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A complete 5 Gb/s throughput quadrature sub carrier system featuring zero-latency carrier and data synchronization
Kourtessis, P.; Dudley, S.; Quinlan, T.; Walker, S.D.; Tyler, E.J.; Penty, R.V.; White, I.H. (2002) -
A complete 8-GHz QPSK-MODEM featuring novel subcarrier and data synchronization for optical communications
Kourtessis, P.; Walker, S.D. (2007) -
Composites as candidate materials for photovoltaic cells
Olorunfemi, T. R.; Nwulu, N. I.; Ismail, S. O. (2022-03-07)Composites are two or more materials with different propertiesjoined together to manufacture a new material. The resulting physicaland chemical properties of each constituent new materialremain distinct with enhanced ... -
A comprehensive review on design, monitoring, and failure in offshore platforms,
Amiri, Nima; Shaterabadi, Mohammad; Kashyzadeh, Kazem Reza; Chizari, Mahmoud (2021-11-30)Offshore platforms have had diverse applications in the marine industry, for example, oil or gas platforms are places where temporarily store oil and gas to be transported to refineries. Offshore wind turbines are another ... -
Comprehensive Study on Tool Wear During Machining of Fibre-Reinforced Polymeric Composites
Ismail, S. O.; Sarfraz, S.; Niamat, M.; Mia, M.; Gupta, M. K.; Pimenov, D. Y.; Shehab, E. (Springer Nature, 2021-02-18)The use of fibre reinforced polymeric (FRP) composites has increased rapidly, especially in many manufacturing (aerospace, automobile and construction) industries. The machining of composite materials is an important ... -
Computational Approaches to Polymeric Nanocomposites
Ojo, S. O.; Ismail, Sikiru O. (Taylor & Francis Group, 2022-10-17)Understanding hierarchical structures and behaviours of polymeric nanocomposites (PNCs) is essential to achieve optimum improvement in the properties of PNCs for a wide range of applications. To control the process of ... -
Computational optimization of CH4/H2/CO blends in a spark-ignition engine using quasi-dimensional combustion model
Paykani, Amin; Frouzakis, Christos; Schürch, Christian; Perini, Federico; Boulouchos, Konstantinos (2021-11-01)Recent research has proven that computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling in combination with a genetic algorithm (GA) algorithm is an effective methodology to optimize the design of internal combustion (IC) engines. ... -
Computer-Aided Teaching Using Animations for Engineering Curricula: A Case Study for Automotive Engineering Modules
Asef, Pedram; Kalyvas, Christos (2021-08-05)One-dimensional (1-D) demonstrations, e.g. the black-box systems, have become popular in teaching materials for engineering modules due to the high complexity of the system’s multi-dimensional (e.g. 2-D and 3-D) identities. ... -
Concurrent supermassive black hole and galaxy growth : linking environment and nuclear activity in z=2.23 alpha emitters
Lehmer, B.D.; Lucy, A. B.; Alexander, D.M.; Best, P.N.; Geach, J. E.; Harrison, C. M.; Hornschemeier, A. E.; Matsuda, Y.; Mullaney, J. R.; Smail, Ian; Sobral, D.; Swinbank, A.M. (2013-03-10)We present results from a approximate to 100 ks Chandra observation of the 2QZ Cluster 1004+00 structure at z = 2.23 (hereafter 2QZ Clus). 2QZ Clus was originally identified as an overdensity of four optically-selected ... -
Contactless Camera-Based Heart Rate and Respiratory Rate Monitoring Using AI on Hardware
Kolosov, Dimitrios; Kelefouras, Vasilios; Kourtessis, Pandelis; Mporas, Iosif (2023-05-07)Detecting vital signs by using a contactless camera-based approach can provide several advantages over traditional clinical methods, such as lower financial costs, reduced visit times, increased comfort, and enhanced safety ... -
Continuously variable mixing-ratio micromixer with elastomer valves
Tan, C. K. L.; Tracey, M.C.; Davis, J. B.; Johnston, I. D. (2005-10)We report a self-contained microfluidic alternate flow injection mixer (AFIM) employing piezoelectrically actuated, PDMS seal-valves to control injection. AFIMs employ pulsatile injection of liquids to enhance interface ... -
Contrasting Responses of Rhizosphere Bacterial, Fungal, Protist and Nematode Communities to Nitrogen Fertilisation and Crop Genotype in Field Grown Oilseed Rape (Brassica napus)
Picot, Emma; C. Hale, Chris; Hilton, Sally; Teakle, Graham; Schäfer, Hendrik; Huang, Yongju; Perryman, Sarah; S. West, Jon; D. Bending, Gary (2021-04-08)The rhizosphere microbiome is considered to play a key role in determining crop health. However, current understanding of the factors which shape assembly and composition of the microbiome is heavily biased toward bacterial ... -
Control of arable crop pathogens; climate change mitigation, impacts and adaptation
Fitt, Bruce; Stotz, Henrik; Hughes, David (Springer Nature, 2016-03-29)In the context of threats to global food security from impacts of damaging crop diseases and of climate change, this chapter describes three aspects of the interactions between climate change and diseases that reduce arable ... -
Control of crop diseases through Integrated Crop Management to deliver climate-smart farming systems for low and high input crop production
Richard, Benjamin; Qi, Aiming; Fitt, Bruce (2022-01)Abstract: Crop diseases affect crop yield and quality and cause significant losses of total food production worldwide. With the ever‐increasing world population and decreasing land and water resources, there is a need not ... -
Controllable hydrophobization of sands with self-healing polymeric microcapsules
Qi, Rui; Lin, Hongjie; Lourenco, Sergio; Kanellopoulos, Antonios (2024-05-18)Hydrophobized soils have functional hydrophobic coatings to delay or restrict water infiltration and thus prevent infrastructure failure and long-term degradation. Over time, hydrophobized soils will be subjected to ... -
Controlled Actuation of Self-Propelled Droplets
Coudron, Loic; Lemenu, Clément; Lemaine, Kevin; McCluskey, Daniel; Tan, Christabel; Munro, Ian; Holdo, Arne; Tracey, Mark; Johnston, Ian (2020-10-09)In this paper we present controlled self-propelled actuation of droplets employing Laplace pressure gradients between two non-parallel superhydrophobic plates. For small angles (cos β ≈ 1) a simplification of available ... -
Conventional and Additively Manufactured Stainless Steels: A Review
Michla, J. R. J.; Nagaprasad, N.; Senthilkumar, K.; Siengchin, S.; Ismail, S. O.; Prabhu, T. R. (2021-06-17)For the last three decades, enormous manufacturing processes have been widely employed in the field of transportation (aviation, automobile and marine) as well as various industrial sectors. Among the invented techniques, ... -
Core bone diameter in an organic implant-less technique affecting the biomechanical properties of the anterior cruciate ligament fixation; an in-vitro study
Mohseni, Mahdi; Nourani, Amir; Korani, Hossein; Moeinnia, Hadi; Borjali, Amirhossein; Ghias, Narges; Chizari, Mahmoud (2021-07-13)Background Bone and site hold tendon inside (BASHTI) is an implant-less technique that can solve some of the problems associated with other anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructive methods. This study aims to ... -
Corrosion behaviours of additively manufactured nitrided 17-4 PH steels in different environments
Michla, J. R. J.; Nagarajan, R.; Ismail, S. O.; Ramprabhu, T.; Siengchin, S.; Devi, M. P. I.; Mohammad , F. (2023-03-03)The destructive effects of corrosion on structural materials can never underestimated. These challenges depend on the constituents of engineering materials, their manufacturing techniques and working environments. Application, ... -
Cosmic evolution of the H2 mass density and the epoch of molecular gas
Garratt, T. K.; Coppin, K. E. K.; Geach, J. E.; Almaini, O.; Hartley, W. G.; Maltby, D. T.; Simpson, C. J.; Wilkinson, A.; Conselice, C. J.; Franco, M.; Ivison, R. J.; Koprowski, M. P.; Lovell, C. C.; Pope, A.; Scott, D.; Werf, P. van der (2021-05-05)We present new empirical constraints on the evolution of ρ H2, the cosmological mass density of molecular hydrogen, back to z ≈ 2.5. We employ a statistical approach measuring the average observed 850 μm flux density of ...