All Outputs (2393)

Estimating the running costs of commercial buildings: artificial neural network modeling (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Hemba Geekiyanage, M., & Ramachandra, T. (2019, May). Estimating the running costs of commercial buildings: artificial neural network modeling. Presented at 10th International Structural Engineering and Construction Conference, ISEC 2019, Chicago, USA

Running costs of a building is a substantial share of its total life-cycle cost (LCC) and it ranges between 70-80% in commercial buildings. Despite its significant contribution to LCC, investors and construction industry practitioners tend to mostly... Read More about Estimating the running costs of commercial buildings: artificial neural network modeling.

Investigating the differences in Web browsing behaviour of Arabic (RTL) and English (LTR) users using mouse tracking (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Griffiths, L., Rasaei, A., & Haider, N. (2019, May). Investigating the differences in Web browsing behaviour of Arabic (RTL) and English (LTR) users using mouse tracking. Presented at 2nd International Conference on Digital Marketing : Strategy & Innovation in Digital Marketing, Galle Face Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka

The internet has become the global information and communication source. With such widespread usage of the web, it is crucial to marketing businesses to understand how users behave on websites. Mouse movement in any area on a webpage is an indicator... Read More about Investigating the differences in Web browsing behaviour of Arabic (RTL) and English (LTR) users using mouse tracking.

Acoustic Event Detection from Weakly Labeled Data Using Auditory Salience (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Podwinska, Z., Sobieraj, I., Fazenda, B., Davies, W., & Plumbley, M. (2019, May). Acoustic Event Detection from Weakly Labeled Data Using Auditory Salience. Presented at 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brighton, UK

Acoustic Event Detection (AED) is an important task of machine listening which, in recent years, has been addressed using common machine learning methods like Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) or deep learning. However, most of these approaches... Read More about Acoustic Event Detection from Weakly Labeled Data Using Auditory Salience.

Background adaptation for improved listening experience in broadcasting (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Tang, Y., Cox, T., Fazenda, B., Liu, Q., & Wang, W. (2019, May). Background adaptation for improved listening experience in broadcasting. Presented at 44th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2019, Brighton, UK

The intelligibility of speech in noise can be improved by modifying the speech. But with object-based audio, there is the possibility of altering the background sound while leaving the speech unaltered. This may prove a less intrusive approach, affor... Read More about Background adaptation for improved listening experience in broadcasting.

Generalisation in environmental sound classification : the ‘making sense of sounds’ data set and challenge (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Kroos, C., Bones, O., Cao, Y., Harris, L., Jackson, P., Davies, W., …Plumbley, M. (2019, May). Generalisation in environmental sound classification : the ‘making sense of sounds’ data set and challenge. Presented at 44th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2019), Brighton, UK

Humans are able to identify a large number of environmental sounds and categorise them according to high-level semantic categories, e.g. urban sounds or music. They are also capable of generalising from past experience to new sounds when applying the... Read More about Generalisation in environmental sound classification : the ‘making sense of sounds’ data set and challenge.

Surface engineering of solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Anthony, R., Connell, A., Furnell, L., Kershaw, C., Mezarojas, D., Jones, E., …Holliman, P. (2019, May). Surface engineering of solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells. Poster presented at 11th International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics, Angelicum Universita Pontificia, Rome, Italy

The way that molecules interact with interfaces play a key role in the manufacture and performance of solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells (ssDSC). In order to maximise the performance of ssDSC, it is important to understand the interactions and t... Read More about Surface engineering of solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells.

A computer-aided diagnosis system for glioma grading using three dimensional texture analysis and machine learning in MRI brain tumour (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Zurfi, A., Meziane, F., & Aspin, R. (2019, April). A computer-aided diagnosis system for glioma grading using three dimensional texture analysis and machine learning in MRI brain tumour. Presented at 3rd IEEE International Conference on Bio-Engineering for Smart Technologies (BioSMART 2019), Paris, France

Glioma grading is vital for therapeutic planning where the higher level of glioma is associated with high mortality. It is a challenging task as different glioma grades have mixed morphological characteristics of brain tumour. A computer-aided diagno... Read More about A computer-aided diagnosis system for glioma grading using three dimensional texture analysis and machine learning in MRI brain tumour.

A novel elbow pneumatic muscle actuator for exoskeleton arm in post-stroke rehabilitation (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Irshaidat, M., Soufian, M., Al-Ibadi, A., & Nefti-Meziani, S. (2019, April). A novel elbow pneumatic muscle actuator for exoskeleton arm in post-stroke rehabilitation. Presented at 2019 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2019), Seoul, Korea

Rehabilitation interventions play a vital role especially in most post-stroke care. Many rehabilitation robotic devices have been designed and developed to assist many individuals suffering from stroke or similar disabling illness and living with... Read More about A novel elbow pneumatic muscle actuator for exoskeleton arm in post-stroke rehabilitation.

The joint influence of cavities presence and rapid drawdown condition on discharge rate through earth dams (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Ateya, H., & Ahangar Asr, A. (2019, April). The joint influence of cavities presence and rapid drawdown condition on discharge rate through earth dams. Presented at 26th Annual Conference of the UK Association for Computational Mechanics (UKACM), City University London, UK

Seepage measurement and control is one of the most significant considerations in designing and safety of earth dams. This numerical study aims to simulate the influence of cavities presence on seepage through earth dams taking into account rapid dr... Read More about The joint influence of cavities presence and rapid drawdown condition on discharge rate through earth dams.

IR sensors array for robots localization using K means clustering algorithm (2019)
Presentation / Conference
AL-Furati, I., Rashid, A., & Al-Ibadi, A. (2019, March). IR sensors array for robots localization using K means clustering algorithm. Presented at UKSim-AMSS 21st International Conference on Modelling & Simulation, Cambridge, UK

The position of multi-robot system in an indoor localization system is successfully estimated using a new algorithm. The localization problem is resolved by using an array of IR receiver sensors distributed uniformly in the environment. The necessary... Read More about IR sensors array for robots localization using K means clustering algorithm.

Background ducking to produce esthetically pleasing audio for TV with clear speech (2019)
Presentation / Conference
audio for TV with clear speech. Presented at Audio Engineering Society Convention 146, Dublin

In audio production, background ducking facilitates speech intelligibility, while keeping the background track enjoyable. Technical details for recommendable ducking practices are not currently documented in literature. Hence, we first analyze comm... Read More about Background ducking to produce esthetically pleasing audio for TV with clear speech.

Diabetics’ self-management systems : drawbacks and potential enhancements (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Darwish, F., Silva, H., & Saraee, M. (2019, March). Diabetics’ self-management systems : drawbacks and potential enhancements. Presented at 2nd International Conference on Geoinformatics and Data Analysis (ICGDA), Prague, Czech Republic

Diabetes is a pandemic that is growing globally, and by the year 2030 it is expected to effect three people every 10 minutes. In the UK, it is estimated that by 2025, 5 million people will have diabetes. Diabetes is currently costing the British Nati... Read More about Diabetics’ self-management systems : drawbacks and potential enhancements.

Numerical study of magnetic-bio-nano-polymer solar cell coating manufacturing flow (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Beg, O., Kuharat, S., Aneja, M., Sharma, S., & Babaie, M. (2019, March). Numerical study of magnetic-bio-nano-polymer solar cell coating manufacturing flow. Poster presented at International Conference on Innovative Applied Energy (IAPE’19), St Cross College, University of Oxford, UK

Novel bio-nano-electro-conductive polymers are currently being considered for third generation organic solar coatings which combine biological micro-organisms, nanofluids and magnetic polymer properties. Motivated by these developments, in this poste... Read More about Numerical study of magnetic-bio-nano-polymer solar cell coating manufacturing flow.

Simulating entropy generation in solar magnetohydrodynamic heat ducts with Eringen’s micropolar model and Bejan thermodynamic optimization (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Kadir, A., Jangili, S., Beg, T., & Beg, O. (2019, March). Simulating entropy generation in solar magnetohydrodynamic heat ducts with Eringen’s micropolar model and Bejan thermodynamic optimization. Poster presented at International Conference on Innovative Applied Energy (IAPE’19)., St Cross College, University of Oxford, UK

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) solar power has recently been developed in the USA and is an exciting novel area in renewable power. In this hybrid solar energy design, highpowered magnets are employed to increase the efficiency of conversion from sunlight... Read More about Simulating entropy generation in solar magnetohydrodynamic heat ducts with Eringen’s micropolar model and Bejan thermodynamic optimization.

Computational fluid dynamic simulation of a solar enclosure with radiative flux and different metallic nano-particles (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Kuharat, S., Beg, O., Kadir, A., & Babaie, M. (2019, March). Computational fluid dynamic simulation of a solar enclosure with radiative flux and different metallic nano-particles. Poster presented at International Conference on Innovative Applied Energy (IAPE’19)., St Cross College, University of Oxford, UK

Nanofluids are currently being explored extensively in solar energy engineering to achieve improved performance in direct thermal absorber systems. Nanofluids achieve significant enhancement in the heat transfer performance i.e. thermal efficiency. M... Read More about Computational fluid dynamic simulation of a solar enclosure with radiative flux and different metallic nano-particles.

A hybrid intelligent agent for notification of users distracted by mobile phones in an urban environment (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Gelaim, T., Langer, G., Santos, E., Silveira, R., O'Hare, J., Kendrick, P., & Fazenda, B. (2019, February). A hybrid intelligent agent for notification of users distracted by mobile phones in an urban environment. Presented at 11th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), Prague, Czech Republic

Mobile devices are now ubiquitous in daily life and the number of activities that can be performed using them is continually growing. This implies increased attention being placed on the device and diverted away from events taking place in the surr... Read More about A hybrid intelligent agent for notification of users distracted by mobile phones in an urban environment.

Thermal influence in the performance of static and dynamic hot mix asphalt pothole repairs (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Byzyka, J., Rahman, M., & Chamberlain, D. A. (2019, January). Thermal influence in the performance of static and dynamic hot mix asphalt pothole repairs. Presented at 2019 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C

The advantage of controlled preheating of excavated asphalt surface prior to hot mix asphalt patch repair, referred as “dynamic repair”, is presented in this paper. The heating effects are compared against traditional hot mix repair, referred as “sta... Read More about Thermal influence in the performance of static and dynamic hot mix asphalt pothole repairs.

A study of root causes of delays in the public-sector construction projects in Kuwait (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Adwani, M., Mollasalehi, S., & Fleming, A. (2018, December). A study of root causes of delays in the public-sector construction projects in Kuwait. Presented at International Conference on Construction Futures ICCF, University of Wolverhampton, UK

After the Kuwait Government launched the 2035 vision of Kuwait, development of the construction industry became one of the priority themes of the country. However, the construction industry faces many problems such as delays, defects, cost overruns a... Read More about A study of root causes of delays in the public-sector construction projects in Kuwait.

Towards a smart ecological urban corridor for Manchester Ship Canal (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Elkadi, H., & Biscaya, S. (2018, December). Towards a smart ecological urban corridor for Manchester Ship Canal. Presented at ICSC 2018 : 20th International Conference on Smart Cities, Bangkok

This paper examines the possibilities to develop a smart ecological urban corridor straddling the 36 miles long Manchester Ship Canal (MSC). The site is set in the historic counties of Cheshire and Lancashire where the first planned industrial estate... Read More about Towards a smart ecological urban corridor for Manchester Ship Canal.

Environmental performance of Abuja’s low-income housing : understanding the current state to inform future refinement (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Abdulkareem, M., & Al-Maiyah, S. (2018, December). Environmental performance of Abuja’s low-income housing : understanding the current state to inform future refinement. Presented at PLEA (Passive Low Energy Architecture) : Smart and Healthy within the 2-degree Limit, Hong Kong

In times of global ecological challenges, understanding building performance to improve occupants’ comfort is becoming the norm in various climatic zones and locales. Any performance evaluation should account for occupants’ demands for thermal and v... Read More about Environmental performance of Abuja’s low-income housing : understanding the current state to inform future refinement.