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Effect of chemical reaction and viscous dissipation on MHD nanofluid flow over a horizontal cylinder : analytical solution (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Shukla, N., Rana, P., Beg, O., & Singha, B. (2016, December). Effect of chemical reaction and viscous dissipation on MHD nanofluid flow over a horizontal cylinder : analytical solution. Presented at International Conference on Recent Advances in Mathematical Sciences and its Applications RAMSA, Noida, India, Noida, India

An analytical study of the MHD boundary layer flow of electrically conducting nanofluid over a horizontal cylinder with the effects of chemical reaction and viscous dissipation is presented. Similarity transformations have been applied to transform t... Read More about Effect of chemical reaction and viscous dissipation on MHD nanofluid flow over a horizontal cylinder : analytical solution.

Developing domain-specific language for wireless sensor network application development (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Salman, A., & Al-Yasiri, A. (2016, December). Developing domain-specific language for wireless sensor network application development. Presented at The 11th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2016), Barcelona-Spain

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have a potential for a wide scope of uses in the real-world environment. However, WSN application development is considered a challenging and complex task because of the complexity in low-level details, which a develop... Read More about Developing domain-specific language for wireless sensor network application development.

SenNet : a programming toolkit to develop wireless sensor network applications (2016)
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wireless sensor network applications. Presented at The 8th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS'16), Larnaca - Cyprus

One of the reasons that Wireless Sensor Network(WSN) applications are not widely available is the complexity in their development. This is a consequence of the complex nature in low-level details, which a developer must manage. The vast majority of... Read More about SenNet : a programming toolkit to develop wireless sensor network applications.

A Quantitative Evaluation of Drive Patterns in Electrical Impedance Tomography (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Impedance Tomography. Presented at MOBIHEALTH 2016 - 6th EAI International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare, Milan

Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is a method used to display, through an image, the conductivity distribution inside a domain by using measurements taken from electrodes placed at its periphery. This paper presents our prototype of a stretchab... Read More about A Quantitative Evaluation of Drive Patterns in Electrical Impedance Tomography.

A new energy-efficient clustering protocol for wireless sensor networks based on Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Nuaimi, R. (2016, October). A new energy-efficient clustering protocol for wireless sensor networks based on Network Function Virtualisation (NFV). Presented at 6th International Conference on Information Communication and Management (ICICM), UK

In wireless sensor networks, minimising energy consumption is the most important challenge that should be considered in their design. Routing consumes a considerable amount of energy in the communication to perform various functions such as clusterin... Read More about A new energy-efficient clustering protocol for wireless sensor networks based on Network Function Virtualisation (NFV).

Performance of grey level statistic features versus Gabor wavelet for screening MRI brain tumors : a comparative study (2016)
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Hasan, A., Meziane, F., & Jalab, H. (2016, October). Performance of grey level statistic features versus Gabor wavelet for screening MRI brain tumors : a comparative study. Presented at 6th International Conference on Information Communication and Management, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK

Medical imaging technologies have an important role in the care of all human’s organs and disease entities, where they are used widely for the effective diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of the disease. The MRI has been among the most important of... Read More about Performance of grey level statistic features versus Gabor wavelet for screening MRI brain tumors : a comparative study.

Mining the crime survey to support crime profiling (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Wu, J., Meziane, F., Saraee, M., Aspin, R., & Hope, T. (2016, October). Mining the crime survey to support crime profiling. Presented at 2016 International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Understanding (IWCIM), Reggio Calabria, Italy

Crime surveys are conducted to record crimes by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in the United Kingdom every year. They contain rich information about crime. They record the crimes that are not reported to the police. However, their exploitat... Read More about Mining the crime survey to support crime profiling.

Wrist rehabilitation exoskeleton robot based on pneumatic soft actuators (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Fahaam, H., Davis, S., & Nefti-Meziani, S. (2016, October). Wrist rehabilitation exoskeleton robot based on pneumatic soft actuators. Presented at International Conference for Students on Applied Engineering (ICSAE),, Newcastle UK

The aim of this paper is to describe the design of a soft, wearable splint for wrist joint rehabilitation, based on pneumatic soft actuators. The extensor bending and the contraction types of pneumatic soft actuators have been adopted in this stud... Read More about Wrist rehabilitation exoskeleton robot based on pneumatic soft actuators.

3D position mapping of continuum arm (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Ibadi, A., Nefti-Meziani, S., & Davis, S. (2016, October). 3D position mapping of continuum arm. Presented at International Conference for Students on Applied Engineering, ICSAE 2016, Newcastle UK

Modelling a continuum arm is one of the major challenges in soft robotic researches. An accurate position model allows wider use of continuum robot arms in industrial and medical applications. Furthermore, accurate control can be achieved. This pape... Read More about 3D position mapping of continuum arm.

The impact of altitude, latitude, and endurance duration on the design of a high altitude, solar powered unmanned aerial vehicle (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Alsahlani, A., & Rahulan, T. (2016, October). The impact of altitude, latitude, and endurance duration on the design of a high altitude, solar powered unmanned aerial vehicle. Presented at The International Conference for Students on Applied Engineering ICSAE, Newcastle / United Kingdom

In this paper, a previously developed conceptual design tool has been used to study the impact of the latitude, altitude, and the flight duration on the weight estimation and the main characteristics of a high altitude, long endurance and solar power... Read More about The impact of altitude, latitude, and endurance duration on the design of a high altitude, solar powered unmanned aerial vehicle.

Biologically-inspired object recognition system for recognizing natural scene categories (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Alameer, A., Degenaar, P., & Nazarpour, K. (2016, October). Biologically-inspired object recognition system for recognizing natural scene categories. Presented at International Conference for Students on Applied Engineering (ISCAE), Newcastle upon Tyne

Visual processing has attracted a lot of attention in the last decade. Hierarchical approaches for object recognition are gradually becoming widely-accepted. Generally, they are inspired by the ventral stream of human visual cortex, which is in charg... Read More about Biologically-inspired object recognition system for recognizing natural scene categories.

Understanding our heritage : monitoring of energy and environmental performance of traditional terraced houses of Northern England (2016)
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Gonzalez, A., Roberts, B., Fitton, R., Swan, W., & Elkadi, H. (2016, October). Understanding our heritage : monitoring of energy and environmental performance of traditional terraced houses of Northern England. Presented at EECHB Energy Efficiency and Comfort of Historic Buildings, Brussels

Existing buildings play a key role in the achievement of the ambitious energy saving and greenhouse gas reduction targets that Europe has fixed for 2020 and 2050. Research has demonstrated that the impact in terms of decrease of energy use and CO2 wi... Read More about Understanding our heritage : monitoring of energy and environmental performance of traditional terraced houses of Northern England.

Behaviour of backfilled masonry arch bridges subjected to cyclic loading (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Augusthus Nelson, L., Swift, G., Smith, C., Gilbert, M., & Melbourne, C. (2016, October). Behaviour of backfilled masonry arch bridges subjected to cyclic loading. Presented at 8th International Conference on Arch Bridges, Wrocław, Poland

Experimental research has demonstrated that the interaction between soil fill surrounding the arch barrel of a masonry arch bridge structure has a significant influence on ultimate limit state behaviour. However, little work has been carried out to... Read More about Behaviour of backfilled masonry arch bridges subjected to cyclic loading.

Proposed permissible limit state assessment criteria for masonry arch bridges (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Gilbert, M., Melbourne, C., Smith, C., Augusthus Nelson, L., & Swift, G. (2016, October). Proposed permissible limit state assessment criteria for masonry arch bridges. Presented at ARCH '16. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Arch Bridges, Wroclaw, Poland

The Ultimate Limit State (ULS) is commonly used when assessing masonry arch bridges. Traditionally one or more, relatively large, partial factors are applied to the ULS to determine the level of service loading that can be safely applied to a given b... Read More about Proposed permissible limit state assessment criteria for masonry arch bridges.

Weight estimation of a conceptual wing for a high altitude, solar powered unmanned aerial vehicle (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Alsahlani, A., & Rahulan, T. (2016, October). Weight estimation of a conceptual wing for a high altitude, solar powered unmanned aerial vehicle. Presented at 5th Aircraft Structural Design Conference, Manchester, UK

In this paper, an in-house developed pre-conceptual design methodology and a composite structure module have been used to study the impact of aerodynamic performance, payload requirements and wing thickness to estimate the weight. In the first part... Read More about Weight estimation of a conceptual wing for a high altitude, solar powered unmanned aerial vehicle.

Measuring the embodied carbon content of concrete paving (2016)
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Nicholls, R., & Richardson, C. (2016, September). Measuring the embodied carbon content of concrete paving. Presented at International Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) Conference, Leeds, UK

This paper summarises the outcomes of a PhD research project by Richardson (2009) to measure the embodied carbon content of concrete paving and to reveal the barriers to its accurate measurement. This is a current area of research due to the concerns... Read More about Measuring the embodied carbon content of concrete paving.

Optimizing handover of as-built data using BIM for highways (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Bayar, M., Aziz, Z., Tezel, B., Arayici, Y., & Biscaya, S. (2016, September). Optimizing handover of as-built data using BIM for highways. Presented at 1st International (UK) BIM Academic Forum Conference, Glasgow UK

An efficient maintenance of the UK’s transportation network is of critical importance to the country’s economy and among the top priorities of the government and public agencies (e.g. Network Rail, Highways England). The public transportation agencie... Read More about Optimizing handover of as-built data using BIM for highways.

Bird detection in audio : a survey and a challenge (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Stowell, D., Wood, M., Stylianou, Y., & Glotin, H. (2016, September). Bird detection in audio : a survey and a challenge. Presented at 26th IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Salerno, Italy

Many biological monitoring projects rely on acoustic detection of birds. Despite increasingly large datasets, this detection is often manual or semi-automatic, requiring manual tuning/postprocessing. We review the state of the art in automatic bird s... Read More about Bird detection in audio : a survey and a challenge.