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Extracting room reverberation time from speech using artificial neural networks (2001)
Journal Article
Cox, T., Li, F., & Darlington, P. (2001). Extracting room reverberation time from speech using artificial neural networks. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 49(4), 219-230

A novel method to extract the reverberation time from reverberated speech utterances is presented. In this study, speech utterances are restricted to pronounced digits; uncontrolled discourse is not considered. The reverberation times considered are... Read More about Extracting room reverberation time from speech using artificial neural networks.

Intelligent adaptive mobile robot navigation (2001)
Journal Article
Djouani, K., Oussalah, M., Pontnau, J., & Nefti-Meziani, S. (2001). Intelligent adaptive mobile robot navigation. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 30(4), 311-329. https://doi.org/10.1023/A%3A1011190306492

This paper deals with the application of a neuro-fuzzy inference system to a mobile robot navigation in an unknown, or partially unknown environment. The final aim of the robot is to reach some pre-defined goal. For this purpose, a sort of a co-opera... Read More about Intelligent adaptive mobile robot navigation.

Experience with mural in formalising Dust-Expert (2001)
Journal Article
Vadera, S., Meziane, F., & Huang, M. (2001). Experience with mural in formalising Dust-Expert. Information and Software Technology, 43(4), 231-240. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0950-5849%2800%2900161-0

The mural system was an outcome of a significant effort to develop a support tool for the effective use of a full formal methods development cycle. Experience with it, however, has been limited to a small number of illustrative examples that have bee... Read More about Experience with mural in formalising Dust-Expert.

The Effects of Specular Versus Diffuse Reflections on the Frequency Response at the Listener (2001)
Journal Article
Angus, J. (2001). The Effects of Specular Versus Diffuse Reflections on the Frequency Response at the Listener. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 49(3), 125-133

It is shown how the frequency response of the sound from a monitoring loudspeaker in a control room is affected by the presence of specular or diffuse early reflections. The effect of specular and diffuse early reflections on the frequency response d... Read More about The Effects of Specular Versus Diffuse Reflections on the Frequency Response at the Listener.

Structural and optical investigations on CdS thin films grown by chemical bath technique (2001)
Journal Article
Ramaiah, K., Pilkington, R., Hill, A., Tomlinson, R., & Bhatnagar, A. (2001). Structural and optical investigations on CdS thin films grown by chemical bath technique. Materials Chemistry and Physics, 68(1-3), 22-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0254-0584%2800%2900281-9

Cadmium sulphide (CdS) thin films have been prepared by using a chemical bath deposition (CBD) method. Structural analysis (XRD and TEM) revealed that the films showed hexagonal structure with lattice constants a=0.4015 nm and c=0.6545 nm. On anneali... Read More about Structural and optical investigations on CdS thin films grown by chemical bath technique.

Ultrathin epitaxial Fe films in vicinal GaAs(001): A study by spin-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (2001)
Journal Article

Thin epitaxial Fe films have been grown on vicinal GaAs(001) substrates and their remanent magnetic properties and the degree of substrate atom diffusion investigated using synchrotron-based photoelectron spectroscopy. The vicinal Fe films, though ex... Read More about Ultrathin epitaxial Fe films in vicinal GaAs(001): A study by spin-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy.

Neutron and synchrotron x-ray strain scanning (2001)
Journal Article
Withers, P., & Webster, P. (2001). Neutron and synchrotron x-ray strain scanning. Strain, 37(1), 19-33. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-1305.2001.tb01216.x

Neutron and synchrotron X-ray strain scanning provide the opportunity for mapping residual strain distributions within polychrystalline materials, non-destructively. the neutron method is now reasonably mature, industrial standards for measurement ar... Read More about Neutron and synchrotron x-ray strain scanning.

Adsorption and decomposition of nickelocene on Ag(100): a high-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy and temperature programmed desorption study (2001)
Journal Article
Pugmire, D., Woodbridge, C., Boag, N., & Langell, M. (2001). Adsorption and decomposition of nickelocene on Ag(100): a high-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy and temperature programmed desorption study. Surface Science, 472(3), 155-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0039-6028%2800%2900939-0

Nickelocene adsorption and decomposition on the Ag(100) surface were studied with temperature programmed desorption and high resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy. At monolayer coverages on the relatively inert Ag(100) surface at 175 K, nickel... Read More about Adsorption and decomposition of nickelocene on Ag(100): a high-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy and temperature programmed desorption study.

On the Characteristic Power of Structure-Borne Sound Sources (2001)
Journal Article
Moorhouse, A. (2001). On the Characteristic Power of Structure-Borne Sound Sources. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 248(3), 441-459

The paper deals with methods of independently characterizing sources of structure-borne sound. The concept of mirror power is introduced, which is the power delivered by a vibration source when connected to a passive receiver structure that is a mirr... Read More about On the Characteristic Power of Structure-Borne Sound Sources.

Combining inductive logic programming, active learning and robotics to discover the function of genes (2001)
Journal Article
Bryant, C., Muggleton, S., Kell, D., Reiser, P., King, R., & Oliver, S. (2001). Combining inductive logic programming, active learning and robotics to discover the function of genes

The paper is addressed to AI workers with an interest in biomolecular genetics and also to biomolecular geneticists interested in what AI tools may do for them. The authors are engaged in a collaborative enterprise aimed at partially automating some... Read More about Combining inductive logic programming, active learning and robotics to discover the function of genes.

Developing a logical model of yeast metabolism (2001)
Journal Article
Reiser, P., King, R., Muggleton, S., Bryant, C., Oliver, S., & Kell, D. (2001). Developing a logical model of yeast metabolism

With the completion of the sequencing of genomes of increasing numbers of organisms, the focus of biology is moving to determining the role of these genes (functional
genomics). To this end it is useful to view the cell as a
biochemical machine: it... Read More about Developing a logical model of yeast metabolism.

Response to "comment on 'reducing seat dip attenuation'" J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 110, 1260 (2001) (2001)
Journal Article
Davies, W., & Cox, T. (2001). Response to "comment on 'reducing seat dip attenuation'" J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 110, 1260 (2001). ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 110(3), 1261-1262

This letter responds to Klepper's comments [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 110, 1260 (2001)] on the subject paper, which is concerned with ameliorating seat dip attenuation in auditoria by introducing a pit under the seats. Klepper asks what the effect of the p... Read More about Response to "comment on 'reducing seat dip attenuation'" J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 110, 1260 (2001).

Hearing loss in the built environment : the experience of elderly people (2001)
Journal Article
Davies, W., Cox, T., Kearon, A., Longhurst, B., & Webb, C. (2001). Hearing loss in the built environment : the experience of elderly people. Acta acustica united with Acustica, 87(5), 610-616

A qualitative social survey has been conducted on a group of 207 elderly people with a hearing loss. The aim of the study was to determine the extent to which acoustic problems in the built environment affect this subject group. The project was thoug... Read More about Hearing loss in the built environment : the experience of elderly people.

The views of recording studio control room users (2001)
Presentation / Conference
Fazenda, B., & Davies, W. (2001, January). The views of recording studio control room users. Presented at Institute of Acoustics

A study was carried out in order to identify common language, views and preferences of professionals using audio control rooms. This was done as part of current research on the design of Control Rooms for critical listening. The survey took the form... Read More about The views of recording studio control room users.