Abedin, B & Daneshgar, F 2008, 'Operationalizing Off-task Sociability of Asynchronous Computer Supported Collaborative Learning', Communications of the IBIMA, vol. 1, pp. 152-158.
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Many previous studies have emphasized the role of the sociability of the computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environments on learning achievements. Also, recent studies have reported that other than on-task interaction, students have considerable off-task interactions in CSCL environments. Yet, more studies are needed to clarify the off-task aspect of social interactions in CSCL and sociability of the environment. This paper attempts to investigate and operationalize sociability of CSCL environments from off-task point of view in order to further clarify this aspect of CSCL. It first reviews previous sociability questionnaires and instruments and then proposes a list of measure to represent and operationalize off-task sociability of CSCL. The proposed list of measures is then validated through experts judges and finally implications are discussed.
Abolhasan, M & Wright, A 2008, 'Survey of the potential of emerging wireless technologies to improve telecommunication services in remote Australian settlements', RANGELAND JOURNAL, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 157-165.
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Providing efficient yet cost effective telecommunication systems to Aboriginal people living in remote locations has proven to be a challenging task. This is primarily due to low population density and distance from major service centres. Extending high-capacity telecommunications infrastructure to these people would incur high costs of installation, maintenance and administration without significant financial returns. The cost of services such as cabled phone lines to all houses, satellite and wireless cellular networks are often unaffordable for people in remote settlements, and, as a result, the provision of telecommunication services is often subsidised by the government. New wireless standards and products are being developed which could provide broadband-type network connections to large areas at an affordable price. This paper describes these new standards and products and their potential applications in rural and remote regions. There is also a comparison of their transmission requirements, cost, performance and coverage with several currently available technologies.
Achuthan, A, Masendycz, P, Lopez, JA, Nguyen, T, James, DE, Sweet, MJ, Hamilton, JA & Scholz, GM 2008, 'Regulation of the Endosomal SNARE Protein Syntaxin 7 by Colony-Stimulating Factor 1 in Macrophages', Molecular and Cellular Biology, vol. 28, no. 20, pp. 6149-6159.
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Colony-stimulating factor 1 (CSF-1) is the main growth factor controlling the development of macrophages from myeloid progenitor cells. However, CSF-1 also regulates some of the key effector functions of macrophages (e.g., phagocytosis and cytokine secretion). The endosomal SNARE protein syntaxin 7 (Stx7) regulates vesicle trafficking events involved in phagocytosis and cytokine secretion. Therefore, we investigated the ability of CSF-1 to regulate Stx7. CSF-1 upregulated Stx7 expression in primary mouse macrophages; it also upregulated expression of its SNARE partners Vti1b and VAMP8 but not Stx8. Additionally, CSF-1 induced the rapid serine phosphorylation of Stx7 and enhanced its binding to Vti1b, Stx8, and VAMP8. Bioinformatics analysis and results from experiments with kinase inhibitors suggested the CSF-1-induced phosphorylation of Stx7 was mediated by protein kinase C and Akt in response to phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase activation. Based on mutagenesis studies, CSF-1 appeared to increase the binding of Stx7 to its SNARE partners by inducing the phosphorylation of serine residues in the Habc domain and/or “linker” region of Stx7. Thus, CSF-1 is a key regulator of Stx7 expression and function in macrophages. Furthermore, the effects of CSF-1 on Stx7 may provide a mechanism for the regulation of macrophage effector functions by CSF-1.
Aghasadeghi, K & Zare, D 2008, 'Efficacy of alternate day dosing of atorvastatin', Open Medicine, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 163-166.
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AbstractAtorvastatin is a synthetic inhibitor of 3-hydroxy 3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitor. It has a longer half life and longer duration of action than that of all other available HMG-CoA inhibitors. We evaluated the efficacy of alternate-day dosing of atorvastatin in comparison with the standard one-daily dose on total cholesterol, low and High-density lipoprotein (LDL and HDL) and triglycerides. This study is a randomized, blinded, and controlled clinical trial. Sixty-six patients with LDL cholesterol of more than 100 mg/dl were enrolled. Baseline fasting lipid profile (total cholesterol, LDL, HDL and triglyceride), liver function tests and creatine kinase were drawn. Patients were randomized to three atorvastatin dose groups. Group I received 10 mg of atorvastatin every day, group II received 20 mg of atorvastatin every day, and group III received 20 mg every other day. After 6 weeks of treatment with atorvastatin, fasting lipid profiles, liver function tests and creatine kinase concentrations were re-taken. Compliance to treatment was assessed at each visit. Of the sixty-six patients enrolled, sixty completed the study. All three regimens significantly reduced total cholesterol and LDL compared to baseline. No statistically significant difference existed between the three groups in regards to total or a percentage decrease in total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol at 6 weeks compared to baseline. All regimens were well tolerated and none of the patients showed significant elevation of liver enzyme or creatine kinase during the course of the study. In conclusions the alternate-day dosing of atorvastatin is an efficacious and safe alternate to daily dosing and yet inexpensive.
Agrawal, A, Kejalakshmy, N, Chen, J, Rahman, BMA & Grattan, KTV 2008, 'Golden spiral photonic crystal fiber: polarization and dispersion properties', Optics Letters, vol. 33, no. 22, pp. 2716-2716.
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Ahlborg, HG, Nguyen, ND, Center, JR, Eisman, JA & Nguyen, TV 2008, 'Incidence and risk factors for low trauma fractures in men with prostate cancer', Bone, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 556-560.
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Background: Men with prostate cancer on androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) are at increased risk of bone loss. The present study sought to determine the incidence of low trauma fracture in men with prostate cancer (PC), and to characterize the association between potential risk factors and fracture risk in these men. Methods: In the prospective, population-based Dubbo Osteoporosis Epidemiology Study, 43 men aged 60+ years reported a history of prostate cancer; among whom, 22 men received ADT, and 21 men did not. Low-trauma fractureswere ascertained between 1989 and 2004. Bone mineral density at the femoral neck (FNBMD), postural instability and lifestyle factors were obtained at baseline. Results: Men with prostate cancer had significantly higher lumbar spine BMD than those without cancer (p=0.013). During the follow-up period, 15 men with prostate cancer had sustained a fracture, yielding the ageadjusted incidence of fracture among this group was 31.6 per 1000 person-years, which was greater than those without cancer (22.1 per 1000 person-years). The age-adjusted incidence of fracture was more pronounced among those with prostate cancer on ADT (40.2 per 1000 person-years). After adjusting for age, the increase in fracture risk among prostate cancer patientswas associated with lower femoral neck BMD (hazard ratio [HR] per SD=1.8, 95% CI: 1.03.4) and increased rate of bone loss (HR 2.3, 1.24.6). Conclusions: Menwith prostate cancer, particularly those treated with ADT, had an increased fracture risk. Although the average BMD inmen with prostate cancerwas higher thanmen without cancer, a lowBMDprior to treatment or increased rate of bone loss after initiating ADT treatment was each a significant predictor of fracture in these.
Ahuja, S & Krunz, M 2008, 'Algorithms for Server Placement in Multiple-Description-Based Media Streaming', IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 1382-1392.
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Ahuja, SS & Krunz, M 2008, 'Cross-virtual concatenation for Ethernet-over-SONET/SDH networks', Photonic Network Communications, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 169-181.
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Alem, L, Joseph, M, Kethers, S, Steele, C & Wilkinson, R 2008, 'Information Environments for Supporting Consistent Registrar Medical Handover', Health Information Management Journal, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 9-25.
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This study was two-fold in nature. Initially, it examined the information environment and the use of customary information tools to support medical handovers in a large metropolitan teaching hospital on four weekends (i.e. Friday night to Monday morning). Weekend medical handovers were found to involve sequences of handovers where patients were discussed at the discretion of the doctor handing over; no reliable discussion of all patients of concern occurred at any one handover, with few information tools being used; and after a set of weekend handovers, there was no complete picture on a Monday morning without an analysis of all patient progress notes. In a subsequent case study, three information tools specifically designed as intervention that attempted to enrich the information environment were evaluated. Results indicate that these tools did support greater continuity in who was discussed but not in what was discussed at handover. After the intervention, if a doctor discussed a patient at handover, that patient was more likely to be discussed at subsequent handovers. However, the picture at Monday morning remained fragmentary. The results are discussed in terms of the complexities inherent in the handover process
Altaee, A, Smith, R & Mikhalovsky, S 2008, 'The feasibility of decontamination of reduced saline sediments from copper using the electrokinetic process', Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 88, no. 4, pp. 1611-1618.
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Alvarez, GA, Wang, XL, Peleckis, G, Dou, SX, Zhu, JG & Lin, ZW 2008, 'Magnetotransport and magnetic properties of weak ferromagnetic semiconductors: Ca doped LaCrO3', Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 103, no. 7, pp. 07B916-07B916.
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Areerachakul, N, Vigneswaran, S, Kandasamy, J & Duangduen, C 2008, 'The degradtion of humic substance using continuous photocatalysis systems', SEPARATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 93-112.
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Photocatalytic oxidation is an emerging technology in water and wastewater treatment. Photocatalysis often leads to complete degradation of organic pollutants without the need for chemicals. This study investigated the degradation of humic substances in
Areerachakul, N, Vigneswaran, S, Ngo, HH & Kandasamy, J 2008, 'A continuous photocatalysis system in the degradation of herbicide', KOREAN JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 663-669.
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The performance of both batch and continuous photo-catalytic reactors was studied to evaluate their capabilities in removing the sulfonyl urea herbicide of metsulfuron methyl (MM). It was found in a batch reactor that the addition of a small amount of powder activated carbon (PAC) significantly increased the rate of degradation of MM. The continuous photo-catalytic system resulted in 57% of MM removal. When a small dose of activated carbon was added in the photo-catalytic system, MM removal increased to 7886% MM removal for retention times between of 5.2521 min (corresponding to withdrawal rates of 1040 mLmin-1). In this study, the pseudo first order rate constants of a continuous photo-catalytic system revealed that shorter retention times were associated with lower rate constants. Solid phase micro extraction/gas chromatography (SPME/GC) results showed that high concentrations of MM were broken down to small volatile organic compounds (VOCs) by photo-catalytic oxidation. PAC adsorbed the photo-products and increased the degradation of MM.
Aryal, RK, Lee, B-K, Karki, R, Gurung, A, Kandasamy, J, Pathak, BK, Sharma, S & Giri, N 2008, 'Seasonal PM10 dynamics in Kathmandu Valley', Atmospheric Environment, vol. 42, no. 37, pp. 8623-8633.
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Data on ambient PM10 levels from six locations in the Kathmandu Valley recorded by means of continuous sampling using low volume air samplers from October 2002 to March 2007 were used to investigate PM10 concentration dynamics in the valley. Monthly average data of the urban areas, which have much higher concentrations than the rural areas, even exceeded the daily standard level of PM10, in Nepal, 120 ?m m-3. Repetitive peaks and troughs each year indicated annual patterns. Monthly average showed seasonal patterns are different between rural area and urban sites. The highest monthly average concentration was observed in February, the end of winter in urban areas where as in rural found in spring, and the lowest concentration was observed in July (monsoon period). The continuous increase in PM10 concentration from December to February in urban areas showed accumulation of PM10 in the ambient air during the wintertime. Rainfall in June and September, during the monsoon period, caused a PM10 concentration decrease, demonstrating that precipitation is effective in removing PM10 from the valley. Cross correlation analyses among the PM10 levels measured simultaneously at the sampling stations showed a poor relationship in winter; however, there were good relationships in the monsoon and post-monsoon seasons. Both the PM10 concentration and the air-mixing environment in the valley were closely associated with the temperature and wind speed.
Aslund, ML, Jovanovic, N, Groothoff, N, Canning, J, Marshall, GD, Jackson, SD, Fuerbach, A & Withford, MJ 2008, 'Optical loss mechanisms in femtosecond laser-written point-by-point fibre Bragg gratings', OPTICS EXPRESS, vol. 16, no. 18, pp. 14248-14254.
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Azadeh, A, Ghaderi, SF, Javaheri, Z & Saberi, M 2008, 'A Fuzzy Mathematical Programming Approach to DEA Models', American Journal of Applied Sciences, vol. 5, no. 10, pp. 1352-1357.
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Evaluating the performance of activities or organizations by traditional Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) as efficiency frontier analysis models requires crisp input/output data. However, in real-world problems inputs and outputs are often imprecise. This study develops DEA models using imprecise data represented by fuzzy sets. An important outcome of assessing relative efficiencies within a group of Decision Making Units (DMUs) in fuzzy data envelopment analysis is to determine efficient DMUs. We find efficiency measures with fuzzy inputs and outputs via proposed model. An example using fuzzy data is presented for illustrative purposes. We apply this method in the application to the power generation sector of Iran. © 2008 Science Publications.
Azadeh, A, Saberi, M, Ghaderi, SF, Gitiforouz, A & Ebrahimipour, V 2008, 'Improved estimation of electricity demand function by integration of fuzzy system and data mining approach', Energy Conversion and Management, vol. 49, no. 8, pp. 2165-2177.
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Babl, FE & Sharwood, LN 2008, 'Research governance: current knowledge among clinical researchers', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 188, no. 11, pp. 649-652.
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Babl, FE, Oakley, E, Puspitadewi, A & Sharwood, LN 2008, 'Limited analgesic efficacy of nitrous oxide for painful procedures in children', Emergency Medicine Journal, vol. 25, no. 11, pp. 717-721.
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Babl, FE, Oakley, E, Seaman, C, Barnett, P & Sharwood, LN 2008, 'High-Concentration Nitrous Oxide for Procedural Sedation in Children: Adverse Events and Depth of Sedation', Pediatrics, vol. 121, no. 3, pp. e528-e532.
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OBJECTIVE. Nitrous oxide is an attractive agent for procedural sedation and analgesia in the emergency department; however, there are limited safety data for high-concentration continuous-flow nitrous oxide (50%–70%) and its use in young children. We set out to characterize the depth of sedation and incidence of adverse events associated with various concentrations of nitrous oxide used in a pediatric emergency department.
METHODS. This was a prospective observational study of nitrous oxide use for procedural sedation and analgesia in a tertiary children's hospital emergency department. Nitrous oxide concentration, adverse events, and sedation depth were recorded. Adverse events were categorized as mild or serious. Sedation depth was recorded on a sedation scale from 0 to 6.
RESULTS. A total of 762 patients who were aged 1 to 17 years received nitrous oxide during the 2-year study period. A total of 548 (72%) received nitrous oxide 70%, and 101 (13%) received nitrous oxide 50%. Moderate or deep sedation with scores of ≤2 occurred in 3% of patients who had received nitrous oxide 70% and no patients who had received nitrous oxide 50%. Mean sedation scores were 4.4 at nitrous oxide 70% and 4.6 at nitrous oxide 50%. Sixty-three (8.3%) patients sustained 70 mild and self-resolving adverse events, most of which were vomiting (5.7%); 2 (0.2%) patients had serious adverse events. There was no significant difference in adverse events rates between nitrous oxide 70% (8.4%) and nitrous oxide 50% (9.9%). There was no significant difference in the percentage of deep sedation when children who were ≤3 years of age (2.9%) were compared with older children (2.8%).
CONCLUSIONS. In this largest prospective emergency department series, high-concentration continuous-flow nitrous oxide (70%) was found to be a safe agent for procedural sedation and analgesia when embedded in a compr...
Bandyopadhyay, S, Canning, J, Stevenson, M & Cook, K 2008, 'Ultrahigh-temperature regenerated gratings in boron-codoped germanosilicate optical fiber using 193 nm', OPTICS LETTERS, vol. 33, no. 16, pp. 1917-1919.
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Bansal, G, Hossain, M & Bhargava, V 2008, 'Optimal and Suboptimal Power Allocation Schemes for OFDM-based Cognitive Radio Systems', IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 7, no. 11, pp. 4710-4718.
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Barrett, SD, Rohde, PP & Stace, TM 2008, 'Scalable quantum computing with atomic ensembles', NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, vol. 12.
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Atomic ensembles, comprising clouds of atoms addressed by laser fields,
provide an attractive system for both the storage of quantum information, and
the coherent conversion of quantum information between atomic and optical
degrees of freedom. In a landmark paper, Duan et al. (DLCZ) [1] showed that
atomic ensembles could be used as nodes of a quantum repeater network capable
of sharing pairwise quantum entanglement between systems separated by
arbitrarily large distances. In recent years, a number of promising experiments
have demonstrated key aspects of this proposal [2-7]. Here, we describe a
scheme for full scale quantum computing with atomic ensembles. Our scheme uses
similar methods to those already demonstrated experimentally, and yet has
information processing capabilities far beyond those of a quantum repeater.
Bennett, NS, Cowern, NEB, Smith, AJ, Kah, M, Gwilliam, RM, Sealy, BJ, Noakes, TCQ, Bailey, P, Giubertoni, D & Bersani, M 2008, 'Differential Hall characterisation of ultrashallow doping in advanced Si-based materials', Materials Science and Engineering: B, vol. 154-155, pp. 229-233.
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Bennett, NS, Smith, AJ, Gwilliam, RM, Webb, RP, Sealy, BJ, Cowern, NEB, O’Reilly, L & McNally, PJ 2008, 'Antimony for n-type metal oxide semiconductor ultrashallow junctions in strained Si: A superior dopant to arsenic?', Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 391-391.
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Bevan, CA, Babl, FE, Bolt, P & Sharwood, LN 2008, 'The increasing problem of motorcycle injuries in children and adolescents', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 189, no. 1, pp. 17-20.
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Bignal, KL, Langridge, S & Zhou, JL 2008, 'Release of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and particulate matter from biomass combustion in a wood-fired boiler under varying boiler conditions', Atmospheric Environment, vol. 42, no. 39, pp. 8863-8871.
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Particulate matter, CO and NO as well as 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in both gaseous and particulate phases were measured in the stack of a woodchip-fired 50 kW boiler used for domestic heating. The concentrations of SPAHs in both gas and particle phases varied from 1.3 to 1631.7 µg m-3. Mean CO and NO concentrations varied from 96 to 6002 ppm and from 28 to 359 ppm, respectively. The effects of fuel parameters (moisture content (MC) and tree species) and boiler operating conditions on pollutant concentrations were investigated. A relationship was established between SPAHs in gaseous and particulate phases and CO concentrations. The species of tree used for woodchip was less important than MC and boiler operating conditions in affecting pollutant concentrations. It is recommended that in order to minimise PAH release woodchip fuel should have a low MC, and the boiler should be operated with a load demand (high/moderate heat requirement). Slumber modes when the boiler has no load demand and is effectively a smouldering flame should be avoided. This can be achieved by increasing automatic operation capability of wood-fired boilers, for example, by automatically varying fire rates and having auto-start capabilities. The PAH data obtained from this study is particularly useful in contributing to emissions inventories, modelling, and predictions of ambient air quality
Bird, T & Granet, C 2008, 'Fabrication and space-qualifying a lightweight corrugated horn with low sidelobes for global-Earth coverage', IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 80-86.
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Bird, TS 2008, 'Editorial', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 2-4.
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Blumenstein, M 2008, 'Cursive Character Segmentation Using Neural Network Techniques', Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol. 90, pp. 259-275.
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The segmentation of cursive and mixed scripts persists to be a difficult problem in the area of handwriting recognition. This research details advances for segmenting characters in off-line cursive script. Specifically, a heuristic algorithm and a neural network-based technique, which uses a structural feature vector representation, are proposed and combined for identifying incorrect segmentation points. Following the location of appropriate anchorage points, a character extraction technique, using segmentation paths, is employed to complete the segmentation process. Results are presented for neural-based heuristic segmentation, segmentation point validation, character recognition, segmentation path detection and overall segmentation accuracy. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
Blumenstein, M, Green, S, Fogelman, S, Nguyen, A & Muthukkumarasarny, V 2008, 'Performance analysis of GAME: A generic automated marking environment', COMPUTERS & EDUCATION, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 1203-1216.
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This paper describes the Generic Automated Marking Environment (GAME) and provides a detailed analysis of its performance in assessing student programming projects and exercises. GAME has been designed to automatically assess programming assignments written in a variety of languages based on the "structure" of the source code and the correctness of the program's output. Currently, the system is able to mark programs written in Java, C++ and the C language. To use the system, instructors are required to provide a simple "marking schema" for each given assessment item, which includes pertinent information such as the location of files and the model solution. In this research, GAME has been tested on a number of student programming exercises and assignments and its performance has been compared against that of a human marker. An in-depth statistical analysis of the comparison is presented, providing encouraging results and directions for employing GAME as a tool for teaching and learning. © 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Bolt, P, Barnett, P, Babl, FE & Sharwood, LN 2008, 'Topical lignocaine for pain relief in acute otitis media: results of a double-blind placebo-controlled randomised trial', Archives of Disease in Childhood, vol. 93, no. 1, pp. 40-44.
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Browne, RW, Bloom, MS, Schisterman, EF, Hovey, K, Trevisan, M, Wu, C, Liu, A & Wactawski-Wende, J 2008, 'Analytical and biological variation of biomarkers of oxidative stress during the menstrual cycle', Biomarkers, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 160-183.
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Little information is available on the intra-individual variability of oxidative stress biomarkers in healthy individuals and even less in the context of the menstrual cycle. The objective of this study was to characterize the analytical and biological variability of a panel of 21 markers of oxidative damage, antioxidant defence and micronutrients in nine healthy, regularly menstruating women aged 18-44 years. Analyses included measurement of lipid peroxidation, antioxidant enzymes and antioxidant vitamins. Blood specimens were collected, processed and stored using standardized procedures on days 2, 7, 12, 13, 14, 18, 22 and 28 in one cycle for each subject. Replicate analyses of markers were performed and two-way nested random effects ANOVA was used to describe analytical, intra-individual and inter-individual variability. No statistically significant differences at α = 0.05, or temporal effects across the menstrual cycle were observed. Analytical variability was the smallest component of variance for all variables. The ICC among replicates ranged from 0.80 to 0.98. Imprecision based on quality control materials ranged from 1 to 11%. The critical differences between serial results varied greatly between assays ranging from 6 to 216% of the mean level. These results provide important initial information on the variability of biomarkers of oxidative stress, antioxidant defence and micronutrients across the menstrual cycle.
Canning, J 2008, 'Fibre gratings and devices for sensors and lasers', LASER & PHOTONICS REVIEWS, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 275-289.
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Canning, J, Groothoff, N, Cook, K, Martelli, C, Pohl, A, Holdsworth, J, Bandyopadhyay, S & Stevenson, M 2008, 'Gratings in Structured Optical Fibres', Laser Chemistry, vol. 2008, pp. 1-19.
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Grating writing in structured optical fibres and their properties and applications are reviewed. To date, most gratings have been written in a straightforward
manner into structured fibres containing a photosensitive germanosilicate step-index core. However, gratings have also been written directly into single material, structured silica fibres and into air-clad cores using two and higher-photon processes with both UV and near IR pulsed (nanosecond-femtosecond) light. Given the intrinsic-added functionality possible within a structured optical fibre, structured fibre gratings offer further capabilities for sensors, diagnostics, lasers, and devices.
Canning, J, Stevenson, M, Bandyopadhyay, S & Cook, K 2008, 'Extreme Silica Optical Fibre Gratings', SENSORS, vol. 8, no. 10, pp. 6448-6452.
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Canning, J, Stevenson, M, Yip, TK, Lim, SK & Martelli, C 2008, 'White light sources based on multiple precision selective micro-filling of structured optical waveguides', OPTICS EXPRESS, vol. 16, no. 20, pp. 15700-15708.
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Cao, L & Ou, Y 2008, 'Market microstructure patterns powering trading and surveillance agents', Journal of Universal Computer Science, vol. 14, no. 14, pp. 2288-2308.
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Market Surveillance plays important mechanism roles in constructing market models. From data analysis perspective, we view it valuable for smart trading in designing legal and profitable trading strategies and smart regulation in maintaining market integrity, transparency and fairness. The existing trading pattern analysis only focuses on interday data which discloses explicit and high-level market dynamics. In the mean time, the existing market surveillance systems available from large exchanges are facing crucial challenges of diversified, dynamic, distributed and cyber-based misuse, mis-disclosure and misdealing of information, announcement and orders in one market or crossing multiple markets. Therefore, there is a crucial need to develop innovative and workable methods for smart trading and surveillance. To deal with such issues, we propose the innovative concept microstructure pattern analysis and corresponding approaches in this paper. Microstructure pattern analysis studies trading behaviour patterns of traders in market microstructure data by utilizing market microstructure knowledge. The identified market microstructure patterns are then used for powering market trading and surveillance agents for automatically detecting/designing profitable and legal trading strategies or monitoring abnormal market dynamics and trader's behaviour. Such trading/surveillance agent-driven market trading/surveillance systems can greatly enhance the analytical, discovery and decision-support capability of market trading/surveillance than the current predefined rule/alert-based systems. © J.UCS.
Carroll, TJ, Lee, M, Hsu, M & Sayde, J 2008, 'Unilateral practice of a ballistic movement causes bilateral increases in performance and corticospinal excitability', Journal of Applied Physiology, vol. 104, no. 6, pp. 1656-1664.
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It has long been known that practicing a task with one limb can result in performance improvements with the opposite, untrained limb. Hypotheses to account for cross-limb transfer of performance state that the effect is mediated either by neural adaptations in higher order control centers that are accessible to both limbs, or that there is a “spillover” of neural drive to the opposite hemisphere that results in bilateral adaptation. Here we address these hypotheses by assessing performance and corticospinal excitability in both hands after unilateral practice of a ballistic finger movement. Participants ( n = 9) completed 300 practice trials of a ballistic task with the right hand, the aim of which was to maximize the peak abduction acceleration of the index finger. Practice caused a 140% improvement in right-hand performance and an 82% improvement for the untrained left hand. There were bilateral increases in the amplitude of responses to transcranial magnetic stimulation, but increased corticospinal excitability was not correlated with improved performance. There were no significant changes in corticospinal excitability or task performance for a control group that did not train ( n = 9), indicating that performance testing for the left hand alone did not induce performance or corticospinal effects. Although the data do not provide conclusive evidence whether increased corticospinal excitability in the untrained hand is causally related to the cross-transfer of ballistic performance, the finding that ballistic practice can induce bilateral corticospinal adaptations may have important clinical implications for movement rehabilitation.
Catchpoole, D, Guo, D, Jiang, H & Biesheuvel, C 2008, 'Predicting outcome in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia using gene expression profiling: Prognostication or protocol selection?', Blood, vol. 111, no. 4, pp. 2486-2487.
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Catley, C, McGregor, C, Percival, J, Curry, J, James, A & IEEE 2008, 'Multi-dimensional Knowledge Translation: Enabling Health Informatics Capacity Audits Using Patient Journey Models', 2008 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vols 1-8, pp. 1502-1505.
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Cha, D, Blumenstein, M, Zhang, H & Jeng, D-S 2008, 'A Neural-Genetic Technique for Coastal Engineering: Determining Wave-induced Seabed Liquefaction Depth', Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol. 82, pp. 337-351.
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In the past decade, computational intelligence (CI) techniques have been widely adopted in various fields such as business, science and engineering, as well as information technology. Specifically, hybrid techniques using artificial neural networks (ANNs) and genetic algorithms (GAs) are becoming an important alternative for solving problems in the field of engineering in comparison to traditional solutions, which ordinarily use complicated mathematical theories. The wave-induced seabed liquefaction problem is one of the most critical issues for analysing and designing marine structures such as caissons, oil platforms and harbours. In the past, various investigations into wave-induced seabed liquefaction have been carried out including numerical models, analytical solutions and some laboratory experiments. However, most previous numerical studies are based on solving complicated partial differential equations. In this study, the proposed neural-genetic model is applied to wave-induced liquefaction, which provides a better prediction of liquefaction potential. The neural-genetic simulation results illustrate the applicability of the hybrid technique for the accurate prediction of wave-induced liquefaction depth, which can also provide coastal engineers with alternative tools to analyse the stability of marine sediments. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
CHAN, KY, FOGARTY, TC, AYDIN, ME, LING, SH & IU, HHC 2008, 'GENETIC ALGORITHMS WITH DYNAMIC MUTATION RATES AND THEIR INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS', International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications, vol. 07, no. 02, pp. 103-128.
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This paper presents a method on how to estimate main effects of gene representation. This estimate can be used not only to understand the domination of genes in the representation but also to design the mutation rate in genetic algorithms (GAs). A new approach of dynamic mutation rate is proposed by integrating the information of the main effects into the genes. By introducing the proposed method in GAs, both solution quality and solution stability can be improved in solving a set of parametrical test functions. The algorithm was applied to two illustrative applications to evaluate the performance of the proposed method, where the first application is on solving uncapacitated facility location problems and the next is on optimal power flow problems, which are employed. Results indicate that the proposed method yields significantly better results than the existing methods.
Chang, C-Y, Chang, J-S, Vigneswaran, S & Kandasamy, J 2008, 'Pharmaceutical wastewater treatment by membrane bioreactor process – a case study in southern Taiwan', Desalination, vol. 234, no. 1-3, pp. 393-401.
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A pilot-scale study of pharmaceutical wastewater treatment by a membrane bioreactor (MBR) process in southern Taiwan is presented in this paper. A 10 m3/day capacity MBR plant consisting of an aeration tank and a membrane bioreactor was installed to remove organic matter (measured in terms of chemical oxygen demand (COD)). The performance of the MBR was monitored for a period of 140 days. The removal of COD was on average over 95%. The effluent did not contain any suspended solids. During the 140 days of operation, manual cleaning was carried out twice and chemical cleaning was carried out once. A natural logarithmic evolution of the viscosity with TSS concentration was observed. The results of SEM and EDX demonstrated that the fouling on the membrane outer surface was mainly due to microorganisms and/or the sludge physiological properties. The results indicated that the MBR system has potential as a means of treating high-strength and fluctuating strength wastewater with consistent performance.
Chang, JS, Vigneswaran, S, Kandasamy, JK & Tsai, LJ 2008, 'Effect of pore size and particle size distribution on granular bed filtration and microfiltration', SEPARATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, vol. 43, no. 7, pp. 1771-1784.
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The paper reviews the effect of particle size distribution and pore size distribution on granular bed filter and crossflow microfiltration performance. The experimental results of the granular bed filter with pollen particles in suspension showed that the presence of large particles improved the filter efficiency of smaller particles in suspension. Microfiltration results with bi and tri-modal latex suspensions showed that the permeate flux and the quality were significantly affected by the particle size and its distribution, especially when the particle size was smaller than the pore size of the membrane. The mathematical model simulation results of granular bed filtration show that media pore size distribution is an important parameter of filtration for the particle removal and pressure drop across the filter
Chen, C-H, Lin, C-J & Lin, C-T 2008, 'An efficient quantum neuro-fuzzy classifier based on fuzzy entropy and compensatory operation', Soft Computing, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 567-583.
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Chen, J, Duan, R, Ji, Z, Ying, M & Yu, J 2008, 'Existence of universal entangler', JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 1-7.
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A gate is called an entangler if it transforms some (pure) product states to entangled states. A universal entangler is a gate which transforms all product states to entangled states. In practice, a universal entangler is a very powerful device for gener
Chen, J, Guo, Y, Zhu, JG & Lin, ZW 2008, 'A general electromagnetic field-circuit coupling method based on time-stepping finite element analysis for performance analysis of pulse-width modulated switching converters considering hysteresis effects', Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 103, no. 7, pp. 1-3.
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Considering the special characteristics existing in the pulse-width modulated (PWM) switching converter, a general method for the time-stepping finite element analysis based electromagnetic field coupling with its feeding circuit used in the analysis of PWM switching converter considering hysteresis effects is introduced in this paper. Comparing with the electromagnetic field-circuit indirect coupling method (ICM), the proposed method has overcome the drawback that the ICM cannot take the hysteresis effects into account. Compared with the electromagnetic field-circuit direct coupling method (DCM), the proposed method has the similar accuracy but higher efficiency. Furthermore, like the ICM, the proposed method also divides the system with higher state dimensions produced by the DCM into two subsystems with lower state dimensions; this may reduce the algorithm convergence problem which often happens in high dimensional systems. © 2008 American Institute of Physics.
Chen, JX, Zhu, JG & Guo, YG 2008, 'A unified discrete model for PWM switching DC to DC converters with current-mode control', Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 63-71.
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This paper presents a unified discrete model for pulse-width modulated (PWM) switching DC to DC converters. The major achievement is that, without any topology modification, the proposed model can be used for performance analysis of the buck, boost and buck-boost converters with any of the two current-mode controls: peak current-mode control and average current-mode control. Three important factors are considered: parasitical effects of circuit elements, non-linear inductance dependent on the current flowing through it, and control time delay, such that the accuracy of performance prediction is greatly improved. Magnetic field finite element analysis (FEA) is conducted to calculate the non-linear differential inductance. By implementing the proposed model into Matlab/Simulink, a simulation model is built. The model has been used for the performance analysis of an existing flyback converter with the peak current-mode control. The simulation results are in good agreement with the actual performance, validating the proposed model.
Chen, Y, Zhang, J & Jayalath, ADS 2008, 'Clipping noise compensation for OFDM systems', Electronics Letters, vol. 44, no. 25, pp. 1490-1490.
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Cheng, B, Ritz, CH & Burnett, IS 2008, 'Psychoacoustic-based quantisation of spatial audio cues', Electronics Letters, vol. 44, no. 18, pp. 1098-1098.
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Cheng, TM, Savkin, AV, Celler, BG, Su, SW & Wang, L 2008, 'Nonlinear Modeling and Control of Human Heart Rate Response During Exercise With Various Work Load Intensities', IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, vol. 55, no. 11, pp. 2499-2508.
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The first objective of this paper is to introduce a nonlinear system to model the heart rate (HR) response during and after treadmill walking exercise. The model is a feedback interconnected system that has components to describe the central and peripher
Cheng-Hung Chen, Cheng-Jian Lin & Chin-Teng Lin 2008, 'A Functional-Link-Based Neurofuzzy Network for Nonlinear System Control', IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 1362-1378.
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Cheng-Jian Lin, Cheng-Hung Chen & Chin-Teng Lin 2008, 'Efficient Self-Evolving Evolutionary Learning for Neurofuzzy Inference Systems', IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 1476-1490.
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Chiemchaisri, C, Passananon, S, Ngo, HH & Vigneswaran, S 2008, 'Enhanced natural organic matter removal in floating media filter coupled with microfiltration membrane for river water treatment', DESALINATION, vol. 234, no. 1-3, pp. 335-343.
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This research work was carried out to determine natural organic matter (NOM) removal in floating media filter coupled with microfiltration membrane applied to the treatment of river water in Bangkok, Thailand. Polyaluminum chloride was found to be the most effective coagulant providing enhanced coagulation effect for NOM removal. Optimum filtration rate of floating media filter was 11 m3/m2 h at which highest NOM removal efficiencies of 82.2% was achieved. Subsequent treatment in microfiltration membrane unit operated at a filtration rate of 0.45 m3/m2 d provided total NOM removal of 85.786.6%. Periodical cleanings of floating media filter and microfiltration membrane were accomplished by using air scouring coupled with water flushing at every 8 and 24 h interval. As a result of NOM removal, the sum of trihalomethane (THM) ratio was reduced from 0.51.1 in raw water to 0.20.6 in treated water. Membrane fouling study revealed that both turbidity and NOM affected transmembrane pressure (TMP) built up but particulate fouling provided greater impact on TMP as compared to organic adsorption on the membrane surface.
Chindaprasirt, P, Rukzon, S & Sirivivatnanon, V 2008, 'Effect of carbon dioxide on chloride penetration and chloride ion diffusion coefficient of blended Portland cement mortar', CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING MATERIALS, vol. 22, no. 8, pp. 1701-1707.
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Chindaprasirt, P, Rukzon, S & Sirivivatnanon, V 2008, 'Resistance to chloride penetration of blended Portland cement mortar containing palm oil fuel ash, rice husk ash and fly ash', CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING MATERIALS, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 932-938.
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Chin-Teng Lin, Li-Wei Ko, Jin-Chern Chiou, Jeng-Ren Duann, Ruey-Song Huang, Sheng-Fu Liang, Tzai-Wen Chiu & Tzyy-Ping Jung 2008, 'Noninvasive Neural Prostheses Using Mobile and Wireless EEG', Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 96, no. 7, pp. 1167-1183.
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Chin-Teng Lin, Yuan-Chu Yu & Lan-Da Van 2008, 'Cost-Effective Triple-Mode Reconfigurable Pipeline FFT/IFFT/2-D DCT Processor', IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 16, no. 8, pp. 1058-1071.
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Chitambar, E & Duan, R 2008, 'Nonlocal Entanglement Transformations Achievable by Separable Operations', Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 103, no. 11, p. 110502.
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For manipulations of multipartite quantum systems, it was well known that all
local operations assisted by classical communication (LOCC) constitute a proper
subset of the class of separable operations. Recently, Gheorghiu and Griffiths
found that LOCC and general separable operations are equally powerful for
transformations between bipartite pure states. In this letter we extend this
comparison to mixed states and show that in general separable operations are
strictly stronger than LOCC when transforming a mixed state to a pure entangled
state. A remarkable consequence of our finding is the existence of entanglement
monotone which may increase under separable operations.
Chitambar, E, Duan, R & Shi, Y 2008, 'Tripartite entanglement transformations and tensor rank', Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 101, no. 14, p. 140502.
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Understanding the nature of multipartite entanglement is a central mission of
quantum information theory. To this end, we investigate the question of
tripartite entanglement convertibility. We find that there exists no easy
criterion to determine whether a general tripartite transformation can be
performed with a nonzero success probability and in fact, the problem is
NP-hard. Our results are based on the connections between multipartite
entanglement and tensor rank (also called Schmidt rank), a key concept in
algebraic complexity theory. Not only does this relationship allow us to
characterize the general difficulty in determining possible entanglement
transformations, but it also enables us to observe the previously overlooked
fact that {\em the Schmidt rank is not an additive entanglement measure}. As a
result, we improve some best known transformation rates between specific
tripartite entangled states. In addition, we find obtaining the most efficient
algorithm for matrix multiplication to be precisely equivalent to determining
the optimal rate of conversion between the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state
and a triangular distribution of three Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen states.
Choi, FC, Li, J, Samali, B & Crews, K 2008, 'Application of the modified damage index method to timber beams', Engineering Structures, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 1124-1145.
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2007, Australia Received 31 August 2006; revised 16 July 2007; Accepted 16 July 2007. Available online 21 August 2007. Abstract In this paper the use of two existing algorithms developed for global nondestructive evaluation to locate and evaluate localised damage in timber beams is investigated using a finite element model. These damage localisation algorithms were found, through this investigation, not to be effective in locating multiple damage scenarios and unable to evaluate the severity of damage. Hence, modifications on damage index algorithms as well as a hybrid algorithm are proposed to overcome the problems. In this study, experimental modal analysis (EMA) was used as a tool to extract mode shapes for calculating the damage index in the proposed method which utilises changes in modal strain energy between the undamaged and the damaged timber beam model. The modified damage index (MDI) method normalises the mode shape curvature and the hybrid algorithm combines the modified damage index and changes in flexibility algorithms which reflect the changes of natural frequency and mode shape. Analytical evaluations were performed to compare and verify the ability of original and modified damage localisation algorithms in locating single and multiple damage in timber beams. The modified damage index (MDI) algorithm and the hybrid damage algorithm are also used in the experimental studies to validate the effectiveness of the methods to locate and evaluate damage within timber beams by laboratory experiments.
Choudhury, D & Nimbalkar, SS 2008, 'Seismic Rotational Displacement of Gravity Walls by Pseudodynamic Method', International Journal of Geomechanics, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 169-175.
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Choudhury, D, Bharti, RK, Chauhan, S & Indraratna, B 2008, 'Response of Multilayer Foundation System beneath Railway Track under Cyclic Loading', Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, vol. 134, no. 10, pp. 1558-1563.
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Chu, RH, Lu, DD-C & Sathiakumar, S 2008, 'Project-Based Lab Teaching for Power Electronics and Drives', IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 108-113.
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Clarysse, T, Bogdanowicz, J, Goossens, J, Moussa, A, Rosseel, E, Vandervorst, W, Petersen, DH, Lin, R, Nielsen, PF, Hansen, O, Merklin, G, Bennett, NS & Cowern, NEB 2008, 'On the analysis of the activation mechanisms of sub-melt laser anneals', Materials Science and Engineering: B, vol. 154-155, pp. 24-30.
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Collocott, SJ, Dunlop, JB & Watterson, PA 2008, 'Thermal and spontaneous remagnetization in the bulk amorphous ferromagnets Nd(60)Fe(30)Al(10) and Nd(60)Fe(20)Co(10)Al(10)', JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, vol. 103, no. 7, pp. 1-3.
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Bulk amorphous Nd60Fe30Al10 and Nd60Fe20Co10Al10 alloys, which display hard magnetic properties, have been prepared by arc melting and quenching into a copper mould. Following magnetic saturation and dc demagnetization, at room temperature, both materials are seen to exhibit the phenomena of thermal and spontaneous remagnetizations. The behavior of the observed thermal and spontaneous remagnetizations is similar to that exhibited in nucleation controlled sintered permanent magnets. The thermal remagnetization data are fitted using a model, developed from the theory of Schumann and Jahn [J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 232, 231 (2001)] for explaining thermal remagnetization in polycrystalline magnets, to gauge its usefulness when applied to amorphous ferromagnets. The spontaneous remagnetization behavior is interpreted in the context of the Preisach model.
Cook, K, Pohl, AAP & Canning, J 2008, 'High-temperature type IIa gratings in 12-ring photonic crystal fibre with germanosilicate core', JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN OPTICAL SOCIETY-RAPID PUBLICATIONS, vol. 3.
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Cordero, ML, Burnham, DR, Baroud, CN & McGloin, D 2008, 'Thermocapillary manipulation of droplets using holographic beam shaping: Microfluidic pin ball', Applied Physics Letters, vol. 93, no. 3, pp. 034107-034107.
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Cowern, NEB, Smith, AJ, Bennett, NS, Sealy, BJ, Gwilliam, R, Webb, RP, Colombeau, B, Paul, S, Lerch, W & Pakfar, A 2008, 'Vacancy Engineering – An Ultra-Low Thermal Budget Method for High-Concentration 'Diffusionless' Implantation Doping', Materials Science Forum, vol. 573-574, pp. 295-304.
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This paper reviews the physics and the potential application of ion-implanted vacancies
for high-performance B-doped ultra-shallow junctions. By treatment of silicon films with vacancygenerating
implants prior to boron implantation, electrically active boron concentrations
approaching 1021 cm-3 can be achieved by Rapid Thermal Annealing at low temperatures, without
the use of preamorphisation. Source/drain (S/D) junctions formed by advanced vacancy engineering
implants (VEI) are activated far above solubility. Furthermore, in the case of appropriately
engineered thin silicon films, this activation is stable with respect to deactivation and the doping
profile is practically diffusionless. Sheet resistance Rs is predicted to stay almost constant with
decreasing junction depth Xj, thus potentially outperforming other S/D engineering approaches at
the ‘32 nm node’ and beyond.
Darestani, MY, Thambiratnam, DP, Nataatmadja, A & Baweja, D 2008, 'Influence of vehicular positions and thermal effects on structural behaviour of concrete pavement', JOURNAL OF MECHANICS OF MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 567-589.
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Structural response of concrete pavements is influenced by the position of the axle loads and if critical load positions are not considered in concrete pavement analysis, the design may be inadequate and lead to early failure of the pavement. Whilst there has been a great deal of research conducted on concrete pavement performance and deterioration under vehicular loads and environmental forces, there is a lack of adequate information on effects of vehicular load positions on pavement responses. Critical positions of different axle groups in uncurled and curled jointed concrete pavement with different configurations were determined in the current study. Results indicate that structural performance of concrete pavements is significantly affected by boundary conditions between concrete slab and base. Corner loading was found to be critical in bonded concrete pavement. Corner loading is also critical when a separation occurs between unbonded concrete slab and base. Furthermore, the benefits offered by unbonded boundary condition cease at a certain differential temperature. Hence, a particular care needs to be considered in projects constructed in extremes of heat or cold. In presence of high differential temperature together with axle loading, joint faulting in unreinforced concrete pavements is affected by concrete slab thickness.
Dellepiane, M, Pietroni, N, Tsingos, N, Asselot, M & Scopigno, R 2008, 'Reconstructing head models from photographs for individualized 3D-audio processing.', Comput. Graph. Forum, vol. 27, pp. 1719-1727.
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Devitt, SJ, Fowler, AG, Stephens, AM, Greentree, AD, Hollenberg, LCL, Munro, WJ & Nemoto, K 2008, 'Architectural design for a topological cluster state quantum computer', New. J. Phys., vol. 11, p. 083032.
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The development of a large scale quantum computer is a highly sought after
goal of fundamental research and consequently a highly non-trivial problem.
Scalability in quantum information processing is not just a problem of qubit
manufacturing and control but it crucially depends on the ability to adapt
advanced techniques in quantum information theory, such as error correction, to
the experimental restrictions of assembling qubit arrays into the millions. In
this paper we introduce a feasible architectural design for large scale quantum
computation in optical systems. We combine the recent developments in
topological cluster state computation with the photonic module, a simple chip
based device which can be used as a fundamental building block for a large
scale computer. The integration of the topological cluster model with this
comparatively simple operational element addresses many significant issues in
scalable computing and leads to a promising modular architecture with complete
integration of active error correction exhibiting high fault-tolerant
thresholds.
Devitt, SJ, Munro, WJ & Nemoto, K 2008, 'High Performance Quantum Computing', Progress in Informatics 8 (2011): 49-55, no. 8, pp. 49-55.
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The architecture scalability afforded by recent proposals of a large scale
photonic based quantum computer, utilizing the theoretical developments of
topological cluster states and the photonic chip, allows us to move on to a
discussion of massively scaled Quantum Information Processing (QIP). In this
letter we introduce the model for a secure and unsecured topological cluster
mainframe. We consider the quantum analogue of High Performance Computing,
where a dedicated server farm is utilized by many users to run algorithms and
share quantum data. The scaling structure of photonics based topological
cluster computing leads to an attractive future for server based QIP, where
dedicated mainframes can be constructed and/or expanded to serve an
increasingly hungry user base with the ideal resource for individual quantum
information processing.
Ding, GKC 2008, 'Sustainable construction—The role of environmental assessment tools', Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 86, no. 3, pp. 451-464.
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Construction has been accused of causing environmental problems ranging from excessive consumption of global resources both in terms of construction and building operation to the pollution of the surrounding environment, and research on green building design and using building materials to minimise environmental impact is already underway. However, relying on the design of a project to achieve the goal of sustainable development, or to minimise impacts through appropriate management on site, is not sufficient to handle the current problem. The aim for sustainability assessment goes even further than at the design stage of a project to consider its importance at an early stage, before any detailed design or even before a commitment is made to go ahead with a development. However, little or no concern has been given to the importance of selecting more environmentally friendly designs during the project appraisal stage; the stage when environmental matters are best incorporated. The main objectives of this paper are to examine the development, role and limitations of current environmental building assessment methods in ascertaining building sustainability used in different countries which leads to discuss the concept of developing a. sustainability model for project appraisal based on a multi-dimensional approach, that will allow alternatives to be ranked is discussed in detail in the paper.
Dissanayake, T & Esselle, KP 2008, 'UWB Performance of Compact L-shaped Wide Slot Antennas', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 1183-1187.
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Doeller, M, Tous, R, Gruhne, M, Yoon, K, Sano, M & Burnett, IS 2008, 'The MPEG Query Format: Unifying Access to Multimedia Retrieval Systems', IEEE MULTIMEDIA, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 82-95.
Dovey, K 2008, 'Addressing Structural Inhibitors of Change in Public Health Sector Organizations: A South African Case', Journal of Change Management, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 37-56.
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This article draws attention to the structural inhibitors of effective service delivery within a South African public health organization and outlines a change initiative aimed at facilitating the decentralization of decision-making power in an attempt to transform the service offered by this organization.
Du, H, Zhang, N & Nguyen, H 2008, 'Mixed H2/H∞ control of tall buildings with reduced-order modelling technique', Structural Control and Health Monitoring, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 64-89.
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In this paper, a reduced-order technique based on the dynamic condensation method is applied to obtain a reduced-order model of an experimental tall building which has 20 floors and is 2.5 m high. The experimental model is designed to imitate a practical
Du, Y, Chen, L & Luo, Z 2008, 'Topology synthesis of geometrically nonlinear compliant mechanisms using meshless methods', Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 51-61.
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This paper presents a new method for topology optimization of geometrical nonlinear compliant mechanisms using the element-free Galerkin method (EFGM). The EFGM is employed as an alternative scheme to numerically solve the state equations by fully taking
Duan, R & Shi, Y 2008, 'Entanglement between two uses of a noisy multipartite quantum channel enables perfect transmission of classical information', PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, vol. 101, no. 2, pp. 1-4.
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Suppose that m senders want to transmit classical information to n receivers with zero probability of error using a noisy multipartite communication channel. The senders are allowed to exchange classical, but not quantum, messages among themselves, and t
Duan, R, Feng, Y & Ying, M 2008, 'Local distinguishability of multipartite unitary operations', PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, vol. 100, no. 2, pp. 1-4.
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We show that any two different unitary operations acting on an arbitrary multipartite quantum system can be perfectly distinguished by local operations and classical communication when a finite number of runs is allowed. Intuitively, this result indicate
Duer, W, Bremner, MJ & Briegel, HJ 2008, 'Quantum simulation of interacting high-dimensional systems: The influence of noise', PHYSICAL REVIEW A, vol. 78, no. 5, p. 052325.
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We consider the simulation of interacting high-dimensional systems using pairwise interacting qubits. The main tool in this context is the generation of effective many-body interactions, and we examine a number of different protocols for obtaining them. These methods include the usage of higher-order processes commutator method , unitary conjugation or graph state encoding, as well as teleportation-based approaches. We illustrate and compare these methods in detail and analyze the time cost for simulation. In the second part of the paper, we investigate the influence of noise on the simulation process. We concentrate on errors in the interaction Hamiltonians and consider two generic noise models: i timing errors in pairwise interactions and ii noisy pairwise interactions described by Master equations of Lindblad form. We analyze and compare the effect of noise for the different simulation methods and propose a way to significantly reduce the influence of noise by making use of entanglement purification together with a teleportation-based protocol.
Eichhammer, Y, Roeck, J, Moelans, N, Iacopi, F, Blanpain, B & Heyns, M 2008, 'CALCULATION OF THE Au-Ge PHASE DIAGRAM FOR NANOPARTICLES', ARCHIVES OF METALLURGY AND MATERIALS, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 1133-1139.
Erdei, L, Arecrachakul, N & Vigneswaran, S 2008, 'A combined photocatalytic slurry reactor-immersed membrane module system for advanced wastewater treatment', SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY, vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 382-388.
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type continuous photocatalytic (CP) system and an immersed hollow fibre membrane micro-ultrafilter (MF/UF) unit. The CP reactor charged with 1 g/L P-25 catalyst removed 63% dissolved organic carbon (DOC) from a synthetic wastewater (representing biologically treated sewage effluent). The addition of 0.05 g/L of powdered activated carbon (PAC) increased DOC removal up to 76%. The start-up times to achieve 60% DOC removal were 31 min and 15 min, respectively. These results show a 16 times improvement in volumetric load over a comparable batch reactor system used in previous studies by our group. Slurry type photocatalytic reactors need subsequent particle separation to retain the catalyst in the system and allow the discharge of treated effluent. The immersed membrane module accomplished this without prior slurry settling step. Membrane feed pre-treatment with pH adjustment and particle charge neutralisation with aluminium chloride coagulant led to improved critical membrane fluxes, 15.25 L/m2 h and 19.05 L/m2 h, respectively. In each experiment MF/UF produced near zero turbidity permeate, completely retained the photocatalyst, and flocculation also improved the efficiency of DOC removal. Membrane fouling was controlled by particle aggregation rather than feed DOC levels, but the latter had significant impact on coagulant demand. The complete treatment train achieved up to 92% DOC reduction with 12 mg/L AlCl3 dosage using in-line coagulation conditions. The results show that in-line coagulation offers a simple yet effective means to improve the performance of slurry type photocatalytic-MF/UF hybrid systems for advanced water and wastewater treatment applications. © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Erdei, L, Chang, C-Y & Vigneswaran, S 2008, 'In-line flocculation-submersed MF/UF membrane hybrid system in tertiary wastewater treatment', SEPARATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, vol. 43, no. 7, pp. 1839-1851.
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Coagulation/flocculation pre-treatment of feeds can successfully mitigate the drawbacks of membrane micro- and ultra filtration processes: fouling and limited ability to remove organic pollutants. Laboratory experiments conducted with a synthetic wastewater (representing biologically treated secondary effluent) using 0.1 µm pore size hollow fiber membrane showed that simple in-line flocculation pre-treatment with inorganic coagulants dramatically reduced membrane fouling rates. The hybrid system also ensured over 70% organic matter removal in terms of dissolved organic carbon (DOC). In the experiments in in-line flocculation outperformed clarification pre-treatment at optimum coagulant dosages. Differences in floc characteristics and elevated suspended solids concentrations in the membrane tank may explain this finding, but the exact causes were not investigated in this study. The beneficial effects of in-line flocculation pre-treatment to MF/UF separation were also confirmed in the treatment of septic tank effluent in a membrane bioreactor (MBR). The fouling rate of the 0.4 µm pore size (flat-sheet) membrane was substantially reduced with 10-100 mg L-1 ferric chloride coagulant doses, and total dissolved chemical oxygen demand (DCOD) removal also increased from 66% up to 93%. These findings are consistent with the results of other experimental studies and show that pre-treatment controls submersed MF/UF filtration performance.
Eslava, S, Baklanov, MR, Neimark, AV, Iacopi, F, Kirschhock, CEA, Maex, K & Martens, JA 2008, 'Evidence of Large Voids in Pure-Silica-Zeolite Low-kDielectrics Synthesized by Spin-on of Nanoparticle Suspensions', Advanced Materials, vol. 20, no. 16, pp. 3110-3116.
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Eslava, S, Delahaye, S, Baklanov, MR, Iacopi, F, Kirschhock, CEA, Maex, K & Martens, JA 2008, 'Reaction of trimethylchlorosilane in spin-on silicalite-1 zeolite film', LANGMUIR, vol. 24, no. 9, pp. 4894-4900.
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Eslava, S, Eymery, G, Marsik, P, Iacopi, F, Kirschhock, CEA, Maex, K, Martens, JA & Baklanov, MR 2008, 'Optical property changes in low-k films upon ultraviolet-assisted curing', JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY, vol. 155, no. 5, pp. G115-G120.
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Eslava, S, Iacopi, F, Urbanowicz, AM, Kirschhock, CEA, Maex, K, Martens, JA & Baklanov, MR 2008, 'Ultraviolet-Assisted Curing of Organosilicate Glass Low-k Dielectric by Excimer Lamps', Journal of The Electrochemical Society, vol. 155, no. 11, pp. G231-G231.
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Eslava, S, Urrutia, J, Busawon, AN, Baklanov, MR, Iacopi, F, Aldea, S, Maex, K, Martens, JA & Kirschhock, CEA 2008, 'Zeolite-Inspired Low-k Dielectrics Overcoming Limitations of Zeolite Films', JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, vol. 130, no. 51, pp. 17528-17536.
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Estremera, J & Waldron, KJ 2008, 'Thrust Control, Stabilization and Energetics of a Quadruped Running Robot', The International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 27, no. 10, pp. 1135-1151.
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In order to achieve powered autonomous running robots it is essential to develop efficient actuator systems, especially for generating the radial thrust in the legs. In addition, the control of the radial thrust of the legs can be a simple, effective method for stabilizing the body pitch in a running gait. This paper presents the mechanical systems, models and control strategies employed to generate and control leg thrust in the KOLT quadruped running robot. An analytical model of the electro-pneumatic leg thrusting system is presented and analyzed to evaluate its performance and to facilitate the design of control strategies. Several experiments have been conducted to estimate the energy losses and determine their origins as well as to compute the energetic efficiency of the actuation system. Two thrust control methods are also proposed and tested experimentally. The closed loop method regulates thrust through the control of the hip liftoff speed, a conceptually simple control strategy that stabilizes the body pitch in pronk and trot gaits without the need for central feedback, even on irregular terrain. The open-loop control method regulates the energy added in each hop based on the model of the actuator system. The efficacy of these models and techniques is tested in several planar trot and pronk experiments, and the results are analyzed focusing on the body stabilization, the power consumption and the energetic efficiency.
Fitch, R & Butler, Z 2008, 'Million module march: Scalable locomotion for large self-reconfiguring robots', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH, vol. 27, no. 3-4, pp. 331-343.
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Frazier, SK, Lennie, TA & Moser, DK 2008, 'Preface', Nursing Clinics of North America, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. xi-xii.
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Fu, Q, Lin, W & Huang, J 2008, 'A New Strategy for Preparation of Graft Copolymers via “Graft onto” by Atom Transfer Nitroxide Radical Coupling Chemistry: Preparation of Poly(4-glycidyloxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl-co-ethylene oxide)-graft-polystyrene and Poly(tert-butyl acrylate)', Macromolecules, vol. 41, no. 7, pp. 2381-2387.
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Fu, Q, Liu, C, Lin, W & Huang, J 2008, 'One-pot synthesis of heterograft copolymers via “graft onto” by atom transfer nitroxide radical coupling chemistry', Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, vol. 46, no. 20, pp. 6770-6779.
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Gandomi, AH, Alavi, AH & Sadat Hosseini, SS 2008, 'A Discussion on “Genetic programming for retrieving missing information in wave records along the west coast of India” [Applied Ocean Research 2007; 29 (3): 99–111]', Applied Ocean Research, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 338-339.
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Gao, S, Zhang, Z & Hawryszkiewycz, I 2008, 'Supporting adaptive learning in hypertext environments: a high level timed Petri net-based approach', International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, vol. 4, no. 3/4, pp. 341-341.
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A problem for hypertext-based learning application is to control learning paths for different learning activities. This paper first introduces related concepts of hypertext learning state space and high level Petri Nets (PNs), then proposes a high level timed PN based approach used to providing kinds of adaptation for learning activities by adjusting time attributes of targeted learning state space. Examples are given while explaining ways to realising adaptive instructions. Possible future directions are also discussed at the end of this paper. © 2008 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
Gao, W, Zhang, N, Ji, JC & Du, HP 2008, 'Dynamic analysis of vehicles with uncertainty', PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS PART D-JOURNAL OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERING, vol. 222, no. D5, pp. 657-664.
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The probabilistic and interval dynamic analysis of cars with uncertain parameters under random road input excitations by using a two-degree-of-freedom car model are presented in this paper. In the probabilistic analytical model, the vehicle parameters, including the sprung mass, unsprung mass, suspension damping, suspension, and tyre stiffness, are considered as random variables. The mean value, standard deviation, and variation coefficient of the vehicle's natural frequencies and mode shapes are obtained by using the Monte Carlo simulation method. Then, the computational expressions for the numerical characteristics of the mean square value of the vehicle's random response in the frequency domain are developed by means of the random variable's functional moment method. Considering the vehicle parameters as interval variables, the lower bound, upper bound, and interval change ratio value of the vehicle's random responses are obtained by means of the interval operations. The influences of the uncertainty of the vehicle parameters on the vehicle's natural frequencies, mode shapes, and dynamic responses are investigated in detail using a practical example. The comparison of the vehicle's dynamic characteristics using the probabilistic and interval analysis are also demonstrated.
Gao, Y, Zhang, G, Lu, J, Dillon, T & Zeng, X 2008, 'A lambda-CUT APPROXIMATE ALGORITHM FOR GOAL-BASED BILEVEL RISK MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & DECISION MAKING, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 589-610.
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GAO, YA, ZHANG, G, LU, JIE, DILLON, T & ZENG, X 2008, 'A λ-CUT APPROXIMATE ALGORITHM FOR GOAL-BASED BILEVEL RISK MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS', International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making, vol. 07, no. 04, pp. 589-610.
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Bilevel programming techniques are developed for decentralized decision problems with decision makers located in two levels. Both upper and lower decision makers, termed as leader and follower, try to optimize their own objectives in solution procedure but are affected by those of the other levels. When a bilevel decision model is built with fuzzy coefficients and the leader and/or follower have goals for their objectives, we call it fuzzy goal bilevel (FGBL) decision problem. This paper first proposes a λ-cut set based FGBL model. A programmable λ-cut approximate algorithm is then presented in detail. Based on this algorithm, a FGBL software system is developed to reach solutions for FGBL decision problems. Finally, two examples are given to illustrate the application of the proposed algorithm.
Gauger, EM, Rohde, PP, Stoneham, AM & Lovett, BW 2008, 'Entanglement of Remote Spins with Unequal Coupling to an Optically Active Mediator', New Journal of Physics, vol. 10, p. 073027.
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We demonstrate that two remote qubits can be entangled through an optically
active intermediary even if the coupling strengths between mediator and qubits
are different. This is true for a broad class of interactions. We consider two
contrasting scenarios. First, we extend the analysis of a previously studied
gate operation which relies on pulsed, dynamical control of the optical state
and which may be performed quickly. We show that remote spins can be entangled
in this case even when the intermediary coupling strengths are unequal. Second,
we propose an alternative adiabatic control procedure, and find that the system
requirements become even less restrictive in this case. The scheme could be
tested immediately in a range of systems including molecules, quantum dots, or
defects in crystals.
Ge, Y & Esselle, KP 2008, 'A resonant cavity antenna based on an optimized thin superstrate', Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 50, no. 12, pp. 3057-3059.
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Gens, A & Sheng, D 2008, 'Special issue on “Unsaturated soils: Models, algorithms and applications”', Computers and Geotechnics, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 809-809.
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Gentile, C, Fleming, PA, Mironov, V, Argraves, KM, Argraves, WS & Drake, CJ 2008, 'VEGF-mediated fusion in the generation of uniluminal vascular spheroids', Developmental Dynamics, vol. 237, no. 12, pp. spc1-spc1.
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Gentile, C, Fleming, PA, Mironov, V, Argraves, KM, Argraves, WS & Drake, CJ 2008, 'VEGF-mediated fusion in the generation of uniluminal vascular spheroids', Developmental Dynamics, vol. 237, no. 10, pp. 2918-2925.
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Goyal, ML, Lu, J & Zhang, G 2008, 'Decision Making in Multi-Issue e-Market Auction Using Fuzzy Attitudes', Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 97-110.
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Online auctions are one of the most effective ways of negotiation of salable goods over the internet. Software agents are increasingly being used to represent humans in online auctions. These agents can systematically monitor a wide variety of auctions and can make rapid decisions about what bids to place in what auctions. To be successful in open multi-agent environments, agents must be capable of adapting different strategies and tactics to their prevailing circumstances. This paper presents a software test-bed for studying autonomous bidding strategies in simulated auctions for procuring goods. It shows that agents bidding strategy explore the attitudes and behaviors that help agents to manage dynamic assessment of prices of goods given the different criteria and scenario conditions. Our agent also uses fuzzy techniques for the decision making: to make decisions about the outcome of auctions, and to alter the agents bidding strategy in response to the different criteria and market conditions.
Goyal, ML, Lu, J & Zhang, G 2008, 'Decision Making in Multi-Issue e-Market Auction Using Fuzzy Techniques and Negotiable Attitudes.', J. Theor. Appl. Electron. Commer. Res., vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 97-110.
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Online auctions are one of the most effective ways of negotiation of salable goods over the internet. Software agents are increasingly being used to represent humans in online auctions. These agents can systematically monitor a wide variety of auctions and can make rapid decisions about what bids to place In what auctions. To be successful in open multi-agent environments, agents must be capable of adapting different strategies and tactics to their prevailing circumstances. This paper presents a software test-bed for studying autonomous bidding strategies in simulated auctions for procuring goods. It shows that agents' bidding strategy explore the attitudes and behaviors that help agents to manage dynamic assessment of prices of goods given the different criteria and scenario conditions. Our agent also uses fuzzy techniques for the decision making: to make decisions about the outcome of auctions, and to alter the agent's bidding strategy in response to the different criteria and market conditions. © 2008 Universidad de Talca - Chile.
Grace, ND, Loganathan, P & Hedley, MJ 2008, 'The effect of age on the fluoride concentration in the metacarpus of grazing sheep in New Zealand', NEW ZEALAND VETERINARY JOURNAL, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 115-119.
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Aim: To determine the concentration of fluoride (F) in the metacarpi from ewes of varying age, which had been grazing pastures that had been regularly topdressed with phosphatic fertilisers, which contain F as a contaminant, for at least 30 years. Methods: Three groups of 10 ewes aged 6–8, 18–20 and 60–72 months were selected from seven research farms with a known fertiliser history, representing the major sheep farming regions of New Zealand. Lambs were born and remained on the property. The sheep were collected and slaughtered in autumn, and the right metacarpus removed for determination of F content. Representative samples of topsoil (0–30- and 30–60-mm depths) were also collected for determination of F content. Results: The total concentration of F in topsoil on the farms ranged from 161 to 712 mg/kg. The overall mean concentrations of F in metacarpi from 6–8-, 18–20- and 60–72-month-old ewes were 170 (SE 9.9), 308 (SE 13.9) and 480 (SE 28.4) mg/kg dry matter (DM), respectively. On six farms, lambs which had been exposed to limited or no ingestion of soil had the lowest concentration of F in their metacarpi. Generally, there was a curvilinear relationship between age and concentration of F in the metacarpi of sheep. On the seventh farm, the concentrations of F in the metacarpi from the 6–8- and 18–20-month-old sheep were similar but lower than those of the 60–72-month-old ewes. The area of soils on the farm where the 6–8-month-old-sheep were grazing had higher total concentrations of F in topsoil (271 mg/kg) than those soils grazed by the 18–20-month-old sheep (205 mg/kg), and this may be one reason for the elevated concentration of F in the metacarpi of the younger ewes. The concentrations of F in metacarpi, at any age, were not related to the concentration of F in topsoils. Conclusions: Many factors can influence the amounts of F in soil ingested by grazing sheep and the concentration of F in their bone. The concentration of F in the metacarpi of ewes gener...
Groothoff, N, Martelli, C & Canning, J 2008, 'A dual wavelength distributed-feedback fiber laser', JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, vol. 103, no. 1.
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Groothoff, N, Martelli, C & Canning, J 2008, 'A dual wavelength distributed-feedback fiber laser', Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 103, no. 1, pp. 013101-013101.
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An approach to accessing air holes in a structured optical fiber with a distributed-feedback (DFB) laser based on higher order mode lasing is proposed and demonstrated. A narrow linewidth DFB fiber laser is fabricated in rare-earth-doped structured optical fiber. A higher order mode is shown to lase. Dual laser operation in both fundamental and higher order modes is also achieved. Numerical simulation of the mode profiles within the fiber using the adjustable boundary conditions-Fourier decomposition method supports the experimental results. Laser performance for each mode is characterized including imaging the emission of pump and lasing mode intensity profiles. © 2008 American Institute of Physics.
Guillon, M, Dholakia, K & McGloin, D 2008, 'Optical trapping and spectral analysis of aerosols with a supercontiuum laser source', Optics Express, vol. 16, no. 11, pp. 7655-7655.
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Guo, W, Ngo, H-H, Vigneswaran, S, Xing, W & Goteti, P 2008, 'A novel sponge-submerged membrane bioreactor (SSMBR) for wastewater treatment and reuse', SEPARATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 273-285.
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Membrane fouling has been regarded as one of the biggest challenges to widespread application of membrane bioreactor (MBR). This study focuses on minimizing the membrane fouling and improving the performance of submerged membrane bioreactor (SMBR) by porous sponge addition. The effects of sponge addition on sustainable flux and membrane fouling were investigated. Acclimatized sponge could significantly increase the suspended growth in SMBR with biomass of 16.7 g/L(sponge). With the sponge volume fraction of 10%, SSMBR could enhance sustainable flux up to 50 L/m2 · h compared with sustainable flux of SMBR (only 25 L/m2 · h). SSMBR also exhibited excellent results in terms of DOC removal (over 95%), COD removal (over 97%), lower transmembrane pressure development, and oxygen uptake rate. Over 89% of NH4-N and 98% of PO4-P were removed when SSMBR was operated with a MLSS concentration of 15 g/L.
Guo, W, Vigneswaran, S, Ngo, H-H, Xing, W & Goteti, P 2008, 'Comparison of the performance of submerged membrane bioreactor (SMBR) and submerged membrane adsorption bioreactor (SMABR)', BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY, vol. 99, no. 5, pp. 1012-1017.
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This study focuses on comparing the performance of submerged membrane bioreactor (SMBR) and submerged membrane adsorption bioreactor (SMABR) over a period of 20 days at a hydraulic retention time (HRT) of 3.1 h. The effects of PAC on critical flux and membrane fouling were also investigated. The SMABR exhibited better results in terms of mixed liquor suspended solids (MLSS) growth, DOC removal (over 96%), COD removal (over 95%), transmembrane pressure (TMP) and oxygen uptake rate. Nearly 100% of bacteria and 100% of total coliforms were removed in both systems. The addition of PAC could maintain the critical flux at a lower TMP value (7.5 kPa), while irreversible fouling caused by PAC occurred when the filtration flux exceeded critical flux.
Guo, WS, Vigneswaran, S, Ngo, HH & Xing, W 2008, 'Comparison of membrane bioreactor systems in wastewater treatment', DESALINATION, vol. 231, no. 1-3, pp. 61-70.
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This study investigated the performance of four different membrane bioreactor (MBR) systems, namely floating media biofiltercrossflow microfiltration (FMBCFMF) system, submerged membrane bioreactor (SMBR) alone, submerged membrane adsorption bioreactor (SMABR) and spongeSMBR system, in terms of critical flux. The results indicated that FMB could be used as a pretreatment unit prior to MBR in order to minimize membrane fouling when the FMBCFMF system operates under sub-critical flux condition. The addition of powdered activated carbon (PAC) could maintain the sustainable flux at a lower TMP value (7.5 kPa). However, irreversible fouling occurred when the filtration flux exceeded the critical flux. The addition of 10% volume (reactor volume) fraction of sponge could increase sustainable flux of SMBR system to 2 times.
Guo, WS, Vigneswaran, S, Ngo, HH, Kandasamy, J & Yoon, S 2008, 'The role of a membrane performance enhancer in a membrane bioreactor: a comparison with other submerged membrane hybrid systems', DESALINATION, vol. 231, no. 1-3, pp. 305-313.
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Among the membrane processes, membrane bioreactor (MBR) technologies are becoming an innovative and promising option for wastewater treatment and reuse. In this study the performance of the submerged membrane bioreactor was studied with an addition of MPE50, and it was compared against a sponge submerged membrane bioreactor (SMBR) and submerged membrane adsorption bioreactor (SMABR) in terms of TOC removal, COD removal, ammonium nitrogen (NH4-H) removal, orthophosphate (PO4-P) removal, transmembrane pressure (TMP) and oxygen uptake rate. SMBR with MPE50 addition significantly improved the sustainable flux and reduced membrane fouling. The improvement was better than even in the sponge SMBR system. SMBR with MPE50 achieved a high DOC and COD removal efficiency and NH4-N removal. PO4-P removal concentration of 62% initially which increased with time to over 99% after 7 day operation. In terms of phosphorus removal the sponge SMBR system performed better. OUR measurements showed that there was more microbial activity in the SMBR with MPE50 system
Guo, Y, Jin, J, Zheng, L, Zhu, J & Lu, H 2008, 'A Permanent Magnet Linear Synchronous Motor Drive for HTS Maglev Transportation Systems', Journal of Electronic Science and Technology of China - Zhongguo Dianzi Keji, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 125-129.
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A permanent magnet linear synchronous motor (pMLSM) for a high temperature superconducting (HTS) maglev system has been studied, including the motor structure, control strategy, and analysis techniques. Finite elemeut analysis (FEA) of magnetic field is conducted to accurately calculate major motor parameters. Equivalent electrical circuit is used to predict the drive's steady-state characteristics, and a phase variable model is applied to predict the dynamic performance. Preliminary experiment with a prototype has been made to verify the theoretical analysis and the HTS-PM synchronons driving technology.
Guo, Y, Zhu, JG, Lin, ZW, Lu, H, Wang, X & Chen, J 2008, 'Influence of inductance variation on performance of a permanent magnet claw pole soft magnetic composite motor', Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 103, no. 7, pp. 07F118-07F118.
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Winding inductance is an important parameter in determining the performance of electrical machines, particularly those with large inductance variation. This paper investigates the influence of winding inductance variation on the performance of a three-phase three-stack claw pole permanent magnet motor with soft magnetic composite (SMC) stator by using an improved phase variable model. The winding inductances of the machine are computed by using a modified incremental energy method, based on three-dimensional nonlinear time-stepping magnetic field finite element analyses. The inductance computation and performance simulation are verified by the experimental results of an SMC claw pole motor prototype.
Ha, QP, Kwok, NM, Nguyen, MT, Li, J & Samali, B 2008, 'Mitigation of seismic responses on building structures using MR dampers with Lyapunov-based control', STRUCTURAL CONTROL & HEALTH MONITORING, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 604-621.
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As losses of human lives and damages to buildings frequently occur during earthquake periods, it is crucial to mitigate structural vibrations. This paper describes the development of a Lyapunov-based control approach for magnetorheological (MR) dampers i
Haiwei Lu, Jianguo Zhu, Zhiwei Lin & Youguang Guo 2008, 'A Miniature Short Stroke Linear Actuator—Design and Analysis', IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 497-504.
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We report a newly developed miniature short stroke tubular linear permanent-magnet actuator for robotic applications. Compared to a rotary-to-linear mechanism, the linear actuator has the advantages of efficiency, thrust control, and compact size in gene
Hamilton, TJ, Jin, C, van Schaik, A & Tapson, J 2008, 'An Active 2-D Silicon Cochlea', IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 30-43.
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HAN, A, HONG, Y, LAI, KK & WANG, S 2008, 'Interval Time Series Analysis with an Application to the Sterling-Dollar Exchange Rate', Journal of Systems Science and Complexity, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 558-573.
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Inconsistency of multi-perspective requirements specifications is a pervasive issue during the requirements process. However, managing inconsistency is not just a pure technical problem. It is always associated with a process of interactions and competitions among corresponding stakeholders. The main contribution of this paper is to present a negotiations approach to handling inconsistencies in multi-perspective software requirements. In particular, the priority of requirements relative to each perspective plays an important role in proceeding negotiation over resolving inconsistencies among different stakeholders. An algorithm of generating negotiation proposals and an approach to evaluating proposals are also presented in this paper, respectively. © 2008 Academy of Mathematics & Systems Science, Beijing, China.
Hanham, SM & Bird, TS 2008, 'High Efficiency Excitation of Dielectric Rods Using a Magnetic Ring Current', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 56, no. 6, pp. 1805-1808.
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Hao, H, Deeks, JA & Wu, C 2008, 'Numerical simulations of the performance of steel guardrails under vehicle impact', Transactions of Tianjin University, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 318-323.
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Road side barriers are constructed to protect passengers and contain vehicles when a vehicle crashes into a barrier. In general, full-scale crash testing needs to be carried out if a geometrically and structurally equivalent barrier has not previously been proven to meet the requirements of containing the vehicle and dissipating sufficient impact energy for passenger protection. As full-scale crash testing is very expensive, the number of data that can be measured in a test is usually limited, and it may not always be possible to obtain good quality measurements in such a test, a reliable and efficient numerical simulation of crash testing is therefore very useful. This paper presents finite element simulations of a 3-rail steel road traffic barrier under vehicle impact. The performance levels defined in Australian Standards AS5100 Clause 10.5 for these barriers are checked. The numerical simulations show that the barrier is able to meet low performance levels. However, the maximum deceleration is higher than the acceptable limit for passenger protection. If present, a kerb launches the vehicles into the barrier, allowing for the possibility of overriding the barrier under certain circumstances, but it redirects the vehicle and reduces the incident angle, which reduces impact force on the barrier. Further investigation into all common kerb profiles on roads should be carried out, as only one kerb profile is investigated in this study.
He, X, Wu, Q, Jia, W & Hintz, T 2008, 'Edge Detection on Hexagonal Structure', Journal of Algorithms & Computational Technology, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 61-78.
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Gradient-based edge detection is a straightforward method to identify the edge points in the original grey-level image. It is intuitive that in the human vision system the edge points always appear where the grey-level value is greatly changed. Spiral Architecture is a relatively new image data structure that is inspired from anatomical considerations of the primate's vision. In Spiral Architecture, each image is represented as a collection of hexagonal pixels. Edge detection on Spiral Architecture has features of fast computation and accurate localization. In this paper, we present and compare gradient-based edge detection algorithms on Spiral Architecture. The experimental results show that the edge detection on Spiral Architecture outperforms that on traditional square image structure.
Henderson-Sellers, B & Hawryszkiewycz, I 2008, 'Comparing collaborative and process semantics for cooperative information systems', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 155-176.
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Collaboration is now becoming more common in business processes. Thus, ways are needed to integrate collaborative processes into such business processes. The implication for design methodologies is the need for synergies that integrate collaborative semantics with process metamodels in order to create software applications to assist people to collaborate. This paper describes a semantic model of collaboration, known as the LiveNet metamodel, and two standard process metamodels, SPEM (OMG) and the process part of the methodology metamodel ISO/IEC 24744. The paper suggests synergies between the collaborative and process metamodels and their potential convergence. The analysis carried out in the paper has revealed a number of metaclasses that could be valuably shared between metamodels to integrate process and collaborative semantics. The LiveNet collaborative metamodel has been incorporated into running software so that the theory built up here is substantiated and shown to be useful.
Hoang, D & Lawrence, E 2008, 'An Active Grid infrastructure for elderly care', Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, vol. 14, no. 7, pp. 363-367.
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We propose a technique in which elderly people can be monitored non-intrusively. The information is kept in an ‘active’ health record which becomes alive when attention or action is necessary concerning the condition of the elderly person. The proposed system consists of three main components: a sensor/actor loop, sensor records and associated active services, and a Grid middleware platform. Information is captured in realtime within a collaborative health-care Grid. The Grid connects elderly people, caregivers and medical service providers in ways that reduce unnecessary calls on expensive medical services through an intermediate local service centre (which can be virtual) assisted with Internet communications and monitoring technologies. The proposal should support preventive health-care programmes for reducing the cost of caring for the elderly.
Hoang, HG, Tuan, HD & Apkarian, P 2008, 'A Lyapunov Variable-Free KYP Lemma for SISO Continuous Systems', IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 53, no. 11, pp. 2669-2673.
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This technical note proposes a novel frequency-selective Kalman-Yakubovich-Popov (FS-KYP) lemma for analysis of single-input single-output (SISO) continuous systems. In contrast to existing approaches, the proposed method only uses a minimal number of va
Hoang, HG, Tuan, HD, Nguyen, TQ & Kha, HH 2008, 'Design of Exactly Linear Phase $K$-Regular IIR Half-Band Filter', IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 55, no. 12, pp. 1264-1268.
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This paper proposes a novel method to design exactly linear phase infinite impulse response half-band filters with arbitrary regularity. Broadly speaking, the design problem is formulated as a semi-infinite program, which is then turned into a semidefini
Hoang, TTL, Vigneswaran, S, Ngo, HH, Kandasamy, J, Shim, WG, Chaudhary, DS, Gotety, P & Peiris, P 2008, 'Performance evaluation and mathematical modelling of granular activated carbon biofiltration in wastewater treatment', KOREAN JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 259-267.
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Biological filtration is an effective technique for removing organic matter from wastewater. The performance of a biofilter can be influenced by a range of operational conditions. In this study the performance of biofilters was investigated for the influence of filter media depth, influent concentrations, filtrations rates and backwashing. The results show that performance of GAC filters decreased with shallower filter bed depths. In addition, the GAC performed better at lower influent concentration and lower filtration rates. The daily backwash adopted to avoid the physical clogging of the biofilter did not have any significant effect on the organic removal efficiency of the filter. The concentration, activity and characteristics of the biomass are quantified and described. A mathematical model was developed to simulate the organic removal of the GAC biofiltration system. The performance of the GAC filter under different influent organic concentration levels, filtration rates and filter bed depths was adequately simulated by the mathematical model developed for this study.
Hoi-Shun Lui & Shuley, N 2008, 'Evolutions of Partial and Global Resonances in Transient Electromagnetic Scattering', IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 7, pp. 436-439.
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Horan, K, Lankinen, A, O’Reilly, L, Bennett, NS, McNally, PJ, Sealy, BJ, Cowern, NEB & Tuomi, TO 2008, 'Structural and electrical characterisation of ion-implanted strained silicon', Materials Science and Engineering: B, vol. 154-155, pp. 118-121.
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Hornecker, E, Jacob, RJ, Hummels, C, Ullmer, B, Schmidt, A, van den Hoven, E & Mazalek, A 2008, 'TEI Goes On: Tangible and Embedded Interaction', IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 91-96.
Hossain, MJ, Pota, HR & Ugrinovskii, V 2008, 'Short and Long-Term Dynamic Voltage Instability', IFAC Proceedings Volumes, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 9392-9397.
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Hsieh, M-H & Wilde, MM 2008, 'Entanglement-assisted communication of classical and quantum information', IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 56, no. 9, pp. 4682-4704, September 2010, vol. 56, no. 9, pp. 4682-4704.
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We consider the problem of transmitting classical and quantum information
reliably over an entanglement-assisted quantum channel. Our main result is a
capacity theorem that gives a three-dimensional achievable rate region. Points
in the region are rate triples, consisting of the classical communication rate,
the quantum communication rate, and the entanglement consumption rate of a
particular coding scheme. The crucial protocol in achieving the boundary points
of the capacity region is a protocol that we name the classically-enhanced
father protocol. The classically-enhanced father protocol is more general than
other protocols in the family tree of quantum Shannon theoretic protocols, in
the sense that several previously known quantum protocols are now child
protocols of it. The classically-enhanced father protocol also shows an
improvement over a time-sharing strategy for the case of a qubit dephasing
channel--this result justifies the need for simultaneous coding of classical
and quantum information over an entanglement-assisted quantum channel. Our
capacity theorem is of a multi-letter nature (requiring a limit over many uses
of the channel), but it reduces to a single-letter characterization for at
least three channels: the completely depolarizing channel, the quantum erasure
channel, and the qubit dephasing channel.
Hsieh, M-H, Brun, TA & Devetak, I 2008, 'Entanglement-Assisted Quantum Quasi-Cyclic Low-Density Parity-Check Codes', Phys. Rev. A, vol. 79, no. 3, p. 032340.
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We investigate the construction of quantum low-density parity-check (LDPC)
codes from classical quasi-cyclic (QC) LDPC codes with girth greater than or
equal to 6. We have shown that the classical codes in the generalized
Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) construction do not need to satisfy the
dual-containing property as long as pre-shared entanglement is available to
both sender and receiver. We can use this to avoid the many 4-cycles which
typically arise in dual-containing LDPC codes. The advantage of such quantum
codes comes from the use of efficient decoding algorithms such as sum-product
algorithm (SPA). It is well known that in the SPA, cycles of length 4 make
successive decoding iterations highly correlated and hence limit the decoding
performance. We show the principle of constructing quantum QC-LDPC codes which
require only small amounts of initial shared entanglement.
Huang, S, Wang, Z & Dissanayake, G 2008, 'Sparse Local Submap Joining Filter for Building Large-Scale Maps', IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 1121-1130.
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This paper presents a novel local submap joining algorithm for building large-scale feature-based maps: sparse local submap joining filter (SLSJF). The input to the filter is a sequence of local submaps. Each local submap is represented in a coordinate f
Hui, HT & Lui, HS 2008, 'Expression of correlation coefficient for two omnidirectional antennas using conventional mutual impedances', Electronics Letters, vol. 44, no. 20, pp. 1177-1177.
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Hung, NVQ, Tuan, HD, Narikiyo, T & Apkarian, P 2008, 'Adaptive Control for Nonlinearly Parameterized Uncertainties in Robot Manipulators', IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 458-468.
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In this brief, a new adaptive control framework to compensate for uncertain nonlinear parameters in robot manipulators is developed. The designed adaptive controllers possess a linear parameter structure, guarantee global boundedness of the closed-loop s
Hutvagner, G & Simard, MJ 2008, 'Argonaute proteins: key players in RNA silencing', Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 22-32.
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During the past decade, small non-coding RNAs have rapidly emerged as important contributors to gene regulation. To carry out their biological functions, these small RNAs require a unique class of proteins called Argonautes. The discovery and our compreh
Iacopi, F, Elia, C, Fournier, T, Sinapi, F & Travaly, Y 2008, 'Stress corrosion of organosilicate glass films in aqueous environments: Role of pH', JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 862-868.
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Iacopi, F, Richard, O, Eichhammer, Y, Bender, H, Vereecken, PM, De Gendt, S & Heyns, M 2008, 'Size-dependent characteristics of indium-seeded Si nanowire growth', ELECTROCHEMICAL AND SOLID STATE LETTERS, vol. 11, no. 9, pp. K98-K100.
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Indraratna, B, Aljorany, A & Rujikiatkamjorn, C 2008, 'Analytical and Numerical Modeling of Consolidation by Vertical Drain beneath a Circular Embankment', International Journal of Geomechanics, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 199-206.
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Indraratna, B, Jayanathan, M & Brown, ET 2008, 'Shear strength model for overconsolidated clay-infilled idealised rock joints', Géotechnique, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 55-65.
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Saturated infilled joints can contribute to the instability of rock masses during undrained shearing. This paper reports an experimental investigation into the effect of the overconsolidation of infilled rough joints on undrained shear behaviour. A revised model is presented for predicting the shear strength of rough infilled joints on the basis of experimental tests carried out on idealised sawtoothed joints with natural silty clay as the infill material. Tests were conducted under consolidated undrained conditions in a high-pressure triaxial apparatus on joints having a dip angle of 60°. Pore pressure development in the infill materials was monitored. The results show that the effect of asperities on shear strength is significant up to a critical asperity height to infill thickness ratio (t/a), whereas the shear behaviour is controlled by the infill alone beyond this critical value. The proposed model for predicting the shear strength of rough infilled joints describes how the OCR influences the shear strength, pore water pressure development, and critical t/a ratio.
Indraratna, B, Muttuvel, T, Khabbaz, H & Armstrong, R 2008, 'Predicting the Erosion Rate of Chemically Treated Soil Using a Process Simulation Apparatus for Internal Crack Erosion', Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, vol. 134, no. 6, pp. 837-844.
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Chemical stabilization is an effective ground improvement technique for controlling erosion. Two stabilizers, lignosulfonate and cement, were used to study how effectively they could stabilize erodible silty sand collected from Wombeyan Caves, NSW, Australia. To conduct this research, four dosages of cement 0.5, 1, 1.5, and 2% and four dosages of lignosulfonate 0.1, 0.2, 0.4, and 0.6% by dry weight of soil were selected. All treated and untreated soil specimens were compacted to 90 and 95% of their maximum dry density to study the effect of compaction level on erodibility. The erosion characteristics of treated and untreated soil samples were investigated using a process simulation apparatus for internal crack erosion designed and built at the University of Wollongong. The findings of this study indicated that both chemical stabilizers increased the resistance to erosion because of their cementing properties. It was also found that the critical shear stress increased linearly with the amount of stabilizer, and the coefficient of soil erosion decreased as a power function of the critical shear stress.
Indraratna, B, Muttuvel, T, Khabbaz, H & Armstrong, R 2008, 'Predicting the erosion rate of chemically treated soil using a process simulation apparatus for internal crack erosion', JOURNAL OF GEOTECHNICAL AND GEOENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, vol. 134, no. 6, pp. 837-844.
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Chemical stabilization is an effective ground improvement technique for controlling erosion. Two stabilizers, lignosulfonate and cement, were used to study how effectively they could stabilize erodible silty sand collected from Wombeyan Caves, NSW, Australia. To conduct this research, four dosages of cement (0.5, 1, 1.5, and 2%) and four dosages of lignosulfonate (0.1, 0.2, 0.4, and 0.6%) by dry weight of soil were selected. All treated and untreated soil specimens were compacted to 90 and 95% of their maximum dry density to study the effect of compaction level on erodibility. The erosion characteristics of treated and untreated soil samples were investigated using a process simulation apparatus for internal crack erosion designed and built at the University of Wollongong. The findings of this study indicated that both chemical stabilizers increased the resistance to erosion because of their cementing properties. It was also found that the critical shear stress increased linearly with the amount of stabilizer, and the coefficient of soil erosion decreased as a power function of the critical shear stress. © 2008 ASCE.
Indraratna, B, Trani, LDO & Khabbaz, H 2008, 'A critical review on granular dam filter behaviour – from particle sizes to constriction-based design criteria', Geomechanics and Geoengineering, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 279-290.
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Over emphasis on tests results involving base soils with increasing coefficient of uniformity (Cu) makes the reliability of an empirical particle-based criterion for effective filters questionable. Extra measures such as regrading of base soil are then necessary in order to capture the effectiveness of filter constriction sizes in trapping eroding fines. Recent studies which focused on the role of the sizes of filter voids on overall filtration behaviour have deployed constriction size approaches that were shown to be equally acceptable methods for distinguishing between effective and ineffective filters. This paper examines the evolution of this approach, starting from past empirical and mathematical investigations and proceeding to the eventual development of geometric-probabilistic methods with special reference to embankment dams. Models based on dominant and controlling constriction sizes are introduced, and subsequently the constriction-based retention criteria for granular filters are presented. The proposed retention criteria were verified based on extensive experimental data taken from small- and large-scale filtration tests carried out by various authors. The integration of filter compaction, porosity and Cu, together with the incorporation of analytical principles, provides alternative and rigorous design approaches that remove most limitations of the conventional particle-based criteria, thus making the models essentially more comprehensive and quantifiable.
Ip, KH, Stuart, BH, Ray, AS & Thomas, PS 2008, 'A spectroscopic investigation of the weathering of a heritage Sydney sandstone', SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A-MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY, vol. 71, no. 3, pp. 1032-1035.
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Infrared spectroscopy has been employed in a study of the degradation of heritage Sydney sandstone used in St. Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, Australia. Spectra were used to characterise the clay components taken from weathered and unweathered sandstone blo
Ip, KH, Stuart, BH, Thomas, PS & Ray, AS 2008, 'Thermal characterization of the clay binder of heritage Sydney sandstones', JOURNAL OF THERMAL ANALYSIS AND CALORIMETRY, vol. 92, no. 1, pp. 97-100.
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Thermal analysis has been employed in a study of the degradation of heritage Sydney sandstone used in St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, Australia. TG and DSC have been used to characterise the clay components removed from weathered and unweathered sandstone. Two types of kaolin clays - kaolinite and its polymorph, dickite - have been identified. A higher amount of dickite present in the clay of weathered sandstone indicates that a kaolinite-to-dickite transformation occurs upon weathering. XRD hot stage analysis was also used to demonstrate the presence of a more thermally stable polymorph of the kaolinite.
Isik, O & Esselle, KP 2008, 'Backward Wave Microstrip Lines With Complementary Spiral Resonators', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 56, no. 10, pp. 3173-3178.
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Jakeman, AJ, Rizzoli, AE & Voinov, AA 2008, 'Outstanding reviewers for environmental modelling and software in 2007', Environmental Modelling & Software, vol. 23, no. 12, pp. 1343-1343.
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Janapsatya, J, Esselle, KP & Bird, TS 2008, 'A dual-band and wideband planar inverted-F antenna for WLAN applications', Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 138-141.
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Jeyakumar, P, Loganathan, P, Sivakumaran, S, Anderson, CWN & McLaren, RG 2008, 'Copper and zinc spiking of biosolids: effect of incubation period on metal fractionation and speciation and microbial activity', ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 347-354.
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Biosolids were amended separately with three levels of copper and zinc sulfate, and anaerobically incubated for 117 days. Copper in the unamended-biosolids solid phase was mainly found in the organic and residual fractions (8595%). Copper addition decreased the percentage of Cu in these fractions and increased the percentage of Cu in the oxide and specifically adsorbed fractions. Zinc in the solid phase was mainly associated with the oxide (3565%), specifically adsorbed (2530%), and the exchangeable fractions (1040%). Relatively, all Cu in the solution phase was complexed with organic matter; Zn was present mainly as Zn2+ and as an electrically neutral ion pair, ZnSO40. Metals were almost completely incorporated into the biosolids matrix by Day 55. Dehydrogenase activity was reduced by 50% (EC50, effective concentration for 50% activity reduction) at the total solution-phase Cu and Zn concentrations of 0.1 and 20 mg L-1, respectively, and solid-phase exchangeable Cu and Zn concentrations of 410 and 670 mg kg-1, respectively. © CSIRO 2008.
Ji, JC & Zhang, N 2008, 'Additive resonances of a controlled van der Pol-Duffing oscillator', JOURNAL OF SOUND AND VIBRATION, vol. 315, no. 1-2, pp. 22-33.
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The trivial equilibrium of a controlled van der PolDuffing oscillator with nonlinear feedback control may lose its stability via a non-resonant interaction of two Hopf bifurcations when two critical time delays corresponding to two Hopf bifurcations have the same value. Such an interaction results in a non-resonant bifurcation of co-dimension two. In the vicinity of the non-resonant Hopf bifurcations, the presence of a periodic excitation in the controlled oscillator can induce three types of additive resonances in the forced response, when the frequency of the external excitation and the frequencies of the two Hopf bifurcations satisfy a certain relationship. With the aid of centre manifold theorem and the method of multiple scales, three types of additive resonance responses of the controlled system are investigated by studying the possible solutions and their stability of the four-dimensional ordinary differential equations on the centre manifold. The amplitudes of the free-oscillation terms are found to admit three solutions; two non-trivial solutions and the trivial solution. Of two non-trivial solutions, one is stable and the trivial solution is unstable. A stable non-trivial solution corresponds to a quasi-periodic motion of the original system. It is also found that the frequency-response curves for three cases of additive resonances are an isolated closed curve. It is shown that the forced response of the oscillator may exhibit quasi-periodic motions on a three-dimensional torus consisting of three frequencies; the frequencies of two bifurcating solutions and the frequency of the excitation. Illustrative examples are given to show the quasi-periodic motions.
Ji, JC, Hansen, CH & Zander, AC 2008, 'Nonlinear Dynamics of Magnetic Bearing Systems', JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT MATERIAL SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES, vol. 19, no. 12, pp. 1471-1491.
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Magnetic bearings use magnetic forces to support various machine components. Because of the non-contact nature of this type of suspension, magnetic bearing technology offers a number of significant advantages over conventional bearings, such as rolling element and fluid film bearings. An active magnetic bearing basically consists of an electromagnetic actuator, position sensors, power amplifiers, and a feedback controller. All of these components are characterized by nonlinear behavior and therefore the entire system is inherently nonlinear. However, in simulations of the dynamic behavior of magnetic bearing systems, the nonlinearities are usually neglected to simplify the analysis and only linear models are used. Moreover, many control techniques currently used in magnetic bearing systems are generally designed by ignoring nonlinear effects. The main reason for simplification is the intractability of the complexity of the actual model. In fact, the inherent nonlinear properties of magnetic bearing systems can lead to dynamic behavior of a magnetically suspended rotor that is distinctly different from that predicted using a simple linearized model. Therefore, the nonlinearities should be taken into account. This literature review is focused on the nonlinear dynamics of magnetic bearing systems and it provides background information on analytical methods, nonlinear vibrations resulting from a rotor contacting auxiliary bearings, and other active topics of research involving the nonlinear properties of magnetic bearing systems, such as nonlinear self-sensing magnetic bearings and nonlinear control of magnetic bearings. The review concludes with a brief discussion on current and possible future directions for research on the nonlinear dynamics of magnetic bearing systems.
Ji, Z, Wang, G, Duan, R, Feng, Y & Ying, M 2008, 'Parameter Estimation of Quantum Channels', IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY, vol. 54, no. 11, pp. 5172-5185.
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The efficiency of parameter estimation of quantum channels is studied in this paper. We introduce the concept of programmable parameters to the theory of estimation. It is found that programmable parameters obey the standard quantum limit strictly; hence, no speedup is possible in its estimation. We also construct a class of nonunitary quantum channels whose parameter can be estimated in a way that the standard quantum limit is broken. The study of estimation of general quantum channels also enables an investigation of the effect of noises on quantum estimation.
Johnston, A, Candy, L & Edmonds, E 2008, 'Designing and evaluating virtual musical instruments: facilitating conversational user interaction', Design Studies, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 556-571.
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This paper is concerned with the design of interactive virtual musical instruments. An interaction design strategy which uses on-screen objects that respond to user actions in physically realistic ways is described. This approach allows musicians to `play the virtual instruments using the sound of their familiar acoustic instruments. An investigation of user experience identified three modes of interaction that characterise the musicians' approach to the virtual instruments: instrumental, ornamental and conversational. When using the virtual instruments in instrumental mode, musicians prioritise detailed control; in ornamental mode, they surrender detailed control to the software and allow it to transform their sound; in conversational mode, the musicians allow the virtual instrument to `talk back, helping to shape the musical direction of performance much as a human playing partner might. Finding a balance between controllability and complexity emerged as a key issue in facilitating `conversational interaction.
Kalam, MA & Masjuki, HH 2008, 'Testing palm biodiesel and NPAA additives to control NOx and CO while improving efficiency in diesel engines', Biomass and Bioenergy, vol. 32, no. 12, pp. 1116-1122.
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Kalam, MA, Sultana, Y, Samad, A, Ali, A, Aqil, M, Sharma, M & Mishra, AK 2008, 'Gelrite‐Based In Vitro Gelation Ophthalmic Drug Delivery System of Gatifloxacin', Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 89-96.
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Kandasamy, J, Beecham, S & Dunphy, A 2008, 'Stormwater sand filters in water-sensitive urban design', Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Water Management, vol. 161, no. 2, pp. 55-64.
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This paper investigates the suitability of sand filters for harvesting and treating stormwater for non-potable reuse purposes. A stormwater sand filtration device was constructed in a small urban catchment in Sydney, Australia. A sand filter is typically used in water-sensitive urban design (WSUD) as a component of a treatment train to remove pollution from stormwater before discharge to receiving waters, to groundwater or for collection and reuse. This paper describes an 18 month field study undertaken to determine the effectiveness and pollutant removal efficiency of a sand filter, and the differences in the pollutant removal efficiency of two grades of sand. A comparison of pollutant removal with previous literature on sand filters showed similar efficiencies but nutrient removal was higher than expected. A further unexpected result was that the coarse filter media performed as well as the fine media for most pollutant types and was superior in suspended solids removal. Improved modelling equations for predicting suspended solids and total phosphorus removal in sand filters are also presented in this paper.
Kannapiran, A, Chanan, A, Singh, G, Tambosis, P, Jeyakumaran, J & Kandasamy, J 2008, 'Strategic asset management planning of stormwater drainage systems', Water Practice and Technology, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 1-8.
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Management of the urban water cycle in an integrated manner is an essential task to protect, restore and enhance in a sustainable manner. Strategic asset management planing is being developed as local government authorities face many challenges associated with managing the urban water cycle system. Statistical or conventional mathematical modelling approach has been found not practical for assessment of deteriorating infrastructures. Alternatively, application of fuzzy-based models is found more suitable as it links engineering judgment, experience and scarce field data of the deteriorating assets. In this study, a representative network of buried stormwater system's data is drawn and a pipe condition index is derived by linking the field data and reasoning using fuzzy approach. The inferred results are found to be useful and relevant for asset maintenance and future development programs.
Kaynak, O, Braun, R & Kennedy, I 2008, 'Guest Editorial Plagiarism', IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 149-151.
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Kedziora, DJ, Vladimirov, SV & Samarian, AA 2008, 'Mode-spectral analysis of 2D Coulomb clusters with fluctuating charges', EPL (Europhysics Letters), vol. 84, no. 5, pp. 55001-55001.
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Kegen Yu & Guo, YJ 2008, 'Improved Positioning Algorithms for Nonline-of-Sight Environments', IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 2342-2353.
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Nonline-of-sight (NLOS) conditions pose a major challenge to radio positioning. In this paper, a constrained-optimization-based location algorithm is proposed to jointly estimate the unknown location and bias by using the sequential quadratic programming (SQP) algorithm. This method does not rely on any prior statistics information, and simulation results show that the proposed method considerably outperforms existing methods. To reduce the complexity of the SQP-based algorithm, we further propose a Taylor-series expansion-based linear quadratic programming (TS-LQP) algorithm. It is demonstrated that the computational complexity of the TS-LQP algorithm is only a fraction of that of the SQP algorithm, whereas the accuracy loss is limited. Also, maximum-likelihood (ML) algorithms that are suited for different NLOS error statistics are developed under several circumstances when there are different levels of a priori information. The analytical performance of the ML estimation (MLE) is investigated. Moreover, analytical expressions to approximate the variance of the MLE with and without model parameter mismatches are derived. Simulation results show that the approximate variance can be used as a better accuracy measure than the Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB). © 2008 IEEE.
Kejalakshmy, N, Rahman, BMA, Agrawal, A, Wongcharoen, T & Grattan, KTV 2008, 'Characterization of single-polarization single-mode photonic crystal fiber using full-vectorial finite element method', Applied Physics B, vol. 93, no. 1, pp. 223-230.
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Khalilpour, R & Roostaazad, R 2008, 'Development and verification of a model to describe an immobilized glucose isomerase packed bed bioreactor', Biochemical Engineering Journal, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 328-336.
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Khatri, RP, Quick, GW & Sirivivatnanon, V 2008, 'Durability of concrete containing siderite-bearing microsyenite and trachyte aggregates', CEMENT & CONCRETE COMPOSITES, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 307-315.
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Ki, S-K, Cheng, DK-W & Lu, DD-C 2008, 'Analysis and design of a single-phase hybrid mode power factor correction converter', IET Power Electronics, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 72-72.
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Kiani, GI, Esselle, KP, Ford, KL, Weily, AR & Panagamuwa, C 2008, 'Angle and polarization‐independent bandstop frequency selective surface for indoor wireless systems', Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 50, no. 9, pp. 2315-2317.
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Kiani, GI, Ford, KL, Esselle, KP, Weily, AR, Panagamuwa, C & Batchelor, JC 2008, 'Single-layer bandpass active frequency selective surface', Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 50, no. 8, pp. 2149-2151.
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Kim, S, Kang, J, Chung, YJ, Li, J & Ryu, KH 2008, 'Clustering orthologous proteins across phylogenetically distant species', Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, vol. 71, no. 3, pp. 1113-1122.
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The quality of orthologous protein clusters (OPCs) is largely dependent on the results of the reciprocal BLAST (basic local alignment search tool) hits among genomes. The BLAST algorithm is very efficient and fast, but it is very difficult to get optimal
Kim, S-H, Ngo, HH, Shon, HK & Vigneswaran, S 2008, 'Adsorption and photocatalysis kinetics of herbicide onto titanium oxide and powdered activated carbon', SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 335-342.
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The adsorption and photocatalysis kinetics of metsulfuron-methyl (MM) onto titanium oxide (TiO2) and powdered activated carbon (PAC) were studied at varying adsorbent amount and MM concentration. The overall mass transfer in adsorption was estimated from concentration decay curves obtained in the batch adsorber. The maximum adsorption capacity decreased with increasing adsorbent amount in TiO2 adsorption. The adsorption isotherms of MM could be plotted using the Langmuir isotherm model with a reasonable degree of accuracy having higher r2 values rather than Freundlich isotherm model. Linear driving force approximation (LDFA) kinetic equation with Langmuir adsorption isotherm model was successfully applied to predict the adsorption kinetics data in various concentrations of MM in photobatch reactor. The estimated mass transfer coefficient was used to be 3.0 × 10-5, 5.5 × 10-5, 9.1 × 10-5 m/s in PAC adsorption and 2.0 × 10-5, 1.1 × 10-5, 9.0 × 10-6 m/s in TiO2 adsorption for a different MM concentration of 20, 50 and 70 mg/L, respectively. Photocatalysis kinetics was same with TiO2 of 0.2 g/L regardless of TiO2 amounts and the MM degradation kinetics was enhanced by TiO2 catalysis rather than only UV light degradation. Among the photocatalysis kinetics model with first-order, second-order and LangmuirHinshelwood (LH) model, a second-order kinetic model was found to well present the experimental data of MM by TiO2 catalyst for the range of various TiO2 amounts and MM concentration studied.
Kirchner, N, Hordern, D, Liu, D & Dissanayake, G 2008, 'Capacitive sensor for object ranging and material type identification', SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL, vol. 148, no. 1, pp. 96-104.
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This paper presents a system for object ranging and material type identification using a multifrequency approach for a capacitive sensor. it is shown through an experimental study that the deviation in the readings taken at different sensor drive frequen
Kitchenham, B, Al-Khilidar, H, Babar, MA, Berry, M, Cox, K, Keung, J, Kurniawati, F, Staples, M, Zhang, H & Zhu, L 2008, 'Evaluating guidelines for reporting empirical software engineering studies', EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 97-121.
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Kong, X 2008, 'A shaping filter approach to model GPS errors', Int. J. Vehicle Information and Communication Systems, vol. 1, no. 3/4, pp. 181-194.
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Although Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) provides positioning information with high precision, when DGPS is unavailable in some situations, stand-alone GPS has to be used in vehicle navigation. The accuracy of standard GPS is low due to position measurement errors. This paper presents a frequency domain modelling approach to model GPS errors and increase GPS positioning accuracy. This approach models GPS errors using shaping filter. External sensors are employed to reduce GPS errors. This paper also presents an approach to select external sensors to meet the accuracy requirements of positioning system.
Kong, X 2008, 'A shaping filter approach to model GPS errors', International Journal of Vehicle Information and Communication Systems, vol. 1, no. 3/4, pp. 181-181.
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Copyright © 2008 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Although Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) provides positioning information with high precision, when DGPS is unavailable in some situations, stand-alone GPS has to be used in vehicle navigation. The accuracy of standard GPS is low due to position measurement errors. This paper presents a frequency domain modelling approach to model GPS errors and increase GPS positioning accuracy. This approach models GPS errors using shaping filter. External sensors are employed to reduce GPS errors. This paper also presents an approach to select external sensors to meet the accuracy requirements of positioning system.
Kremsky, I, Hsieh, M-H & Brun, TA 2008, 'Classical Enhancement of Quantum Error-Correcting Codes', Phys. Rev. A, vol. 78, no. 1, p. 012341.
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We present a general formalism for quantum error-correcting codes that encode
both classical and quantum information (the EACQ formalism). This formalism
unifies the entanglement-assisted formalism and classical error correction, and
includes encoding, error correction, and decoding steps such that the encoded
quantum and classical information can be correctly recovered by the receiver.
We formally define this kind of quantum code using both stabilizer and
symplectic language, and derive the appropriate error-correcting conditions. We
give several examples to demonstrate the construction of such codes.
Kutay, C & Mooney, J 2008, 'Linking Learning to Community for Indigenous Computing Courses', The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, vol. 37, no. S1, pp. 90-95.
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AbstractSince its inception, Problem-based learning (PBL) as a process for learning and teaching has been used to enhance many skills based courses, including education programs at Bachelor College and the Aboriginal Technical Health Worker training program at the Centre for Appropriate Technology in Alice Springs. While PBL is an approach to learning and teaching which has been designed to provide a more holistic educational process for all students, Foster and Meehane (2007) suggest that many aspects of the courses are ideally suited for Indigenous students. In particular, this approach is useful when introducing students to a subject matter which is new both in being derived from another culture and not being accessible to Indigenous parents in the past. PBL provides a flexible approach to enable motivation and involvement of the students and their community. This paper considers the benefits of PBL for learning Information Technology and presents some course templates developed to support teaching Indigenous students at school.
Lam, HK, Ling, W-K, Iu, HH-C & Ling, SSH 2008, 'Synchronization of chaotic systems using time-delayed fuzzy state-feedback controller', IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS I-REGULAR PAPERS, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 893-903.
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Lamei, A, van der Zaag, P & von Münch, E 2008, 'Basic cost equations to estimate unit production costs for RO desalination and long-distance piping to supply water to tourism-dominated arid coastal regions of Egypt', Desalination, vol. 225, no. 1-3, pp. 1-12.
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An integrated photocatalysismembrane hybrid system was investigated for wastewater treatment with the main focus on improving the cross flow microfiltration (MF) permeate flux. Photocatalysis with TiO2 (P25 Degussa) suspension as photocatalyst was applied both as pre-treatment and as inline treatment with MF. The TiO2 slurry was found to have significant effect in permeate flux for wastewater with lower dissolved organic carbon concentration. The MF flux decline due to TiO2 slurry cake on the membrane surface was minimized by allowing the TiO2 slurry to settle and by using only the supernatant for further treatment using the hybrid system. The investigation also included the study on the effect of photocatalytic reaction time and the slurry settling times on the MF permeate flux. The irradiation of ultraviolet on the MF surface in presence of TiO2 catalyst in suspension yielded in an increase in permeate flux.
Lau, H, Huang, S & Dissanayake, G 2008, 'Discounted MEAN bound for the optimal searcher path problem with non-uniform travel times', EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH, vol. 190, no. 2, pp. 383-397.
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We consider an extension of the optimal searcher path problem (OSP), where a searcher moving through a discretised environment may now need to spend a non-uniform amount of time travelling from one region to another before being able to search it for the
Lee, J, Sanmugarasa, K, Blumenstein, M & Loo, Y-C 2008, 'Improving the reliability of a Bridge Management System (BMS) using an ANN-based Backward Prediction Model (BPM)', Automation in Construction, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 758-772.
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The slow adoption of Bridge Management Systems (BMSs) and its impractical future prediction of the condition rating of bridges are attributed to the inconsistency between BMS inputs and bridge agencies' existing data for a BMS in terms of compatibility and the enormous number of bridge datasets that include historical structural information. Among these, historical bridge element condition ratings are some of the key pieces of information required for bridge asset prioritisation but in most cases only limited data is available. This study addresses the abovementioned difficulties faced by bridge management agencies by using limited historical bridge inspection records to model time-series element-level data. This paper presents an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based prediction model, called the Backward Prediction Model (BPM), for generating historical bridge condition ratings using limited bridge inspection records. The BPM employs historical non-bridge datasets such as traffic volumes, populations and climates, to establish correlations with existing bridge condition ratings from very limited bridge inspection records. The resulting model predicts the missing historical condition ratings of individual bridge elements. The outcome of this study can contribute to reducing the uncertainty in predicting future bridge condition ratings and so improve the reliability of various BMS analysis outcomes. © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Lee, M, Gandevia, SC & Carroll, TJ 2008, 'Cortical voluntary activation can be reliably measured in human wrist extensors using transcranial magnetic stimulation', Clinical Neurophysiology, vol. 119, no. 5, pp. 1130-1138.
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Objective: A twitch interpolation technique using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was recently developed to measure motor cortical drive to human elbow flexors. Here, we described studies designed to test the applicability and reliability of the technique for the human wrist extensors and to provide new evidence regarding the sensitivity of the technique to inadvertent antagonist activation. Methods: Study 1: we measured amplitudes of superimposed twitches (SITs) produced by TMS during wrist extension at intensities from rest to maximal voluntary contraction on two occasions (n = 9). Study 2: we assessed the impact of inadvertent antagonist activation by TMS on measurement of voluntary activation using a muscle potentiation technique to increase mechanical efficiency of the wrist flexors (n = 6). Results: The SITs decreased linearly between 25% and 100% MVC and voluntary activation could be reliably estimated across days (ICC2,1 = 0.963, p < 0.001). Prior potentiation of the wrist flexors had little impact on extension SITs and voluntary activation. Conclusions: TMS allows valid and reliable measurement of voluntary activation of the wrist extensors. Significance: TMS can be used to assess effects of supraspinal fatigue, pathology and rehabilitation interventions on cortical activation in upper limb muscle groups. © 2008 International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology.
Lee, S 2008, 'Utilization of optical remote sensing data and geographic information system tools for regional landslide hazard analysis by using binomial logistic regression model', Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 023542-023542.
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Lee, T & Mittal, R 2008, 'Product theorems via semidefinite programming', Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 5125 LNCS, no. PART 1, pp. 674-685.
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The tendency of semidefinite programs to compose perfectly under product has
been exploited many times in complexity theory: for example, by Lovasz to
determine the Shannon capacity of the pentagon; to show a direct sum theorem
for non-deterministic communication complexity and direct product theorems for
discrepancy; and in interactive proof systems to show parallel repetition
theorems for restricted classes of games.
Despite all these examples of product theorems--some going back nearly thirty
years--it was only recently that Mittal and Szegedy began to develop a general
theory to explain when and why semidefinite programs behave perfectly under
product. This theory captured many examples in the literature, but there were
also some notable exceptions which it could not explain--namely, an early
parallel repetition result of Feige and Lovasz, and a direct product theorem
for the discrepancy method of communication complexity by Lee, Shraibman, and
Spalek.
We extend the theory of Mittal and Szegedy to explain these cases as well.
Indeed, to the best of our knowledge, our theory captures all examples of
semidefinite product theorems in the literature.
Lee, T & Shraibman, A 2008, 'An approximation algorithm for approximation rank', Proceedings of the Annual IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity, pp. 351-357.
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One of the strongest techniques available for showing lower bounds on quantum
communication complexity is the logarithm of the approximation rank of the
communication matrix--the minimum rank of a matrix which is entrywise close to
the communication matrix. This technique has two main drawbacks: it is
difficult to compute, and it is not known to lower bound quantum communication
complexity with entanglement.
Linial and Shraibman recently introduced a norm, called gamma_2^{alpha}, to
quantum communication complexity, showing that it can be used to lower bound
communication with entanglement. Here the parameter alpha is a measure of
approximation which is related to the allowable error probability of the
protocol. This bound can be written as a semidefinite program and gives bounds
at least as large as many techniques in the literature, although it is smaller
than the corresponding alpha-approximation rank, rk_alpha. We show that in fact
log gamma_2^{alpha}(A)$ and log rk_{alpha}(A)$ agree up to small factors. As
corollaries we obtain a constant factor polynomial time approximation algorithm
to the logarithm of approximate rank, and that the logarithm of approximation
rank is a lower bound for quantum communication complexity with entanglement.
Lei, G, Shao, K, Li, Y & Yan, M 2008, 'Constant false alarm rate detection against Weibull clutter background', Huazhong Keji Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue Ban)/Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Natural Science Edition), vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 129-132.
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Constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detection for Weibull background and linear detector is discussed. In homogeneous background, using moment estimation we get the analytical expression of the parameters, and the performance is analyzed for CFAR-detector based on moment estimation. The analysis indicates that, the obtained variance of parameter is smaller than that using maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) and order statistics, and CFAR loss is smaller than that using the CFAR algorithm based on MLE. In non-homogeneous background, a Bayes-CFAR detector is presented and detecting performance is also analyzed. The performance of Bayes-CFAR detector is better than that based on moment estimation, and also better than that using MLS and order statistics. The smaller the sample data is, the better performance it will present.
Lei, G, Shao, KR, Guo, Y, Zhu, J & Lavers, JD 2008, 'Sequential Optimization Method for the Design of Electromagnetic Device', IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MAGNETICS, vol. 44, no. 11, pp. 3217-3220.
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Three sequential optimization methods, sequential least square method, sequential Kriging method, and sequential linear Bayesian method, are presented for the optimization design of electromagnetic device. Sequential optimization method (SOM) is composed of coarse optimization process and fine optimization process. The main purpose of the former is to reduce the design space; while the target of the latter is to update the optimal design parameters. To illustrate the performance of the proposed methods, an analytic test function and the TEAM Workshop Problem 22 are investigated. Experimental results of test function demonstrate that SOM can obtain satisfactory solutions; and practical application illustrates that the number of finite element sample points is less than 1/10 compared with that by direct optimization method, while the optimal results are even better than that by direct optimization method.
Lei, G, Shao, KR, Yang, GY & Zhao, J 2008, 'Linear unbiased estimators for particle size distribution of magnetic nanoparticles', Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 065002-065002.
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We present two statistical analytical approaches to estimate the particle size distribution of magnetic nanoparticles. They are termed best linear unbiased estimator and linear minimum mean square error estimator. These approaches are implemented and quantified within the formalism of linear unbiased estimation theory. To illustrate the efficiency of the proposed approaches, we give two examples of the application to the particle size distribution analysis in ferrofluids with normal and lognormal samples. In both cases we compare the reconstruction distributions using our methods with those calculated via the electron microscopy images of the ferrofluid particles. © 2008 IOP Publishing Ltd.
Leong, T, Howard, S & Vetere, F 2008, 'FEATURETake a chance on me', Interactions, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 16-19.
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Leong, T, Vetere, F & Howard, S 2008, 'Abdicating choice: the rewards of letting go', DIGITAL CREATIVITY, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 233-243.
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Increasingly, people are faced with having to deal with vast amount of digital content. But in some situations, having to choose from such large digital libraries can be unpleasant and even paralysing, especially when people have no strong preference for a particular choice. Digital music listening is an example of such a dilemma. Focusing on Shuffle listening on the iPod, whereby listeners abdicate choice to a system to present content to them randomly, we observe that this mode of abdicating choice not only alleviates the pains of choice but also leads to better user-experience in some circumstances. Randomness is highlighted as a versatile resource. Acting as a device that `defamiliarises the digital music tracks, it refreshes and engages listeners' attention as well as shapes their perceptions. In some cases, the use of randomness enriches their listening experience and even encourages encounters with serendipity.
LEUNG, FHF, LING, SH & LAM, HK 2008, 'AN IMPROVED GENETIC-ALGORITHM-BASED NEURAL-TUNED NEURAL NETWORK', International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications, vol. 07, no. 04, pp. 469-492.
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This paper presents a neural-tuned neural network (NTNN), which is trained by an improved genetic algorithm (GA). The NTNN consists of a common neural network and a modified neural network (MNN). In the MNN, a neuron model with two activation functions is introduced. An improved GA is proposed to train the parameters of the proposed network. A set of improved genetic operations are presented, which show superior performance over the traditional GA. The proposed network structure can increase the search space of the network and offer better performance than the traditional feed-forward neural network. Two application examples are given to illustrate the merits of the proposed network and the improved GA.
Leyendekkers, JV & Shannon, AG 2008, 'Unification and infinite series', International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, vol. 39, no. 7, pp. 948-952.
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Some infinite series are analysed on the basis of the hypergeometric function and integer structure and modular rings. The resulting generalized functions are compared with differentiation of the 'mother' series.
Li, H, Han, J, Pi, H, Jiang, Z, Wei, D & Tieu, AK 2008, 'Modeling texture development during cold rolling of IF steel by crystal plasticity finite element method', Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing, Mineral, Metallurgy, Material, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 696-701.
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With the consideration of slip deformation mechanism and various slip systems of body centered cubic (BCC) metals, Taylor-type and finite element polycrystal models were embedded into the commercial finite element code ABAQUS to realize crystal plasticity finite element modeling, based on the rate dependent crystal constitutive equations. Initial orientations measured by electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) were directly input into the crystal plasticity finite element model to simulate the development of rolling texture of interstitial-free steel (IF steel) at various reductions. The modeled results show a good agreement with the experimental results. With increasing reduction, the predicted and experimental rolling textures tend to sharper, and the results simulated by the Taylor-type model are stronger than those simulated by finite element model. Conclusions are obtained that rolling textures calculated with 48 {110}< 111 >+{112}< 111 >+{123}< 111 > slip systems are more approximate to EBSD results. (C) 2008 University of Science and Technology Beijing. All rights reserved.
Li, M, Yuan, X & Su, J 2008, 'The number of vertices of degree 7 in a contraction-critical 7-connected graph', Discrete Mathematics, vol. 308, no. 24, pp. 6262-6268.
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Li, S & Ying, M 2008, 'Soft constraint abstraction based on semiring homomorphism', THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE, vol. 403, no. 2-3, pp. 192-201.
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The semiring-based constraint satisfaction problems (semiring CSPs), proposed by Bistarelli, Montanari and Rossi [S. Bistarelli, U. Montanari, F. Rossi, Semiring-based constraints solving and optimization, Journal of the ACM 44 (2) (1997) 201236], is a very general framework of soft constraints. In this paper we propose an abstraction scheme for soft constraints that uses semiring homomorphism. To find optimal solutions of the concrete problem, we first work in the abstract problem and find its optimal solutions, and then use them to solve the concrete problem. In particular, we show that a mapping preserves optimal solutions if and only if it is an order-reflecting semiring homomorphism. Moreover, for a semiring homomorphism ? and a problem P over S, if t is optimal in ?(P), then there is an optimal solution View the MathML source of P such that View the MathML source has the same value as t in ?(P).
Li, X, Duan, Q, Han, X & Sheng, DC 2008, 'Adaptive coupled arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian finite element and meshfree method for injection molding process', International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, vol. 73, no. 8, pp. 1153-1180.
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Liang, X, Zhang, J & Xia, X 2008, 'Adaptive Synchronization for Generalized Lorenz Systems', IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 53, no. 7, pp. 1740-1746.
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Liang, X, Zhang, J & Xia, X 2008, 'Correction to “Adaptive Synchronization for Generalized Lorenz Systems”', IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 53, no. 9, pp. 2216-2216.
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Lim, GT, Kim, KH, Kim, KS, Li, HJ, Song, SJ, Shon, H & Cho, DL 2008, 'A study on the dry cleaning of aluminium surfaces by low temperature plasma process', Journal of the Korean Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 640-644.
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Lubricating oil on aluminium surfaces was cleaned by a low temperature plasma process. Oxygen plasma mixed with argon was used, and process parameters were the mixing ratio of argon in oxygen, discharge power, and negative DC potential. The aluminium surfaces were analyzed with FTIR and EDX after the cleaning. It was found that almost all of the oil was eliminated in 20 min. if the oil was pure. Elimination efficiency was highly dependent on operational conditions of the process. The highest efficiency was obtained when treated at 300 W with oxygen plasma mixed with 30% argon applying negative potential more than -500 V on the aluminium surfaces. However, efficiency higher that 60% cannot be obtained at any condition if the oil contained inorganic materials.
Lin Gui, Bo Liu, Wenfeng Ma & Bowei Song 2008, 'A Novel Method of Frequency-Offset Estimation Using Time Domain PN Sequences in OFDM Systems', IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 140-145.
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Lin, CT & Siana, L 2008, 'An efficient human detection system using adaptive neural fuzzy networks', International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 150-160.
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The proposed efficient human detection system is based on an adaptive neural fuzzy network (ANFN). In the preprocessing process, we apply a background subtraction algorithm with Gaussian mixture model (GMM) background model to extract moving objects, and adopt a shadow elimination process to eliminate some noise and irregular moving objects. The modified independent component analysis (mICA) based conditional entropy is presented to extract and select the efficient features (independent components). Furthermore, we use an adaptive neural fuzzy network as a human detection system to recognize human objects. The ANFN model uses a functional link neural network (FLNN) to create the consequent part of the fuzzy rules. The orthogonal polynomial is applied as a functional expansion of the FLNN. The learning process of ANFN consists of structure learning and parameter learning. The structure learning depends on the entropy measure to determine the number of fuzzy rules. The parameter learning, based on the back propagation method, is used to adjust the membership function and corresponding weights of the FLNN. Finally, the proposed human detection system is applied in various circumstances. The results of this study demonstrate the accuracy of the proposed method. © 2008 TFSA.
Lin, C-T, Chen, Y-C, Huang, T-Y, Chiu, T-T, Ko, L-W, Liang, S-F, Hsieh, H-Y, Hsu, S-H & Duann, J-R 2008, 'Development of Wireless Brain Computer Interface With Embedded Multitask Scheduling and its Application on Real-Time Driver's Drowsiness Detection and Warning', IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 1582-1591.
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Lin, C-T, Lin, K-L, Ko, L-W, Liang, S-F, Kuo, B-C & Chung, I-F 2008, 'Nonparametric Single-Trial EEG Feature Extraction and Classification of Driver's Cognitive Responses', EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2008, no. 1.
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Lin, CT, Yang, CT & Su, MT 2008, 'A hybridization of immune algorithm with particle swarm optimization for neuro-fuzzy classifiers', International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 139-149.
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In order to enhance the immune algorithm (IA) performance and find the optimal solution when dealing with difficult problems, we propose an efficient immune-based particle swarm optimization (IPSO) for neuro-fuzzy classifiers to solve the skin color detection problem. The proposed IPSO combines the immune algorithm (IA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) to perform parameter learning. The IA uses the clonal selection principle, such that antibodies between others of high similar degree are affected, and these antibodies, after the process, will have higher quality, accelerating the search and increasing the global search capacity. The PSO algorithm has proved to be very effective for solving global optimization. It is not only a recently invented high-performance optimizer that is easy to understand and implement, but it also requires little computational bookkeeping and generally only a few lines of code. Hence, we employed the advantages of PSO to improve the mutation mechanism of the immune algorithm. Simulations have shown the performance and applicability of the proposed method. © 2008 TFSA.
Lin, L & Cao, L 2008, 'Mining in-depth patterns in stock market', International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, vol. 4, no. 3/4, pp. 225-225.
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Stock trading plays an important role for supporting profitable stock investment. In particular, more and more data mining-based technical trading rules have been developed and used in stock trading systems to assist investors with their smart trading decisions. However, many mined trading rules are of no interest to traders and brokers because they are discovered based on statistical significance without checking traders' interestingness concerns. To this end, this paper proposes in-depth data mining technologies to overcome the disadvantages of current data mining methods. We implement a decision support in-depth trading pattern discovery system with Robust Genetic Algorithms (RGA). The system integrates expert knowledge and considers domain constraints into the trading rule development. We further utilise this technique to mine actionable stock-rule pairs targeting behaviour with high return at low risk. The proposed approaches are tested in real stock orderbook data with varying investment strategies.
Lin, W, Fu, Q, Zhang, Y & Huang, J 2008, 'One-Pot Synthesis of ABC Type Triblock Copolymers via a Combination of “Click Chemistry” and Atom Transfer Nitroxide Radical Coupling Chemistry', Macromolecules, vol. 41, no. 12, pp. 4127-4135.
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Ling, DSF, Yang, L, Afroz, S & Hsieh, C 2008, 'The Brain Tourniquet: Physiological Isolation of Brain Regions Damaged by Traumatic Head Injury'.
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Ling, SH, Iu, HHC, Chan, KY, Lam, HK, Yeung, BCW & Leung, FH 2008, 'Hybrid particle swarm optimization with wavelet mutation and its industrial applications', IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS MAN AND CYBERNETICS PART B-CYBERNETICS, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 743-763.
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A new hybrid particle swarm optimization (PSO) that incorporates a wavelet-theory-based mutation operation is proposed. It applies the wavelet theory to enhance the PSO in exploring the solution space more effectively for a better solution. A suite or benchmark test functions and three industrial applications (solving the load flow problems, modeling the development of fluid dispensing for electronic packaging, and designing a neural-network-based controller) are employed to evaluate the performance and the applicability of the proposed method. Experimental results empirically show that the proposed method significantly outperforms the existing methods in terms of convergence speed, solution quality, and solution stability.
Ling, SH, Iu, HHC, Leung, FHF & Chan, KY 2008, 'Improved hybrid particle swarm optimized wavelet neural network for Modeling the development of Fluid Dispensing for Electronic Packaging', IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS, vol. 55, no. 9, pp. 3447-3460.
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An improved hybrid particle swarm optimization (PSO)-based wavelet neural network (WNN) for Modeling the development of Fluid Dispensing for Electronic Packaging (MFD-EP) is presented in this paper. In modeling the fluid dispensing process, it is important to understand the process behavior as well as determine the optimum operating conditions of the process for a high-yield, low-cost, and robust operation. Modeling the fluid dispensing process is a complex nonlinear problem. This kind of problem is suitable to be solved by applying a neural network. Among the different kinds of neural networks, the WNN is a good choice to solve the problem. In the proposed WNN, the translation parameters are variables depending on the network inputs. Due to the variable translation parameters, the network becomes an adaptive one that provides better performance and increased learning ability than conventional WNNs. An improved hybrid PSO is applied to train the parameters of the proposed WNN. The proposed hybrid PSO incorporates a wavelet-theory-based mutation operation. It applies the wavelet theory to enhance the PSO in more effectively exploring the solution space to reach a better solution. A case study of MFD-EP is employed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Lister, R 2008, 'Computer Science Education', Computer Science Education, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 65-66.
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Lister, R 2008, 'CS research', ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 16-18.
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If our human bodies are a reflection of what we eat, then the collective body of an academic community is a reflection of what its members cite. To better understand the Computing Education Research Community, I recently counted the conferences, journals and books cited in the 43 papers comprising the first three International Computing Education Research Workshops (i.e. ICERs 2007-2007).
These 43 ICER papers contained 1130 citations, which is a remarkable average of 26 citations per publication. Almost one third (32%) of the citations were to conferences, while 38% of citations were to journals, and 21% to books and book chapters.
Lister, R 2008, 'The originality glut', ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 14-15.
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Originality is over-rated in computing education research. We have a world-wide glut of originality.
Lister, R & Box, I 2008, 'A citation analysis of the sigcse 2007 proceedings', ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 476-480.
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This paper identifies the most commonly cited conferences, journals and books among the 1398 citations made in the 122 publications of the SIGCSE 2007 proceedings. The SIGCSE 2007 authors cited a very large array of conferences, journals and books, but the majority are only cited within a single paper. There are only a very small set of journals and conferences cited frequently. Most books cited are concerned with technical information or are textbooks. Only 2% of books are concerned with computer science education and 23% with education in general. The picture that emerges from this citation analysis is that the SIGCSE community does not have a substantial core set of educational literature. Also, the epistemology of the SIGCSE community is primarily objectivist, with a focus on content, rather than a constructivist, student-centered focus on learning.
Liu, A, Wu, C & Schisterman, EF 2008, 'Nonparametric sequential evaluation of diagnostic biomarkers', Statistics in Medicine, vol. 27, no. 10, pp. 1667-1678.
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We consider evaluation and comparison of the diagnostic accuracy of biomarkers with continuous test outcomes, possibly correlated due to repeated measurements. We develop nonparametric group sequential testing procedures to evaluate and compare the area of biomarkers under their receiver operating characteristic curves, with either independent or paired test outcomes. These procedures rely on the construction of a two-dimensional statistic of Whitehead (Statist. Med. 1999; 18:2271-2286) so that design methods based on Brownian motion can be applied. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Liu, A, Wu, C & Yu, KF 2008, 'Point and Interval Estimation of Primary and Secondary Parameters in a Two-Stage Adaptive Clinical Trial', Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 211-226.
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Investigated in this paper is the point estimation and confidence intervals of the treatment efficacy parameter and related secondary parameters in a two-stage adaptive trial. Based on the minimal sufficient statistics, several alternative estimators to the sample averages are proposed to reduce the bias and to improve the precision of estimation. Confidence intervals are constructed using Woodroofe's pivot method. Numerical studies are conducted to evaluate the bias and mean squared error of the estimators and the coverage probability of the confidence intervals. Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Liu, B, Gui, L, Zhang, W & Song, B 2008, 'On Channel Estimation Method Using Time Domain Sequences in OFDM Systems', IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 786-791.
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Liu, B, Gui, L, Zhang, W & Xiong, H 2008, 'Frequency Domain Feed-forward Filter Combined DFE Structure in Single Carrier Systems over Time-varying Channels', IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 1569-1575.
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Liu, B, Hao, Z, Lu, J & Zhang, G 2008, 'Supervised feature extraction based on One-against-All scheme', Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems Series B: Applications and Algorithms, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 339-350.
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Support vector machines (SVMs) as being good tools for classification problems has been proposed by Vapnik. This paper proposes a supervised feature extraction method based on One-against-All scheme for the multi-class classification problems. In this approach, after embedding all the classes into one feature space and constructing hyperplanes based on One-against-All scheme, we extract the orientation distance features between the examples and every hyperplanes in the space, and then map the new features into another feature space, finally utilize other algorithms to classify them. In order to examine the performance of the proposed approach, One-against-All, One-against-One and the introduced approach are compared using three UCI data sets. From the results, we reported that after mapping the examples two times, the training accuracy and generalization performance is enhanced more or less. Copyright © 2008 Watam Press.
Liu, G, Li, J & Wong, L 2008, 'A new concise representation of frequent itemsets using generators and a positive border', KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 35-56.
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A complete set of frequent itemsets can get undesirably large due to redundancy when the minimum support threshold is low or when the database is dense. Several concise representations have been previously proposed to eliminate the redundancy. Generator
Liu, G, Li, J & Wong, L 2008, 'Assessing and predicting protein interactions using both local and global network topological metrics.', Genome Inform, vol. 21, pp. 138-149.
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High-throughput protein interaction data, with ever-increasing volume, are becoming the foundation of many biological discoveries. However, high-throughput protein interaction data are often associated with high false positive and false negative rates. It is desirable to develop scalable methods to identify these errors. In this paper, we develop a computational method to identify spurious interactions and missing interactions from high-throughput protein interaction data. Our method uses both local and global topological information of protein pairs, and it assigns a local interacting score and a global interacting score to every protein pair. The local interacting score is calculated based on the common neighbors of the protein pairs. The global interacting score is computed using globally interacting protein group pairs. The two scores are then combined to obtain a final score called LGTweight to indicate the interacting possibility of two proteins. We tested our method on the DIP yeast interaction dataset. The experimental results show that the interactions ranked top by our method have higher functional homogeneity and localization coherence than existing methods, and our method also achieves higher sensitivity and precision under 5-fold cross validation than existing methods.
Liu, Q, Loganathan, P, Hedley, MJ & Grace, LJ 2008, 'Effect of mycorrhizal inoculation on rhizosphere properties, phosphorus uptake and growth of pine seedlings treated with and without a phosphate rock fertilizer', JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 137-156.
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A pot trial was carried out for 10 months to investigate the effects of ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungal infection and phosphorus (P) fertilization on the growth of newly germinated Pinus radiata D. Don seedling, P uptake by the seedlings and rhizosphere properties. The experiment consisted of two phosphate rock (PR)-P application rates [0 and 100 mg P kg- 1 soil supplied as Ben Guire PR (BGPR)] and 5 soil treatments (autoclaved soil, fungicide-treated soil, untreated natural soil, and Rhizopogon rubescens Tul. and Suillus luteus (L. ex. Fr.) S. F. Gray inoculated soils). The results showed that the treatment effects were more striking in P-fertilized treatments. In P-fertilized soils, all the non-autoclaved treatments significantly increased seedling growth and P concentration and P uptake in plant tissues compared with the autoclaved treatment. The ECM inoculation produced greater phosphatase activities, higher oxalate concentration, and more plant-available P (soil solution P and resin extractable P) in the rhizosphere soils than in the bulk soils in P-fertilized soil. Compared with S. luteus, R. rubescens inoculation resulted in greater ECM tip density in seedling roots in P-fertilized treatments, indicating that R. rubescens are more susceptible to infection of radiata seedling roots. Approximately 57-69% of the BGPR added to the soil had been dissolved in 10 months after application and BGPR significantly increased seedling height, ECM root tip density, and P concentration in shoots in both autoclaved and non-autoclaved treatments. Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Liu, S-Y, Chen, Y-P, Fang, F, Li, S-H, Ni, B-J, Liu, G, Tian, Y-C, Xiong, Y & Yu, H-Q 2008, 'Innovative Solid-State Microelectrode for Nitrite Determination in a Nitrifying Granule', Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 42, no. 12, pp. 4467-4471.
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Loganathan, P, Hedley, MJ & Grace, ND 2008, 'Pasture soils contaminated with fertilizer-derived cadmium and fluorine: Livestock effects', REVIEWS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND TOXICOLOGY, VOL 192, vol. 192, pp. 29-66.
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Pasture-based livestock production is a major system of agriculture in many parts of the world. Approximately one-fifth of the world's land area is used for livestock production, twice the area used for growing crops. Grazing livestock occupy approximately 3.5 billion ha of permanent pasture (FAO Statistics 2006). In the more intensively stocked pastures, pasture production has been increased through introduction of improved pasture species and regular application of fertilizers. In ryegrass and clover-based pastures, common in temperate climates, the main nutrients applied in fertilizers have been phosphorus (P) and sulfur (S). Nitrogen, sulfur, and potassium fertilizers are relatively free of contaminants, but P fertilizers, e.g., single and triple superphosphate (SSP, TSP), and diammonium phosphate (DAP) often contain many contaminants derived from the phosphate rocks (PR) used in their manufacture. If not managed appropriately, these fertilizer contaminants may cause adverse effects on livestock health, food quality, and environment. © 2008 Springer.
López-Mariscal, C, Burnham, D, Rudd, D, McGloin, D & Gutiérrez-Vega, JC 2008, 'Phase dynamics of continuous topological upconversion in vortex beams', Optics Express, vol. 16, no. 15, pp. 11411-11411.
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Lu, DDC 2008, 'Synthesis of Single Phase DC/AC Inverters', Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 75-84.
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Many authors have identified the need to improve the definitions of non-active power under non-sinusoidal conditions. It has also been stated the need for a generalised power theory to provide a simultaneous common base for measurement, compensation, power quality and identification of sources of distortion. A solution is to decompose, as accurately as possible, the total instantaneous power into active and non-active components based on the power system properties. To enable this, the load model must closely represent the actual. This paper presents a new instantaneous power theory that achieves this for the single-phase system. This theory is based on both voltage and current harmonic components. With good knowledge of the time profile of active/non-active power components, an accurate time-domain measurement of the non-active power is achieved. This non-active component can be utilised to achieve optimal compensation, as well as gauge power quality. The theory is evaluated for linear and non-linear loads in the presence of harmonics using case studies. The case studies use single-phase resistive and inductive loads with diodes to create non-linear load as necessary. Evaluations of the results demonstrate good performance of the proposed theory. © Institution of Engineers Australia, 2008.
LU, DD-C 2008, 'ON CONTROL OF INTERMEDIATE CAPACITOR VOLTAGE IN SINGLE-STAGE AC/DC PFC CONVERTER', Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, vol. 17, no. 01, pp. 95-105.
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To reduce the intermediate storage capacitor voltage stress in single-stage power-factor-corrected (S2PFC) converters due to the change of load, some effective approaches such as variable frequency control and negative bus voltage feedback have been proposed. However, this intermediate capacitor voltage still varies largely against the change of line voltage. This paper proposes a S2PFC converter which is constructed in a way such that the amount of energy to and from the intermediate storage capacitor can be varied when the line voltage is changed, hence narrowed the range of intermediate capacitor voltage fluctuation. This is achieved by an auxiliary bidirectional switch, which operates at zero-voltage-switching (ZVS) condition. A dual-loop voltage mode control is proposed for the converter to achieve power factor correction, output voltage regulation, and intermediate capacitor voltage control simultaneously. Simulation and experimental results show that the proposed approach is effective.
Lu, DDC, Hill, JW & Chan, RYW 2008, 'Single-switch dual output flyback DC/DC converter with time multiplexing control', International Journal of Power Electronics, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 101-101.
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Controlling two outputs with a single controlling switch in the power converter presents difficulties when two contrasting actions are required to raise one output and decrease the other. This paper studies the application of time multiplexing control (TMC) technique on power converters, with particular interest on single-switch multiple-output converters. Each output has its own feedback control circuit but these discrete feedback control loops are intermittently switched to regulate the duration of the ‘on period’ and ‘off period’ of the power switches. The inclusion of multiplexing logic to incorporate multiple controllers will improve the regulation of the auxiliary outputs and the main output within the tolerances required for electronic equipment. The output errors can be distributed between the outputs according to the time sharing factor of the time multiplexing logic controller. Simulation and experimental results on a single-switch dual-output flyback converter with and without TMC are reported to verify the error sharing capability of the proposed method. This control approach suggests a possible solution in improving the overall performance of the power supply in terms of output voltage regulation. © 2008 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
Lu, DD-C, Iu, HH-C & Pjevalica, V 2008, 'A Single-Stage AC/DC Converter With High Power Factor, Regulated Bus Voltage, and Output Voltage', IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 218-228.
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Lu, J, Liu, B, Zhang, G, Hao, Z & Xiao, Y 2008, 'A situation assessment approach using support vector machines as a learning tool', International Journal of Nuclear Knowledge Management, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 82-82.
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In order to assess a situation and support decision makers' awareness for the situation, this study first proposes a situation assessment model with mathematical description. It then develops a Support Vector Machine based assessment approach, which has the ability to learn the rules from the previous assessment results and generate necessary warnings for a situation. Finally, a set of experiments is conducted to illustrate and validate the proposed approach.
Lu, J, Yang, X & Zhang, G 2008, 'Support vector machine-based multi-source multi-attribute information integration for situation assessment', EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 1333-1340.
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Understanding any given situation requires integrating many pieces of information. Such information has in most cases multiple attributes and is obtained from multiple data sources within multiple time slots. Situation assessors' experience and preference will naturally influence the result of information integration, and hence influence the awareness generated for a situation. This study focuses on how multi-source multi-attribute information about a situation is integrated and how the awareness information for the situation is derived. A learning-based information integration approach, which embeds the fuzzy least squares support vector machine (FLS-SVM) technique, is developed in this study. This approach can assess a situation through integrating and inference obtained information and analyzing related data sources. A series of experiments show that the proposed approach has an accuracy learning ability from assessors' experience in the information integration for generating awareness for a situation.
Lu, J, Zhang, G & Dillon, T 2008, 'Fuzzy multi-objective bilevel decision making by an approximation Kth-best approach', JOURNAL OF MULTIPLE-VALUED LOGIC AND SOFT COMPUTING, vol. 14, no. 3-5, pp. 205-232.
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Many industrial decisions problems are decentralized in which decision makers are arranged at two levels, called bilevel decision problems. Bilevel decision making may involve uncertain parameters which appear either in the objective functions or constraints of the leader or the follower or both. Furthermore, the leader and the follower may have multiple conflict decision objectives that should be optimized simultaneously. This study proposes an approximation Kth-best approach to solve the fuzzy multi-objective bilevel problem. Two case based examples further illustrate how to use the approach to solve industrial decision problems.
Lu, J, Zhang, G & Ruan, D 2008, 'Intelligent multi-criteria fuzzy group decision-making for situation assessments', SOFT COMPUTING, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 289-299.
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Organizational decisions and situation assessment are often made in groups, and decision and assessment processes involve various uncertain factors. To increase efficiently group decision-making, this study presents a new rationalpolitical model as a systematic means of supporting group decision-making in an uncertain environment. The model takes advantage of both rational and political models and can handle inconsistent assessment, incomplete information and inaccurate opinions in deriving the best solution for the group decision under a sequential framework. The model particularly identifies three uncertain factors involved in a group decision-making process: decision makers roles, preferences for alternatives, and judgments for assessment-criteria. Based on this model, an intelligent multi-criteria fuzzy group decision-making method is proposed to deal with the three uncertain factors described by linguistic terms. The proposed method uses general fuzzy numbers and aggregates these factors into a group satisfactory decision that is in a most acceptable degree of the group. Inference rules are particularly introduced into the method for checking the consistence of individual preferences. Finally, a real case-study on a business situation assessment is illustrated by the proposed method.
Lu, J, Zhang, G & Wu, F 2008, 'TEAM SITUATION AWARENESS USING WEB-BASED FUZZY GROUP DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 50-59.
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Situation awareness (SA) is an important element to support responses and decision making to crisis problems. Decision making for a complex situation often needs a team to work cooperatively to get consensus awareness for the situation. Team SA is characterized including information sharing, opinion integration and consensus SA generation. In the meantime, various uncertainties are involved in team SA during information collection and awareness generation. Also, the collaboration between team members may be across distances and need web-based technology to facilitate. This paper presents a web-based fuzzy group decision support system (WFGDSS) and demonstrates how this system can provide a means of support for generating team SA in a distributed team work context with the ability of handling uncertain information.
Lu, J, Zhang, G & Wu, F 2008, 'Team Situation Awareness using Web-Based Fuzzy Group Decision Support Systems', International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 50-59.
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Situation awareness (SA) is an important element to support responses and decision making to crisis problems. Decision making for a complex situation often needs a team to work cooperatively to get consensus awareness for the situation. Team SA is characterized including information sharing, opinion integration and consensus SA generation. In the meantime, various uncertainties are involved in team SA during information collection and awareness generation. Also, the collaboration between team members may be across distances and need web-based technology to facilitate. This paper presents a web-based fuzzy group decision support system (WFGDSS) and demonstrates how this system can provide a means of support for generating team SA in a distributed team work context with the ability of handling uncertain information. © 2008 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Lui, H-S & Shuley, NVZ 2008, 'Sampling Procedures for Resonance Based Radar Target Identification', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 56, no. 5, pp. 1487-1491.
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Luo, J, Luo, Z, Chen, L, Tong, L & Wang, MY 2008, 'A semi-implicit level set method for structural shape and topology optimization', Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 227, no. 11, pp. 5561-5581.
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This paper proposes a new level set method for structural shape and topology optimization using a semi-implicit scheme. Structural boundary is represented implicitly as the zero level set of a higher-dimensional scalar function and an appropriate time-ma
Luo, J, Luo, Z, Chen, S, Tong, L & Wang, MY 2008, 'A new level set method for systematic design of hinge-free compliant mechanisms', Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, vol. 198, no. 2, pp. 318-331.
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This paper presents a new level set-based method to realize shape and topology optimization of hinge-free compliant mechanisms. A quadratic energy functional used in image processing applications is introduced in the level set method to control the geome
Luo, Q & Tong, L 2008, 'Analytical solutions for adhesive composite joints considering large deflection and transverse shear deformation in adherends', International Journal of Solids and Structures, vol. 45, no. 22-23, pp. 5914-5935.
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Luo, Z & Tong, L 2008, 'A level set method for shape and topology optimization of large-displacement compliant mechanisms', International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, vol. 76, no. 6, pp. 862-892.
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A parameterization level set method is presented for structural shape and topology optimization of compliant mechanisms involving large displacements. A level set model is established mathematically as the Hamilton-Jacobi equation to capture the motion o
Luo, Z, Tong, L & Wang, MY 2008, 'Design of distributed compliant micromechanisms with an implicit free boundary representation', Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 607-621.
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In this paper, a parameterization approach is presented for structural shape and topology optimization of compliant mechanisms using a moving boundary representation. A level set model is developed to implicitly describe the structural boundary by embedd
Luo, Z, Wang, MY, Wang, S & Wei, P 2008, 'A level set-based parameterization method for structural shape and topology optimization', International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, vol. 76, no. 1, pp. 1-26.
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This paper presents an effective parametric approach by extending the conventional level set method to structural shape and topology optimization using the compactly Supported radial basis functions (RBFs) and the optimality criteria (OC) method. The structural design boundary is first represented implicitly by embedding into a higher-dimensional level set function as its zero level set, and the RBFs of a favorable are then applied to interpolate the level set function. The original initial Value problem is thus converted to a parametric optimization, with the expansion coefficients of the interplant posed as the design variables. The OC method is then applied to advance the structure boundary in terms of the velocity field derived from the parametric optimization. Hence, the structural shape and topology optimization is now transformed into a process of iteratively finding coefficients to update the level set function to achieve an optimal configuration. The numerical considerations of the conventional level set method, including upwind schemes, velocity extension, and reinitialization, are eliminated. The proposed scheme is capable of addressing structural shape fidelity and topology change Simultaneously and of keeping the boundary smooth during the optimization process. Furthermore, numerical convergence is expected to be improved. A widely investigated example, in the framework of structural stiffness designs, is applied to demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed approach
Mao, Y, Qiu, J, Liu, X, Wang, Z, Wang, S, Zhu, J, Guo, Y, Lin, Z & Jin, J 2008, 'Structural Parameter Optimization of Multilayer Conductors in HTS Cable', Journal of Electronic Science and Technology of China - Zhongguo Dianzi Keji, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 112-118.
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In this paper, the design optimization of the structural parameters of multilayer couductors in high temperature superconducting (HTS) cable is reviewed. Various optimization methods, such as the particle swarm optimizatiou (PSO), the genetic algorithm (GA), and a robust optimization method based on design for six sigma (DFSS), have been applied to realize uniform current distribution among the multilayer HTS condnctors. The continuous and discrete variables, such as the winding angle, radius, and winding direction of each layer, are chosen as the design parameters. Under the constraints of the mechanical properties and critical current, PSO is proven to be a more powerful tool than GA for structural parameter optimization, and DFSS can not only achieve a nniform cnrrent distribution, but also improve significantly the reliability and robustness of the HTS cable quality.
Marasco, SF, Sharwood, LN & Abramson, MJ 2008, 'No improvement in neurocognitive outcomes after off-pump versus on-pump coronary revascularisation: a meta-analysis', European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 961-970.
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Margetts, CDE, Morris, M, Astuti, D, Gentle, DC, Cascon, A, McRonald, FE, Catchpoole, D, Robledo, M, Neumann, HPH, Latif, F & Maher, ER 2008, 'Evaluation of a functional epigenetic approach to identify promoter region methylation in phaeochromocytoma and neuroblastoma', Endocrine Related Cancer, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 777-786.
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The molecular genetics of inherited phaeochromocytoma have received considerable attention, but the somatic genetic and epigenetic events that characterise tumourigenesis in sporadic phaeochromocytomas are less well defined. Previously, we found considerable overlap between patterns of promoter region tumour suppressor gene (TSG) hypermethylation in two neural crest tumours, neuroblastoma and phaeochromocytoma. In order to identify candidate biomarkers; and epigenetically inactivated TSGs in phaeochromocytoma and neuroblastoma, we characterised changes in gene expression in three neuroblastoma cell lines after treatment with the demethylating agent 5-azacytidine. Promoter region methylation status was then determined for 28 genes that demonstrated increased expression after demethylation. Three genes HSP47, homeobox A9 (HOXA9) and opioid binding protein (OPCML) were methylated in > 10% of phaeochromocytomas (52, 17 and 12% respectively). Two of the genes, epithelial membrane protein 3 (EMP3) and HSP47, demonstrated significantly more frequent methylation in neuroblastoma than phaeochromocytoma. These findings extend epigenotype of phaeochromocytoma and identify candidate genes implicated in sporadic phaeochromocytoma tumourigenesis. © 2008 Society for Endocrinology.
McGloin, D 2008, 'Manipulating Aerosols with Light', Imaging & Microscopy, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 50-52.
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McGloin, D, Burnham, DR, Summers, MD, Rudd, D, Dewar, N & Anand, S 2008, 'Optical manipulation of airborne particles: techniques and applications', Faraday Discuss., vol. 137, pp. 335-350.
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McGregor, C, Percival, J, Curry, J, Foster, D, Anstey, E, Churchill, D & IEEE 2008, 'A Structured Approach to Requirements Gathering Creation Using PaJMa Models', 2008 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vols 1-8, pp. 1506-1509.
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Meier, C 2008, 'Endogenous Sex Hormones and Incident Fracture Risk in Older Men<subtitle>The Dubbo Osteoporosis Epidemiology Study</subtitle>', Archives of Internal Medicine, vol. 168, no. 1, pp. 47-47.
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Background: Data on the influence of gonadal hormones on incident fracture risk in elderly men are limited. We prospectively examined the relationship between serum levels of testosterone and estradiol and future fracture risk in community-dwelling men. Methods: A total of 609 men older than 60 years had been observed between January 1989 and December 2005, with the median duration being 5.8 years (up to 13 years). Clinical risk factors, including bone mineral density and lifestyle factors, were assessed at baseline. Serum testosterone and estradiol levels were measured by tandem mass spectrometry. The incidence of a low-trauma fracture was ascertained during follow-up. Results: During follow-up, 113 men had at least 1 low-trauma fracture. The risk of fracture was significantly increased in men with reduced testosterone levels (hazard ratio [HR], 1.33; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.09-1.62). After adjustment for sex hormone-binding globulin, serum testosterone (HR, 1.48; 95% CI, 1.22-1.78) and serum estradiol (HR, 1.21; 95% CI, 1.00-1.47) levels were associated with overall fracture risk. After further adjustment for major risk factors of fractures (age, weight or bone mineral density, fracture history, smoking status, calcium intake, and sex hormone-binding globulin), lower testosterone was still associated with increased risk of fracture, particularly with hip (HR, 1.88; 95% CI, 1.24-2.82) and nonvertebral (HR, 1.32; 95% CI, 1.03-1.68) fractures. Conclusion: in community-dwelling men older than 60 years, serum testosterone is independently associated with the risk of osteoporotic fracture and its measurement may provide additional clinical information for the assessment of fracture risk in elderly men.
Merigó, JM & Gil Lafuente, AM 2008, 'THE GENERALIZED ADEQUACY COEFFICIENT AND ITS APPLICATION IN STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING', FUZZY ECONOMIC REVIEW, vol. 13, no. 02, pp. 17-36.
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The adequacy coefficient is a very useful technique that provides a more complete formulation than the Hamming distance in decision making problems. In this paper, we suggest a generalization by using generalized and quasi-arithmetic means. As a result, we will get the generalized ordered weighted averaging adequacy coe fficient (GOWAAC) and the Quasi- OWAAC operator. These new aggregation operators generalize a wide range of particular cases such as the generalized adequacy coefficient (GAC), the weighted generalized adequacy coefficient (WGAC), the ordered weighted averaging adequacy coefficient (OWAAC), the ordered weighted quadratic averaging adequacy coefficient (OWQAAC), and others. We study different families and properties of these aggregation operators. We also analyze the unification point with distance measures and we find that in these situations, the GOWAAC and the Quasi-OWAAC become the Minkowski ordered weighted averaging distance (MOWAD) operator and the Quasi- OWAD operator, respectively. Finally, we also develop an application of the new approach in a strategic decision making problem about selection of strategies.
Min Liu, Zhongcheng Li, Xiaobing Guo & Dutkiewicz, E 2008, 'Performance Analysis and Optimization of Handoff Algorithms in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks', IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 7, no. 7, pp. 846-857.
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The convergence of heterogeneous wireless access technologies with diverse levels of performance has been envisioned to characterize the next-generation wireless networks. In heterogeneous wireless networks, handoff can be separated into two parts: horizontal handoff (HHO) and vertical handoff (VHO). VHO plays an important role in fulfilling seamless data transfer when mobile nodes cross wireless access networks with different link layer technologies. Current VHO algorithms mainly focus on when to trigger VHO to improve connection QoS but neglect the problem of how one can synthetically consider all currently available networks (homogeneous or heterogeneous) and choose the optimal network for HHO or VHO from all available candidates. In this paper, we present an analytical framework to evaluate VHO algorithms. This framework can be used to provide guidelines for the optimization of handoff in heterogeneous wireless networks. Subsequently, we extend the traditional hysteresis-based and dwelling-timer-based algorithms to support both VHO and HHO decisions and apply them to complex heterogeneous wireless environments. We refer to these enhanced algorithms as E-HY and E-DW, respectively. Based on the proposed analytical model, we provide a formalization definition of the handoff conditions in E-HY and E-DW and analyze their performance. Subsequently, we propose a novel general handoff decision algorithm GHO to trigger HHO and VHO in heterogeneous wireless networks at the appropriate time. Analysis shows that GHO can achieve better performance than E-HY and E-DW. Simulations validate the analytical results and verify that GHO outperforms traditional algorithms in terms of the matching ratio, TCP throughput, and UDP throughput. © 2006 IEEE.
Miro, JV, Taha, T, Wang, D & Dissanayake, G 2008, 'An adaptive manoeuvring strategy for mobile robots in cluttered dynamic environments', International Journal of Automation and Control, vol. 2, no. 2/3, pp. 178-178.
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A novel method which combines an optimised global path planner with a real-time sensor-based collision avoidance mechanism to accommodate for dynamic changes in the environment (e.g., people) is presented. The basic concept is to generate a continually changing parameterised family of virtual force fields for the robot based on characteristics such as location, travelling speed and dimension of the objects in the vicinity, static and dynamic. The interactions among the repulsive forces associated with the various obstacles provide a natural way for local collision avoidance in a partially known cluttered environment. This is harnessed by locally modifying the planned behaviour of the moving platform in real-time, whilst preserving the optimised nature of the global path. Furthermore, path traversability is continually monitored by the global planner to trigger a complete path re-planning from the current location in case of major changes, most notably when the path is completely blocked by obstacles.
Mu, K, Jin, Z & Zowghi, D 2008, 'A Priority-Based Negotiations Approach for Handling Inconsistencies in Multi-Perspective Software Requirements', JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE & COMPLEXITY, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 574-596.
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Inconsistency of multi-perspective requirements specifications is a pervasive issue during the requirements process. However, managing inconsistency is not just a pure technical problem. It is always associated with a process of interactions and competit
Mudhasani, R, Zhu, Z, Hutvagner, G, Eischen, CM, Lyle, S, Hall, LL, Lawrence, JB, Imbalzano, AN & Jones, SN 2008, 'Loss of miRNA biogenesis induces p19Arf-p53 signaling and senescence in primary cells', Journal of Cell Biology, vol. 181, no. 7, pp. 1055-1063.
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Dicer, an enzyme involved in microRNA (miRNA) maturation, is required for proper cell differentiation and embryogenesis in mammals. Recent evidence indicates that Dicer and miRNA may also regulate tumorigenesis. To better characterize the role of miRNA in primary cell growth, we generated Dicer-conditional mice. Ablation of Dicer and loss of mature miRNAs in embryonic fibroblasts up-regulated p19Arf and p53 levels, inhibited cell proliferation, and induced a premature senescence phenotype that was also observed in vivo after Dicer ablation in the developing limb and in adult skin. Furthermore, deletion of the Ink4a/Arf or p53 locus could rescue fibroblasts from premature senescence induced by Dicer ablation. Although levels of Ras and Myc oncoproteins appeared unaltered, loss of Dicer resulted in increased DNA damage and p53 activity in these cells. These results reveal that loss of miRNA biogenesis activates a DNA damage checkpoint, up-regulates p19Arf-p53 signaling, and induces senescence in primary cells.
Musiał, K, Juszczyszyn, K & Kazienko, P 2008, 'Ontology-based recommendation in multimedia sharing systems', Systems Science, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 97-106.
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In this paper, a new framework for recommendation of multimedia objects in the environment of the multimedia sharing system has been proposed. It uses two kinds of individual ontologies, one is created for multimedia objects and the second one for system users. The final recommendation process takes into account similarities calculated both between objects' and users' ontologies. These individual ontologies respect all the social and semantic features existing in the system. The entire recommender framework was developed for the use in Flickr, a typical photo sharing system.
Nasimuddin, Chen, ZN & Esselle, KP 2008, 'Wideband circularly polarized microstrip antenna array using a new single feed network', Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 50, no. 7, pp. 1784-1789.
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Nasimuddin, Esselle, KP & Verma, AK 2008, 'Wideband High-Gain Circularly Polarized Stacked Microstrip Antennas With an Optimized C-Type Feed and a Short Horn', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 578-581.
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Nataatmadja, I & Dyson, LE 2008, 'The Role of Podcasts in Students' Learning', International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 17-21.
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Podcasts have been employed extensively in some countries and are now being trialed at a number of universities in Australia. They allow ubiquitous learning whereby students can access a variety of educational material anywhere, anytime on iPods, MP3 players or even desktop computers. There remain many questions about the impact of podcasts on students learning. One issue is how podcasts can be used to support high quality, experiential learning rather than merely perpetuating the old transmission model of education. In this paper, we explore the reasons why students either use, or fail to use, podcasts provided for their education. We report on the motivation of students enrolled in a large first-year information systems subject. These varied considerably and show that podcasts are a useful adjunct for providing for the diverse range of learning styles of our students. However, we also conclude that further research is needed into the use of podcasts to promote deeper learning in our students and how podcasts can act as a support tool for other forms of m-learning.
Nazem, M, Sheng, D, Carter, JP & Sloan, SW 2008, 'Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian method for large-strain consolidation problems', International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, vol. 32, no. 9, pp. 1023-1050.
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Nga, JHC, Iu, HHC, Ling, SH & Lam, HK 2008, 'Comparative study of stability in different TCP/RED models', CHAOS SOLITONS & FRACTALS, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 977-987.
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Nghiem, LD & Coleman, PJ 2008, 'NF/RO filtration of the hydrophobic ionogenic compound triclosan: Transport mechanisms and the influence of membrane fouling', Separation and Purification Technology, vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 709-716.
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Nghiem, LD, Espendiller, C & Braun, G 2008, 'Influence of organic and colloidal fouling on the removal of sulphamethoxazole by nanofiltration membranes', Water Science and Technology, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 163-169.
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This study investigated the effects of organic and colloidal fouling on the removal of a representative micropollutant sulphamethoxazole by two commercially available NF membranes. Alginate, bovine serum albumin and colloidal silica were selected as model foulants to simulate hydrophilic and hydrophobic organic fractions, and colloidal matter that are often found in treated effluent and surface water. Membrane fouling was related to the membrane and foulant characteristics and subsequently the separation behaviour of the micropollutant sulphamethoxazole under different solution pH. On the basis of these results, it was confirmed that membrane fouling is strongly dependent on both the foulant and membrane characteristics. The complex relationship among retention mechanisms, fouling mechanisms and the effects of fouling on retention was systematically delineated. Of the three model foulants selected for this study, colloidal fouling resulted in the most significant reduction in retention of sulphamethoxazole as well as inorganic salts, while flux decline as a result of colloidal fouling was quite moderate. Reduction in retention caused by fouling was attributed to a phenomenon known as cake-enhance concentration polarisation, which was a predominant mechanism of colloidal fouling. In addition, the reported results suggested that the effect of fouling on retention is also membrane pore size dependent.
Nghiem, LD, Vogel, D & Khan, S 2008, 'Characterising humic acid fouling of nanofiltration membranes using bisphenol A as a molecular indicator', Water Research, vol. 42, no. 15, pp. 4049-4058.
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Ngo, D, Tuan, H & Nguyen, H 2008, 'Jointly Optimal Signature Sequences and Power Allocation for CDMA Systems', IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 7, no. 11, pp. 4122-4127.
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The problems of designing signature sequences and power allocation policy for code-division multiple access (CDMA) are important and have been the subject of intensive research in recent years. Taking the maximization of the system information-theoretic
Ngo, H-H, Guo, W & Xing, W 2008, 'Evaluation of a novel sponge-submerged membrane bioreactor (SSMBR) for sustainable water reclamation', BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY, vol. 99, no. 7, pp. 2429-2435.
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A novel sponge-submerged membrane bioreactor (SSMBR) to treat a high strength wastewater for water reclamation was developed in this study. The performance of this system was evaluated using two kinds of polyester-urethane sponges (coarse sponge with hig
Nguyen, AD, Ngo, VT, Ha, QP & Dissanayake, G 2008, 'Robotic formation: initialisation, trajectory planning and decentralised control', International Journal of Automation and Control, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 22-22.
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Coordination of a group of mobile robots in desired formations requires an integration of motion planning and control strategies subject to communication bandwidth limitations. An architecture combining virtual structure and leader following techniques is proposed in this paper. The robots are initialised using a new Virtual Robot (VR) tracking and lâl control framework to establish an arbitrary formation without singularities involved and inter-robot collision. Path planning is performed using the modified Aâ search, coupled with a proposed smoothing technique to generate feasible trajectories with mobile robots, dynamic and kinematic constraints taken into account. Safe trajectories are obtained based on the predefined formation configuration and the given workspace, where obstacles are avoided by adjusting robot trajectories or by changing formation of the robots appropriately. To accommodate the restriction in information exchange, a decentralised approach is proposed to implement the global feedback controller for the formation by using linear functional observers. The proposed architecture is tested through simulation and experiments to verify its validity.
Nguyen, HB, Banta, JE, Cho, TW, Van Ginkel, C, Burroughs, K, Wittlake, WA & Corbett, SW 2008, 'MORTALITY PREDICTIONS USING CURRENT PHYSIOLOGIC SCORING SYSTEMS IN PATIENTS MEETING CRITERIA FOR EARLY GOAL-DIRECTED THERAPY AND THE SEVERE SEPSIS RESUSCITATION BUNDLE', Shock, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 23-28.
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Physiologic scoring systems are often used to prognosticate mortality in critically ill patients. This study examined the performance of Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II, Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS) II, Mortality in Emergency Department Sepsis (MEDS), and Mortality Probability Models (MPM) II 0 in predicting in-hospital mortality of patients in the emergency department meeting criteria for early goal-directed therapy and the severe sepsis resuscitation bundle. The discrimination and calibration characteristics of APACHE II, SAPS II, MEDS, and MPM II 0 were evaluated. Data are presented as median and quartiles (25th, 75th). Two-hundred forty-six patients aged 68 (52, 81) years were analyzed from a prospectively maintained sepsis registry, with 76.0% of patients in septic shock, 45.5% blood culture positive, and 35.0% in-hospital mortality. Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II, SAPS II, and MEDS scores were 29 (21, 37), 54 (40, 70), and 13 (11, 16), with predicted mortalities of 64% (40%, 85%), 58% (25%, 84%), and 16% (9%, 39%), respectively. Mortality Probability Models II 0 showed a predicted mortality of 60% (27%, 80%). The area under the receiver operating characteristic curves was 0.73 for APACHE II, 0.71 for SAPS II, 0.60 for MEDS, and 0.72 for MPM II 0. The standardized mortality ratios were 0.59, 0.63, 1.68, and 0.64, respectively. Thus, APACHE II, SAPS II, MEDS, and MPM II 0 have variable abilities to discriminate early and estimate in-hospital mortality of patients presenting to the emergency department requiring the severe sepsis resuscitation bundle. Adoption of these prognostication tools in this setting may influence therapy and resource use for these patients. Copyright © 2008 by the Shock Society.
Nguyen, HT 2008, 'Intelligent technologies for real-time biomedical engineering applications', International Journal of Automation and Control, vol. 2, no. 2/3, pp. 274-274.
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Intelligent technologies are essential for many biomedical engineering applications in order to cope with a wide variety of patient conditions or user disability. The development of advanced optimisation training algorithms such as adaptive optimal Bayesian neural networks is particularly useful when only limited training data are available. Two specific biomedical engineering applications will be presented. The first application concerns the development of a non-invasive monitor for real-time detection of hypoglycaemic episodes in Type 1 diabetes mellitus patients (T1DM). The second application relates to the development of real-time hands-free wheelchair control systems using head movement to provide mobility independence for severely disabled people.
Nguyen, ND, Frost, SA, Center, JR, Eisman, JA & Nguyen, TV 2008, 'Development of prognostic nomograms for individualizing 5-year and 10-year fracture risks', Osteoporosis International, vol. 19, no. 10, pp. 1431-1444.
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Nguyen, TV, Center, JR & Eisman, JA 2008, 'Pharmacogenetics of osteoporosis and the prospect of individualized prognosis and individualized therapy', Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes & Obesity, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 481-488.
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Purpose of review Description of recent progress in genetics and pharmacogenetics of osteoporosis. Recent findings Osteoporosis and its consequence of fragility fracture are characterized by highly complex phenotypes, which include bone mineral density,
Nguyen, TV, Nelson, AE, Howe, CJ, Seibel, MJ, Baxter, RC, Handelsman, DJ, Kazlauskas, R & Ho, KK 2008, 'Within-Subject Variability and Analytic Imprecision of Insulinlike Growth Factor Axis and Collagen Markers: Implications for Clinical Diagnosis and Doping Tests', Clinical Chemistry, vol. 54, no. 8, pp. 1268-1276.
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AbstractBackground: The utility of insulinlike growth factor (IGF) axis and collagen markers for a growth hormone (GH) doping test in sport depends on their stability and reproducibility. We sought to determine short-term within-subject variability of these markers in a large cohort of healthy individuals.Methods: We measured IGF-I, IGF binding protein 3 (IGFBP-3), acid labile subunit (ALS), and the collagen markers N-terminal propeptide of type I procollagen (PINP), C-terminal telopeptide of type I collagen (ICTP), and N-terminal propeptide of type III procollagen (PIIINP) in serum samples obtained on multiple occasions (median 3 per participant) over a 2- to 3-week period from 1103 elite athletes (699 men, 404 women) ages 22.2 (5.2) years [mean (SD)]. We estimated between-subject and within-subject variances by mixed–effects ANOVA.Results: Within-subject variance accounted for 32% to 36% and 4% to 13% of the total variance in IGF markers and collagen markers, respectively. The within-subject CV ranged from 11% to 21% for the IGF axis markers and from 13% to 15% for the collagen markers. The index of individuality for the IGF axis markers was 0.66–0.76, and for the collagen markers, 0.26–0.45. For each marker, individuals with initial extreme measured values tended to regress toward the population mean in subsequent repeated measurements. We developed a Bayesian model to estimate the long-term probable value for each marker.Conclusions: These results indicate that in healthy individuals the within-subject variability was greater for IGF-I than for the collagen markers, and that where a single measurement is available, it is possible to estimate the long-term probable value of each of the markers by applying the Bayesian approach. Such an application can increase the reliability and decrease the cost of detecting GH doping.
Nguyen, TV, Vigneswaran, S, Ngo, HH, Kandasamy, J & Choi, HC 2008, 'Arsenic removal by photo-catalysis hybrid system', SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 44-50.
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Arsenic is a toxic semi-metallic element that can be fatal to human health. Arsenic pollution in water is found in many parts of the world, especially in developing countries such as Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Vietnam. Photo-oxidation experiments with titanium dioxide (TiO2) as photo-catalyst showed that photo-oxidation of As(III) to As(V) is possible within minutes. Further, TiO2 can also adsorb both As(III) and As(V) on its surface. Photo-catalysis reaction with TiO2 reduced about 98% of arsenite from water containing 500 ?g/L of arsenite. By adding nano-scale zero valent iron (nZVI) of 0.05 g/L in the photo-reactor, arsenic removal can be significantly enhanced. Further the TiO2 requirement is five times less in this photo-catalysis nZVI hybrid system. The photo-catalytic degradation processes was modeled using the first-order, second-order and LangmuirHinshelwood kinetics equations and removal rates were simulated.
Ni, B-J & Yu, H-Q 2008, 'An approach for modeling two-step denitrification in activated sludge systems', Chemical Engineering Science, vol. 63, no. 6, pp. 1449-1459.
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Ni, B-J & Yu, H-Q 2008, 'Characterization of the granules in an ANAMMOX reactor after accelerated startup', Journal of Biotechnology, vol. 136, pp. S651-S651.
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Ni, B-J & Yu, H-Q 2008, 'Growth and storage processes in aerobic granules grown on soybean wastewater', Biotechnology and Bioengineering, vol. 100, no. 4, pp. 664-672.
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Ni, B-J & Yu, H-Q 2008, 'Kinetic modeling microbial storage process in activated sludge under anoxic conditions', Chemical Engineering Science, vol. 63, no. 10, pp. 2785-2792.
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Ni, B-J & Yu, H-Q 2008, 'Simulation of heterotrophic storage and growth processes in activated sludge under aerobic conditions', Chemical Engineering Journal, vol. 140, no. 1-3, pp. 101-109.
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Ni, B-J & Yu, H-Q 2008, 'Storage and growth of denitrifiers in aerobic granules: Part I. model development', Biotechnology and Bioengineering, vol. 99, no. 2, pp. 314-323.
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Ni, B-J, Fang, F, Xie, W-M & Yu, H-Q 2008, 'Growth, maintenance and product formation of autotrophs in activated sludge: Taking the nitrite-oxidizing bacteria as an example', Water Research, vol. 42, no. 16, pp. 4261-4270.
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Ni, B-J, Yu, H-Q & Sun, Y-J 2008, 'Modeling simultaneous autotrophic and heterotrophic growth in aerobic granules', Water Research, vol. 42, no. 6-7, pp. 1583-1594.
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Ni, B-J, Yu, H-Q & Xie, W-M 2008, 'Storage and growth of denitrifiers in aerobic granules: Part II. model calibration and verification', Biotechnology and Bioengineering, vol. 99, no. 2, pp. 324-332.
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Ni, J, Luo, D, Ou, Y & Luo, C 2008, 'Agent-based evolutionary optimisation of trading strategies', International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 25-25.
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The backtesting and optimisation of trading strategies has emerged as an interesting research and experimental problem in both finance and Information Technology (IT) fields. However, it is a non-trivial task to effectively and efficiently optimise trading strategies, not to mention the optimisation in the real-world situations. This paper discusses the application of evolutionary technologies (genetic algorithm in particular) to the optimisation of trading strategies. Experimental results show that this approach is promising. Due to the complexity involved in the optimisation process, we further present an agent-based system that can help users easily specify and execute optimisation jobs to their advantages. Copyright © 2008, Inderscience Publishers.
Nimbalkar, S & Choudhury, D 2008, 'Seismic design of retaining wall by considering wall-soil inertia for active case', International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 319-328.
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Effect of both the wall and soil inertia must be considered for the design of retaining wall under seismic conditions. In this paper, by considering pseudo-dynamic seismic forces acting on the soil wedge and the wall, the required weight of the wall under seismic conditions is determined for the design purpose of the retaining wall under active earth pressure condition. The method proposed considers the movement of both shear and primary waves through the backfill and the retaining wall due to seismic excitation. A rigid vertical retaining wall supporting cohesionless backfill with horizontal ground has been considered in the present analysis by considering planar rupture surface. Results in graphical form show the variations of proposed design factors viz. soil thrust factor (F ), wall inertia factor (F ) and combined dynamic factor (F ) with respect to horizontal seismic acceleration coefficient (k ), required for the design of the wall under seismic conditions. Also the effects of variation of parameters like soil friction angle, wall friction angle, vertical seismic acceleration, period of lateral shaking and amplification factor on combined dynamic factor have been studied. A comparative study between the present theory and available pseudo-static results has shown the merits of the present analysis. T I w h
NIMBALKAR, SS & CHOUDHURY, D 2008, 'EFFECTS OF BODY WAVES AND SOIL AMPLIFICATION ON SEISMIC EARTH PRESSURES', Journal of Earthquake and Tsunami, vol. 02, no. 01, pp. 33-52.
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To design a retaining wall, conventional Mononobe–Okabe method, which is based on the pseudo-static approach and gives the linear distribution of seismic earth pressures in an approximate way, is used to compute the seismic earth pressures. In this paper, pseudo-dynamic approach is used to compute the seismic earth pressures on a rigid retaining wall by considering the effects of time, phase difference in shear and primary waves and soil amplification along with the horizontal and vertical seismic accelerations and other soil properties. Design value of the seismic active earth pressure coefficient is found to increase with increase in the seismic accelerations, phase difference in body waves and soil amplification, whereas the reverse trend is observed for the passive case. Influence of various soil parameters on seismic passive earth pressure is more significant than that for the active case under harmonic seismic loading. Results are provided in the combined tabular and graphical non-dimensional form for both the seismic active and passive earth pressures. Present results are compared with the available results in literature to validate the proposed non-linearity of seismic earth pressure distribution.
Novak, A, Taylor, P & Veitch, D 2008, 'Corrigendum to “The distribution of the number of arrivals in a subinterval of a busy period of a single server queue”', Queueing Systems, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 87-93.
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O’Reilly, L, Bennett, NS, McNally, PJ, Sealy, BJ, Cowern, NEB, Lankinen, A & Tuomi, TO 2008, 'Raman scattering studies of ultrashallow Sb implants in strained Si', Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 305-309.
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O’Reilly, L, Horan, K, McNally, PJ, Bennett, NS, Cowern, NEB, Lankinen, A, Sealy, BJ, Gwilliam, RM, Noakes, TCQ & Bailey, P 2008, 'Constraints on micro-Raman strain metrology for highly doped strained Si materials', Applied Physics Letters, vol. 92, no. 23, pp. 233506-233506.
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Oehlers, DJ, Haskett, M, Wu, C & Seracino, R 2008, 'Embedding NSM FRP Plates for Improved IC Debonding Resistance', Journal of Composites for Construction, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 635-642.
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Onishi, A, Thomas, PS, Stuart, BH, Guerbois, JP & Forbes, SL 2008, 'TG-MS analysis of the thermal decomposition of pig bone for forensic applications', JOURNAL OF THERMAL ANALYSIS AND CALORIMETRY, vol. 92, no. 1, pp. 87-90.
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In order to investigate the potential of thermal analysis for the determination of post-mortem age, rib bone specimens were collected from the remains of a number of slaughtered pigs that were allowed to decompose in the Australian bush in a controlled site under a range of conditions for time periods ranging from 1 to 5 years. The bone specimens were cut in cross-section with the compact bone collected for analysis. TG-MS curves were collected by heating bone samples to 1100°C in an argon atmosphere. The TG-MS data showed significant differences for the pig bone specimens derived from the different environments and showed trends in peak size correlating with age. The reported data suggest that TG-MS has significant potential for the identification of origin as well as the ageing of skeletal remains in a forensic context.
Paisitkriangkrai, S, Chunhua Shen & Jian Zhang 2008, 'Fast Pedestrian Detection Using a Cascade of Boosted Covariance Features', IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 1140-1151.
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Efficiently and accurately detecting pedestrians plays a very important role in many computer vision applications such as video surveillance and smart cars. In order to find the right feature for this task, we first present a comprehensive experimental s
Paisitkriangkrai, S, Shen, C & Zhang, J 2008, 'Performance evaluation of local features in human classification and detection', IET Computer Vision, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 236-236.
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Detecting pedestrians accurately is the first fundamental step for many computer vision applications such as video surveillance, smart vehicles, intersection traffic analysis and so on. The authors present an experimental study on pedestrian detection us
Pal, NR, Chuang, C-Y, Ko, L-W, Chao, C-F, Jung, T-P, Liang, S-F & Lin, C-T 2008, 'EEG-Based Subject- and Session-independent Drowsiness Detection: An Unsupervised Approach', EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2008, no. 1.
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Park, MJ & Kim, H 2008, 'Indirect measurement of tensile strength of hollow fiber braid membranes', Desalination, vol. 234, no. 1-3, pp. 107-115.
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Pedroso, DM, Sheng, D & Sloan, SW 2008, 'Stress update algorithm for elastoplastic models with nonconvex yield surfaces', International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, vol. 76, no. 13, pp. 2029-2062.
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Pham, TD, Honghui Wang, Xiaobo Zhou, Dominik Beck, Brandl, M, Hoehn, G, Azok, J, Brennan, M-L, Hazen, SL, Li, K & Wong, STC 2008, 'Computational Prediction Models for Early Detection of Risk of Cardiovascular Events Using Mass Spectrometry Data', IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 636-643.
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Early prediction of the risk of cardiovascular events in patients with chest pain is critical in order to provide appropriate medical care for those with positive diagnosis. This paper introduces a computational methodology for predicting such events in the context of robust computerized classification using mass spectrometry data of blood samples collected from patients in emergency departments. We applied the computational theories of statistical and geostatistical linear prediction models to extract effective features of the mass spectra and a simple decision logic to classify disease and control samples for the purpose of early detection. While the statistical and geostatistical techniques provide better results than those obtained from some other methods, the geostatistical approach yields superior results in terms of sensitivity and specificity in various designs of the data set for validation, training, and testing. The proposed computational strategies are very promising for predicting major adverse cardiac events within six months. © 2008 IEEE.
Phat, VN & Ha, QP 2008, 'New characterization of controllability via stabilizability and Riccati equation for LTV systems', IMA JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL CONTROL AND INFORMATION, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 419-429.
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This paper presents a new characterization of controllability via stabilizability and Riccati equation for linear time-varying systems. An equivalence is given between the global null controllability, complete stabilizability and the existence of the sol
Qin, L, Yu, JX, Ding, B & Ishikawa, Y 2008, 'Monitoring Aggregate k-NN Objects in Road Networks.', SSDBM, vol. 5069, no. 1, pp. 168-186.
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In recent years, there is an increasing need to monitor k nearest neighbor (k-NN) in a road network. There are existing solutions on either monitoring k-NN objects from a single query point over a road network, or computing the snapshot k-NN objects over a road network to minimize an aggregate distance function with respect to multiple query points. In this paper, we study a new problem that is to monitor k-NN objects over a road network from multiple query points to minimize an aggregate distance function with respect to the multiple query points. We call it a continuous aggregate k-NN (CANN) query. We propose a new approach that can significantly reduce the cost of computing network distances when monitoring aggregate k-NN objects on road networks. We conducted extensive experimental studies and confirmed the efficiency of our algorithms.
Quick, GW & Sirivivatnanon, V 2008, 'Predicting iron staining of siderite-bearing microsyenites intended for dimension stone use', CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING MATERIALS, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 257-263.
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Qumer, A & Henderson-Sellers, B 2008, 'A framework to support the evaluation, adoption and improvement of agile methods in practice', JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE, vol. 81, no. 11, pp. 1899-1919.
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Agile methods are often seen as providing ways to avoid overheads typically perceived as being imposed by traditional software development environments. However, few organizations are psychologically or technically able to take on an agile approach rapidly and effectively. Here, we describe a number of approaches to assist in such a transition. The Agile Software Solution Framework (ASSF) provides an overall context for the exploration of agile methods, knowledge and governance and contains an Agile Toolkit for quantifying part of the agile process. These link to the business aspects of software development so that the business value and agile process are well aligned. Finally, we describe how these theories are applied in practice with two industry case studies using the Agile Adoption and Improvement Model (AAIM). © 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Qumer, A & Henderson-Sellers, B 2008, 'An evaluation of the degree of agility in six agile methods and its applicability for method engineering', INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 280-295.
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Rajapakse, JC, Yang Wang, Xuebin Zheng & Juan Zhou 2008, 'Probabilistic Framework for Brain Connectivity From Functional MR Images', IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 825-833.
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Ramírez de Molina, A, Gallego-Ortega, D, Sarmentero-Estrada, J, Lagares, D, Gómez del Pulgar, T, Bandrés, E, García-Foncillas, J & Lacal, JC 2008, 'Choline kinase as a link connecting phospholipid metabolism and cell cycle regulation: Implications in cancer therapy', The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, vol. 40, no. 9, pp. 1753-1763.
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Rankine, BR, Indraratna, B, Sivakugan, N, Wijeyakulasuriya, V & Rujikiatkamjorn, C 2008, 'Foundation behaviour below an embankment on soft soils', Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Geotechnical Engineering, vol. 161, no. 5, pp. 259-267.
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The Sunshine Motorway is one of the major traffic corridors that service the South East region of Queensland, Australia. Initial investigations for the construction of pavements in area 2, stage 2 of the motorway began in late 1990. Large areas of soft, highly compressible organic clays were found to exist over the length of the upgrade. Also, because the topography of the proposed alignment was mostly low lying, earthworks were required over a large portion of the route. Prior to any earthworks for the stage being undertaken, a trial embankment was constructed in the area to provide an understanding of the foundation behaviour and to also ensure the overall success of the project. The finite difference code FLAC was employed to investigate the performance of the full-scale trial embankment, and the underlying soft clay. Predictions of the excess pore pressure and both vertical and lateral displacements are made and compared with field observations.
Raut, AK & Indraratna, B 2008, 'Further Advancement in Filtration Criteria through Constriction-Based Techniques', Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, vol. 134, no. 6, pp. 883-887.
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Rhodes, C, Clegg, SR & Anandakumar, A 2008, 'Ethical Vitality: Identity, Responsibility, and Change in an Australian Hospital', International Journal of Public Administration, vol. 31, no. 9, pp. 1037-1057.
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This article reports and reflects on a narrative ethnographic account of organizational change in a large public hospital in Australia. We describe how the conduct and identity positions of people in the hospital were related to three prevalent discourses; one of authoritarian professionalism, one of collaboration and open disclosure, and one of inspection and retribution. We suggest that the presence of multiple and competing organizational discourses on which to base decisions, highlighted the need for managers to take a personal stake in deciding their own conduct. We propose the notion of ethical vitality as a means of registering the ways that ethical responsibility can only come alive in organizations when people take, and are in a position to take, a reflexive responsibility for their conduct. On this basis, we suggest that the presence of multiple ethical norms and rules in organizations, on a plural model, might actually make people in organizations more rather than less ethically responsible
Richards, L, Brown, C, Stone, MH, Fisher, J, Ingham, E & Tipper, JL 2008, 'Identification of nanometre-sized ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene wear particles in samples retrieved in vivo', The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British volume, vol. 90-B, no. 8, pp. 1106-1113.
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Nanometre-sized particles of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene have been identified in the lubricants retrieved from hip simulators. Tissue samples were taken from seven failed Charnley total hip replacements, digested using strong alkali and analysed using high-resolution field emission gun-scanning electron microscopy to determine whether nanometre-sized particles of polyethylene debris were generated in vivo. A randomised method of analysis was used to quantify and characterise all the polyethylene particles isolated. We isolated nanometre-sized particles from the retrieved tissue samples. The smallest identified was 30 nm and the majority were in the 0.1 μm to 0.99 μm size range. Particles in the 1.0 μm to 9.99 μm size range represented the highest proportion of the wear volume of the tissue samples, with 35% to 98% of the total wear volume comprised of particles of this size. The number of nanometre-sized particles isolated from the tissues accounted for only a small proportion of the total wear volume. Further work is required to assess the biological response to nanometre-sized polyethylene particles.
Ridoux, J & Veitch, D 2008, 'The cost of variability', 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Precision Clock Synchronization for Measurement, Control and Communication, pp. 29-32.
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Ridwan, SD, Thompson, R, Jap, BT, Lal, S & Fischer, P 2008, 'Single Channel Wireless EEG: Proposed Application in Train Drivers', 2008 Third International Conference on Broadband Communications, Information Technology & Biomedical Applications, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 1-10.
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Electroencephalography (EEG) can be used as an indicator of fatigue. Several studies have shown that slow wave brain activities, delta (0-4 Hz) and theta (4- 8 Hz), increase as an individual becomes fatigued, while the fast brain activities, alpha (8-13 Hz) and beta (13-35 Hz), decrease. However, an EEG is a complex piece of equipment that is generally used in laboratory based studies. In order to develop a fatigue countermeasure device for train drivers using EEG, there is a need for a simple and wireless EEG monitor. This paper explains the development of a single channel wireless EEG device
Ritz, CH, Schiemer, G, Burnett, IS, Cheng, E, Lock, D, Narushima, T, Ingham, S & Wood Conroy, D 2008, 'An Anechoic Configurable Hemispheric Environment for Spatialised Sound', Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Music Conference 2008, pp. 65-68.
Rivaie, AA, Loganathan, P, Graham, JD, Tillman, RW & Payn, TW 2008, 'Effect of phosphate rock and triple superphosphate on soil phosphorus fractions and their plant-availability and downward movement in two volcanic ash soils under Pinus radiata plantations in New Zealand', NUTRIENT CYCLING IN AGROECOSYSTEMS, vol. 82, no. 1, pp. 75-88.
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Changes in phosphorus (P) fractions and their plant-availability and downward movement in two strongly P fixing acidic Andosols (Allophanic and Pumice Soils) under Pinus radiata plantations in New Zealand were studied 2 years after triple superphosphate (TSP) and a phosphate rock (BGPR, origin Ben Guerir, Morocco) application, each at four rates, to determine the fate and plant availability of fertilizer-derived P in these soils. The rate of increase of the concentrations of the P fractions was highest for NaOH-Pi (inorganic P associated with Fe and Al oxides and allophane) when TSP was applied and highest for H2SO4-Pi (predominantly calcium phosphates or apatite-type P minerals) when BGPR was applied. The largest pool of soil P, the NaOH-Po (labile organic P), was unaffected by the P fertilizer applications. The rate of NaOH-Pi concentration increase was higher in the higher P fixing Allophanic Soil than in the Pumice Soil. Both types of fertilizers increased resin-Pi (Inorganic P freely available to the plant) and Bray-2 P concentrations but only the TSP application increased Olsen P concentration. Phosphorus derived from TSP and BGPR applications moved down to 10-20 cm soil depth within 2 years of application in the Pumice Soil, but did not move below 10 cm depth in the higher P fixing and less porous Allophanic Soil. The fertilizers significantly increased needle P concentrations 2, 3 and 4 years after fertilizer application, but did not have any significant effect on tree growth. © 2008 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
Rogner, H, Sharma, D & Irej Jalal, A 2008, 'Nuclear power versus fossil‐fuel power with CO2 capture and storage: a comparative analysis', International Journal of Energy Sector Management, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 181-196.
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PurposeIn recognition of the urgency of the global need to reduce CO2 emissions from the electricity sector, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the cost‐effectiveness of nuclear power and fossil‐fuel‐based power with and without the provision of carbon capture and storage in select, yet environmentally‐significant, group of countries – China, India, Russia, Korea, Pakistan, Poland, Argentina, Bulgaria and Romania.Design/methodology/approachThe analyses are based on comparisons of electricity generation costs for nuclear and fossil‐fuel technologies. These costs, expressed in present value terms, are estimated on the basis of life‐cycle costs, employing detailed country‐specific technological and economic data and assumptions.FindingsThe analyses suggest that that the provision of carbon capture and storage is likely to result in a significant increase in the cost of electricity produced from fossil fuels (principally coal) in all countries represented in this paper. Such increase would completely erode the existing cost advantage enjoyed by fossil‐fuel power (in relation to nuclear power) in some countries (Argentina, Bulgaria, China, and India) and considerably enhance the existing cost‐advantage of nuclear power in other countries (Korea, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, and Russia).Originality/valueNotwithstanding these limitations, the findings of this paper contribute appreciably to the emerging knowledge on this topic and provide useful foresight into the likely challenges of developing internationally acceptable policy prescriptions for mitigation CO2 emissions f...
Rudd, D, López-Mariscal, C, Summers, M, Shahvisi, A, Gutiérrez-Vega, JC & McGloin, D 2008, 'Fiber based optical trapping of aerosols', Optics Express, vol. 16, no. 19, pp. 14550-14550.
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Rujikiatkamjorn, C, Indraratna, B & Chu, J 2008, '2D and 3D Numerical Modeling of Combined Surcharge and Vacuum Preloading with Vertical Drains', International Journal of Geomechanics, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 144-156.
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Sabina, L, Kus, B, Shon, H-K & Kandasamy, J 2008, 'Membrane fouling propensity after adsorption as pretreatment in rainwater: a detailed organic characterisation', WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, vol. 58, no. 8, pp. 1535-1539.
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Organic characterisation in rainwater was investigated in terms of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and molecular weight distribution (MWD) after powdered activated carbon (PAC) adsorption. PAC adsorption was used as pretreatment to membrane filtration to
Saidur, R, Masjuki, HH, Hasanuzzaman, M, Mahlia, TMI, Tan, CY, Ooi, JK & Yoon, PH 2008, 'Performance investigation of a solar powered thermoelectric refrigerator', International Journal of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 7-16.
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This paper describes the development stages and performance of a solar powered thermoelectric refrigerator. It is carried out by installing a conventional thermoelectric refrigerator in a stand alone photovoltaic system for household usage. This photovoltaic driven refrigerator is powered by a field of solar panels, a battery bank, a solar charge controller, and an inverter. In this project, the output power of the photovoltaic system and the capability of the battery bank are determined. A compact thermoelectric refrigerator of 22 watts is applied to be investigated in respect to cooling effect produced. To make the device portable, daytime use and nighttime use of the refrigerator are treated in different ways. The effect of door-opening upon the cooling temperature produced by the photovoltaic driven thermoelectric refrigerator is investigated too. In order to efficiently operate this solar powered refrigerator, the sizing of this stand-alone photovoltaic system and the optimum tilt angle of the photovoltaic array must firstly be determined to maximize the electricity generation for matching the load requirement.
Samad, A, Sultana, Y, Khar, RK, Aqil, M, Kalam, MA, Chuttani, K & Mishra, AK 2008, 'Radiolabeling and evaluation of alginate blend-isoniazid microspheres by99mTc for the treatment of tuberculosis in rabbit model', Journal of Drug Targeting, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 509-515.
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Saremi, HQ, Abedin, B & Kermani, AM 2008, 'Website structure improvement: Quadratic assignment problem approach and ant colony meta-heuristic technique', APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION, vol. 195, no. 1, pp. 285-298.
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Sathananthan, I, Indraratna, B & Rujikiatkamjorn, C 2008, 'Evaluation of Smear Zone Extent Surrounding Mandrel Driven Vertical Drains Using the Cavity Expansion Theory', International Journal of Geomechanics, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 355-365.
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Schirmer, SG, Oi, DKL & Devitt, SJ 2008, 'Physics-based mathematical models for quantum devices via experimental system identification', Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 107, pp. 012011-012011.
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Seong, K-W, Ball, JE & Lee, Y-H 2008, 'Application of a regionalized Clark IUH model with limited hydrologic data availability', HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES, vol. 22, no. 18, pp. 3651-3660.
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To aid prediction of the flow hydrograph in a basin with limited data, a practical approach to determining a regionalized Clark instantaneous unit hydrograph (IUH) model is presented. The proposed model is described in terms Of the synthetic time-area concentration curve, the concentration time, and a special regional similarity value that is valid in the whole basin. The latter was estimated from it Monte Carlo testing procedure based on the normal probability distribution of transformed regional Similarity values composed of the time of concentration and the storage coefficient in gauged basins. The time-area concentration Curve and the concentration time were calculated from a rational equation as in conventional methods. The method of transformation adopted was the Box-Cox power transformation. which is known to make non-normal values resemble normal data. By introducing the regional similarity Value into a Clark IUH, a statistically best estimate of IUH for Oven data conditions and its quantified degree Of uncertainty were realized. The Wi River basin in Korea was used to test the applicability of the regionalized Clark IUH. The performance of the suggested methodology was evaluated by assuming an ungauged sub-basin at the site. The results showed that the IUH model developed in this work was in effective tool. predicting a reliable hydrograph within the study area even though only limited data were available. Copyright (C) 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Sheard, J, Carbone, A, Lister, R, Simon, B, Thompson, E & Whalley, JL 2008, 'Going SOLO to assess novice programmers', ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 209-213.
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This paper explores the programming knowledge of novices using Biggs' SOLO taxonomy. It builds on previous work of Lister et al. (2006) and addresses some of the criticisms of that work. The research was conducted by studying the exam scripts for 120 introductory programming students, in which three specific questions were analyzed using the SOLO taxonomy. The study reports the following four findings: when the instruction to students used by Lister et al. - 'In plain English, explain what the following segment of Java code does' - is replaced with a less ambiguous instruction, many students still provide multistructural responses; students are relatively consistent in the SOLO level of their answers; student responses on SOLO reading tasks correlate positively with performance on writing tasks; postgraduates students manifest a higher level of thinking than undergraduates.
Sheng, D, Fredlund, DG & Gens, A 2008, 'A new modelling approach for unsaturated soils using independent stress variables', Canadian Geotechnical Journal, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 511-534.
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Although a number of constitutive models for unsaturated soils exist in the literature, some fundamental questions have not been fully answered. There are questions related to (i) the change of the yield stress with soil suction, (ii) modelling slurry soils, and (iii) the smooth transition between saturated and unsaturated soil states. This paper addresses these questions by proposing an alternative modelling approach. The paper first presents a volumetric model for unsaturated soils. This volumetric model is then used to derive the yield surface in the suction – mean stress space. Hysteresis associated with soil-water characteristic curves is then formulated in the same framework of elastoplasticity. It is shown that volume collapse during wetting and plastic shrinkage during initial drying are both direct results of a suction-dependent hardening law. The proposed model seems to be more flexible in modelling different types of unsaturated soils than most models in the literature. The model can be applied to soils that are dried or loaded from initially slurry conditions, for soils that have low to high air-entry values, and for compacted soils as well.
Sheng, D, Fredlund, DG & Gens, A 2008, 'Reply to the discussion by Zhang and Lytton on “A new modelling approach for unsaturated soils using independent stress variables”Appears in Canadian Geotechnical Journal,45(12): 1784–1787.', Canadian Geotechnical Journal, vol. 45, no. 12, pp. 1788-1794.
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Sheng, D, Gens, A, Fredlund, DG & Sloan, SW 2008, 'Unsaturated soils: From constitutive modelling to numerical algorithms', Computers and Geotechnics, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 810-824.
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Sheng, D, Pedroso, DM & Abbo, AJ 2008, 'Non-convexity and stress-path dependency of unsaturated soil models', Computational Mechanics, vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 685-694.
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Sheng, D, Pedroso, DM & Abbo, AJ 2008, 'Non-convexity and stress-path dependency of unsaturated soil models', Computational Mechanics, vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 695-695.
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Sheng, D, Yamamoto, H & Wriggers, P 2008, 'Finite Element Analysis of Enlarged End Piles Using Frictional Contact', Soils and Foundations, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 1-14.
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Sheng, D, Yao, Y & Carter, JP 2008, 'A volume–stress model for sands under isotropic and critical stress states', Canadian Geotechnical Journal, vol. 45, no. 11, pp. 1639-1645.
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A simple volume–stress model for granular soils under isotropic and critical stress states is presented. The model is formulated in the double logarithmic space of void ratio versus mean stress. It has the same number of parameters as used in the Cam Clay models to describe isotropic compression, with one additional parameter to define the critical state curve. The model can qualitatively describe a number of unique features of sand behaviour. Comparison with experimental data indicates that the model is able to predict well the volume change of a range of different sands subjected to isotropic and triaxial compression.
Sheng-Fu Liang, Shih-Mao Lu, Jyh-Yeong Chang & Chin-Teng Lin 2008, 'A Novel Two-Stage Impulse Noise Removal Technique Based on Neural Networks and Fuzzy Decision', IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 863-873.
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Shon, HK, Phuntsho, S & Vigneswaran, S 2008, 'Effect of photocatalysis on the membrane hybrid system for wastewater treatment', DESALINATION, vol. 225, no. 1-3, pp. 235-248.
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Shon, HK, Vigneswaran, S & Cho, J 2008, 'Comparison of physico-chemical pretreatment methods to seawater reverse osmosis: Detailed analyses of molecular weight distribution of organic matter in initial stage', JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE, vol. 320, no. 1-2, pp. 151-158.
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In desalination, effective pretreatment is the key to reduce membrane fouling that occurs during the seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) process. However, it is difficult to compare the flux decline after different pretreatments using a small-scale reverse osmosis filtration unit. In this study, we successfully evaluated the effect of pretreatment on SWRO in terms of molecular weight distribution (MWD) of seawater organic matter (SWOM) after 20 h of SWRO operation. Microfiltration (MF), ultrafiltration (UF), ferric chloride (FeCl3) flocculation and powdered activated carbon (PAC) adsorption, were used as pretreatment. The effluents and the retentates after each pretreatment and 20 h of SWRO operation were characterized in terms of MWD. Although the normalized flux of SWRO showed similar flux decline (J/J0 = 0.17) with/without pretreatment, SWOM concentration in the retentates after different pretreatments was different in quantity and it increased linearly with time. The slope of the SWOM increase was 0.110, 0.096, 0.077 and 0.059 after MF, FeCl3 flocculation, UF and PAC adsorption pretreatments, respectively. MW peaks for the seawater used in this study consisted of 1200 Da (biopolymers), 950 Da (fulvic acids), 650 Da (hydrolysates of humic substances), 250 Da (low MW acids) and 90 Da (low MW neutrals and amphiphilics). FeCl3 flocculation preferentially removed 1200 Da (biopolymers), while PAC adsorption mostly removed 950 Da (fulvic acids). UF and NF removed only a marginal amount of relatively large organics, while RO removed the majority of organics. The intensity of 1200, 950, 650 and 250 Da MW in the RO retentates increased with the RO operation time. The organics of MW around 1200 Da (biopolymers) had a relatively low rate of increase with time compared with those of lower MW. This suggests that the SWOM of 1200 Da MW was preferentially retained on the membrane surface.
Shon, HK, Vigneswaran, S, Kandasamy, J & Shim, WG 2008, 'Ultraflitration of wastewater with pretreatment: evaluation of flux decline models', DESALINATION, vol. 231, no. 1-3, pp. 332-339.
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Three different mathematical models relating the flux decline were investigated to quantify the effects of pretreatment in a membrane filtration system. The models used are empirical flux decline model, series resistance flux decline model and modified series resistance flux decline model. A cross flow ultrafiltration unit was used to study flux decline and organic removal from synthetic wastewater. Flocculation and adsorption pretreatments were carried out with ferric chloride (FeCl3) and activated carbon of different doses. The three models could predict flux decline after different pretreatments and could be used as a pretreatment index to ultrafiltration.
Shui Yu, Wanlei Zhou & Doss, R 2008, 'Information theory based detection against network behavior mimicking DDoS attacks', IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 318-321.
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Siam, MZ & Krunz, M 2008, 'An overview of MIMO-oriented channel access in wireless networks', IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 63-69.
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Silverman, BG, Bharathy, G, Nye, B & Smith, T 2008, 'Modeling factions for ‘effects based operations’, part II: behavioral game theory', Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 120-155.
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Silverman, BG, Normoyle, A, Kannan, P, Pater, R, Chandrasekaran, D & Bharathy, G 2008, 'An embeddable testbed for insurgent and terrorist agent theories: InsurgiSim', Intelligent Decision Technologies, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 193-203.
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Many simulators today contain traditional opponents and lack an asymmetric insurgent style adversary. InsurgiSim prototypes an embeddable testbed containing a threat network of agents that one can easily configure and deploy for training and analysis purposes. The insurgent network was constructed inside a socio-cognitive agent framework (FactionSim-PMFserv) that includes: (a) a synthesis of best-of-breed models of personality, culture, values, emotions, stress, social relations, mobilization, as well as (b) an IDE for authoring and managing reusable archetypes and their task-sets (Section 2). Agents and markups in this library are not scripted, and act to follow their values and fulfill their needs. So it’s desirable to profile the agents (eg, faction leaders, cell logisticians, followers, bomb maker, financier, recruiter, etc.) as faithfully to the real world as possible. Doing this will improve the utility of InsurgiSim for studying what may be driving the insurgent agents in a given area of operation as Section 3 explains. InsurgiSim’s bridge is an HLA federate and can be embedded to drive all or some of the insurgent agents in a 3rd party simulator. Three such examples are summarized in Section 4. The paper closes with next steps to improve InsurgiSim’s capabilities and utility. © 2007 - IOS Press and the authors.
Sofi, M, Mendis, PA, Lie, S & Baweja, D 2008, 'Early age concrete thermal and creep effects: Relevance to anchorage zones of post-tensioned members', Electronic Journal of Structural Engineering, vol. 8, pp. 90-96.
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Highly concentrated stresses are imposed on maturing concrete slab local anchorage zones when post-tensioning (PT) load is applied. The prime nonlinear phenomena of the concrete while hydrating are the evolution of stiffness, the thermal strains, the visco-elastic nature of the concrete and cracking. Thermal and visco-elastic effects are more pronounced in early ages due to a higher rate of hydration reaction and the different phases present. The stresses associated with these effects may cause minor cracks in concrete, even prior to the application of the PT load. Finite Element simulation of early-age concrete behaviour is presented representing about four days of concrete curing in a plywood box. The thermal evolution is validated using experimental data obtained for the same mix. Results demonstrate that hydration reaction and visco-elastic effects can produce tensile stresses at critical times when the PT load is being applied. These stresses can have significant effects to the 'spalling' stresses when a concentrated load is applied to the concrete section.
Sola, J, Monin, A, Devy, M & Vidal-Calleja, T 2008, 'Fusing Monocular Information in Multicamera SLAM', IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 958-968.
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This paper explores the possibilities of using monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms in systems with more than one camera. The idea is to combine in a single system the advantages of both monocular vision (bearings-only, infin
Stanton, C & Ronsmans, C 2008, 'Recommendations for Routine Reporting on Indications for Cesarean Delivery in Developing Countries', Birth, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 204-211.
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Stephens, AM, Evans, ZWE, Devitt, SJ & Hollenberg, LCL 2008, 'Asymmetric quantum error correction via code conversion', Physical Review A, vol. 77, no. 6.
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Stephens, AM, Evans, ZWE, Devitt, SJ, Greentree, AD, Fowler, AG, Munro, WJ, O’Brien, JL, Nemoto, K & Hollenberg, LCL 2008, 'Deterministic optical quantum computer using photonic modules', Physical Review A, vol. 78, no. 3.
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Stewart, GM, Nguyen, HB, Kim, TY, Jauregui, J, Hayes, SR & Corbett, S 2008, 'Inter-Rater Reliability for Noninvasive Measurement of Cardiac Function in Children', Pediatric Emergency Care, vol. 24, no. 7, pp. 433-437.
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Introduction: A transcutaneous ultrasound monitor has recently been developed which noninvasively and quickly measures cardiac output. Validity and reliability testing has been reported in adults. No reliability testing has been undertaken in the pediatric population. Objective: Our objective was to evaluate the inter-rater reliability of a transcutaneous Doppler ultrasound technique to measure cardiac index (CI) and stroke volume index (SVI) in pediatric emergency department patients. Methods: An 8-month prospective observational study was conducted on a convenience sample of emergency department patients younger than 18 years old. Five raters were trained to use an ultrasound cardiac output monitoring device. Two raters, blinded to each other's results, obtained independent measurements from the same patient within 15 minutes of each other. Inter-rater agreement was measured with the Pearson product correlation coefficient. Bland-Altman analysis demonstrated the extent of deviation from a line of agreement between raters. Results: Ninety-seven patients were enrolled. Major diagnostic categories included infection, trauma, and gastrointestinal disorders. There was significant inter-rater correlation for CI (r = 0.76; 95% confidence interval, 0.66-0.83; P < 0.0001) and SVI (r = 0.79; 95% confidence interval, 0.70-0.86; P < 0.0001). Bland-Altman analysis of CI measurements between 2 raters showed bias of 0.06, SD of bias 1.00, and 95% limits of agreement -1.91 to 2.02 L/min/m. Stroke volume index showed bias of -0.5, SD of bias 11.01, and 95% limits of agreement -22.08 to 21.08 mL/m. Conclusions: Transcutaneous Doppler ultrasound technique demonstrates acceptable inter-rater agreement for measuring CI and SVI in children. Copyright © 2008 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Stewart, MG 2008, 'Cost Effectiveness of Risk Mitigation Strategies for Protection of Buildings against Terrorist Attack', Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 115-120.
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The technical note considers the cost effectiveness of risk mitigation measures for protection of buildings to terrorist threats. Protective measures might include vehicle barriers, perimeter walls, blast resistant glazing, strengthened perimeter columns, etc. Indicative values of attack probability and characteristics of commercial buildings in the United States are described. The cost effectiveness of protective measures are calculated from a preliminary economic decision analysis that includes cost of the protective measures, attack probability, reduction in risk due to protective measures, and failure consequences. Economic risks due to terrorism are compared with risks from hurricane and seismic hazards. © 2008 ASCE.
Stewart, MG 2008, 'Risk acceptability and cost-effectiveness of protective measures against terrorist threats to built infrastructure considering multiple threat scenarios', Transactions of Tianjin University, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 313-317.
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Decisions are often needed about the need and/or extent of protective measures against explosive blast loads on built infrastructure. A decision support analysis considers fatality risks and cost-effectiveness of protective measures expressed in terms of expected cost spent on risk reduction per life saved for terrorist threats to infrastructure. The analysis is applicable to any item of infrastructure, but in this paper is applied to casualties arising from building facade glazing damage. Risks may be compared with risk acceptance criteria in the form of quantitative safety goals. The risk acceptability and cost-effectiveness of protective measures includes cost of the protective measures, attack probability, reduction in risk due to protective measures, probability of fatality conditional on successful terrorist attack and number of exposed individuals.
Stewart, MG & Al-Harthy, A 2008, 'Pitting corrosion and structural reliability of corroding RC structures: Experimental data and probabilistic analysis', Reliability Engineering & System Safety, vol. 93, no. 3, pp. 373-382.
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A stochastic analysis is developed to assess the temporal and spatial variability of pitting corrosion on the reliability of corroding reinforced concrete (RC) structures. The structure considered herein is a singly reinforced RC beam with Y16 or Y27 reinforcing bars. Experimental data obtained from corrosion tests are used to characterise the probability distribution of pit depth. The RC beam is discretised into a series of small elements and maximum pit depths are generated for each reinforcing steel bar in each element. The loss of cross-sectional area, reduction in yield strength and reduction in flexural resistance are then inferred. The analysis considers various member spans, loading ratios, bar diameters and numbers of bars in a given cross-section, and moment diagrams. It was found that the maximum corrosion loss in a reinforcing bar conditional on beam collapse was no more than 16%. The probabilities of failure considering spatial variability of pitting corrosion were up to 200% higher than probabilities of failure obtained from a non-spatial analysis after 50 years of corrosion. This shows the importance of considering spatial variability in a structural reliability analysis for deteriorating structures, particularly for corroding RC beams in flexure. © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Stewart, MG & Mueller, J 2008, 'A risk and cost-benefit assessment of United States aviation security measures', Journal of Transportation Security, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 143-159.
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Stewart, MG & Netherton, MD 2008, 'Security risks and probabilistic risk assessment of glazing subject to explosive blast loading', Reliability Engineering & System Safety, vol. 93, no. 4, pp. 627-638.
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A probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) procedure is developed which can predict risks of explosive blast damage to built infrastructure. The present paper focuses on window glazing since this is a load-capacity system which, when subject to blast loading, has caused significant damage and injury to building occupants. Structural reliability techniques are used to derive fragility and blast reliability curves (BRCs) for annealed and toughened glazing subjected to explosive blast, for a variety of threat scenarios. The probabilistic analyses include the uncertainties associated with blast modelling, glazing response and glazing failure criteria. Damage risks are calculated for an individual window and for windows in the facade of a multi-storey commercial building. If threat probabilities can be estimated then the paper shows illustrative examples of how this information, when combined with risk-based decision-making criteria, can be used to optimise risk mitigation strategies. © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Styrkarsdottir, U, Halldorsson, BV, Gretarsdottir, S, Gudbjartsson, DF, Walters, GB, Ingvarsson, T, Jonsdottir, T, Saemundsdottir, J, Center, JR, Nguyen, TV, Bagger, Y, Gulcher, JR, Eisman, JA, Christiansen, C, Sigurdsson, G, Kong, A, Thorsteinsdottir, U & Stefansson, K 2008, 'Multiple Genetic Loci for Bone Mineral Density and Fractures', New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 358, no. 22, pp. 2355-2365.
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Background: Bone mineral density influences the risk of osteoporosis later in life and is useful in the evaluation of the risk of fracture. We aimed to identify sequence variants associated with bone mineral density and fracture. Methods: We performed a quantitative trait analysis of data from 5861 Icelandic subjects (the discovery set), testing for an association between 301,019 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and bone mineral density of the hip and lumbar spine. We then tested for an association between 74 SNPs (most of which were implicated in the discovery set) at 32 loci in replication sets of Icelandic, Danish, and Australian subjects (4165, 2269, and 1491 subjects, respectively). Results: Sequence variants in five genomic regions were significantly associated with bone mineral density in the discovery set and were confirmed in the replication sets (combined P values, 1.2 x 10(-7) to 2.0 x 10-(21)). Three regions are close to or within genes previously shown to be important to the biologic characteristics of bone: the receptor activator of nuclear factor-(kappa)B ligand gene (RANKL) (chromosomal location, 13q14), the osteoprotegerin gene (OPG) (8q24), and the estrogen receptor 1 gene (ESR1) (6q25). The two other regions are close to the zinc finger and BTB domain containing 40 gene (ZBTB40) (1p36) and the major histocompatibility complex region (6p21). The 1p36, 8q24, and 6p21 loci were also associated with osteoporotic fractures, as were loci at 18q21, close to the receptor activator of the nuclear factor-kappa B gene (RANK), and loci at 2p16 and 11p11. Conclusions: We have discovered common sequence variants that are consistently associated with bone mineral density and with low-trauma fractures in three populations of European descent. Although these variants alone are not clinically useful in the prediction of risk to the individual person, they provide insight into the biochemical pathways underlying osteoporosis.
Su, Y, Wu, C & Griffith, M 2008, 'Mitigation of blast effects on aluminum foam protected masonry walls', Transactions of Tianjin University, vol. 14, no. S1, pp. 558-562.
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Terrorist attacks using improvised explosive devices (IED) can result in unreinforced masonry (URM) wall collapse. Protecting URM wall from IED attack is very complicated. An effective solution to mitigate blast effects on URM wall is to retrofit URM walls with metallic foam sheets to absorb blast energy. However, mitigation of blast effects on metallic foam protected URM walls is currently in their infancy in the world. In this paper, numerical models are used to simulate the performance of aluminum foam protected URM walls subjected to blast loads. A distinctive model, in which mortar and brick units of masonry are discritized individually, is used to model the performance of masonry and the contact between the masonry and steel face-sheet of aluminum foam is modelled using the interface element model. The aluminum foam is modelled by a nonlinear elastoplastic material model. The material models for masonry, aluminum foam and interface are then coded into a finite element program LS-DYNA3D to perform the numerical calculations of response and damage of aluminum foam protected URM walls under airblast loads. Discussion is made on the effectiveness of the aluminum foam protected system for URM wall against blast loads.
Summers, MD, Burnham, DR & McGloin, D 2008, 'Trapping solid aerosols with optical tweezers: A comparison between gas and liquid phase optical traps', Optics Express, vol. 16, no. 11, pp. 7739-7739.
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Sun, D, Sheng, D, Xiang, L & Sloan, SW 2008, 'Elastoplastic prediction of hydro-mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soils under undrained conditions', Computers and Geotechnics, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 845-852.
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SUN, Y 2008, 'Research of Extensions to RSVP for Mobile IPv6 Networks', Journal of Software, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 1731-1742.
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Aiming at the features of wireless mobile communication, this paper proposes a new resource reservation scheme, Fast RSVP, to guarantee the QoS of sessions for Mobile IPv6. The scheme adopts cross-layer design, it cooperates two modules at different layers: mobile IP module and RSVP module. By adding some primitives, the scheme let the two modules work together to guarantee the QoS of sessions for mobile users. Fast RSVP imports a series of new mechanisms such as advanced resource reservation on neighbor tunnels, resource reservation on optimized routes, resource reservation for handover sessions, path merge etc. Simulation results show that Fast RSVP scheme, compared with other traditional RSVP extensions for mobile environments, has the following advantages: (1) it realizes a mobile node handover with QoS guarantees; (2) it avoids resource wasting caused by triangular routes and duplicate reservations in Mobile IP handover process; (3) it distinguishes different types of reservation requests, greatly reducing the handover session forced termination rate while maintaining high performance of the network.
Sun, Y, Zhu, X & Moritz, J 2008, 'Explicit design formulas for current-mode leap-frog OTA-C filters and 300 MHz CMOS seventh-order linear phase filter', International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. n/a-n/a.
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The leap-frog (LF) configuration is an important structure in analogue filter design. Voltage-mode LF OTA-C filters have recently been studied in the literature; however, general explicit formulas do not exist for current-mode LF OTA-C filters and there is also need for current-mode LF-based OTA-C structures for realization of arbitrary transmission zeros. Three current-mode OTA-C structures are presented, including the basic LF structure and LF filters with an input distributor or an output summer. They can realize all-pole characteristics and functions with arbitrary transmission zeros. Explicit design formulas are derived directly from these structures for the synthesis of, respectively, all-pole and arbitrary zero filter characteristics of up to the sixth order. The filter structures are regular and the design formulas are straightforward to use. As an illustrative example, a 300 MHz seventh-order linear phase low-pass filter with zeros is presented. The filter is implemented using a fully differential linear operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) based on a source degeneration topology. Simulations in a standard TSMC 0.18 μm CMOS process with 2.5 V power supply have shown that the cutoff frequency of the filter ranges from 260 to 320 MHz, group delay ripple is about 4.5% over the whole tuning range, noise of the filter is 420nA/.√Hz, dynamic range is 66 dB and power consumption is 200 mW. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Thiruvenkatachari, R, Vigneswaran, S & Moon, IS 2008, 'A review on UV/TiO2 photocatalytic oxidation process (Journal Review)', Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 64-72.
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Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) with UV irradiation and photocatalyst titanium dioxide (TiO2) are gaining growing acceptance as an effective wastewater treatment method. A comprehensive review of the UV-TiO2 photocatalytic oxidation process was conducted with an insight into the mechanism involved, catalyst TiO2, irradiation sources, types of reactors, comparison between effective modes of TiO2 application as immobilized on surface or as suspension, and photocatalytic hybrid membrane system. Photocatalytic degradation technique with titanium dioxide is generally applied for treating wastewater containing organic contaminants due to its ability to achieve complete mineralization of the organic contaminants under mild conditions such as ambient temperature and ambient pressure. Recently, photocatalysis studies using TiO2 have been gaining attention for the degradation of persistent organic pollutants and other organic chemicals which are known to be endocrine disruptors. Treatment of wastewater in a titanium dioxide-suspended slurry reactor has been widely utilized due to its simplicity and enhanced degradation efficiency. However, this system requires separation of TiO2 from water after the photocatalytic process. The final section of the manuscript focuses on the removal of TiO2 using a membrane hybrid system. A two-stage coagulation and sedimentation process coupled with microfiltration hollow-fibre membrane process was found to achieve complete removal of TiO2, and the recovered TiO2 can be reused for a photocatalytic process after regeneration.
Thiruvenkatachari, R, Vigneswaran, S & Naidu, R 2008, 'Permeable reactive barrier for groundwater remediation', Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 145-156.
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This article aims to provide an overview of the upcoming technology of permeable reactive barriers for groundwater remediation. A comprehensive list of references and web-links are also provided for further in-depth understanding. A brief discussion on the Australian perspective on this emerging technology is also included.
Thomas, PS, Smallwood, AS, Ray, AS, Briscoe, BJ & Parsonage, D 2008, 'Nanoindentation hardness of banded Australian sedimentary opal', JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS, vol. 41, no. 7, pp. 1-6.
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Nanoindentation hardness data in continuous stiffness mode are reported for banded potch and play of colour opals sourced from Lightning Ridge in New South Wales and Andamooka in South Australia. Despite the significant visible heterogeneities observed and the significant differences in origin and microstructures, as observed by SEM, and subtle differences in the elemental distributions between bands within specimens, little difference was observed in the mechanical properties. Specimens were found to be mechanically homogeneous and values of the hardness and moduli were found to be similar between samples. The creep behaviour of the specimens was also observed to be similar. It was concluded that the similarities in mechanical properties were due to the similarities in the silica morphology of the specimens, formed in similar geological environments, as differences in microstructure and trace element distribution were found not to significantly influence the observed bulk mechanical properties
Thomas-Kerr, J, Burnett, I & Ritz, C 2008, 'Format-Independent Rich Media Delivery Using the Bitstream Binding Language', IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 514-522.
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Tian, H, Yu, Z, Han, L & Liu, Y 2008, 'Birefringence and Confinement Loss Properties in Photonic Crystal Fibers Under Lateral Stress', IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 20, no. 22, pp. 1830-1832.
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Tijing, LD, Pak, BC, Lee, DH & Cho, YI 2008, 'Heat-Treated Titanium Balls for the Mitigation of Mineral Fouling in Heat Exchangers', Experimental Heat Transfer, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 115-132.
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Tomamichel, M, Colbeck, R & Renner, R 2008, 'A Fully Quantum Asymptotic Equipartition Property', IEEE Trans. on Inf. Theory 55 (2009) p. 5840-5847, vol. 55, no. 12, pp. 5840-5847.
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The classical asymptotic equipartition property is the statement that, in the
limit of a large number of identical repetitions of a random experiment, the
output sequence is virtually certain to come from the typical set, each member
of which is almost equally likely. In this paper, we prove a fully quantum
generalization of this property, where both the output of the experiment and
side information are quantum. We give an explicit bound on the convergence,
which is independent of the dimensionality of the side information. This
naturally leads to a family of Renyi-like quantum conditional entropies, for
which the von Neumann entropy emerges as a special case.
Tran, BNH, Nguyen, ND, Eisman, JA & Nguyen, TV 2008, 'Association between LRP5 polymorphism and bone mineral density: a Bayesian meta-analysis', BMC Medical Genetics, vol. 9, no. 1.
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Abstract
Background
The low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 5 gene (LRP5) was identified to be linked to the variation in BMD in high bone mass pedigrees. Subsequent population-based studies of the association between the LRP5 gene and BMD have yielded conflicting results. The present study was aimed at examining the association between LRP5 gene and BMD by using meta-analysis.
Methods
A systematic electronic search of literature was conducted to identify all published studies in English on the association between LRP5 gene and osteoporosis-related phenotypes, including bone mineral density and fracture. BMD data were summarized from individual studies by LRP5 genotype, and a synthesis of data was performed with random-effects meta-analyses. After excluding studies on animal and review papers, there were 19 studies for the synthesis. Among these studies, 10 studies used the rs3736228 (A1330V) polymorphism and reported BMD values.
Results
The 10 eligible studies comprised 16,705 individuals, with the majority being women (n = 8444), aged between 18 – 81 years. The overall distribution of genotype frequencies was: AA, 68%, AV and VV, 32%. However, the genotype frequency varied significantly within as well as between ethnic populations. On random-effects meta-analysis, lumbar spine BMD among individuals with the AA genotype was on average 0.018 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.012 to 0.023) g/cm2 higher than those with either AV or VV genotype. Similarly, femoral neck BMD among carriers of the AA genotype was 0.011 (95%CI: 0.004 to 0.017) g/cm2 higher than those without the genotype. While there w...
Tran, NN, Tuan, HD & Nguyen, HH 2008, 'Training Signal and Precoder Designs for OFDM Under Colored Noise', IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 57, no. 6, pp. 3911-3917.
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Based on convex programming, this paper presents a new training signal design for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) under colored Gaussian noise. An effective method for OFDM symbol detection with the use of precoding is also described. B
Tsai, Y-S, Chung, I-F, Simpson, JC, Lee, M-I, Hsiung, C-C, Chiu, T-Y, Kao, L-S, Chiu, T-C, Lin, C-T, Lin, W-C, Liang, S-F & Lin, C-C 2008, 'Automated recognition system to classify subcellular protein localizations in images of different cell lines acquired by different imaging systems', Microscopy Research and Technique, vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 305-314.
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Tsai, Y-S, Lin, C-T, Tseng, GC, Chung, I-F & Pal, NR 2008, 'Discovery of dominant and dormant genes from expression data using a novel generalization of SNR for multi-class problems', BMC Bioinformatics, vol. 9, no. 1.
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AbstractBackgroundThe Signal-to-Noise-Ratio (SNR) is often used for identification of biomarkers for two-class problems and no formal and useful generalization of SNR is available for multiclass problems. We propose innovative generalizations of SNR for multiclass cancer discrimination through introduction of two indices, Gene Dominant Index and Gene Dormant Index (GDIs). These two indices lead to the concepts of dominant and dormant genes with biological significance. We use these indices to develop methodologies for discovery of dominant and dormant biomarkers with interesting biological significance. The dominancy and dormancy of the identified biomarkers and their excellent discriminating power are also demonstrated pictorially using the scatterplot of individual gene and 2-D Sammon's projection of the selected set of genes. Using information from the literature we have shown that the GDI based method can identify dominant and dormant genes that play significant roles in cancer biology. These biomarkers are also used to design diagnostic prediction systems.Results and discussionTo evaluate the effectiveness of the GDIs, we have used four multiclass cancer data sets (Small Round Blue Cell Tumors, Leukemia, Central Nervous System Tumors, and Lung Cancer). For each data set we demonstrate that the new indices can find biologically meaningful genes that can act as biomarkers. We then use six machine learning tools, Nearest Neighbor Classifier (NNC), Nearest Mean Classifier (NMC), Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier with linear kernel, and SVM classifier with Gaussian kernel, where both SVMs are used in conjunction with one-vs-all (OVA) and one-vs-one (OVO) strategies. We found GDIs to be very effective in identifying biomarkers with strong class specific signatures. With all six tools and for all data sets we could achieve better ...
Turner, BD, Binning, PJ & Sloan, SW 2008, 'A calcite permeable reactive barrier for the remediation of Fluoride from spent potliner (SPL) contaminated groundwater', Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, vol. 95, no. 3-4, pp. 110-120.
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van den Hoven, E & Eggen, B 2008, 'Informing augmented memory system design through autobiographical memory theory', PERSONAL AND UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 433-443.
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Autobiographical memory (AM) is the "memory for the events in one's life" [1]. Often it is assumed that in order to remember all those events, you just need to record everything and when you replay these recordings you will remember those events. You can compare this with a library metaphor that has been used to explain AM according to the record-keeping approach. However, after many years of AM-research it was concluded that AM is stored in a different manner, namely according to the constructionist approach, which often is initiated by memory cues. This paper explains these AM theories, surveys literature on existing augmented memory systems and describes our own work in this area. All this input is combined into eight design recommendations for future augmented memory systems.
Vessalas, K, Ray, AS, Thomas, PS, Sri Ravindrarajah, R, Joyce, P & Haggman, J 2008, 'Pitchstone fines pozzolanic activity assessment as partial Portland cement (PC) replacements', Journal of the Australian Ceramic Society, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 7-12.
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Mined pitchstone fines (PF), derived as a waste by-product from expandable perlite production in Australia, are a viable, environmentally friendly aluminosilicate supplementary cementitious material (SCM) suitable for partial Portland cement (PC) replacement, thus reducing greenhouse gas emissions resulting from PC manufacture. This paper reports on the findings of pozzolanic activity exhibited at 10%, 20% and 40% replacement levels of PC, through compressive strength determinations of mortar after 1, 7 and 28 days ageing, using strength activity index (SAI) criteria. Additionally, flows and wet densities have been examined using a polycarboxylic based high-range water-reducing admixture (HRWRA) superplasticiser and fixed water content relative to cementitious material present for all PF substitution levels.
Voinov, A 2008, 'Understanding and communicating sustainability: global versus regional perspectives', Environment, Development and Sustainability, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 487-501.
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While there is no single definition of sustainability, most would agree that it implies that a system is to be maintained at a certain level, held within certain limits. Sustainability denies run-away growth, but it also precludes any substantial set backs or cuts. This sustainability path is hard to reconcile with the renewal cycle that can be observed in most living systems developing according to their natural intrinsic mechanisms. Besides, since different human dominated systems are in significantly different states and stages of development, sustaining those states assumes maintaining social disparities in perpetuity. This creates a challenge in communicating the ideas of sustainability in different regions. Systems are parts of hierarchies where systems of higher levels are made of subsystems from lower levels. Renewal in components is an important factor of adaptation and evolution. But then sustainability of a system borrows from sustainability of a supra-system and rests upon lack of sustainability in subsystems. Therefore by sustaining certain systems beyond their renewal cycle, we decrease the sustainability of larger, higher level systems. The only way to resolve this contradiction is to agree that the biosphere as a whole with humans as one of its components is the only system which sustainability we are to seek. © 2007 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
Voinov, A & Gaddis, EJB 2008, 'Lessons for successful participatory watershed modeling: A perspective from modeling practitioners', Ecological Modelling, vol. 216, no. 2, pp. 197-207.
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Wai-Hung Tsang, I, Kocsor, A & Kwok, JT-Y 2008, 'Large-Scale Maximum Margin Discriminant Analysis Using Core Vector Machines', IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 610-624.
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Large-Scale Maximum Margin Discriminant Analysis Using Core Vector Machines
Wang, F, Krunz, M & Cui, S 2008, 'Price-Based Spectrum Management in Cognitive Radio Networks', IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 74-87.
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Wang, G & Ying, M 2008, 'Deterministic distributed dense coding with stabilizer states', PHYSICAL REVIEW A, vol. 77, no. 3, pp. 1-10.
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We consider the possibility of using stabilizer states to perform deterministic dense coding among multiple senders and a single receiver. In the model we studied, the utilized stabilizer state is partitioned into several subsystems and then each subsyst
Wang, G & Ying, M 2008, 'Perfect many-to-one teleportation with stabilizer states', PHYSICAL REVIEW A, vol. 77, no. 3, pp. 1-12.
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We study the possibility of performing perfect teleportation of unknown quantum states from multiple senders to a single receiver with a previously shared stabilizer state. In the model we considered, the utilized stabilizer state is partitioned into sev
Wang, H, He, X, Hintz, T & Wu, Q 2008, 'Fractal Image Compression on Hexagonal Structure', Journal of Algorithms & Computational Technology, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 79-98.
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Fractal image compression (FIC) is a relatively recent image compression method. Its basic idea is to represent images as a fixed point of a contractive Iterated Function System (IFS). Spiral Architecture (SA) is a novel hexagonal image structure on which images are displayed as a collection of hexagonal pixels. The efficiency and accuracy of image processing on SA have been demonstrated in many recently published papers. In this paper, two presentations of SA on the traditional display device will be discussed. Then we will review the current research work on fractal image compression based on SA using both presentations. The FIC performance on SA will be compared with it on the traditional square structure in terms of compression ratio and PSNR. In the experimental results, higher PSNR values can be achieved at various compression ratios for all test images. The preliminary research on this direction has shown a promising future of applying FIC on SA to further improve the compression performance.
Wang, Z, Jin, J, Guo, Y & Zhu, J 2008, 'SVPWM Techniques and Applications in HTS PMSM Control', Journal of Electronic Science and Technology of China - Zhongguo Dianzi Keji, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 191-197.
Wattana, S, Sharma, D & Vaiyavuth, R 2008, 'Electricity Industry Reforms in Thailand: A Historical Review', GMSARN International Journal, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 41-52.
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The Thai Electricity Supply Industry (ESI) has been undergoing reform since the early 1990s. The first stage of reform resulted in the introduction of Independent Power Producers (IPPs) and Small Power Producers (SPPs) programs. This was followed by, in the mid-to-late 1990s, a proposal to introduce a market-oriented reform. This reform program envisaged the separation of generation from transmission and distribution functions; introduction of competition in generation; development of new market-oriented regulatory arrangements, and the privatization of the industry. This reform, argued its proponents, will improve the efficiency of the electricity industry; lower electricity tariffs; improve quality of service; draw private investment into power generation sector; reduce the governments investment burden of financing expensive electricity infrastructure and hence enhance its capacity for investing in other priority programs such as health, education and other social activities. This paper examines the veracity of these arguments. This examination is assisted by a historical review of the evolution of the Thai Electricity Supply Industry (ESI). This review reveals that the above noted arguments are unsupportable on the basis of the technological, economic, environmental, social and political realities prevalent in Thailand. This paper further emphasizes the need to clearly identify the `real rationale for reform so that an appropriate reform pathway consonant with socio-political contexts in Thailand could be selected.
Weily, AR, Bird, TS & Guo, YJ 2008, 'A Reconfigurable High-Gain Partially Reflecting Surface Antenna', IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 56, no. 11, pp. 3382-3390.
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A high-gain partially reflective surface (PRS) antenna with a reconfigurable operating frequency is presented. The operating frequency is electronically tuned by incorporating an array of phase agile reflection cells on a thin substrate above the ground plane of the resonator antenna, where the reflection phase of each cell is controlled by the bias voltage applied to a pair of varactor diodes. The new configuration enables continuous tuning of the antenna from 5.2 GHz to 5.95 GHz using commercially available varactor diodes, thus covering frequencies typically used for WLAN applications. Both the PRS and phase agile cell are analyzed, and theoretical and measured results for gain, tuning range, and radiation patterns of the reconfigurable antenna are described. The effect of the varactor diode series resistance on the performance of the antenna is also reported. © 2008 IEEE.
Wong, K-YK, Guoqiang Zhang, Chen Liang & Hui Zhang 2008, '1D Camera Geometry and Its Application to the Self-Calibration of Circular Motion Sequences', IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 30, no. 12, pp. 2243-2248.
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This paper proposes a novel method for robustly recovering the camera geometry of an uncalibrated image sequence taken under circular motion. Under circular motion, all the camera centers lie on a circle and the mapping from the plane containing this circle to the horizon line observed in the image can be modelled as a 1D projection. A 2×2 homography is introduced in this paper to relate the projections of the camera centers in two 1D views. It is shown that the two imaged circular points of the motion plane and the rotation angle between the two views can be derived directly from such a homography. This way of recovering the imaged circular points and rotation angles is intrinsically a multiple view approach, as all the sequence geometry embedded in the epipoles is exploited in the estimation of the homography for each view pair. This results in a more robust method compared to those computing the rotation angles using adjacent views only. The proposed method has been applied to self-calibrate turntable sequences using either point features or silhouettes, and highly accurate results have been achieved. © 2008 IEEE.
Woodside, AG, Sood, S & Miller, KE 2008, 'When consumers and brands talk: Storytelling theory and research in psychology and marketing', PSYCHOLOGY & MARKETING, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 97-145.
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Storytelling is pervasive through life. Much information is stored, indexed, and retrieved in the form of stories. Although lectures tend to put people to sleep, stories move them to action. People relate to each other in terms of stories - and products and brands often play both central and peripheral roles in their stories. To aid storytelling research in consumer psychology, this article develops a narrative theory that describes how consumers use brands as props or anthropomorphic actors in stories they report about themselves and others. Such drama enactments enable these storytellers to experience powerful myths that reflect psychological archetypes. The article includes findings from case study research that probes propositions of the theory. Implications for consumer psychology and marketing practice follow the discussion of the findings.
Wu, C & Hao, H 2008, 'Numerical derivation of averaged material properties of hollow concrete block masonry', Engineering Structures, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 870-883.
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Wu, C, Oehlers, DJ & Whittaker, A 2008, 'FRP retrofitted RC slabs using finite difference model', Transactions of Tianjin University, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 344-347.
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Current guidelines recommend using single-degree-of-freedom(SDOF) method for dynamic analysis of reinforced concretec (RC) structures against blast loads, which is not suitable for retrofitted members. Thus, a finite difference procedure developed in another study was used to accurately and efficiently analyze the dynamic response of fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) plated members under blast loads. It can accommodate changes in the mechanical properties of a member's cross section along its length and through its depth in each time step, making it possible to directly incorporate both strain rate effects (which will vary along the length and depth of a member) and non-uniform member loading to solve the partial differential equation of motion. The accuracy of the proposed method was validated in part using data from field blast testing. The finite difference procedure is implemented easily and enables accurate predictions of FRP-plated-member response.
Wu, L & Sandrasegaran, K 2008, 'A Study on RAT Selection Algorithms in Combined UMTS/GSM Networks', ECTI Transactions on Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunication, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 86-92.
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The future wireless network is expected to be a heterogeneous system, which integrates different Ra-dio Access Technologies (RATs) through a common platform. A major challenge arising from this het-erogeneous network is Radio Resource Management (RRM) strategy. Common RRM (CRRM) has been proposed in the literature to jointly manage radio re-sources among a number of overlapped RATs in an optimized way. Currently, the RAT selection algo-rithm is one of the key research areas of CRRM. This paper studies RAT selection algorithms in co-located UMTS/GSM networks. In this paper, a three-complex algorithm called IN*VG*Load is proposed based on improvements on the IN*VG algorithm. The simulation results show that the IN*VG*Load algorithm can optimize the system performance in highly loaded combined UMTS/GSM networks. A new algorithm suitable for low to medium loaded UMTS/GSM networks is also proposed and simula- tion results are presented in this paper.
Xia, H, Guo, WW, Wu, X, Pi, YL & Bradford, MA 2008, 'Lateral dynamic interaction analysis of a train–girder–pier system', Journal of Sound and Vibration, vol. 318, no. 4-5, pp. 927-942.
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A dynamic model of a coupled train-girder-pier system is developed in this paper. Each vehicle in a train is modeled with 27 degrees-of-freedom for a 4-axle passenger coach or freight car, and 31 for a 6-axle locomotive. The bridge model is applicable to
Xia, X & Zhang, J 2008, 'Geometric characterization on the solvability of regulator equations', Automatica, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 445-450.
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Xia, Y, Hao, H, Deeks, AJ & Zhu, X 2008, 'Condition Assessment of Shear Connectors in Slab-Girder Bridges via Vibration Measurements', Journal of Bridge Engineering, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 43-54.
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Xiangjian He, Wenjing Jia & Qiang Wu 2008, 'An approach of canny edge detection with virtual hexagonal image structure', 2008 10th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 133-143.
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Gradient-based edge detection is a straightforward method to identify the edge points in the original grey-level image. It is intuitive that in the human vision system the edge points always appear where the grey-level value is greatly changed. Spiral Architecture is a relatively new image data structure that is inspired from anatomical considerations of the primate's vision. In Spiral Architecture, each image is represented as a collection of hexagonal pixels. Edge detection on Spiral Architecture has features of fast computation and accurate localization. In this paper, we present and compare gradient-based edge detection algorithms on Spiral Architecture. The experimental results show that the edge detection on Spiral Architecture outperforms that on traditional square image structure.
Xiao-shan Gao, Dan-tong Ouyang, Ji-gui Sun, San-jiang Li, Tian-shun Yao, Ru-zhan Lu, Chun-yi Shi, Zhan-gang Han, Jue Wang, Cun-gen Cao & Ruqian Lu 2008, 'AI in China: A Survey', IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 26-32.
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This article consists of nine short essays discussing research pursued by AI researchers in China and their perspectives on research in several AI subareas. The article first introduces the mechanization of mathematics, an area in which Chinese scientists have made significant contributions. It then discusses research in automated reasoning, temporal and spatial knowledge representation and reasoning, natural language understanding, intelligent diagnosis, multiagent systems, computational intelligence, large-scale knowledge processing, and several research streams integrating AI techniques with methods from other fields. Finally, the article makes suggestions concerning future AI research in China.
Xin, Y & Duan, R 2008, 'Local distinguishability of orthogonal 2 circle times 3 pure states', PHYSICAL REVIEW A, vol. 77, no. 1, pp. 1-10.
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We present a complete characterization for the local distinguishability of orthogonal 2 circle times 3 pure states except for some special cases of three states. Interestingly, we find there is a large class of four or three states that are indistinguish
Xing, W, Guo, W, Ngo, H, Listowski, A & Cullum, P 2008, 'Specific Anaerobic Fluidized Bed Bioreactors as Pretreatment to Microfiltration in Domestic Wastewater Treatment for Reuse', Journal of Applied Membrane Science & Technology, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 1-8.
Xing, W, Ngo, HH, Kim, SH, Guo, WS & Hagare, P 2008, 'Adsorption and bioadsorption of granular activated carbon (GAC) for dissolved organic carbon (DOC) removal in wastewater', BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY, vol. 99, no. 18, pp. 8674-8678.
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In this study, the performances of GAC adsorption and GAC bioadsorption in terms of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) removal were investigated with synthetic biologically treated sewage effluent (BTSE), synthetic primary treated sewage effluent (PTSE), real BTSE and real PTSE. The main aims of this study are to verify and compare the efficiency of DOC removal by GAC (adsorption) and acclimatized GAC (bioadsorption). The results indicated that the performance of bioadsorption was significantly better than that of adsorption in all cases, showing the practical use of biological granular activated carbon (BGAC) in filtration process. The most significance was observed at a real PTSE with a GAC dose of 5 g/L, having 54% and 96% of DOC removal by adsorption and bioadsorption, respectively. In addition, it was found that GAC adsorption equilibrium was successfully predicted by a hybrid Langmuir-Freundlich model whilst integrated linear driving force approximation (LDFA) + hybrid isotherm model could describe well the adsorption kinetics. Both adsorption isotherm and kinetic coefficients determined by these models will be useful to model the adsorption/bioadsorption process in DOC removal of BGAC filtration system. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Xing, W, Ngo, HH, Kim, SH, Guo, WS & Hagare, P 2008, 'Physico-chemical processes for landfill leachate treatment: Experiments and mathematical models', SEPARATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 347-361.
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Xinying Liu, Shuhong Wang, Jie Qiu, Jian Guo Zhu, Youguang Guo & Zhi Wei Lin 2008, 'Robust Optimization in HTS Cable Based on Design for Six Sigma', IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 978-981.
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The nonuniform ac current distribution among the multilayer conductors in a high-temperature superconducting (HTS) cable reduces the current capacity and increases the ac loss. Various numerical simulation techniques and optimization methods have been applied in structural optimization of HTS cables. While the existence of fluctuation in design variables or operation conditions has a great influence on the cable quality, in order to eliminate the effects of parameter perturbations in design and to improve the design efficiency, a robust optimization method based on design for six sigma (DFSS) is presented in this paper. The optimization results show that the proposed optimization procedure can not only achieve a uniform current distribution, but also improve significantly the reliability and robustness of the HTS cable quality, comparing with those by using the particle swarm optimization.
Xiyin Liang, Jiangfeng Zhang & Xiaohua Xia 2008, 'Improving the Security of Chaotic Synchronization With a $\Delta$-Modulated Cryptographic Technique', IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 55, no. 7, pp. 680-684.
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Xu, M, Xu, C, Duan, L, Jin, JS & Luo, S 2008, 'Audio keywords generation for sports video analysis', ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 1-23.
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Sports video has attracted a global viewership. Research effort in this area has been focused on semantic event detection in sports video to facilitate accessing and browsing. Most of the event detection methods in sports video are based on visual features. However, being a significant component of sports video, audio may also play an important role in semantic event detection. In this paper, we have borrowed the concept of the “keyword” from the text mining domain to define a set of specific audio sounds. These specific audio sounds refer to a set of game-specific sounds with strong relationships to the actions of players, referees, commentators, and audience, which are the reference points for interesting sports events. Unlike low-level features, audio keywords can be considered as a mid-level representation, able to facilitate high-level analysis from the semantic concept point of view. Audio keywords are created from low-level audio features with learning by support vector machines. With the help of video shots, the created audio keywords can be used to detect semantic events in sports video by Hidden Markov Model (HMM) learning. Experiments on creating audio keywords and, subsequently, event detection based on audio keywords have been very encouraging. Based on the experimental results, we believe that the audio keyword is an effective representation that is able to achieve satisfying results for event detection in sports video. Application in three sports types demonstrates the practicality of the proposed method.
XU, X, HAYASAKA, N & MIYANAGA, Y 2008, 'Robust Speech Spectra Restoration against Unspecific Noise Conditions for Pitch Detection', IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, vol. E91-A, no. 3, pp. 775-781.
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Xu, XX, Li, L & Zheng, YF 2008, 'Preparation and surface modification of magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical applications', Cailiao Kexue yu Gongyi/Material Science and Technology, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 562-568.
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Magnetic nanoparticle is one of the hot research directions in the field of nano-biomedical materials. The magnetic nanoparticles prepared by different methods and modified with different polymers are used in various fields. In this paper, we synthetically summarize its preparation methods including co-precipitation, sol-gel, microemulsion, generalize the surface modification technique with different polymers, and report the biomedical applications of magnetic nanoparticles involving target drug delivery, cell separation hyperthermic treatment for malignant cells and MRI contrast enhancement. Magnetic nanoparticles still have great potentials for development and application in the future.
Yan, Y, Zhu, JG & Guo, YG 2008, 'Initial rotor position estimation and sensorless direct torque control of surface-mounted permanent magnet synchronous motors considering saturation saliency', IET Electric Power Applications, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 42-48.
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For a practical direct torque-controlled (DTC) permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drive system, the information of the initial rotor position, which is usually obtained by a mechanical position sensor, is essential for starting under the full load
Yi Yang, Yue-Ting Zhuang, Fei Wu & Yun-He Pan 2008, 'Harmonizing Hierarchical Manifolds for Multimedia Document Semantics Understanding and Cross-Media Retrieval', IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 437-446.
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Yoshizawa, S & Miyanaga, Y 2008, 'Use of a Variable Wordlength Technique in an OFDM Receiver to Reduce Energy Dissipation', IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 55, no. 9, pp. 2848-2859.
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YOSHIZAWA, S, YAMAUCHI, Y & MIYANAGA, Y 2008, 'VLSI Implementation of a Complete Pipeline MMSE Detector for a 4 x 4 MIMO-OFDM Receiver', IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, vol. E91-A, no. 7, pp. 1757-1762.
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Youguang Guo, Jian Guo Zhu, Jinjiang Zhong, Haiyan Lu & Jian Xun Jin 2008, 'Measurement and Modeling of Rotational Core Losses of Soft Magnetic Materials Used in Electrical Machines: A Review', IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 279-291.
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In many situations, for example, in the cores of a rotating electrical machine and the T-joints of multiphase transformers, the magnetic flux varies with time in terms of both magnitude and direction, i.e., the local flux density vector rotates with varying magnitude and varying speed. Therefore, it is important that the magnetic properties of the core materials under various rotational magnetizations be properly investigated, modeled, and applied in the design and analysis of electromagnetic devices with rotational flux. Drawing from the huge amount of papers published by various researchers in the past century, this paper presents an extensive survey on the measurement and modeling of rotational core losses of soft magnetic materials used in electrical machines, particularly from the view of practical engineering application. The paper aims to provide a broad picture of the historical development of measuring techniques, measuring apparatus, and practical models of rotational core losses.
Younis, O, Krunz, M & Ramasubramanian, S 2008, 'Location-unaware coverage in wireless sensor networks', Ad Hoc Networks, vol. 6, no. 7, pp. 1078-1097.
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Younis, O, Ramasubramanian, S & Krunz, M 2008, 'Operational range assignment in sensor and actor networks', Ad-Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks, vol. 5, no. 1-2, pp. 69-99.
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Networks of sensors and actors can be used in a variety of applications, including the detection of chemical activity or controlling pests in farms. In these applications, nodes (sensors and actors) are typically deployed in large numbers. Thus, not all of them need to operate at their maximum operational (sensing/acting) ranges, especially when the underlying operation is expensive. In this work, we study how to minimize the operational range in a distributed fashion. Unlike previous work, we consider environments in which location estimation is not possible (e.g., dense forests). We develop a distributed protocol for assigning the operational ranges of nodes (ORAP). ORAPassigns longer ranges to nodes that are less resource constrained (e.g., in terms of energy) than their peers in order to prolong the operational lifetime of every individual node. If the nodes are not aware of their locations, ORAP employs a novel localized algorithm (VICON) for determining the virtual coordinates of the neighbors of each node. VICON relies on conservative estimates of neighbor distances and advertised 1-hop neighborhood information. We show that ORAP introduces negligible overhead and meets its intended goals. Extensive simulations indicate that ORAP balances resource consumption among nodes, resulting in a significant network lifetime improvement even under inaccurate distance estimation.
Yusop, N, Zowghi, D & Lowe, D 2008, 'The impacts of non-functional requirements in web system projects', International Journal of Value Chain Management, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 18-18.
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In web system development, the Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) are typically considered only briefly during the requirements elicitation stage and not rigorously articulated by either web developers or the client. This paper reports on an investigation into this issue involving interviews with web developers who were engaged in commercial web development projects. The results from this qualitative research highlight that web developers commonly do not pay sufficient attention to NFRs. This arises due to uncertainty, lack of time, lack of knowledge in the importance of NFRs and partly because NFRs are not readily available and documented from previous similar projects. Web developers also do not elicit NFR at the same time and at the same level of details as Functional Requirements (FRs). This study highlights that exploring the domain at an early stage of development will help developers to better understand NFR. A lack of rigour in articulating NFRs may significantly impact on the development effectiveness and the quality of the resulting web system. An evaluation of NFRs may also lead to discovering new FRs.
Zhan, Y, Guo, Y, Zhu, J & Wang, H 2008, 'Intelligent uninterruptible power supply system with back-up fuel cell/battery hybrid power source', Journal of Power Sources, vol. 179, no. 2, pp. 745-753.
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This paper presents the development of an intelligent uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system with a hybrid power source that comprises a proton-exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) and a battery. Attention is focused on the architecture of the UPS hybr
Zhang, G, Lu, J & Gao, Y 2008, 'An algorithm for fuzzy multi-objective multi-follower partial cooperative bilevel programming', JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT & FUZZY SYSTEMS, vol. 19, no. 4-5, pp. 303-319.
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In a bilevel decision problem, both the leader and the follower may have multiple objectives to optimize under certain constraints. In the meantime, these objective functions and constraints may contain some uncertain parameters. In addition, there may h
Zhang, G, Lu, J & Gao, Y 2008, 'FUZZY BILEVEL PROGRAMMING: MULTI-OBJECTIVE AND MULTI-FOLLOWER WITH SHARED VARIABLES', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF UNCERTAINTY FUZZINESS AND KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS, vol. 16, pp. 105-133.
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Bilevel programming deals with hierarchical optimization problems in which the leader at the upper level attempts to optimize his or her objectives, but subject to a set of constraints and the follower's reactions. Typical bilevel programming considers one leader one follower situation and supposes each of them has only one objective. In real world situations, multiple followers may be involved and they may be with different relationships such as sharing decision variables or not, sharing objectives or not. Therefore, the leader's decision will be affected not only by those followers' reactions but also by their relationships. In addition, any of the leader and/or these followers may have multiple conflict objectives that should be optimized simultaneously. Furthermore, the parameters of a bilevel programming model may be described by uncertain values. This paper addresses all these three issues as a whole by particularly focusing on the situation of sharing decision variables among followers. It first proposes a set of fuzzy multi-objective multi-follower bilevel programming (FMMBP) models to describe the complex issue. It then presents an approximation branch-and-bound algorithm to solve the FMMBP problems. Finally, two examples illustrate the proposed models and algorithm.
Zhang, G, Shi, C & Lu, J 2008, 'AN EXTENDED KTH-BEST APPROACH FOR REFERENTIAL-UNCOOPERATIVE BILEVEL MULTI-FOLLOWER DECISION MAKING', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 205-214.
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Bilevel decision techniques have been mainly developed for solving decentralized management problems with decision makers in a hierarchical organization. When multiple followers are involved in a bilevel decision problem, called a bilevel multi-follower (BLMF) decision problem, the leaderâs decision will be affected, not only by the reactions of these followers, but also by the relationships among these followers. The referential-uncooperative situation is one of the popular cases of BLMF decision problems where these multiple followers donât share decision variables with each other but may take othersâ decisions as references to their decisions. This paper presents a model for the referential-uncooperative BLMF decision problem. As the kth-best approach is one of the most successful approaches in dealing with normal bilevel decision problems, this paper then proposes an extended kth-best approach to solve the referential-uncooperative BLMF problem. Finally an example of logistics planning illustrates the application of the proposed extended kth-best approach.
Zhang, G, Shi, C & Lu, J 2008, 'An ExtendedKth-Best Approach For Referential-Uncooperative Bilevel Multi-Follower Decision Making', International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 205-214.
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Bilevel decision techniques have been mainly developed for solving decentralized management problems with decision makers in a hierarchical organization. When multiple followers are involved in a bilevel decision problem, called a bilevel multi-follower (BLMF) decision problem, the leader's decision will be affected, not only by the reactions of these followers, but also by the relationships among these followers. The referential-uncooperative situation is one of the popular cases of BLMF decision problems where these multiple followers don't share decision variables with each other but may take others' decisions as references to their decisions. This paper presents a model for the referential-uncooperative BLMF decision problem. As the kth-best approach is one of the most successful approaches in dealing with normal bilevel decision problems, this paper then proposes an extended kth-best approach to solve the referential-uncooperative BLMF problem. Finally an example of logistics planning illustrates the application of the proposed extended kth-best approach. © 2008 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Zhang, H, Huang, S & James, MR 2008, 'H∞control for discrete-time nonlinear switching systems', International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 18, no. 15, pp. 1451-1481.
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This paper formulates and solves the robust H-infinity control problem for discrete-time nonlinear switching, systems. The H-infinity control problem is interpreted as the l(2) finite gain control problem and is studied using a dissipative systems theory
Zhang, J & Xia, X 2008, 'Identifiability Problems of Time-delay HIV Models', IFAC Proceedings Volumes, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 283-288.
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Zhang, R, Vigneswaran, S, Ngo, H & Nguyen, H 2008, 'Fluidized bed magnetic ion exchange (MIEX®) as pre-treatment process for a submerged membrane reactor in wastewater treatment and reuse', Desalination, vol. 227, no. 1-3, pp. 85-93.
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Magnetic ion exchange (MIEX) resin can effectively remove significant amounts of organic matter from biologically treated sewage effluent. The MIEX process has mainly been used as a batch process, which requires a large area for accommodating both contact tank and settling tank in the treatment process. In this study, a fluidized bed MIEX reactor (a semi-continuous process) was used as a pre-treatment for a submerged membrane. When used as a pre-treatment for a submerged membrane, the fluidized bed MIEX contactor could remove a significant amount of organic matter in the wastewater (80% removal). This pre-treatment helped to reduce membrane fouling and keep transmembrane pressure low during the membrane operation of 8 h (less than 19 kPa). The regeneration of MIEX resin (number of regeneration, regeneration time, etc.) did not have any adverse effect on the organic removal by MIEX
Zhang, W, Abhayapala, TD & Zhang, J 2008, 'Frequency Dependency in UWB Channel Modelling', Scientific Commons.
Zhang, Y & Zhou, JL 2008, 'Occurrence and removal of endocrine disrupting chemicals in wastewater', Chemosphere, vol. 73, no. 5, pp. 848-853.
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This paper discusses the occurrence and removal of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in Horsham sewage treatment plant (STP), West Sussex, UK. Photodegradation aided by a catalyst (TiO2) was studied for its efficiency of removing EDCs from wastewater. The degradation of estrone and 17ß-estradiol under natural sunlight followed a pseudo-first-order kinetics, with a rate constant of 0.01 h-1. The degradation by sunlight is also independent of initial chemical concentration, suggesting some potential of using this environmentally friendly method for waste minimisation. In comparison, more efficient degradation was observed with UV irradiation (253 nm), with the rate constants being increased to 2.7 and 2.5 h-1 for the two compounds. Subsequent application of the photocatalysis method to real effluent treatment at Horsham STP was successful, as demonstrated by the non-detection of the target compounds following treatment.
Zhang, Z, Hibberd, A & Zhou, JL 2008, 'Analysis of emerging contaminants in sewage effluent and river water: Comparison between spot and passive sampling', Analytica Chimica Acta, vol. 607, no. 1, pp. 37-44.
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Passive sampling is highly complimentary to spot sampling in environmental analysis. A polar organic chemical integrative sampler (POCIS) was extensively tested to optimize its performance under both controlled and field conditions. The passive sampler was subsequently used for the sampling and analysis of estrone, 17ß-estradiol, 17a-ethynylestradiol, bisphenol A, propranolol, sulfamethoxazole, meberverine, thioridazine, carbamazepine, tamoxifen, indomethacine, diclofenac and meclofenamic acid in sewage effluent and river water. Under laboratory conditions, the kinetics of compound uptake by POCIS were linear during 10-day of exposure. POCIS sampling rates of the target compounds were significantly greater by using polyethersulfone instead of polysulfone membrane, and enhanced with increasing sorbent exposure area. Together with spot water sampling, the optimized POCIS was deployed in the River Ouse, West Sussex, UK to obtain field-derived sampling rates which, for endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), were significantly higher than those from laboratory experiments. Both spot and passive sampling demonstrated that most of the target chemicals were frequently detected in sewage effluent and river waters, and that the daily changes in the pollutant concentrations were greater for pharmaceuticals than for EDCs. The aqueous concentrations of all compounds were elevated at a sewage outfall, which is confirmed to be an important source of the target compounds in the river. The validated POCIS was then successfully used to estimate the concentrations of the target compounds in effluent and river water, which were in good agreement with those from spot sampling for pharmaceuticals.
Zhao, Y, Milne, G, Edgar, JS, Jeffries, GDM, McGloin, D & Chiu, DT 2008, 'Quantitative force mapping of an optical vortex trap', Applied Physics Letters, vol. 92, no. 16, pp. 161111-161111.
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Zharova, N, Sfriso, A, Pavoni, B & Voinov, A 2008, 'Analysis of annual fluctuations of C. nodosa in the Venice lagoon: Modeling approach', Ecological Modelling, vol. 216, no. 2, pp. 134-144.
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Zhou, J, Wang, Z & Xiao, C 2008, 'Focal region based volume rendering by texture mapping and GPU based approach', Jisuanji Fuzhu Sheji Yu Tuxingxue Xuebao/Journal of Computer-Aided Design and Computer Graphics, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 32-37.
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This paper presents an approach of using texture mapping and GPU based method for realizing focal region based volume rendering. The proposed method first labels the volumetric data into three parts based on the mechanism of stencil buffer test. Then the data model is rendered using texture mapping method. The approach also adopts GPU-based method to render the context region with volume silhouettes, and also realize the multiple transfer function specification process based on pixel transfer function. The proposed method shows its good performance in the implementation and function extension.
Zhou, J, Xiao, C, Wang, Z & Takatsuka, M 2008, 'A concept of volume rendering guided search process to analyze medical data set', Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 140-149.
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Zhou, JL 2008, 'Occurrence and persistence of antifouling biocide Irgarol 1051 and its main metabolite in the coastal waters of Southern England', Science of The Total Environment, vol. 406, no. 1-2, pp. 239-246.
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The toxicity and persistence of antifouling booster biocides are of major concern. This study reports the occurrence of Irgarol 1051 and its degradation product M1, in coastal waters of Southern England, during 20042005. The highest concentrations of Irgarol 1051 were 89 ng/L in water and 45 ng/g dry weight in sediments, with an overall mean (n = 108) of 13 ng/L and 16 ng/g in water and sediments, respectively. As the degradation product of Irgarol 1051, M1 was less widespread, with the highest concentration of 30 ng/L in water and 14 ng/g in sediments, with an overall mean (n = 108) of 5 ng/L and 4 ng/g in water and sediments, respectively. Overall, the concentration of Irgarol 1051 and M1 decreased significantly during the sampling period and in comparison to earlier studies during 2000 to early 2004, indicating that control measures by restricting the use of Irgarol 1051 are effective in reducing its concentrations in coastal waters. The distribution of Irgarol 1051 between sediments and water was significantly related to sediment organic carbon content. In addition, significantly higher concentrations of Irgarol 1051 were detected in paint particles than in sediment. The rate of release of Irgarol 1051 from paint residues is very slow, with a half life of approximately 1 y. Two important findings are emerging, first the importance of organic rich sediments and paint residues as major sites of storage for Irgarol 1051, and secondly Irgarol 1051 may be classified as a persistent organic pollutant due to its long half life.
Zhou, W, Miro, JV & Dissanayake, G 2008, 'Information-Efficient 3-D Visual SLAM for Unstructured Domains', IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 1078-1087.
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This paper presents a novel vision-based sensory package and an information-efficient simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithm. Together, we offer a solution for building 3-D dense map in an unknown and unstructured environment with minimal
Zhu, X & Sun, Y 2008, 'Low-distortion low-voltage operational transconductance amplifier', Electronics Letters, vol. 44, no. 25, pp. 1434-1434.
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ZHU, XQ, HAO, H & PENG, XL 2008, 'DYNAMIC ASSESSMENT OF UNDERWATER PIPELINE SYSTEMS USING STATISTICAL MODEL UPDATING', International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, vol. 08, no. 02, pp. 271-297.
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This paper presents a statistical model updating technique for damage detection of underwater pipeline systems via vibration measurements. To verify the reliability of the method, laboratory tests of a scaled pipeline model were carried out in a towing tank. The model includes a plastic pipe and some removable springs which are designed and fabricated to link the pipe and the steel base to simulate the bedding conditions. Different damage scenarios, in terms of location and severity of scouring under the pipe, were simulated by removing one or several springs. The natural frequencies, damping ratios and mode shapes of the pipeline system were extracted from the measured vibrations using a stochastic subspace identification technique. Both the numerical and the experimental results show that the method is effective and reliable in identifying the underwater pipeline bedding conditions and the damage in the pipe structure.
Zhuang, Y-T, Yang, Y & Wu, F 2008, 'Mining semantic correlation of heterogeneous multimedia data for cross-media retrieval', IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 221-229.
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Zhuang, Y-T, Yang, Y & Wu, F 2008, 'Mining Semantic Correlation of Heterogeneous Multimedia Data for Cross-Media Retrieval', IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 221-229.
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Although multimedia objects such as images, as udios and texts are of different modalities, there are a great amount of semantic correlations among them. In this paper, we propose a method of transductive learning to mine the semantic correlations among media objects of different modalities so that to achieve the cross-media retrieval. Cross-media retrieval is a new kind of searching technology by which the query examples and the returned results can be of different modalities, e.g., to query images by an example of audio. First, according to the media objects features and their co-existence information, we construct a uniform cross-media correlation graph, in which media objects of different modalities are represented uniformly. To perform the cross-media retrieval, a positive score is assigned to the query example; the score spreads along the graph and media objects of target modality or MMDs with the highest scores are returned. To boost the retrieval performance, we also propose different approaches of long-term and short-term relevance feedback to mine the information contained in the positive and negative examples. © 2008 IEEE.
Abedin, B & Daneshgar, F 1970, 'Operationalizing Off-task Sociability of Asynchronous Computer Supported Collaborative Learning', INNOVATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN BUSINESS GLOBALIZATION: THEORY & PRACTICE, VOLS 1 AND 2, pp. 105-111.
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Many previous studies have emphasized the role of the sociability of the computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environments on learning achievements. Also, recent studies have reported that other than on-task interaction, students have considerable off-task interactions in CSCL environments. Yet, more studies are needed to clarify the off-task aspect of social interactions in CSCL and sociability of the environment. This paper attempts to investigate and operationalize sociability of CSCL environments from off-task point of view in order to further clarify this aspect of CSCL. It first reviews previous sociability questionnaires and instruments and then proposes a list of measure to represent and operationalize off-task sociability of CSCL. The proposed list of measures is then validated through experts’ judges and finally implications are discussed.
Abolhasan, M, Hagelstein, B, Wang, JC-P, Franklin, DR, Safaei, F & Wysocki, T 1970, 'Development and performance evaluation of a flexible, low cost MANET', 2008 2nd International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems, 2008 2nd International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS 2008), IEEE, Gold coast, Australia, pp. 1-6.
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Performance evaluations of multi-hop ad hoc network routing protocols have been primarily conducted through analytic and simulation-based studies, which frequently fail to accurately predict real-world performance and behaviour. One reason for this is the challenge in developing low cost, representative test beds with the degree of flexibility and mobility required. We have developed a portable wireless ad hoc node (PWAN) device which establishes multi-hop routes using the OLSR routing protocol. The PWAN's performance has been investigated using two test bed configurations to evaluate its capacity under conditions of high node density in a short-range, multi-hop environment. Our results illustrate that such networks are capable of providing high quality connections when traffic density is low. However, the network link quality deteriorates dramatically as the traffic level increases, and the network topology becomes unstable until the traffic level is reduced.
Abolhasan, M, Hagelstein, B, Wang, JC-P, Franklin, DR, Safaei, F & Wysocki, T 1970, 'Development and Performance Evaluation of a Flexible, Low Cost MANET', ICSPCS: 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SIGNAL PROCESSING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, PROCEEDINGS, 2nd International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems, IEEE, Gold Coast, AUSTRALIA, pp. 107-112.
Aboura, K, Samali, B, Crews, K & Li, J 1970, 'Stochastic Deterioration Processes for Bridge Lifetime Assessment', 2008 Third International Conference on Broadband Communications, Information Technology & Biomedical Applications, 2008 Third International Conference on Broadband Communications, Information Technology & Biomedical Applications, IEEE, Pretoria, South Africa, pp. 437-442.
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The Markov chain model can be found in the maintenance and repair problems since the early 60's, is introduced to the maintenance of road infrastructure in the 1980's, and is made to drive the current bridge maintenance optimization systems. While this model results into solvable programming problems and provides a solution, there are a number of criticisms associated with it. In this article, we highlight the shortfalls of the Markov model for bridge infrastructure lifetime assessment and promote the use of stochastic processes. We use examples from a study for the modeling of the condition of bridges that considers more than 15 years of data. We argue for the applicability of the gamma process and other stochastic processes.
Aboura, K, Samali, B, Crews, K & Li, J 1970, 'Stochastic processes for modelling bridge deterioration', Futures in Mechanics of Structures and Materials - Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, ACMSM20, Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Taylor and Francis Group, Toowoomba, pp. 533-538.
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Traditionally, bridge management systems were designed using Markov chain models. Recently, researchers applied the gamma process successfully to structural deterioration problems. The stochastic process captures the temporal variability of degradation, and has been applied to a range of problems in structures. We report on a study for the modelling of the condition of bridges in the state of NSW. The study encompasses large amounts of data spanning more than 15 years. We argue for the applicability of the gamma process and other stochastic processes. While the gamma process has been adopted in the past decade on grounds of mathematical tractability and physical motivation, we also observe another distribution for the deterioration at different times. The finding promotes the stochastic process modelling direction taken in the past decade and brings forth new models for the time-dependent reliability analysis of bridges. © 2009 Taylor & Francis Group, London.
Adistambha, K, Ritz, CH & Burnett, IS 1970, 'Motion classification using Dynamic Time Warping', 2008 IEEE 10th Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, 2008 IEEE 10th Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), IEEE, pp. 622-627.
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Automatic generation of metadata is an important component of multimedia search-by-content systems as it both avoids the need for manual annotation as well as minimising subjective descriptions and human errors. This paper explores the automatic attachment of basic descriptions (or 'Tags') to human motion held in a motion-capture database on the basis of a Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) approach. The captured motion is held in the Acclaim ASF/AMC format commonly used in game and movie motion capture work and the approach allows for the comparison and classification of motion from different subjects. The work analyses the bone rotations important to a small set of movements and results indicate that only a small set of examples is required to perform reliable motion classification. © 2008 IEEE.
Adistambha, K, Ritz, CH & Burnett, IS 1970, 'Motion Classification Using Dynamic Time Warping', 2008 IEEE 10TH WORKSHOP ON MULTIMEDIA SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1 AND 2, 10th IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, IEEE, Cairns, AUSTRALIA, pp. 626-+.
Agrawal, A, Kejalakshmy, N, Tian, F, Rahman, BMA & Grattan, KTV 1970, 'A quasi-crystal spiral photonic crystal fiber: Modal solutions and dispersion properties', Optics InfoBase Conference Papers.
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A novel quasi crystal spiral design for a Photonic Crystal Fiber is optimized by the Finite Element method. The fiber dispersion can be designed to have large negative values by tuning the design parameters. ©2007 Optical Society of America.
Aguilera, RP, Quevedo, DE, Summers, TJ & Lezana, P 1970, 'Predictive Control Algorithm Robustness for Achieving Fault Tolerance in Multicell Converters', IECON 2008: 34TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS SOCIETY, VOLS 1-5, PROCEEDINGS, 34th Annual Conference of the IEEE-Industrial-Electronics-Society, IEEE, Orlando, FL, pp. 3193-+.
Aguilera, RP, Quevedo, DE, Summers, TJ & Lezana, P 1970, 'Predictive control algorithm robustness for achieving fault tolerance in multicell converters', 2008 34th Annual Conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics, IECON 2008 - 34th Annual Conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IEEE, pp. 3302-3308.
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Multilevel Converters (MCs) have emerged as a promising alternative to traditional two level converters. MCs use an arrangement of several semiconductors to synthesize high quality output voltage levels. Unfortunately, as a consequence of using more switching elements, MCs are, in general, more likely to be affected by faults, than their two level counterparts. In this paper, we propose a finite set constrained predictive control method for MCs, which is aimed at achieving robustness to failures in the semiconductors. We focus on three-phase multicell flying capacitor converters and show that, by carefully designing switching sequences, faults can be isolated from measurements provided by a single voltage sensor per phase. When faults occur, the proposed controller reconfigures the converter to provide to the load voltages which are similar to those obtained under normal, i.e., fault free, operating conditions. © 2008 IEEE.
Ahmad, MR, Dutkiewicz, E & Huang, X 1970, 'MAC Protocol for Cooperative MIMO Transmissions in Asynchronous Wireless Sensor Networks', 2008 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES, International Symposium on Communication and Information Technologies, IEEE, Vientiane, LAOS, pp. 579-+.
Ahmad, MR, Dutkiewicz, E & Huang, X 1970, 'MAC Protocol for Cooperative MIMO Transmissions in Asynchronous Wireless Sensor Networks', 2008 International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, 2008 International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT), IEEE, pp. 580-585.
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Cooperative MIMO schemes can reduce both transmission energy and latency in distributed wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this paper we develop a new Cooperative low power listening (LPL) Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for two cooperative MIMO schemes: Optimal Beamforming (BF) and Spatial Multiplexing (SM). We develop analytical models for the total energy consumption and packet latency for both schemes and analyse the proposed MAC protocol in term of the total energy consumption and packet latency with imperfect synchronisation due to clock jitter. The impact of the clock jitter, the check interval and the number of cooperative nodes on the total energy consumption and latency are investigated. We observe that the Cooperative LPL MAC with Optimal BF is the most promising configuration and it is optimal when then number of co-operating nodes M=2 and jitter difference is below 0.6Tb. © 2008 IEEE.
Ahmad, MR, Dutkiewicz, E & Huang, X 1970, 'Performance evaluation of MAC protocols for cooperative MIMO transmissions in sensor networks', Proceedings of the 5th ACM symposium on Performance evaluation of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks, MSWiM '08: The 11th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, ACM, Vancouver, CANADA, pp. 54-62.
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Ahmad, MR, Dutkiewicz, E & Xiaojing 1970, 'Performance analysis of MAC protocol for cooperative MIMO transmissions in WSN', 2008 IEEE 19th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2008 IEEE 19th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), IEEE, Cannes, FRANCE, pp. 1929-+.
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Ahmed, N, Yifei Dong, Kanhere, SS, Jha, S, Rutten, M, Bessell, T & Gordon, N 1970, 'Performance evaluation of a wireless sensor network based tracking system', 2008 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems, 2008 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), IEEE.
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Ahuja, S & Krunz, M 1970, 'Server Placement in Multiple-Description-Based Media Streaming', Data Compression Conference (dcc 2008), 2008 Data Compression Conference DCC, IEEE, Snowbird, UT, pp. 372-381.
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Ahuja, SS, Ramasubramanian, S & Krunz, M 1970, 'SRLG Failure Localization in All-Optical Networks Using Monitoring Cycles and Paths', 2008 Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM - The 27th Conference on Computer Communications, 27th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2008), IEEE, Phoenix, AZ, pp. 700-708.
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Alempijevic, A, Kodagoda, S & Dissanayake, G 1970, 'Sensor registration for robotic applications', FIELD AND SERVICE ROBOTICS: RESULTS OF THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, International Conference on Field and Service Robotics, Springer, France, pp. 233-242.
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Multi-sensor data fusion plays an essential role in most robotic applications. Appropriate registration of information from different sensors is a fundamental requirement in multi-sensor data fusion. Registration requires significant effort particularly when sensor signals do not have direct geometric interpretations, observer dynamics are unknown and occlusions are present. In this paper, we propose Mutual Information (MI) based sensor registration which exploits the effect of a common cause in the observed space on the sensor outputs that does not require any prior knowledge of relative poses of the observers. Simulation results are presented to substantiate the claim that the algorithm is capable of registering the sensors in the presence of substantial observer dynamics.
Al-Oqaily, A, Kennedy, PJ, Catchpoole, D & Simoff, S 1970, 'Comparison of visualization methods of genome-wide SNP profiles in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia', Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series, Australian Data Mining Conference, Australian Computer Society, Adelaide, Australia, pp. 111-121.
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Data mining and knowledge discovery have been applied to datasets in various industries including biomedical data. Modelling, data mining and visualization in biomedical data address the problem of extracting knowledge from large and complex biomedical data. The current challenge of dealing with such data is to develop statistical-based and data mining methods that search and browse the underlying patterns within the data. In this paper, we employ several data reduction methods for visualizing genome- wide Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) datasets based on state-of-art data reduction techniques. Visualization approach has been selected based on the trustworthiness of the resultant visualizations. To deal with large amounts of genetic variation data, we have chosen to apply different data reduction methods to deal with the problem induced by high dimensionality. Based on the trustworthiness metric we found that neighbour Retrieval Visualizer (NeRV) outperformed other methods. This method optimizes the retrieval quality of Stochastic neighbour Embedding. The quality measure of the visualization (i.e. NeRV) showed excellent results, even though the dataset was reduced from 13917 to 2 dimensions. The visualization results will assist clinicians and biomedical researchers in understanding the systems biology of patients and how to compare different groups of clusters in visualizations. © 2008, Australian Computer Society, Inc.
Al-Zubi, RT, Krunz, M & Muqattash, A 1970, 'Interference Management Distributed Reservation Protocol for OFDM-Based UWB Communications', IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 - 2008 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 - 2008 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, IEEE, New Orleans, LA.
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Amailef, K & Lu, J 1970, 'm-Government: A Framework of Mobile-based Emergency Response Systems', 2008 3rd International Conference on Intelligent System and Knowledge Engineering, Vols 1 and 2, International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Xiamen, China, pp. 1398-1403.
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Mobile government (m-Government) is the next inevitable direction of evolution of e-Government. A mobile-based emergency response system (MERS) is one of the important m-Government services. A MERS under m-Government platform is a mobile-based information system designed to let people get help from the government in an emergency situation. It also makes the use of mobile technologies to assist the government to get information and make decisions in responding disasters anytime and anywhere. This paper presents a framework of MERS which has five main components (register, monitoring, analysis, decision support, and warning) aiming to provide a new function and service to m-Government. The proposed MERS framework would also offer a new opportunity to interact between government, citizens, responders, and other non-government agencies in emergency situations.
Anderson, D & Crews, K 1970, 'Bridging the Gap – A Design Process Case Study for an “Intelligent” Footbridge', IABSE Conference, Helsinki 2008: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Bridges, Buildings and Construction Practice, IABSE Conference, Helsinki 2008: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Bridges, Buildings and Construction Practice, International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), Helsinki, Finland, pp. 1-10.
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This paper presents details of a research project that has been undertaken at the University of Technology, Sydney by a multidisciplinary team to develop a framework model that synthesises architectural, engineering and construction processes for intelligent buildings with sustainable performance characteristics. A significance aspect of this project is the bridging of the traditional gap that exists between Architecture, Engineering and Construction professions in Australia. The focus of the first stage of this research has been to undertake design of a complex form footbridge using various software packages to undertake concept design using digital architecture, visualisation and modelling of structural performance of the finished bridge. In order to achieve this synthesis in design, a number of interoperability issues have been identified. The paper presents details of the project and discuss how various design and knowledge creation issues have been addressed, as well as how it is proposed to develop the framework model in the future, for more complex problems.
Aoki, Y, Sri Ravindrarajah, R & Khabbaz, H 1970, 'Environmentally friendly sustainable pervious concrete', Futures in Mechanics of Structures and Materials - Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, ACMSM20, Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Taylor & Francis Group, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, pp. 567-570.
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Portland cement is considered as one of the environmentally unfriendly materials due to its contribution to the increased liberation of carbon dioxide to the environment during production. In addition to its impervious nature, when it is used for pavement application, it contributes to increased stormwater runoff to drainage systems, over-burdening the infrastructure and causing excessive flooding in built-up areas. This paper presents the results of an experimental investigation associated with quantifying the properties of pervious concrete containing fly ash, up to 50% as partial replacement for cement. The main goal of this research is to promote the utilisation of fly ash for developing durable and sustainable pervious concrete, which creates less negative environmental impacts. © 2009 Taylor & Francis Group, London.
Arathoon, SC, Fazall, A, Hussain, OK, Hussain, FK, Chang, E & IEEE 1970, 'Ontological Manifestation of Product Risk in Service Oriented Environment', 2008 6TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND INFORMATICS, International Symposium on Intelligent Systems and Informatics, IEEE, Subotica, SERBIA, pp. 302-307.
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Risk is omnipresent in all the interactions that we carry out. Quantifying and making risk-based assessments and decisions is very important especially in the case of business interactions. However in the existing literature there is no ontological manif
Arya, V, Duffield, NG & Veitch, D 1970, 'Temporal Delay Tomography', 2008 Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM - The 27th Conference on Computer Communications, 27th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2008), IEEE, IEEE.
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Aseeri, A, Wongthongtham, P, Wu, C & Hussain, FK 1970, 'Towards social network based ontology Evolution Wiki for an ontology evolution', Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services, iiWAS08: 10th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services, ACM, pp. 500-502.
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There is a lack of well-maintained ontologies thus ontology evolution now becomes an important filed of ontology research. The evolution may reflect new categories of systems being evaluated on broader and different understandings of certain concepts and relations. Alternatively ontologies evolve because the conceptualization improves. For ontology evolution, we focus in this paper a social network based approach in which the user community has direct control over the evolution of the ontologies. Ontologies can be enriched, learnt, and obtained from social network users using various empirical techniques. In this paper, we ground the social network based approach on the philosophy of wikis so called ontology Evolution Wiki. © 2008 ACM.
Aslund, ML, Jovanovic, N, Groothoff, N, Canning, J, Marshall, GD, Jackson, SD, Fuerbach, A & Withford, MJ 1970, 'Large diffractive scattering losses in the visible region produced by femtosecond laser written Bragg gratings', OECC/ACOFT 2008 - Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology, 2008 Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC) and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT), IEEE.
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We present a study of the short wavelength attenuation induced by ultra-stable gratings written by a femtosecond Ti-sapphire laser. We demonstrate that these gratings are indistinguishable from UV-written Type-II gratings.
Aslund, ML, Jovanovic, N, Groothoff, N, Canning, J, Marshall, GD, Jackson, SD, Fuerbach, A & Withford, MJ 1970, 'Large diffractive scattering losses in the visible region produced by femtosecond laser written Bragg gratings', 2008 JOINT CONFERENCE OF THE OPTO-ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE AND THE AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE ON OPTICAL FIBRE TECHNOLOGY, VOLS 1 AND 2, Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference/Australian Conference on Optical Fiber Technology, IEEE, Sydney, AUSTRALIA, pp. 23-+.
Aslund, ML, Jovanovic, N, Jackson, SD, Canning, J, Marshall, GD, Fuerbach, A & Withford, MJ 1970, 'Photo-annealing of femtosecond laser written Bragg gratings', 2008 JOINT CONFERENCE OF THE OPTO-ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE AND THE AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE ON OPTICAL FIBRE TECHNOLOGY, VOLS 1 AND 2, Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference/Australian Conference on Optical Fiber Technology, IEEE, Sydney, AUSTRALIA, pp. 598-+.
Aslund, ML, Jovanovic, N, Jackson, SD, Canning, J, Marshall, GD, Fuerbach, A & Withford, MJ 1970, 'Photo-annealing of femtosecond laser written Bragg gratings', OECC/ACOFT 2008 - Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology, 2008 Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC) and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT), IEEE.
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Evidence of photo-annealing of fibre Bragg gratings written with a femtosecond laser has been observed when employed as high reflectors in high power Q-switched laser cavities.
Aubrey, TA & Aboura, K 1970, 'Bandwidth utilisation for volume-to-volume UWB MIMO communications', 2008 3rd International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing, 2008 3rd International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing (ISWPC), IEEE, Santorini, Greece, pp. 88-92.
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Previous studies have investigated communications between regions of space and have considered the effect of antenna volume in determining the theoretical capacity of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications systems. In this paper the effects of antenna 1volume on available bandwidth for MIMO systems is considered. It is demonstrated that while higher order modal connections can be established even for small antennas that a fundamental limitation on bandwidth exists. This limitation becomes important for ultra-wide band (UWB) communications systems.
Azadeh, A, Saberi, M, Javanmardi, L & Azaron, A 1970, 'Developing expert system on decision making unit efficiency', 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2008), IEEE, pp. 809-816.
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Efficiency is a key concept for financial institutions. As personnel specifications have greatest impact on efficiency, they can help us designing work environments for maximizing efficiency. Providing information on multiple input and output factors are a complicated and time consuming procedure. Developing expert system in this situation is hard. This paper proposed a procedure that solved mentioned problem. At first, the integrated approach determining important attributes and then expert system is developed. The integrated approach uses Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Data Mining tools. DEA is used for DMUs efficiency evaluation. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Cross Validation Test Technique (CVTT) are used for precision testing and forecasting and finally DEA is again utilized for identification of attributes importance. ANN is used for determining important attributes and developing expert system. As well, K-means algorithm is used in developing expert system. A Procedure is proposed to developing expert system with mentioned tools and completed rule base. The constructed expert system helps managers to forecast DMUs efficiencies by selected attributes and grouping inferred efficiency. Also, they can assess new situation before happening and compare with present situation. The proposed integrated approach is applied to an actual banking system and its superiorities and advantages are discussed. © 2008 IEEE.
Azadeh, A, Saberi, M, Javanmardi, L & Azaron, A 1970, 'Developing Expert System on Decision Making Unit Efficiency', 2008 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS, VOLS 1-5, IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, IEEE, Cambridge, ENGLAND, pp. 232-+.
Azadeh, A, Seraj, O & Saberi, M 1970, 'A Total Fuzzy Regression Algorithm for Energy Consumption Estimation', 2008 6TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS, VOLS 1-3, 6th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, IEEE, Daejeon, SOUTH KOREA, pp. 1466-+.
Azadeh, A, Seraj, O & Saberi, M 1970, 'A total fuzzy regression algorithm for energy consumption estimation', 2008 6th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, 2008 6th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), IEEE, pp. 1562-1568.
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This study presents an integrated fuzzy regression and time series algorithm to estimate and predict electricity demand for seasonal and monthly changes in electricity consumption especially in developing countries such as China and Iran. Furthermore, it is diy Least-Squares Regression, Fuzzy Mathematical model kand styding theri advantages, thebest model is selectedl for estimation. In addition, another unique feature of this study is utillizaiton of Autocorrelation Function (ACF) to define input variable versus trail and error method. Monthyly electricity consumption of Iran form 1992 to 2004 is condidered ad the case of this study. ©2008 IEEE.
Babar, A, Zowghi, D, Cox, K, Tosic, V & ACM 1970, 'Three Integration Approaches for Map and B-SCP Requirements Engineering Techniques', APPLIED COMPUTING 2008, VOLS 1-3, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, ACM, Fortaleza, Brazil, pp. 650-655.
Babar, AR, Zowghi, D, Cox, K, Tosic, V, Bleistein, S & Verner, J 1970, 'Problem frames and business strategy modelling', Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Applications and advances of problem frames, ICSE '08: International Conference on Software Engineering, ACM, Liepzig, Germany, pp. 48-51.
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Requirements engineering describes how an IT implementation will support business functions. Most IT systems are operational in nature and typical requirements engineering techniques and methods are usually adequate in capturing and documenting the requirements for such systems. Jackson’s problem frames is a technique that is suitable for straightforward IT systems descriptions. However, when an organization deploys an IT system that must deliver upon its competitive business strategy, then an appropriate technique or method needs to be used to capture that business strategy in order to connect it to business-critical IT requirements. Here we provide an overview of the use and adaptation of problem frames to connect requirements to business strategy. We found that a simplification of the problem frames notation was necessary and that to be really effective, we had to integrate problem fames with goal modelling and Map, a method that helps describe the evolution of IT over time.
Bagia, R & Sharma, D 1970, 'Environmental Policies v. Energy Security in Australia', Proceedings of 2nd IAEE Asian Conference, The 2nd International Association of Energy Economics Asian Conference, Curtin University of Technology Business School, Perth, Western Australia.
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Abstract: 'Environment' has lately emerged as a policy issue of immense significance in Australia. Two of the most recently released reports on the topic, namely, Garnaut Review and the Australian Government's Green Paper, have established the foundations for a deeper debate on this topic. An early review of these reports, and other literature on this topic, suggests that much of the discussion on the likely impacts of climate change and strategies to mitigate climate-change-inducing greenhouse gases essentially revolves around economic arguments, for example, cost of mitigation, price and other micro- and macro-economic impacts. A lesser emphasis appears, in this debate, to have been placed on another equally strategic dimension associated with this issue, namely, the impacts of various environmental policy initiatives on âenergy securityâ. This paper provides a discussion on this dimension.
Baker, E, Kan, MM, Teo, ST, Onyx, J, Grant, T & Zowghi, D 1970, 'Managing sustainable non-profit network organizations', Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Annual Conference of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, University of Ottawa, Canada, pp. 118-128.
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We draw upon a case study conducted within a non-profit network organization to propose five dualities which are central to understanding effective management of non-profit networks. We then examine strategies that address these dualities, based on new approaches to leadership, performance measurement, governance, coaching and creative management of dualities.
Balasubramanian, V, Hoang, DB & Ahmad, NF 1970, 'SOAP based Assistive Care Loop using Wireless Sensor Networks', 2008 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON IT IN MEDICINE AND EDUCATION, VOLS 1 AND 2, PROCEEDINGS, International Symposium on IT in Medicine and Education, IEEE, Xiamen, China, pp. 409-414.
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There is a growing trend towards in-house health monitoring system. It is now feasible to place a personal digital assistant (PDA) or smart phone in the hands of care-delivery staff and the patients regardless of where they are located or what their duties might be. In such instance, the staff would be able to access records and communicate with patients in a flexible and cost effective way. This paper proposes an active care loop framework (ACLF). The strength of our ACLF is to monitor disease over longer period of time and to consult patient who are then able to discuss their conditions with the care staff. Where patients need emergency intervention, an assistive health monitoring system can provide a direct communication channel to summon assistance and to enable with managing the situation until the assistance arrives. With a regular schedule of monitoring and consultation, the assistive ACLF has the capacity to forestall and manage non-critical situations and therefore the system can be deployed to minimize the rate and costs of hospitalizations.
Ball, JE & Sakal, A 1970, 'Rainfall spatial variability and uncertainty in real-time flow forecasts', DHI European Conference, Water Across Europe, DHI Group, Dubrovnik, Croatia, pp. 1-11.
Ball, JE, Clark, K & Babister, KM 1970, 'Hydrological modelling using 2-D hydraulic models: Is the approach reasonable?', ICHE-2008 Conference, International Conference on Hydro-Science and Engineering, Testsuro Tsujimotto, Nagoya University, Japan, Nagoya, japan, pp. 1-10.
Bao, CX, Zhu, XQ, Hao, H & Li, ZX 1970, 'Operational modal analysis using correlation-based ARMA models', Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Structural Engineering for Young Experts, ISSEYE 2008, 10th International Symposium on Structural Engineering for Young Experts, SCIENCE PRESS BEIJING, Hunan Univ, Changsha, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 1459-1464.
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This paper develops a correlation-based ARMA model for modal parameter identification. Compared to the traditional ARMA algorithm, the correlation-based ARMA algorithm employs the least mean squares (LMS) to determine the optimal order of the ARMA model, and adopts the correlation function of the dynamic response as the input signal. Using LMS, the accuracy of the identified results is optimized at a low computational cost, and the results are also insensitive to noise since the correlation function is used. Numerical simulations show that this algorithm is capable of identifying rather close modes with great accuracy and time efficiency even when highly noisy signal is present. The correlation-based ARMA algorithm is proven to be an efficient, reliable and robust tool for the output-only modal identification.
Bao, CX, Zhu, XQ, Hao, H & Li, ZX 1970, 'Variable modal parameter identification using an improved HHT algorithm', Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Structural Engineering for Young Experts, ISSEYE 2008, 10th International Symposium on Structural Engineering for Young Experts, SCIENCE PRESS BEIJING, Hunan Univ, Changsha, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 1465-1470.
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In this study, an improved Hilbert-Huang transform (HHT) algorithm is introduced to analyse nonlinear dynamic response of structures with closely spaced modes and varying modal parameters. In this algorithm, the auto-correlation function of the original response is taken as a substitute of input to reduce the influences from noise, a band-pass filter is proposed for signal pre-processing to ensure better decomposition. An effective intrinsic mode function (IMF) selection procedure is employed to eliminate the pseudo-components while keeping the real mono-components which are complete and almost orthogonal to the original signal. Numerical simulations show that the improved HHT algorithm is effective for the analysis of nonlinear systems with rather close modes and the identification of variable modal parameters. It also provides a precise identification of particular events in the time-frequency space and a physically meaningful interpretation of the nonlinear process.
Baxter, RM, Steinbeck, MJ, Tipper, JL, Rimnac, CM, Parvizi, J, Marcolongo, M & Kurtz, SM 1970, 'Evaluation of methods for optimized periprosthetic tissue digestion', 8th World Biomaterials Congress 2008, p. 961.
Behrens, M, Carmichael, M & Patel, M 1970, 'Designing SANDRA: An autonomous tour guide robot for the University of Technology, Sydney', Proceedings of the 2008 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA 2008, Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Australian Robotics and Automation Association, Canberra, pp. 1-7.
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This paper describes how a team of final year mechatronic engineering students developed an autonomous robotic system intended to act as a tour guide during events such as University open days and explores the opportunities this project presented to extend their knowledge and skills. The specifications of the project required the system to localise and navigate autonomously within a known environment while avoiding collisions with any people or obstacles not included in the prior area map. In addition to these requirements, the system needed to locate humans as potential clients, approach and greet them, offer directions and if required take the guest on a guided tour of the university. While taking the subject Advanced Robotics the students were able to develop a functional first prototype of the system and carry out initial tests. Following the completion of the subject a small number of the students opted to continue working on the project developing a second prototype using the knowledge gained and further enhancing their learning experiences. While this project mainly involved integrating existing well known algorithms, software and hardware, it provided an excellent opportunity to enhance the mechatronic engineering skills of the students involved.
Bennett, DW, Schwitter, BK, Miljak, DG & Khachan, J 1970, 'Online mineral measurement applications using magnetic resonance', Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Publication Series, pp. 411-414.
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The performance of prototype magnetic resonance sensors suited to mineral measurement in conveyor, slurry or portable applications is described. The sensors can be positioned around conveyors and modified slurry pipes, providing deep penetration of the sensing field, relative insensitivity to ore surface conditions and high mineral discrimination. Measurements on slurry, concentrates and ores sourced from mine operations are presented for two applications. Firstly, the quantitative measurement of chalcopyrite in slurry was demonstrated in laboratory measurements. In a calibration test, a standard error of 0.1 wt per cent and detection limit of 0.3 wt per cent was obtained. Secondly, results were obtained for the discrimination of iron ore texture. Signals were readily observed using measurement integration times of seconds to several minutes, depending on ore material. The results demonstrate the feasibility of online quantitative analysis of selected minerals in processing applications using magnetic resonance.
Bennett, NS, Cowern, NEB, Paul, S, Lerch, W, Kheyrandish, H, Smith, AJ, Gwilliam, R & Sealy, BJ 1970, 'Vacancy engineering for highly activated ‘diffusionless’ boron doping in bulk silicon', ESSDERC 2008 - 38th European Solid-State Device Research Conference, ESSDERC 2008 - 38th European Solid-State Device Research Conference, IEEE, Edinburgh, SCOTLAND, pp. 290-+.
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Berglund, A & Lister, RF 1970, 'Debating the OO debate: where is the problem?', Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol 68: Koli Calling Proceedings of the Seventh Baltic Sea Conference on Computing Education Research, Baltic Sea Conference on Computing Education Research, Australian Computer Society, Koli National Park, Finland, pp. 171-174.
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Abstract: In this paper we discuss problems related to the teaching of object-oriented programming (OOP). We argue that more research on how the computer science teacher understands OOP would be beneficial. Our argument takes its point of departure in three sets of studies: (1) an ongoing study on how computer science teachers understand core concepts of OOP, (2) a study of how the teaching of OOP is discussed within the CS community, and (3) a set of studies that discuss the different ways in which CS teachers experience their teaching. This paper reports on an ongoing study of the different ways in which computing science teachers understand object- oriented programming, and what they mean when use the term objects first.. The phenomenographic research approach has been applied to the analysis of a discussion that occurred in the SIGCSE-members mailing list. Two understandings of objects first have been identified: (1) as an extension of imperative programming, and (2) as conceptually different from imperative programming. These two understandings are illustrated via the differing ways in which computing science teachers use the term polymorphism.
Berglund, A, Box, I, Eckerdal, A, Lister, R & Pears, A 1970, 'Learning educational research methods through collaborative research: The PhICER initiative', Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series, Australasian Computing Education Conference, Australian Computer Society, Wollongong, Australia, pp. 35-42.
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To accommodate an increasing interest in phenomenography among the computing education research community, the authors of this paper have organised two workshops, or intensive courses, in phenomenography, intended for researchers in computing education at a university level. Although the workshop programs contained lectures and smaller exercises, the emphasis was on preparing one joint publication from each of the workshops. The publication from the first workshop discussed the experience of being a teacher in computing, while the second focused on teachers' experiences of the problems their students encounter when learning computing. The workshops and their impact on the community are discussed in this paper. © 2008, Australian Computer Society, Inc.
Binh Nguyen Thanh & Hoang, DB 1970, 'Building a Plan-supported Grid Collaborative Framework', 2008 Second International Conference on Communications and Electronics, Second International Conference on Communications and Electronics, IEEE, HoiAn, Vietnam, pp. 150-156.
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Grid infrastructure for resources sharing is somewhat stable with the wide acceptance of the open grid services Architecture (OGSA) and web services resource framework (WSRF), but grid framework for collaboration is far from desired. Current grid collaborative frameworks (GCFs) are domain specific and lack of plan-supported capacity. These limitations make them less useful and narrow in scope of application. This paper describes a grid collaborative framework that is both general purpose and plan supported. With the theoretical foundation based on the activity theory and designed on top of existing OGSA infrastructure, our proposed framework aims at accelerating the development of grid collaborative systems that consider working plans as central role.
Bird, TS, Weily, AR & Hanham, SM 1970, 'Antennas for future very-high throughput wireless LANs', 2008 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2008 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, IEEE.
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We describe a possible very-high throughput system for future indoor wireless local area networks (WLAN) with data rates up to 40 Gbps. We show that to implement such networks, using components available in the foreseeable future, moderate gain multiple beam antennas will be required. Several antennas that can potentially meet the gain requirements and multiple beam functionality are proposed. © 2008 IEEE.
Bo Yin, Ambikairajah, E & Fang Chen 1970, 'Improvements on hierarchical language identification based on automatic language clustering', 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2008 - 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE, Las Vegas, NV, pp. 4241-4244.
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Bogg, P, Beydoun, G & Low, G 1970, 'When to Use a Multi-Agent System?', INTELLIGENT AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS, PROCEEDINGS, 11th Pacific Rim International Conference on Multi-Agents, SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, Hanoi, VIETNAM, pp. 98-108.
Brady, PDM, Gaston, M & Reizes, J 1970, 'A computational fluid dynamics based 2nd order upwind scheme for free surface flows', 9th National Conference on Hydraulics in Water Engineering 2008.
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Detailed understanding of free surface flows is of interest in fields as diverse as environmental engineering (sewage overflow structures) to chemical engineering reactive flows. To gain the required level of detail for modelling such flows it is necessary to employ CFD, which, in turn, require suitable turbulence models. In order to develop suitable turbulence models, even more detail is required to extend the fundamental understanding of turbulence before developing approximate methods. A zero equation model for Large Eddy Simulations based on a second order upwind discretisation scheme has therefore been developed for this purpose. This method differs significantly from other zero equation LES type as it correctly captures the turbulent energy cascade. A validation study was applied to the simulation of a free surface piercing circular cylinder moving in an otherwise stationary fluid. Frequency analysis, together with point and integral data, was used to compare with published data of similar cases and found to be within good agreement. Qualitative analysis of the flow field shows patterns consistent with flow around pier-type structures.
Braun, R & Chiang, F 1970, 'A Distributed Active Information Model Enabling Distributed Autonomics in Complex Electronic Enviornments', 2008 Third International Conference on Broadband Communications, Information Technology & Biomedical Applications, 2008 Third International Conference on Broadband Communications, Information Technology & Biomedical Applications, IEEE, pp. 473-479.
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Information modeling plays a central role in managing complexity of the distributed electronic systems. This paper proposes a nature-inspired distributed active information model (DAIM) to enable the local decision-making process, that will fundamentally contribute to a number of complex distributed electronic environments. The consequences from multiple distributed decision-makers give rise to the global goals exhibited by emergent properties. Details of the DAIM model are described in this paper. The validation for this model is also be given via the experimental tests in the discrete event simulator. Performance comparisons show the DAIM model outperforms the conventional information model. © 2008 IEEE.
Bright, C, Lindsay, E, Lowe, DB, Murray, SJ & Liu, D 1970, 'Factors That Impact Learning Outcomes in Both Simulation and Remote Laboratories', Ed-Media 2008: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, AACE, Vienna, Austria, pp. 6251-6258.
Brodzeli, Z, Baxter, GW, Collins, SF, Canning, J, Stevenson, M & Buryak, A 1970, 'Low cost interrogation technique for a FBG sensor for combined transverse and longitudinal strain measurement', SPIE Proceedings, 19th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors, SPIE, Perth, AUSTRALIA.
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Bucknell, A, Lowe, D & Zowgh, D 1970, 'A method for analysing web systems model alignment', AusWeb 2008: 14th Australasian World Wide Web Conference, Australian World Wide Web Conference, Southern Cross University, Ballina, Australia, pp. 17-26.
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The introduction or modification of IT systems will often lead to the need for consequential changes to the associated business processes. This is particularly true for Web systems, where the system can be much more deeply intertwined with the business processes. The failure to identify these potential impacts early on can lead to major delays or cost increases in the development process, and subsequent redevelopment as the IT system and business processes are appropriately modified to bring them into alignment. We believe that early modelling of the existing business processes, and their relationship to the IT systems, as well as the potential changes to these processes will allow the identification of misalignments in the model which are a reflection of likely misalignments which would exist in the actual processes if the changes were to be implemented. This then will allow rectification of the misalignment much earlier than is currently the case. It is worth noting that his does not necessarily require new modelling notations, but rather the use of existing notations in new ways combined with appropriate analysis tools. This research aims to demonstrate that this identification of misalignments can be achieved using existing modelling notations by applying algorithmic analysis to the information about the business process captured in the model. This can be achieved by integrating this analysis with modelling tools, and hence supporting the identification of likely flaws in a proposed changed business process before that process is actually implemented. This paper presents a proof of concept that demonstrates an approach to analysing the properties of model elements using a constraint-based rule system in conjunction with an existing widely-used modelling tool. © 2008. Andrew Bucknell, David Lowe, Didar Zowghi.
Bulusu, N, Chou, CT, Kanhere, S, Dong, Y, Sehgal, S, Sullivan, D & Blazeski, L 1970, 'Participatory sensing in commerce: Using mobile camera phones to track market price dispersion', the International Workshop on Urban, Community and Social Applications of Networked Sensing Systems - UrbanSense08, the International Workshop on Urban, Community and Social Applications of Networked Sensing Systems - UrbanSense08, Raleigh, USA.
Buric, MP, QingQing Wang, Falk, J, Chen, KP & Canning, J 1970, 'Chemical sensing using a piezo-electric tunable erbium fiber ring distributed feedback laser', OECC/ACOFT 2008 - Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology, 2008 Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC) and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT), IEEE.
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This paper presents a rapid wavelength modulation of a distributed feedback laser using a piezoelectric actuator. The laser power was passively stabilized in a ring cavity. Wavelength modulation absorption spectroscopy was demonstrated for C2H2 sensing.
Buric, MP, Wang, Q, Falk, J, Chen, KP & Canning, J 1970, 'Chemical Sensing Using a Piezo-Electric Tunable Erbium Fiber Ring Distributed Feedback laser', 2008 JOINT CONFERENCE OF THE OPTO-ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE AND THE AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE ON OPTICAL FIBRE TECHNOLOGY, VOLS 1 AND 2, Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference/Australian Conference on Optical Fiber Technology, IEEE, Sydney, AUSTRALIA, pp. 574-+.
Burnham, DR, Reece, P, López Mago, D, Gutiérrez-Vega, JC & McGloin, D 1970, 'Dynamics of airborne tweezing', SPIE Proceedings, NanoScience + Engineering, SPIE, San Diego, CA.
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Cabrera, D, Ferguson, S, Rizwi, F & Schubert, E 1970, 'PsySound3: a program for the analysis of sound recordings', The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Acoustical Society of America (ASA), pp. 3247-3247.
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Caddis, BM, Jempson, MA, Ball, JE & Syme, WJ 1970, 'Incorporating hydrology into 2D hydraulic models - The direct rainfall approach', 9th National Conference on Hydraulics in Water Engineering 2008, National Conference on Hydraulics in Water Engineering, Engineers Australia, Darwin, Australia, pp. 1-7.
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Traditionally, flood modelling has involved two distinct stages. Firstly, hydrological analysis enables the analyst to quantify the flow of water within a watercourse during any particular rainfall event. For this process a lumped approach is usually adopted. Each sub-catchment is assigned a spatial average for each model variable, and the rainfall-runoff process is simulated using simplistic storage and routing based equations. The second stage involves a hydraulic analysis where the mechanisms of flow along watercourses and across floodplains are defined. Hydraulic analysis is commonly undertaken using a one or two-dimensional solution of the free-surface flow equations. In the case of two-dimensional modelling, the spatial variability of model variables is at a much finer resolution than the hydrological modelling. The application of rainfall directly onto a 2D hydraulic model grid offers an alternative approach for modelling the rainfall-runoff process. This direct rainfall approach appeals to the practitioner when modelling urban catchments where the hydraulic model is required over a significant proportion of the catchment. This paper contains a summary of a study undertaken which compares the results of a direct rainfall model to the results of a conventional two stage flood modelling process. It will be shown that by adjusting values assigned for surface roughness and rainfall losses, similar results can be achieved to those from the conventional approach. It is then discussed how the loss modelling mechanism can be refined to compliment the distributed nature of the direct rainfall modelling approach. The Green-Ampt infiltration model is used to highlight the influence that surface ponding can have on the infiltration capacity of the soil. The ongoing investigation plans to show how application of a more complex infiltration model can affect the solution of a two-dimensional hydrodynamic runoff-routing model. Ground cover and composition, continuing infi...
Cajote, RD, Aramvith, S, Guevara, RCL & Miyanaga, Y 1970, 'Improved Sorting Algorithm for Explicit FMO Macroblock Classification in H.264', 2008 International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, 2008 International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT), IEEE.
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Cajote, RD, Aramvith, S, Guevara, RCL & Yoshikazu Miyanaga 1970, 'FMO slice group maps using spatial and temporal indicators for H.264 wireless video transmission', 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS 2008, IEEE.
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Canning, J 1970, 'Progress in photosensitivity for writing Bragg gratings', SPIE Proceedings, 19th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors, SPIE, Perth, AUSTRALIA.
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Canning, J, Bandyopadhyay, S, Stevenson, M & Cook, K 1970, 'Fiber Bragg grating sensor for high temperature application', OECC/ACOFT 2008 - Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology, 2008 Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC) and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT), IEEE.
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Regenerated gratings seeded by type I gratings withstand temperatures beyond 1000°C. A new approach to increasing temperature resistance of ultra high T stable gratings is presented.
Canning, J, Bandyopadhyay, S, Stevenson, M & Cook, K 1970, 'Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor for High Temperature Application', 2008 JOINT CONFERENCE OF THE OPTO-ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE AND THE AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE ON OPTICAL FIBRE TECHNOLOGY, VOLS 1 AND 2, Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference/Australian Conference on Optical Fiber Technology, IEEE, Sydney, AUSTRALIA, pp. 371-372.
Canning, J, Bandyopadhyay, S, Stevenson, M & Cook, K 1970, 'Ultra-High Temperature (UHT) Gratings', APOS: 2008 1ST ASIA-PACIFIC OPTICAL FIBER SENSORS CONFERENCE, 1st Asia-Pacific Optical Fiber Sensors Conference, IEEE, Chengdu, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 91-+.
Canning, J, Bandyopadhyay, S, Stevenson, M & Cook, K 1970, 'Ultra-high temperature (UHT) gratings', 2008 1st Asia-Pacific Optical Fiber Sensors Conference, 2008 1st Asia-Pacific Optical Fiber Sensors Conference (APOS), IEEE.
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Regenerated gratings seeded by type I gratings withstand temperatures beyond lOOO°C. A new approach to increasing temperature resistance of ultra high T stable gratings is presented. © 2008 IEEE.
Canning, J, Kristensen, M, Skivesan, N, Martelli, C, Tetu, A, Frandsen, L & Chevallier, J 1970, 'Generation of ultra-narrow sensing filters using cross polarisation in a linear SOI photonic crystal waveguide', SPIE Proceedings, 19th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors, SPIE, Perth, AUSTRALIA.
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Canning, J, Kristensen, M, Skivesen, N, Frandsen, LH, Lavrinenko, AV, Tetu, A, Chevallier, J & Martelli, C 1970, 'Band Edge effects in Photonic Crystal Waveguides: Polarisation Conversion', OFC/NFOEC 2008 - 2008 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication - OFC 2008 Collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers, IEEE.
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Narrowband polarisation conversion from TE to TM and back is observed at the quasi-TE transmission band edge of a linear photonic SOI photonic crystal waveguide. © 2006 Optical Society of America.
Canning, J, Kristensen, M, Skivesen, N, Frandsen, LH, Lavrinenko, AV, Tetu, A, Chevallier, J & Martelli, C 1970, 'Band edge effects in photonic crystal waveguides: Polarisation conversion', 2008 CONFERENCE ON OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION/NATIONAL FIBER OPTIC ENGINEERS CONFERENCE, VOLS 1-8, Conference on Optical Fiber Communications/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, OPTICAL SOC AMERICA, San Diego, CA, pp. 1957-+.
Canning, J, Martelli, C, Skivesen, N, Kristensen, M, Khoury, T, Crossley, MJ & Hovgaard, MB 1970, 'Self-Assembled Photonic Wires', 2008 JOINT CONFERENCE OF THE OPTO-ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE AND THE AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE ON OPTICAL FIBRE TECHNOLOGY, VOLS 1 AND 2, Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference/Australian Conference on Optical Fiber Technology, IEEE, Sydney, AUSTRALIA, pp. 466-+.
Canning, J, Martelli, C, Skivesen, N, Kristensen, M, Khoury, T, Crossley, MJ & Hovgaard, MB 1970, 'Self-assembled photonic wires', OECC/ACOFT 2008 - Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology, 2008 Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC) and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT), IEEE.
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The fabrication of ultra long molecular wires with photonic properties based on ionic self assembly of porphyrins are demonstrated.
Canning, J, Stevenson, M, Martelli, C, Yip, T & Lim, S 1970, 'White light from a structured fibre with three laser dyes', LEOS 2008 - 21st Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, LEOS 2008 - 21st Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS 2008), IEEE, pp. 252-253.
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By placing red, green and blue emitting laser dyes strategically around a core in a structured optical fibre, the col-lected emission at the end of the fibre is white forming the basis of a simple white light fibre source. ©2008 IEEE.
Canning, J, Yip, TK, Lim, SK & Martelli, C 1970, 'New functionality within structured optical fibres by selective filling', OECC/ACOFT 2008 - Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology, 2008 Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC) and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT), IEEE.
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We demonstrate multiple selective filling of holes in a photonic crystal fibre with three luminescent dyes: red, blue and green. White light is generated.
Canning, J, Yip, TK, Lim, SK & Martelli, C 1970, 'New Functionality within Structured Optical Fibres by Selective Filling', 2008 JOINT CONFERENCE OF THE OPTO-ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE AND THE AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE ON OPTICAL FIBRE TECHNOLOGY, VOLS 1 AND 2, Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference/Australian Conference on Optical Fiber Technology, IEEE, Sydney, AUSTRALIA, pp. 27-28.
Carelli, MD, Mycoff, CW, Garrone, P, Locatelli, G, Mancini, M, Ricotti, ME, Trianni, A & Trucco, P 1970, 'Competitiveness of Small-Medium, New Generation Reactors: A Comparative Study on Capital and O&M Costs', Volume 4: Structural Integrity; Next Generation Systems; Safety and Security; Low Level Waste Management and Decommissioning; Near Term Deployment: Plant Designs, Licensing, Construction, Workforce and Public Acceptance, 16th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, ASMEDC, Orlando, FL, pp. 499-506.
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Smaller size reactors are going to be an important component of the worldwide nuclear renaissance. An inappropriate application of the economy of scale would label the small-medium size reactors as not economically competitive with larger plants because of capital costs ($/kWe) and O&M costs ($/kWh) that would appear to be significantly higher. However, the economy of scale applies only if the considered designs are similar, which is not the case here, since the small size allows original design solutions not accessible to large size reactors. In the paper the historical trend of capital costs vs. plant size is estimated from literature, and a reference exponent factor for the economy of scale for the light water reactor is derived. Then the paper identifies and briefly discusses the various factors which, beside size, contribute in differentiating the capital cost of smaller reactors with respect to large reactors. In this reference frame the evaluation for of the following factors is provided: · design characteristics · modular build · multiple units · accelerated learning in construction · operation, and shorter construction time. The IRIS reactor is used as the example of small modular reactor (SMR), but the analysis and conclusions are applicable to the whole spectrum of small nuclear plants. The results show that when all these factors are accounted for in a set of realistic and comparable configurations, and with the same power installed in the site, the capital costs of small and large plants installations are practically equivalent. Considering the O&M cost the paper shows how the plant size is not the only and fundamental cost driver. In fact there is a range of other factors (e.g. location, regulatory issues, capacity factor, plant obsolescence and number of reactors on a site) able to influence the annual O&M cost for a specific plant. The paper provides a preliminary evaluation of these factors by historical analysis of reactors b...
Catley, C, Stratti, H & McGregor, C 1970, 'Multi-dimensional temporal abstraction and data mining of medical time series data: Trends and challenges', 2008 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, IEEE, Vancouver, CANADA, pp. 4322-+.
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Chaczko, Z, Klempous, R, Nikodem, J & Szymanski, J 1970, 'Applications of Cooperative WSN in Homecare Systems', 2008 Third International Conference on Broadband Communications, Information Technology & Biomedical Applications, 2008 Third International Conference on Broadband Communications, Information Technology & Biomedical Applications, IEEE, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, pp. 215-220.
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Cooperation plays the crucial role in shared space of the homecare processes. It is a rather hard task to ensure effective cooperation in home care environment. This is due to variability of schedules, tasks and mobility of both patients and carers. In this paper, we discuss sensor network technology that can facilitate and improve home care cooperation scenarios. We present methodology, recommendations and applications for incorporating a WSN based solution in various areas of Homecare. We argue that even the most difficult areas of cooperation between patients and their carers such as: information retrieval, information dissemination, scheduling, coordination of short and long-term treatment can be supported by WSN based solutions. Finally, we discuss sensor network design approaches for incorporating smart communication devices and sensors to support health care workers and their patients in their daily activities. The network of smart sensors can help to maintain awareness of the activities of all stakeholders and the need to integrate communication and computer technology with the requirements of effective aged care infrastructure.
Chaczko, Z, Mahadevan, V & Nikodem, J 1970, 'A Bio-inspired Telecollaboration Service Taxonomy: Usability Related Concerns', 2008 Third International Conference on Broadband Communications, Information Technology & Biomedical Applications, 2008 Third International Conference on Broadband Communications, Information Technology & Biomedical Applications, IEEE, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, pp. 209-214.
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As the Internet is transforming the global information economy, the Telecollaboration (TC) system services are moving at a transitional pace dictated by market forces. However, the pace is turning out to be a lot slower than expected. This has prompted us now to approximate and synthesize the design concepts of building a scalable biomimetic system manager for a telecollaboration service taxonomy. Thus, it is expected that if there is more correlation across the design concepts of the system manager, the greater will be the likelihood of demonstrating a rescue-like operation for humans in this new taxonomy. The main goal of this paper is initially to over view the bio-swarm behaviours of insect colonies to embrace a notional computing architecture that enables an individual TC service entity. It is important that these behaviours along with the proposed self-x autonomic functions offered by the system manager need to be pursued, and indeed continue, in a highly correlated way to fulfil the opportunistic functional tasks related to the discovery and delivery of Telecollaboration services. In this context next, we attempt to study the significant usability benefits of qualitative and quantitative execution pressures related to the implementation of these functions. This includes a better understanding of the constraints of implementation of these functions to deal with complex usability performance baselines. Finally, we give an updated foresight of process deployment strategies through a group of highly diverse and autonomous objects called Teleholons whilst exploiting the role of these self-x autonomic functions.
Chaczko, ZC & Chiu, CC 1970, 'Intelligent Tele-Homecare: The Application of Soft-Computing Models in Sensor Agent Network Systems', 10th Annual Postgraduate Research Students Conference 2008 Abstracts, 10th UTS Annual Postgraduate Research Students' Conference (PRSC 2008), University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1-3.
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This paper conceptualises the development of an Intelligent Home Care system to assist health care professionals and carers in providing an enhanced level of support to senior citizens. The social demographics in the developed world indicate a decline in population growth, indicating a need for greater resources to be dedicated towards enhancing the lives of an aging society. Furthermore, the dissociation of extended family structures in modern society results in senior citizens to take greater independence in managing their own lives. With the technological advances in the Tele-Homecare domain, there is an impetus to develop improved computational techniques that reflect the nature of complex systems in medicine and biology.
Chaivongvilan, S & Sharma, D 1970, 'A Comprehensive Framework for Analysing Long-term Energy Scenarios for Thailand', International Conference on Energy Security and Climate Change: Issues, Strategies, and Options (ESCC 2008), International Conference on Energy Security and Climate Change: Issues, Strategies, and Options (ESCC 2008), Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 1-9.
Chan, A, Chaczko, Z, Chiu, C & Zielinski, R 1970, 'File Compression Using Typogenetic Computation.', BroadCom, International Conference of Broadband Communication, Information Technology and Biomedical Applications, IEEE Computer Society, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, pp. 202-208.
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Typogenetic algorithms are a break from classical approaches to computation. Based on gene expression and intercellular processes, typo-genetic computation can offer a new approach to the algorithmic problems of system security, data compression and encryption. The method has a potential of much higher compression ratios at the limited computational costs i.e. processing time. This paper presents a formal system based on typogenetics for the purposes of compression. Lossless data compression is an important part of computer science. While the ability to reduce consumption of hard disk space or transmission bandwidth through statistical redundancy has served well in the past, the explosive growth in high quality media content (*.mp3, *.mpg) on the internet in the past few years have highlighted the limitations of traditional statistical techniques for compression.
Chan, KY, Zhu, HL, Lau, CC, Ling, SH & IEEE 1970, 'Gene Signature Selection for Cancer Prediction Using an Integrated Approach of Genetic Algorithm and Support Vector Machine', 2008 IEEE CONGRESS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION, VOLS 1-8, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE, Hong Kong, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 217-224.
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Chanan, AP, ghetti, I & Kandasamy, JK 1970, 'From El Nino to La Nina and Back: Challenges of managing coastal areas through climate change', IWA World Water Congress 2008, Vienna, Austria, IWA World Water Congress, IWA Publishing, Vienna, Austria, pp. 113-114.
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In Australia (particularly eastern Australia), La Niña events are associated with increased probability of wetter conditions, whereas El Niño events are associated with an increased probability of drier conditions For an urbanised coastal council like Kogarah there are a number of impacts associated with climate change. For instance, the risk of flood may be increased due to more intense rainfalls, when couple with rising sea levels. Coastal Councils may also experience increased coastal flooding and coastal erosion due to increased storm surges and rising sea levels. Water restrictions are already in place due to severe droughts and it is further predicted that councils will have limited water supply available for irrigation needed to provide parks and well-maintained sporting facilities for the community. Given that the science of climate change is not an exact science there are obvious technical and socio-political challenges that are to be addressed. The paper shares Kogarah Councils experiences in dealing with these challenges and provides a snapshot of programs currently being implemented in response to climate change. By investing in proactive measure to reduce risk and vulnerability it is possible to build a powerful resilience to climate change.
Chanan, AP, Kandasamy, JK & Sharma, D 1970, 'A Role for Input-Output Analysis in Urban Water Policy Decisions in Australia', Input - Output & Environment Website, Input - Output & Environment, IIOA, Saville Spain, pp. 1-18.
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Discussion on water reuse and its role in sustainable water resource management in Australia has been on the agenda of policy makers and scientific community for the last three decades. Despite that, promulgation of water reuse especially in metropolitan Australia has been a rather slow process. To advance sustainable urban water management, water policy shift towards `co-management and `higher value use is critical. Input Output Analysis provides an ideal mechanism for water policy makers to prepare a case for this much needed policy shift. The paper discusses the methodology available for such an exercise, with special reference to Kogarah Local Government Area, located within the Sydney Metropolitan.
Chang, E & Hussain, FK 1970, 'Editors Page', 2008 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, 2008 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST), IEEE.
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Cheah, C, Ball, JE & Cox, R 1970, 'Kinematic wave modelling of surface runoff quality for small urban catchments', Website Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Urban Drainage, International Conference on Urban Drainage, International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Res (IAHR)/International Water Associan (IWA), Edinburgh, Scotland, pp. 1-10.
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Various stormwater models have been employed to simulate runoff quality on urban catchments. Yet, it was found that they were unable to reproduce the historical pollutographs or loadographs accurately and reliably. This can be attributed to the fact that runoff quality processes such as the entrainment and erosion mechanisms of pollutants from surfaces are poorly understood. As a result, either simple conceptual models or empirical expressions that require extensive calibration were used instead. To attain better prediction of sediment loads and pollutant constituents, the variable runoff depth on the catchment surface has to be accounted for and the hydrological processes taking place ought to be replicated by the model. This is possible by adopting the kinematic wave approach in routing runoff over the surfaces.
Cheah, C, Ball, JE & Cox, R 1970, 'Modelling Roof runoff in a Small Urban Catchment', Proceedings of Water Down Under 2008, Water Down Under 2008, Australian Engineers Association, Adelaide, Australia, pp. 398-408.
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The conventional approach to modelling urban stormwater runoff Is to view the different impervious surfaces in a catchment as having the same characteristics and producing similar responses to rainfall during storm events. However, consideration of the literature shows that differences exist between these individual surfaces, as evident In the variation of pollutant loads coming off the impervious surfaces within a catchment such as roads and roofs, Relativeiy few studies have been undertaken to model roof runoff exclusively. This research, therefore, focuses on the simulation of roof runoff using a hydrologic model based on kinematic wave theory to differentiate and compare the runoff processes taking place on a roof surface to its road counterpart. A field monitoring station has been established adjacent to a roof catchment so that sufficient hydrologic data can be obtained during storm events for model calibration and validation. Initial testing revealed that the model performs satisfactorily and provides predictions well within the acceptable accuracy. This roof runoff model will form the basis for the development of a model that will simulate roof runoff quality. Results from this study are useful in view of the implementation of Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) concepts in urban stormwater management through enabling better estimation of the catchment contaminant loads from different urban catchment surfaces.
Chen, C-H, Liu, Y-C, Lin, C-J & Lin, C-T 1970, 'A hybrid of cooperative particle swarm optimization and cultural algorithm for neural fuzzy networks', 2008 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence), 2008 IEEE 16th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), IEEE, Hong Kong, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 238-+.
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Chen, G, Chen, J, Guo, Y & Zhu, J 1970, 'Synthetic design of the transformer in flyback switching AC-DC converters', Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems, ICEMS 2008, World Publishing Corporation, Wuhan, China, pp. 1871-1874.
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This paper presents the synthetic design of the transformer in flyback switching AC-DC converters. Firstly, the maximal power transferred by a standard size magnetic core such as EE-20 or EE-25 is theoretically determined. To obtain accurate analysis, a method based on the nonlinear finite element analysis (FEA) of electromagnetic field is employed. Secondly, from the view of reducing the maximal magnetic flux density in the transformer with the same power, it is proved that the discontinuous conducting mode has more advantages than the continuous conducting mode. Several rules for designing the transformer are presented. As an example, the transformer of an existing converter is re-designed by using the proposed approach. With a nonlinear 2-D FEA field-circuit coupled switching detailed model built in Matlab/Simulink surrounding, the performance of the new converter is obtained.
Chen, J, Chen, G, Guo, Y & Zhu, J 1970, 'Comprehensive analysis of power loss in the output diode of flyback switching converter operating in DCM and CCM', Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems, ICEMS 2008, International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems, World Publishing Corporation, Wuhan, China, pp. 1865-1870.
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This paper analyzes the maximal power loss in the output diode of flyback switching converter operating in both continuous conducting mode (CCM) and discontinuous conducting mode (DCM). Comparing with the previous work, this paper extends the condition, under which the maximal power loss of the output diode occurs, from the CCM to the DCM. Three correlative tasks are included. Firstly, through an analytical analysis, the condition under which the maximal power is consumed by the output diode is obtained. Secondly, to verify the analytical analysis and acquire more accurate results, based on nonlinear finite element analysis, a detailed field-circuit indirect coupling model of flyback switching AC to DC converter is built, where several nonlinear factors such as the saturation of magnetic ferrite core, control delay and switching characteristic are included. Finally, the above analysis results are applied to control the maximal power loss in the output diode of flyback switching AC-DC converter to be an approximate minimum; this would improve the converter reliability and power efficiency.
Chen, J, Chen, G, Guo, Y & Zhu, J 1970, 'Thermal analysis and design of power electronic parts assembled by heat sink in flyback switching AC to DC converters with case enveloped', Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems, ICEMS 2008, International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems, World Publishing Corporation, Wuhan, China, pp. 1958-1962.
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This paper presents the thermal analysis and design of power electronic parts assembled by heat sink in flyback switching AC to DC converters with case enveloped. Firstly, both the analytic method and the field-circuit indirect coupling model are applied to calculate the maximum power consumed by the power electronic parts and the power loss of the converter. Secondly, based on the case temperature calculated by using the traditional equivalent circuit, a systematic method is introduced for selecting heat sinks for the power dispersion in the power electronic parts. Finally, in order to obtain the thermal distribution in the heat sink, the method of finite element analysis (FEA) is used. The FEA model for the performance analysis of thermal field is realized in MATLAB/Simulink surrounding, and the method for deciding some key coefficients in the unified thermal model is presented. The results obtained by FEA are in good agreement with those by analytical analysis.
Chen, L, Hu, Y & Nejdl, W 1970, 'DECK: Detecting Events from Web Click-Through Data', 2008 Eighth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2008 Eighth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), IEEE.
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Chen, L, Hu, Y & Nejdl, W 1970, 'Using subspace analysis for event detection from web click-through data', Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web, WWW '08: The 17th International World Wide Web Conference, ACM.
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Chen, X, Jin, J, Guo, Y & Zhu, J 1970, 'Design and analysis of a 10 kVA HTS transformer', Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems, ICEMS 2008, 11th International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems, WORLD PUBLISHING CORPORATION, Huazhong Univ Sci & Technol, Wuhan, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 4302-4304.
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With the improvement of high temperature superconductor (HTS) practical performance, research and development concerning the applications of HTS transformers have been progressed actively in the world. This work presents a single-phase 10 kVA (220V/24V) HTS transformer prototype design to validate HTS for practical transformer applications. The physical designs of the HTS transformer and 2-D electromagnetic analysis have been presented in the paper. A LabVIEW-based test and control system has also been developed to form a whole HTS transformer system.
Chen, X, Jin, J, Guo, Y & Zhu, J 1970, 'Prototype Design of a 10 kVA HTS Transformer', Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS), ICEMs2008, World Publishing Corporation, Wuhan, China, pp. 4302-4304.
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With the improvement of high temperature superconductor (HTS) practical performance, research and development concerning the applications of HTS transformers have been progressed actively in the world. This work presents a single-phase 10 kVA (220 V/24 V) HTS transformer prototype design to validate HTS for practical transformer applications. The physical designs of the HTS transformer and 2-D electromagnetic analysis have been presented in the paper. A LabVIEW-based test and control system has also been developed to form a whole HTS transformer system.
Chen, Y, Hong, Q, Chen, X & Zhang, C 1970, 'Real-Time Speaker Verification Based on GMM-UBM for PDA', 2008 Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Computing, 2008 Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Computing (SEC), IEEE.
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Chen, Y, Wu, Q & He, X 1970, 'Human Action Recognition by Radon Transform', 2008 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW), IEEE, Pisa, Italy, pp. 862-868.
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A new feature description is used for human behaviour representation and recognition. The feature is based on Radon transforms of extracted silhouettes. Key postures are selected based on the Radon transform. Key postures are combined to construct an action template for each sequence. Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is applied to the set of key postures to obtain low dimensional feature vectors. Different classification methods are used to classify each sequence. Experiments are carried out based on a publically available human behaviour database and the results are exciting.
Chen, Y, Wu, Q & He, X 1970, 'Motion Based Pedestrian Recognition', 2008 Congress on Image and Signal Processing, 2008 Congress on Image and Signal Processing, IEEE, Sanya, China, pp. 376-380.
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This paper proposed a method for discriminating pedestrians from rigid objects in a video. The method is a motion-based recognition of moving objects. This method is motivated by the assumptions that human beings are non-rigid and their movements are periodic. Moving objects and their skeletons are extracted. The motion cue is determined by the angle formed by the centroid point and the two bottom end points at objects skeleton. The histogram of the cue over a time period is used to determine if the object is pedestrian or not. This cue does not require any pre-built models. Neither does it need Fourier Transform to obtain the cycle of the objects. The proposed method is computation inexpensive, and it can be used for realtime video surveillance.
Chen, Y, Wu, Q & He, X 1970, 'Using dynamic programming to match human behavior sequences', 2008 10th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, 2008 10th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), IEEE, Hanoi, Vietnam, pp. 1498-1503.
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This paper proposed a new approach for recognition and matching the human behavior sequence. Each human behavior sequence is represented by its key postures to greatly reduce the computation time. Normalization is applied to all the behavior sequences key postures for matching. A dynamic time warping (DTW) algorithm is used to perform the alignment of two time series. Experiments are carried out on an open human behavior database and exciting results have been obtained.
Chen, Y, Wu, Q, He, X, Du, C & Yang, J 1970, 'Extracting key postures in a human action video sequence', 2008 IEEE 10th Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, 2008 IEEE 10th Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), IEEE, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, pp. 569-573.
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Human key posture extraction from videos will benefit video storage, video retrieval, human action recognition, human behaviour understanding and so on. This paper presents an approach to select key postures from human action sequences using 2D information. There are two steps in the proposed method. Information measurement which is a kind of global feature of a frame is used to roughly find key posture candidates. Then, a body skeleton feature which is a kind of local feature is applied to select final key postures from the candidates obtained in the first step. The experiments show that the proposed method is efficient.
Chen, Y, Wu, Q, He, X, Du, C & Yang, T 1970, 'Extracting Key Postures in a Human Action Video Sequence', 2008 IEEE 10TH WORKSHOP ON MULTIMEDIA SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1 AND 2, 10th IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, IEEE, Cairns, AUSTRALIA, pp. 573-+.
Chen, Y, Zhang, J & Jayalath, ADS 1970, 'New Training Sequence Structure for Zero-Padded SC-FDE System in Presence of Carrier Frequency Offset', 2008 IEEE 68th Vehicular Technology Conference, 2008 IEEE 68th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2008-Fall), IEEE, IEEE, pp. 1-4.
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Chen, Y, Zhang, JA & Jayalath, ADS 1970, 'New Training Sequence Structure for Zero-Padded SC-FDE System in Presence of Carrier Frequency Offset', 68TH IEEE VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE, FALL 2008, 68th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, IEEE, Calgary, CANADA, pp. 1930-1933.
Cheng, B, Ritz, C & Burnett, I 1970, 'A Spatial Squeezing approach to Ambisonic audio compression', 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2008 - 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE, Las Vegas, NV, pp. 369-372.
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Cheng, B, Ritz, CH & Burnett, IS 1970, 'Binaural reproduction of Spatially Squeezed Surround Audio', 2008 9th International Conference on Signal Processing, 2008 9th International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP 2008), IEEE, Beijing, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 506-+.
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Cheng, E, Burnett, IS & Ritz, CH 1970, 'Multivariate autoregressive modelling of multichannel reverberant speech', 2008 IEEE 10th Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, 2008 IEEE 10th Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), IEEE, pp. 945-949.
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Recent research in speech localization and dereverberation introduced processing of the multichannel linear prediction (LP) residual of speech recorded with multiple microphones. This paper investigates the novel use of intra- and inter-channel speech prediction by proposing the use of a multichannel LP model derived from multivariate autoregression (MVAR), where current LP approaches are based on univariate autoregression (AR). Experiments were conducted on simulated anechoic and reverberant synthetic speech vowels and real speech sentences; results show that, especially at low reverberation times, the MVAR model exhibits greater prediction gains from the residual signal, compared to residuals obtained from univariate AR models for individually or jointly modelled speech channels. In addition, the MVAR model more accurately models the speech signal when compared to univariate LP of a similar prediction order and when a smaller number of microphones are deployed. © 2008 IEEE.
Cheng, E, Burnett, IS & Ritz, CH 1970, 'Multivariate Autoregressive Modelling of Multichannel Reverberant Speech', 2008 IEEE 10TH WORKSHOP ON MULTIMEDIA SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1 AND 2, 10th IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, IEEE, Cairns, AUSTRALIA, pp. 949-+.
Cheng, E, Cheng, B, Ritz, C & Burnett, IS 1970, 'Spatialized Teleconferencing: Recording and `Squeezed' Rendering of Multiple Distributed Sites', 2008 Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference, 2008 Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ATNAC), IEEE, Adelaide, AUSTRALIA, pp. 411-+.
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Cheng, TM, Savkin, AV, Celler, BG, Su, SW & Wang, L 1970, 'Heart Rate Regulation During Exercise with Various Loads: Identification and Nonlinear H∞ Control', IFAC Proceedings Volumes, IFAC World Congress, Elsevier BV, Seoul, Korea, pp. 11618-11623.
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A model for the heart rate response to treadmill walking exercise is proposed in this paper. The parameters of the model were experimentally identified which involved subjects walking at different speeds. A 2-degree-of-freedom controller was then developed for the regulation of the heart rate response during treadmill exercise. The controller consists of a piecewise LQ and an Hâ sub-controllers. Experimental results demonstrated that the heart rate of the subjects were regulated by the proposed controller.
Cheng, TM, Savkin, AV, Celler, BG, Su, SW & Wang, L 1970, 'Nonlinear modelling and control of heart rate response to treadmill walking exercise', BIOSIGNALS 2008: PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIO-INSPIRED SYSTEMS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOL II, International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing, Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Madeira, Portugal, pp. 498-503.
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In this study, a nonlinear system was developed for the modelling of the heart rate response to treadmill walking exercise. The model is a feedback interconnected system which can represent the neural response and peripheral local response to exercise. The parameters of the model were identified from an experimental study which involved 6 healthy adult male subjects, each completed 3 sets of walking exercise at different speeds. The proposed model will be useful in explaining the cardiovascular response to exercise. Based on the model, a 2-degree-of-freedom controller was developed for the regulation of the heart rate response during exercise. The controller consists of a piecewise LQ and an H infinity controllers. Simulation results showed that the proposed controller had the ability to regulate heart rate at a given target, indicating that the controller can play an important role in the design of exercise protocols for individuals.
Cheng, TM, Savkin, AV, Su, SW, Celler, BG, Wang, L & IEEE 1970, 'A robust control design for heart rate tracking during exercise', 2008 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vols 1-8, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Annual Conference, IEEE, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 2785-2788.
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In this study, a control design is proposed for the tracking control of heart rate response during treadmill exercise. The controller tracks an exerciserâs heart rate to a given heart rate profile, that may represent a prescribed exercise protocol, by varying the speed of the treadmill. A guaranteed cost control approach is adopted in the control design so that the controller guarantees a certain level of performance. The effectiveness of the proposed control design is demonstrated via a simulation study. The controller will be useful in the design of exercise protocols for individuals.
Chew, E, Hawryszkiewycz, I & Soanes, M 1970, 'Modeling Requirements for Value Configuration Design', Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 169-178.
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Breadth and depth complexity are key challenges in achieving business process fusion as the enabler for value configuration design. The PARM framework is proposed as the requirement to address breadth and depth complexity through the independent but integrated operation of the process, activity, resource and management viewpoints. The operational scenarios for each viewpoint result in varying process modeling extension requirements. Existing process modeling constructs have varying support for these requirements. The PARM framework solution is an extension and integration of existing modeling constructs rather than a solution in its own right. Using the MDA approach of abstracting a platform independent model from a platform specific implementation, it is the goal in future papers to define process modeling extensions to support the PARM framework and map these into existing implementation architectures. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
Chew, EK, Hawryszkiewycz, IT & Soanes, MG 1970, 'Business Process Management Workshops', Business Process Management Workshops, International Conference in Business Process Management, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Brisbane Australia, pp. 169-178.
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Breadth and depth complexity are key challenges in achieving business process fusion as the enabler for value configuration design. The PARM framework is proposed as the requirement to address breadth and depth complexity through the independent but integrated operation of the process, activity, resource and management viewpoints. The operational scenarios for each viewpoint result in varying process modeling extension requirements. Existing process modeling constructs have varying support for these requirements. The PARM framework solution is an extension and integration of existing modeling constructs rather than a solution in its own right. Using the MDA approach of abstracting a platform independent model from a platform specific implementation, it is the goal in future papers to define process modeling extensions to support the PARM framework and map these into existing implementation architectures.
Chih-Wen Hsueh, Jen-Feng Chung, Lan-Da Van & Chin-Teng Lin 1970, 'Anticipatory access pipeline design for phased cache', 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS 2008, IEEE, Seattle, WA, pp. 2342-+.
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Chin-Teng Lin, Hong-Zhang Lin, Tzai-Wen Chiu, Chih-Feng Chao, Yu-Chieh Chen, Sheng-Fu Liang & Li-Wei Ko 1970, 'Distraction-related EEG dynamics in virtual reality driving simulation', 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS 2008, IEEE, Seattle, WA, pp. 1088-1091.
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Chin-Teng Lin, Pal, NR, Chien-Yao Chuang, Tzyy-Ping Jung, Li-Wei Ko & Sheng-Fu Liang 1970, 'An EEG-based subject- and session-independent drowsiness detection', 2008 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence), 2008 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2008 - Hong Kong), IEEE, Hong Kong, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 3448-+.
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Choi, F, Li, J, Samali, B & Crews, KI 1970, 'Non Destructive Testing of a Timber Beam using Vibration-Based Approach', The 9th International Conference on Motion and Vibration Control, Technique Universaetet, Munich.
Choi, F, Li, J, Samali, B & Crews, KI 1970, 'Overview of Dynamic Based Damage Detection for Timber Bridges', On-Site Assessment of Concrete, Masonry and Timber Structures - Volume 2, On Site Assessment of Concrete, Masonry and Timber Structures, RILEM Publications, Varena, Italy, pp. 1125-1135.
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Asset management of bridges throughout the world faces increasing challenges as a result of aging infrastructure and inadequate funding. Replacement of an old bridge is neither viable nor sustainable in many circumstances. As a consequence, there is an urgent need to develop and utilise state-of-the-art techniques to assess and evaluate the 'health state' of existing bridges and to be able to understand and quantify the effects ofdegradation in regard to public safety. This paper presents an overview of experimental work for a project in developing and implementing several dynamic methods for evaluation of damage in timber bridges. The technique of detecting damage involved the use of modal strain energy commonly referred to in the literature as damage index methods. The project started with simple beams subjected to single and multiple damage and then was extended to a scale timber bridge constructed under laboratory conditions. It was found that after modification on the damage index method, it was well suited to detect single and multiple damage scenarios for a one-dimensional beam. For the laboratory bridge, the damage index method developed for plate-like structures was successful in detecting single and multiple damage with an acceptable degree of accuracy.
Choi, F, Li, J, Samali, B & Crews, KI 1970, 'Overview of Dynamic Based Damage Detection of Timber Bridges', Proceedings of 12th International Conference STRUCTURAL FAULTS & REPAIR-2008, 12th International Conference STRUCTURAL FAULTS & REPAIR-2008, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, pp. 1-13.
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Asset management of bridges throughout the world faces increasing challenges as a result of ageing infrastructure and inadequate funding. Replacement of an old bridge is neither viable nor sustainable in many circumstances. As a consequence, there is an urgent need to develop and utilise state-of-the-art techniques to assess and evaluate the âthe state of healthâ of existing bridges and to be able to understand and quantify the effects of degradation in regard to public safety. This paper presents an overview of part of the numerical work for a project recently completed by the authors to develop and implement dynamic methods for evaluation of damage in timber bridges. The damage detection technique involved the use of a modal strain energy based method, commonly referred to in the literature as damage index methods. The project started with simple beams subjected to single and multiple damage scenarios. The research was then extended to a scaled laboratory timber bridge. It was found that with proper modification, the damage index method was well suited to detect single and multiple damage scenarios for a onedimensional beam. For the laboratory timber bridge, the damage index method, developed for plate-like structures, can detect single and multiple damage locations with certain level of errors.
Chotiprayanakul, P, Wang, D, Kwok, N & Liu, D 1970, 'A haptic base Human Robot Interaction approach for robotic grit blasting', 25TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS IN CONSTRUCTION - ISARC-2008, International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, IAARC, Vilnius, Lithuania, pp. 148-154.
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Chua, BT, Ullrich, A, Gallego-Ortega, D, Ramirez de Molina, A, Lacal, JC & Downward, J 1970, '222 POSTER RNAi screen for Akt regulator', European Journal of Cancer Supplements, 20th EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, Elsevier BV, Geneva, SWITZERLAND, pp. 70-70.
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Chun-Chieh Huang, Shao-Hang Hung, Jen-Feng Chung, Lan-Da Van & Chin-Teng Lin 1970, 'Front-end amplifier of low-noise and tunable BW/gain for portable biomedical signal acquisition', 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS 2008, IEEE, Seattle, WA, pp. 2717-+.
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Chunhua Du, Qiang Wu, Jie Yang & Zheng Wu 1970, 'SVM based ASM for facial landmarks location', 2008 8th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 2008 8th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT), IEEE, Sydney, Australia, pp. 321-326.
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Finding a new position for each landmark is a crucial step in active shape model (ASM). Mahalanobis distance minimization is used for this finding, provided there are enough training data such that the grey-level profiles for each landmark follow a multivariate Gaussian distribution. However, this condition could not be satisfied in most cases. In this paper, a new method support vector machine (SVM) based ASM (SVMBASM) is proposed. It approaches the finding task as a small sample size classification problem, and uses SVM classifier to deal with this problem. Moreover, considering imbalanced dataset which contains more negative instances(incorrect candidates for new position) than positive instances (correct candidates for new position), a multi-class classification framework is adopted. Performance evaluation on SJTU face database show that the proposed SVMBASM outperforms the original ASM in terms of the average error as well as the average frequency of convergence.
Clark, K, Ball, JE & Babister, KM 1970, 'Can Fixed grid 2 Hydraulic Models be used as Hydrologic Models?', Proceedings of Water Down Under 2008, Water Down Under 2008, 2008 Hydrology and Water resources Symposium, Adelaide, Australia, pp. 2496-2507.
Clear, T, Edwards, J, Lister, R, Simon, B, Thompson, E & Whalley, J 1970, 'The teaching of novice computer programmers: Bringing the scholarly-research approach to Australia', Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series, Australasian Conference on Computer Science Education, Australian Computer Society, Wollongong, pp. 63-68.
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BRACElet is a multi-institutional multi-national research study of how novice programmers comprehend and write computer programs. This paper reviews the first action research cycle of the BRACElet project and, in the process, charts a path for the upcoming second cycle. The project remains close to educational practice, with much of the data being either data collected directly from exams sat by novices, or data from think-out-loud protocols where the task undertaken by a novice or an expert is modelled on an exam question. The first action research cycle analysed data in terms of the SOLO taxonomy. From think-aloud responses, the authors found that educators tended to manifest a SOLO relational response on small reading problems, whereas students tended to manifest a multistructural response. Furthermore, those students who manifested a relational response tended to do better overall in the exam than students who manifested a multistructural response. The second action research cycle will explore the relationship between the ability to read code and the ability to write code. Apart from reporting on the BRACElet project itself, this paper serves as an invitation for institutions and individuals to join the second action research cycle of the BRACElet project.
Clear, T, Whalley, J, Lister, RF, Carbone, A, Hu, M, Sheard, J, Simon, B & Thompson, E 1970, 'Reliably Classifying Novice Programmer Exam Responses using the SOLO Taxonomy', 21st Annual Conference of the National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications, National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications, National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications, Auckland, New Zealand, pp. 23-30.
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Abstract: Past papers of the BRACElet project have described an approach to teaching and assessing students where the students are presented with short pieces of code, and are instructed to explain, in plain English, what the code does. The student responses to these types of questions can be analysed according to the SOLO taxonomy. Some students display an understanding of the code as a single, functional whole, while other students cannot âsee the forest for the treesâ. However, classifying student responses into the taxonomy is not always straightforward. This paper analyses the reliability of the SOLO taxonomy as a means of categorising student responses. The paper derives an augmented set of SOLO categories for application to the programming domain, and proposes a set of guidelines for researchers to use.
Clifton, M, Paul, G, Kwok, N, Liu, D, Wang, D-L & IEEE 1970, 'Evaluating Performance of Multiple RRTs', PROCEEDINGS OF 2008 IEEE/ASME INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MECHATRONIC AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS, American Society of Mechanical Engineering, IEEE, Beijing, China, pp. 564-569.
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This paper presents experimental results evaluating the performance of a new multiple Rapidly exploring Random Tree (RRT) algorithm. RRTs are randomised planners especially adept at solving difficult, high dimensional path planning problems. However, environments with low-connectivity due to the presence of obstacles can severely affect convergence. Multiple RRTs have been proposed as a means of addressing this issue, however, this approach can adversely affect computational efficiency. This paper introduces a new and simple method which takes advantage of the benefits path of multiple trees, whilst ensuring the computational burden of maintaining them is minimised. Results indicate that multiple RRTs are able to reduce the logarithmic complexity of the search, most notably in environments with high obstacle densities.
Cook, K, Canning, J & Holdsworth, J 1970, 'Birefringent Bragg gratings in highly-nonlinear photonic crystal fibre', 2008 1st Asia-Pacific Optical Fiber Sensors Conference, 2008 1st Asia-Pacific Optical Fiber Sensors Conference (APOS), IEEE.
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Efficient writing of Bragg gratings in 12-ring highly-nonlinear photonic crystal fibres is described. We perform experimental and numerical investigations to reveal the optimum angle for coupling UV writing light to the core, furthermore, we show that the formation of a strongly briefringent grating at a particular angle of orientation. © 2008 IEEE.
Cook, K, Canning, J & Holdsworth, J 1970, 'Birefringent Bragg Gratings in Highly-Nonlinear Photonic Crystal Fibre', APOS: 2008 1ST ASIA-PACIFIC OPTICAL FIBER SENSORS CONFERENCE, 1st Asia-Pacific Optical Fiber Sensors Conference, IEEE, Chengdu, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 88-+.
Cook, K, Canning, J, Holdsworth, J & Dewhurst, C 1970, 'Single-mode CW photonic crystal fibre DFB ring laser', LEOS 2008 - 21st Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, LEOS 2008 - 21st Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS 2008), IEEE, pp. 49-50.
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We demonstrate a stable, CW, single-mode distributed feedback (DFB) photonic crystal fibre (PCF) ring laser with a narrow linewidth of <10kHz. The incorporation of a polarisation-discriminating feedback loop helps eliminate the detrimental effect of self-pulsing and allows lasing to occur in one single longitudinal mode. ©2008 IEEE.
Cook, K, Canning, J, Holdsworth, J & Dewhurst, C 1970, 'Stable CW sinlge-mode photonic crystal fibre DFB ring laser', 2008 1st Asia-Pacific Optical Fiber Sensors Conference, 2008 1st Asia-Pacific Optical Fiber Sensors Conference (APOS), IEEE.
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We demonstrate stable single-mode CW operation of a DFB ring laser based on Er3+ doped photonics crystal fibre. The incorporation of a ring cavity allows one single mode to lase and also suppresses the unwanted effect of self-pulsing. © 2008 IEEE.
Cook, K, Canning, J, Holdsworth, J & Dewhurst, C 1970, 'Stable CW Sinlge-mode photonic crystal fibre DFB ring laser', APOS: 2008 1ST ASIA-PACIFIC OPTICAL FIBER SENSORS CONFERENCE, 1st Asia-Pacific Optical Fiber Sensors Conference, IEEE, Chengdu, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 85-+.
Cook, K, Pohl, A & Canning, J 1970, 'Positive and Negative Index Gratings in 10-ring photonic crystal fibres with germanosilicate cores using 193nm', 2008 JOINT CONFERENCE OF THE OPTO-ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE AND THE AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE ON OPTICAL FIBRE TECHNOLOGY, VOLS 1 AND 2, Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference/Australian Conference on Optical Fiber Technology, IEEE, Sydney, AUSTRALIA, pp. 73-74.
Cook, K, Pohl, A & Canning, J 1970, 'Positive and negative index gratings in 10-ring photonic crystal fibres with germanosilicate cores using 193nm', OECC/ACOFT 2008 - Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology, 2008 Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC) and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT), IEEE.
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Efficient Bragg grating writing (>20dB) in 10-ring highly nonlinear photonic crystal fibre using 193nm radiation without hydrogen loading is demonstrated. Splicing to SMF-28 is done with care to avoid coupling to a higher-order triangular mode.
Cordero, M-L, Burnham, DR, Baroud, CN & McGloin, D 1970, 'Holographic control of droplet microfluidics', SPIE Proceedings, NanoScience + Engineering, SPIE, San Diego, CA.
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Coupland, MP, Gardner, AP & Carmody Jones, G 1970, 'Mathematics for Engineering Education: What Students Say', Proceedings of the 31st MERGA Conference: Navigating Currents and Charting Directions, MERGA Conference, Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, Brisbane, pp. 139-146.
Cox, W, Cardwell, H & Voinov, A 1970, 'SVP as a Short Term Planning Tool: Preliminary Results of a Pilot Study', World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2008, World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2008, American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Shared vision planning encompasses the basic principles of traditional planning but differs from the conventional approach in its fundamental reliance on stakeholder collaboration in a process of mutual learning and discovery as facilitated by a collaboratively developed model of the system. This collaborative approach seeks to define issues and problems, identify values and interests, and explore alternative strategies for resolving conflict and solving problems. This paper reports on the preliminary results of a pilot study initiated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Institute for Water Resources to investigate the feasibility of SVP as a planning tool in a short-term, small-scale context in support of regulatory programs and local water planning. Experience with the pilot study conducted in the James River Basin of Virginia to date suggests significant challenges to application of SVP in a short-term, small-scale planning environment. Engaging a full range of stakeholders has been hindered by restrictions imposed by the short time frame, and scale limitations created stakeholder doubt about the validity and usefulness of the process. The fact that the pilot study was presented as a limited exercise caused it to be viewed as a threat to prospects for future, larger-scale planning studies in the Basin. This experience illustrates the importance of pre-existing conditions to the success of SVP and demonstrates the special challenges that impact use of SVP in situations involving limited time and scope. © 2008 ASCE.
Crews, K & MacKenzie, C 1970, 'Development of grading rules for re-cycled timber used in structural applications', 10th World Conference on Timber Engineering 2008, pp. 231-238.
da Xu, RY 1970, 'A Computer Vision based Whiteboard Capture System', 2008 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, 2008 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), IEEE.
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Conventional whiteboard video capture using a static camera usually results in a poor quality. In this paper, we present an autonomous whiteboard scan and capture prototype system, which consist a pair of static and Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) cameras. The PTZ camera is used to scan the newly-updated whiteboard regions without interrupting the instructor. We will illustrate several computer vision techniques used in our system: Firstly, we present our unique camera calibration method using rough hand-drawn gridlines. Secondly, we present the image processing methods used to determine where the newly updated whiteboard region to be scanned is. Our method also accounts for the whiteboard region occlusion from the instructor.
Dackermann, U, Li, J, Samali, B, Choi, F & Crews, KI 1970, 'Experimental Verification of A Vibration-Based Damage Identification Method In A Timber Structure Utilising Neural Network Ensembles', Proc. SACOMATIS 2008, On Site Assessment of Concrete, Masonry and Timber Structures, RILEM Publications, Italy, pp. 1049-1058.
Dackermann, U, Li, J, Samali, B, Choi, F & Crews, KI 1970, 'Variation-Based Damage Identification in Civil Engineering Structures Utilising Artificial Neural Networks', Proc. Structural Faults & Repairs 2008 12th International Conference, Engineering Technics Press, Edinburgh, pp. 132-132.
DaLvand, H, Su, SW & Ha, QP 1970, 'Design of a Variable Reactor for Load Balancing and Harmonics Elimination', Proceedings of Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference 2008, Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1-6.
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This paper presents the design of a variable inductor with a rotational magnetic core whose position is controlled in a closed-loop system. This magnetic structure facilitates the impedance changes which may be used for load balancing, harmonics elimination, transient response improvement, and as a controlled reactor in static VAr compensation (SVC). The design of the inductor and analysis of its impedance change caused by positioning a movable element are carried out by using the finite element method. As a result, the variation range of the impedance is determined. The proposed variable inductor is compared with a typical SVC reactor. The results show good performances in static var compensation with higher reliability and no harmonics generated. For closed-loop control, a secondorder sliding mode controller is designed for position control of the rotating core via a DC motor. Simulation results of the proposed system present highly robust and accurate responses without control chattering in face of nonlinearities and disturbances.
Davis, AM, Nurmuliani, N, Park, S & Zowghi, D 1970, 'Requirements Change: What's the Alternative?', 2008 32nd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference, 2008 32nd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference, IEEE, Turku, Finland, pp. 635-638.
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Numerous studies have shown that a software projectpsilas cost, schedule and defect density escalate as the rate of requirements change increases. Yet none of these studies have explored the effects of not making requirements changes in response to changes in user needs. This paper explains why a project incurs just as much, if not more, risk when requirements changes are suppressed.
de Almeida Prado Pohl, A, Cook, K & Canning, J 1970, 'Acoustic-induced modulation of photonic crystal fiber Bragg gratings', 2008 10th Anniversary International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, 2008 10th Anniversary International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2008), IEEE, Athens, GREECE, pp. 51-+.
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De Iuliis, JD, Groothoff, N, Holdsworth, JL, Canning, J, Martelli, C, Michie, A & Jackson, S 1970, '10 kHz linewidth distributed feedback photonic crystal fibre (DFB-PCF) laser', SPIE Proceedings, 19th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors, SPIE, Perth, AUSTRALIA.
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Debenham, JK, Simoff, SJ, Leaney, JR & Mirchandani, V 1970, 'Smart communications network management through a synthesis of distributed intelligence and information', ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THEORY AND PRACTICE II, World Computer Congress, Springer Verlag, Milano, Italy, pp. 415-419.
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Demands on communications networks to support bundled, interdependent communications services (data, voice, video) are increasing in complexity. Smart network management techniques are required to meet this demand. Such management techniques are envisioned to be based on two main technologies: (i) embedded intelligence; and (ii) up-to-the-millisecond delivery of performance information. This paper explores the idea of delivery of intelligent network management as a synthesis of distributed intelligence and information, obtained through information mining of network performance.
Ding, B, Yu, JX & Qin, L 1970, 'Finding time-dependent shortest paths over large graphs.', EDBT, International Conference on Extending Database Technology, ACM, Nantes, France, pp. 205-216.
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The spatial and temporal databases have been studied widely and intensively over years. In this paper, we study how to answer queries of finding the best departure time that minimizes the total travel time from a place to another, over a road network, where the traffic conditions dynamically change from time to time. We study a generalized form of this problem, called the time-dependent shortest-path problem. A time-dependent graph GT is a graph that has an edge-delay function, wi, j(t), associated with each edge (vi, vj), to be stored in a database. The edge-delay function wi, j(t) specifies how much time it takes to travel from node vi to node vj, if it departs from vi at time t. A user-specified query is to ask the minimum-travel-time path, from a source node, vs, to a destination node, ve, over the time-dependent graph, GT, with the best departure time to be selected from a time interval T. We denote this user query as LTT(vs, ve, T) over GT. The challenge of this problem is the added complexity due to the time dependency in the time-dependent graph. That is, edge delays are not constants, and can vary from time to time. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm to find the minimum-travel-time path with the best departure time for a LTT(vs, ve, T) query over a large graph GT. Our approach outperforms existing algorithms in terms of both time complexity in theory and efficiency in practice. We will discuss the design of our algorithm, together with its correctness and complexity. We conducted extensive experimental studies over large graphs and will report our findings.
Ding, GK 1970, 'Environmental assessment of residential buildings in China', Proceedings of the 2008 World Sustainable Building Conference, World Sustainable Building Conference, ASN Events, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 494-501.
Dong, H, Hussain, FK & Chang, E 1970, 'A Semantic Crawler Based on an Extended CBR Algorithm', ON THE MOVE TO MEANINGFUL INTERNET SYSTEMS: OTM 2008 WORKSHOPS, On the Move Confederated International Conference and Workshops, Springer-verlag Berlin, Monterrey, MEXICO, pp. 1076-1085.
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A semantic (web) crawler refers to a series of web crawlers designed for harvesting semantic web content. This paper presents the frame-work of a semantic crawler that call abstract metadata from online webpages and Cluster the metadata by associating th
Dong, H, Hussain, FK & Chang, E 1970, 'A survey in semantic web technologies-inspired focused crawlers', 2008 Third International Conference on Digital Information Management, 2008 Third International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM), IEEE, pp. 934-936.
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Crawlers are software which can traverse the internet and retrieve webpages by hyperlinks. In the face of the inundant spam websites, traditional web crawlers cannot function well to solve this problem. Semantic focused crawlers utilize semantic web technologies to analyze the semantics of hyperlinks and web documents. This paper briefly reviews the recent studies on one category of semantic focused crawlers - ontology-based focused crawlers, which are a series of crawlers that utilize ontologies to link the fetched web documents with the ontological concepts (topics). The purpose of this is to organize and categorize web documents, or filtering irrelevant webpages with regards to the topics. A brief comparison are made among these crawlers, from six perspectives - domain, working environment, special functions, technologies utilized, evaluation metrics and evaluation results. The conclusion with respect to this comparison is made in the final section. © 2008 IEEE.
Dong, H, Hussain, FK & Chang, E 1970, 'A Transport Service Ontology-based Focused Crawler', 2008 Fourth International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid, 2008 Fourth International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG), IEEE, pp. 49-56.
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Ontology is a technology for conceptualizing specific domain knowledge, which can provide machine-readable definitions to the severed domain. Therefore, ontology can be utilized to enhance the performance of focused crawlers, by precisely defining the crawling boundary. In this paper, we will exhibit a conceptual framework of an ontology-based focused crawler serving in the domain of transport services. Here, a transport service ontology is designed for filtering non-relevant metadata, by means of logically linking the metadata with ontological concepts. In addition, we will provide the evaluation process in order to assess the power of ontology in the focused crawler. Conclusion and further works based on our current evaluation results will be made in the final section. © 2008 IEEE.
Dong, H, Hussain, FK & Chang, E 1970, 'Quality of service (QoS) based service retrieval engine', Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, MoMM08: 6th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Multimedia, ACM, pp. 405-408.
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It is observed that there are few service evaluation and ranking methodologies currently available in the SOE. In this paper, we propose an innovative service evaluation and ranking strategy, based on the measurement of trustworthiness and reputation of services (or service providers'). CCCI Metrics originally proposed and developed by Chang et al [1] is used to measure the trustworthiness and reputation of e-services. Here we extend the application of CCCI Metrics to the field of service retrieval. A java-based search engine prototype is designed, with the purpose of implementing the trustworthiness and reputation-based service search, evaluation and ranking. Conclusions and future works are drawn in the final section. © 2008 ACM.
Dong, H, Hussain, FK & Chang, E 1970, 'State of the Art in Negotiation Ontologies for Enhancing Business Intelligence', 2008 4th International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices, 2008 4th International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices (NWESP), IEEE, pp. 107-112.
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Negotiation is defined as two or more agents making agreement on the common interests, which provides an efficient approach for companies to gain business intelligence from suppliers and customers. Current negotiation research focuses on automatically stimulating negotiation behaviors among agents. Ontology, as a modeling technology in semantic web, is regarded as an effective tool to improve the negotiation ability of agents, considering that ontology can provide richer semantic expressions for agents in negotiation process. In this paper, we make a brief review on the current negotiation ontology researches. In addition, by means of a unique ontology notation system, we unify the notations used in these ontologies, to maximally promote knowledge sharing outcome in this field. By comparing and contrasting the ontologies from five perspectives, we draw a brief conclusion to the present status of negotiation ontology researches, and make our suggestions to the further research in this field. © 2008 IEEE.
Dong, H, Hussain, FK, Chang, E & IEEE 1970, 'A Work-in-Progress Platform for Solving Knowledge Sharing Issues in Organizations', 2008 6TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND INFORMATICS, International Symposium on Intelligent Systems and Informatics, IEEE, Subotica, SERBIA, pp. 374-378.
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In this paper, we propose a knowledge sharing platform based on the technology of ontology and agent, in order to solve the issues in the knowledge sharing activities within organizations. Based on the analysis of literature, the issues within current or
Dong, H, Hussain, FK, Chang, E & IEEE 1970, 'State of the Art in Metadata Abstraction Crawlers', 2008 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY, VOLS 1-5, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, IEEE, Chengdu, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 1404-1409.
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Nowadays, the research of crawlers moves closer to the semantic web, along with the appearance of increasing XML/RDF/OWL files and the rapid development of ontology mark-up languages. As an emerging concept, metadata abstraction crawlers are a series of
Dong, H, Hussain, FK, Chang, E & IEEE 1970, 'Transport Service Ontology and Its Application in the Field of Semantic Search', IEEE/SOLI'2008: PROCEEDINGS OF 2008 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SERVICE OPERATIONS AND LOGISTICS, AND INFORMATICS, VOLS 1 AND 2, IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics and Informatics, IEEE, Beijing, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 820-824.
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Transport is a crucial component in logistics, which joints each activity in the logistics chain. The performance of logistics heavily relies on the efficiency of transport services. However, until now there has not been a clear definition about transpor
Dong, J, Wang, J, Sun, D & Lu, H 1970, 'The Research of Software Product Line Engineering Process and Its Integrated Development Environment Model', 2008 International Symposium on Computer Science and Computational Technology, 2008 International Symposium on Computer Science and Computational Technology, IEEE, Shanghai, China, pp. 66-71.
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In order to realize the industrialization production of software, people have carried out research on and analysis the software product line architecture of the growing maturity, component technology and development methods for product line. In this paper, a novel software engineering process model is proposed based on the modern industrial production systems and automated production method: that is ldquoN-life-cycle modelrdquo. Based on this new model, not only integrated software engineering environment model and framework have been proposed, which are based on the product line development process model, but also study systematically on theirs implementation. "N-life-cycle model" and "integrated software engineering environment model based on the product line" which are set up in the article are brand-new open models possessing modern manufacturing production characteristic. The models can impel the research development quickly of product line engineering and product line software engineering environment towards the industrialisation and automatization of the software industry.
Dong, J, Zeng, F, Wang, J & Lu, H 1970, 'Price Forecasting of Supply Chain Product Based on Dynamic Fractal Dimension', 2008 International Conference on Information Management, Innovation Management and Industrial Engineering, 2008 International Conference on Information Management, Innovation Management and Industrial Engineering (ICIII), IEEE, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 153-156.
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Supply chain management (SCM) is an emerging field that has commanded attention and support from the industrial community. Demand forecast taking inventory into consideration is an important issue in SCM. This paper presents a novel computerized system for implementing the forecasting activities required in SCM. It can help the supply chain enterprises find hidden forms, trends and relationships in the date of supply chain by the dynamic fractal dimension of fractal theory, find that dynamic fractal dimension not only can overcome the delay of the existing technical analysis on the price forecasts, and but also can instruct the supply chain product prices in advance.
Doss, R, Li, G, Yu, S, Mak, V & Chowdhury, M 1970, 'The Crossroads Approach to Information Discovery in Wireless Sensor Networks', DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING AND NETWORKING, PROCEEDINGS, 9th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Kolkata, INDIA, pp. 310-321.
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Du, C, Wu, Q, Yang, J, He, X & Chen, Y 1970, 'Subspace Analysis Methods plus Motion History Image for Human Action Recognition', 2008 Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, 2008 Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, IEEE, Canberra, Australia, pp. 606-611.
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This paper proposes a new human action recognition method which deals with recognition task in a quite different way when compared with traditional methods which use sequence matching scheme. Our method compresses a sequence of an action into a Motion History Image (MHI) on which low-dimensional features are extracted using subspace analysis methods. Unlike other methods which use a sequence consisting of several frames for recognition, our method uses only a MHI per action sequence for recognition. Obviously, our method avoids the complexity as well as the large computation in sequence matching based methods. Encouraging experimental results on a widely used database demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Dylan Dah-Chuan Lu & Agelidis, VG 1970, 'Photovoltaic-battery powered DC Bus system for common portable electronic devices', 2008 IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference, 2008 IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference - PESC 2008, IEEE, Rhodes Isl, GREECE, pp. 76-80.
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Dyson, LE & Nataatmadja, I 1970, 'Students Motivations in Podcast Use', Interactive Mobile and Computer aided Learning (IMCL), Interactive Mobile and Computer aided Learning, IMCL, Amman, Jordan, pp. 1-5.
Dyson, LE, Lawrence, E, Litchfield, A & Zmijewska, A 1970, 'M-Fieldwork for Information Systems Students', Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2008), 2008 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, IEEE, Waikoloa, USA, pp. 1-10.
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Fieldwork has long been identified as providing students undertaking professional studies with a means of implementing theory into a real world context. In recent years some educators, particularly in the health sciences, have introduced mobile devices to support students' fieldwork learning. In many ways there is a natural link between fieldwork and mobile technology. In this paper we report on a trial to introduce mobile support into the study of information systems in the field. The experience showed that mobile devices can assist students collect data in richer, multimedia formats and make subsequent classroom presentations of their field study much more interesting. However, it also revealed certain usage and deployment issues with the mobile devices themselves which have implications for device selection and educational design.
Dyson, LE, Leigh, EE, Litchfield, AJ, Raban, R & Tyler, JV 1970, 'Improving the Participation of International and local Students Using mLearning', UTS Learning and Teaching Forum, UTS, UTS.
Eklund, JM, McGregor, C & Smith, KP 1970, 'A method for physiological data transmission and archiving to support the service of critical care using DICOM and HL7', 2008 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, IEEE, Vancouver, CANADA, pp. 1486-+.
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Epaarachchi, JA, Canning, J & Stevenson, M 1970, 'Investigation of embedded near infrared fibre Bragg grating (FBG) sensors (830 nm) in structural health monitoring of glass fibre composite structures', SPIE Proceedings, 19th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors, SPIE, Perth, AUSTRALIA.
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Euston, M, Coote, P, Mahony, R, Jonghyuk Kim & Hamel, T 1970, 'A complementary filter for attitude estimation of a fixed-wing UAV', 2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE, IEEE, pp. 340-345.
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Fang, G, Kwok, NM & Ha, Q 1970, 'Automatic Fuzzy Membership Function Tuning Using the Particle Swarm Optimization', 2008 IEEE Pacific-Asia Workshop on Computational Intelligence and Industrial Application, 2008 Pacific-Asia Workshop on Computational Intelligence and Industrial Application (PACIIA), IEEE, Wuhan China, pp. 324-328.
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Fuzzy logic controllers (FLCs) are developed to exploit human expert knowledge in designing control systems. While the fuzzy rules are relatively easy to obtain, fuzzy membership function (MF) tuning could be a time consuming exercise. In this paper the particle swarm optimization technique is employed to automatically tune the MFs of a Mamdani-type of fuzzy controller. The effectiveness of the proposed controller is demonstrated by the control performance of such an FLC of a nonlinear water tank system. The results are compared favourably to a PSO tuned PID controller.
Fang, G, Kwok, NM & Ha, QP 1970, 'Swarm Interaction-Based Simulation of Occupant Evacuation', 2008 IEEE Pacific-Asia Workshop on Computational Intelligence and Industrial Application, 2008 Pacific-Asia Workshop on Computational Intelligence and Industrial Application (PACIIA), IEEE, Wuhan China, pp. 329-333.
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The understanding of occupant responses during an evacuation is crucial for improving the design of effective escape routes. An approach, incorporated the swarm behaviour, for simulating the evacuation of occupants from an enclosed environment is proposed in this paper. This method complements the research in evacuations adopting the cellular automatic and lattice gas models. In particular, it is shown that the trajectories followed by evacuees under panic could be mimicked by the social interaction among them and self-experiences of the individuals. Simulation results of the evacuation from a single exit enclosure are included to illustrate the feasibility of the swarm behaviour-based approach in imitating evacuation phenomena such as jamming and clogging.
Fang, T & Ball, JE 1970, 'Calibration of a catchment modelling system with spatially variable parameters', Website Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Urban Drainage, International Conference on Urban Drainage, International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR), Edinburgh, UK, pp. 1-10.
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Implementation of catchment modelling systems is an accepted approach for obtaining information about the hydrological response of catchments under either existing or potential future conditions. The successful implementation of a catchment modelling system requires careful parameter evaluation during the system calibration. Evaluation of spatially variable control parameters has been of increasing concern as a result of an increased awareness of the inappropriateness of assuming catchment averaged values for assessing water quality aspects of the catchment response.
Fang, T & Ball, JE 1970, 'Investigation of parameter interactions in a physically distributed catchment modelling system', 2008 Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, Modbury, SA; Engineers Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
Fang, T & Ball, JE 1970, 'Investigation of parameter interactions in a physically distributed catchment modelling system', Proceedings of Water Down Under 2008, Water Down Under 2008, Australia Engineers Association, Adelaide, Australia, pp. 2212-2221.
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A physically distributed Stormwater Management Model (SWMM) is associated with a large number of spatially variable control parameters for the description of subcatchment characteristics, It is difficult to investigate the complex relationships among these control parameters using traditional approaches, A real-value coding genetic algorithm was used as a tool to investigate interactions among spatially variable control parameters of SWMM in this study, To ascertain if the individual parameters were correlated, the Pearson Correlation method was used to evaluate the linear correlation between two control parameters, The results based on the Pearson Correlation method indicate no ciear relationship between any two control parameters, However, a distinct relationship among a group of parameters was detected, suggesting that the simulation performance of the complex system SWMM was affected by the combination of a parameter set rather than individual parameters,
Fatahi, B, Indraratna, B & Khabbaz, H 1970, 'Numerical and Experimental Study of Tree Influence on the Ground', GeoCongress 2008, GeoCongress 2008, American Society of Civil Engineers, New Orleans, USA, pp. 694-701.
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A mathematical model for the rate of root water uptake has been developed considering ground conditions, type of vegetation and climatic parameters. The three independent features in the root water uptake model incorporated in detail are soil suction, root distribution and potential transpiration A two dimensional finite element approach has been employed to solve the transient coupled flow and deformation equations in vicinity of a tree. To validale the model, an array off measurements and the data have been compared with the numerical predictions. The predicted results acquired from the numerical analysis have been compared favourably with the field and the associated laboratory measurements, justifying the assumptions, upon which the model has been developed.
Fatahi, B, Khabbaz, H & Indraratna, B 1970, 'Analysis of Matric Suction Effects Induced by Tree Roots on Rail Track Subgrade', Conference Proceedings: CORE2008 Conference on Railway Engineering, Conference on Railway Engineering, RTSA, Perth, WA, Australia, pp. 599-610.
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This study investigates the eflects of vegetation on soil matric suction and ground deformation. This paper highlights the inter-related parameters contributing to the development of a conceptual evapo-transpiration and root water uptake equilibrium model that is then incorporated in a comprehensive numerical model. The developed numerical model based on the finite element analysis (ABAQUS) considers fully coupled flowdeformation behaviour of soil. The model formulation is based on the effective stress approach developed for unsaturated soils. Based on the proposed model, the distribution of the matric suction proflle adjacent to the tree has been numerically anaiysed. To validate the model, an array of field measurements conducted at Miram site in Victoria, Australia have been compared with the numerical predictions. Then behaviour of a single tree on improving soil behaviour underneath rail tracks has been described. II is found that root water uptake and associated matric suction stabilise the soft soil beneath railway lines and a pattern of trees grown systematically along rail corridors may olter a cost eltective and environmentally attractive solution for the soft ground improvement in the long-term.
Feng, D, Sikora, T, Siu, WC, Zhang, J, Guan, L & Dugelay, JL 1970, 'Preface', 2008 IEEE 10th Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, 2008 IEEE 10th Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, IEEE.
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Filatova, T, Van Der Veen, A & Voinov, A 1970, 'An agent-based model for exploring land market mechanisms for coastal zone management', Proc. iEMSs 4th Biennial Meeting - Int. Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software: Integrating Sciences and Information Technology for Environmental Assessment and Decision Making, iEMSs 2008, pp. 792-799.
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This paper presents an agent-based model of a land market (ALMA-C) to simulate the emergence of land prices and urban land patterns from bottom-up. Our model mimics individual decisions to buy and to sell land depending on economic, sociological and political factors as well as on the characteristics of the spatial environment. To this we add ecological and environmental considerations and focus on the question of how individual land use decisions can be affected to reduce the pressure on the coastal zone ecosystem functions. A series of model experiments helps visualize and explore how economic incentives at a land market can influence the spatial distribution of activities and land prices in a coastal zone. We demonstrate that economic incentives do affect urban form and pattern, land prices and welfare measures. However, they may not always be sufficient to reduce the pressure on coastal zone ecosystems.
Francois, R, Al-Mahmoud, F, Castel, A & Kreit, A 1970, 'Corroded RC beam repaired with near-face mounted CFRP rods', Concrete Repair, Rehabilitation and Retrofitting II - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Concrete Repair, Rehabilitation and Retrofitting, ICCRRR, 2nd International Conference on Concrete Repair, Rehabilitation and Retrofitting, CRC Press, Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA, pp. 435-436.
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Gao, Y, Zhang, G & Lu, J 1970, 'A Particle Swarm Optimization Based Algorithm for Fuzzy Bilevel Decision Making with Objective-Shared Followers', SIMULATED EVOLUTION AND LEARNING, PROCEEDINGS, Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning, Springer, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 190-199.
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A bilevel decision problem may have multiple followers as the lower decision units and have fuzzy demands simultaneously. This paper focuses on problems of fuzzy linear bilevel decision making with multiple followers who share a common objective but have different constraints (FBOSF). Based on the ranking relationship among fuzzy sets defined by cut set and satisfactory degree, a FBOSF model is presented and a particle swarm optimization based algorithm is developed.
Gao, Y, Zhang, G, Lu, J & Goyal, M 1970, 'A decision support system for fuzzy bilevel decision making', COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN DECISION AND CONTROL, International Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent technologies in Nuclear Science Conference, World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc., Madrid, Spain, pp. 763-768.
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Bilevel decision techniques are developed for decentralized decision problems, which may be defined by fuzzy coefficients. Based on a fuzzy linear bilevel (FLBL) model and two FLBL algorithms, this research develops a FLBL decision support system (FLBLDS
Gao, Y, Zhang, G, Lu, J & IEEE 1970, 'A Particle Swarm Optimization based Algorithm for Fuzzy Bilevel Decision Making', 2008 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FUZZY SYSTEMS, VOLS 1-5, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE, Hong Kong, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 1454-1459.
Gardner, A & Willey, K 1970, 'Developing teamwork and other professional skills while teaching reinforced concrete design', IABSE Congress, Chicago 2008: Creating and Renewing Urban Structures – Tall Buildings, Bridges and Infrastructure, IABSE Congress, Chicago 2008: Creating and Renewing Urban Structures – Tall Buildings, Bridges and Infrastructure, International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), Chicago, USA, pp. 334-341.
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<p>Professionals, in addition to being technically competent, need a range of generic skills. These include teamwork, communication, being able to think both critically and independently, being able to critically appraise one’s work and the work of others and an appreciation of the need and value of reflection in both their personal and professional life [1, 2]. However, there is a reported competency gap between the skills required by employers and those developed by students during their undergraduate courses [3, 4]. At the University of Technology, Sydney, we are using self and peer assessment in our Engineering program to develop professional competencies in undergraduate engineering students. Its co-ordinated use is providing opportunities for students to practise, develop and assess their professional skills and develop their judgement [5] within subjects where traditional discipline content is taught.</p>
Ge, Y & Esselle, KP 1970, 'Analysis and design of low-profile high-gain resonant cavity antennas with single-layer superstrates', 2008 2nd International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems, 2008 2nd International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS 2008), IEEE, Gold Coast, AUSTRALIA, pp. 209-213.
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Geng, X, Wang, L, Li, M, Wu, Q & Smith-Miles, K 1970, 'Adaptive fusion of gait and face for human identification in video', 2008 IEEE WORKSHOP ON APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTER VISION, IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, IEEE, Copper Mt, CO, pp. 94-+.
Geng, X, Wang, L, Li, M, Wu, Q & Smith-Miles, K 1970, 'Adaptive Fusion of Gait and Face for Human Identification in Video', 2008 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, 2008 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), IEEE, Copper Mountain, CO, USA, pp. 1-6.
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Most work on multi-biometric fusion is based on static fusion rules which cannot respond to the changes of the environment and the individual users. This paper proposes adaptive multi-biometric fusion, which dynamically adjusts the fusion rules to suit the real-time external conditions. As a typical example, the adaptive fusion of gait and face in video is studied. Two factors that may affect the relationship between gait and face in the fusion are considered, i.e., the view angle and the subject-to-camera distance. Together they determine the way gait and face are fused at an arbitrary time. Experimental results show that the adaptive fusion performs significantly better than not only single biometric traits, but also those widely adopted static fusion rules including SUM, PRODUCT, MIN, and MAX.
Gens, A, Do Guimarães, LN, Śanchez, M & Sheng, D 1970, 'Developments in modelling the generalised behaviour of unsaturated soils', Unsaturated Soils: Advances in Geo-Engineering - Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Unsaturated Soils, E-UNSAT 2008, 1st European Conference on Unsaturated Soils, CRC PRESS-TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP, Durham, ENGLAND, pp. 53-61.
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A number of developments for the description of the generalised behaviour of unsaturated soils are presented. They can be considered as extensions of the conventional elastoplastic models developed in recent years to simulate the stress-strain behaviour of this type of soils. The following topics are addressed: the consideration of coupled hydraulic models in a thermodynamical framework, the introduction of structural components in the modelling of expansive soil behaviour and the incorporation of temperature and chemical effects. © 2008 Taylor & Francis Group, London.
Gentile, C, Fleming, P, Mironov, V, Argraves, WS & Drake, CJ 1970, 'Blood Vessel‐Like Tissue Spheroids as Modules for the Assembly of Blood Vessels', The FASEB Journal, Wiley.
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Gerber, C, Crews, KI, Sigrist, C & Samali, B 1970, 'A numerical approach for assessing the behaviours of timber stressed panels', Proc. ASEC 2008, Australian Structural Engineering Conference, The Meeting Planners, Melbourne, pp. 1-11.
Getian Ye, Yang Wang, Jie Xu, Gunawan Herman & Bang Zhang 1970, 'A practical approach to multiple super-resolution sprite generation', 2008 IEEE 10th Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, 2008 IEEE 10th Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), IEEE, pp. 70-75.
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The MPEG-4 video coding standard introduces a novel concept of sprite or mosaic that is a large image composed of pixels belonging to a video object visible throughout a video segment. The sprite captures spatio-temporal information in a very compact way and makes it possible for efficient object-based video compression. In this paper, we propose a practical approach to generating multiple super-resolution sprites for sprite coding. In order to construct super-resolution sprites and reduce coding cost, we firstly partition a video sequence into multiple independent sprites and group the images covering a similar scene into the same sprite. We then propose efficient and practical algorithms for cumulative global motion estimation and super-resolution sprite construction. Experiments with real video sequences show that the proposed approach outperforms the previous single sprite and multiple sprite techniques. © 2008 IEEE.
Ghous, H, Kennedy, PJ, Catchpoole, DR & Simoff, SJ 1970, 'Kernel-based visualisation of genes with the gene ontology', Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series, Australian Data Mining Conference, Australian Computer Society, Adelaide, pp. 133-140.
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With the development of microarray-based high- throughput technologies for examining genetic and biological information en masse, biologists are now faced with making sense of large lists of genes identi-ffed from their biological experiments. There is a vital need for \system biology' approaches which can allow biologists to see new or unanticipated potential relationships which will lead to new hypotheses and eventual new knowledge. Finding and understanding relationships in this data is a problem well suited to visualisation. We augment genes with their associated terms from the Gene Ontology and visualise them using kernel Principal Component Analysis with both specialised linear and Gaussian kernels. Our results show that this method can correctly visualise genes by their functional relationships and we describe the difference between using the linear and Gaussian kernels on the problem. © 2008, Australian Computer Society, Inc.
Gibson, T, Thai, K, Saxon, J & Pollock, R 1970, 'The effectiveness of safety equipment in horse racing falls', International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Injury - 2008 International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Injury, Proceedings, pp. 453-456.
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The effectiveness of the personal protective equipment PPE used by jockeys and harness drivers in falls during racing was investigated. In Australia the wearing of helmets and protective vests is mandatory in both forms of the sport, though the equipment standards differ. The incidence of injury was analysed and the mechanisms of injury investigated by video analysis of actual injury incidents. The effectiveness of the safety equipment was assessed through physical testing. The differing injury mechanisms and track surfaces in the two sports result in unique requirements for the protective equipment used. The needs for future development of improved equestrian personal protective equipment are outlined.
Gilbert, RI & Nejadi, S 1970, 'An Experimental Study of Flexural Cracking in Reinforced Concrete', ASEC 2008, Australian Structural Engineering Conference, The Meeting Planners, Melbourne, pp. 1-10.
Goldfinch, T, Carew, A, Gardner, AP, Henderson, A, McCarthy, T & Thomas, G 1970, 'Cross-institutional Comparison of Mechanics Examinations: A Guide for the Curious', Proceedings of the 2008 AaeE Conference, Annual Conference of Australasian Association for Engineering Education, Engineers Australia, Yeppoon, Queensland, pp. 1-8.
Golsteijn, C, van den Hoven, E, Geurts, S, Eichenbrenner, M, van Leest, C, van den Hurk, S & Ling, YS 1970, 'BLB: A persuasive and interactive installation designed to improve well-being', PERSUASIVE TECHNOLOGY, Persuasive 2008, Springer, Oulu, Finland, pp. 262-265.
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Well-being is a broad subject, which is described in this paper as: a personal balance of mental, social and physical being, influenced by life circumstances and life factors. These factors include emotions, engagement, life satisfaction, intentional activities and social network. The project described in this paper aims at improving well-being through the design of a persuasive and interactive installation for the home environment. After the investigation of well-being by means of a literature study, cultural probes and questionnaires, a concept was developed. This paper describes the design, implementation and evaluation of this concept. 'BLB', as it is called, encourages its users to seize the moment in order to increase their well-being.
Greentree, AD, Jong, LM, Van Donkelaar, JA, Devitt, SJ, Cole, JH, Stephens, AM, Jamieson, DN & Hollenberg, LCL 1970, 'Spatial adiabatic passage as a quantum wire', 2008 International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2008 International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN), IEEE, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA, pp. 156-159.
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Groothoff, N, Lancry, M, Guizard, S, Poumellec, B & Canning, J 1970, 'Plasma time-resolved measurements in silica-based glasses exposed to IR femtosecond laser', OECC/ACOFT 2008 - Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology, 2008 Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC) and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT), IEEE.
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Time resolved spectral interferometery of glasses shows that the mean trapping time of elec trons excited in the conduction band was significantly lower in Ge-doped silica (≤100 fs) when compared to pure silica (150fs).
Groothoff, N, Lancry, M, Guizard, S, Poumellec, B & Canning, J 1970, 'Plasma Time-resolved Measurements in Silica-based Glasses Exposed to IR Femtosecond Laser', 2008 JOINT CONFERENCE OF THE OPTO-ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE AND THE AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE ON OPTICAL FIBRE TECHNOLOGY, VOLS 1 AND 2, Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference/Australian Conference on Optical Fiber Technology, IEEE, Sydney, AUSTRALIA, pp. 482-+.
Groothoff, N, Lancry, M, Poumellec, B & Canning, J 1970, '193nm Photolytic Mechanism in Er/Al Doped Silica', 2008 JOINT CONFERENCE OF THE OPTO-ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE AND THE AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE ON OPTICAL FIBRE TECHNOLOGY, VOLS 1 AND 2, Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference/Australian Conference on Optical Fiber Technology, IEEE, Sydney, AUSTRALIA, pp. 484-+.
Groothoff, N, Lancry, M, Poumellec, B & Canning, J 1970, '193nm photolytic mechanism in Er/Al doped silica', OECC/ACOFT 2008 - Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology, 2008 Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC) and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT), IEEE.
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The photolytic mechanism in erbium/aluminium doped silica preform was determined to be two-photon absorption. Index cha nge, determined from diffraction efficiency, primarily occurred through material d ensification, which is supported by a dditional nanometre scale surface analysis.
Groothoff, N, Lancry, M, Poumellec, B & Canning, J 1970, 'Index change mechanism in erbium codoped aluminosilicate glass from 193nm irradiation', LEOS 2008 - 21st Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, LEOS 2008 - 21st Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS 2008), IEEE, pp. 41-42.
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The absorption process causing index change in erbium codoped aluminosilicate optical fiber preform plates induced with 193nm irradiation is determined to be triggered by two-photon excitation. The main contribution to index change is from material densification. ©2008 IEEE.
Guillon, M, Dholakia, K & McGloin, D 1970, 'Aerosol tweezing with a super-continuum laser beam', SPIE Proceedings, NanoScience + Engineering, SPIE, San Diego, CA.
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Guo, W, Ngo, H, Palmer, CG, Xing, W, Yen-Jung, H & Listowski, A 1970, 'Enhanced biological nutrient removal by a single stage sponge-submerged membrane bioreactor in waste water treatment for reuse', Proc.IWA Regional Conference, IWA Regional Conference, IWA, Moscow, pp. 168-173.
Guo, W, Xing, W, Ngo, H, Hu, YA, Palmer, CG & Zhang, R 1970, 'Enhancement of organics removal by an integrated non woven media biofilter-submerged membrane adsorption hybrid system', Proc. 6th Regional Symposium on Membrane Science & Technology, Regional Symposium on Membrane Science & Technology, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand, pp. 1-8.
Guo, Y, Dou, Y, Zhu, J, Lu, H & Jin, J 1970, 'Numerical magnetic field analysis and parameter computation of a PM synchronous generator', Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems, ICEMS 2008, 11th International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems, WORLD PUBLISHING CORPORATION, Huazhong Univ Sci & Technol, Wuhan, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 2866-2869.
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This paper presents the parameter computation and performance prediction of a permanent magnet (PM) synchronous generator based on numerical magnetic field analyses. The finite element method is employed to accurately determine the magnetic field distribution and key parameters of the machine, such as the winding flux, back electromotive force, winding inductance and core loss. An equivalent electrical circuit is applied to predict the generator performance such as the external characteristic.
Guo, Y, Dou, Y, Zhu, J, Lu, H & Jin, J 1970, 'Numerical Magnetic Field Analysis and Performance Computation of a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator', Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS), World Publishing Corporation, Wuhan, China, pp. 2866-2869.
Guo, Y, Wang, X, Zhu, J & Lu, H 1970, 'Development of a Wound Rotor Brushless Doubly Fed Machine Based on Slot MMF Harmonics', 2008 IEEE INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING, VOLS 1-5, IEEE Industry-Applications-Society Annual Meeting, IEEE, Alberta, CANADA, pp. 524-+.
Guo, Y, Wang, X, Zhu, JG & Lu, H 1970, 'Development of a Wound Rotor Brushless Doubly Fed Machine Based on Slot MMF Harmonics', 2008 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, 2008 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting (IAS), IEEE, Edmonton, Canada, pp. 1-5.
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In the rotor winding magnetomotive force (MMF) of an ac machine, there exist so-called slot harmonics which appear in pairs and the lower order harmonic of each pair rotates in the opposite direction against the fundamental component. In addition, the slot harmonics have the same winding factor as the fundamental component. Based on these properties, this paper develops a brushless doubly fed machine (BDFM) with wound rotor. The machine consists of two stator windings with p1 and p2 pole-pairs, respectively. The rotor has a normal symmetrical multi-phase winding, in which rotating MMFs with p1 and p2 pole-pairs are induced by their stator counterparts. When the number of rotor slots equals the sum p1 and p2, the two MMFs rotate in opposite directions with respect to the rotor, satisfying the requirement of a BDFM. The major advantage of such a machine is that for both p1 and p2 pole-pair MMFs the winding factor is as high as that of the fundamental component, leading to high utilization of rotor winding and electrical efficiency.
Guo, Y, Zhu, J, Chen, J, Su, SW, Lu, H & Jin, J 1970, 'Performance Analysis of a Claw Pole PM Motor', Proceedings of Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference 2008, Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1-5.
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This paper presents the performance analysis of a three-phase three-stack permanent magnet (PM) claw pole motor by using an improved phase variable model, which has been developed for accurate and efficient performance simulation of PM brushless dc motors. The improved model can take into account the effect of magnetic saturation and rotor position dependence of key parameters including back electromagnetic force, winding inductance, cogging torque and core loss, which are obtained from time-stepping nonlinear magnetic field finite element analysis (FEA). The presented model has been implemented in Simulink environment and employed to simulate the dynamic and steady-state performance of the three-phase three-stack PM claw pole motor with soft magnetic composite stator. Parameter computation and performance simulation are validated by experiments on the motor prototype.
Guo, Y, Zhu, J, Lu, H, Lin, Z, Wang, S & Jin, J 1970, '3-D Vector Magnetic Properties of SMC Material for Advanced Field Analysis of SMC Machine', Proceedings of Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1-4.
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In a rotating electrical machine or the T-joints of a multiphase transformer, the magnetic flux is basically three dimensional (3-D) and rotational. This paper presents the 3-D vector magnetic properties of soft magnetic composite (SMC) materials for advanced field analysis of electromagnetic devices with SMC core, which is particularly developed for application of electrical machines with complex structure and 3-D flux. The 3-D magnetic reluctivity tensor is derived from the magnetic measurements on a cubic SMC sample by using a 3-D magnetic property tester. The tensor consists of both diagonal and offdiagonal terms and the latter account for the effect of rotating flux. Practical techniques for employing the vector magnetic properties in field analysis are reviewed and discussed.
Guoqiang Zhang & Kleijn, WB 1970, 'Autoregressive model-based speech packet-loss concealment', 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2008 - 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE, pp. 4797-4800.
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We study packet-loss concealment for speech based on autoregressive modeling using a rigorous minimum mean square error (MMSE) approach. The effect of the model estimation error on predicting the missing segment is studied and an upper bound on the mean square error is derived. Our experiments show that the upper bound is tight when the estimation error is less than the signal variance. We also consider the usage of perceptual weighting on prediction to improve speech quality. A rigorous argument is presented to show that perceptual weighting is not useful in this context. We create simple and practical MMSE-based systems using two signal models: a basic model capturing the short-term correlation and a more sophisticated model that also captures the long-term correlation. Subjective quality comparison tests show that the proposed MMSE-based system provides state-of-the-art performance. ©2008 IEEE.
Hadgraft, R 1970, 'Computer-aided learning and assessment: The natural partner for project-based learning', ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings.
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There are significant pressures on higher education in Australia: continually reducing funding per student in real terms, an exponential growth in the knowledge base and growth in complexity of the problems that engineers face. Students need more project work to allow them to develop real engineering expertise (as opposed to engineering knowledge and skills). Project-based learning is aided by ready access to good online materials that can help students acquire basic skills and that will allow them to test their basic competency. It's time that we shared these learning resources across the sector (both nationally and internationally). Specifically, we should identify existing good online materials and make them readily available. We should develop, if necessary, good online assessment so that students can test their skills at any time, without waiting for end of semester exams. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2008.
Hadgraft, RG 1970, 'Computer-aided learning and assessment is needed to aid project-based learning', Proceedings of 36th European Society for Engineering Education, SEFI Conference on Quality Assessment, Employability and Innovation.
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There are significant pressures on higher education: reducing funding per student in real terms, an exponential growth in the knowledge base and growth in complexity and interconnectedness of the problems that engineers face as the Earth's climate and society changes. Students need more project work to allow them to develop real engineering expertise to tackle these complex problems (as opposed to acquiring just basic engineering knowledge and skills). Project-based learning is aided by ready access to good online materials that can help students acquire basic skills and that will allow them to test their basic competency. It is time to make these learning resources more readily available across the sector (both nationally and internationally). Although there are vast collections of tutorials and other learning objects, they are not yet well organised and it is difficult to see where the gaps are. For example, is there a site that would allow someone to study any topic in civil engineering in an organised way? As well, we should develop good online assessment so that students can test their skills at any time, without waiting for end of semester exams. This paper is a call to action for the international discipline communities to organise the existing online resources and to develop additional resources and online assessment.
Hadgraft, RG, Carew, AL, Therese, SA & Blundell, DL 1970, 'Teaching and assessing systems thinking in engineering', Research in Engineering Education Symposium 2008, pp. 230-235.
Hai Dong, Hussain, FK & Chang, E 1970, 'A survey in semantic search technologies', 2008 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, 2008 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST), IEEE, Phitsanulok, Thailand, pp. 403-408.
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In this paper, we make a survey over the primary literature regarding semantic search technologies. By classifying the literature into six main categories, we review their characteristics respectively. In addition, the issues within the reviewed semantic search methods and engines are analysed and concluded based on four perspectives.
Hai Dong, Hussain, FK & Chang, E 1970, 'A survey in traditional information retrieval models', 2008 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, 2008 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST), IEEE, Phitsanulok, Thailand, pp. 397-402.
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As a matter of fact, many so-called semantic search algorithms are derived from the traditional indexterm- based search models. In this paper, we survey the traditional information retrieval models by categorizing them into three main classes and eleven subclasses, and analyse their benefits and issues of them.
Hai Dong, Hussain, FK & Chang, E 1970, 'Developing a conceptual framework of semantic search engine to promote the collaborations between SMEs in the digital ecosystems environment', 2008 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, 2008 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST), IEEE, Phitsanulok, Thailand, pp. 409-412.
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The research with regards to digital ecosystems emerged in the end of last century, and has developed in this century. Due to its immaturity, some fields within it are deemed to be blank. This research proposes to fill one of the blanks in the digital ecosystems research. By analyzing the issues in the current research, we propose to develop a semantic search engine, with the purpose of querying services provided by SMEs. The objective of this research is to build a reliable and trustworthy link between SMEs in the digital ecosystems environment. Relevant research methods and steps are discussed in this paper.
Hai Dong, Hussain, FK & Chang, E 1970, 'Developing a semantic service transaction system in the DE environment', 2008 6th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, 2008 6th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), IEEE, Daejeon, SOUTH KOREA, pp. 1353-1357.
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Digital Ecosystem (DE), which is an emerging service environment beyond the service-oriented architecture (SOA), is increasingly attracting researchers' interest. However, current literature reveals that there is not reliable and trustworthy technical su
Hambley, P & Canning, J 1970, 'Progress toward low-cost mass-produced polymer fibre tapers for liquid level monitors', SPIE Proceedings, 19th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors, SPIE, Perth, AUSTRALIA.
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Hamilton, TJ, Jin, C, van Schaik, A & Tapson, J 1970, 'A 2-D silicon cochlea with an improved automatic quality factor control-loop', 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS 2008, IEEE, Seattle, WA, pp. 1772-+.
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Hamilton, TJ, Tapson, J, Jin, C & van Schaik, A 1970, 'Analogue VLSI implementations of two dimensional, nonlinear, active cochlea models', 2008 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, 2008 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, IEEE, Baltimore, MD, pp. 153-+.
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Hamilton, TJ, van Schaik, A & Cornell, B 1970, 'Measuring the impedance of a tethered bilayer membrane biosensor', 2008 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, 2008 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, IEEE, Baltimore, MD, pp. 361-+.
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Hammadi, A, Hussain, FK, Chang, E, Dillon, TS & Ali, S 1970, 'Ontological framework for trust & reputation for DBE', 2008 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, 2008 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST), IEEE, Phitsanulok, THAILAND, pp. 650-653.
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Abstract- Today's e-Businesses rely heavily on trust and reputation systems. These systems are key indicators for businesses performance. Businesses that interact with each other for their business needs form a Digital Business Ecosystem (DBE). Members ofDBE need to know the trust and reputation value of each other before the start of business interactions. The feedback mechanism is needed so that members of DBE form a unanimous opinion about trustworthiness of any specific member of the community and based their business interactions on this opinion. We present an ontological framework that will combine the feedback from all different trust and reputation information publicly available for a specific member of a domain and gives the knowledge representation on the bases of combined feedback. We call this ontological framework 'feedback ontology'.
Hannan, J & Kandasamy, J 1970, 'Experience of 1D and 2D flood modelling in Australia—a guide to model selection based on channel and floodplain characteristics', Flood Risk Management: Research and Practice - Proceedings of the European Conference, European Conference on Flood Risk Management: Research and Practice, CRC Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 273-280.
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The average annual cost of flooding in Australia is $318 million per year (BTE, 2001). Some 100 flood studies, floodplain management studies and plans are currently being undertaken in Australia to seek to reduce the potential flood risk to residents and properties in flood-affected areas. Consequently, a great body of knowledge and experience in flood modelling practices has been acquired, from one-dimensional (1D) steady-state models through to two-dimensional (2D) finite element hydrodynamic models. This paper critically appraises 1D and 2D hydraulic modelling techniques based on a quantitative comparison of MIKE-11, HEC-RAS and RMA-2 modelling results for a creek system in Australia. Based on the findings of the case study, the paper provides practical guidance for modellers on the suitability of 1D and 2D modelling for common physical channel and floodplain characteristics.
Hao, H, Li, ZX, Zhu, XQ & Wang, M 1970, 'Blast fragments prediction - Current approaches and challenges', Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Structural Engineering for Young Experts, ISSEYE 2008, 10th International Symposium on Structural Engineering for Young Experts, SCIENCE PRESS BEIJING, Hunan Univ, Changsha, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 3-10.
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Debris generated from damaged structure components under blast loading imposes a great threat to occupants of building structures. The current practice in predicting blast induced debris is mainly based on empirical relations established using field blast test data. Because the inherent structural conditions such as dimensions, material properties, boundary conditions and surrounding environments vary from structure to structure and are usually different from the model structures tested in the field, these empirical relations do not necessarily give reliable predictions of blast debris in an explosion event. Many researchers have developed theoretical and numerical models to predict fragmentation process and fragment distributions of construction materials. The theoretical models are based primarily on the theory of continuum damage mechanics and/or fracture mechanics, and energy and momentum balance principles. The numerical models include finite element approach with interface constraints, discrete element model, meshfree model, lattice model and applied element method. Because the dynamic fragmentation process of construction materials such as masonry and concrete under blast loading is very complex, all these models have intrinsic difficulties for practical application to predict blast generated debris. This paper will conduct a review of the current methods, and discuss their advantages and disadvantages. The challenges to develop an efficient and reliable method to predict fragmentation process and fragment distribution will be outlined. Since fragmentation process depends on the dynamic material properties, commonly used material models for concrete and masonry will also be introduced. Finally, the recently developed models by the authors to predict concrete and masonry wall damage and probabilistic fragment distributions will be briefly discussed.
Hao, H, Zhu, XQ & Deeks, AJ 1970, 'An investigation of the reliability of ambient vibration tests for extracting structural vibration properties', Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Structural Engineering for Young Experts, ISSEYE 2008, 10th International Symposium on Structural Engineering for Young Experts, SCIENCE PRESS BEIJING, Hunan Univ, Changsha, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 1489-1494.
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Ambient vibration tests have been gaining more and more popularity in structural condition monitoring because they are easy to carry out and cause only minimum disturbance to the normal operation of the tested structures. Compared to the forced vibration test, the input force is not known in ambient vibration test. The ambient excitation sources may come from wind, sea wave, traffic, and other natural sources and human activities. Common approaches to extract structural vibration properties from ambient vibration tests are based on the assumption that the ambient excitation force is a white noise. In reality, the unknown excitation forces may not be white noise, or even not a wide band process, and inevitably contain noises. In this paper, the reliability of using ambient vibration tests to extract structural vibration properties is investigated. Vibration test data from the ASCE/IASC benchmark model obtained from three excitation sources, namely impact hammer, shaker with random white noise excitations and ambient excitation (traffic and human activities) are analyzed. The extracted vibration properties (frequency, mode shape and damping) are compared. A numerical model is also created to simulate dynamic testing. Numerically simulated data is smeared with different types of noises to investigate the influence of noises on extracted structural vibration parameters. Discussions are made on the accuracy of using ambient vibration tests to extract structural vibration properties. The conditions under which the ambient vibration tests lead to accurate structural property extraction are also defined.
Hawryszkiewycz, I 1970, 'Designing Support Systems for Applications Outsourcing', 2008 10th IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology and the Fifth IEEE Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services, 2008 10th IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology and the Fifth IEEE Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services, IEEE, Washington DC, USA, pp. 323-328.
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The paper describes ways to support outsourcing arrangements using collaborative technologies. It identifies outsourcing falling into the general class of socio-technical systems. It then suggests any supporting systems must emphasize both the social arrangements as well as any functionality needed to carry out the outsourcing goal. At the same time they should provide the dynamic capability to change the arrangements if needed. The paper defines a method for identifying such networks and using them to define role based interfaces to support people in outsourcing arrangements. The paper illustrates with an example of process outsourcing. It then concludes by identifying generic services that can improve the dynamic capabilities of outsourcing.
Hawryszkiewycz, IT 1970, 'Designing business activities to facilitate knowledge sharing', 2008 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems, 2008 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS), IEEE, Irvine, California, pp. 321-330.
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This paper provides ways to identify knowledge management requirements in business activities. Knowledge management requirements are determined by the activity goal and the social interactions needed to realize this goal. The paper provides a way to classify business activities and provides guidelines for choosing the social communication patterns within these activities. It then describes ways that the combination of the two can identify knowledge requirements and the technology needed to support and facilitate knowledge sharing.
Hawryszkiewycz, IT 1970, 'Supporting Complex Adaptive Processes with Lightweight Platforms', Pervasive Collaborative Networks, Working Conference on VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES, Springer US, Poznan, pp. 381-388.
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This paper begins by describing the evolving environment towards greater adaptability in todayâs business processes and the limitations of current methodologies in providing ways to support such processes. Support systems require ways to integrate social connectivity and interactivity into business processes in ways that enable the process to be dynamically changed. The support systems must thus integrate social interactions within business contexts in ways that allow the interactions to change the process. The paper will describe models that identify requirements for such systems and convert the models to lightweight implementations that support flexibility. It will use ideas from complexity theory as well as social patterns to create the models.
Hazelton, P, Malone, M & Gardner, A 1970, 'A multicultural, multidisciplinary, short course to introduce recently graduated engineers to the global nature of professional practice', Proceedings of 36th European Society for Engineering Education, SEFI Conference on Quality Assessment, Employability and Innovation, SEFI - Annual Conference of European Society for Engineering Education, Sense Publishers, Aalborg, Denmark, pp. 1-7.
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Since 2001, The International Institute of Women in Engineering (IIWE) at EPF, Ecole d'ingenieurs generaliste, Sceaux, France, has conducted a three weeks short course for culturally and discipline diverse, recently graduated and final year engineering students. The aim of this course is to introduce young engineers to broad global concepts and issues relating to their future professional practice, through intercultural learning. The initial course program provided examples of engineering practices in a variety of countries throughout the world. However, to achieve an intercultural, multidisciplinary learning outcome, a specific course theme and a project focusing on sustainable engineering and the inclusion of a variety of industrial visits were introduced in 2006. This paper will discuss the success of the strategies used to engage international students in the IIWE course activities, and after consideration of the results of participant surveys, discusses curriculum initiatives that followed.
He, X, Jia, W & Wu, Q 1970, 'An approach of canny edge detection with virtual hexagonal image structure', 2008 10th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2008, International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, IEEE, Hanoi, Vietnam, pp. 879-882.
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Edge detection plays an important role in the areas of image processing, multimedia and computer vision. Gradient-based edge detection is a straightforward method to identify the edge points in the original grey-level image. It is intuitive that, in the human vision system, the edge points always appear where the gradient magnitude assumes a maximum. Hexagonal structure is an image structure alternative to traditional square image structure. The geometrical arrangement of pixels on a hexagonal structure can be described as a collection of hexagonal pixels. Because all the existing hardware for capturing image and for displaying image are produced based on square structure, an approach that uses bilinear interpolation and tri-linear interpolation is applied for conversion between square and hexagonal structures. Based on this approach, an edge detection method is proposed. This method performs Gaussian filtering to suppress image noise and computes gradients on the hexagonal structure. The pixel edge strengths on the square structure are then estimated before Canny' edge detector is applied to determine the final edge map. The experimental results show that the proposed method improves the edge detection accuracy and efficiency. © 2008 IEEE.
He, X, Zheng, L, Qiang Wu, Wenjing Jia, Bijan Samali & Palaniswami, M 1970, 'Segmentation of characters on car license plates', 2008 IEEE 10th Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, 2008 IEEE 10th Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), IEEE, Cairns, Australia, pp. 399-402.
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License plate recognition usually contains three steps, namely license plate detection/localization, character segmentation and character recognition. When reading characters on a license plate one by one after license plate detection step, it is crucial to accurately segment the characters. The segmentation step may be affected by many factors such as license plate boundaries (frames). The recognition accuracy will be significantly reduced if the characters are not properly segmented. This paper presents an efficient algorithm for character segmentation on a license plate. The algorithm follows the step that detects the license plates using an AdaBoost algorithm. It is based on an efficient and accurate skew and slant correction of license plates, and works together with boundary (frame) removal of license plates. The algorithm is efficient and can be applied in real-time applications. The experiments are performed to show the accuracy of segmentation.
Heijboer, M & van den Hoven, E 1970, 'Keeping up appearances', Proceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: building bridges, NordiCHI08: 5th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, ACM, Lund, Sweden, pp. 162-171.
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The design and interaction of physical game artefacts is becoming increasingly important for the design of digital tabletop games. In this paper a study is described investigating the differences in interpretations of realistic and abstract game artifacts comparing children and adults. A game was created on a digital tabletop as a carrier for the user evaluation presented in this paper. The appearance of the game artifacts was explored and a family of each of the artifacts was created. The interpretations of each of the individual artifacts and their different visual appearances were tested to determine whether children rank and interpret the functionalities of the artefacts differently than adults. The results showed that overall the understanding of abstract artifacts compared to realistic ones was best for both children and adults. It also indicated there was no significant difference in the interpretations of the realistic and abstract artefacts between children and adults.
Hellerud, E, Burnett, I, Solvang, A & Svensson, UP 1970, 'Encoding higher order ambisonics with AAC', Audio Engineering Society - 124th Audio Engineering Society Convention 2008, pp. 501-508.
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In this work we explore a simple method for reducing the bit rate needed for transmitting and storing Higher Order Ambisonics (HOA). The HOA B-format signals are simply encoded using Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) as if they were individual mono signals. Wave field simulations show that by allocating more bits to the lower order signals than the higher the resulting error is very low in the sweet spot, but increases as function of distance from the center. Encoding the higher order signals with a low bit rate does not lead to a reduced audio quality. The spatial information is improved when higher-order channels are included, even if these are encoded with a low bit rate.
Herath, DC, Kodagoda, S, Dissanayake, G & IEEE 1970, 'New framework for simultaneous localization and mapping: Multi map SLAM', 2008 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION, VOLS 1-9, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE, Pasadena, California, pp. 1892-1897.
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The main contribution of this paper arise from the development of a new framework for the problem of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) in the domain of stereo vision based robot navigation. The new framework has its inspiration in the mechanics of human navigation. At present the solution is specific to a unique instance of SLAM, where the primary sensing device is a short baseline stereo vision system. The new framework addresses several key issues of this particular problem. As observed in our earlier work [1], the particular sensing device has a highly nonlinear observation model resulting in inconsistent state estimations when standard recursive estimators such as the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) or the Unscented variants are used. Secondly, vision based approaches tend to have issues related to large feature density, narrow field of view and the potential requirement of maintaining large data bases for vision based data association techniques. The proposed Multi Map SLAM solution addresses the first issue by formulating the SLAM problem as a nonlinear batch optimization. Second issue is addressed through a two tier map representation. The two maps have unique attributes assigned to them. The Global Map (GM) is a compact global representation of the robots environment and the Local Map (LM) is exclusively used for low-level navigation between local points in the robots navigation horizon.
Hidayat, R, Dejhan, K, Moungnoul, P & Miyanaga, Y 1970, 'A GHz Simple CMOS Squarer Circuit', 2008 International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, 2008 International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT), IEEE, pp. 539-542.
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A simple CMOS squarer circuit is proposed. The circuit has a Giga Hertz frequency response that has advantages to be used in communication systems. The proposed circuit focuses on the extension to ultra wide bandwidth. The circuit is based on 0.18 urn CMOS technology simulated using PSPICE level 7. The circuit has wide dynamic range, GHz-bandwidth response and low power consumption. The proposed circuit has been simulated with SPICE and achieved -3dB bandwidth of 10.96GHz. The power consumption is about 86.5uW with a ±1V power supply voltage. Simulation result shows that the proposed squarer can accommodate the whole UWB bandwidth. © 2008 IEEE.
Ho, DP, Vigneswaran, S, Ngo, H, Shon, H & Kandasamy, JK 1970, 'Adsorption and Photocatalysis Kinetics of UV Light Responsive and Visible Light Responsive Titanium Dioxide in Wastewater Treatment', Proceedings of the IWA World Water Congress and Exhibition 2008, IWA World Water Congress, International Water Association (IWA), Vienna, Austria, pp. 1-8.
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The possible use of photocatalysis with TiO2 in wastewater treatment has been the focus of numerous studies in recent years. In this study, the adsorption and photocatalytic oxidation of organic compounds by UV light responsive titanium dioxide (P25) and visible light responsive titanium dioxide (Vis-TiO2) were investigated. Firstly, the adsorption behavior of the two photocatalysts was examined by the adsorption isotherm and kinetics experiments. The photocatalytic reactivity of the catalysts was then compared at different operating conditions. The results indicate that Freundlich model well described the adsorption capacity of both materials. The photocatalytic kinetics showed that the highest removal of NOM was achieved at an optimum concentration of 1.0 g/L of both photocatalysts. In case of P25, one-hour irradiation of UV light at the intensity of 184.64 mW/cm2 resulted in approximately 57% of TOC removal. It was observed that visible light photoexciting Vis- TiO2 required a longer irradiation time of 2 days to remove 65% of organic matters.
Hoang, DB, Lawrence, E, Ahmad, NF, Balasubramanian, V, Homer, C, Foureur, M, Leap, N & IEEE 1970, 'Assistive Care Loop with Electronic Maternity Records', 2008 10TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON E-HEALTH NETWORKING, APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES, International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services, IEEE, Biopolis, Singapore, pp. 118-123.
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Surprisingly women-held pregnancy health records (paper based) are still predominantly used in most hospitals in Australia. These records are not standardized as each hospital or state has a slightly different version. Early efforts have been made to standardize pregnancy records and make them available electronically. Electronic record systems do not allow dynamic interaction between users and they are not accessible when users are mobile. This paper describes an assistive maternity care (AMC) system that addresses a number of important issues: 1) transforming a women-held paper-based record for pregnancy care into an electronic maternity record (EMR); 2) investigating mechanisms to make the record active; 3) creating a system whereby details of the pregnant women and their carers can be recorded, updated over wired and wireless networks; and 4) creating a pregnancy care loop over which midwives and doctors and pregnant women under their care can communicate effectively anywhere, anytime for the duration of pregnancy.
Holdsworth, J, Bandyopadhyay, S, Canning, J, Stevenson, M & DeIuliis, J 1970, 'Transversely illuminating the core of photonic crystal fibre', OECC/ACOFT 2008 - Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology, 2008 Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC) and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT), IEEE.
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Grating inscription within structured optical fibres requires transversely incident light illuminating the core through the air-hole structured cladding. The rotational dependence of core fluorescence has been mapped for two fibres under UV and IR irradiation.
Holdsworth, J, Bandyopadhyay, S, Canning, J, Stevenson, M & Deluliis, J 1970, 'Transversely Illuminating the Core of Photonic Crystal Fibre', 2008 JOINT CONFERENCE OF THE OPTO-ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE AND THE AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE ON OPTICAL FIBRE TECHNOLOGY, VOLS 1 AND 2, Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference/Australian Conference on Optical Fiber Technology, IEEE, Sydney, AUSTRALIA, pp. 514-515.
Holdsworth, JL, Canning, J & Dewhurst, C 1970, 'Rotational dependence of laser light accessing photonic crystal fibre cores from the side', SPIE Proceedings, 19th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors, SPIE, Perth, AUSTRALIA.
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Hollow, R, Hobbs, G, Champion, DJ, Amy, S, Khoo, J, Chapman, J, Mulcahy, M, Alem, L, Krumm-Heller, A, McKinnon, D, Danaia, L, Jenet, F & Carr, M 1970, 'PULSE@Parkes: Pulsar Observing for High School Students', PREPARING FOR THE 2009 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF ASTRONOMY: A HANDS-ON SYMPOSIUM, Symposium and Related Workshops on International Year of Astronomy held in Conjunction with 212th Meeting of the American-Astronomical-Society, ASTRONOMICAL SOC PACIFIC, St Louis, MO, pp. 190-196.
Hong, D, H, T, Haller, M, Takemura, H, Cheok, AD, Kim, GJ, Billinghurst, M, Woo, W, Hornecker, E, Jacob, RJK, Hummels, C, Ullmer, B, Schmidt, A, van den Hoven, E & Mazalek, A 1970, 'Advances in Tangible Interaction and Ubiquitous Virtual Reality', IEEE Pervasive Computing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 90-96.
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The first article reports on context-sensitive augmented-reality research presented at the 2007 International Symposium on Ubiquitous Virtual Reality. This student-organized event explored the use of contextual information, design principles, and effective user evaluation for developing AR applications for ubiquitous computing environments. The second article reports on The International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction, the first conference series worldwide to focus on tangible and embedded interaction. The conference is interdisciplinary, covering the arts, hardware design, software toolkits for prototyping, and user studies and theory development. © 2006 IEEE.
Hossain, MJ, Pota, H & Ugrinovskii, V 1970, 'Short and long-term dynamic voltage instability', IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline).
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This paper presents a novel approach to capture the development of dynamic voltage instability caused by the dynamics of different power system devices, such as loads, generators, automatic voltage regulators (AVR), overexcitation limiters (OXL), power system stabilizers (PSS), and on-load tap changing (OLTC) transformers using an accurate time-domain analysis. A small power system model is presented which allows one to analyse combinations of these effects, showing how different major forms of long-term and short-term dynamic voltage instability occur. Effects of line tripping, sudden change of load, and fault clearing time on dynamic voltage instability will also be discussed. Finally, advantages of the dynamic analysis over the static analysis will be investigated. Copyright © 2007 International Federation of Automatic Control All Rights Reserved.
Howarth, B, Katupitiya, J, Eaton, R & Kodagoda, S 1970, 'Localization of Visually Indistinguishable Mature Lettuce Heads Using Spatial Information', 2008 15th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice, 2008 15th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP), IEEE, Auckland, pp. 17-22.
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This paper describes an approach to recognizing and localizing centers of mature lettuce heads in the field when the lettuce leaves obscure the distinctions between plants. This is of great value when using an automatic harvester in cluttered or closely planted vegetation. The aim of this work is to investigate and verify the potential use of spatial rather than visual clues for recognition and localization, with a view to implementing a more robust and sophisticated system if promise is shown. Colour/texture information was difficult to use so spatial information was used instead. A laser range finder was used to generate a height plot from above the plants. Lettuce examples were used to learn the radial distribution of the lettuce model. This was compared with the distributions of arbitrary locations in new scans to locate possible lettuce locations. Planting distance information was then used to localize the final lettuce positions. The algorithm was able to successfully locate 15 out Of 16 Sample lettuces.
Hsieh, M-H, Luo, Z & Brun, T 1970, 'Secret Keys Assisted Private Classical Communication Capacity over Quantum Channels', Phys. Rev. A, The 8th Asian Conference on Quantum Information Science (AQIS08), Seoul, Korea, p. 042306.
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We prove a regularized formula for the secret key-assisted capacity region of
a quantum channel for transmitting private classical information. This result
parallels the work of Devetak on entanglement assisted quantum communication
capacity \cite{DHW05RI}. This formula provides a new family protocol, the
private father protocol, under the resource inequality framework that includes
private classical communication \it{without} secret key assistance as a child
protocol.
Huang, A, Milne, D, Frank, E & Witten, IH 1970, 'Clustering Documents with Active Learning Using Wikipedia', 2008 Eighth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2008 Eighth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), IEEE, Pisa, ITALY, pp. 839-844.
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Huang, ML, Liang, J & Nguyen, QV 1970, 'A Usability Study on the Use of Multi-Context Visualization', 2008 Fifth International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualisation, 2008 5th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualisation (CGIV), IEEE, Penang, Malaysia, pp. 311-316.
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Huang, S & Su, SW 1970, 'Robust Control for Nonlinear Discrete-Time Systems with Quantitative Input to State Stability Requirement', IFAC Proceedings Volumes, IFAC World Congress, Elsevier BV, Seoul, Korea, pp. 14186-14191.
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In this paper, we consider state feedback robust control problems for discretetime nonlinear systems subject to disturbances. The objective of the control is to minimize a performance function while guaranteeing a prescribed quantitative input to state stability (ISS) property for the closed-loop systems. By introducing the concept of ISS control invariant set, a sufficient condition for the problem to be feasible is given. Built on the sufficient condition, a computationally efficient control design algorithm based on one-step min-max optimization is developed. An example is given to illustrate the proposed strategy.
Huang, S, Wang, Z, Dissanayake, G & Frese, U 1970, 'Iterated SLSJF: A sparse local submap joining algorithm with improved consistency', Proceedings of the 2008 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA 2008, Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ARAA, Canberra, Australia, pp. 1-9.
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This paper presents a new local submap joining algorithm for building large-scale feature based maps. The algorithm is based on the recently developed Sparse Local Submap Joining Filter (SLSJF) and uses multiple iterations to improve the estimate and hence is called Iterated SLSJF (I-SLSJF). The input to the I-SLSJF algorithm is a sequence of local submaps. The output of the algorithm is a global map containing the global positions of all the features as well as all the robot start/end poses of the local submaps. In the submap joining step of I-SLSJF, whenever the change of state estimate computed by an Extended Information Filter (EIF) is larger than a predefined threshold, the information vector and the information matrix is recomputed as a sum of all the local map contributions. This improves the accuracy of the estimate as well as avoids the possibility that the Jacobian with respect to the same feature gets evaluated at different estimate values, which is one of the major causes of inconsistency for EIF/EKF algorithms. Although the computational cost of I-SLSJF is higher than that of SLSJF, the algorithm can still be implemented effciently due to the exactly sparseness of the information matrix. The new algorithm is compared with EKF SLAM and SLSJF using both computer simulation and experimental examples.
Huang, S, Wang, Z, Dissanayake, G & IEEE 1970, 'Exact state and covariance sub-matrix recovery for submap based sparse EIF SLAM algorithm', 2008 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION, VOLS 1-9, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE, Pasadena, California, pp. 1868-1873.
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This paper provides a novel state vector and covariance sub-matrix recovery algorithm for a recently developed submap based exactly sparse extended information filter (EIF) SLAM algorithm - sparse local submap joining filter (SLSJF). The algorithm achieves exact recovery instead of approximate recovery. The recovery algorithm is very efficient because of an incremental Cholesky factorization approach and a natural reordering of the global state vector. Simulation results show that the computation cost of the SLSJF is much lower as compared with the sequential map joining algorithm using extended Kalman filter (EKF). The SLSJF with the proposed recovery algorithm is also successfully applied to the Victoria Park data set.
Huang, X 1970, 'Making carrier frequency offset an advantage for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing', 2008 Third International Conference on Communications and Networking in China, 2008 Third International Conference on Communications and Networking in China (CHINACOM), IEEE, pp. 854-858.
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Contrary to the common belief that the carrier frequency offset (CFO) in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system would adversely impact on system performance, this paper shows that the CFO actually has the effect of linear precoding among transmitted data symbols and hence can be exploited to improve the diversity performance over frequency-selective fading channels. With both analysis and Monte Carlo simulation, it is proved that an OFDM system with CFO equal to half of the subcarrier spacing can potentially achieve the performance of diversity order four by the maximum-likelihood detection and demonstrate a 5 dB improvement using the minimum mean squared error equalization.
Huang, X 1970, 'Multipath Diversity of Precoded OFDM with Linear Equalization', 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications, IEEE, Beijing, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 1307-1311.
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Huang, Y, Tian, L, Yang, Y, Shi, J, Dutkiewicz, E & Yang, S 1970, 'Analysis of Multicast and Unicast Integrated Multiclass Service Provision in Cellular Networks', IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 - 2008 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 - 2008 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, IEEE, pp. 4761-4765.
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The concept of Logical Service Provision Number (LSPN) is proposed to evaluate the service provision capacity in multicast and unicast integrated multiclass service cellular networks. The tradeoff between call blocking probability and LSPN is investigated and an objective function of maximizing LSPN is proposed. To solve the optimal problem, the system is modeled as a 2Κ -dimensional Markov process with following features. The multiclass service system can provide multiple service classes using either multicast traffic or unicast traffic and each service class has call level QoS requirements. A static channel allocation model is adopted as the multicast traffic integration scheme. By solving the objective function, an optimal proportion of multicast traffic to unicast traffic can be identified to maximize the service provision capacity while satisfying QoS constraints. © 2008 IEEE.
Hussain, FK 1970, 'Papers in track 15 - Social networks', 2008 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, 2008 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST), IEEE.
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Hussain, FK, Chang, E & Hussain, O 1970, 'A robust methodology for prediction of trust and reputation values', Proceedings of the 2008 ACM workshop on Secure web services, CCS08: 15th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2008, ACM, pp. 97-108.
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In this paper, we present the FC direct trust value-based decision making methodology, for making direct trust value based decisions regarding interactions in (a) a given context and during the current time slot, and (b) a given context and at a future time slot. The direct trust value-based decision making methodology models the context specific nature of trust and the dynamic nature of trust to make direct trust value-based decisions regarding interactions. Additionally in this paper, we present the FC reputation-based trust decision making methodology, for making reputation-based trust decisions regarding interactions, if direct trust value-based decisions cannot be made. The FC reputationbased trust decision making methodology can make reputationbased trust decisions regarding interactions in (a) a given context and during the current time slot, and (b) a given context and at a future time slot. Copyright 2008 ACM.
Hussain, O, Chang, E, Dillon, T & Hussain, F 1970, 'Ascertaining the Semantic and Linguistic Level of Perceived Risk in e-Business Interactions', 2008 IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering, 2008 IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering, IEEE, Xian, China, pp. 723-727.
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By analyzing the level of perceived risk in the domain of e-business, the interaction initiating agent can determine beforehand whether or not it will achieve its desired outcomes and the associated consequences to it in interacting with the other agent.
Hussain, O, Chang, E, Dillon, T & Hussain, F 1970, 'Determining the Level of Perceived Risk in e-business Web 2.0 Interactions', 2008 IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering, 2008 IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering, IEEE, Xian, China, pp. 13-20.
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In the domain of e-commerce business it is important for the initiating agent of the interaction to analyze and consider the level of perceived risk in forming an interaction with an agent, apart from just considering the level of trust and security. By
Hussain, O, Dillon, T, Chang, E & Hussain, F 1970, 'Highlighting the issues in making an informed interaction-based decision in industrial ecosystems', 2008 6th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, 2008 6th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), IEEE, Daejeon, SOUTH KOREA, pp. 1324-1329.
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In the literature, the notion of trust has been widely discussed and various approaches have been proposed to assess and quantify it, in order to take it into consideration when making an interaction-based decision in industrial ecosystems. At the same t
Hussain, OK, Chang, E, Hussain, FK & Dillon, TS 1970, 'Determining the Failure Level for Risk Analysis in an e-Commerce Interaction', Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 290-323.
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Before initiating a financial e-commerce interaction over the World Wide Web, the initiating agent would like to analyze the possible Risk in interacting with an agent, to ascertain the level to which it will not achieve its desired outcomes in the interaction. By analyzing the possible risk, the initiating agent can make an informed decision of its future course of action with that agent. To determine the possible risk in an interaction, the initiating agent has to determine the probability of failure and the possible consequences of failure to its resources involved in the interaction. In this chapter as a step towards risk analysis, we propose a methodology by which the initiating agent can determine beforehand the probability of failure in interacting with an agent, to achieve its desired outcomes. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
Hussain, OK, Chang, E, Hussain, FK & Dillon, TS 1970, 'Quantifying the numeric and linguistic magnitude of perceived risk in E-Commerce Interactions for RDSS', 2008 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, 2008 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST), IEEE, pp. 604-610.
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In an e-commerce business interaction, the risk assessing agent by analyzing the possible level of perceived risk beforehand can make an informed decision of its future course of interaction with an agent. The perceived risk in the context of an e-commerce business interaction is a multidimensional construct which is the combination of its subcategories. In this paper we propose a methodology by which the risk assessing agent can ascertain the numeric and linguistic level of perceived risk in an interaction by combining its different subcategories. © 2008 IEEE.
Iacopi, F, Eichhammer, Y, Massy, C, Vereecken, PM, Moelans, N, Richard, O, Smeets, D, Blanpain, B, De Gendt, S & Heyns, M 1970, 'Indium-assisted Growth of Si Nanowires: Perspectives on Controlled Growth for CMOS Applications', MRS Proceedings, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, pp. 77-82.
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ABSTRACTSemiconductor nanowires are attractive nano- building blocks for microelectronics. However, the requirements for their manufacturing and application in the microelectronics industry are very demanding. Beyond compatibility with Si technology, full control on the characteristics of the grown wires (diameter, location, crystallinity, etc..), homogeneity on wafer –scale and reproducibility are essential. In this study we review critically important challenges for a controlled process of In –mediated growth of Si nanowires. First, we stress the importance of surface type for both particle catalysts and growth substrates. Both selection and preparation of such surfaces have large impact on growth, as they influence the initiation and the driving forces for the VLS growth mechanism. Moreover, wire characteristics such as morphology, crystalline quality and growth orientation appear more difficult to control when growing from particles with sizes below 40-50nm. This limitation arises as a result of both fundamental mechanisms and more specific constrains linked to the In-Si system.A few perspectives are given for the achievement of a controlled Si nanowire growth in a Si –technology compatible fashion.
Indraratna, B & Khabbaz, H 1970, 'Geotechnical aspects of ballasted rail tracks and stabilising underlying soft soil formation', ADVANCES IN TRANSPORTATION GEOTECHNICS, 1st International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics, CRC PRESS-TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP, Nottingham, ENGLAND, pp. 593-599.
Indraratna, B & Rujikiatkamjorn, C 1970, 'Effects of Partially Penetrating Prefabricated Vertical Drains and Loading Patterns on Vacuum Consolidation', GeoCongress 2008, GeoCongress 2008, American Society of Civil Engineers, pp. 596-603.
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In this study, numerical modeling of a multi-drain system is employed to determine the optimum penetration depth of prefabricated vertical drains (PVDs) and the vacuum pressure that provides the maximum consolidation settlement and less lateral displacements. The plane strain analysis using an equivalent permeability with transformed unit cell geometry was considered for varying drain length and vacuum load. The effects of the vertical drain length and vacuum pressure on soft clay consolidation were examined through time for 90% degree of consolidation, associated settlement and lateral displacement. Copyright ASCE 2008.
Indraratna, B, Khabbaz, H & Fatahi, B 1970, 'Conceptual development and numerical modelling of vegetation induced suction and implications on rail track stabilisation', 12th International Conference on Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics 2008, International Conference of International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Goa, India, pp. 4335-4344.
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The effects of tree roots on soil suction and ground settlement are investigated. This paper highlights the inter-related parameters contributing to the development of a conceptual evapo-transpiration and root water uptake equilibrium model that is then incorporated in a comprehensive numerical model. The developed numerical model based on the finite element analysis (ABAQUS) considers fully coupled flow-deformation behaviour of soil. Field measurements obtained by the authors from a field site in western Victoria and from past literature are used to validate the model. The predicted results show acceptable agreement with the field data in spite of the assumptions made for simplifying the effects of soil heterogeneity and anisotropy. The numerical analysis proves that the proposed root water uptake model can reliably predict the region of maximum matric suction away from the tree axis. The paper also compares the natural favourable effect of tree roots with the stabilising mechanisms of geosynthetic vertical drains subjected to vacuum pressure. Although this analogy is only justified for shallow vertical drains, the comparison still emphasises the obvious economical advantages of native vegetation.
Indraratna, B, Muttuvel, T & Khabbaz, H 1970, 'Investigating Erosional Behaviour of Chemically Stabilised Erodible Soils', GeoCongress 2008, GeoCongress 2008, American Society of Civil Engineers, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, pp. 670-677.
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Chemical stabilisation is a popular technique to improve the erosion resistance of soils. In this study, two chemical stabilisers, namely lignosulfonate and general purpose Portland cement were tested on two different soils, a silty sand and dispersive clay. A series of erosion tests were performed to study the effectiveness of the stabilisation on increasing the erosion resistance. Results showed that an increase in the critical shear stress of the silty sand with only 0.6% lignosulfonate treatment was equivalent to that with around 2.5% cement treatment. However, the stabilisation of the dispersive clay with 0.6% cement was more effective than 0.6% lignosulfonate. The findings of this research also indicated that the coefficient of soil erosion decreased as a power function of the critical shear stress.
Indraratna, B, Oliveira, D & Mylvaganam, J 1970, 'Revised Shear Strength Model for Soil-Infilled Rock Joints Considering Over-Consolidation Effect', Proceedings of the First Southern Hemisphere International Rock Mechanics Symposium, First Southern Hemisphere International Rock Mechanics Symposium, Australian Centre for Geomechanics, Perth.
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Ip, KH, Stuart, BH, Thomas, PS & Ray, AS 1970, 'Thermal characterization of the clay binder of heritage Sydney sandstones', JOURNAL OF THERMAL ANALYSIS AND CALORIMETRY, 8th Mediterranean Conference on Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis, SPRINGER, Palermo, ITALY, pp. 97-100.
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Janapsatya, J, Nasimuddin & Esselle, KP 1970, 'jawidening the bandwidth of single-fed circularly polarized microstrip patch antenna using sequential array', 2008 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2008 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, IEEE, San Diego, CA, pp. 53-56.
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Jewart, C, Xu, D, Chen, KP & Canning, J 1970, 'Structure optimization of air-hole fibers for high-sensitivity fiber Bragg grating pressure sensors', SPIE Proceedings, 19th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors, SPIE, Perth, AUSTRALIA, pp. Z41-Z41.
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Jiangfeng Zhang 1970, 'Simultaneous upper triangularization and the stability of linear discrete multidimensional systems', 2008 7th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, 2008 7th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, IEEE, Chongqing, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 513-518.
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Jin Jianxun, Chen Xiaoyuan, Guo Youguang, Zhan Yuedong & Zhu Jianguo 1970, 'HTS transformer and its related loss measurement and quench protection techniques', 2008 27th Chinese Control Conference, 2008 Chinese Control Conference (CCC), IEEE, Kunming, China, pp. 292-296.
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Recently research and development concerning applications of high temperature superconducting (HTS) transformers have been progressed actively in the world. Besides the HTS rated current capability, it is also essential to develop the relevant and precise performance test and protection systems for HTS transformers. This paper mainly presents elementary test and protection methods of HTS transformers including AC loss measurement, and quench detection and protection. A new integrated measurement system for HTS transformers is also proposed by using the Labview virtual instrument software.
Jin, X, Zhou, J, Hu, J, Shi, J, Sun, Y & Dutkiewicz, E 1970, 'An Efficient Downlink Data Mapping Algorithm for IEEE802.16e OFDMA Systems', IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 - 2008 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 - 2008 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, IEEE, pp. 5233-5237.
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In the IEEE 802.16e OFDMA systems, the data mapping algorithm maps the data to the appropriate rectangular regions in the two-dimensional matrix of time and frequency domain. Each region is described by an Information Element (IE) which is used for signaling and occupies a slot. The IEs as well as vacant slots in the allocated rectangular region result in a substantial amount of overhead. In order to minimize the overhead so as to increase system throughput, the paper proposes a "Mapping with Appropriate Truncation and Sort" (MATS) algorithm. Extensive simulations are conducted in terms of mapping efficiency, mapping cost and system throughput to evaluate the performance of MATS. The results show that compared with Raster, MATS can increase the mapping efficiency by up to 2.4% and reduce the mapping cost by up to 80% and 37% for constant bit rate traffic and variable bit rate traffic, respectively. Moreover, system throughput is increased by more than 3% in the 10MHz bandwidth network. Consequently, MATS can substantially reduce the overhead and achieve high system throughput. © 2008 IEEE.
Juszczyszyn, K, Kazienko, P & Musiał, K 1970, 'Local Topology of Social Network Based on Motif Analysis', KNOWLEDGE-BASED INTELLIGENT INFORMATION AND ENGINEERING SYSTEMS, PT 2, PROCEEDINGS, 12th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Zagreb, CROATIA, pp. 97-105.
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Juszczyszyn, K, Kazienko, P, Musial, K & Gabrys, B 1970, 'Temporal Changes in Connection Patterns of an Email-Based Social Network', 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, IEEE, pp. 9-12.
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Network motifs are small subgraphs that reflect local network topology and were shown to be useful for creating profiles that reveal several properties of the network. Analysis of three-node motifs (triads) was used in this paper to track the temporal changes in the structure of large social network derived from email communication between the employees of Wroclaw University of Technology. © 2008 IEEE.
Kadlec, P & Gabrys, B 1970, 'Adaptive Local Learning Soft Sensor for Inferential Control Support', 2008 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling Control & Automation, 2008 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling Control & Automation, IEEE, Vienna, AUSTRIA, pp. 243-248.
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Kadlec, P & Gabrys, B 1970, 'Gating Artificial Neural Network Based Soft Sensor', NEW CHALLENGES IN APPLIED INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGIES, 21st International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Wroclaw, POLAND, pp. 193-202.
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Kadlec, P & Gabrys, B 1970, 'Learnt Topology Gating Artificial Neural Networks', 2008 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence), 2008 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2008 - Hong Kong), IEEE, Hong Kong, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 2604-2611.
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Kaindl, H, Constantine, L, Pastor, O, Sutcliffe, A & Zowghi, D 1970, 'How to Combine Requirements Engineering and Interaction Design?', 2008 16th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 2008 16th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), IEEE, pp. 299-301.
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In this panel, we propose to figure out how requirements engineering and interaction design can be usefully combined. In particular, some people argue that scenarios / use cases should be concrete, as in story-telling. Others argue for use of "essential" use cases as a methodological approach to interaction and user-interface design. Somewhat in the middle, it is argued that use cases should help acquiring the requirements in the first place. What should the practitioner believe and, in particular, do, in order to develop useful and usable software and systems? Software development and interaction design require different skills and different methods and are typically done by different people. Still, scenario-based design is proposed for several activities relevant for both tasks, such as requirements elicitation, software design, and interaction design. Symbolic modeling in this spirit is actually common to various fields. However, scenario-based approaches vary, especially with regard to their use, e.g., employing abstract use cases or integrating scenarios with functions and goals in a systematic design process. So, the key issue to be raised at the panel is how to combine different approaches, e.g., in scenario-based development, so that the interaction design as well as the development of the user interface and of the software internally result in an overall useful and useable system. © 2008 IEEE.
Kannapiran, A, Chanan, AP, Singh, G, Tambosis, P, Jeyakumaran, JM & Kandasamy, JK 1970, 'Strategic asset management planning of stormwater drainage systems', Proceedings of the IWA World Water Congress and Exhibition 2008, IWA World Water Congress, International Water Association (IWA), Vienna, Austria, pp. 1-8.
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Management of the urban water cycle in an integrated manner is an essential task to protect, restore and enhance in a sustainable manner. Strategic asset management planing is being developed as local government authorities face many challenges associated with managing the urban water cycle system. Statistical or conventional mathematical modelling approach has been found not practical for assessment of deteriorating infrastructures. Alternatively, application of fuzzy-based models is found more suitable as it links engineering judgment, experience and scarce field data of the deteriorating assets. In this study, a representative network of buried stormwater system s data is drawn and a pipe condition index is derived by linking the field data and reasoning using fuzzy approach. The inferred results are found to be useful and relevant for asset maintenance and future development programs.
Kazienko, P & Musiał, K 1970, 'Mining Personal Social Features in the Community of Email Users', SOFSEM 2008: THEORY AND PRACTICE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, 34th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Novy Smokovec, SLOVAKIA, pp. 708-719.
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Kazienko, P, Musiał, K & Juszczyszyn, K 1970, 'Recommendation of Multimedia Objects Based on Similarity of Ontologies', KNOWLEDGE - BASED INTELLIGENT INFORMATION AND ENGINEERING SYSTEMS, PT 1, PROCEEDINGS, 12th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Zagreb, CROATIA, pp. 194-201.
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Kazienko, P, Musiał, K & Kajdanowicz, T 1970, 'Profile of the social network in photo sharing systems', 14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008, pp. 2815-2826.
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People, who interact, cooperate or share common activities within the photo sharing system can be seen as a multirelational social network. The results of their activities, i.e. tags, comments, references to favourites and others that semantically connect users through multimedia objects, i.e. pictures are the crucial component of the semantic web concept. Every online sharing system provides data that can be used for extraction of different kinds of relations grouped in layers in the multirelational social network. Layers and their profiles were identified and studied on two, spanned in time, snapshots of Flickr population for better understanding of social network structure complexity. Additionally, for each of the identified layers, a separate strength measure was proposed in the paper. The experiments on the Flickr photo sharing system revealed that users are inspired by both the semantic relationships between objects they operate on and social links they have to other users. Moreover, the density and affluence of the social network grows over course of time.
Kedziora, DJ, Samarian, AA, Vladimirov, SV & James, BW 1970, 'Influence of the nature of charge fluctuations on dust cluster oscillation spectrum', 35th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics 2008, EPS 2008 - Europhysics Conference Abstracts, pp. 2134-2137.
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Results of numerical modelling of the cluster mode spectra are presented. Particular attention has been paid for the influence of the nature of the charge fluctuations on the mode spectra of small clusters. We demonstrate that one of the main effects related to the charge fluctuations, a splitting of the spectrum lines, reveals different patterns depending on the nature of the fluctuations. The analysis of the influence of the charge fluctuations on the normal mode spectra of dust clusters demonstrates the mode splitting related with the nature and the variance of the fluctuations.
Kedziora, DJ, Vladimirov, SV & Samarian, AA 1970, 'Charge fluctuations and their influence on dust cluster oscillation modes', 2008 IEEE 35th International Conference on Plasma Science, 2008 IEEE 35th International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS), IEEE.
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Kedziora, DJ, Vladimirov, SV, Samarian, AA, Mendonça, JT, Resendes, DP & Shukla, PK 1970, 'Oscillation Spectrum of Coulomb Clusters with Variable Dust Charge', AIP Conference Proceedings, MULTIFACETS OF DUSTRY PLASMAS: Fifth International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, AIP.
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Kejalakshmy, N, Rahman, BMA, Agrawal, A & Grattan, KTV 1970, 'Characterization of a Teflon PCF for THz frequency applications by using the Finite Element Method', Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications, Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications, OSA.
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A finite element based full-vectorial modal solution approach has been developed to identify single mode operation of Teflon photonic crystal fibers and to characterize their modal and bending losses in the THz frequencies. © 2007 Optical Society of America.
Kejalakshmy, N, Rahman, BMA, Agrawal, A & Grattan, KTV 1970, 'Characterization of a Teflon PCF for THz frequency applications by using the finite element method', Optics InfoBase Conference Papers.
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A finite element based full-vectorial modal solution approach has been developed to identify single mode operation of Teflon photonic crystal fibers and to characterize their modal and bending losses in the THz frequencies. © 2007 Optical Society of America.
Khalife, H, Ahuja, S, Malouch, N & Krunz, M 1970, 'Probabilistic Path Selection in Opportunistic Cognitive Radio Networks', IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 - 2008 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 - 2008 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, IEEE, New Orleans, LA.
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Khan, MAY & Veitch, D 1970, 'Peeling the 802.11 onion', Proceedings of the third ACM international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation and characterization, MobiCom08: Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, ACM, ACM, pp. 33-40.
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Khan, MAY & Veitch, D 1970, 'Speedo: Realistic achievable bandwidth in 802.11 through passive monitoring', 2008 33rd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2008 33rd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2008), IEEE, IEEE, pp. 892-899.
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Khawaja, MA, Ruiz, N & Chen, F 1970, 'Think before you talk', Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Designing for Habitus and Habitat, OZCHI '08: Proceedings of the 20th conference of the computer-human interaction special interest group of Australia on Computer-human interaction: design, ACM, pp. 335-338.
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Measuring a user's level of cognitive load while they are interacting with the system could offer another dimension to the development of adaptable user interfaces. High levels of cognitive load affect performance and efficiency. However, current methods of measuring cognitive load are physically intrusive and interrupt the task flow. Certain speech features have been shown to change under high levels of load and are good candidates for cognitive load indices for usability evaluation and automatic adaptation of an interface or work environment. A speech-based dual-task user study is presented in which we explore the behaviour of speech pause features in natural speech. The experiment yielded new results confirming that speech pauses are useful indicators of high load versus low load speech. We report an increase in the percentage of time spent pausing from low load to high load tasks. We interpret these results within the framework of Baddeley's modal model of working memory and detail how such a measure could be utilized in the cognitive load measurement.
Kiani, G, Olsson, L, Karlsson, A & Esselle, K 1970, 'Transmission analysis of energy saving glass windows for the purpose of providing FSS solutions at microwave frequencies', 2008 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2008 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, IEEE.
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An inherent transmission problem associated with modern energy-saving glass windows is analyzed. These windows are used in building design to provide thermal insulation which keeps the interior warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer. This thermal insulation is achieved by employing a very thin layer of metallic oxide on one side of the ordinary (float) glass. This layer attenuates infrared waves while remaining transparent to ultraviolet frequencies. But this metallic oxide coating also attenuates the transmission of useful RF/microwave signals (GSM, GPS etc) through the glass window. We have investigated the transmission of microwave frequencies through Optitherm™SN glass window manufactured by Pilkington. At average, about 30 dB attenuation is observed from 800 MHz to 6 GHz for both TE and TM polarizations at normal incidence. Theoretical and measured results are presented. © 2008 IEEE.
Kiani, G, Olsson, L, Karlsson, A & Esselle, K 1970, 'Transmission Analysis of Energy Saving Glass Windows for the Purpose of Providing FSS Solutions at Microwave Frequencies', 2008 IEEE ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM, VOLS 1-9, IEEE Antennas-and-Propagation-Society International Symposium, IEEE, San Diego, CA, pp. 1196-+.
Kierkels, J & van den Hoven, E 1970, 'Children's haptic experiences of tangible artifacts varying in hardness', Proceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: building bridges, NordiCHI08: 5th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, ACM, Lund, Sweden, pp. 221-228.
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In this paper we describe our investigations on the role of material hardness in the haptic experience of tangible artefacts. Without seeing the artifacts children had to rank their experience on a scale of two antonyms while touching and holding these artifacts. In this experiment it was shown that children have no problem ranking hardness. Two groups could be identified: soft artifacts were found to be cute, speedy and warm, e.g., and hard artifacts boring, sad and old-fashioned. We think that paying attention to this factor in the design of tangible user interfaces for children can improve their experience.
Kodagoda, S, Zhang, Z, Ruiz, D & Dissanayake, G 1970, 'Sensing and Classification for Autonomous Weed Control', The IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2008), workshop, IEEE International Conference on Robots and Automation, IEEE explorer, Pasadena, California, pp. 1-6.
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Autonomous weed control concepts have recently being extensively researched due to the advantages that they possess. One of the critical modules of such systems is the sensing and classification of weeds within crops. In this paper, we systematically chose the sensing setup and cues to be used for classification of two common weed species (Bidens pilosa L. and Lolium rigidum L.) in a wheat crop. An automatic cue selection procedure is proposed. Some classification results and their problems were discussed leading to future direction of research.
Kodagoda, S, Zhang, Z, Ruiz, D & Dissanayake, G 1970, 'Weed detection and classification for autonomous farming', Proceedings of Fourth I*PROMS Virtual International Conference, Intelligent Production Machines and Systems, I*PROMS, Cardiff, UK, pp. 1-6.
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Autonomous weed control concepts have recently being extensively researched due to the advantages that they possess. One of the critical modules of such systems is the sensing and classification of weeds within crops. In this paper, we systematically chose the sensing setup and cues to be used for classification of two common weed species (Bidens pilosa L. and Lolium rigidum L.) in a wheat crop. An automatic cue selection followed by classification procedure is proposed. Some classification results are presented while discussing problems leading to future direction of research.
Kreimeyer, M, Braun, S, Guertler, MR & Lindemann, U 1970, 'Relating two Domains via a Third – An Approach to Overcome Ambiguous Attributions using Multiple Domain Matrices', Proceedings of the ASME 2008 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, ASME 2008 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE, ASME, New York, pp. 1-11.
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Design Structure Matrices (DSM) and Domain Mapping Matrices (DMM) are commonly used to model and analyze the relationships within one domain (DSM) or between two domains (DMM). Being assembled into one larger square matrix, having DSMs on its diagonal and DMMs in all other fields, a so-called Multiple Domain Matrix (MDM) is formed. When relating two domains using a DMM, a problem arises when the nature of one individual relationship between the two domains is to be described. Usually, this is modeled by annotating each relationship with the additional information, much like comments in spreadsheet software. This, however, is yet impossible if the relationships should be in matrix notation to allow for algorithmic matrix analyses. Equally, this way, the annotations are not accessible as elements of another matrix, e.g. as DSM.This paper suggests a generic principle to solve the described problem in a way consistent with the matrix methodology. It proposes an approach using MDM and is thereby able to unambiguously provide the nature of each relationship between the elements of two domains. As a DSM is a mere case of a DMM having two identical domains, the approach proposed can equally be used to enrich the relationships within a DSM.
Kreimeyer, M, Guertler, MR & Lindemann, U 1970, 'Structural metrics for decision points within Multiple-Domain Matrices representing design processes', 2008 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEE, Singapur, pp. 1-5.
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When reengineering or improving an engineering process, it is important to systematically examine the process for possible weak spots. Complexity metrics, which describe how “complex” a possible part of a process is, are a means of doing so. Using them, every single element of a process (e.g. activities, resources,…) or groups of elements can be reviewed, and those exhibiting distinctive features can be further considered for improvement. Such metrics are especially of interest if no quantitative data is available but only the qualitative process architecture is at hand, e.g. as a process chart. In this paper, different metrics from software and workflow engineering (McCabe Complexity, Control-flow Complexity, Activity / Passivity) are used on a qualitative model of a process incorporating decision points. The process model is based on a Multiple-Domain Matrix extended to comprise Boolean operators that are typical for process models (i.e. AND, OR, and XOR).
Laird, I, Lovatt, H, Savvides, N, Lu, D & Agelidis, VG 1970, 'Comparative study of maximum power point tracking algorithms for thermoelectric generators', 2008 Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC 2008.
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Variations in load and temperature can cause a thermoelectric generator (TEG) to operate at a voltage that does not produce the maximum possible power for a given temperature difference. Therefore a maximum power point tracker (MPPT) is used to force the generator to a voltage that produces maximum power. This paper uses a digital signal processor (DSP) controlled boost converter to assess and compare the performance of several MPPT algorithms when used with a TEG. As a result, the fractional short circuit method has shown promise as a suitable MPPT algorithm for a TEG subjected to steady state conditions. © 2008 Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC'08).
Lau, H, Pratley, T, Liu, D, Huang, S & Pagac, D 1970, 'An implementation of prioritized path planning for a large fleet of autonomous straddle carriers', International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS), Sandton, South Africa.
Lawrence, E, Bachfischer, A, Dyson, LE & Litchfield, A 1970, 'Mobile Learning and Student Perspectives: An mReality Check!', 2008 7th International Conference on Mobile Business, 2008 7th International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB), IEEE, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 287-295.
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n this paper the authors report on the results of a survey aimed at ascertaining the opinions of contemporary university students on the use of mobile devices as learning tools. Four hundred and forty two postgraduate and undergraduate students from an Australian University completed the online survey. The authors analyzed both quantitative and qualitative data focusing on the ramifications for m-learning practices in university environments. Mobile technology acceptance factors are used to highlight important findings from the survey.
Le, H, Schiff, N, Plessis, JD & Hoang, D 1970, 'A pervasive tele-health system for continual and low intrusive monitoring using peer-to-peer networks', 5th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications, ICITA 2008, International Conference on Information Technology and Applications, Macquarie Scientific Publishing, Cairns, Australia, pp. 862-866.
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There are many people suffering from chronic illnesses, obesity and related diseases such as: high blood pressure, arrhythmia, diabetes, etc. However, with a large number of patients and constant health monitoring requirements, a centralized server will not be able to accommodate such high volumes of data. In this paper, we propose to develop a pervasive electronic healthcare system using Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks. We developed a heart monitoring application as our first prototype to demonstrate the concept. The main advantage of the model is scalability and cost efficiency.
Le, T, Dong, Y, Liu, R, Jha, S, Rosberg, Z & IEEE 1970, 'Implementation aspects of reliable transport protocols in wireless sensor networks', 2008 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SOFTWARE AND MIDDLEWARE AND WORKSHOPS, VOLS 1 AND 2, 3rd International Conference on Communication System Software and Middleware and Workshop, IEEE, Bangalore, INDIA, pp. 574-580.
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Lebbe, MA, Agbinya, JI, Chaczko, Z & Braun, R 1970, 'Artificial immune system inspired danger modelling in Wireless Mesh Networks', 2008 International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering, 2008 International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE), IEEE, Malaysia, pp. 984-988.
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In recent years wireless mesh network (WMN) technologies and its applications have been actively researched and developed as the promising solution for future wireless mobile networks. On the other hand security of WMN is often a secondary reflection in development. In our previous work we proposed artificial immune system model to employ in secure routing in WMN. This paper improves and extends the algorithm in our previous work with more achievable danger levels and introduces responsible parameters and model danger in WMN. Moreover this paper proposes the elected network simulator for the experiments.
Lee, J, Guan, H, Blumenstein, M & Loo, Y-C 1970, 'An ANN-Based Backward Prediction Model for Reliable Bridge Management System Implementations Using Limited Inspection Records – Case Studies', IABSE Congress, Chicago 2008: Creating and Renewing Urban Structures – Tall Buildings, Bridges and Infrastructure, IABSE Congress, Chicago 2008: Creating and Renewing Urban Structures – Tall Buildings, Bridges and Infrastructure, International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE).
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<p>Computer-aided Bridge Management Systems (BMSs) as Decision Support Systems (DSSs) for an effective bridge asset management are used to establish the feasible bridge maintenance, repair and rehabilitation (MR&R) strategies which ensure an adequate level of safety at the lowest possible bridge life-cycle cost. To achieve this goal, keeping up-to-date bridge condition ratings are crucial for a BMS software package. Although most bridge agencies in the past have conducted inspections and maintenance, the form of such bridge inspection records is dissimilar to those required by BMSs. These data inconsistencies inevitably slow down the BMS implementations. This paper presents an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based prediction model, called the Backward Prediction Model (BPM), for generating unavailable years of historical bridge condition ratings using very limited existing inspection records. The BPM employed historical non-bridge datasets such as traffic volumes, populations and climates, to establish correlations with the existing bridge condition ratings from the very limited bridge inspection records. Such correlations can help fill the condition rating gaps required for an effective and accurate BMS implementation. This paper covers a brief description of the BPM methodology and presents nine case studies. The outcome of this study can help establish a comprehensive condition rating database, which will in turn assist to predict reliable future bridge depreciations.</p>
Lee, J, Loo, Y-C, Guan, H & Blumenstein, M 1970, 'Effective Implementation of a Bridge Management System Using Limited Historical Inspection Records', IABSE Conference, Helsinki 2008: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Bridges, Buildings and Construction Practice, IABSE Conference, Helsinki 2008: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Bridges, Buildings and Construction Practice, International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE).
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Lee, S & Lister, R 1970, 'Experiments in the dynamics of phase coupled oscillators when applied to graph colouring', Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series, Australasian Computer Science Conference, Australian Computer Society, Inc, Wollongong, Australia, pp. 83-89.
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This paper examines the capacity of networks of phase coupled oscillators to coordinate activity in a parallel, distributed fashion. To benchmark these networks of oscillators, we present empirical results from a study of the capacity of such networks to colour graphs. We generalise the update equation of Aihara et al. (2006) to an equation that can be applied to graphs requiring multiple colours. We find that our simple multi-phase model can colour some types of graphs, especially complete graphs and complete k-partite graphs with equal or a near equal number of vertices in each partition. A surprising empirical result is that the effectiveness of the approach appears to be more dependent upon the topology of the graph than the size of the graph. Copyright © 2008, Australian Computer Society, Inc.
Lee, S, Leaney, J, O’Neill, T & Hunter, M 1970, 'Evaluating Open Service Access with an Abstract Model of NGN Functions', 11th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium, APNOMS 2008, Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Beijing, China, pp. 487-490.
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As new business models and market opportunities are rapidly emerging from the `opening up of telecommunications networks, we required a better understanding of the effectiveness of using open standards to provide access to functions in NGNs. In this paper we reason about the coverage of openly accessible functions using an abstract model of NGN functionality. Defining and using an abstract model allows us to evaluate the effectiveness of open standards from a perspective where a wide range of NGN functionality can be generalised and conveniently categorised. Subsequently, it will be possible to identify the gaps, which are a subset of functionality that we are specifically interested in for our project.
Lee, T, Shraibman, A & Spalek, R 1970, 'A Direct Product Theorem for Discrepancy', 2008 23rd Annual IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity, Twenty-Third Annual IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity - CCC 2008, IEEE.
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Lei, G, Li, Y, Zhao, J & Shao, KR 1970, 'Statistical sequential analysis for particle size distribution of magnetic nanoparticles', 2008 World Automation Congress, WAC 2008.
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We present two statistical sequential analytical approaches to estimate particle size distribution of magnetic nanoparticles. They are termed sequential least square estimation and sequential linear minimum mean square error estimation, respectively. These approaches are implemented and quantified within the formalism of sequential estimation theory. The proposed methods are based on the data sampled sequentially in time and no matrix inversions are required in the implementation. To illustrate the efficiency of the proposed approaches, we give two examples of the particle size distributions in ferrofluid with normal sample and lognormal sample, respectively. In both cases we compare the reconstruction distributions using our methods with those calculated via the electron microscopy images of the ferrofluid particles.
Lei, G, Shao, KR, Li, Y, Yang, G & Zhao, J 1970, 'Sequential response surface model method for the optimization design of SMES', Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems, ICEMS 2008, pp. 328-331.
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The TEAM Workshop problem 22 deals with the optimization design of a Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES). It is a benchmark optimization problem in electromagnetic device design. To address this problem, sequential response surface model method is presented in this paper. Compared with the direct optimization method, we can see that the number of finite element sample points can be obviously reduced by our proposed method.
Leijdekkers, P & Gay, V 1970, 'A self-test to detect a heart attack using a mobile phone and wearable sensors', PROCEEDINGS OF THE 21ST IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEMS, IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, IEEE, Jyvaskyla, pp. 93-98.
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Leong, TW, Howard, S, Vetere, F & ACM 1970, 'Choice: Abdicating or exercising', CHI 2008: 26TH ANNUAL CHI CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS VOLS 1 AND 2, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, ACM Press, Florence, pp. 715-724.
Leung, C, Huang, S, Dissanayake, G & IEEE 1970, 'Active SLAM in structured environments', 2008 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION, VOLS 1-9, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE, Pasadena, USA, pp. 1898-1903.
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This paper considers the trajectory planning problem for line-feature based SLAM in structured indoor environments. The robot poses and line features are estimated using smooth and mapping (SAM) which is found to provide more consistent estimates than the extended Kalman filter (EKF) The objective of trajectory planning is to minimise the uncertainty of the estimates and to maximise coverage. Trajectory planning is performed using model predictive control (MPC) with an attractor incorporating long term goals. This planning is demonstrated both in simulation and in a real-time experiment with a Pioneer2DX robot.
Li Zheng & Hoang, DB 1970, 'Performance analysis for resource coordination in a high-density wireless environment', 2008 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, 2008 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), IEEE, Marrakech, Morocco, pp. 685-690.
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The cochannel overlapping basic service sets (OBSS) wireless interference is unavoidable in a high-density overlapping BSS environment. In order to provide interference-free environment and, at the same time, Quality of Services, centralized resources coordination functionalities particularly in Medium Access Control (MAC) layer are required. The proposed scheme, based on the context of 802.11 WiFi, separates the uplink and downlink transmission into two periods governed by contention scheme and polling scheme respectively. The possible collisions during the synchronized uplink period are avoided because of the natures of contention scheme used. During the downlink period, the grouping assignments, using coloring theory, are carried out based on the topology to divide BSSs into groups and then time spans to avoid collision. The constraint of grouping is that no two overlapping BSSs could be assigned to the same group/time span, so interferences are minimized using time division technique. A complete performance analysis in a number of simulation scenarios is finally presented.
Li, C-H, Kuo, B-C, Lin, C-T & Hung, C-C 1970, 'Dimension Reduction for Hyperspectral Image Classification via Support Vector based Feature Extraction', IGARSS 2008 - 2008 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2008 - 2008 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IEEE.
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Li, J & Hao, P 1970, 'Reliable Representation of Data on Manifolds', Procedings of the British Machine Vision Conference 2008, British Machine Vision Conference 2008, British Machine Vision Association.
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The manifold learning algorithms are promising data analysis tools. However, to fit an unseen point in a learned model, the point must be located in the training set, which limits its scalability. In this paper, we discuss how to select landmarks from the data to help locate the test points. Our method is for data on manifolds: the way the landmarks represent the data in the ambient space should resemble the way they represent the data on the manifold. Compared to the previous research, (i) Our test foregoes the requirement of knowing the intrinsic manifold dimension and thus is more applicable and robust. (ii) Our selection implies a provable topology preservation property. (iii) We also provide a way to improve existing landmarks. Experiments on the synthetic data and the real data have been done. The results support the proposed properties and algorithms.
Li, J, Hao, P & Zhang, C 1970, 'Transferring Colours to Grayscale Images by Locally Linear Embedding', Procedings of the British Machine Vision Conference 2008, British Machine Vision Conference 2008, British Machine Vision Association.
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In this paper, we propose a learning-based method for adding colours to grayscale images. In contrast to many previous computer-aided colourizing methods, which require intensive and accurate human intervention, our method needs only the user to provide a colourful image of the similar content as the grayscale image. We accept the "image manifold" assumption and apply manifold learning methods to model the relations between the chromatic channels and the gray levels in the training images. Then we synthesize the objective chromatic channels using the learned relations. Experiments show that our method gives superior results to those of the previous work.
Li, J, Sim, K, Liu, G & Wong, L 1970, 'Maximal Quasi-Bicliques with Balanced Noise Tolerance: Concepts and Co-clustering Applications', Proceedings of the 2008 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Proceedings of the 2008 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Atlanta, pp. 72-83.
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Li, L 1970, 'Decentralized boundary control of irrigation canal networks via a strict Lyapunov method', IFAC Proceedings Volumes, The International Federation of Automatic Control, Elsevier BV, Seoul, Korea, pp. 9970-9975.
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A decentralized boundary control problem for irrigation canal networks is considered in this paper. The control scheme is based on a strict Lyapunov method introduced in Coron et al. (2007). A sufficient condition is presented to guarantee the closed-loop system to be locally convergent to a desired set point, which extends the results in Coron et al. (2007) for the single-pool case to a decentralized fashion for the multi-pool case. By eliminating the redundant variables, the derived condition involves certain contractive condition and discrete- time Lyapunov inequality with variables in a diagonal structure. This provides an easier way to check the existence of the solution. An application to a two-pool canal with overflow spillways is presented to demonstrate the proposed approach.
Li, L 1970, 'Model Reduction for Linear Parameter-Dependent Systems', IFAC Proceedings Volumes, IFAC World Congress, Elsevier BV, South Korea, pp. 4048-4053.
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The paper considers the problem of model reduction for a class of linear parameter-dependent (LPD) systems. Three model reduction approaches: balanced truncation, balanced LQG truncation and gain-scheduled $mathcal{H}_infty$ model reduction, are presented to reduce the dimension of LPD systems. For the former two approaches, conditions to proceed the reduction are given in terms of a finite number of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs); while the latter one involves LMIs with some additional rank constraint.
Li, L 1970, 'Model reduction for linear parameter-dependent systems', IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline).
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The paper considers the problem of model reduction for a class of linear parameter-dependent (LPD) systems. Three model reduction approaches: balanced truncation, balanced LQG truncation and gain-scheduled $mathcal{H}- infty$ model reduction, are presented to reduce the dimension of LPD systems. For the former two approaches, conditions to proceed the reduction are given in terms of a finite number of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs); while the latter one involves LMIs with some additional rank constraint. Copyright © 2007 International Federation of Automatic Control All Rights Reserved.
Li, L & IEEE 1970, 'Coprime Factor Model Reduction for Continuous-time Uncertain Systems', 47TH IEEE CONFERENCE ON DECISION AND CONTROL, 2008 (CDC 2008), IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, IEEE, Cancun, Mexico, pp. 4227-4232.
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The paper considers the problem of coprime factor model reduction for a class of continuous-time uncertain systems with structured norm bounded uncertainty. The proposed method is applicable to the uncertain systems which may be robustly unstable, overcoming the robust stability restriction in the balanced truncation approach. A systematic approach is presented to construct a contractive coprime factor for the underlying uncertain system, based on the use of LMIs. This enables the balanced truncation to be applied to the contractive coprime factor to obtain the reduced uncertain system. Error bound on the L2-induced norm of the resulting coprime factor is derived
Li, Y & Wang, J 1970, 'Experimental study on PID control of MagnetoRheological shock absorber under impact load', 15th International Congress on Sound and Vibration 2008, ICSV 2008, pp. 3022-3028.
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Magneto-Rheological fluids (MRF), with their fast, reversible and repeatable change of rheological behaviour in response to an external applied magnetic field, have for about a decade been the most fascinating subject of widespread interest. Many investigations have been fulfilled and prototypes have also been fabricated to undertake experiments, mainly in the transportation application such as automobile suspensions, heavy truck seats, and racecar suspensions and seismic protection in civil engineering and wind-rain-induced load mitigation in Cable Bridge. In recent years, the applications of MR devices under high shock and impact load have got increasing attentions because of its widely potentials in the engineering. Although there are researches focusing on the structure design and the dynamics of impact-use MR shock absorber, still very few investigations concerning the semi-Active control of the MR shock absorber under impact load have been explored. The primary purpose of this paper is to experimentally investigate the effectiveness of PID control policies on large-scale Magneto-Rheological (MR) shock absorber subjected to impact load. In this paper, three pre-estimated controllers, which are PID controller, PI controller and P controller, are developed to mitigate the peak shock response of MR shock absorber when it subjected to high impulsive load. An impulsive test rig that uses a fixed amount powder to produce the impact force is introduced. Comparative test results show that the P control has the best control results to restrain the peak response of damping force and inner pressure of MR shock absorber.
Li, Y, Lei, G & Shao, KR 1970, 'Coupled field analysis of electrostatic comb-drive actuator using reduced order modeling principles', 2008 World Automation Congress, WAC 2008.
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This paper presents a modeling of lateral electrostatic Comb Drive actuator and develops a 2D finite element model using reduced order modeling (ROM) principles to analyze the coupled field. This technique reduces the Comb Drive to a group of equivalent lumped parameters finite elements which capture the device behavior. Finally, Simulation results are validated using an analytical approach, both methods give very similar results. The strongly coupled field problem is effectively solved by reduced order modeling (ROM) and the relation between structure parameters and the electrostatic force and the displacement is discussed.
Li, Y, Lei, G & Shao, KR 1970, 'Robust global optimal method for electromagnetic device design using approximation models', Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems, ICEMS 2008, pp. 497-500.
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This paper presents a fast global optimal method for the optimization design of electromagnetic device, which based on the approximation models and the global optimization algorithms. Two approximate models, radial basis functions model and compactly supported radial basis functions model, are fully discussed in this paper. In order to illustrate the efficiency and robustness of the proposed method, an analytical test function and the TEAM Workshop problem 22 are investigated. Analysis and comparison show that the presented method is promising. The finite element sampling points can be obviously reduced by the proposed method.
Li, Y, Li, J, Samali, B & Wang, J 1970, 'Theoretical and experimental studies on semi-active smart pin joint', Futures in Mechanics of Structures and Materials - Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, ACMSM20, Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Taylor & Francis Group, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, pp. 723-728.
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An intelligent structural system equipped with smart structural members that are controllable in real-time is one effective solution to prevent structural damage and failure during hostile dynamic loadings, thereby leading to effective protection of structures and their occupants. The primary purpose of this study is to design, fabricate and characterise a prototype smart member, namely a semi-active magnetorheological (MR) pin joint, through theoretical modelling and experimental investigation. Design of prototype smart pin joints includes theoretical analysis relating to the rotary plate radius, the property of MR fluids and the gap between the rotary plate and the casing based on the requirements of the dynamics of MR pin joints. It is verified that an MR pin joint with a diameter of 180 mm can produce a torque of up to 30 Nm, which is deemed adequate for realisation of the semi-active control for multi-storey building models in the next stage of research. © 2009 Taylor & Francis Group, London.
Li, Y, Li, L, Hellicar, A & Guo, YJ 1970, 'Super-resolution reconstruction of terahertz images', SPIE Proceedings, SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, SPIE.
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A prototype of terahertz imaging system has been built in CSIRO. This imager uses a backward wave oscillator as the source and a Schottky diode as the detector. It has a bandwidth of 500-700 GHz and a source power 10 mW. The resolution at 610 GHz is about 0.85 mm. Even though this imaging system is a coherent system, only the signal power is measured at the detector and the phase information of the detected wave is lost. Some initial images of tree leaves, chocolate bars and pinholes have been acquired with this system. In this paper, we report experimental results of an attempt to improve the resolution of this imaging system beyond the limitation of diffraction (super-resolution). Due to the lack of phase information needed for applying any coherent super-resolution algorithms, the performance of the incoherent Richardson-Lucy super-resolution algorithm has been evaluated. Experimental results have demonstrated that the Richardson-Lucy algorithm can significantly improve the resolution of these images in some sample areas and produce some artifacts in other areas. These experimental results are analyzed and discussed.
Li, Y, Wang, J & Hu, H 1970, 'Effect of fluted flow channel on magnetic field in Magneto-Rheological damper', Proceedings of the World Forum on Smart Materials and Smart Structures Technology, SMSST'07, p. 574.
Li, Y, Wang, J, Hu, H & ASME 1970, 'Comprehensive study on controllablity of a large-scale MR shock absorber under high impact load', PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASME INTERNATIONAL DESIGN ENGINEERING TECHNICAL CONFERENCE AND INFORMATION IN ENGINEERING CONFERENCE, VOL 1, PTS A-C, ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences/Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, AMER SOC MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, Las Vegas, NV, pp. 1803-1808.
Li, Z, Tan, E, Chen, J & Wassantachat, T 1970, 'On Traffic Density Estimation with a Boosted SVM Classifier', 2008 Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, 2008 Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, IEEE.
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Lihong Zheng, Xiangjian He, Qiang Wu, Wenjing Jia, Samali, B & Palaniswami, M 1970, 'A hierarchically combined classifier for license plate recognition', 2008 8th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 2008 8th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT), IEEE, Sydney, pp. 372-377.
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High accuracy and fast recognition speed are two requirements for real-time and automatic license plate recognition system. In this paper, we propose a hierarchically combined classifier based on an inductive learning based method and an SVM-based classification. This approach employs the inductive learning based method to roughly divide all classes into smaller groups. Then the SVM method is used for character classification in individual groups. Both start from a collection of samples of characters from license plates. After a training process using some known samples in advance, the inductive learning rules are extracted for rough classification and the parameters used for SVM-based classification are obtained. Then, a classification tree is constructed for further fast training and testing processes for SVM-based classification. Experimental results for the proposed approach are given. From the experimental results, we can make the conclusion that the hierarchically combined classifier is better than either the inductive learning based classification or the SVM-based classification in terms of error rates and processing speeds.
Lin, CT & Yu, YC 1970, 'Design of an effective pipeline FFT/IFFT processor', International Journal of Electrical Engineering, pp. 287-297.
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This investigation proposes the novel radix-42 and radix-4 3 algorithms with the low computational complexities of the radix-16 and radix-64 algorithms and the low hardware requirements of the radix-4 algorithm. Based on the multiplierless radix-4 butterfly structure, the proposed radix-42 single-path delay feedback (R42SDF) design and radix-43 single-path delay feedback (R43SDF) design support the 4096-point FFT/IFFT computations. Moreover, the retrenched constant multiplier and eight-folded complex multiplier structures are adopted to decrease the multiplier cost and the coefficient ROM size with the complex conjugate symmetry rule and subexpression elimination technology. To further decrease the chip cost, a finite word-length analysis is provided to indicate that the proposed R42SDF and R43SDF architectures only require 14 and 13-bit internal word-length to achieve 40dB SNR performance in the 4096-point FFT/IFFT computation. The comprehensive comparison results indicate that the proposed R43SDF design has the smallest hardware cost and the highest hardware utilization among the tested architectures for the FFT/IFFT computation, and thus has the highest efficiency. The implementation results show that the proposed R42SDF and R43SDF based 4096-point pipeline FFT/IFFT processors only consumes 6.3725 and 5.985 mW@20 MHz at 1.2V supply voltage in TSMC 0.13 μm CMOS process.
Lin, X & Zhang, Y 1970, 'Aggregate Computation over Data Streams', PROGRESS IN WWW RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, PROCEEDINGS, 10th Asia-Pacific Web Conference and Workshops, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Shenyang, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 10-25.
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Lin, Z, Zhu, J & Guo, Y 1970, 'Observation of Magnetization Processes in Soft Magnetic Composite', Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting, Annual Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting, AIP, Wagga Wagga, Australia, pp. 1-4.
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A magneto-optical imaging technique has been employed to visualize magnetization processes of soft magnetic composite material. The profiles of reflected light intensity of magneto-optical images at the sample surface were plotted. The results demonstrate that magnetooptical imaging is a sensitive tool to visualize magnetization process. The flux profiles obtained under conditions of perpendicular and tangential magnetizations indicate that the sample behaves as a collection of individual magnetized particles rather than as a uniform and continuous magnetic substance.
Lin, Z, Zhu, J & Guo, Y 1970, 'Three-Dimensional Magnetic Properties of Soft Magnetic Composite Materials', Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting Website, Annual Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting, AIP, Wagga Wagga, Australia, pp. 1-4.
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This paper studies the relationship between the B and H loci, and the power losses features of a soft magnetic composite in 3-D space when the B loci are controlled to be circles with increasing magnitudes and ellipses evolving from a straight line to a circle in three orthogonal planes. It is found that the B and H loci lie in the same magnetization plane, but the H loci and power losses strongly depend on the orientation, position, and process of magnetization. On the other hand, the H vector evolves into a unique locus, and the power loss approaches a unique value, respectively, when the B vector evolves into a round locus with the same magnitude from either a series of circles or ellipses.
Lindsay, ED, Murray, S, Liu, DK, Lowe, DB & Bright, CG 1970, 'Establishment reality vs Maintenance Reality: How real is real enough?', Proceedings of 36th European Society for Engineering Education, SEFI Conference on Quality Assessment, Employability and Innovation, Annual Conference of European Society for Engineering Education, European Society for Engineering Education, Aarlborg, Denmark, pp. 1-4.
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Remote and virtual laboratories are increasingly prevalent alternatives to the face to face laboratory experience, however the question of their learning outcomes is yet to be fully investigated. There are many presumptions regarding the effectiveness of these approaches; foremost amongst these assumptions is that the experience must be 'real' to be effective. Embedding reality into a remote or virtual laboratory can be an expensive and time consuming task. Significant effort has been expended to create 3D VRML models of laboratory equipment, allowing students to pan, zoom and tilt their perspective as they see fit. Multiple camera angles have be embedded into remote interfaces to provide an increased sense of 'real-ness'. This paper draws upon the literature in the field to show that the necessary threshold for reality varies depending upon how the students are interacting with the equipment. There is one threshold for when they first interact - the Establishment Reality - which allows the students to familiarise themselves with the laboratory equipment, and to build their mental model of the experience. There is, however, a second, lower, threshold - the Maintenance Reality - that is necessary for the students' ongoing operation of the equipment. Students' usage patterns rely upon a limited subset of the available functionality, focussing upon only some aspects of the reality that has been originally established. The two threshold model presented in this paper provides new insight for the development of virtual laboratories in the future.
Ling, SH, Iu, HHC, Leung, FHF, Chan, KY & IEEE 1970, 'Modelling the Development of Fluid Dispensing for Electronic Packaging: Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization Based-Wavelet Neural Network Approach', 2008 IEEE INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS, VOLS 1-8, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IEEE, Hong Kong, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 98-103.
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Lister, R 1970, 'After the gold rush: Toward sustainable scholarship in computing', Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series, Australasian Computing Education Conference, Australian Computer Society, Wollongong, Australia, pp. 3-17.
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In just thirty years, we have gone from punched cards to Second Life. But, as the American National Science Foundation (NSF) recently noted, 'undergraduate computing education today often looks much as it did several decades ago' (NSF, 2006). Consequently, today's 'Nintendo Generation' have voted with their feet. We bore them. The contrast between the changes wrought via computer research over the last 30 years, and the failure of computing education to adapt to those changes, is because computing academics lead a double life. In our research lives we see ourselves as part of a community that reaches beyond our own university. We read literature, we attend conferences, we publish, and the cycle repeats, with community members building upon each other's work. But in our teaching lives we rarely discuss teaching beyond our own university, we are not guided by any teaching literature; instead we simply follow our instincts. Academics in computing, or in any other discipline, can approach their teaching as research into how novices become experts. Several recent multi-institutional research collaborations have studied the development of novice programmers. This paper describes some of the results from those collaborations. The separation of our teaching and research lives diminishes not just our teaching but also our research. The modern practice of stripping away all 'distractions' to maximize research output is like the practice of stripping away rainforest to grow beef - both practices appear to work, for a little while, but not indefinitely. Twenty-first century academia needs to bring teaching and research together, to form a scholarship of computing that is an integrated, sustainable, ecological whole. © 2008, Australian Computer Society, Inc.
Lister, R & Box, I 1970, 'A citation analysis of the ACE2005 - 2007 proceedings, with reference to the June 2007 CORE conference and journal rankings', Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series, Australasian Computing Education Conference, Australian Computer Society, Wollongong, Australia, pp. 93-102.
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This paper compares the CORE rankings of computing education conferences and journals to the frequency of citation of those journals and conferences in the ACE2005, 2006 and 2007 proceedings. The assumption underlying this study is that citation rates are a measure of esteem, and so there should be a positive relationship between citation rates and rankings. The CORE conference rankings appear to broadly reflect the ACE citations, but there are some inconsistencies between citation rates and the journal rankings. The paper also identifies the most commonly cited books in these ACE proceedings. Finally, in the spirit of 'Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?' the paper discusses some ways in which the CORE rankings process itself might in future be made more transparent and open to scholarly discourse. © 2008, Australian Computer Society, Inc.
Lister, R & Box, I 1970, 'A citation analysis of the sigcse 2007 proceedings', Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education, SIGCSE '08: The 39th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, ACM, Portland, OR, USA, pp. 476-480.
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Abstract: This paper identifies the most commonly cited conferences, journals and books among the 1398 citations made in the 122 publications of the SIGCSE 2007 proceedings. The SIGCSE 2007 authors cited a very large array of conferences, journals and books, but the majority are only cited within a single paper. There are only a very small set of journals and conferences cited frequently. Most books cited are concerned with technical information or are textbooks. Only 2% of books are concerned with computer science education and 23% with education in general. The picture that emerges from this citation analysis is that the SIGCSE community does not have a substantial core set of educational literature. Also, the epistemology of the SIGCSE community is primarily objectivist, with a focus on content, rather than a constructivist, student-centered focus on learning.
Lister, R, Caspersen, ME & Clancy, M 1970, 'ICER'08 - Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on International Computing Education Research: Foreword', ICER'08 - Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on International Computing Education Research.
Lister, RF & Simon, S 1970, 'Koli Calling 2007', Proceedings of the 7th Baltic Sea Conference on Computing Education Research, Baltic Sea Conference on Computing Education Research, Australian Computer Society, Koli National Park, Finland, pp. 1-231.
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The Seventh Baltic Sea Conference on Computing Education Research, Koli Calling 2007, was held in Finlandâs beautiful Koli National Park on 15-18 November 2007. Contributions to Koli Calling can take one of four forms. Research papers present unpublished original research. System papers describe tools for learning, instruction, or assessment in computing education, motivated by the didactic needs of computing. Discussion papers are shorter papers used to present novel ideas, proposals, prototypes, or work in progress. Posters are very short presentations describing novel approaches or work in progress. All papers and posters were double-blind peer reviewed by members of the international programme committee and additional reviewers. There were 30 âlongâ papers submitted (i.e. research or system papers). The acceptance rate for long papers was 43% (12 research papers and one system paper). The remaining long papers, and those papers submitted speciï¬cally as discussion papers, comprised a total of 28 papers, of which 15 (54%) were accepted as short papers. The authors of all these accepted papers are from 12 diï¬erent countries.
Lister, RF, Caspersen, M & Clancy, M 1970, 'Proceeding of the fourth International workshop on Computing education research', Proceeding of the fourth International workshop on Computing education research, International workshop on Computing education research, Association of Computing Machinery, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1-184.
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The call for papers attracted 46 submissions. All papers were double-blind peer-reviewed by members of the international program committee. After the reviewing, 16 papers (35%) were accepted for inclusion in the conference, written by authors across 9 countries: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America
Listowski, A, Ngo, H, Guo, W, Vigneswaran, S & Palmer, CG 1970, 'Assessment Framework of Urban Water Reuse Based on a Novel Integrated Water Cycle Concept', Proceedings of the IWA World Water Congress and Exhibition 2008, IWA World Water Congress, International Water Association (IWA), Vienna, Austria, pp. 1-8.
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To achieve sustainability of the water reclamation and urban reuse technologies, it would be necessary to develop and apply comprehensive assessment methodology and processes that would consider critical elements of urban water cycle, sustainability criteria and appropriate performance assessment standards as an integrated framework. When trying to study the rationale behind the urban water reuse approaches from social, economic, technical and ecological point of view, the outcomes are often lacking cohesion and appropriate balance. The assessment methods are further complicated by the lack of consistency, specific and accurate information and methodologies, which ultimately impair the process. Taking into consideration complexity and uniqueness of the integrated water cycle concept, this paper introduces to a novel assessment framework. This enables to identify suitable assessment process consisting of logical steps and including relevant objectives, principles from which a broad selection of criteria s and performance indicators would be derived. The final step in the process would be focused on validation of the quantitative analysis and model preparation. A considerable effort would also be necessary to establish baseline indicators of sustainability and operational tools to evaluate performance of the urban water systems.
Liu, DK, Dissayanake, G, Manamperi, PB, Brooks, PA, Fang, G, Paul, G, Webb, S, Kirchner, N, Chotiprayanakul, P, Kwok, NM & Ren, TR 1970, 'A robotic system for steel bridge maintenance: Research challenges and system design', Proceedings of the 2008 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA 2008, Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Australian Robotics and Automation Association, Australia National University, Canberra, Australia, pp. 1-7.
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This paper presents the research on and development of a robotic system for stripping paint and rust from steel bridges, with the ultimate objective of preventing human exposure to hazardous and dangerous debris (containing rust, paint particles, lead and/or asbestos), relieving human workers from labor intensive tasks and reducing costs associated with bridge maintenance. The robot system design, the key research challenges and enabling technologies and system development are discussed in detail. Research results obtained so far and discussions on some key issues are also presented.
Liu, G, Li, J & Wong, L 1970, 'Assessing and Predicting Protein Interactions Using Both Local and Global Network Topological Metrics', Genome Informatics 2008, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference, IMPERIAL COLLEGE PRESS.
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Liu, RP, Rosberg, Z, Collings, IB, Wilson, C, Dong, AY & Jha, S 1970, 'Overcoming Radio Link Asymmetry in Wireless Sensor Networks', 2008 IEEE 19TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PERSONAL, INDOOR AND MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATIONS, 19th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, IEEE, Cannes, FRANCE, pp. 289-293.
Liu, RP, Rosberg, Z, Collings, IB, Wilson, C, Dong, AY & Jha, S 1970, 'Overcoming radio link asymmetry in wireless sensor networks.', PIMRC, IEEE, pp. 1-5.
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We derive two new energy efficient reliable data transport protocols for overcoming the negative impact of asymmetric radio links in wireless sensor networks. The energy efficiency of these algorithms is explicitly derived using our theoretical model, and validated by results obtained from simulations and field trials. The analytical, simulation and field trials demonstrate that our proposed protocols perform well in networks with asymmetric links and can save energy of up to 27% compared to conventional ARQ schemes. © 2008 IEEE.
Liu, RP, Zic, J, Collings, IB, Dong, AY & Jha, S 1970, 'Efficient Reliable Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks', 68TH IEEE VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE, FALL 2008, 68th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, IEEE, Calgary, CANADA, pp. 1974-1978.
Liu, RP, Zic, J, Collings, IB, Dong, AY & Jha, S 1970, 'Efficient Reliable Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks.', VTC Fall, IEEE, pp. 1-5.
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We propose an Efficient Reliable Data Collection (eRDC) algorithm. The eRDC is designed for energy-constraint wireless sensor networks (WSN) to balance reliability and energy consumption. We derive energy efficiencies of the proposed reliability schemes, and evaluate their performances. These analyses provide a guideline to determine the number of retransmissions for reliable data delivery. Dynamic programming concept is used to find the optimal solution. We present a distributed eRDC implementation to dynamically control the maximum number of retransmissions based on the guideline provided. Discrete event simulations and field trials with wireless sensor nodes confirmed our results. ©2008 IEEE.
Liu, W, Tao, D & Liu, J 1970, 'Transductive Component Analysis.', ICDM, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, IEEE Computer Society, Pisa, Italy, pp. 433-442.
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In this paper, we study semi-supervised linear dimensionality reduction. Beyond conventional supervised methods which merely consider labeled instances, the semi-supervised scheme allows to leverage abundant and ample unlabeled instances into learning so
Lo, D, Khoo, S-C & Li, J 1970, 'Mining and Ranking Generators of Sequential Patterns', Proceedings of the 2008 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Proceedings of the 2008 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Atlanta, pp. 553-564.
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Lopez, M, Whalley, J, Robbins, P & Lister, R 1970, 'Relationships between reading, tracing and writing skills in introductory programming', Proceedings of the Fourth international Workshop on Computing Education Research, ICER '08: International Computing Education Research Workshop, ACM, Sydney, Australia, pp. 101-112.
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ABSTRACT: This study analyzed student responses to an examination, after the students had completed one semester of instruction in programming. The performance of students on code tracing tasks correlated with their performance on code writing tasks. A correlation was also found between performance on "explain in plain English" tasks and code writing. A stepwise regression, with performance on code writing as the dependent variable, was used to construct a path diagram. The diagram suggests the possibility of a hierarchy of programming related tasks. Knowledge of programming constructs forms the bottom of the hierarchy, with "explain in English", Parson's puzzles, and the tracing of iterative code forming one or more intermediate levels in the hierarchy.
López-Mariscal, C, Burnham, D, Rudd, D, McGloin, D & Gutiérrez-Vega, JC 1970, 'Accurate phase mapping of nondiffracting singular beams', SPIE Proceedings, Optical Engineering + Applications, SPIE, San Diego, CA.
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Lowe, DB & Johnston, AJ 1970, 'Engineering Admissions Criteria: Focusing on Ultimate Professional Success', Work Integrated Learning (WIL): Transforming Futures - Practice...Pedagogy...Partnerships. WACE Asia Pacific Conference 2008: E-Proceedings, WACE Asia Pacific Conference, ACEN, Manly, Australia, pp. 343-349.
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The majority of Australian Universities use performance in the higher school examinations as the primary basis of admission into undergraduate programs for current school leavers. In 2005 an analysis of academic performance in the UTS undergraduate Engineering program showed a relatively low correlation with Higher School Certificate (HSC) results, particularly for students outside the top performance bands. This led to a rethinking of the admissions processes, and the introduction of a broader admission scheme. This scheme incorporated the results of an admission questionnaire which was designed with substantial input from industry, and which aimed to provide an indication of both likely academic success within the degree program as well as (and possibly more importantly) the likely success as a graduate Engineer. The key criteria related to affinity with, and motivations for, an Engineering career and addressed both the attitude and aptitude of students in terms of emotional intelligence characteristics. In this paper we describe the design and introduction of this scheme, and how input from industry was used to construct a questionnaire. We provide an analysis of early outcomes from the process in terms of student performance, and the extent to which course performance correlates to questionnaire results. We also include recommendations on how these schemes may be used to improve the retention and success of Engineering students and how to better match the aptitudes of engineering graduates with the needs and aspirations of Industry and Business.
Lowe, DB, Murray, SJ, Lindsay, E, Liu, D & Bright, C 1970, 'Reflecting Professional Reality in Remote Laboratory Experiences', REV 2008: Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation, Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation, International Association of Online Engineering, Dusseldorf, Germany, pp. 1-5.
Lu, J, Deng, X, Vroman, P, Zeng, X, Ma, J & Zhang, G 1970, 'A fuzzy multi-criteria group decision support system for nonwoven based cosmetic product development evaluation', 2008 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence), 2008 IEEE 16th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), IEEE, Kong Kong, China, pp. 1700-1707.
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Product prototype evaluation is an important phase in new product development (NPD). Such evaluation often requires multiple criteria that are within a hierarchy and a group of evaluators. The evaluation process and these evaluation criteria often involve uncertain and fuzzy data in the weights of these criteria and the judgments of these evaluators. To evaluate nonwoven cosmetic product prototypes, this study first develops a NPD evaluation model, which has evaluation criteria within three levels, based on the features of nonwoven products. It then proposes a fuzzy (multi-level) multi-criteria group decision-making (FMCGDM) method for supporting the evaluation task. A fuzzy multi-criteria group decision support system (FMCGDSS) is developed to implement the proposed method and applied in nonwoven cosmetic product development evaluation.
Lu, J, Deng, X, Vroman, P, Zeng, X, Ma, J, Zhang, G & IEEE 1970, 'A Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Group Decision Support System for Nonwoven based Cosmetic Product Development Evaluation', 2008 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FUZZY SYSTEMS, VOLS 1-5, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE, Hong Kong, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 1702-1709.
Lu, J, Deng, X, Zeng, X, Vroman, P, Wu, F & Zhang, G 1970, 'A fuzzy multi-objective decision support system for nonwoven products experiment design', COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN DECISION AND CONTROL, International Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent technologies in Nuclear Science Conference, World Scientific, Madrid, Spain, pp. 787-792.
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Experiment design often involves multiple objectives and uncertain data in its optimizing process. Fuzzy multi-objective linear programming (FMOLP) is an appropriate method to handle this problem. For the case of modeling nonwoven-based resilient product
Lu, J, Zhu, Y, Zeng, X, Koehl, L, Ma, J & Zhang, G 1970, 'A Fuzzy Decision Support System for Garment New Product Development', AI 2008: ADVANCES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, PROCEEDINGS, Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Springer, New Zealand, pp. 532-+.
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Garment new product development (NPD) evaluation requires considering multiple criteria under a hierarchical structure. The evaluation process often involves uncertainty and fuzziness in both the relationships between criteria and the judgments of evaluators. This study first presents a garment NPD evaluation model under a well-being concept. It then proposes a fuzzy multi-criteria group decision-making (FMCGDM) method to evaluate garment NPD. The advantages of the FMCGDM method include handling criteria in a hierarchical structure, dealing with three kinds of uncertainties simultaneously, and using suitable types of fuzzy numbers to describe linguistic terms. A fuzzy multi-criteria group decision support system (FMCGDSS) is developed to implement the proposed method. Finally a garment NPD evaluation case study demonstrates the proposed method and software system.
Lu, J, Zhu, Y, Zeng, X, Koehl, L, Ma, J & Zhang, G 1970, 'A fuzzy multi-criteria group decision support system for textile material fabric-hand evaluation', COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN DECISION AND CONTROL, International Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent technologies in Nuclear Science Conference, World Scientific, Madrid, Spain, pp. 1129-1134.
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Fabric-hand evaluation is one of the key features and measures in textile material selection for fashion design. Fabric-hand evaluation requires considering multiple criteria with in a group of evaluators, The evaluation process often involves fuzziness
Luo, C, Cai, X & Zhang, J 1970, 'GATE: A Novel Robust Object Tracking Method Using the Particle Filtering and Level Set Method', 2008 Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, 2008 Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, IEEE, Canberra, ACT, pp. 378-385.
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This paper presents a novel algorithm for robust object tracking based on the particle filtering method employed in recursive Bayesian estimation and image segmentation and optimisation techniques employed in active contour models and level set methods.
Luo, C, Cai, X & Zhang, J 1970, 'Robust object tracking using the particle filtering and level set methods: A comparative experiment', 2008 IEEE 10th Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, 2008 IEEE 10th Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), IEEE, Cairns, QLD, pp. 359-364.
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Robust visual tracking has become an important topic of research in computer vision. A novel method for robust object tracking, GATE [11], improves object tracking in complex environments using the particle filtering and the level set-based active contou
Luo, C, Zhao, Y, Cao, L, Ou, Y & Liu, L 1970, 'Outlier Mining on Multiple Time Series Data in Stock Market', PRICAI 2008: Trends in Artificial Intelligence, Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Hanoi, Vietnam, pp. 1010-1015.
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In stock market, the key surveillance function is identifying market anomalies, such as insider trading and market manipulation, to provide a fair and efficient trading platform [2,6]. Insider trading refers to the trades on privileged information unavailable to the public [8]. Market manipulation refers to the trade or action which aims to interfere with the demand or supply of a given stock to make the price increase or decrease in a particular way [3]. Recently, new intelligent technologies are required to deal with the challenges of the rapid increase of stock data. Outlier mining technologies have been used to detect market manipulation and insider trading . The objective of outlier mining is to find the data objects which are grossly different from or inconsistent with the majority of data. However, in stock market data, outliers are highly intermixed with normal data [4] and it is difficult to judge whether an object is an outlier or not. Therefore, a more effective and more efficient approach is in demand. This paper presents a new technique for outlier detection on multiple time series data in stock market. At first, principal curve algorithm is used to detect the outliers from individual measurements of stock market. Then, the generated outliers are measured with the probability of being real alerts. To improve the accuracy and precision, these outliers are combined by some rules associated with the domain knowledge. The experimental results on real stock market data show that the proposed model is feasible in practice and achieves a higher accuracy and precision than traditional methods
Luo, C, Zhao, Y, Cao, L, Ou, Y & Zhang, C 1970, 'Exception Mining on Multiple Time Series in Stock Market', 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, IEEE, Sydney, Australia, pp. 690-693.
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This paper presents our research on exception mining on multiple time series data which aims to assist stock market surveillance by identifying market anomalies. Traditional technologies on stock market surveillance have shown their limitations to handle large amount of complicated stock market data. In our research, the Outlier Mining on Multiple time series (OMM) is proposed to improve the effectiveness of exception detection for stock market surveillance. The idea of our research is presented, challenges on the research are analyzed, and potential research directions are summarized.
Luo, L, Zhang, J & Shi, Z 1970, 'BER Analysis for Asymmetric OFDM Systems', IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 - 2008 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 - 2008 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, IEEE, pp. 4560-4565.
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To alleviate the high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) and sensitivity to carrier frequency offset (CFO) problems, an asymmetric OFDM (A-OFDM) system has been recently proposed. In this paper, the theoretical bit error rate (BER) analysis of the A-OFDM systems is presented. Various modulation methods, i.e., BPSK and M-ray QAM, and equalization techniques, i.e., zero forcing (ZF) and minimum mean square error (MMSE) criteria are considered. Our analysis shows that the BER performance of the A-OFDM system bridges that of conventional OFDM and single carrier systems. Certain advanced equalizers, such as MMSE equalizer, are found to significantly improve the BER performance of the A-OFDM systems. The analysis approach is generally applicable to most modulation schemes and can be extended to any precoded OFDM systems. © 2008 IEEE.
Luo, L, Zhang, J & Shi, Z 1970, 'Iterative (turbo) joint channel estimation and signal detection for Quadrature OFDMA systems', 2008 IEEE 19th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2008 IEEE 19th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), IEEE, IEEE, pp. 1-5.
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Luo, L, Zhang, JA & Shi, Z 1970, 'BER Analysis for Asymmetric OFDM Systems', GLOBECOM 2008 - 2008 IEEE GLOBAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 08), IEEE, New Orleans, LA, pp. 1-6.
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Luo, L, Zhang, JA & Shi, Z 1970, 'Iterative (Turbo) Joint Channel Estimation and Signal Detection for Quadrature OFDMA Systems', 2008 IEEE 19TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PERSONAL, INDOOR AND MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATIONS, 19th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, IEEE, Cannes, FRANCE, pp. 284-288.
Luong, VD, Tran, NN & Tuan, HD 1970, 'Optimal training sequence design for MIMO-OFDM in spatially correlated fading', 2008 2nd International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems, 2008 2nd International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS 2008), IEEE, Gold Coast, Australia, pp. 294-299.
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Channel estimation and training sequence design for spatially correlated fading in Multiple Input Multiple Output with Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) systems are still open research topics of great interest. In this paper, we inve
Ma, J & Guangquan Zhang. 1970, 'Team Situation Awareness measurement using group aggregation and implication operators', 2008 3rd International Conference on Intelligent System and Knowledge Engineering, 2008 3rd International Conference on Intelligent System and Knowledge Engineering (ISKE 2008), IEEE, Xianeb, pp. 625-630.
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Situation Awareness (SA) has been received much attention from human factors and ergonomics community during the past two decades. Team working plays a vital role in complex dynamic situations, increasing requirements for sharing perceptions and comprehe
Madhisetty, S, Busch, P & Feuerlicht, G 1970, 'Utility Computing Framework and its Impact on the Medical Industry', Con-IRM 2008 (IRMA), International Conference on Information Resources Management, IDEA Group Publishing, Ontario, Canada, pp. 1-7.
Madhisetty, S, Busch, P, Feuerlicht, G & Flax, L 1970, 'Utility computing and its influence on the IT-industry', International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies 2008, EISWT 2008, International Conference On Enterprise Systems and Web Technologies, ISRST, Orlando, USA, pp. 134-140.
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Though much service-oriented architecture have failed before to deliver on their promises of remote delivery of IT services, the ubiquitous nature of computing which is now present is the motivating factor for computing to be seen in a 'Utility model'. Utility Computing (UC) is an on demand delivery of enterprise applications and business process in a shared, secured and scalable standards based environment over the Internet. The impact of this new technology will be seen in many areas. Utility applications built on multi-tenant architecture where many users can access their applications concurrently is a cost effective means for providing service oriented computing to the end user. This paper studies the adoption of such technology in the IT industry. This paper studies the inhibiting factors for the successful adoption of Utility Computing model in the IT-Industry.
Marelli, C, Canning, J, Skivesen, N, Kristensen, M, Vovgaard, MB, Crossley, MJ, Khoury, T, Tze Jing Sum, Shu, G & Neto, C 1970, 'Long self-assembled organic molecular optical wires', LEOS 2008 - 21st Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, LEOS 2008 - 21st Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS 2008), IEEE, pp. 453-454.
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Long porphyrin molecular wires presenting optical transparency and light diffraction are fabricated and characterized using optical and atomic force microscopy. The development of dual photonic/electronic self-assembled devices is discussed. ©2008 IEEE.
Marjanovic, O 1970, 'Extending the boundaries of business process management: from operational to creative business processes.', ITI, 30th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces, IEEE, Cavtat, CROATIA, pp. 215-220.
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Marjanovic, O 1970, 'Minitrack Introduction', Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2008), 2008 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, IEEE.
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Marjanovic, O 1970, 'Sharing innovative teaching practices - the knowledge management approach.', ITI, 30th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces, IEEE, Cavtat, CROATIA, pp. 539-544.
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Marjanovic, O 1970, 'Synergetic learning communities: Towards a new model of university/industry learning partnership', 21st Bled eConference 'eCollaboration: Overcoming Boundaries Through Multi-Channel Interaction' - Proceedings, 21st Bled eConference on eCollaboration - Overcoming Boundaries through Multi-Chanel Interaction, UNIV MARIBOR, Bled, SLOVENIA, pp. 405-415.
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This paper critically analyses the main challenges related to teaching and learning in emerging business disciplines. It focuses on the field of Business Intelligence (BI), as a prime example of dynamic, industry-driven discipline where the content as well as methods and frameworks for professional practice are still emerging and co-evolving with teaching practices. However, the work presented goes beyond BI and is equally relevant for any other emerging teaching and professional field of Business Information Systems (BIS). The paper argues that order to address the identified challenges, we need to move away from the traditional transmission model of teaching and adopt a new educational model based on the concept of synergetic learning communities designed to cross university industry / boundaries. To support the argument, the paper uses a case study of an active world-wide, synergetic BI learning community called Teradata University Network (TUN). Most importantly, the paper offers a reflective analysis of the changing role of university teacher that could be directly attributed to the new educational model. The reported findings are the result of an ongoing participatory action research project in this area.
Marjanovic, O 1970, 'Synergetic Learning Communities: Towards a New Model of University/Industry Learning Partnership.', Bled eConference, pp. 16-16.
Marjanovic, O & Seethamraju, R 1970, 'Understanding Knowledge-Intensive, Practice-Oriented Business Processes.', HICSS, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 373-373.
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In order to create new opportunities for competitive differentiation, organisations are starting to shift their focus from transactional operational Business Processes (BPs) to other types of processes that cannot be easily replicated. Their key ingredients are human knowledge, experience and creativity that cannot be standardised, prescribed and easily acquired. While Business Process Management (BPM) research and practice will remain focused on highly structured operational BPs for quite some time, there is a need to better understand other types of BPs, especially their knowledge aspect. This is expected to lead to new knowledge management strategies and processes designed to better leverage human capital to ensure continuous improvement of business processes. This paper focuses on knowledge-intensive, practice-oriented BPs. It describes an exploratory case study of a complex practice-oriented BP in a large, multi-unit organization and illustrates how our research findings expand current BPM boundaries, especially in the area of BP improvement methodologies. © 2008 IEEE.
Martelli, C & Canning, J 1970, 'Photonic Technologies Integrated into Optical Fibres', 1st Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and Their Applications, Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and their Applications, Optica Publishing Group.
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Structured optical fibres are numerically and experimentally assessed with focus on technology integration. Three main areas are considered: Fresnel waveguiding, molecular photonics and photo-diffractive gratings. Results lead to new opportunities for sensors and devices.
Martelli, C, Canning, J, Cordeiro, CMB & de Matos, CJS 1970, 'Photonic Technologies Integrated into Optical Fibres', AIP Conference Proceedings, 1ST WORKSHOP ON SPECIALITY OPTICAL FIBERS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS, AIP, Sao Pedro, BRAZIL, pp. 69-+.
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Martelli, C, Canning, J, Crossley, MJ, Stocks, D & Sintic, M 1970, 'Merging porphyrins and structured optical fibres: future technology for chemical sensors', SPIE Proceedings, 19th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors, SPIE, Perth, AUSTRALIA.
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Martelli, C, Canning, J, Reimers, JR, Sintic, M, Stocks, D, Crossley, MJ & IEEE 1970, 'Molecular Electronics inside Optical Fibres', 2008 JOINT CONFERENCE OF THE OPTO-ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE AND THE AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE ON OPTICAL FIBRE TECHNOLOGY, VOLS 1 AND 2, Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference/Australian Conference on Optical Fiber Technology, IEEE, Sydney, AUSTRALIA, pp. 361-362.
Martin, JS, Pontt, J, Bello, F & Aguilera, R 1970, 'Interharmonics Power Losses Estimation in Power Transformer fed High Power Cycloconverter Drive', 2008 IEEE INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING, VOLS 1-5, IEEE Industry-Applications-Society Annual Meeting, IEEE, Alberta, CANADA, pp. 2004-2008.
Masood-ul-Hasan, Yichuang Sun, Xi Zhu & Moritz, J 1970, 'Oscillation-based DFT for second-order OTA-C filters', 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS 2008, IEEE, pp. 720-723.
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We propose an easily implemented and low-cost design-for-testability scheme for OTA-C filters based on an oscillation-based test (OBT) methodology. The OBT method is a vectorless output test strategy easily applicable to built-in self-test. During test mode, the filter under test is converted into an oscillator by establishing the oscillation condition in its transfer function. The oscillator frequency can be measured using digital circuitry and deviations from the cut-off frequency indicate faulty behaviour of the filter. The proposed method is suitable for both catastrophic and parametric fault diagnosis and is effective in detecting single and multiple faults. The validity of the proposed method has been verified using comparison between faulty and fault-free simulation results of two-integrator loop, Tow-Thomas and KHN OTA-C filters. Simulation results for 2nd order filters using a 0.25μm CMOS technology show that the proposed oscillation-based test strategy has more than 96% fault coverage and, with a minimum number of extra components, requires a negligible area overhead. ©2008 IEEE.
Mathieson, L & Szeider, S 1970, 'Parameterized Graph Editing with Chosen Vertex Degrees', COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION AND APPLICATIONS, PROCEEDINGS, 2nd International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, St Johns, CANADA, pp. 13-22.
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Mathieson, L & Szeider, S 1970, 'The parameterized complexity of regular subgraph problems and generalizations', Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series.
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We study variants and generalizations of the problem of finding an r-regular subgraph (where r ≥ 3) in a given graph by deleting at most k vertices. Moser and Thilikos (2006) have shown that the problem is fixed-parameter tractable (FPT) if parameterized by (k, r). They asked whether the problem remains fixed-parameter tractable if parameterized by k alone. We answer this question negatively: we show that if parameterized by k alone the problem is W[1]-hard and therefore very unlikely fixed-parameter tractable. We also give W[1]-hardness results for variants of the problem where the parameter is the number of vertex and edge deletions allowed, and for a new generalized form of the problem where the obtained subgraph is not necessarily regular but its vertices have certain prescribed degrees. Following this we demonstrate fixed-parameter tractability for the considered problems if the parameter includes the regularity r or an upper bound on the prescribed degrees in the generalized form of the problem. These FPT results are obtained via kernelization, so also provide a practical approach to the problems presented. © 2008, Australian Computer Society, Inc.
Maxwell, C, Leaney, J & O'Neill, T 1970, 'Utilising Abstract Matching to Preserve the Nature of Heuristics in Design Optimisation', 15th Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ecbs 2008), 2008 15th Annual IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS), IEEE, Belfast, NORTH IRELAND, pp. 287-+.
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McCarthy, TJ, Sheikh, MN & Gardner, A 1970, 'Encapsulating sustainability principles for structural design of buildings', PLEA 2008 - Towards Zero Energy Building: 25th PLEA International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture, Conference Proceedings, Passive and Low Energy Architecture Annual International Conference, University College, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, pp. 1-5.
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Adaptive re-use of buildings is seen by many as a key mechanism for developing a sustainable urban environment. How many buildings are actually designed with adaptive re-use as one of the requirements? This paper is concerned with how new building designs can take into account the future need for renovation, revamp and retrofit. At the outset of a building project, one cannot know for sure what modifications will be needed in the future. However, there are considerations that can be incorporated into the initial design and construction that will facilitate future renovations. Likewise there are practices that are undertaken now that will make renovations more difficult in the future. This preparation for the future re-use of buildings is an area of sustainability that has not received much attention. Examples of buildings that were originally designed with future modifications incorporated illustrate that long term thinking can lead to long term gain. There are also barriers to the long view. Economic drivers favour short term gain. The costs are levied up-front but the return on investment is many years later. The paper finishes with two case studies that demonstrate a long term sustainable approach.
McGloin, D 1970, 'Studying aerosols using optical traps', Optics InfoBase Conference Papers.
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In order to use optical tweezers for studies of airborne particles we must understand the underlying physics. We explore the interaction of aerosols with an optical potential, examining the Brownian and optical forces. © 2008 Optical Society of America.
McGloin, D 1970, 'Studying Aerosols Using Optical Traps', Frontiers in Optics 2008/Laser Science XXIV/Plasmonics and Metamaterials/Optical Fabrication and Testing, Frontiers in Optics, OSA.
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McGregor, C & Eklund, JM 1970, 'Real-Time Service-Oriented Architectures to Support Remote Critical Care: Trends and Challenges', 2008 32nd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference, 2008 32nd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference, IEEE, pp. 1199-1204.
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Healthcare providers and governments are under pressure to maintain and improve the quality of care to an increasing volume of critical care patients at either end of the life cycle, namely premature and ill-term babies together with the elderly. The provision of a service of critical care utilizing real-time service-oriented architectures has the potential to enable clinicians to be supported in the care of a greater number patients that are, perhaps more importantly, located elsewhere to their intensive care units. This paper presents a review of recent research in the application of computing and IT to support the service of critical care and determines the trends and challenges for the application of real-time service-oriented architectures within the domain. © 2008 IEEE.
McGregor, C & Frize, M 1970, 'Women in Biomedical Engineering and Health Informatics', 2008 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, IEEE, Vancouver, CANADA, pp. 5933-+.
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McGregor, C, Smith, KP & Percival, J 1970, 'Women in biomedical engineering and health informatics and its impact on gender representation for accepted publications at IEEE EMBC 2007', 2008 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, IEEE, Vancouver, CANADA, pp. 2881-2884.
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McKibbin, JL, Willetts, JR, Hagare, P & White, K 1970, 'Valuing sustainable sanitation: the economic assessment of alternative sanitation programs', 8th IWA Specialized Conference on Small Water and Wastewater Systems (SWWS) and 2nd IWA Specialized Conference on Decentralised Water and Wastewater International Network (DEWSIN), IWA, Coimbatore, India, pp. 1-4.
Medelyan, O & Milne, D 1970, 'Augmenting domain-specific thesau with knowledge from wikipedia', New Zealand Computer Science Research Student Conference, NZCSRSC 2008 - Proceedings, pp. 108-114.
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We propose a new method for extending a domain-specific thesaurus with valuable information from Wikipedia. The main obstacle is to disambiguate thesaurus concepts to correct Wikipedia articles. Given the concept name, we first identify candidate mappings by analyzing article titles, their redirects and disambiguation pages. Then, for each candidate, we compute a link-based similarity score to all mappings of context terms related to this concept. The article with the highest score is then used to augment the thesaurus concept. It is the source for the extended gloss, explaining the concept's meaning, synonymous expressions that can be used as additional non-descriptors in the thesaurus, translations of the concept into other languages, and new domain-relevant concepts. Copyright is held by the author/owner(s).
Medelyan, O, Witten, IH & Milne, D 1970, 'Topic indexing with wikipedia', AAAI Workshop - Technical Report, pp. 19-24.
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Wikipedia can be utilized as a controlled vocabulary for identifying the main topics in a document, with article titles serving as index terms and redirect titles as their synonyms. Wikipedia contains over 4M such titles covering the terminology of nearly any document collection. This permits controlled indexing in the absence of manually created vocabularies. We combine state-of-the-art strategies for automatic controlled indexing with Wikipedia's unique property-a richly hyperlinked encyclopedia. We evaluate the scheme by comparing automatically assigned topics with those chosen manually by human indexers. Analysis of indexing consistency shows that our algorithm performs as well as the average person.
Mehboob, Z, Zowghi, D & Lowe, D 1970, 'Supporting integrated dependency model for change impact analysis in web systems', AusWeb 2008: 14th Australasian World Wide Web Conference, Australian World Wide Web Conference, Southern Cross University, Ballina, Australia, pp. 173-178.
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Change Impact Analysis (CIA) is typically used to identify the consequences of making a software change by utilizing the dependency and traceability information with regard to that change. Previous research highlights that CIA techniques are developed by both an understanding of interdependencies (between system components) as well as interaction of architectural modules. Given that Web systems (WS) are usually developed as a multi-tier and components based system, it is postulated that their multi-tier interaction and components interdependencies require different CIA methods. In this paper we propose extending current CIA techniques with the concept of an integrated dependency model to accommodate multi-tier and interoperability dependencies in WS. © 2008. Zafar Mehboob, Didar Zowghi and David Lowe.
MERIGÓ, JM & CASANOVAS, M 1970, 'DECISION MAKING WITH DEMPSTER-SHAFER BELIEF STRUCTURE USING THE 2-TUPLE LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATION MODEL', Computational Intelligence in Decision and Control, Proceedings of the 8th International FLINS Conference, WORLD SCIENTIFIC, Madrid, SPAIN, pp. 325-330.
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MERIGÓ, JM & CASANOVAS, M 1970, 'DECISION MAKING WITH DISTANCE MEASURES AND INDUCED AGGREGATION OPERATORS', Computational Intelligence in Decision and Control, Proceedings of the 8th International FLINS Conference, WORLD SCIENTIFIC, Madrid, SPAIN, pp. 483-488.
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Merigó, JM & Casanovas, M 1970, 'Fuzzy induced aggregation operators in decision making with Dempster-Shafer belief structure', ICEIS 2008 - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, INSTICC-INST SYST TECHNOLOGIES INFORMATION CONTROL & COMMUNICATION, Barcelona, SPAIN, pp. 548-552.
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We develop a new approach for decision making with Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence when the available information is uncertain and it can be assessed with fuzzy numbers. With this approach, we are able to represent the problem without losing relevant information, so the decision maker knows exactly which are the different alternatives and their consequences. For doing so, we suggest the use of different types of fuzzy induced aggregation operators in the problem. As a result, we get new types of fuzzy induced aggregation operators such as the belief structure - fuzzy induced ordered weighted averaging (BS-FIOWA) operator. We also develop an application of the new approach in a financial decision making problem.
Merigó, JM & Casanovas, M 1970, 'The generalized hybrid averaging operator and its application in financial decision making', ICEIS 2008 - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, INSTICC-INST SYST TECHNOLOGIES INFORMATION CONTROL & COMMUNICATION, Barcelona, SPAIN, pp. 467-471.
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We present the generalized hybrid averaging (GHA) operator. It is a new aggregation operator that generalizes the hybrid averaging (HA) operator by using the generalized mean. Then, we are able to generalize a wide range of mean operators such as the HA, the hybrid quadratic averaging (HQA), etc. The HA is an aggregation operator that includes the ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operator and the weighted average (WA). Then, with the GHA, we are able to get all the particular cases obtained by using generalized means in the OWA and in the WA such as the weighted geometric mean, the ordered weighted geometric (OWG) operator, the weighted quadratic mean (WQM), etc. We further generalize the GHA by using quasi-arithmetic means. Then, we obtain the quasi-arithmetic hybrid averaging (Quasi-HA) operator. Finally, we apply the new approach in a financial decision making problem.
MERIGÓ, JM & GIL-LAFUENTE, AM 1970, 'THE INDUCED LINGUISTIC GENERALIZED OWA OPERATOR', Computational Intelligence in Decision and Control, Proceedings of the 8th International FLINS Conference, WORLD SCIENTIFIC, Madrid, SPAIN, pp. 513-518.
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Merigó, JM & Gil-Lafuente, AM 1970, 'The linguistic generalized OWA operator and its application in strategic decision making', ICEIS 2008 - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, INSTICC-INST SYST TECHNOLOGIES INFORMATION CONTROL & COMMUNICATION, Barcelona, SPAIN, pp. 219-224.
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We introduce the linguistic generalized ordered weighted averaging (LGOWA) operator. It is a new aggregation operator that uses linguistic information and generalized means in the OWA operator. It is very useful for uncertain situations where the available information can not be assessed with numerical values but it is possible to use linguistic assessments. This aggregation operator generalizes a wide range of aggregation operators that use linguistic information such as the linguistic generalized mean (LGM), the linguistic weighted generalized mean (LWGM), the linguistic OWA (LOWA) operator, the linguistic ordered weighted geometric (LOWG) operator and the linguistic ordered weighted quadratic averaging (LOWQA) operator. We also introduce a new type of Quasi-LOWA operator by using quasi-arithmetic means in the LOWA operator. Finally, we develop an application of the new approach. We analyze a decision making problem about selection of strategies.
Merigó, JM, Casanovas, M & Martínez, L 1970, 'A Decision Making Model Based on Dempster-Shafer Theory and Linguistic Hybrid Aggregation Operators', 2008 Eighth International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, 2008 8th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS), IEEE, pp. 180-185.
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The solving processes for decision making problems based on the use of the Dempster-Shafer (D-S) theory can be accomplished in different ways according to the necessities of each single problem. In this contribution we present a decision making scheme based on the D-S defined in a linguistic framework and then, we propose the use of an hybrid averaging operator (2-THA) that use the 2-tuple linguistic representation model. By using the 2-THA in D-S theory, we obtain a new aggregation operator: the belief structure - 2-THA (BS-2-THA) operator. We study some of its main properties and then show an illustrative example of the new approach in a decision making problem. © 2008 IEEE.
Miliszewska, I 1970, 'Transnational Education Programs: Student Reflections on a Fully-Online Versus a Hybrid Model', Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 79-90.
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With rapid expansion of the transnational education market, more and more universities join the ranks of transnational education providers, or expand their transnational education offerings. Many of those providers regard online provision of their programs as an economic alternative to face-to-face teaching. Do the transnational students support this view? This paper discusses student responses to the fully-online provision of education programs in several important transnational markets: Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam. The paper reports on a study of the perceptions of transnational students in those locales of the importance of the hybrid learning environment with an emphasis on face-to-face interaction in their courses, and discusses the importance of cultural sensitivities on those perceptions. The paper concludes by considering the future of the hybrid education model in the transnational context. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
Miliszewska, I, Venables, A & Tan, G 1970, 'Reflections on a mentoring experience in an undergraduate computing course at Victoria University', Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering, FECS 2008, pp. 47-52.
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The problems encountered by students in first-year computer programming units are a common concern in many universities, including Victoria University. Despite various initiatives introduced over the years to alleviate the problems, commencing students continue to struggle with programming; this struggle results in high failure rates in introductory programming units and contributes significantly to the high attrition in computing degree programs. This paper reports on a mentoring program introduced as part of a strategy to improve the learning outcomes of novice programming students. The paper describes the mentoring initiative, discusses its various dimensions, explores the roles of its participants, and reflects on the benefits gained from the experience.
Milne, D & Witten, IH 1970, 'An effective, low-cost measure of semantic relatedness obtained from wikipedia links', AAAI Workshop - Technical Report, pp. 25-30.
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This paper describes a new technique for obtaining measures of semantic relatedness. Like other recent approaches, it uses Wikipedia to provide structured world knowledge about the terms of interest. Our approach is unique in that it does so using the hyperlink structure of Wikipedia rather than its category hierarchy or textual content. Evaluation with manually defined measures of semantic relatedness reveals this to be an effective compromise between the ease of computation of the former approach and the accuracy of the latter. Copyright © 2008.
Milne, D & Witten, IH 1970, 'Learning to link with wikipedia', Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management, CIKM08: Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, ACM, pp. 509-518.
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This paper describes how to automatically cross-reference documents with Wikipedia: the largest knowledge base ever known. It explains how machine learning can be used to identify significant terms within unstructured text, and enrich it with links to the appropriate Wikipedia articles. The resulting link detector and disambiguator performs very well, with recall and precision of almost 75%. This performance is constant whether the system is evaluated on Wikipedia articles or -real world- documents. This work has implications far beyond enriching documents with explanatory links. It can provide structured knowledge about any unstructured fragment of text. Any task that is currently addressed with bags of words-indexing, clustering, retrieval, and summarization to name a few-could use the techniques described here to draw on a vast network of concepts and semantics. © 2008 ACM.
Milne, D, Nichols, DM & Witten, IH 1970, 'A competitive environment for exploratory query expansion', Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, JCDL08: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, ACM, pp. 197-200.
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Most information workers query digital libraries many times a day. Yet people have little opportunity to hone their skills in a controlled environment, or compare their performance with others in an objective way. Conversely, although search engine logs record how users evolve queries, they lack crucial information about the user's intent. This paper describes an environment for exploratory query expansion that pits users against each other and lets them compete, and practice, in their own time and on their own workstation. The system captures query evolution behavior on predetermined information-seeking tasks. It is publicly available, and the code is open source so that others can set up their own competitive environments. Copyright 2008 ACM.
Min Xu, Park, M, Suhuai Luo & Jin, JS 1970, 'Comparison analysis on supervised learning based solutions for sports video categorization', 2008 IEEE 10th Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, 2008 IEEE 10th Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), IEEE, pp. 526-529.
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Due to the wide viewer-ship and high commercial potentials, recently, sports video analysis attracts extensive research efforts. One of the main tasks in sports video analysis is to identify sports genres i.e. sports video categorization. Most of the existing work focus on mapping content-based features to sports genres by using supervised learning methods. Moreover, video data sets seeks efficient data reduction methods due to the large size and noisy data. It lacks comparison analysis on the implementation and performance of these methods. In this paper, the research is carried out by using four dominant machine learning algorithms, namely Decision Tree, Support Vector Machine, K Nearest Neighbor and Naive Bayesian, and comparing their performance on a high dimensional feature set which selected by some feature selection tools such as Correlation-based Feature Selection (CFS), Principal Components Analysis (PCA) and Relief. Experimental results shows that Support Vector Machine (SVM) and k-NN are not sensitive to reduction of training sets. Moreover, three different feature reduction methods perform very differently with respect to four different tools. © 2008 IEEE.
Mohamed Mowjoon, D, Agbinya, JI & Chaczko, ZC 1970, 'Policy-based Danger Management in Artificial Immune System Inspired Secure Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks', Proceedings International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists, International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists, International Association of Engineers, Hong Kong, pp. 268-270.
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This paper introduces Policy based Management Information Base to manage danger in Artificial Immune System inspired secure routing in Wireless Mesh Networks. WMN management functions are defined and the paper focuses only on the security function. Proposed policy based management and typical operation of the architecture are also reported.
Mohammed Abdul, J, Areerachakul, N, Shon, H, Vigneswaran, S & Kandasamy, JK 1970, 'Biofilter and Photo-Catalytic Treatment Processes of Groundwater Contaminated with Landfill Leachate', Proceedings of the IWA World Water Congress and Exhibition 2008, IWA World Water Congress, International Water Association (IWA), Vienna, Austria, pp. 1-8.
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Landfill leachate is produced when rainwater infiltrates into the landfill and permeates through the decomposing waste within the landfill leaching out with it contaminants and pollutants. Untreated leachates can permeate ground water or mix with surface waters and contribute to the pollution of soil, ground water, and surface water. In this study, the processes such as GAC bio-filtration and photocatalysis and bio-filter were evaluated in treating synthetic landfill leachate. The Total organic carbon (TOC) removal efficiency (of landfill leachate) was evaluated by sequential adsorption/bio-sorption (on GAC) and compared with photocatalysis. GAC bio-filtration led to a consistent TOC removal even after a long period of operation without the need to regenerate the activated carbon. Even after 35 days of continuous running, the TOC of the effluent from the GAC bio-filter was approximately 60% of the influent quality (i.e. 40% removal). Biofiltration with a post treatment of advanced oxidation with Fenton reagent led to more 70% of removal of TOC. Also, the treatment of biofilter redcued significantly the concentration of Fenton reagent. On the other hand photocatalysis with TiO2 as a separate treatment led to only 40% TOC reduction.
Mu, K, Jin, Z & Zowghi, D 1970, 'A Measurement-Driven Process Model For Managing Inconsistent Software Requirements', APSEC 2008:15TH ASIA-PACIFIC SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CONFERENCE, PROCEEDINGS, Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, IEEE Explore, Beijing, China, pp. 291-298.
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nconsistency is a pervasive issue in software engineering. Both general rules of inconsistency management and special case-based approaches to handling inconsistency have recently been considered. In this paper, we present a process model for handling requirements inconsistency within the viewpoints framework. In this process model, when an inconsistency among viewpoints is detected, a set of candidate proposals for handling inconsistency will be generated using techniques from multi-agent automated negotiations. The proposals are then prioritized using an integrated measurement of inconsistencies. The viewpoints involved in the inconsistency will then enter the negotiations by being presented with the candidate proposals and thus selecting an acceptable proposal based on the priorities associated with each candidate proposal. To facilitate usability, in our process, we assume that the natural language requirements statements are first translated into corresponding logical formulas using a translator software. Moreover, the candidate proposals for handling inconsistency are also translated back from formal logic into natural language before being presented for selection.
Murray, S, Lowe, D, Lindsay, E, Lasky, V & Liu, D 1970, 'Experiences with a hybrid architecture for remote laboratories', 2008 38th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference, 2008 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), IEEE, Saratgoa Springs, USA, pp. 15-19.
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There is growing interest in the use of remote laboratories to access physical laboratory infrastructure. These laboratories can support additional practical components in courses, provide improved access at reduced cost, and encourage sharing of expensive resources. Effective design of remote laboratories requires attention to both the pedagogic design and the technical support, as well as how these elements interact. We discuss our experiences with a remote laboratory implementation based on a hybrid architecture. This architecture utilises a Web front-end allowing student access to an arbitration system, which permits students to select one of a number of experiments, before being allocated to a particular experimental station. The interaction with the equipment then occurs through a separate stand-alone application which runs on its own virtualized server which the user accesses via a remote desktop client. This hybrid architecture has many benefits, as well as some limitations. For example, it allows rich control and monitoring interfaces to be developed, but also requires students to understand a slightly more complex process for establishing the control. We discuss the reactions to this architecture by different cohorts of students as well as the extent to which the architecture facilitates evolution and expansion of the laboratories.
Murray, S, Lowe, D, Lindsay, E, Lasky, V, Liu, D & IEEE 1970, 'Experiences with a Hybrid Architecture for Remote Laboratories', FIE: 2008 IEEE FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION CONFERENCE, VOLS 1-3, IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference 2008, IEEE, Saratoga Springs, NY, pp. 502-506.
Nanda, P 1970, 'Supporting QoS Guarantees Using Traffic Engineering and Policy Based Routing', 2008 International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, 2008 International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, IEEE, Wuhan, Hubei, China, pp. 137-142.
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Neshat, M, Yaghobi, M & Naghibi, M 1970, 'DESIGNING AN EXPERT SYSTEM OF LIVER DISORDERS BY USING NEURAL NETWORK AND COMPARING IT WITH PARAMETRIC AND NONPARAMETRIC SYSTEM', 2008 5TH INTERNATIONAL MULTI-CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, SIGNALS AND DEVICES, VOLS 1 AND 2, 5th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices, IEEE, Amman, JORDAN, pp. 35-+.
Neubert, P, Protzel, P, Vidal-Calleja, T & Lacroix, S 1970, 'A fast visual line segment tracker', 2008 IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Factory Automation (ETFA 2008), IEEE, Hamburg, GERMANY, pp. 353-360.
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We present a fast line segment tracker which does not require any knowledge about the motion of the camera nor he structure of the observed scene. It runs on 320 x 240 pixel images at 30 Hz. We adapted the RAPiD tracker with a new way of handling multipl
Nguyen, HT, Ghevondian, N & Jones, TW 1970, 'Detection of nocturnal hypoglycemic episodes (natural occurrence) in children with Type 1 diabetes using an optimal Bayesian neural network algorithm', 2008 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, IEEE, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 1311-1314.
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Hypoglycemia or low blood glucose is dangerous and can result in unconsciousness, seizures and even death. It is a common and serious side effect of insulin therapy in patients with diabetes. HypoMon is a non-invasive monitor that measures some physiological parameters continuously to provide detection of hypoglycemic episodes in Type 1 diabetes mellitus patients (T1DM). Based on heart rate and corrected QT interval of the ECG signal, we have continued to develop Bayesian neural network detection algorithms to recognize the presence of hypoglycemic episodes. From a clinical study of 16 children with T1DM, natural occurrence of nocturnal hypoglycemic episodes are associated with increased heart rates (1.033±0.242 vs. 1.082±0.298, P<0.06) and increased corrected QT intervals (1.031±0.086 vs. 1.060±0.084, P<0.001). The overall data were organized into a training set (8 patients) and a test set (another 8 patients) randomly selected. Using the optimal Bayesian neural network with 10 hidden nodes which was derived from the training set with the highest log evidence, the sensitivity (true positive) value for detection of hypoglycemia in the test set is 89.2%.
Nguyen, N, Nguyen, HT & Su, S 1970, 'Neuro-sliding mode multivariable control of a powered wheelchair', 2008 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, IEEE, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 3471-3474.
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This paper proposes a neuro-sliding mode multivariable control approach for the control of a powered wheelchair system. In the first stage, a systematic decoupling technique is applied to the wheelchair system in order to reduce the multivariable control problem into two independent scalar control problems. Then two Neuro-Sliding Mode Controllers (NSMCs) are designed for these independent subsystems to guarantee system robustness under model uncertainties and unknown external disturbances. Both off-line and on-line trainings are involved in the second stage. Realtime experimental results confirm that robust performance for this multivariable wheelchair control system under model uncertainties and unknown external disturbances can indeed be achieved.
Nguyen, N, Nguyen, HT & Su, S 1970, 'Neuro-sliding mode multivariable control of a powered wheelchair', Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - 'Personalized Healthcare through Technology', pp. 3471-3474.
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This paper proposes a neuro-sliding mode multivariable control approach for the control of a powered wheelchair system. In the first stage, a systematic decoupling technique is applied to the wheelchair system in order to reduce the multivariable control problem into two independent scalar control problems. Then two Neuro-Sliding Mode Controllers (NSMCs) are designed for these independent subsystems to guarantee system robustness under model uncertainties and unknown external disturbances. Both off-line and on-line trainings are involved in the second stage. Realtime experimental results confirm that robust performance for this multivariable wheelchair control system under model uncertainties and unknown external disturbances can indeed be achieved. © 2008 IEEE.
Nguyen, N, Nguyen, HT & Su, S 1970, 'Optimal path-following control of a smart powered wheelchair', Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - 'Personalized Healthcare through Technology', pp. 5025-5028.
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This paper proposes an optimal path-following control approach for a smart powered wheelchair. Lyapunov's second method is employed to find a stable position tracking control rule. To guarantee robust performance of this wheelchair system even under model uncertainties, an advanced robust tracking is utilised based on the combination of a systematic decoupling technique and a neural network design. A calibration procedure is adopted for the wheelchair system to improve positioning accuracy. After the calibration, the accuracy is improved significantly. Two real-time experimental results obtained from square tracking and door passing tasks confirm the performance of proposed approach. © 2008 IEEE.
Nguyen, N, Nguyen, HT & Su, S 1970, 'Optimal path-following control of a smart powered wheelchair', 2008 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, IEEE, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 5025-5028.
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This paper proposes an optimal path-following control approach for a smart powered wheelchair. Lyapunovâs second method is employed to find a stable position tracking control rule. To guarantee robust performance of this wheelchair system even under model uncertainties, an advanced robust tracking is utilised based on the combination of a systematic decoupling technique and a neural network design. A calibration procedure is adopted for the wheelchair system to improve positioning accuracy. After the calibration, the accuracy is improved significantly. Two real-time experimental results obtained from square tracking and door passing tasks confirm the performance of proposed approach.
Nguyen, TH, Nguyen, JS & Nguyen, HT 1970, 'Bayesian recursive algorithm for width estimation of freespace for a power wheelchair using stereoscopic cameras', 2008 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, IEEE, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 4234-4237.
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This paper is concerned with the estimation of freespace based on a Bayesian recursive (BR) algorithm for an autonomous wheelchair using stereoscopic cameras by severely disabled people. A stereo disparity map processed from both the left and right camera images is constructed to generate a 3D point map through a geometric projection algorithm. This is then converted to a 2D distance map for the purpose of freespace estimation. The width of freespace is estimated using a BR algorithm based on uncertainty information and control data. Given the probabilities of this width computed, a possible movement decision is then made for the mobile wheelchair. Experimental results obtained in an indoor environment show the effectiveness of this estimation algorithm.
Nguyen, TH, Nguyen, JS & Nguyen, HT 1970, 'Bayesian recursive algorithm for width estimation of freespace for a power wheelchair using stereoscopic cameras', Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - 'Personalized Healthcare through Technology', pp. 4234-4237.
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This paper is concerned with the estimation of freespace based on a Bayesian recursive (BR) algorithm for an autonomous wheelchair using stereoscopic cameras by severely disabled people. A stereo disparity map processed from both the left and right camera images is constructed to generate a 3D point map through a geometric projection algorithm. This is then converted to a 2D distance map for the purpose of freespace estimation. The width of freespace is estimated using a BR algorithm based on uncertainty information and control data. Given the probabilities of this width computed, a possible movement decision is then made for the mobile wheelchair. Experimental results obtained in an indoor environment show the effectiveness of this estimation algorithm. © 2008 IEEE.
Nguyen, TT & Tuan, HD 1970, 'A modified spatial spread spectrum method for digital image watermarking', 2008 Second International Conference on Communications and Electronics, 2008 Second International Conference on Communications and Electronics (ICCE), IEEE, Hoi An, Vietnam, pp. 279-284.
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Spread spectrum is one of the most effective approaches for digital image watermarking because it satisfies the imperceptiveness, robustness as well as security requirements. Unfortunately, this method may be affected by interference from the cover image
Nguyen, V, Tuan, HD, Nguyen, HH & Tran, NN 1970, 'Optimal superimposed training design for spatially correlated fading MIMO channels', IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, IEEE, St Thomas, VI, pp. 3206-3217.
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The problem of channel estimation for spatially correlated fading multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems is considered. Based on the channel's second order statistic, the minimum mean-square error (MMSE) channel estimator that works with the super
Nguyen, V, Vigneswaran, S & Ngo, H 1970, 'A Novel Iron Oxide Coated Sponge Adsorption System To Remove Arsenic From Drinking Water', Proceedings of the World Water Congress and Exhibition 2008, IWA World Water Congress, International Water Association (IWA), Vienna, Austrlia, pp. 1-8.
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Millions of people worldwide are at risk from the presence of arsenic in groundwater. There is a global need to develop appropriate technologies to remove arsenic from water for household and community water supply systems. In this study, a new material namely iron oxide coated sponge (IOCSp) was developed and used to remove As. It was found that IOCSp has a high capacity in removing both As (V) and As (III). The adsorption capacity of IOCSp was up to 4.6 mg As/g IOCSp, higher than a number of other materials. A filter packed even with very small amount of 25 g IOCSp maintained a consistent arsenic removal efficiency of 95% from synthetic water containing arsenic concentration of as high as 1,000μg/L. This produced a throughput volume of 153 and 178L of water containing As(III) and As(V) respectively before any need for regeneration or disposal of IOCSp. It was found to provide comparable results with advanced technologies such as nanofiltration system with in line addition of nano zero valent iron. In addition, the initial results also showed that the exhausted IOCSp can safely be disposed of through the solidification/stabilization technique.
Nimbalkar, SS & Choudhury, D 1970, 'Computation of point of application of seismic passive resistance by pseudo-dynamic method', 12th International Conference on Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics 2008, pp. 2636-2643.
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Computation of seismic passive resistance and its point of application is an important aspect of seismic design of retaining wall. Several researchers in the past had obtained seismic passive earth pressures by using the conventional pseudo-static method. In this pseudo-static method, peak ground acceleration is assumed as constant and seismic passive pressure thus obtained shows the linear variation along the height of the retaining wall. There is hardly any scope to find out the point of application of seismic passive resistance by pseudo-static approach but to assume it to act at one-third height from the base of the wall. Rectifying these errors, in recently developed pseudo-dynamic method of analysis, all these factors are considered to compute seismic passive earth pressures. In this paper, an attempt has been made to compute the point of application of seismic passive resistance using limit equilibrium method of analysis with pseudo-dynamic approach. Effects of variation of parameters like wall friction angle, time period of earthquake ground motion, seismic shear and primary wave velocities of backfill soil, soil amplification and seismic peak horizontal and vertical ground accelerations on the seismic passive earth pressure are studied.
Niu, L & Zhang, G 1970, 'A Model of Cognition-Driven Decision Process for Business Intelligence', 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, IEEE, Sydney, Australia, pp. 876-879.
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Niu, L, Lu, J, Zhang, G & IEEE 1970, 'Improved Business Intelligence Analytics on Manager's Experience', 2008 IEEE CONGRESS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION, VOLS 1-8, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE, Hong Kong, pp. 726-730.
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Ohnuki, K, Takahashi, W, Yoshizawa, S & Miyanaga, Y 1970, 'Noise Robust Speech Features for Automatic Continuous Speech Recognition using Running Spectrum Analysis', 2008 International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, 2008 International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT), IEEE.
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Ong, C, Lu, S & Zhang, J 1970, 'An Approach for Enhancing the Results of Detecting Foreground Objects and Their Moving Shadows in Surveillance Video', 2008 Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, 2008 Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, IEEE, Canberra, ACT, pp. 242-249.
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Automated surveillance system is becoming increasingly important especially in the fields of computer vision and video processing. This paper describes a novel approach for improving the results of detecting foreground objects and their shadows in indoor
Otoom, AF, Gunes, H & Piccardi, M 1970, 'Automatic classification of abandoned objects for surveillance of public premises', CISP 2008: FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON IMAGE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOL 4, PROCEEDINGS, International Congress on Image and Signal Processing, IEEE, Sanya, Hainan, China, pp. 542-549.
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One of the core components of any visual surveillance system is object classification, where detected objects are classified into different categories of interest. Although in airports or train stations, abandoned objects are mainly luggage or trolleys, none of the existing works in the literature have attempted to classify or recognize trolleys. In this paper, we analyzed and classified images of trolley(s), bag(s), single person(s), and group(s) of people by using various shape features with a number of uncluttered and cluttered images and applied multi-frame integration to overcome partial occlusions and obtain better recognition results. We also tested the proposed techniques on data extracted from a well-recognized and recent data set, PETS 2007 benchmark data set [16]. Our experimental results show that the features extracted are invariant to data set and classification scheme chosen. For our four-class object recognition problem, we achieved an average recognition accuracy of 70%.
Otoom, AF, Gunes, H & Piccardi, M 1970, 'Comparative performance analysis of feature sets for abandoned object classification', 2008 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), IEEE, Singapore City, Singapore, pp. 1-6.
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Accurate classification of abandoned objects is crucial in video surveillance systems. In this paper, we experiment with different validation techniques (hold-out and 10-fold cross validation), with the aim of determining which feature set proves more useful for accurate object classification in a video surveillance context (scale invariant image transform (SIFT) keypoints vs. geometric primitive features). Moreover, we show how the resulting features affect classification performance across different classifiers. We also further analyze the best performing classifier in order to have better understanding of its classification results. Objects are classified into four different categories: bag (s), person (s), trolley (s), and group (s) of people. Our experimental results show that the highest recognition accuracy and the lowest false alarm rate are achieved by building a classifier based on our proposed set of statistics of geometric primitives' features. This set of features maximizes inter-class separation and simplifies the classification process. Classification based on this set of features thus outperforms the second best approach based on SIFT keypoint histograms by providing on average 22% higher recognition accuracy and 7% lower false alarm rate.
Otoom, AF, Gunes, H, Piccardi, M & IEEE 1970, 'FEATURE EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES FOR ABANDONED OBJECT CLASSIFICATION IN VIDEO SURVEILLANCE', 2008 15TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE PROCESSING, VOLS 1-5, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, IEEE, San Diego, CA, USA, pp. 1368-1371.
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We address the problem of abandoned object classification in video surveillance. Our aim is to determine (i) which feature extraction technique proves more useful for accurate object classification in a video surveillance context (scale invariant image transform (SIFT) keypoints vs. geometric primitive features), and (ii) how the resulting features affect classification accuracy and false positive rates for different classification schemes used. Objects are classified into four different categories: bag (s), person (s), trolley (s), and group (s) of people. Our experimental results show that the highest recognition accuracy and the lowest false alarm rate are achieved by building a classifier based on our proposed set of statistics of geometric primitives' features. Moreover, classification performance based on this set of features proves to be more invariant across different learning algorithms.
Ou, Y, Cao, L, Luo, C & Liu, L 1970, 'Mining Exceptional Activity Patterns in Microstructure Data', 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, IEEE, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, pp. 884-887.
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Market Surveillance plays an important role in maintaining market integrity, transparency and fairnesss. The existing trading pattern analysis only focuses on interday data which discloses explicit and high-level market dynamics. In the mean time, the existing market surveillance systems are facing challenges of misuse, mis-disclosure and misdealing of information, announcement and order in one market or crossing multiple markets. Therefore, there is a crucial need to develop workable methods for smart surveillance. To deal with such issues, we propose an innovative methodology -- microstructure activity pattern analysis. Based on this methodology, a case study in identifying exceptional microstructure activity patterns is carried out. The experiments on real-life stock data show that microstructure activity pattern analysis opens a new and effective means for crucially understanding and analysing market dynamics. The resulting findings such as exceptional microstructure activity patterns can greatly enhance the learning, detection, adaption and decision-making capability of market surveillance.
Ou, Y, Cao, L, Luo, C & Zhang, C 1970, 'Domain-Driven Local Exceptional Pattern Mining for Detecting Stock Price Manipulation', Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol 5351: PRICAI 2008: Trends in Artificial Intelligence, Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Hanoi,Vietnam, pp. 849-858.
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Recently, a new data mining methodology, Domain Driven Data Mining (D3M), has been developed. On top of data-centered pattern mining, D3M generally targets the actionable knowledge discovery under domain-specific circumstances. It strongly appreciates the involvement of domain intelligence in the whole process of data mining, and consequently leads to the deliverables that can satisfy business user needs and decision-making. Following the methodology of D3M, this paper investigates local exceptional patterns in real-life microstructure stock data for detecting stock price manipulations. Different from existing pattern analysis mainly on interday data, we deal with tick-by-tick data. Our approach proposes new mechanisms for constructing microstructure order sequences by involving domain factors and business logics, and for measuring the interestingness of patterns from business concern perspective. Real-life data experiments on an exchange data demonstrate that the outcomes generated by following D3M can satisfy business expectations and support business users to take actions for market surveillance.
Paisitkriangkra, S, Shen, C & Zhang, J 1970, 'Real-time Pedestrian Detection Using a Boosted Multi-layer Classifier', The Eighth International Workshop on Visual Surveillance, in conjunction with European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'08), 2008, IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Marseille France.
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Techniques for detecting pedestrian in still images have
attached considerable research interests due to its wide applications
such as video surveillance and intelligent transportation
systems. In this paper, we propose a novel simpler
pedestrian detector using state-of-the-art locally extracted
features, namely, covariance features. Covariance
features were originally proposed in [1, 2]. Unlike the work
in [2], where the feature selection and weak classifier training
are performed on the Riemannian manifold, we select
features and train weak classifiers in the Euclidean space
for faster computation. To this end, AdaBoost with weighted
Fisher linear discriminant analysis based weak classifiers
are adopted. Multiple layer boosting with heterogeneous
features is constructed to exploit the efficiency of the Haarlike
feature and the discriminative power of the covariance
feature simultaneously. Extensive experiments show that by
combining the Haar-like and covariance features, we speed
up the original covariance feature detector [2] by up to an
order of magnitude in processing time without compromising
the detection performance. For the first time, the proposed
work enables covariance feature based pedestrian
detection to work real-time.
Paisitkriangkrai, S, Chunhua Shen & Jian Zhang 1970, 'An experimental study on pedestrian classification using local features', 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS 2008, IEEE, Seattle, WA, pp. 2741-2744.
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This paper presents an experimental study on pedestrian detection using state-of-the-art local feature extraction and support vector machine (SVM) classifiers. The performance of pedestrian detection using region covariance, histogram of oriented gradien
Pal, U, Sharma, N, Wakabayashi, T & Kimura, F 1970, 'Handwritten Character Recognition of Popular South Indian Scripts', Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 251-264.
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India is a multi-lingual, multi-script country. Considerably less work has been done towards handwritten character recognition of Indian languages than for other languages. In this paper we propose a quadratic classifier based scheme for the recognition of off-line handwritten characters of three popular south Indian scripts: Kannada, Telugu, and Tamil. The features used here are mainly obtained from the directional information. For feature computation, the bounding box of a character is segmented into blocks, and the directional features are computed in each block. These blocks are then down-sampled by a Gaussian filter, and the features obtained from the down-sampled blocks are fed to a modified quadratic classifier for recognition. Here, we used two sets of features. We used 64-dimensional features for high speed recognition and 400-dimensional features for high accuracy recognition. A five-fold cross validation technique was used for result computation, and we obtained 90.34%, 90.90%, and 96.73% accuracy rates from Kannada, Telugu, and Tamil characters, respectively, from 400 dimensional features. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
Pan, W, Liu, J & Hawryszkiewycz, I 1970, 'A Method for Describing Knowledge Work Processes', 2008 International Workshop on Advanced Information Systems for Enterprises, 2008 International Workshop on Advanced Information Systems for Enterprises IWAISE '08, IEEE.
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Pang, D, Hu, J, Zhou, J, Shi, J & Dutkiewicz, E 1970, 'An Uplink Resource Allocation Scheme for SDMA-Based IEEE 802.16 MIMO-OFDMA Systems', IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 - 2008 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 - 2008 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, IEEE, pp. 5223-5227.
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In this paper, a low-complexity SDMA-based greedy resource allocation (SGRA) algorithm is proposed for the uplink of IEEE 802.16 MIMO-OFDMA systems taking into account co- channel interference. The objective of SGRA is to allocate resources in the space-time-frequency domain in order to maximize system throughput while guaranteeing QoS requirements of real time services. By performing efficient interference management, SGRA can be carried out in two phases. In the first phase, greedy resource allocation, primarily involving uplink scheduling and subchannel allocation across the MAC and PHY layers, is performed in the time-frequency domain. In the second phase, the resource allocation is extended to the space- time-frequency domain. Simulation results show that SGRA can improve system throughput while at the same time guaranteeing the delay and minimum data rate requirements of users. © 2008 IEEE.
Parakhine, A, Leaney, J & O'Neill, T 1970, 'Design guidance using simulation-based Bayesian belief networks', FIFTEENTH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOPS ON THE ENGINEERING OF COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEMS, PROCEEDINGS, IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems, IEEE, Belfast, Northern Ireland, pp. 76-84.
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In this work, the task of complex computer-based system design optimization involves exploration of a number of possible candidate designs matching the optimisation criteria. However, the process by which the possible candidate designs are generated and rated is fundamental to an optimal outcome. It is dependent upon the set of system characteristics deemed relevant by the designer given the systems requirements. We propose a method which is aimed at providing the designer with guidance based upon description of the possible causal relationships between various system characteristics and qualities. This guidance information is obtained by employing principles of multiparadigm simulation to generate a set of data which is then processed by an algorithm to generate a Bayesian Belief Network representation of causalities present in the source system. Furthermore, we address the issues and tools associated with application of the proposed method by presenting a detailed simulation and network generation effort undertaken as part of a significant industrial case study.
Pawlak, BJ, Duffy, R, van Dal, M, Voogt, F, Weemaes, R, Roozeboom, F, Zalm, P, Bennett, N & Cowern, N 1970, 'Doping of Sub-50nm SOI Layers', MRS Proceedings, Symposium on Doping Engineering for Front-End Processing held at the 2008 MRS Spring Meeting, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, San Francisco, CA, pp. 169-+.
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ABSTRACTDoping of thin body Si becomes very essential topic due to increasing interest of forming source/drain regions in fully depleted planar silicon-on-isolator (SOI) devices or vertical Fin field-effect-transistors (FinFETs). To diminish the role of the short-channel-control-effect (SCE) the Si layers thicknesses target the 10 nm range. In this paper many aspects of thin Si body doping are discussed: dopant retention, implantation-related amorphization, thin body recrystallization, sheet resistance (Rs) and carrier mobility in crystalline or amorphized material, impact of the annealing ambient on Rs for various SOI thicknesses. The complexity of 3D geometry for vertical Fin and the vicinity of the extended surface have an impact on doping strategies that are significantly different than for planar bulk devices.
Pedraza, L, Dissanayake, G, Miro, JV, Rodriguez-Losada, D & Matia, F 1970, 'BS-SLAM: Shaping the world', Robotics: Science and Systems, pp. 169-176.
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This paper presents BS-SLAM, a simultaneous localization and mapping algorithm for use in unstructured environments that is effective regardless of whether features correspond to simple geometric primitives such as lines or not. The coordinates of the control points defining a set of B-splines are used to form a complete and compact description of the environment, thus making it feasible to use an extended Kalman filter based SLAM algorithm. The proposed method is the first known EKF-SLAM implementation capable of describing both straight and curve features in a parametric way. Appropriate observation equation that allows the exploitation of virtually all observations from a range sensor such as the ubiquitous laser range finder is developed. Efficient strategies for computing the relevant Jacobians, perform data association, initialization and expanding the map are presented. The effectiveness of the algorithms is demonstrated using experimental data.
Pei-Yu Chen, Lan-Da Van, Reddy, HC & Chin-Teng Lin 1970, 'A new VLSI 2-D diagonal-symmetry filter architecture design', APCCAS 2008 - 2008 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, APCCAS 2008 - 2008 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS), IEEE, Macao, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 320-+.
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Peneva, D, Tasseva, V, Popov, E, Petrounias, I, Kodogiannis, VS, Anwar, F & Shannon, A 1970, 'Accumulation, storage and obtainment of generalized net tokens characteristics history', 2008 4th International IEEE Conference Intelligent Systems, 2008 4th International IEEE Conference 'Intelligent Systems' (IS), IEEE, pp. 1629-1633.
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In this paper is represented one idea for an extension to the existing software for generalized net (GN) models simulation. Given solution for storing of the characteristics of the tokens during their movements through the GN-models improves the existing GN-interpreter. The software tool is designed to be the independent central component of GN enabled applications. In this paper the idea for adding a new functionality is presented and the bases for storing tokens characteristics development are laid. © 2008 IEEE.
Peng, X, Cao, Y & Niu, Z 1970, 'Mining Web Access Log for the Personalization Recommendation', 2008 International Conference on MultiMedia and Information Technology, 2008 International Conference on MultiMedia and Information Technology (MMIT), IEEE, Three Gorges, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 172-175.
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Pereni, CI, Walker, PG, Levesley, MC, Keeling, D, Jaber, O, Watterson, K, Tipper, JL & Fisher, J 1970, 'Wear characteristics of a knitted PET implantable scaffold', 8th World Biomaterials Congress 2008, p. 575.
Perkins, AD, Abdallah, ME, Mitiguy, P & Waldron, KJ 1970, 'A unified method for multi-body systems subject to stick-slip friction and intermittent contact', 2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE, Nice, FRANCE, pp. 2311-+.
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Pham, TD, Beck, D, Brandl, M & Zhou, X 1970, 'Classification of Proteomic Signals by Block Kriging Error Matching', Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 281-288.
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One of recent advances in biotechnology offers high-throughput mass-spectrometry data for disease detection, prevention, and biomarker discovery. In fact proteomics has recently become an attractive topic of research in biomedicine. Signal processing and pattern classification techniques are inherently essential for analyzing proteomic data. In this paper the estimation method of block kriging is utilized to derive an error matching strategy for classifying proteomic signals with a particular application to the prediction of cardiovascular events using clinical mass spectrometry data. The proposed block kriging based classification technique has been found to be superior to other recently developed methods. © 2008 Springer-Verlag.
Pham, TD, Brandl, M & Beck, D 1970, 'A new approach for cancer classification using microarray gene expression data', IASTED International Symposium on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, CBB 2008, pp. 247-253.
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We propose in this paper a new approach for classification of cancers using microarray gene expression data. The proposed method adopts the concept of fuzzy declustering strategy for vector quantization algorithm. The notion of fuzzy partition entropy is coupled with the distortion measures for classifying spectral features of microarray data. Experimental results obtained from real datasets demonstrate the effective performance of the proposed approach.
Pham, TD, Wang, H, Zhou, X, Beck, D, Brandl, M, Hoehn, G, Azok, J, Brennan, M-L, Hazen, SL & Wong, STC 1970, 'Classification of Mass Spectrometry Based Protein Markers by Kriging Error Matching', Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 82-94.
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Discovery of biomarkers using serum proteomic patterns is currently one of the most attractive interdisciplinary research areas in computational life science. This new proteomic approach has the clinical significance in being able to detect disease in its early stages and to develop new drugs for disease treatment and prevention. This paper introduces a novel pattern classification strategy for identifying protein biomarkers using mass spectrometry data of blood samples collected from patients in emergency department monitored for major adverse cardiac events within six months. We applied the theory of geostatistics and a kriging error matching scheme for identifying protein biomarkers that are able to provide an average classification rate superior to other current methods. The proposed strategy is very promising as a general computational bioinformatic model for proteomic-pattern based biomarker discovery. © 2008 Springer-Verlag.
Phung, MD, Tran, QV, Hara, K, Inagaki, H & Abe, M 1970, 'Easy-setup eye movement recording system for human-computer interaction', 2008 IEEE International Conference on Research, Innovation and Vision for the Future in Computing and Communication Technologies, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Research, Innovation and Vision for the Future in Computing and Communication Technologies, IEEE, pp. 292-297.
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Tracking the movement of human eyes is expected to yield natural and convenient applications based on human-computer interaction (HCI). To implement an effective eye-tracking system, eye movements must be recorded without placing any restriction on the user's behavior or user discomfort. This paper describes an eye movement recording system that offers free-head, simple configuration. It does not require the user to wear anything on her head, and she can move her head freely. Instead of using a computer, the system uses a visual digital signal processor (DSP) camera to detect the position of eye corner, the center of pupil and then calculate the eye movement. Evaluation tests show that the sampling rate of the system can be 300 Hz and the accuracy is about 1.8 °/s. ©2008 IEEE.
Phuong, NM & Tuan, HD 1970, 'Clustering in a Fixed Manifold to Detect Groups of Genes with Similar Expression Patterns', 2nd International Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Development, International Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Development, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Vienna, Austria, pp. 32-42.
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Clustering genes into groups that exhibit similar expression patterns is one of the most fundamental issues in microarray data analysis. In this paper, we present a normalized Expectation-Maximization (EM) approach for the problem of gene-based clusterin
Piccardi, M, Gunes, H & Otoom, AF 1970, 'Maximum-likelihood dimensionality reduction in gaussian mixture models with an application to object classification', 2008 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2008 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), IEEE, Tampa, FL, USA, pp. 1-4.
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Accurate classification of objects of interest for video surveillance is difficult due to occlusions, deformations and variable views/illumination. The adopted feature sets tend to overcome these issues by including many and complementary features; however, their large dimensionality poses an intrinsic challenge to the classification task. In this paper, we present a novel technique providing maximum-likelihood dimensionality reduction in Gaussian mixture models for classification. The technique, called hereafter mixture of maximum-likelihood normalized projections (mixture of ML-NP), was used in this work to classify a 44-dimensional data set into 4 classes (bag, trolley, single person, group of people). The accuracy achieved on an independent test set is 98% vs. 80% of the runner-up (MultiBoost/AdaBoost).
Piccardi, M, Gunes, H, Otoom, AF & IEEE 1970, 'Maximum-Likelihood Dimensionality Reduction in Gaussian Mixture Models with an Application to Object Classification', 19TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PATTERN RECOGNITION, VOLS 1-6, pp. 2986-2989.
Pohl, AAP, Cook, K & Canning, J 1970, '193nm Bragg grating writing in H<inf>2</inf>-loaded many-layered PCF', OECC/ACOFT 2008 - Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology, 2008 Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC) and the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT), IEEE.
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193nm inscription of strong Bragg gratings in a hydrogen-loaded, ten ring PCF without liquid filling of the holes is studied. Grating strengths of at least 18 dB are routinely obtained.
Pohl, AAP, Cook, K & Canning, J 1970, '193nm Bragg grating writing in H(2)-loaded many-layered PCF', 2008 JOINT CONFERENCE OF THE OPTO-ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE AND THE AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE ON OPTICAL FIBRE TECHNOLOGY, VOLS 1 AND 2, Joint Conference of the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference/Australian Conference on Optical Fiber Technology, IEEE, Sydney, AUSTRALIA, pp. 75-76.
Pohl, AAP, Neves, PT, Oliveira, RA, Stevenson, M, Groothoff, N & Canning, J 1970, 'Technique for estimating the tuning speed of fiber Bragg gratings', SPIE Proceedings, 19th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors, SPIE, Perth, AUSTRALIA.
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Pohl, AAP, Oliveira, RA, Cook, K & Canning, J 1970, 'The Acousto-Optic Effect in Microstructured Optical Fibers', 1st Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and Their Applications, Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and their Applications, Optica Publishing Group.
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The acousto-optic effect has been successfully used since the early 80's in the design and construction of a variety of conventional optical fiber devices such as frequency shifters, couplers, filters and modulators. Acoustic waves can be employed to modulate the spectrum and switch the wavelength of conventional fiber Bragg gratings as well as for controlling the Q-switching in distributed fiber lasers. Tunable devices induced by acoustic waves have also been demonstrated in photonic crystal fibers (PCF), whereas a resonance dip corresponding to an excited cladding mode can be tuned over the wavelength. In a similar work, but inducing an acoustic excitation over the longitudinal axis, long period gratings can be created in the transmission band of a solid core PCF. Recently, the availability of Bragg gratings in photonic crystal fibers enables several applications, particularly if their properties can be controlled in order to produce modulation or allow tunability. A way of achieving these effects is through the excitation of acoustic waves in the fibre, which allows a rapid method for shifting or modulating tie Bragg wavelength. In this work the application of acoustic-waves to microstructured fibers is reviewed and recent results on the modulation of fiber Bragg gratings in photonic crystal fibers are presented.
Pohl, AAP, Oliveira, RA, Cook, K & Canning, J 1970, 'The Acousto‐Optic Effect in Microstructured Optical Fibers', AIP Conference Proceedings, REVIEW OF PROGRESS IN QUANTITATIVE NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, American Institute of Physics, Sao Pedro, BRAZIL, pp. 26-+.
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PRADABPET, C, YOSHIZAWA, S, MIYANAGA, Y & DEJHAN, K 1970, 'New PAPR Reduction in OFDM System Using Hybrid of PTS-APPR Methods with Coded Side Information Technique', IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, International Workshop on Smart Info-Media Systems (SISB 2007), Institute of Electronics, Information and Communications Engineers (IEICE), Bangkok, THAILAND, pp. 2973-2979.
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Pradabpet, C, Yoshizawa, S, Miyanaga, Y, Chivapreecha, S & Dejhan, K 1970, 'New PTS Method with Coded Side Information Technique for PAPR Reduction in OFDM Systems', 2008 International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, 2008 International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT), IEEE.
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Prior, J, Robertson, T & Leaney, J 1970, 'Situated Software Development: Work Practice and Infrastructure Are Mutually Constitutive', 19th Australian Conference on Software Engineering (aswec 2008), 2008 19th Australian Conference on Software Engineering ASWEC, IEEE, pp. 160-169.
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Software developers' work is much more interesting and multifarious in practice than formal definitions of software development processes imply. Rational models of work are often representations of processes defined as they should be performed, rather than portrayals of what people actually do in practice. These models offer a simplified picture of the phenomena involved, and are frequently confused with how the work is carried out in reality, or they are advocated as the ideal way to accomplish the work. A longitudinal ethnographic study (45 days of fieldwork over 20 months) of a group of professional software developers revealed the importance of including their observed practice, and the "infrastructure" that supports and shapes this practice, in an authentic account of their work. Moreover, this research revealed that software development work practice and the infrastructure used to produce software are inextricably entwined and mutually constitutive over time. © 2008 IEEE.
Prior, J, Robertson, T & Leaney, J 1970, 'Situated software development: Work practice and infrastructure are mutually constitutive', ASWEC 2008: 19TH AUSTRALIAN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CONFERENCE, PROCEEDINGS, 19th Australian Software Engineering Conference, IEEE COMPUTER SOC, Perth, AUSTRALIA, pp. 160-+.
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Software developers work is much more interesting and multifarious in practice than formal definitions of software development processes imply. Rational models of work are often representations of processes defined as they should be performed, rather than portrayals of what people actually