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Gramsci and Foucault : hegemony in the global episteme (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Kreps, D. (2015, September). Gramsci and Foucault : hegemony in the global episteme. Presented at Inaugural Conference on Cultural Political Economy, Lancaster University, Lancaster UK

Does Foucault’s concentration upon the micropolitics in society that add up to and constitute (post-national) governmentality undermine and discount, or complement and mirror Gramsci’s concentration on the hegemonic reach of centralised power out int... Read More about Gramsci and Foucault : hegemony in the global episteme.

A mixed methods approach to investigating social institutions (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Lord, J., & Redfern, D. (2015, September). A mixed methods approach to investigating social institutions. Presented at BAM Annual Conference 2015, Portsmouth

A mixed method approach to research has developed into a more prevalent strategy within a business discipline, as the process can yield rigorous data that can be used to shape government and institutional thinking. This paper critically analyses the... Read More about A mixed methods approach to investigating social institutions.

Memorative signs and material constituents : live media practice and the activation of popular music (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Scott, J. (2015, September). Memorative signs and material constituents : live media practice and the activation of popular music. Presented at Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) Annual Conference, University of Worcester

In response to the working group call this year, I am sharing developments in a current strand of research, aspects of which were presented as part of the interim event in April. Here, I explored music as a ‘memorative sign’ (Rousseau in Boym 2001: 4... Read More about Memorative signs and material constituents : live media practice and the activation of popular music.

Design 3D on-line gaming environment for learning how to design green buildings (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Bassanino, M., Fernando, T. P., Campion, S., Alkandari, A., Ghazimirsaeid, S., & Masior, J. (2015, September). Design 3D on-line gaming environment for learning how to design green buildings. Presented at ILTT Conference, London

This paper presents an approach for using e-learning to design a training environment for both students and professionals to learn ‘how to design Green Buildings’ developed as part of the D4E European project. The idea of the training environment i... Read More about Design 3D on-line gaming environment for learning how to design green buildings.

Impact of flood disaster in Malaysia : a case study on public hospitals (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Noralfishah, S., Thayaparan, M., Haidaliza, M., & Kulatunga, U. (2015, August). Impact of flood disaster in Malaysia : a case study on public hospitals. Presented at The 11th Annual International Conference of the International Institute for Infrastructure Resilience and Reconstruction (I3R2): Complex Disasters and Disaster Risk Management, University of Seoul, Korea

This paper aims to study and explore post disaster flood event at a public hospital in Malaysia. A literature review and content analysis on newspaper articles were conducted to evaluate post disaster flood impacts at public hospitals in Malaysia. In... Read More about Impact of flood disaster in Malaysia : a case study on public hospitals.

Impact pressure distribution in flat fan nozzles for descaling oil wells (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Abbas, A., Nasr, G., Nourian, A., & Enyi, G. (2015, August). Impact pressure distribution in flat fan nozzles for descaling oil wells. Presented at 13th Triennial International Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, Tainan, Taiwan

The suitability of High pressure nozzles in terms of impact upon targeted surfaces has indicated its effectiveness for the cleaning of oil production tubing scale, which has recently attract wider industrial applications considering its efficiency,... Read More about Impact pressure distribution in flat fan nozzles for descaling oil wells.

Biomimetic approach for the creation of a deployable structure based on the blooming of the Morning Glory flower (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Fenci, G., Currie, N., & Weekes, L. (2015, August). Biomimetic approach for the creation of a deployable structure based on the blooming of the Morning Glory flower. Presented at International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) Symposium 2015 : Future Visions, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

This research project proposes the design of a freestanding, biomimetically inspired, deployable canopy. Nature inspires the structure in terms of mechanism and shape, allowing for the creation of a lightweight, multifunctional, and efficient deploya... Read More about Biomimetic approach for the creation of a deployable structure based on the blooming of the Morning Glory flower.

Transmission of Echinococcus species in pastoral communities in southern Kyrgyzstan (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Rogan, M., van Kesteren, F., Mastin, A., Craig, P., Torgerson, P., Mytova, B., …Raoul, F. (2015, August). Transmission of Echinococcus species in pastoral communities in southern Kyrgyzstan. Presented at 80. 25th International Conference of the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology (WAAVP), Liverpool, UK

Echinococcus granulosus and human cystic echinococcosis (CE) are highly endemic in Central Asia and western China. Human alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is an emergent public health problem in Kyrgyzstan and in the Region. Community, veterinary and ecol... Read More about Transmission of Echinococcus species in pastoral communities in southern Kyrgyzstan.

Audio content analysis in the presence of overlapped classes : a non-exclusive segmentation approach to mitigate information losses (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Mohammed, D., Duncan, P., & Li, F. (2015, August). Audio content analysis in the presence of overlapped classes : a non-exclusive segmentation approach to mitigate information losses. Presented at Global Summit and Expo on Multimedia & Applications, Birmingham, UK

Soundtracks of multimedia files are information rich, from which much content-related metadata can be extracted. There is a pressing demand for automated classification, identification and information mining of audio content. A segment of the audio s... Read More about Audio content analysis in the presence of overlapped classes : a non-exclusive segmentation approach to mitigate information losses.

Cognition of soundscapes and other complex acoustic scenes (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Davies, W. (2015, August). Cognition of soundscapes and other complex acoustic scenes. Presented at Internoise 2015, San Francisco

The fields of soundscapes, music cognition and audio quality have many similarities. Researchers in these areas are all dealing with perception and cognition of complex acoustic scenes. To date, there has been little cross-fertilisation between them.... Read More about Cognition of soundscapes and other complex acoustic scenes.

Blocked forces for the characterisation of structure borne noise (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Elliott, A., Meggitt, J., & Moorhouse, A. (2015, August). Blocked forces for the characterisation of structure borne noise. Presented at Internoise 2015, San Francisco

During the development of complex assemblies such as aircraft the noise from installed components must be considered. For airborne sound sources this issue has been resolved to some extent by standard measurement procedures which allow equipment supp... Read More about Blocked forces for the characterisation of structure borne noise.

Trial-trial temporal variability in upper limb functional task performance differentiates amputees from controls and decreases with practice (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Major, M., Stine, R., Heckathorne, C., Thies, S., Sobuh, M., Galpin, A., …Kenney, L. (2015, August). Trial-trial temporal variability in upper limb functional task performance differentiates amputees from controls and decreases with practice. Presented at 39th Annual Conference of the American Society of Biomechanics, Columbus, Ohio

Metamorphic hand based grasp constraint and affordance (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Wei, G., Sun, J., Zhang, X., Pensky, D., Piater, J., & Dai, J. (2015, August). Metamorphic hand based grasp constraint and affordance. Presented at American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conferences (IDETC/CIE 2015), Boston, USA

This paper presents the kinematics and grasp constraint and affordance of a newly designed mobile manipulator with a three- fingered metamorphic robotic hand. Structure design of the mobile manipulator, which contains a Robotino 3.0, a customised robo... Read More about Metamorphic hand based grasp constraint and affordance.

Hobson’s choice : security and privacy permissions in Android and iOS devices (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Hegarty, R., Hughes-Roberts, T., & Haggerty, J. (2015, August). Hobson’s choice : security and privacy permissions in Android and iOS devices. Presented at HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, USA

The use of smartphones and tablet devices has grown rapidly over recent years and the widespread availability of software, often from unknown developers, has led to security and privacy concerns. In order to prevent security compromises, these device... Read More about Hobson’s choice : security and privacy permissions in Android and iOS devices.

Toward a global eHealth observatory for nursing (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Bartz, C., Hardiker, N., & Coenen, A. (2015, August). Toward a global eHealth observatory for nursing. Poster presented at MEDINFO 2015, São Paulo, Brazil

This poster summarizes a review of existing health observatories and proposes a new entity for nursing. A nursing eHealth observatory would be an authoritative and respected source of eHealth information that would support nursing decision-making and... Read More about Toward a global eHealth observatory for nursing.

Nonlinear Helmholtz wave refraction & Goos-Hänchen shifts in nonparaxial optics : angles and interfaces, solitons and Snell's law (2015)
Presentation / Conference
McCoy, E., Christian, J., Sanchez-Curto, J., & McDonald, G. (2015, July). Nonlinear Helmholtz wave refraction & Goos-Hänchen shifts in nonparaxial optics : angles and interfaces, solitons and Snell's law. Presented at 12th International Conference on the Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Waves, Karlsruhe, Germany

The interaction of self-localized waves with an abrupt interface is a problem of fundamental importance in many branches of physics, engineering, and applied mathematics. Waveguide optics, for instance, is dominated in an essential way by such consid... Read More about Nonlinear Helmholtz wave refraction & Goos-Hänchen shifts in nonparaxial optics : angles and interfaces, solitons and Snell's law.

Unstable resonators with polygon and von Koch-type boundary conditions : virtual source modelling of fractal eigenmodes (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Christian, J., Begleris, I., Wickham, S., McDonald, G., & Huang, J. (2015, July). Unstable resonators with polygon and von Koch-type boundary conditions : virtual source modelling of fractal eigenmodes. Presented at 12th International Conference on the Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Wave Propagation, Karlsruhe, Germany

We will report on our latest research into modelling fractal lasers (linear systems that involve geometrically-unstable resonators with inherent magnification), and propose two new classes of cavity configuration. These devices are of fundamental the... Read More about Unstable resonators with polygon and von Koch-type boundary conditions : virtual source modelling of fractal eigenmodes.

Diffraction of Weierstrass scalar fractal waves by circular apertures : symmetry and patterns, complexity and dimension (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Christian, J., Woodroofe, E., & McDonald, G. (2015, July). Diffraction of Weierstrass scalar fractal waves by circular apertures : symmetry and patterns, complexity and dimension. Presented at 12th International Conference on the Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Wave Propagation, Karlsruhe, Germany

The diffraction of plane waves from simple hard-edged apertures constitutes a class of boundary value problem that is well understood in optics, at least within the scalar approximation. Similarly, the diffraction of such waves from fractal apertures... Read More about Diffraction of Weierstrass scalar fractal waves by circular apertures : symmetry and patterns, complexity and dimension.

Vector dark solitons in systems with spatiotemporal dispersion and cubic nonlinearity : solutions and stability, transformations and relativity (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Carter, L., Christian, J., McDonald, G., & Chamorro-Posada, P. (2015, July). Vector dark solitons in systems with spatiotemporal dispersion and cubic nonlinearity : solutions and stability, transformations and relativity. Presented at 12th International Conference on the Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Waves, Karlsruhe, Germany

The origin of conventional models for nonlinear optical pulse propagation lies in the ubiquitous slowly-varying envelope approximation (SVEA) accompanied by a Galilean boost to a local-time frame. While such a near-universal procedure typically resul... Read More about Vector dark solitons in systems with spatiotemporal dispersion and cubic nonlinearity : solutions and stability, transformations and relativity.