Research publications: Recent submissions
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Affordable robot mapping using omnidirectional vision
(EPSRC UK-RAS Network, 2021-07-15)Mapping is a fundamental requirement for robot navigation.In this paper, we introduce a novel visual mapping method that relies solely on a single omnidirectional camera.We present a metric that allows us to generate a map ... -
Austerity urbanism, local government debt-drive, and post COVID predicaments in Britain
(2024-01-01)Conditions of local governance in the aftermath of the global financial crisis are often discussed as reflections of ‘austerity urbanism’. What forms of mutations have taken place in austerity urbanism after the initial ... -
A Comparative Study on Machine Learning Algorithms for Predicting Construction Projects Delay
(Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 2021-07-08)The perpetual occurrence of a global phenomenon – delay in construction industry despite considerable mitigation efforts remains a huge concern to its policy makers. Interestingly, this industry which produces massive ... -
A Biomimetically Derived Method for Control of Span-Wise Morphing Wings
(American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc. (AIAA), 2021-12-29)The development of novel morphing wings follows common milestones. This work presents the modelling and control of the recently proposed avian wing span-wise morphing concept. The concept primarily consists of three ... -
Assessing Moral Injury and its Clinical Associations in a UK Secure Care Population
(2023-08-24)Introduction: Moral Injury (MI) represents a type of trauma that can manifest after committing or witnessing transgressions which result in feelings of shame, guilt, and inner turmoil. Although originally conceived and ... -
A Bourdieusian Exploration of Ethnic Inequalities at Work: The Case of the Nigerian Banking Sector
(2023-06-21)This article draws on Pierre Bourdieu’s critical sociology to explore the socio-political processes through which social resources or capital are sought and ethnic inequalities negotiated, legitimated and enforced in a ... -
#UKRAS21: The 4th UK Robotics and Autonomous Systems Conference
(2021-07-15)This year’s theme focuses on robotics at home. We haveidentified three focus areas to examine robotics and au-tonomous systems within our call for papers that are eachcovered by an inspiring keynote and four oral presentationsfrom ... -
A Comparison Between Convolutional and Transformer Architectures for Speech Emotion Recognition
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022-09-30)Creating speech emotion recognition models com-parable to the capability of how humans recognise emotions is a long-standing challenge in the field of speech technology with many potential commercial applications. As ... -
Animal Models of Human Disease
(2023-10-31)The use of animal models of human disease is critical for furthering our understanding of disease mechanisms, for the discovery of novel targets for treatment, and for translational research. This Special Topic entitled ... -
Ensemble Learning for Medical Image Character Recognition based on Enhanced Lenet-5
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023-10-02)Generally, Medical Imaging Modalities (MIM)have a distinctive nature of low contrast, complex background, and low resolution, containing burned-in textual data of patients. The conventional OCRs hardly recognise these ... -
Whole Life: a feasibility study of a recovery-focussed intervention in patients with stabilised schizophrenia [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]
(2022-02-14)Background: The Recovery Approach is about supporting people to live the best life they possibly can. This paper reports on a 2008-11 study of a recovery-focussed, one-to-one coaching programme called Whole Life (WL) in a ... -
Who are resilient ELT teachers?
(IATEFL, 2022-05-20)What sustains you in your daily life as a teacher? How resilient are you? What does resilience look like? In this presentation, my aim is for us to discuss and share experiences of resilience in the workplace and identify ... -
Towards understanding causality-a retrospective study of using explanations in interactions between a humanoid robot and autistic children
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022-09-30)Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often struggle with visual perspective taking (VPT) skills and the understanding that others might have viewpoints and perspectives that are different from their own; i.e., the ... -
Taking a Passivhaus certified retrofit system onto scaled-up zero carbon trajectory
(2016-09-09)The paper describes collaboration a between industryand academia in enhancing a Passivhaus certifiedsystem for retrofit and putting it onto a zero carbontrajectory. The system was initially developed for onsite stick ... -
Stories and Narratives in Safety Engineering
(SCSC Publications, 2022-02-10)The use of stories and narrative is widespread throughout safety engineering,from "war stories" to use cases In this paper we consider the effectivenessof stories in modelling safety-critical systems and challenges. We ... -
Who wins when you try to convince a mouse her best friend is a cat? The value of competition in entrepreneurship education.
(Institute of Small Business & Entrepreneurship (ISBE), 2016-08-01)The push by policy makers for entrepreneurship education at an ever-earlier age, and the expansion of programmes and activities at secondary schools, is increasing the likelihood that more young people will be sheep-dipped ... -
Rapid Recognition of Olfactory Scenes with a Portable MOx Sensor System using Hotplate Modulation
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022-06-10)A café, the metro, a supermarket, a book store - many locations of everyday life have a specific smell. Recognising such olfactory scenes could inform personal activity tracking, environmental monitoring, and assist robotic ... -
Pseudo-symmetric pairs for Kac-Moody algebras
(American Mathematical Society, 2022-08-31)Lie algebra involutions and their fixed-point subalgebras give rise to symmetric spaces and real forms of complex Lie algebras, and are wellstudied in the context of symmetrizable Kac-Moody algebras. In this paper we study ... -
LBP-CA: A Short-term Scheduler with Criticality Arithmetic
(University of Hertfordshire, 2022-11-04)In safety-critical systems a smooth degradation of services is a way to deal with resource shortages. Criticality arithmetic is a technique to implement services of higher criticality by several tasks of lower criticality. ... -
Effect of Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy with Intracorporeal Urinary Diversion vs Open Radical Cystectomy on 90-Day Morbidity and Mortality among Patients with Bladder Cancer : A Randomized Clinical Trial
(2022-05-15)Importance Robot-assistedradical cystectomy is being performed with increasing frequency, but it isunclear whether total intracorporeal surgery improves recovery compared withopen radical cystectomy for bladder cancer. ...