All Outputs (149)

A morphology-based model for forecasting cooling energy demand of condominium buildings in Sri Lanka (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Hemba Geekiyanage, M., Ramachandra, T., & Rotimi, J. (2017, September). A morphology-based model for forecasting cooling energy demand of condominium buildings in Sri Lanka. Presented at Association of Researchers in Construction Management, ARCOM - 33rd Annual Conference 2017, Proceeding, Cambridge, UK

Building morphology has significant influence on operational energy demand of buildings. Energy consumption for space cooling accounts for more than 75% of electricity use in typical condominium buildings. With increase in the number of condominiums... Read More about A morphology-based model for forecasting cooling energy demand of condominium buildings in Sri Lanka.

An experimental study of the cathodic polarization of the reinforcement in chloride contaminated concrete (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Oleiwi, H., Wang, Y., Curioni, M., Augusthus Nelson, L., Chen, X., & Shabalin, I. (2017, September). An experimental study of the cathodic polarization of the reinforcement in chloride contaminated concrete. Presented at 20th International Corrosion Congress & Process Safety Congress (EUROCORR 2017), Prague

This paper reports an experimental study on the influence of chloride contamination on the polarization resistance, concrete resistivity, and the potential shift of concrete reinforcement under different cathodic protection (CP) current densities. Re... Read More about An experimental study of the cathodic polarization of the reinforcement in chloride contaminated concrete.

Experimental study of cathodic protection for reinforced concrete submerged in saline water (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Oleiwi, H., Wang, Y., Curioni, M., Augusthus Nelson, L., Chen, X., & Shabalin, I. (2017, September). Experimental study of cathodic protection for reinforced concrete submerged in saline water. Presented at 20th International Corrosion Congress & Process Safety Congress (EUROCORR 2017), Prague

Cathodic protection (CP) has been approved in practice to be an effective technique to protect steel reinforcement in concrete from corrosion under severe environmental conditions. Using constant current for CP is the most popular approach in practic... Read More about Experimental study of cathodic protection for reinforced concrete submerged in saline water.

A perceptually-weighted deep neural network for monaural speech enhancement in various background noise conditions (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Liu, Q., Wang, W., Jackson, P. J., & Tang, Y. (2017, August). A perceptually-weighted deep neural network for monaural speech enhancement in various background noise conditions. Presented at EUSIPCO 2017, the 25th European Signal Processing Conference, Kos Island, Greece

Deep neural networks (DNN) have recently been shown to give state-of-the-art performance in monaural speech enhancement. However in the DNN training process, the perceptual difference between different components of the DNN output is not fully ex... Read More about A perceptually-weighted deep neural network for monaural speech enhancement in various background noise conditions.

Soundscape simulator as a tool to predict the perception of acoustic environment (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Sudarsono, A., Lam, Y., & Davies, W. (2017, August). Soundscape simulator as a tool to predict the perception of acoustic environment. Presented at INTER-NOISE 2017, Hong Kong

Previous studies have shown relationships between sound objects by grouping general sound objects according to how people perceive them (i.e. positively or negatively), but not according to how specific sound objects and their interaction affect so... Read More about Soundscape simulator as a tool to predict the perception of acoustic environment.

American politics as a transnational popular narrative : narratological structures of shōnen manga and their cross-cultural readings in Kaiji Kawaguchi's Eagle (1997-2001) (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Hernandez Perez, M. (2017, August). American politics as a transnational popular narrative : narratological structures of shōnen manga and their cross-cultural readings in Kaiji Kawaguchi's Eagle (1997-2001). Presented at International Workshop on Reflective Transitions of Politics in Japanese Art, University of East Anglia

American cinema and television have been very present in the expansion of Creative industries on a global scale and have become a model for other systems of transnational production. One consequence of their influence is the popularization of content... Read More about American politics as a transnational popular narrative : narratological structures of shōnen manga and their cross-cultural readings in Kaiji Kawaguchi's Eagle (1997-2001).

The effect of situation-specific non-speech acoustic cues on the intelligibility of speech in noise (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Ward, L., Shirley, B., Tang, Y., & Davies, W. (2017, August). The effect of situation-specific non-speech acoustic cues on the intelligibility of speech in noise. Presented at INTERSPEECH 2017, 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Stockholm, Sweden

In everyday life, speech is often accompanied by a situation-specific acoustic cue; a hungry bark as you ask ‘Has anyone fed the dog?’. This paper investigates the effect such cues have on speech intelligibility in noise and evaluates their interactio... Read More about The effect of situation-specific non-speech acoustic cues on the intelligibility of speech in noise.

A parametric study on strength and stiffness of hybrid scarf joints (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Shankar, S., Ammasai Sengodan, G., & Idapalpati, S. (2017, August). A parametric study on strength and stiffness of hybrid scarf joints. Presented at ICCM International Conferences on Composite Materials, Xi'an, China

This work presents a parametric study of adhesively bonded scarf joints enriched with mechanical fasteners. Tensile tests of two different fastener positions along the load path were carried out and compared with bonded scarf joint. It was found that... Read More about A parametric study on strength and stiffness of hybrid scarf joints.

Thermo-mechanical de-bonding of composite-titanium single-lap adhesive joints (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Ammasai Sengodan, G. (2017, August). Thermo-mechanical de-bonding of composite-titanium single-lap adhesive joints. Presented at 21st International Conference on Composite Materials, Xi'an, China

The aim of this work is to isolate the constituent adherends of the adhesively bonded single lap joints with minimal or no damage to them and prepare the debonded surfaces for re-bonding. Thermo-mechanical separation of carbon fiber reinforced plasti... Read More about Thermo-mechanical de-bonding of composite-titanium single-lap adhesive joints.

Mitigating wind noise in outdoor microphone signals using a singular spectral subspace method (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Eldwaik, O., & Li, F. (2017, August). Mitigating wind noise in outdoor microphone signals using a singular spectral subspace method. Presented at IEEE, Seventh International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2107), Luton, UK

Wind noise is one of the major concerns of outdoor microphone signal acquisition. Filtering and removal of wind noise are known to be difficult due to its broadband and time varying nature. This paper proposes the use of singular spectrum analysis to... Read More about Mitigating wind noise in outdoor microphone signals using a singular spectral subspace method.

Robust speaker verification in reverberant conditions using estimated acoustic parameters : a maximum likelihood estimation and training on the fly approach (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Yousif, K., & Li, F. (2017, August). Robust speaker verification in reverberant conditions using estimated acoustic parameters : a maximum likelihood estimation and training on the fly approach. Presented at 7th International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2017), Luton, UK

Speaker recognition has been developed into a relatively mature state over the past few decades through continuous research and development work. Existing methods typically use the robust features extracted from noise and reverberation free speech si... Read More about Robust speaker verification in reverberant conditions using estimated acoustic parameters : a maximum likelihood estimation and training on the fly approach.

Media device orchestration for immersive spatial audio reproduction (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Francombe, J., Mason, R., Jackson, P., Brookes, T., Hughes, R., Woodcock, J., …Pike, C. (2017, August). Media device orchestration for immersive spatial audio reproduction. Presented at AM '17: Audio Mostly 2017, London, United Kingdom

Whilst it is possible to create exciting, immersive listening experiences with current spatial audio technology, the required systems are generally difficult to install in a standard living room. However, in any living room there is likely to already... Read More about Media device orchestration for immersive spatial audio reproduction.

Impacts of climate change on agrarian infrastructure and cascading effects on human and economic sustainability in Nigeria (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Goyol, S., & Pathirage, C. (2017, July). Impacts of climate change on agrarian infrastructure and cascading effects on human and economic sustainability in Nigeria. Presented at International Conference on Climate Change & Sustainable Development in Africa (ICCCSDA), Sunyani, Ghana

Nigeria, one of the fastest growing economies in Africa has agriculture as a critical sector of the economy contributing significantly to the country’s GDP, supporting livelihoods of agrarian communities and employing over 70% of active population.... Read More about Impacts of climate change on agrarian infrastructure and cascading effects on human and economic sustainability in Nigeria.

An estimation model for hypertension drug demand in retail pharmacies with the aid of big data analytics (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Papanagnou, C., & Matthews-Amune, O. (2017, July). An estimation model for hypertension drug demand in retail pharmacies with the aid of big data analytics. Presented at 19th IEEE Conference on Business Informatics, Thessaloniki, Greece

The unpredictability of consumer preference observed in the last few years has coincided with the global digital data explosion as consumers are increasingly relying on internet information to guide their buying behaviour. The emergence of this t... Read More about An estimation model for hypertension drug demand in retail pharmacies with the aid of big data analytics.

Constant-size threshold attribute based SignCryption for cloud applications (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Belguith, S., Kaaniche, N., Laurent, M., Jemai, A., & Attia, R. (2017, July). Constant-size threshold attribute based SignCryption for cloud applications. Presented at SECRYPT 2017 : 14th International Conference on Security and Cryptography, Madrid, Spain

In this paper, we propose a novel constant-size threshold attribute-based signcryption scheme for securely sharing data through public clouds. Our proposal has several advantages. First, it provides flexible cryptographic access control, while prese... Read More about Constant-size threshold attribute based SignCryption for cloud applications.

An evidence-based soundscape taxonomy (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Bones, O., Cox, T., & Davies, W. (2017, July). An evidence-based soundscape taxonomy. Presented at 24th International Congress on Sound and Vibration ICSV24, London, UK

In an attempt to cultivate standardization in soundscape reporting Brown, Kang and Gjestland offered an influential schema by which the acoustic environment is divided initially into indoor and outdoor environments, and within each into further cate... Read More about An evidence-based soundscape taxonomy.

Quiet technologies for deliveries in urban environments (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Tansey, N., Waddington, D., & Davies, W. (2017, July). Quiet technologies for deliveries in urban environments. Presented at 24th International Congress on Sound and Vibration ICSV24, London

The aim of this paper is to review current research on materials and methods that can be incorporated within local environment and building design concepts to mitigate noise due to deliveries. The use of innovative materials, design and master planni... Read More about Quiet technologies for deliveries in urban environments.

Eliminating wind noise contamination of wind turbine noise amplitude modulation ratings - first validation (2017)
Presentation / Conference
von Hünerbein, S., Kendrick, P., Kerscher, M., & Bradley, S. (2017, July). Eliminating wind noise contamination of wind turbine noise amplitude modulation ratings - first validation. Presented at The 24th International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV24), London, UK

Microphone wind noise can corrupt outdoor measurements and recordings. It is a particular problem for wind turbine measurements because these cannot be carried out when the wind speed is low. Previous studies simulated the effect that microphone wi... Read More about Eliminating wind noise contamination of wind turbine noise amplitude modulation ratings - first validation.

Noise assessment of aircraft with distributed electric propulsion using a new noise estimation framework (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Synodinos, A., Self, R., & Torija Martinez, A. (2017, July). Noise assessment of aircraft with distributed electric propulsion using a new noise estimation framework. Presented at 24th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, ICSV 2017, London, UK

Future aircraft are envisioned to have significantly smaller noise footprint and emissions impact in order to satisfy the ambitious long-term aircraft noise and emissions goals set by several organisations worldwide, for example ACARE and NASA. Dis... Read More about Noise assessment of aircraft with distributed electric propulsion using a new noise estimation framework.

A survey on Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-based Encryption (CP-ABE) approaches to data security on mobile devices and its application to IoT (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Moffat, S., Hegarty, R., & Hammoudeh, M. (2017, July). A survey on Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-based Encryption (CP-ABE) approaches to data security on mobile devices and its application to IoT. Presented at International Conference on Future Networks and Distributed Systems 2017, Cambridge, UK

The growth in Cloud Computing and the ubiquity of Mobile devices to access Cloud services has generated a new paradigm, Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC). While the benefits of storing and accessing data in the Cloud are well documented there are concerns... Read More about A survey on Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-based Encryption (CP-ABE) approaches to data security on mobile devices and its application to IoT.