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Rapid prototyping and its role in supporting architectural design process (2018)
Journal Article
Bayar, M., & Aziz, Z. (2018). Rapid prototyping and its role in supporting architectural design process. Journal of Architectural Engineering, 24(3), https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29AE.1943-5568.0000307

Model making is a crucial part of the design development for evaluating the form, fit and functionality of a design before a notable investment is performed. The emergence of novel technologies and their increasing uptake are helping to redefine the... Read More about Rapid prototyping and its role in supporting architectural design process.

Cross-species referential signalling events in domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) (2018)
Journal Article
Worsley, H., & O'Hara, S. (2018). Cross-species referential signalling events in domestic dogs (Canis familiaris). Animal Cognition, 21(4), 457-465. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-018-1181-3

Referential gestures are used by a signaller to draw a recipient’s attention to a specific object, individual or event in the environment. These gestures have received much research attention in relation to human and non-human primates with great ape... Read More about Cross-species referential signalling events in domestic dogs (Canis familiaris).

Assessing climate risks across different business sectors and industries : an investigation of methodological challenges at national scale for the UK (2018)
Journal Article
Surminski, S., Di Mauro, M., Baglee, J., Connell, R., Hankinson, J., Haworth, A., …Proverbs, D. (2018). Assessing climate risks across different business sectors and industries : an investigation of methodological challenges at national scale for the UK. Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 376(2121), #20170307. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2017.0307

Climate change poses severe risks for businesses, which companies as well as governments need to understand in order to take appropriate steps to manage those. This, however, represents a significant challenge as climate change risk assessment is its... Read More about Assessing climate risks across different business sectors and industries : an investigation of methodological challenges at national scale for the UK.

Novel soft bending actuator based power augmentation hand exoskeleton controlled by human intention (2018)
Journal Article
Al-Fahaam, H., Davis, S., Nefti-Meziani, S., & Theodoridis, T. (2018). Novel soft bending actuator based power augmentation hand exoskeleton controlled by human intention. Intelligent Service Robotics, 11(3), 247-268. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11370-018-0250-4

This article presents the development of a soft material power augmentation wearable robot using novel bending soft artificial muscles. This soft exoskeleton was developed as a human hand power augmentation system for healthy or partially hand disabl... Read More about Novel soft bending actuator based power augmentation hand exoskeleton controlled by human intention.

Development of a SMA-fishing-line-McKibben bending actuator (2018)
Journal Article
Chaoqun, X., Guo, J., Yang, C., Lina, H., & Davis, S. (2018). Development of a SMA-fishing-line-McKibben bending actuator. IEEE Access, 6, 27183-27189. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2830314

High power-to-weight ratio soft artificial muscles are of overarching importance to enable inherently safer solutions to human-robot interactions. Traditional air driven soft McKibben artificial muscles are linear actuators. It is impossible for them... Read More about Development of a SMA-fishing-line-McKibben bending actuator.

End-user stakeholders’ management framework for public private partnership road project in Nigeria (2018)
Thesis
Toriola-Coker, O. End-user stakeholders’ management framework for public private partnership road project in Nigeria. (Thesis). University of Salford

Many developing nations such as Nigeria have embraced PPP approach in order to bridge their significant infrastructural gaps such as prisons, roads, schools, rail tracks and train systems, among others, through Public Private Partnership (PPP) scheme... Read More about End-user stakeholders’ management framework for public private partnership road project in Nigeria.

Eye of sustainable planning : a conceptual heritage-led urban regeneration planning framework (2018)
Journal Article
Dogruyol, K., Aziz, Z., & Arayici, Y. (2018). Eye of sustainable planning : a conceptual heritage-led urban regeneration planning framework. Sustainability, 10(5), no.1343. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10051343

Implementation and integration of sustainable development within a management framework is the main problem of urban regeneration projects. Therefore, this paper aims to develop a sustainable heritage-led urban regeneration planning framework, which... Read More about Eye of sustainable planning : a conceptual heritage-led urban regeneration planning framework.

A risk-based maintenance decision-making approach for railway asset management (2018)
Journal Article
Wang, L., An, M., Qin, Y., & Jia, L. (2018). A risk-based maintenance decision-making approach for railway asset management. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, 28(4), 453-483. https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218194018400065

This paper presents a risk-based maintenance decision making modeling methodology for railway asset maintenance optimization, which takes risk and maintenance cost objectives into consideration in the decision making process. A bottom-up risk analysi... Read More about A risk-based maintenance decision-making approach for railway asset management.

Stagger Lee : how violent nostalgia created an American folk song standard (2018)
Journal Article
Williams, D. (2018). Stagger Lee : how violent nostalgia created an American folk song standard. Journal of Extreme Anthropology, 2(1), 89-97. https://doi.org/10.5617/jea.5546

“Stagger” Lee Shelton (1865-1912) was an African-American carriage driver and sometime-pimp from Missouri. He became immortalized in song as a folklore antihero after murdering a drinking partner following a political argument gone bad in a St Louis... Read More about Stagger Lee : how violent nostalgia created an American folk song standard.

Ontology and framework for semantic labelling of document data and software methods (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Clausner, C., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2018). Ontology and framework for semantic labelling of document data and software methods. . https://doi.org/10.1109/DAS.2018.46

We present a metadata labelling framework for datasets, software tools, and workflows. An ontology for document image analysis was developed with deep support for historical data. An accompanying open source software framework was implemented to enab... Read More about Ontology and framework for semantic labelling of document data and software methods.

A circular pneumatic muscle actuator (CPMA) inspired by human skeletal muscles (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Ibadi, A., Nefti-Meziani, S., & Davis, S. (2018, April). A circular pneumatic muscle actuator (CPMA) inspired by human skeletal muscles. Presented at RoboSoft 2018, Livorno, Italy

This paper illustrates the design, implementation and kinematics of a novel circular pneumatic muscle actuator (CPMA), inspired by the skeletal muscles of a human. The variation of the inner diameter of this actuator is a unique feature. Furthermore,... Read More about A circular pneumatic muscle actuator (CPMA) inspired by human skeletal muscles.

Urban social-ecological innovation : implications for adaptive natural resource management (2018)
Journal Article
Dennis, M., & James, P. (2018). Urban social-ecological innovation : implications for adaptive natural resource management. Ecological Economics, 150, 153-164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.04.005

The urban landscape, as home to the majority of the global population, has been the scene of significant and lasting ecological degradation. Consequently, modern cities rely on distant and geographically vast areas for the provision of a range of imp... Read More about Urban social-ecological innovation : implications for adaptive natural resource management.

Leveraging machine learning techniques for Windows ransomware network traffic detection (2018)
Book Chapter
Alhawi, O., Baldwin, J., & Dehghantanha, A. (2018). Leveraging machine learning techniques for Windows ransomware network traffic detection. In A. Dehghantanha, M. Conti, & T. Dargahi (Eds.), Cyber Threat Intelligence (93-106). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73951-9_5

Ransomware has become a significant global threat with the ransomware-as-a-service model enabling easy availability and deployment, and the potential for high revenues creating a viable criminal business model. Individuals, private companies or publi... Read More about Leveraging machine learning techniques for Windows ransomware network traffic detection.

The functional response and resilience in small waterbodies along land-use and environmental gradients (2018)
Journal Article
Thornhill, I., Biggs, J., Hill, M., Briers, R., Gledhill, D., Wood, P., …Hassall, C. (2018). The functional response and resilience in small waterbodies along land-use and environmental gradients. Global Change Biology, 24(7), 3079-3092. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14149

There is growing recognition of the essential services provided to humanity by functionally intact ecosystems. Freshwater ecosystems are found throughout agricultural and urban landscapes and provide a wide range of ecosystem services, but globally t... Read More about The functional response and resilience in small waterbodies along land-use and environmental gradients.

Active soft end effectors for efficient grasping and safe handling (2018)
Journal Article
Al-Ibadi, A., Nefti-Meziani, S., & Davis, S. (2018). Active soft end effectors for efficient grasping and safe handling. IEEE Access, 6, 23591-23601. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2829351

The end effector is a major part of a robot system and it defines the task the robot can perform. However, typically, a gripper is suited to grasping only a single or relatively small number of different objects. Dexterous grippers offer greater gras... Read More about Active soft end effectors for efficient grasping and safe handling.

Vibro-electric transfer path analysis of a solid body electric guitar (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Elliott, A., Magill, J., & Kendrick, P. (2018, April). Vibro-electric transfer path analysis of a solid body electric guitar. Presented at Acoustics 2018, Cardiff, Wales

Solid bodied electric guitars typically employ one or more magnetic pickups attached to the guitar body in close proximity to the guitar strings. At low frequencies the amplitude of the vibrating string is typically far greater than vibrations transm... Read More about Vibro-electric transfer path analysis of a solid body electric guitar.

Morphodynamic simulation of sediment deposition patterns on a recently stripped bedrock anastomosed channel (2018)
Journal Article
channel. Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 377, 51-56. https://doi.org/10.5194/piahs-377-51-2018

Some mixed bedrock-alluvial dryland rivers are known to undergo cycles of alluvial building during low flow periods, punctuated by stripping events during rare high magnitude flows. We focus on the Olifants River, Kruger National Park, South Africa,... Read More about Morphodynamic simulation of sediment deposition patterns on a recently stripped bedrock anastomosed channel.