Effect of confinement on the bearing capacity and settlement of spread foundations (2018)
Journal Article
settlement of spread foundations. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2021831

Allowable-bearing capacity is the competency of soil to safely carries the pressure from the superstructure without experiencing a shear failure with accompanying excessive settlements. Ensuring a safe bearing pressure with respect to failure does no... Read More about Effect of confinement on the bearing capacity and settlement of spread foundations.

Degrees of tenant isolation for cloud-hosted software services : a cross-case analysis (2018)
Journal Article
cross-case analysis. Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications, 7(22), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13677-018-0121-8

A challenge, when implementing multi-tenancy
in a cloud-hosted software service, is how to ensure that the
performance and resource consumption of one tenant does
not adversely affect other tenants. Software designers and
architects must achieve... Read More about Degrees of tenant isolation for cloud-hosted software services : a cross-case analysis.

ROI-based reversible watermarking scheme for ensuring the integrity and authenticity of DICOM MR images (2018)
Journal Article
Qasim, A., Aspin, R., Meziane, F., & Hogg, P. (2019). ROI-based reversible watermarking scheme for ensuring the integrity and authenticity of DICOM MR images. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 78(12), 16433-16463. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-018-7029-7

Reversible and imperceptible watermarking is recognized as a robust approach to confirm the integrity and authenticity of medical images and to verify that alterations can be detected and tracked back. In this paper, a novel blind reversible watermar... Read More about ROI-based reversible watermarking scheme for ensuring the integrity and authenticity of DICOM MR images.

Using eulerlets to model steady uniform flow past a circular cylinder (2018)
Journal Article
Chadwick, E., Christian, J., & Chalasani, K. (2018). Using eulerlets to model steady uniform flow past a circular cylinder. European Journal of Computational Mechanics, 27(5-6), 469-478. https://doi.org/10.1080/17797179.2018.1550960

Consider uniform, steady flow past a circular cylinder at Reynolds numbers 26, 36 and 40 before the flow becomes unsteady. Model the flow by using eulerlets, new Green’s functions for Euler flow. This is the first time this eulerlet model has been us... Read More about Using eulerlets to model steady uniform flow past a circular cylinder.

A Sarrus-like overconstrained eight-bar linkage and its associated Fulleroid-like platonic deployable mechanisms (2018)
Journal Article
Xiu, H., Wang, K., Wei, G., Ren, L., & Dai, J. (2020). A Sarrus-like overconstrained eight-bar linkage and its associated Fulleroid-like platonic deployable mechanisms. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 234(1), 241-262. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954406218816343

This paper, for the first time, presents an overconstrained spatial eight-bar linkage and its application to the synthesis of a group of Fulleroid-like deployable platonic mechanisms. Structure of the proposed eight-bar linkage is introduced, and con... Read More about A Sarrus-like overconstrained eight-bar linkage and its associated Fulleroid-like platonic deployable mechanisms.

Detection of osteoporosis from percussion responses using an electronic stethoscope and machine learning (2018)
Journal Article
Scanlan, J., Li, F., Umnova, O., Rakoczy, G., Lövey, N., & Scanlan, P. (2018). Detection of osteoporosis from percussion responses using an electronic stethoscope and machine learning. Bioengineering, 5(4), 107. https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering5040107

Osteoporosis is an asymptomatic bone condition that affects a large proportion of the elderly population around the world, resulting in increased bone fragility and increased risk of fracture. Previous studies had shown that the vibroacoustic respons... Read More about Detection of osteoporosis from percussion responses using an electronic stethoscope and machine learning.

A comprehensive review on natural convection flow and heat transfer : the most practical geometries for engineering applications (2018)
Journal Article
Rahimi, A., Dehghan Saee, A., Kasaeipoor, A., & Hasani Malekshah, E. (2018). A comprehensive review on natural convection flow and heat transfer : the most practical geometries for engineering applications. International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, 29(3), 834-877. https://doi.org/10.1108/hff-06-2018-0272

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to carry out a comprehensive review of some latest studies devoted to natural convection phenomenon in the enclosures because of its significant industrial applications.

Design/methodology/approach: Geometri... Read More about A comprehensive review on natural convection flow and heat transfer : the most practical geometries for engineering applications.

An FCM-based dynamic modelling of integrated project delivery implementation challenges in construction projects (2018)
Journal Article
Kahvandi, Z., Saghatforoush, E., Ravasan, A., & Mansouri, T. (2018). An FCM-based dynamic modelling of integrated project delivery implementation challenges in construction projects. Lean construction journal, 2018, 63-87

Question: What are the Integrated Project Delivery Implementation challenges in
construction projects, their interrelationships and their effects on the project time,
cost and quality?
Purpose: The Purpose of this study is applying an efficient me... Read More about An FCM-based dynamic modelling of integrated project delivery implementation challenges in construction projects.

An adaptable and personalised e-learning system applied to computer science programmes design (2018)
Journal Article
Aeiad, E., & Meziane, F. (2019). An adaptable and personalised e-learning system applied to computer science programmes design. Education and Information Technologies, 24(2), 1485-1509. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-018-9836-x

With the rapid advances in E-learning systems, personalisation and adaptability have now become important features in the education technology. In this paper, we describe the development of an architecture for A Personalised and Adaptable E-Learning... Read More about An adaptable and personalised e-learning system applied to computer science programmes design.

Analytical modeling of dissipative silencers (2018)
Journal Article
Venegas, R., Arenas, J., & Boutin, C. (2018). Analytical modeling of dissipative silencers. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 144(5), 2998-3009. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5078607

This paper applies ideas originally developed in the field of acoustics of multiscale porous media to
the analytical modeling of dissipative silencers. Analytical models for the long-wavelength acoustical
properties of different types of dissipativ... Read More about Analytical modeling of dissipative silencers.

Stratified slopes, numerical and empirical stability analysis (2018)
Journal Article
Sauffisseau, R., & Ahangar Asr, A. (2018). Stratified slopes, numerical and empirical stability analysis. Proceedings of the ICE - Engineering and Computational Mechanics, 171(4), 174-185. https://doi.org/10.1680/jencm.18.00017

Urbanisation means that many natural slopes in and around cities are often subjected to cuts
resulting in dramatic changes in the geometry of slope faces mostly by increasing slope angle
which could lead to failures with catastrophic consequences.... Read More about Stratified slopes, numerical and empirical stability analysis.

Relativistic and pseudorelativistic formulation of nonlinear envelope equations with spatiotemporal dispersion. I. Cubic-quintic systems (2018)
Journal Article
Christian, J., McDonald, G., & Kotsampaseris, A. (2018). Relativistic and pseudorelativistic formulation of nonlinear envelope equations with spatiotemporal dispersion. I. Cubic-quintic systems. Physical Review A, 98(5), 053823. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.98.053842

A generic envelope equation is proposed for describing the evolution of scalar pulses in systems with spatiotemporal dispersion and cubic-quintic nonlinearity. Our analysis has application, for instance, in waveguide optics where the physical origin... Read More about Relativistic and pseudorelativistic formulation of nonlinear envelope equations with spatiotemporal dispersion. I. Cubic-quintic systems.

Relativistic and pseudorelativistic formulation of nonlinear envelope equations with spatiotemporal dispersion. II. Saturable systems (2018)
Journal Article
Christian, J., McDonald, G., Lundie, M., & Kotsampaseris, A. (2018). Relativistic and pseudorelativistic formulation of nonlinear envelope equations with spatiotemporal dispersion. II. Saturable systems. Physical Review A, 98(5), 053843. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.98.053843

We consider an envelope equation with space-time symmetry for describing scalar waves in systems with spatiotemporal dispersion and a generic saturable nonlinearity. Exact bright and gray solitons are derived by direct integration methods and coordin... Read More about Relativistic and pseudorelativistic formulation of nonlinear envelope equations with spatiotemporal dispersion. II. Saturable systems.

Learning causality for Arabic - proclitics (2018)
Journal Article
Sadek, J., & Meziane, F. (2018). Learning causality for Arabic - proclitics. Procedia Computer Science, 142, 141-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2018.10.469

The use of prefixed particles is a prevalent linguistic form to express causation in Arabic Language. However, such particles are complicated and highly ambiguous as they imply different meanings according to their position in the text. This ambiguit... Read More about Learning causality for Arabic - proclitics.

An evolutionary modelling approach to predicting stress-strain behaviour of saturated granular soils (2018)
Journal Article
Ahangar Asr, A., Faramarzi, A., & Javadi, A. (2018). An evolutionary modelling approach to predicting stress-strain behaviour of saturated granular soils. Engineering Computations, 35(8), 2931-2952. https://doi.org/10.1108/EC-01-2018-0025

Purpose: To develop a unified framework for modelling triaxial deviator stress - axial strain and volumetric strain – axial strain behaviour of granular soils with the ability to predict the entire stress paths, incrementally, point by point, in de... Read More about An evolutionary modelling approach to predicting stress-strain behaviour of saturated granular soils.

Novel design and position control strategy of a soft robot arm (2018)
Journal Article
Al-Ibadi, A., Nefti-Meziani, S., Davis, S., & Theodoridis, T. (2018). Novel design and position control strategy of a soft robot arm. Robotics, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics7040072

This article presents a novel design of a continuum arm, which has the ability to extend and bend efficiently. Numerous designs and experiments have been done to different dimensions on both types of McKibben pneumatic muscle actuators (PMA) in order... Read More about Novel design and position control strategy of a soft robot arm.

The impact of atmospheric pressure on the performance of 60GHz point to point links within 5G networks (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Linge, N., Odum, R., Hill, S., von Hünerbein, S., Linnebank, P., Sutton, A., & Townend, D. (2018, November). The impact of atmospheric pressure on the performance of 60GHz point to point links within 5G networks. Presented at Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference 2018 (LAPC2018), Loughborough, UK

There is growing interest in the use of millimetre-wave spectrum as a potential candidate for the provision of high capacity, short range, back-haul solutions within future 5G ultra-dense network infrastructures. However, it is recognised that these... Read More about The impact of atmospheric pressure on the performance of 60GHz point to point links within 5G networks.

Assessment of perceptual distortion boundary through applying reversible watermarking to brain MR images (2018)
Journal Article
Qasim, A., Aspin, R., Meziane, F., & Hogg, P. (2019). Assessment of perceptual distortion boundary through applying reversible watermarking to brain MR images. Signal Processing: Image Communication, 70, 246-258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.image.2018.10.007

The digital medical workflow faces many circumstances in which the images can be manipulated during viewing, extracting and exchanging. Reversible and imperceptible watermarking approaches have the potential to enhance trust within the medical imagin... Read More about Assessment of perceptual distortion boundary through applying reversible watermarking to brain MR images.

Gait speeds classifications by supervised modulation based machine-learning using Kinect camera (2018)
Journal Article
Elkurdi, A., Soufian, M., & Nefti-Meziani, S. (2018). Gait speeds classifications by supervised modulation based machine-learning using Kinect camera. Medical research and innovations, 2(4), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.15761/MRI.1000147

Early indication of some diseases such as Parkinson and Multiple Sclerosis often manifests with walking difficulties. Gait analysis provides vital information for assessing the walking patterns during the locomotion, especially when the outcomes are... Read More about Gait speeds classifications by supervised modulation based machine-learning using Kinect camera.

Within- and between-session prefrontal cortex response to virtual reality exposure therapy for acrophobia (2018)
Journal Article
Landowska, A., Roberts, D., Eachus, P., & Barrett, A. (2018). Within- and between-session prefrontal cortex response to virtual reality exposure therapy for acrophobia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12(362), https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00362

Exposure Therapy (ET) has demonstrated its efficacy in the treatment of phobias, anxiety and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), however, it suffers a high drop-out rate because of too low or too high patient engagement in treatment. Virtual Reali... Read More about Within- and between-session prefrontal cortex response to virtual reality exposure therapy for acrophobia.