Flame assisted chemical vapour deposition NiO hole transport layers for mesoporous carbon perovskite cells (2019)
Journal Article
Yates, H., Meroni, M., Raptis, D., Hodgkinson, J., & Watson, T. (2019). Flame assisted chemical vapour deposition NiO hole transport layers for mesoporous carbon perovskite cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 7(42), 13235-13242. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9TC03922H

Flame Assisted Chemical Vapour Deposition was utilised to directly deposit polycrystalline mesoporous NiO to enhance charge transport within carbon perovskite solar cells (C-PSC). This versatile technique is highly suited... Read More about Flame assisted chemical vapour deposition NiO hole transport layers for mesoporous carbon perovskite cells.

Transition from gas-like to liquid-like behavior in supercritical N2 (2019)
Journal Article
Proctor, J., Pruteanu, C., Morrison, I., Crowe, I., & Loveday, J. (2019). Transition from gas-like to liquid-like behavior in supercritical N2. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 10(21), 6584-6589. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02358

We have studied in detail the transition from gas-like to rigid liquidlike behavior in supercritical N2 at 300 K (2.4 TC). Our study combines neutron diffraction and Raman spectroscopy with ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. We observe a narr... Read More about Transition from gas-like to liquid-like behavior in supercritical N2.

Security of Streaming Media Communications with Logistic Map and Self-Adaptive Detection-Based Steganography (2019)
Journal Article
Peng, J., Jiang, Y., Tang, S., & Meziane, F. (2021). Security of Streaming Media Communications with Logistic Map and Self-Adaptive Detection-Based Steganography. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 18(4), 1962-1973. https://doi.org/10.1109/TDSC.2019.2946138

Voice over IP (VoIP) is finding its way into several applications, but its security concerns still remain. This paper shows how a new self-adaptive steganographic method can ensure the security of covert VoIP communications over the Internet. In th... Read More about Security of Streaming Media Communications with Logistic Map and Self-Adaptive Detection-Based Steganography.

Modeling the behavior of radially pinned brick triplets (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Haynes, J., Naggasa, A., Augusthus-Nelson, L., El-basir, F., & Alsaleh, A. (2019, October). Modeling the behavior of radially pinned brick triplets. Presented at 9th International Conference on Arch Bridges, Porto, Portugal

The continued use of many UK highway and railway masonry arch bridges is dependent upon maintaining robustness as the materials deteriorate over time. A common failure in multi-ring brickwork arches subject to fatigue, is ring separation. This pape... Read More about Modeling the behavior of radially pinned brick triplets.

Personality and cognitive factors in the assessment of multimodal stimuli in immersive virtual environments (2019)
Thesis
Bailey, J. Personality and cognitive factors in the assessment of multimodal stimuli in immersive virtual environments. (Thesis). University of Salford

Literature in the study of human response to immersive virtual reality systems often deals with the phenomenon of presence. It can be shown that audio and imagery with spatial information can interact to affect presence in users of immersive virtual... Read More about Personality and cognitive factors in the assessment of multimodal stimuli in immersive virtual environments.

Melting curve and phase diagram of vanadium under high-pressure and high-temperature conditions (2019)
Journal Article
Errandonea, D., Macleod, S., Burakovsky, L., Santamaria-Perez, D., Proctor, J., Cynn, H., & Mezouar, M. (2019). Melting curve and phase diagram of vanadium under high-pressure and high-temperature conditions. Physical Review B, 100(9), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.100.094111

We report a combined experimental and theoretical study of the melting curve and the structural behavior of vanadium under extreme pressure and temperature. We performed powder x-ray diffraction experiments up to 120 GPa and 4000 K, determining th... Read More about Melting curve and phase diagram of vanadium under high-pressure and high-temperature conditions.

A methodology for ontology reuse : the case of the abdominal ultrasound ontology (2019)
Journal Article
Zulkarnain, N., & Meziane, F. (2019). A methodology for ontology reuse : the case of the abdominal ultrasound ontology. International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies, 15(4), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJIIT.2019100101

There are abundance of existing biomedical ontologies such as the National Cancer Institute Thesaurus (NCIT), the Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA) and the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT). Implementing these ontol... Read More about A methodology for ontology reuse : the case of the abdominal ultrasound ontology.

Pruning neural networks using multi-armed bandits (2019)
Journal Article
Ameen, S., & Vadera, S. (2020). Pruning neural networks using multi-armed bandits. Computer Journal, 63(7), 1099-1108. https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/bxz078

The successful application of deep learning has led to increasing expectations of their use in embedded systems. This in turn, has created the need to find ways of reducing the size of neural networks. Decreasing the size of a neural network requi... Read More about Pruning neural networks using multi-armed bandits.

Viewpoint : graphene is thin, but not infinitely so (2019)
Journal Article
Proctor, J. (2019). Viewpoint : graphene is thin, but not infinitely so. Physics - Spotlighting Exceptional Research, 12, 104-104. https://doi.org/10.1103/Physics.12.104

Atomically thin graphene is considered a prototypical 2D material, but high-pressure experiments now reveal the 3D nature of its mechanical properties.

Features in extractive supervised single-document summarization : case of Persian news (2019)
Journal Article
Rezaei, H., Moeinzadeh, S., Shahgholian, A., & Saraee, M. (2019). Features in extractive supervised single-document summarization : case of Persian news

Text summarization has been one of the most challenging areas of research in NLP. Much effort has been made to overcome this challenge by using either the abstractive or extractive methods. Extractive methods are more popular, due to their simplicity... Read More about Features in extractive supervised single-document summarization : case of Persian news.

Pupil dilation reveals changes in listening effort due to energetic and informational masking (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Woodcock, J., Fazenda, B., Cox, T., & Davies, W. (2019, September). Pupil dilation reveals changes in listening effort due to energetic and informational masking. Presented at ICA 2019, Aachen, Germany

Pupil dilation has previously been shown to be a useful involuntary marker of listening effort. An inverse relationship between pupil diameter and signal to noise ratio has been shown when speech is energetically masked by noise. The work reported he... Read More about Pupil dilation reveals changes in listening effort due to energetic and informational masking.

Adding the room to the mix : perceptual aspects of modal resonance in live audio (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Fazenda, B., Bolla, C., & Palladini, A. (2019, September). Adding the room to the mix : perceptual aspects of modal resonance in live audio. Presented at 5th Workshop on Intelligent Music Production, Birmingham, UK

The problem of room acoustics correction in live sound is still an open one. In particular, the audible artefacts caused by low frequency resonances are still a major factor in determining the perceived quality of a live show. Despite many years of... Read More about Adding the room to the mix : perceptual aspects of modal resonance in live audio.

CUPS : Secure Opportunistic Cloud of Things Framework based on Attribute Based Encryption Scheme Supporting Access Policy Update (2019)
Journal Article
Belguith, S., Kaaniche, N., & Russello, G. (2020). CUPS : Secure Opportunistic Cloud of Things Framework based on Attribute Based Encryption Scheme Supporting Access Policy Update. Security and Privacy, 3(4), e85. https://doi.org/10.1002/spy2.85

The ever‐growing number of internet connected devices, coupled with the new computing trends, namely within emerging opportunistic networks, engenders several security concerns. Most of the exchanged data between the internet of things (IoT) devices... Read More about CUPS : Secure Opportunistic Cloud of Things Framework based on Attribute Based Encryption Scheme Supporting Access Policy Update.

Influence of variable viscosity and thermal conductivity, hydrodynamic and thermal slips on magnetohydrodynamic micropolar flow: a numerical study (2019)
Journal Article
Rahman, M., Uddin, M., Beg, O., & Kadir, A. (2019). Influence of variable viscosity and thermal conductivity, hydrodynamic and thermal slips on magnetohydrodynamic micropolar flow: a numerical study. Heat Transfer - Asian Research, 48(8), 3928-3944. https://doi.org/10.1002/htj.21575

Thermophysical and wall slip effects arise in many areas of nuclear technology. Motivated by such applications, in this article the collective influence ofvariable viscosity, thermal conductivity, velocity and thermal slipse... Read More about Influence of variable viscosity and thermal conductivity, hydrodynamic and thermal slips on magnetohydrodynamic micropolar flow: a numerical study.

Improving Arabic neural machine translation via n-best list re-ranking (2019)
Journal Article
re-ranking. Machine Translation, 33, 279-314. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10590-019-09237-6

Even though the rise of the Neural Machine Translation (NMT) paradigm has brought a great deal of improvement to the machine translation field, the current translation results are still not perfect. One of the main reasons for t... Read More about Improving Arabic neural machine translation via n-best list re-ranking.

Exergy analysis of a diesel engine with waste cooking biodiesel and triacetin (2019)
Journal Article
Odibi, C., Babaie, M., Zare, A., Nabi, M., Bodisco, T., & Brown, R. (2019). Exergy analysis of a diesel engine with waste cooking biodiesel and triacetin. Energy Conversion and Management, 198(111912), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2019.111912

This study uses the first and second laws of thermodynamics to investigate the effect of 18 oxygenated fuels on the quality and quantity of energy in a turbo-charged, common-rail six19 cylinder diesel engine. This work was performed using a range of... Read More about Exergy analysis of a diesel engine with waste cooking biodiesel and triacetin.

Guest editors’ note : Special issue on object-based audio (2019)
Journal Article
Davies, W., & Spors, S. (2019). Guest editors’ note : Special issue on object-based audio. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 67(7/8),

Personalization in object-based audio for accessibility : a review of advancements for hearing impaired listeners (2019)
Journal Article
Ward, L., & Shirley, B. (2019). Personalization in object-based audio for accessibility : a review of advancements for hearing impaired listeners. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 67(7/8), 584-597. https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2019.0021

Hearing loss is widespread and significantly impacts an individual’s ability to engage with broadcast media. Access can be improved through new object-based audio personalization methods. Utilizing the literature on hearing loss and intelligibility t... Read More about Personalization in object-based audio for accessibility : a review of advancements for hearing impaired listeners.

User-guided rendering of audio objects using an interactive genetic algorithm (2019)
Journal Article
Wilson, A., & Fazenda, B. (2019). User-guided rendering of audio objects using an interactive genetic algorithm. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 67(7/8), 522-530. https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2019.0035

Object-based audio allows for personalisation of content, perhaps to improve accessibility or to increase quality of experience more generally. This paper describes the design and evaluation of an interactive audio renderer, which is used to optimi... Read More about User-guided rendering of audio objects using an interactive genetic algorithm.

Improved FTO/NiOx interfaces for inverted planar triple cation perovskite solar cells (2019)
Journal Article
Afzaal, M., Yates, H., Walter, A., & Nicolay, S. (2019). Improved FTO/NiOx interfaces for inverted planar triple cation perovskite solar cells. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 9(5), 1302-1308. https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2019.2927927

Front electrodes of fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO) thin films and hole transporting layers of nickel oxide thin films have been combined to fabricate 1.063 cm2 inverted planar solar cells with cesium-containing triple cation p... Read More about Improved FTO/NiOx interfaces for inverted planar triple cation perovskite solar cells.