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How emotions stimulate people affected by cancer to use personalised health websites (2015)
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This paper focuses on helping people affected by cancer – which is the leading cause of death worldwide - by identifying their personalisation needs for health websites. The aim is to identify a set of personalisation features that users prefer on th... Read More about How emotions stimulate people affected by cancer to use personalised health websites.

Graph-based stochastic model for high-speed railway cutting scenarios (2015)
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This study proposes a stochastic channel model based on the propagation graph theory for high-speed railway (HSR) cutting scenarios. Single-input single-output wideband measurements are conducted under a cutting for acquiring realistic channel data.... Read More about Graph-based stochastic model for high-speed railway cutting scenarios.

Optimization of a Solution-Processed SiO2 Gate Insulator by Plasma Treatment for Zinc Oxide Thin Film Transistors (2015)
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We report on the optimization of the plasma treatment conditions for a solution-processed silicon dioxide gate insulator for application in zinc oxide thin film transistors (TFTs). The SiO2 layer was formed by spin coating a perhydropolysilazane (PHP... Read More about Optimization of a Solution-Processed SiO2 Gate Insulator by Plasma Treatment for Zinc Oxide Thin Film Transistors.

Scanning thermal microscopy with heat conductive nanowire probes (2015)
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Scanning thermal microscopy (SThM), which enables measurement of thermal transport and temperature distribution in devices and materials with nanoscale resolution is rapidly becoming a key approach in resolving heat dissipation problems in modern pro... Read More about Scanning thermal microscopy with heat conductive nanowire probes.

Quantitative Evaluation of Stereo Visual Odometry for Autonomous Vessel Localisation in Inland Waterway Sensing Applications (2015)
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Autonomous survey vessels can increase the efficiency and availability of wide-area river environment surveying as a tool for environment protection and conservation. A key challenge is the accurate localisation of the vessel, where bank-side vegetat... Read More about Quantitative Evaluation of Stereo Visual Odometry for Autonomous Vessel Localisation in Inland Waterway Sensing Applications.

Cooperative ordering in lattices of interacting two-level dipoles (2015)
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We investigate the cooperative behavior of regular monolayers of driven two-level dipoles, using classical electrodynamics simulations. The dipolar response results from the interference of many cooperative eigenmodes, each frequency-shifted from the... Read More about Cooperative ordering in lattices of interacting two-level dipoles.

Advances in 3D cell culture technologies enabling tissue-like structures to be created in vitro (2015)
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Research in mammalian cell biology often relies on developing in vitro models to enable the growth of cells in the laboratory to investigate a specific biological mechanism or process under different test conditions. The quality of such models and ho... Read More about Advances in 3D cell culture technologies enabling tissue-like structures to be created in vitro.

Detecting Insider Threats Using Ben-ware: Beneficial Intelligent Software for Identifying Anomalous Human Behaviour (2015)
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The insider threat problem is a significant and ever present issue faced by any organisation. While security mechanisms can be put in place to reduce the chances of external agents gaining access to a system, either to steal assets or alter records,... Read More about Detecting Insider Threats Using Ben-ware: Beneficial Intelligent Software for Identifying Anomalous Human Behaviour.

Land sparing, land sharing, and the fate of Africa's lions (2015)
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Taxonomic bias in organismal research and conservation is well recognized, with focus disproportionately directed toward birds and mammals (1). Among mammals, carnivores often receive excessive attention and large carnivores are particularly well stu... Read More about Land sparing, land sharing, and the fate of Africa's lions.

Using Zinc Finger Nuclease Technology to Generate CRX-Reporter Human Embryonic Stem Cells as a Tool to Identify and Study the Emergence of Photoreceptors Precursors During Pluripotent Stem Cell Differentiation (2015)
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The purpose of this study was to generate human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines harboring the green fluorescent protein (GFP) reporter at the endogenous loci of the Cone-Rod Homeobox (CRX) gene, a key transcription factor in retinal development. Zin... Read More about Using Zinc Finger Nuclease Technology to Generate CRX-Reporter Human Embryonic Stem Cells as a Tool to Identify and Study the Emergence of Photoreceptors Precursors During Pluripotent Stem Cell Differentiation.

Calibration and sensitivity analysis of long-term generation investment models using Bayesian emulation (2015)
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Investments in generation are high risk, and the introduction of renewable technologies exacerbated concern over capacity adequacy in future power systems. Long-term generation investment (LTGI) models are often used by policymakers to provide future... Read More about Calibration and sensitivity analysis of long-term generation investment models using Bayesian emulation.

Evolution-in-materio: solving computational problems using carbon nanotube–polymer composites (2015)
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Evolution-in-materio uses evolutionary algorithms to exploit properties of materials to solve computational problems without requiring a detailed understanding of such properties. We show that using a purpose-built hardware platform called Mecobo, it... Read More about Evolution-in-materio: solving computational problems using carbon nanotube–polymer composites.

Learners Thrive When Using Multifaceted Open Social Learner Models (2015)
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This article explores open social learner modeling (OSLM)-a social extension of open learner modeling (OLM). A specific implementation of this approach is presented by which learners' self-direction and self-determination in a social e-learning conte... Read More about Learners Thrive When Using Multifaceted Open Social Learner Models.

A New Si/TiO2/Pt p-n Junction Semiconductor to Demonstrate Photoelectrochemical CO2 Conversion (2015)
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This work presents a new Si/TiO2/Pt p-n junction semiconductor prepared by sputtering, chemical vapor deposition (CVD), photolithography and lift-off techniques. XRD, EDS, FE-SEM, diffuse reflectance (DRS) and photocurrent vs potential curves had bee... Read More about A New Si/TiO2/Pt p-n Junction Semiconductor to Demonstrate Photoelectrochemical CO2 Conversion.

Modeling of axial heterostructure formation in ternary III-V nanowires (2015)
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A model is proposed to depict the formation of axial heterostructure in ternary III-V nanowires (NW) grown by the catalytic vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) method. Our approach is based on the determination of chemical potential of a four-component liquid u... Read More about Modeling of axial heterostructure formation in ternary III-V nanowires.

Graphene Electronics, Volume 2 (2015)
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Metallization and stiffness of the Li-intercalated MoS2 bilayer (2015)
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Performed density-functional theory (DFT) calculations have shown that the Li adsorption on the MoS2 (0 0 0 1) surface, as well as Li intercalation into the space between MoS2 layers, transforms the semiconductor band structure of MoS2 into metallic.... Read More about Metallization and stiffness of the Li-intercalated MoS2 bilayer.

FlightGear as a Tool for Real Time Fault-injection, Detection and Self-repair (2015)
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The development of fault-detection and self-healing methods at both a hardware and software level in modern aircraft is an attractive prospect. However it is expensive to design and test these techniques using real aircraft. This paper appraises the... Read More about FlightGear as a Tool for Real Time Fault-injection, Detection and Self-repair.

Experimental validation of a resilient electronic logic design with autonomous fault discrimination/masking (2015)
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This paper presents the experimental validation of a novel fault-tolerant electronic logic design conducted by an automated mixed-signal fault injection procedure. The design under evaluation relies upon a novel redundant design strategy intended to... Read More about Experimental validation of a resilient electronic logic design with autonomous fault discrimination/masking.

Modelling Electronic Circuit Failures using a Xilinx FPGA System (2015)
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FPGAs are a ubiquitous electronic component utilised in a wide range of electronic systems across many industries. Almost all modern FPGAs employ SRAM based configuration memory elements which are susceptible to radiation induced soft errors. In high... Read More about Modelling Electronic Circuit Failures using a Xilinx FPGA System.