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Sports (2015)
Book Chapter
Miah, A. (2015). Sports. In H. Have (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics (1-11). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_399-1

This chapter explores the relationship between bioethics and sport ethics, which changed dramatically in the early 2000 when the genetics era generated a series of new questions about the ends of sport and how they would interface more widely with a... Read More about Sports.

Fine-grained fault-tolerant adaptive routing for networks-on-chip (2015)
Book Chapter
Liu, J., Harkin, J., Maguire, L., Li, Y., Wan, L., & Luo, Y. (2015). Fine-grained fault-tolerant adaptive routing for networks-on-chip. In Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing : 15th International Conference, ICA3PP 2015, Zhangjiajie, China, November 18-20, 2015, Proceedings, Part IV (492-505). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27140-8_34

Due to the increase of physical defects in advanced manufacturing processes, Networks-on-Chip (NoC) system reliability is a critical challenge as faults often occur post manufacturing. Therefore it is important to add fault tolerance to the NoC syste... Read More about Fine-grained fault-tolerant adaptive routing for networks-on-chip.

Responses of tropical bats to habitat fragmentation, logging, and deforestation (2015)
Book Chapter
Meyer, C. F., Struebig, M., & Willig, M. (2016). Responses of tropical bats to habitat fragmentation, logging, and deforestation. In C. C. Voigt, & T. Kingston (Eds.), Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World (63-103). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25220-9_4

Land-use change is a key driver of the global biodiversity crisis and a particularly serious threat to tropical biodiversity. Throughout the tropics, the staggering pace of deforestation, logging, and conversion of forested habitat to other land uses... Read More about Responses of tropical bats to habitat fragmentation, logging, and deforestation.

Bio-inspired hybrid framework for multi-view face detection (2015)
Book Chapter
McCarroll, N., Belatreche, A., Harkin, J., & Li, Y. (2015). Bio-inspired hybrid framework for multi-view face detection. In Neural Information Processing : 22nd International Conference, ICONIP 2015, November 9-12, 2015, Proceedings, Part IV (232-239). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26561-2_28

Reliable face detection in completely uncontrolled settings still remains a challenging task. This paper introduces a novel hybrid learning strategy that achieves robust in-plane and out-of-plane multi-view face detection through the enhanced impleme... Read More about Bio-inspired hybrid framework for multi-view face detection.

EDL : an extended delay learning based remote supervised method for spiking neurons (2015)
Book Chapter
Taherkhani, A., Belatreche, A., Li, Y., & Maguire, L. (2015). EDL : an extended delay learning based remote supervised method for spiking neurons. In Neural Information Processing : 22nd International Conference, ICONIP 2015, Istanbul, Turkey, November 9-12, 2015, Proceedings, Part II (190-197). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26535-3_22

This paper presents an Extended Delay Learning based Remote Supervised Method, called EDL, which extends the existing DL-ReSuMe learning method previously proposed by the authors for mapping spatio-temporal input spiking patterns into desired spike t... Read More about EDL : an extended delay learning based remote supervised method for spiking neurons.

Multi-level governance, regions and science in France : between competition and equality - selected reading (2015)
Book Chapter
Crespy, C., Heraud, J., & Perry, B. (2015). Multi-level governance, regions and science in France : between competition and equality - selected reading. In I. Bache, & M. Flinders (Eds.), Multi-level Governance : Essential Readings. Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784716240

The term ‘multi-level governance’ (MLG) has emerged from its origins in EU studies in the early 1990s to become a commonly used description of politics and policy-making in a range of settings. This collection brings together seminal papers covering... Read More about Multi-level governance, regions and science in France : between competition and equality - selected reading.

Two-dimensional experimental and numerical modelling of a soil-filled masonry arch (2015)
Book Chapter
Ahmad, S., Augusthus Nelson, L., & Swift, G. (2015). Two-dimensional experimental and numerical modelling of a soil-filled masonry arch. In Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructure and Development: XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. ICE Publishing

The ultimate load carrying capactiy of soil-filled masonry arches is significantly higher than that of bare masonry arches. The soil fill has a stabalising effect on the masonry arch, distributing the live load and providing passive resistance to def... Read More about Two-dimensional experimental and numerical modelling of a soil-filled masonry arch.

Resource allocation in LTE-Advanced network: A collaborative market game approach (2015)
Book Chapter
Egena, O., & Alani, O. (2015). Resource allocation in LTE-Advanced network: A collaborative market game approach. In 2015 7th Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Conference (CEEC) (99-104). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CEEC.2015.7332707

The essence of high Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning in any network is centred on optimization which can be approached from different perspectives depending on the network operator's target and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) parameter tweaking... Read More about Resource allocation in LTE-Advanced network: A collaborative market game approach.

Navigating the mix-space : theoretical and practical level-balancing technique in multitrack music mixtures (2015)
Book Chapter
Wilson, A., & Fazenda, B. (2015). Navigating the mix-space : theoretical and practical level-balancing technique in multitrack music mixtures. In The 12th Sound and Music Computing Conference, Music Technology Research Group, Dept. of Computer Science, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland. Sound and Music Computing

The mixing of audio signals has been at the foundation of audio production since the advent of electrical recording in the 1920’s, yet the mathematical and psychological bases for this activity are relatively under-studied. This paper investigates h... Read More about Navigating the mix-space : theoretical and practical level-balancing technique in multitrack music mixtures.

Biomimetic approach for the creation of deployable canopies based on the unfolding of a beetle wing and the blooming of a flower (2015)
Book Chapter
Fenci, G., & Currie, N. (2015). Biomimetic approach for the creation of deployable canopies based on the unfolding of a beetle wing and the blooming of a flower. In Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems : 4th International Conference, Living Machines 2015, Barcelona, Spain, July 28 - 31, 2015, Proceedings (101-112). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22979-9_11

Modern architectural designs create dynamic and flexible spaces, able to adapt to the ever-changing environment by virtue of temporary and convertible structures. Biomimetics is the applied science that, through the imitation of Nature, finds the sol... Read More about Biomimetic approach for the creation of deployable canopies based on the unfolding of a beetle wing and the blooming of a flower.

Multi-DL-ReSuMe : multiple neurons delay learning remote supervised method (2015)
Book Chapter
Taherkhani, A., Belatreche, A., Li, Y., & Maguire, L. (2015). Multi-DL-ReSuMe : multiple neurons delay learning remote supervised method. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (Article number 7280743). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2015.7280743

Spikes are an important part of information transmission between neurons in the biological brain. Biological evidence shows that information is carried in the timing of individual action potentials, rather than only the firing rate. Spiking neural ne... Read More about Multi-DL-ReSuMe : multiple neurons delay learning remote supervised method.

Bio-inspired hierarchical framework for multi-view face detection and pose estimation (2015)
Book Chapter
McCarroll, N., Belatreche, A., Harkin, J., & Li, Y. (2015). Bio-inspired hierarchical framework for multi-view face detection and pose estimation. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (Article number 7280674). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2015.7280674

Face detection is one of the most active research areas in computer vision. Despite the well documented success of classical machine learning techniques in controlled situations, face detection in completely uncontrolled settings remains a difficult... Read More about Bio-inspired hierarchical framework for multi-view face detection and pose estimation.

Learning with covariate shift-detection and adaptation in non-stationary environments : application to brain-computer interface (2015)
Book Chapter
Raza, H., Cecotti, H., Li, Y., & Prasad, G. (2015). Learning with covariate shift-detection and adaptation in non-stationary environments : application to brain-computer interface. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (Article number 7280742). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2015.7280742

Learning in the presence of dataset shifts in non-stationary environments is a major challenge. Dataset shifts in the form of covariate shifts commonly occur in a broad range of real-world systems such as, electroencephalogram (EEG) based brain-compu... Read More about Learning with covariate shift-detection and adaptation in non-stationary environments : application to brain-computer interface.

Redesigning the objectile (2015)
Book Chapter
Hales, D. (2015). Redesigning the objectile. In B. Marenko, & J. Brassett (Eds.), Deleuze and Design (139-172). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Cycle tourism development in the Peak District National Park, United Kingdom (2015)
Book Chapter
Weston, R., Davies, N., & Guiver, J. (2015). Cycle tourism development in the Peak District National Park, United Kingdom. In F. Orsi (Ed.), Sustainable Transportation in Natural and Protected Areas. Routledge

Protected areas are at the centre of nature-based tourism, which is increasingly popular across the world. As visitor numbers increase, so does awareness of the harmful effects that large crowds may have on both natural resources and individuals’ rec... Read More about Cycle tourism development in the Peak District National Park, United Kingdom.

Scheduled bus services in protected areas (2015)
Book Chapter
Guiver, J., Davies, N., & Weston, R. (2015). Scheduled bus services in protected areas. In F. Orsi (Ed.), Sustainable Transportation in Natural and Protected Areas. Routledge

Human enhancement in sports (2015)
Book Chapter
Miah, A. (2015). Human enhancement in sports. In W. Bainbridge, & M. Roco (Eds.), Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence (1-13). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04033-2_85-1

This chapter examines the range of sciences and technologies that converge around sports and the implications of this for issues of fairness and ethics. First, it outlines some of the recent scientific developments that speak to the convergence of di... Read More about Human enhancement in sports.