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A Philosophy of the Essay : Scepticism, Experience, and Style
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2018-12-27)
Erin Plunkett draws from both analytic and continental sources to argue for the philosophical relevance of style, making the case that the essay form is uniquely suited to address the sceptical problem. The authors examined ...
'He came to her bed pretending courtship': sex, courtship and the making of marriage in Ulster, 1750-1844
(2018-12-27)
The history of sex and sexuality is underdeveloped in Irish historical studies, particularly for the period before the late-nineteenth century. While much has been written on rates of illegitimacy in Ireland, and its ...
Thermal Performance Analysis of an Underground Closed Chamber with Human Body Heat Sources under Natural Convection
(2018-12-25)
In this article, a combined experimental and numerical study has been performed to investigate the thermal performance of a mine refuge chamber (MRC) under natural convection. In the current study, a 20-hour heating ...
Identification, Molecular Characterization, and Biology of a Novel Quadrivirus Infecting the Phytopathogenic Fungus Leptosphaeria biglobosa.
(2018-12-25)
Here we report the molecular characterisation of a novel dsRNA virus isolated from the filamentous, plant pathogenic fungus Leptosphaeria biglobosa and known to cause significant alterations to fungal pigmentation and ...
Preprint: Dissociable age effects across measures of autobiographical and episodic memory
(2018-12-24)
The aim of this study was to investigate inconsistent findings in the ageing autobiographical memory literature. Twenty older and 20 younger adults were compared across a battery of tasks which measured memory for everyday ...
Facial Expression Recognition using Transfer Learning
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018-12-24)
In this paper, we investigate Deep Learning architectures for the recognition of facial expressions. In particular, we consider the concept of Transfer Learning whereby features learnt from generic images of large scale ...
Open-set Speaker Identification
(2018-12-20)
This study is motivated by the growing need for effective extraction of intelligence and evidence from audio recordings in the fight against crime, a need made ever more apparent with the recent expansion of criminal and ...
Harnessing machine learning for fiber-induced nonlinearity mitigation in long-haul coherent optical OFDM
(2018-12-20)
Coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (CO-OFDM) has attracted a lot of interest in optical fiber communications due to its simplified digital signal processing (DSP) units, high spectral-efficiency, ...
Impossible Movement Illusions
(2018-12-20)
Past research has used the phi phenomenon to create the illusion of one object moving through another. This article presents three optical illusions that are conceptually similar, yet little known within academic psychology. ...
Autogenous self-healing of cement with expansive minerals-I : Impact in early age crack healing
(2018-12-20)
This study investigates the impact of expansive minerals, namely magnesium oxide, bentonite clay, and quicklime on the early age autogenous self-healing capacity of Portland cement (PC) paste. Individual mineral dosage in ...