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Compatibility Issues With Irregular Current Injection Islanding Detection Methods in Multi-DG Units Equipped With Grid-Connected Transformers (2021)
Journal Article
Liu, M., Zhao, W., Wang, Q., Wang, Z., Jiang, C., Shu, J., …Bai, Y. (2022). Compatibility Issues With Irregular Current Injection Islanding Detection Methods in Multi-DG Units Equipped With Grid-Connected Transformers. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 37(3), 3599-3616. https://doi.org/10.1109/tpel.2021.3117879

Compatibility issues with irregular current injection islanding detection methods are actually the problem that some irregular currents at the same frequency injected into the same line may cancel each other out and then the islanding detection may b... Read More about Compatibility Issues With Irregular Current Injection Islanding Detection Methods in Multi-DG Units Equipped With Grid-Connected Transformers.

Differing Impacts of Blended Fullerene Acceptors on the Performance of Ternary Organic Solar Cells (2021)
Journal Article
Palacios-Gómez, D. A., Huerta Flores, A. M., MacKenzie, R. C., Pearson, C., Alanazi, F., Mendis, B. G., & Groves, C. (2021). Differing Impacts of Blended Fullerene Acceptors on the Performance of Ternary Organic Solar Cells. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 4(10), 10867-10876. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.1c01833

Organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices offer the ability to tune the electronic and optical properties of the active layer by selection of a wide range of molecules; however, their power conversion efficiencies currently lag other competing photovoltaic... Read More about Differing Impacts of Blended Fullerene Acceptors on the Performance of Ternary Organic Solar Cells.

Scalp-Implantable MIMO Antenna for High-Data-Rate Head Implants (2021)
Journal Article
Iqbal, A., Al-Hasan, M., Ben Mabrouk, I., & Nedil, M. (2021). Scalp-Implantable MIMO Antenna for High-Data-Rate Head Implants. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 20(12), 2529-2533. https://doi.org/10.1109/lawp.2021.3117345

A quad-element multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna is designed at 433 MHz Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM) band, to increase the transmission data-rate and minimize the multipath fading. The proposed MIMO antenna consists of semi-c... Read More about Scalp-Implantable MIMO Antenna for High-Data-Rate Head Implants.

Frequency domain Bernstein-Bezier finite element solver for modelling short waves in elastodynamics (2021)
Journal Article
Benatia, N., El Kacimi, A., Laghrouche, O., El Alaoui, M., & Trevelyan, J. (2022). Frequency domain Bernstein-Bezier finite element solver for modelling short waves in elastodynamics. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 102, 115-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apm.2021.09.034

This work presents a high-order Bernstein-Bézier finite element (FE) discretisation to accurately solve time harmonic elastic wave problems on unstructured triangular mesh grids. Although high-order FEs possess many advantages over standard FEs, the... Read More about Frequency domain Bernstein-Bezier finite element solver for modelling short waves in elastodynamics.

High Gain DC-DC Multilevel Boost Converter to Enable Transformerless Grid Connection for Renewable Energy (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alsafrani, A., Parker, M., Shahbazi, M., & Horsfall, A. (2021). High Gain DC-DC Multilevel Boost Converter to Enable Transformerless Grid Connection for Renewable Energy. In 2021 56th International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC). https://doi.org/10.1109/upec50034.2021.9548271

The solid state transformer (SST) is a new technology that will result in the replacement of traditional line frequency transformers in applications demanding high-power density and greater level of control. This paper describes a new form of boost c... Read More about High Gain DC-DC Multilevel Boost Converter to Enable Transformerless Grid Connection for Renewable Energy.

Optical Coherence Tomography in Neuromyelitis Optica spectrum disorder and Multiple Sclerosis: A population-based study (vol 47, 102625, 2021) (2021)
Journal Article
Ashtari, F., Ataei, A., Kafieh, R., Khodabandeh, Z., Barzegar, M., Raei, M., …Mansurian, M. (2021). Optical Coherence Tomography in Neuromyelitis Optica spectrum disorder and Multiple Sclerosis: A population-based study (vol 47, 102625, 2021). Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, 54, Article 103116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msard.2021.103116

Digital Twins based Day-ahead Integrated Energy System Scheduling under Load and Renewable Energy Uncertainties (2021)
Journal Article
You, M., Wang, Q., Sun, H., Castro, I., & Jiang, J. (2022). Digital Twins based Day-ahead Integrated Energy System Scheduling under Load and Renewable Energy Uncertainties. Applied Energy, 305, Article 117899. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.117899

By constructing digital twins (DT) of an integrated energy system (IES), one can benefit from DT’s predictive capabilities to improve coordinations among various energy converters, hence enhancing energy efficiency and cost saving.energy efficiency,... Read More about Digital Twins based Day-ahead Integrated Energy System Scheduling under Load and Renewable Energy Uncertainties.

Waste to resource: use of water treatment residual for increased maize productivity and micronutrient content (2021)
Journal Article
Gwandu, T., Blake, L., Nezomba, H., Rurinda, J., Chivasa, S., Mtambanengwe, F., & Johnson, K. (2022). Waste to resource: use of water treatment residual for increased maize productivity and micronutrient content. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 44(10), 3359-3376. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-021-01100-z

Soil degradation, which is linked to poor nutrient management, remains a major constraint to sustained crop production in smallholder urban agriculture (UA) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). While organic nutrient resources are often used in UA to complem... Read More about Waste to resource: use of water treatment residual for increased maize productivity and micronutrient content.

The microbiology of rebuilding soils with water treatment residual co‐amendments: Risks and benefits (2021)
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Stone, W., Lukashe, N. S., Blake, L. I., Gwandu, T., Hardie, A. G., Quinton, J., …Clarke, C. E. (2021). The microbiology of rebuilding soils with water treatment residual co‐amendments: Risks and benefits. Journal of Environmental Quality, 50(6), 1381-1394. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeq2.20286

Water treatment residuals (WTR) are sludges from the potable water treatment process, currently largely destined for landfill. This waste can be diverted to rebuild degraded soils, aligning with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals 12 (Consumption... Read More about The microbiology of rebuilding soils with water treatment residual co‐amendments: Risks and benefits.

PANDA: Perceptually Aware Neural Detection of Anomalies (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barker, J., & Breckon, T. (2021). PANDA: Perceptually Aware Neural Detection of Anomalies. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ijcnn52387.2021.9534399

Semi-supervised methods of anomaly detection have seen substantial advancement in recent years. Of particular interest are applications of such methods to diverse, real-world anomaly detection problems where anomalous variations can vary from the vis... Read More about PANDA: Perceptually Aware Neural Detection of Anomalies.

Far-Distance VNA-based Measurements of Indoor Materials at 300 GHz (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sheikh, F., Zantah, Y., Batra, A., Mabrouk, I., Al-Hasan, M., & Kaiser, T. (2021). Far-Distance VNA-based Measurements of Indoor Materials at 300 GHz. . https://doi.org/10.1109/apwc52648.2021.9539739

This paper reports the far-distance achievable reflected paths of indoor material groups such as glass, wood, paper , and plastic at frequencies ranging from 270 GHz to 330 GHz. A VNA equipped with ~ 25.45 dBi horn antenna as transceiver is employed... Read More about Far-Distance VNA-based Measurements of Indoor Materials at 300 GHz.

An Electronically-Tunable, Flexible, and Transparent Antenna With Unidirectional Radiation Pattern (2021)
Journal Article
Sayem, A. S. M., Simorangkir, R. B. V. B., Esselle, K. P., Thalakotuna, D. N., & Lalbakhsh, A. (2021). An Electronically-Tunable, Flexible, and Transparent Antenna With Unidirectional Radiation Pattern. IEEE Access, 9, 147042-147053. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2021.3114004

In this paper, a frequency reconfigurable, conformal, durable, optically transparent, and unidirectional antenna design is demonstrated for the first time. In the demonstrated design, continuous frequency tuning is achieved by integrating a varactor... Read More about An Electronically-Tunable, Flexible, and Transparent Antenna With Unidirectional Radiation Pattern.

On the Evaluation of Semi-Supervised 2D Segmentation for Volumetric 3D Computed Tomography Baggage Security Screening (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, Q., & Breckon, T. (2021). On the Evaluation of Semi-Supervised 2D Segmentation for Volumetric 3D Computed Tomography Baggage Security Screening. In 2021 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1109/ijcnn52387.2021.9533631

We address the automatic contraband material detection problem within volumetric 3D Computed Tomography (CT) data for baggage security screening. Distinct from the prohibited item detection using object detection techniques, contraband material detec... Read More about On the Evaluation of Semi-Supervised 2D Segmentation for Volumetric 3D Computed Tomography Baggage Security Screening.

Autoencoders Without Reconstruction for Textural Anomaly Detection (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Adey, P., Akcay, S., Bordewich, M., & Breckon, T. (2021). Autoencoders Without Reconstruction for Textural Anomaly Detection. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ijcnn52387.2021.9533804

Automatic anomaly detection in natural textures is a key component within quality control for a range of high-speed, high-yield manufacturing industries that rely on camera-based visual inspection techniques. Targeting anomaly detection through the u... Read More about Autoencoders Without Reconstruction for Textural Anomaly Detection.

On the Impact of Using X-Ray Energy Response Imagery for Object Detection via Convolutional Neural Networks (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bhowmik, N., Gaus, Y., & Breckon, T. (2021). On the Impact of Using X-Ray Energy Response Imagery for Object Detection via Convolutional Neural Networks.

Automatic detection of prohibited items within complex and cluttered X-ray security imagery is essential to maintaining transport security, where prior work on automatic prohibited item detection focus primarily on pseudo-colour (rgb) X-ray imagery.... Read More about On the Impact of Using X-Ray Energy Response Imagery for Object Detection via Convolutional Neural Networks.