Research publications: Recent submissions
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Investigation of Heat of Biomass Pyrolysis and Secondary Reactions by Simultaneous Thermogravimetry and Differential Scanning Calorimetry
(2014-10-15)The heat of pyrolysis reactions is of great importance not only for its impact on biomass pyrolysis process but as a fundamental parameter for modelling biomass thermochemical conversion. Previously frequently-used technique ... -
Particle Image Velocimetry Measurement and Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulations of the Unsteady Flow within a Rotating Disk Cavity
(2014-05-16)In this article a combined experimental and numerical investigation of the unsteady mixing flow of the ingestion gas and rim sealing air inside a rotating disk cavity was carried out. A new test rig was set up, and the ... -
Experimental Investigation of Pressure Loss and Heat Transfer in a Rotor-Stator Cavity with Two Outlets
(2014-11-30)This article presented detailed measurements of the pressure distribution and heat transfer in a rotor–stator cavity with inlet of orifices on the rotating disk and two outlets at both low radius and high radius. Transient ... -
Flow Structure and Heat Transfer Characteristics in Rotor-Stator Cavity with Inlet at Low Radius
(2014-09-05)In this article, a combined experimental and computational study has been conducted to provide better understanding of the flow structure and heat transfer characteristics in a rotor–stator cavity with inlet at low radius. ... -
Experimental Investigation of Heat Transfer in a Rotor-Stator Cavity with Cooling Air Inlet at Low Radius
(2014-09-30)This article presents an experimental investigation of the heat transfer characteristics in a typical rotor–stator system with cooling air inlet at low radius under different dimensionless flow rate (CW) ranges from 1.32 ... -
Volterra-Based Reconfigurable Nonlinear Equalizer for Coherent OFDM
(2014-07-15)A reconfigurable nonlinear equalizer (RNLE) based on inverse Volterra series transfer function is proposed for dual-polarization (DP) and multiband coherent optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) signals. ... -
Validation of ultrasound measurement of the subacromial space using a novel shoulder phantom model.
(Elsevier, 2014-07-01)Ultrasound has a high degree of diagnostic accuracy in the assessment of rotator cuff tendons. Increasingly, ultrasound is being used to measure other parameters of rotator cuff pathology, including the size of the subacromial ... -
Management of rotator cuff tendinopathy.
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The Concept of Subgame Perfection
(2014)In mainstream game theory, the prominent solution concept for dynamic games is the “subgame perfect Nash equilibrium”. This concept combines the mathematical method of backward induction with the assumption of common ... -
Is there a relationship between subacromial impingement syndrome and scapular orientation? A systematic review.
(2014-08-01)Background Alterations in scapular orientation and dynamic control, specifically involving increased anterior tilt and downward rotation, are considered to play a substantial role in contributing to a subacromial impingement ... -
Reversing the polarity of bipolar stimulation in deep brain stimulation for essential tremor : a theoretical explanation for a useful clinical intervention
(2014-01-02)The quadripolar electrodes used for deep brain stimulation are designed to give flexibility in contact configuration, optimize therapeutic effect, and minimize side-effects. A patient with essential tremor did not tolerate ... -
An automated approach towards detecting complex behaviours in deep brain oscillations
(2014-03-15)Extracting event-related potentials (ERPs) from neurological rhythms is of fundamental importance in neuroscience research. Standard ERP techniques typically require the associated ERP waveform to have low variance, be ... -
Ethical guidelines and the use of social media and text messaging in health care: a review of literature
(2014-07-31)Social media is prevalent and increasing in usage in healthcare. Whilst guidelines have been developed to cover the issues concerning this topic, few have been based on an ethical framework. The purpose of this work was ... -
Someone is watching you: The ethics of using covert observation to explore adult behaviour at children's sporting events
(2014-12-31)Concerns have been expressed about adult behaviour at children’s sporting events in New Zealand. As a consequence, covert observation was identified as the optimal research method to be used in studies designed to record ... -
Wavelet basis selection for enhanced speech parametrization in speaker verification
(2014-03-31)We study the inherent properties of nine wavelet functions and subsequently evaluate their applicability as basis functions in a speech parametrization scheme that is advantageous for speaker verification. Particularly, ... -
Joint Spatial-Spectral Feature Space Clustering for Speech Activity Detection from ECoG Signals
(2014-04-30)Brain-machine interfaces for speech restoration have been extensively studied for more than two decades. The success of such a system will depend in part on selecting the best brain recording sites and signal features ... -
A benchmarking framework for eTourism capability of destinations’ industries
(2014-08-12)Purpose –The impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in tourism has been suggested through extensive research. Previous work has urged the development of wide-angle studies to enable benchmarking of ... -
Bridging Semantics with Ontologies
(2014)Semantic metadata enables contextual and relevant data to be identified for a particular entity. The use of ontologies creates a bridging mechanism, whereby semantic metadata can be referenced and validated to ensure that ... -
Prevalence of medication adherence and its associated factors among community-dwelling Chinese older adults in Hong Kong
(2015-06-01)AIM: The aim of present study was to describe the prevalence of medication adherence, and to examine its risk factors among Chinese community-dwelling older adults with chronic diseases. METHODS: Secondary analysis was ... -
The portraiture of Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins, 1973)
(2014-11-01)This article presents a discourse on the relationship between Edvard Munch's painting and Peter Watkins' film-making practice. It does so through a close critical analysis of Watkins' still under-celebrated 1973 tele-film ...