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Silicon nanophotonics integration for chip-scale optical communication (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Grieco, A., Tan, D., Ikeda, K., Nezhad, M., Puckett, M., & Fainman, Y. (2014). Silicon nanophotonics integration for chip-scale optical communication. In Smart Photonic and Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits XVI. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2044610

We will describe recent work in the area of integrated nanophotonics that have applications to on chip communication. In this context we will present passive filters and resonators produced through periodic waveguide modulation. We will also demonstr... Read More about Silicon nanophotonics integration for chip-scale optical communication.

Front wave prediction in water hammer phenomena involving twophase flows (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Bogoi, A., Marie Seynhaeve, J., Rugescu, R. D., Sugar, O., & Giot, M. (2013). Front wave prediction in water hammer phenomena involving twophase flows. . https://doi.org/10.1115/IMECE2013-65838

A genuine mathematical model for one dimensional, unsteady, two phase (liquid-gas) flows is presented that intends to solve the complex problem of two phase behavior of fluids. The mechanism of the model describes the fluid flow characteristics of th... Read More about Front wave prediction in water hammer phenomena involving twophase flows.

Digitally mediated social networking practices: A focus on connectedness and disconnectedness (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Light, B. (2013). Digitally mediated social networking practices: A focus on connectedness and disconnectedness. . https://doi.org/10.2498/iti.2013.0587

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Hybrid Artificial Bee Colony algorithm and simulated annealing algorithm for combined economic and emission dispatch including valve point effect (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Arunachalam, S., Saranya, R., & Sangeetha, N. (2013). Hybrid Artificial Bee Colony algorithm and simulated annealing algorithm for combined economic and emission dispatch including valve point effect. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03753-0_32

For economic and efficient operation of power system optimal scheduling of generators in order to minimize fuel cost of generating units and its emission is a major consideration. This paper presents hybrid approach of using Artificial Bee Colony (AB... Read More about Hybrid Artificial Bee Colony algorithm and simulated annealing algorithm for combined economic and emission dispatch including valve point effect.

Mitigating Risks of Event Avalanches Caused by Climate Change (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Jankovic, L. (2013). Mitigating Risks of Event Avalanches Caused by Climate Change. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Complex Systems 2012 (337-346). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00395-5_44

Development of the human society and its technological, economic and financial systems, coupled with the population growth, has resulted in high interconnectivity between individual and corporate entities. These entities form networks of co-dependent... Read More about Mitigating Risks of Event Avalanches Caused by Climate Change.

A method for reducing simulation performance gap using fourier filtering (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Jankovic, L. (2013). A method for reducing simulation performance gap using fourier filtering. In Proceedings of BS 2013: 13th Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (3729-3736). https://doi.org/10.26868/25222708.2013.1387

The simulation performance gap is a discrepancy between simulated and actual performance of a building, occurring as result of differences between theoretical values in the simulation model and actual properties of and conditions in and around the bu... Read More about A method for reducing simulation performance gap using fourier filtering.

Birmingham Zero Carbon House - Energy, Carbon and Economic Performance Analysis (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Jankovic, L., & Huws, H. (2013). Birmingham Zero Carbon House - Energy, Carbon and Economic Performance Analysis. In Proceedings of Sustainable procurement in urban regeneration and renovation

The Birmingham Zero Carbon House is a retrofitted Victorian house that has achieved carbon
negative performance. The house has been under detailed instrumental monitoring, external and
internal thermal imaging, and detailed simulation analysis. The... Read More about Birmingham Zero Carbon House - Energy, Carbon and Economic Performance Analysis.

Implications of climate change and occupant behaviour on future energy demand in a zero carbon house (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Huws, H., & Jankovic, L. (2013). Implications of climate change and occupant behaviour on future energy demand in a zero carbon house. In Proceedings of BS 2013: 13th Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (1357-1364). https://doi.org/10.26868/25222708.2013.2116

The Birmingham Zero Carbon House is a retrofitted Victorian house that has achieved carbon negative performance. Future predictions of temperatures are showing an increase in Cooling Degree Days (CCD), even under a low carbon emissions scenario. This... Read More about Implications of climate change and occupant behaviour on future energy demand in a zero carbon house.

Active nanophotonics technology (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Fainman, Y., Tan, D., Zamek, S., Bondarenko, O., Simic, A., Mizrahi, A., …Slutsky, B. (2013). Active nanophotonics technology. In 2013 IEEE Photonics Conference (329-330). https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCon.2013.6656570

Composite metal-dielectric-semiconductor nanostructures are used to design, fabricate and test nanoscale resonators and nanolasers that utilize various modes confined in all three dimensions. Integration with silicon photonics material platform is al... Read More about Active nanophotonics technology.

Novel transmission lines for Si MZI modulators (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Merget, F., Sharif Azadeh, M., Shen, B., Nezhad, M., Hauck, J., & Witzens, J. (2013). Novel transmission lines for Si MZI modulators. In 10th International Conference on Group IV Photonics (61-62). https://doi.org/10.1109/Group4.2013.6644426

We present MZI Silicon Photonics modulators with an advanced transmission line design which overcomes bandwidth limitations arising from crosstalk and improves linear losses. Push-pull optical bandwidth of 22.2 GHz with V π L=1.6 V·cm is experimental... Read More about Novel transmission lines for Si MZI modulators.

Agile Method Tailoring in Distributed Enterprises: Product Owner Teams (2013)
Conference Proceeding
M. Bass, J. (2013). Agile Method Tailoring in Distributed Enterprises: Product Owner Teams. . https://doi.org/10.1109/icgse.2013.27

This paper explores practitioner descriptions of agile method tailoring in large-scale offshore or outsourced enterprise projects. Specifically, tailoring of the product owner role is discussed. The product owner identifies and prioritizes customer r... Read More about Agile Method Tailoring in Distributed Enterprises: Product Owner Teams.

Electrically pumped metallo-dielectric pedestal nanolasers (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Gu, Q., Wingad, B., Vallini, F., Slutsky, B., Katz, M., Nezhad, N., …Fainman, Y. (2013). Electrically pumped metallo-dielectric pedestal nanolasers. In 2013 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEOPR) (1-2). https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEOPR.2013.6600141

Electrically pumped metallo-dielectric nanolasers are demonstrated. Employing a two-step InP chemical etching, we obtain straight pedestal sidewalls and preferentially reduce the diameter of the n-doped InP cladding more than the p-doped one for opti... Read More about Electrically pumped metallo-dielectric pedestal nanolasers.

The significance of reading order in document recognition and its evaluation (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Clausner, C., Pletschacher, S., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2013). The significance of reading order in document recognition and its evaluation. In Proceedings of the 2013 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2013.141

Reading order detection and representation is an important task in many digitisation scenarios involving the preservation of the logical structure of a document. The corresponding need for the evaluation of reading order results generated by layout a... Read More about The significance of reading order in document recognition and its evaluation.

Preceding rule induction with instance reduction methods (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Othman, O., & Bryant, C. (2013). Preceding rule induction with instance reduction methods. In P. Perner (Ed.), Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition (209-218). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39712-7_16

A new prepruning technique for rule induction is presented which applies instance reduction before rule induction. An empirical evaluation records the predictive accuracy and size of rule-sets generated from 24 datasets from the UCI Machine Learning... Read More about Preceding rule induction with instance reduction methods.

An automated segmentation technique for the processing of foot ultrasound images (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Deshpande, R., Elagiri Ramalingam, R., Chockalingam, N., Naemi, R., Branthwaite, H., & Sundar, L. (2013). An automated segmentation technique for the processing of foot ultrasound images. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSNIP.2013.6529820

In spite of the advantages of ease of imaging and low acquisition cost, ultrasound images are noisier and have poorer image quality than other imaging modalities like CT or MRI and hence require an experienced clinician for interpretation. Processing... Read More about An automated segmentation technique for the processing of foot ultrasound images.

Augmented and virtual reality based approaches in minimally invasive surgery training (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Rahman, M. A., Mahmud, P., & Mashuk, M. (2013). Augmented and virtual reality based approaches in minimally invasive surgery training. In 2013 International Conference on Informatics, Electronics and Vision (ICIEV). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIEV.2013.6572714

Continuing development in surgical techniques has elevated the level of sophistication in surgery. In order to reduce trauma to healthy tissue of the patient body, scientists are continuously trying different technologies in surgery. Minimally Invasi... Read More about Augmented and virtual reality based approaches in minimally invasive surgery training.

SAT0575 Population Based Prospective Study of Self-Care Restriction in Older Adults with Joint Pain (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Prior, Y., Wilkie, R., Beech, R., & Peat, G. (2013). SAT0575 Population Based Prospective Study of Self-Care Restriction in Older Adults with Joint Pain. . https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-eular.2299

Background Self-care restriction is a frequent form of disability in older adults and is associated with joint pain. The natural history of self-care restriction in older adults with joint pain is unknown.

Objectives To (i) describe the frequency... Read More about SAT0575 Population Based Prospective Study of Self-Care Restriction in Older Adults with Joint Pain.

The views of rheumatology occupational therapists of a vocational rehabilitation programme (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Prior, Y., Bodell, S., Amanna, A., & Hammond, A. (2013). The views of rheumatology occupational therapists of a vocational rehabilitation programme.

Objective: Work disability in inflammatory arthritis (IA) is common. Rheumatology Occupational Therapists (OTs) are well-placed to identify people with IA’s work problems as their role includes evaluating the impact of arthritis on functional ability... Read More about The views of rheumatology occupational therapists of a vocational rehabilitation programme.