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Design, Implementation, and Kinematics of a Twisting Robot Continuum Arm Inspired by Human Forearm Movements (2022)
Journal Article
Al-Ibadi, A., Abbas, K. A., Al-Atwani, M., & Al-Fahaam, H. (2022). Design, Implementation, and Kinematics of a Twisting Robot Continuum Arm Inspired by Human Forearm Movements. Robotics, 11(3), 55. https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics11030055

In this article, a soft robot arm that has the ability to twist in two directions is designed. This continuum arm is inspired by the twisting movements of the human upper limb. In this novel continuum arm, two contractor pneumatic muscle actuators (P... Read More about Design, Implementation, and Kinematics of a Twisting Robot Continuum Arm Inspired by Human Forearm Movements.

A hybrid-structure offset-QAM filter-bank multi-carrier MIMO system (2022)
Thesis
Abou-elkheir, A. A hybrid-structure offset-QAM filter-bank multi-carrier MIMO system. (Thesis). University of Salford

Offset quadrature amplitude modulation (OQAM) filter-bank multi-carrier (FBMC), has great potential for boosting the spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE) of future communication systems. This is due to its superior spectral localizatio... Read More about A hybrid-structure offset-QAM filter-bank multi-carrier MIMO system.

Mechanical Engineering and the Integrated Engineering Works (2022)
Book Chapter
Nevell, M. Mechanical Engineering and the Integrated Engineering Works. In The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology (274-290). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199693962.013.8

This chapter looks at the development of mechanical engineering and integrated engineering works in Britain from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. It focusses on the main buildings on the sites, including pattern shop, foundry and forge, fit... Read More about Mechanical Engineering and the Integrated Engineering Works.

The Archaeology of the Iron and Steel Industries in Britain (2022)
Book Chapter
Nevell, M. The Archaeology of the Iron and Steel Industries in Britain. In The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology (323-340). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199693962.013.7

This chapter deals with the physical remains of the iron and steel industry in Britain. The focus is on extraction and processing rather than the products. The archaeological evidence spans the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, but with an emphas... Read More about The Archaeology of the Iron and Steel Industries in Britain.

Global Communications, 1561 to 2016 (2022)
Book Chapter
Linge, N. Global Communications, 1561 to 2016. In The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology (425-444). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199693962.013.44

This chapter explores how the UK has always been at the forefront of global communications. It starts with packet ships that were used to carry handwritten messages across the oceans of the world and established Falmouth in Cornwall as an internation... Read More about Global Communications, 1561 to 2016.

Industrial Workers’ Housing in Britain (2022)
Book Chapter
Nevell, M. Industrial Workers’ Housing in Britain. In The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology (507-528). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199693962.013.32

This chapter focuses on the archaeological and standing buildings evidence for industrial housing directly associated with industry and urbanization in Britain during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. Such housing was a neces... Read More about Industrial Workers’ Housing in Britain.

Warehouses <i>c</i>.1770 to 1914 (2022)
Book Chapter
Nevell, M. Warehouses c.1770 to 1914. In The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology (445-456). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199693962.013.28

This chapter covers the new warehouse types of the industrial period in Britain, from the mid-eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. This includes those commercial building types involved with the short- to medium-term storage and distrib... Read More about Warehouses <i>c</i>.1770 to 1914.

The Archaeology of the British Coal Industry (2022)
Book Chapter
Palmer, M., & Nevell, M. The Archaeology of the British Coal Industry. In The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology (74-94). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199693962.013.10

This chapter concentrates on the archaeology of the coal industry within Britain, with a focus on extraction, processing, and transport, while placing the eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century industrial remains within a wider European cont... Read More about The Archaeology of the British Coal Industry.

Despite disruptions: the resilience of the design studio model (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Coucill, L., & Crompton, E. (2022, April). Despite disruptions: the resilience of the design studio model. Presented at AMPS: a focus on pedagogy: Teaching, Learning and Research in the Modern Academy, Online/Virtual

Highly Fast Innovative Overcurrent Protection Scheme for Microgrid Using Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms and Nonstandard Tripping Characteristics (2022)
Journal Article
Alasali, F., Zarour, E., Holderbaum, W., & Nusair, K. (2022). Highly Fast Innovative Overcurrent Protection Scheme for Microgrid Using Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms and Nonstandard Tripping Characteristics. IEEE Access, 10, https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3168158

The incorporation of renewable energy microgrids brings along several new protection coordination challenges due to the new and stochastic behaviour of power flow and fault currents distribution. An optimal coordination scheme is a potential solution... Read More about Highly Fast Innovative Overcurrent Protection Scheme for Microgrid Using Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms and Nonstandard Tripping Characteristics.

Tangent hyperbolic non-Newtonian radiative bioconvection nanofluid flow from a bi-directional stretching surface with electro-magneto-hydrodynamic, Joule heating and modified diffusion effects (2022)
Journal Article
Prakash, J., Tripathi, D., Akkurt, N., & Beg, O. (2022). Tangent hyperbolic non-Newtonian radiative bioconvection nanofluid flow from a bi-directional stretching surface with electro-magneto-hydrodynamic, Joule heating and modified diffusion effects. European Physical Journal Plus, 137(472), https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-022-02613-x

Motivated by bio-inspired nano-technological functional coating flows, in the current paper a
theoretical study of laminar, steady, incompressible bioconvection flow of a tangential hyperbolic
(non-Newtonian) nanofluid from a bi-directional stretch... Read More about Tangent hyperbolic non-Newtonian radiative bioconvection nanofluid flow from a bi-directional stretching surface with electro-magneto-hydrodynamic, Joule heating and modified diffusion effects.

The Future of Esports (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Miah, A. (2022, April). The Future of Esports. Presented at ESIC Global Esports Summit, London

On the stability of isolated iridium sites in N-rich frameworks against agglomeration under reducing conditions (2022)
Journal Article
Iemhoff, A., Vennewald, M., Artz, J., Mebrahtu, C., Meledin, A., Weirich, T. E., …Palkovits, R. (2022). On the stability of isolated iridium sites in N-rich frameworks against agglomeration under reducing conditions. ChemCatChem, 14(9), https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.202200179

Stabilization of single metal atoms is a persistent challenge in heterogeneous catalysis. Especially supported late transitions metals are prone to undergo agglomeration to nanoparticles under reducing conditions. In this study, nitrogen-rich covalen... Read More about On the stability of isolated iridium sites in N-rich frameworks against agglomeration under reducing conditions.

A Fruit of the Art of Fire: The Glass Industry in Britain (2022)
Book Chapter
Miller, I. (2022). A Fruit of the Art of Fire: The Glass Industry in Britain. In The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology (227–254). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199693962.013.17

This chapter aims to provide an overview of glass manufacture in Britain, with a focus on its transition from craft-working status in the sixteenth century to the industrial mass production of the nineteenth century. It uses evidence for innovation f... Read More about A Fruit of the Art of Fire: The Glass Industry in Britain.

Moment analysis of unsteady bi-component species (drug) transport with coupled chemical reaction in non-Newtonian blood flow (2022)
Journal Article
Beg, O., & Roy, A. (in press). Moment analysis of unsteady bi-component species (drug) transport with coupled chemical reaction in non-Newtonian blood flow. Chinese Journal of Physics,

Motivated by exploring the fluid dynamics of dual drug delivery systems in biomedicine, a mathematical analysis of the bi-component species transport (convective-diffusion) in rheological blood flow with bulk chemical reaction through a two-dimension... Read More about Moment analysis of unsteady bi-component species (drug) transport with coupled chemical reaction in non-Newtonian blood flow.

Power enhancement of a turbo-charged industrial diesel engine by using of a waste heat recovery system based on inverted Brayton and organic Rankine cycles (2022)
Journal Article
Farhad, S., Babaie, M., Mohammad Mahdi, N., & Mohammad Hossein, A. (2022). Power enhancement of a turbo-charged industrial diesel engine by using of a waste heat recovery system based on inverted Brayton and organic Rankine cycles. Fuel, 322(124036),

In this study, energy assessment is performed for an industrial turbocharged diesel engine integrated with a novel waste heat recovery (WHR) system. The exhaust energy is used in inverted Brayton cycle (IBC) for waste heat recovery purpose. Also, the... Read More about Power enhancement of a turbo-charged industrial diesel engine by using of a waste heat recovery system based on inverted Brayton and organic Rankine cycles.

Elimination of Off-Target Effect by Chemical Modification of 5'-End of Small Interfering RNA (2022)
Journal Article
Shiohama, Y., Fujita, R., Sonokawa, M., Hisano, M., Kotake, Y., Krstic- Demonacos, M., …Fujii, M. (2022). Elimination of Off-Target Effect by Chemical Modification of 5'-End of Small Interfering RNA. Nucleic Acid Therapeutics, 32(5), 438-447. https://doi.org/10.1089/nat.2021.0068

In this study, the efficiency of RNA interference of small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) bearing 5′-O-methyl-2′-deoxythymidine (X) and 5′-amino-2′, 5′-dideoxythymidine (Z) at the 5′-end of the sense strand and the antisense strand of siRNA was investigat... Read More about Elimination of Off-Target Effect by Chemical Modification of 5'-End of Small Interfering RNA.

Interval-based identification of response-critical joints: A tool for model refinement (2022)
Journal Article
Meggitt, J. (2022). Interval-based identification of response-critical joints: A tool for model refinement. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 529, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2022.116850

To accurately model the dynamics of a complex built-up structure it is often necessary to forgo the assumption of ideal rigid coupling between components. The dynamic behaviour of inter-component connections, or joints, can have a significant impact... Read More about Interval-based identification of response-critical joints: A tool for model refinement.

Transforming slums through urban intensification (2022)
Journal Article
Omer, K., Watts, G., & Moustaka, A. (2022). Transforming slums through urban intensification. ISUF Annual Conference proceedings, https://doi.org/10.17868/strath.00080356

Unplanned rapid urbanization is leading to the mass formation of informal settlements in many developing cities around the world. It is estimated that globally approximately 30% of urban residents inhabit such informal settlements. These settlements... Read More about Transforming slums through urban intensification.