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With a little help from my followers – facilitating the #LTHEchat (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Rowell, C., Baff, D., Beckingham, S., Withnell, N., Soper, K., Jobling, C., & Tindal, I. (2016, December). With a little help from my followers – facilitating the #LTHEchat. Presented at Social Media for Learning in Higher Education Conference: The Empowered Learner?, Sheffield Hallam University

Reassessing the nature of IS (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Kreps, D. (2016, December). Reassessing the nature of IS. Presented at International Conference on Information Systems, Dublin

This paper draws upon the work of three different philosophers, from America, France and Britain, to argue for (i) the reality of subjectivity, (ii) the nonphysical nature of subjective consciousness that is dependent upon but not determined by the p... Read More about Reassessing the nature of IS.

The meta-cycle : action research as an orchestrator of situated research inquiry (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Kawalek, P., Lorenzo, O., Kawalek, J., & Mohamad, M. (2016, December). The meta-cycle : action research as an orchestrator of situated research inquiry. Presented at ICIS Workshop on Advances in Qualitative IS Research Methodologies, Dublin, Ireland

The paper presents the role of AR in negotiating the researchers’ relationship with a community and the meaning of that research to the community. Can the researcher maintain both an impulse to be a part of a community and to belong to research? Wher... Read More about The meta-cycle : action research as an orchestrator of situated research inquiry.

Effect of chemical reaction and viscous dissipation on MHD nanofluid flow over a horizontal cylinder : analytical solution (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Shukla, N., Rana, P., Beg, O., & Singha, B. (2016, December). Effect of chemical reaction and viscous dissipation on MHD nanofluid flow over a horizontal cylinder : analytical solution. Presented at International Conference on Recent Advances in Mathematical Sciences and its Applications RAMSA, Noida, India, Noida, India

An analytical study of the MHD boundary layer flow of electrically conducting nanofluid over a horizontal cylinder with the effects of chemical reaction and viscous dissipation is presented. Similarity transformations have been applied to transform t... Read More about Effect of chemical reaction and viscous dissipation on MHD nanofluid flow over a horizontal cylinder : analytical solution.

#BYOD4L – this time it’s personal (2016)
Presentation / Conference
MacNeill, S., Spiers, A., & Withnell, N. (2016, December). #BYOD4L – this time it’s personal. Presented at Association for Learning Technology – Winter Conference 2016, Online

Developing domain-specific language for wireless sensor network application development (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Salman, A., & Al-Yasiri, A. (2016, December). Developing domain-specific language for wireless sensor network application development. Presented at The 11th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2016), Barcelona-Spain

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have a potential for a wide scope of uses in the real-world environment. However, WSN application development is considered a challenging and complex task because of the complexity in low-level details, which a develop... Read More about Developing domain-specific language for wireless sensor network application development.

Memory of a memory (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Giles, L. (2016, December). Memory of a memory. Presented at Photography and the Everyday : 4th International Conference of Photography & Theory, Nicosia, Cyprus

A collective memory project and digital online archive derived from public call-out in collaboration with the Bluecoat gallery and LOOK International Photography Festival, Liverpool, England. This paper investigates the process by which photog... Read More about Memory of a memory.

SenNet : a programming toolkit to develop wireless sensor network applications (2016)
Presentation / Conference
wireless sensor network applications. Presented at The 8th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS'16), Larnaca - Cyprus

One of the reasons that Wireless Sensor Network(WSN) applications are not widely available is the complexity in their development. This is a consequence of the complex nature in low-level details, which a developer must manage. The vast majority of... Read More about SenNet : a programming toolkit to develop wireless sensor network applications.

A Quantitative Evaluation of Drive Patterns in Electrical Impedance Tomography (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Impedance Tomography. Presented at MOBIHEALTH 2016 - 6th EAI International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare, Milan

Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is a method used to display, through an image, the conductivity distribution inside a domain by using measurements taken from electrodes placed at its periphery. This paper presents our prototype of a stretchab... Read More about A Quantitative Evaluation of Drive Patterns in Electrical Impedance Tomography.

Matter and memory and deep learning (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Kreps, D. (2016, November). Matter and memory and deep learning. Presented at Diagnoses of Matter and Memory: Bergson and the Problems of Brain, Time and Memory, Tokyo, Japan

The recent phenomenon of ‘Deep Learning,’ which has given us such science-fiction-like innovations as search tools in photographic applications and the growing reality of self-driving cars, is a new form, and subset, of ‘Machine Learning’ made possib... Read More about Matter and memory and deep learning.

Community Problems Community Solutions How To Solve A Problem Like Poverty (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Blezard, E. (2016, November). Community Problems Community Solutions How To Solve A Problem Like Poverty. Presented at 2016 Customer Engagement Summit, London Victoria Park Plaza

Presentation of the research approach for the Community Investment Review project at Trafford Housing Trust. The review used a mixed methods approach with 20 interviews, survey with over 600 respondents and six World Café consultation events with KE... Read More about Community Problems Community Solutions How To Solve A Problem Like Poverty.

Tackling the issue of FGM in Higher Education (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Shannon, M., & Hesk, G. (2016, November). Tackling the issue of FGM in Higher Education. Presented at Tackling The Issue of Female Genital Mutilation In Schools, Manchester

A new energy-efficient clustering protocol for wireless sensor networks based on Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Nuaimi, R. (2016, October). A new energy-efficient clustering protocol for wireless sensor networks based on Network Function Virtualisation (NFV). Presented at 6th International Conference on Information Communication and Management (ICICM), UK

In wireless sensor networks, minimising energy consumption is the most important challenge that should be considered in their design. Routing consumes a considerable amount of energy in the communication to perform various functions such as clusterin... Read More about A new energy-efficient clustering protocol for wireless sensor networks based on Network Function Virtualisation (NFV).

Performance of grey level statistic features versus Gabor wavelet for screening MRI brain tumors : a comparative study (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Hasan, A., Meziane, F., & Jalab, H. (2016, October). Performance of grey level statistic features versus Gabor wavelet for screening MRI brain tumors : a comparative study. Presented at 6th International Conference on Information Communication and Management, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK

Medical imaging technologies have an important role in the care of all human’s organs and disease entities, where they are used widely for the effective diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of the disease. The MRI has been among the most important of... Read More about Performance of grey level statistic features versus Gabor wavelet for screening MRI brain tumors : a comparative study.

Mining the crime survey to support crime profiling (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Wu, J., Meziane, F., Saraee, M., Aspin, R., & Hope, T. (2016, October). Mining the crime survey to support crime profiling. Presented at 2016 International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Understanding (IWCIM), Reggio Calabria, Italy

Crime surveys are conducted to record crimes by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in the United Kingdom every year. They contain rich information about crime. They record the crimes that are not reported to the police. However, their exploitat... Read More about Mining the crime survey to support crime profiling.

Wrist rehabilitation exoskeleton robot based on pneumatic soft actuators (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Fahaam, H., Davis, S., & Nefti-Meziani, S. (2016, October). Wrist rehabilitation exoskeleton robot based on pneumatic soft actuators. Presented at International Conference for Students on Applied Engineering (ICSAE),, Newcastle UK

The aim of this paper is to describe the design of a soft, wearable splint for wrist joint rehabilitation, based on pneumatic soft actuators. The extensor bending and the contraction types of pneumatic soft actuators have been adopted in this stud... Read More about Wrist rehabilitation exoskeleton robot based on pneumatic soft actuators.

3D position mapping of continuum arm (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Ibadi, A., Nefti-Meziani, S., & Davis, S. (2016, October). 3D position mapping of continuum arm. Presented at International Conference for Students on Applied Engineering, ICSAE 2016, Newcastle UK

Modelling a continuum arm is one of the major challenges in soft robotic researches. An accurate position model allows wider use of continuum robot arms in industrial and medical applications. Furthermore, accurate control can be achieved. This pape... Read More about 3D position mapping of continuum arm.

The impact of altitude, latitude, and endurance duration on the design of a high altitude, solar powered unmanned aerial vehicle (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Alsahlani, A., & Rahulan, T. (2016, October). The impact of altitude, latitude, and endurance duration on the design of a high altitude, solar powered unmanned aerial vehicle. Presented at The International Conference for Students on Applied Engineering ICSAE, Newcastle / United Kingdom

In this paper, a previously developed conceptual design tool has been used to study the impact of the latitude, altitude, and the flight duration on the weight estimation and the main characteristics of a high altitude, long endurance and solar power... Read More about The impact of altitude, latitude, and endurance duration on the design of a high altitude, solar powered unmanned aerial vehicle.