myoelectric prostheses are electrically powered which produce a delay with fixed and variable components. The latter introduces uncertain... Read More about Exploring the impact of hand movement delays and hand appearance on myoelectric prosthesis embodiment using immersive virtual reality.

Improving the energy efficiency for the WBSN bottleneck zone based on random linear network coding (2017)
Journal Article
Al Shaheen, H., & Takruri-Rizk, H. (2018). Improving the energy efficiency for the WBSN bottleneck zone based on random linear network coding. IET Wireless Sensor Systems, 8(1), 17-25. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-wss.2017.0056

The reduction of energy consumption and the successful delivery of data are important for the Wireless Body Sensor Network (WBSN). Many studies have been proposed to improve energy efficiency, but most of them have not focussed on the biosensor nodes... Read More about Improving the energy efficiency for the WBSN bottleneck zone based on random linear network coding.

A study of the Scrum Master’s role (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Noll, J., Razzak, M., Bass, J., & Beecham, S. (2017). A study of the Scrum Master’s role. In M. Felderer, D. Méndez Fernández, B. Turhan, M. Kalinowski, F. Sarro, & D. Winkler (Eds.), Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 18th International Conference, PROFES 2017, Innsbruck, Austria, November 29–December 1, 2017, Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69926-4

Scrum is an increasingly common approach to software development adopted by organizations around the world. However, as organizations transition from traditional plan-driven development to agile development with Scrum, the question arises as to which... Read More about A study of the Scrum Master’s role.

Optimized superpixel and AdaBoost classifier for human thermal face recognition (2017)
Journal Article
Ibrahim, A., Tharwat, A., & Gaber, T. (2018). Optimized superpixel and AdaBoost classifier for human thermal face recognition. Signal, Image and Video Processing, 12(4), 711-719. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-017-1212-6

Infrared spectrum-based human recognition systems offer straightforward and robust solutions for achieving an excellent performance in uncontrolled illumination. In this paper, a human thermal face recognition model is proposed. The model consists of... Read More about Optimized superpixel and AdaBoost classifier for human thermal face recognition.

Transmission of medical messages of patient using control signal of cellular network (2017)
Journal Article
Aal-Nouman, M., Takruri-Rizk, H., & Hope, M. (2018). Transmission of medical messages of patient using control signal of cellular network. Telematics and Informatics, 35(1), 267-281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2017.11.008

The healthcare system needs to track and monitor patients’ status and information. One of the most important requirements is that the patient is able to access the service anywhere at any time. Systems are being developed using the Internet to monito... Read More about Transmission of medical messages of patient using control signal of cellular network.

Big pictures and small screens; how television sound research can work with, and for, hard of hearing viewers (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Ward, L., Shirley, B., & Davies, W. (2017, November). Big pictures and small screens; how television sound research can work with, and for, hard of hearing viewers. Presented at Reproduced Sound 2017, Nottingham, UK

Hearing loss affects one in six people in the United Kingdom and, given an ageing population, this figure is increasing.1 Numerous studies highlight that improvements in the intelligibility of television sound are required to increase television’s... Read More about Big pictures and small screens; how television sound research can work with, and for, hard of hearing viewers.

Turning up the background noise; The effects of salient non-speech audio elements on dialogue intelligibility in complex acoustic scenes (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Ward, L., Shirley, B., & Davies, W. (2017, November). Turning up the background noise; The effects of salient non-speech audio elements on dialogue intelligibility in complex acoustic scenes. Presented at Reproduced Sound, Southampton, UK

As an acoustic scene becomes more complex listeners increasingly rely on complementary intelligibility cues, such as context and language structure, to understand speech. Despite the role salient non-speech audio elements, like sound effects, play in... Read More about Turning up the background noise; The effects of salient non-speech audio elements on dialogue intelligibility in complex acoustic scenes.

Enhancing new user cold-start based on decision trees active learning by using past warm-users predictions (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Pozo, M., Chiky, R., Meziane, F., & Metais, E. (2017, November). Enhancing new user cold-start based on decision trees active learning by using past warm-users predictions. Presented at 33ème conférence sur la Gestion de Données — Principes, Technologies et Applications, Nancy, France

The cold-start is the situation in which the recommender system has no or not enough information about the (new) users/items i.e. their ratings/feedback; hence, the recommendations are not well performed. This issue is commonly encountered in techniq... Read More about Enhancing new user cold-start based on decision trees active learning by using past warm-users predictions.

Arabic machine transliteration using an attention-based encoder-decoder model (2017)
Journal Article
encoder-decoder model. Procedia Computer Science, 117, 287-297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2017.10.120

Transliteration is the process of converting words from a given source language alphabet to a target language alphabet, in a way that best preserves the phonetic and orthographic aspects of the transliterated words. Even though an important effort h... Read More about Arabic machine transliteration using an attention-based encoder-decoder model.

Crossover between liquid-like and gas-like behaviour in CH4 at 400 K (2017)
Journal Article
Smith, D., Hakeem, M., Parisiades, P., Maynard-Casely, H., Foster, D., Eden, D., …Proctor, J. (2017). Crossover between liquid-like and gas-like behaviour in CH4 at 400 K. Physical Review E, 96(5), 052113. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.96.052113

We report experimental evidence for a crossover between a liquid-like state and a gas-like state in fluid methane (CH4). This crossover is observed in all of our experiments, up to 397 K temperature; 2.1 times the critical temperature of methane. The... Read More about Crossover between liquid-like and gas-like behaviour in CH4 at 400 K.

Learning static spectral weightings for speech intelligibility enhancement in noise (2017)
Journal Article
Tang, Y., & Cooke, M. (2018). Learning static spectral weightings for speech intelligibility enhancement in noise. Computer Speech and Language, 49, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2017.10.003

Near-end speech enhancement works by modifying speech prior to presentation in a noisy environment, typically operating under a constraint of limited or no increase in speech level. One issue is the extent to which near-end enhancement techniques req... Read More about Learning static spectral weightings for speech intelligibility enhancement in noise.

The design and mathematical modelling of novel extensor bending pneumatic artificial muscles (EBPAMs) for soft exoskeletons (2017)
Journal Article
Al-Fahaam, H., Davis, S., & Nefti-Meziani, S. (2017). The design and mathematical modelling of novel extensor bending pneumatic artificial muscles (EBPAMs) for soft exoskeletons. Robotics and autonomous systems, 99, 63-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2017.10.010

This article presents the development of a power augmentation and rehabilitation exoskeleton based on a novel actuator. The proposed soft actuators are extensor bending pneumatic artificial muscles. This type of soft actuator is derived from extendin... Read More about The design and mathematical modelling of novel extensor bending pneumatic artificial muscles (EBPAMs) for soft exoskeletons.