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The Invisible Line: Students As Partners Or Students As Colleagues?, Michelle J. Eady, Corinne Green
The Invisible Line: Students As Partners Or Students As Colleagues?, Michelle J. Eady, Corinne Green
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Exploring Migrants’ Knowledge And Skill In Seasonal Farm Work: More Than Labouring Bodies, Natascha Klocker, Olivia V. Dun, Lesley M. Head, Ananth Gopal
Exploring Migrants’ Knowledge And Skill In Seasonal Farm Work: More Than Labouring Bodies, Natascha Klocker, Olivia V. Dun, Lesley M. Head, Ananth Gopal
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Migrant farmworkers dominate the horticultural workforce in many parts of the Minority (developed) World. The ‘manual’ work that they do—picking and packing fruits and vegetables, and pruning vines and trees—is widely designated unskilled. In policy, media, academic, activist and everyday discourses, hired farm work is framed as something anybody can do. We interrogate this notion with empirical evidence from the Sunraysia horticultural region of Australia. The region’s grape and almond farms depend heavily on migrant workers. By-and-large, the farmers and farmworkers we spoke to pushed back against the unskilled tag. They asserted that farmworkers acquire knowledge and skills over time …
Effects Of Spatial Distance On The Effectiveness Of Mental And Physical Integration Strategies In Learning From Split-Attention Examples, Bjorn De Koning, Gertjan Rop, Fred Paas
Effects Of Spatial Distance On The Effectiveness Of Mental And Physical Integration Strategies In Learning From Split-Attention Examples, Bjorn De Koning, Gertjan Rop, Fred Paas
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Learning from spatially separated text and pictures is improved when learners are instructed to use a physical or mental integration strategy. This study investigated whether varying the spatial distance between text and pictures affects the effectiveness of physical and mental integration strategies. We hypothesized that a larger spatial distance would increase cognitive load and harm learning. Ninety-two university students studied the functioning of an electrical circuit from text and pictures that were presented at a small or large spatial distance from each other, while using a physical or mental integration strategy during learning. Results indicated that participants using the mental …
Urban Greening And Mobility Justice In Dhaka’S Informal Settlements, Razia Sultana, Thomas Birtchnell, Nicholas J. Gill
Urban Greening And Mobility Justice In Dhaka’S Informal Settlements, Razia Sultana, Thomas Birtchnell, Nicholas J. Gill
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Urban greening in Dhaka, Bangladesh is fraught with injustice for slum dwellers. Access to the commons for the enactment of gardening, farming and foraging by the urban poor, many recent internal migrants from rural areas, is contested by wealthier citizens, developers and political elites. Through qualitative research with households within the informal settlement of Korail in Dhaka’s urban core, and a range of stakeholders in governmental and non-governmental organizations, this study critiques competing policy visions that involve urban greening and urban green infrastructure. Repurposing the conceptual lense of ‘mobility justice’ to analyse environmental and ecological issues in the global South, …
Facilitators And Barriers To The Self-Management Of Copd: A Qualitative Study From Rural Nepal, Uday Yadav, Jane Lloyd, Hassan Hosseinzadeh, Kedar Baral, Sagar Dahal, Narendra Bhatta, Mark Harris
Facilitators And Barriers To The Self-Management Of Copd: A Qualitative Study From Rural Nepal, Uday Yadav, Jane Lloyd, Hassan Hosseinzadeh, Kedar Baral, Sagar Dahal, Narendra Bhatta, Mark Harris
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Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Objective: To understand the facilitators and barriers to the self-management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in rural Nepal. Settings: Community and primary care centres in rural Nepal. Participants: A total of 14 participants (10 people with COPD and 4 health care providers) were interviewed. Primary and secondary outcome measure(s): People with COPD and healthcare provider's experience of COPD self-management in rural Nepal. Results: Facilitators and barriers affecting COPD self-management in Nepal operated at the patient-family, community and service provider levels. People with COPD were found to have a limited understanding of COPD and medications. …
A Matched Control Trial Of A Mental Health Literacy Intervention For Parents In Community Sports Clubs, Diarmuid Hurley, Mark S. Allen, Christian Swann, Stewart A. Vella
A Matched Control Trial Of A Mental Health Literacy Intervention For Parents In Community Sports Clubs, Diarmuid Hurley, Mark S. Allen, Christian Swann, Stewart A. Vella
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2020, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. This controlled trial evaluated the effectiveness of a mental health literacy intervention for parents delivered through community sport clubs. In total, 540 parents (321 females, 219 males) of adolescent athletes participated in a brief educational workshop on youth mental health (n = 352) or a community-matched control group (n = 188). Generalised linear mixed models revealed no significant improvements in the intervention group compared to control in the primary mental health literacy outcomes, at 1 month follow-up. However, parents in the intervention group were more likely to seek formal help for …
Methodological Challenges In Deliberative Empirical Ethics, Stacy M. Carter
Methodological Challenges In Deliberative Empirical Ethics, Stacy M. Carter
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Augmenting Cancer Registry Data With Health Survey Data With No Cases In Common: The Relationship Between Pre-Diagnosis Health Behaviour And Post-Diagnosis Survival In Oesophageal Cancer, Paul Fahey, Andrew Page, Glenn Stone, Thomas E. Astell-Burt
Augmenting Cancer Registry Data With Health Survey Data With No Cases In Common: The Relationship Between Pre-Diagnosis Health Behaviour And Post-Diagnosis Survival In Oesophageal Cancer, Paul Fahey, Andrew Page, Glenn Stone, Thomas E. Astell-Burt
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2020 The Author(s). Background: For epidemiological research, cancer registry datasets often need to be augmented with additional data. Data linkage is not feasible when there are no cases in common between data sets. We present a novel approach to augmenting cancer registry data by imputing pre-diagnosis health behaviour and estimating its relationship with post-diagnosis survival time. Methods: Six measures of pre-diagnosis health behaviours (focussing on tobacco smoking, 'at risk' alcohol consumption, overweight and exercise) were imputed for 28,000 cancer registry data records of US oesophageal cancers using cold deck imputation from an unrelated health behaviour dataset. Each data point was …
Attentional Bias For Threat And Anxiety: The Role Of Loneliness, Maryann Wei, Steven J. Roodenrys, Leonie M. Miller
Attentional Bias For Threat And Anxiety: The Role Of Loneliness, Maryann Wei, Steven J. Roodenrys, Leonie M. Miller
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2020, 2020 Washington School of Psychiatry. Objective: There is literature to suggest that anxious individuals may be lonely. Attentional bias for threat (ABT), a mechanism implicated in the core symptoms of anxiety, has been linked to loneliness in a separate line of work. The primary aim of this study was to examine the role of loneliness in the association between ABT and anxiety. Method: An unselected sample of 260 individuals (196 Female; Mean Age = 22.43) completed measures of loneliness, ABT (a dot probe task), and anxiety. Two possible models of the role of loneliness in the ABT-anxiety link were …
Biopedagogies And Family Life: A Social Class Perspective, Lisette Burrows, Jan Wright
Biopedagogies And Family Life: A Social Class Perspective, Lisette Burrows, Jan Wright
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In this chapter we draw on our work with young people and families to explore the utility of poststructural theoretical resources in understanding engagement with health imperatives. While we suggest that concepts like biopedagogies, discourse and subjectivity (amongst others) usefully frame our research, we also focus on what cannot be thought/understood with these resources alone. We explore how the complexity of family life, the ways culture, class and biopedagogies of the body intersect in ‘real’ lives and the translation of school-based health messages to home environs may require alternate theories.
The Ethical, Legal And Social Implications Of Using Artificial Intelligence Systems In Breast Cancer Care, Stacy M. Carter, Wendy Rogers, Khin Than Win, Helen Frazer, Bernadette Richards, Nehmat Houssami
The Ethical, Legal And Social Implications Of Using Artificial Intelligence Systems In Breast Cancer Care, Stacy M. Carter, Wendy Rogers, Khin Than Win, Helen Frazer, Bernadette Richards, Nehmat Houssami
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Breast cancer care is a leading area for development of artificial intelligence (AI), with applications including screening and diagnosis, risk calculation, prognostication and clinical decision-support, management planning, and precision medicine. We review the ethical, legal and social implications of these developments. We consider the values encoded in algorithms, the need to evaluate outcomes, and issues of bias and transferability, data ownership, confidentiality and consent, and legal, moral and professional responsibility. We consider potential effects for patients, including on trust in healthcare, and provide some social science explanations for the apparent rush to implement AI solutions. We conclude by anticipating future …
Crossing Boundaries: Rethinking The Ways That First-In-Family Students Navigate 'Barriers' To Higher Education, Sarah Elizabeth O'Shea
Crossing Boundaries: Rethinking The Ways That First-In-Family Students Navigate 'Barriers' To Higher Education, Sarah Elizabeth O'Shea
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This article explores how one cohort of first-in-family students narrated their movement into and through university, proposed as a form of boundary crossing. These metaphors emerged from the stories that students told about their persistence, with references ranging from institutional or organisational boundaries through to those imposed by self and others. Applying the sensitizing lens of boundary crossing, an analysis is provided of how learners navigated their transition into university and the types of persistence behaviours adopted. The focus is on those who traversed these boundaries, considering the nature of incursions and the ways these were negotiated within students' everyday …
The Stereoscopic Advantage For Vection Persists Despite Reversed Disparity, Stephen Palmisano, Shinji Nakamura, Robert S. Allison, Bernhard E. Riecke
The Stereoscopic Advantage For Vection Persists Despite Reversed Disparity, Stephen Palmisano, Shinji Nakamura, Robert S. Allison, Bernhard E. Riecke
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Research has shown that consistent stereoscopic information improves the vection (i.e. illusions of self-motion) induced in stationary observers. This study investigates the effects of placing stereoscopic information into direct conflict with monocular motion signals by swapping the observer's left and right eye views to reverse disparity. Experiments compared the vection induced by stereo-consistent, stereo-reversed and flat-stereo patterns of: (1) same-size optic flow, which contained monocular motion perspective information about self-motion, and (2) changing-size optic flow, which provided additional monocular information about motion-in-depth based on local changes in object image sizes. As expected, consistent stereoscopic information improved the vection-in-depth induced by …
Ending Tb In Australia: Organizational Challenges For Regional Tuberculosis Programs, Christopher J. Degeling, Jane Carroll, Justin Denholm, Ben Marais, Angus Dawson
Ending Tb In Australia: Organizational Challenges For Regional Tuberculosis Programs, Christopher J. Degeling, Jane Carroll, Justin Denholm, Ben Marais, Angus Dawson
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2019 Elsevier B.V. The World Health Organization's End TB Strategy aims to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) by 2050. Low-burden countries such as Australia are targeted for early elimination (2035), which will require an increase in the intensity and scope of case finding and treatment of people with latent TB infection (LTBI). Because 80 % of TB disease in Australia occurs in metropolitan Sydney (New South Wales) and Melbourne (Victoria), the commitment to move towards elimination has major implications for TB programs in these jurisdictions. We report on a case study analysis that compares and contrasts key attributes of each of these …
An In Situ Synchrotron Study Of The Localized B2↔B19' Phase Transformation In An Ni-Ti Alloy Subjected To Uniaxial Cyclic Loading-Unloading With Incremental Strains, Xiaohui Bian, Ahmed A. Saleh, Peter Lynch, Christopher Davies, Azdiar Adil Gazder, Elena V. Pereloma
An In Situ Synchrotron Study Of The Localized B2↔B19' Phase Transformation In An Ni-Ti Alloy Subjected To Uniaxial Cyclic Loading-Unloading With Incremental Strains, Xiaohui Bian, Ahmed A. Saleh, Peter Lynch, Christopher Davies, Azdiar Adil Gazder, Elena V. Pereloma
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© 2020. High-resolution in situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction was applied to study a cold-drawn and solution-treated 56Ni-44Tiwt% alloy subjected to uniaxial cyclic loading-unloading with incremental strains. The micro-mechanical behaviour associated with the partial and repeated B2↔B19' phase transformation at the centre of the sample gauge length was studied with respect to the macroscopic stress-strain response. The lattice strains of the (110)B2 and different B19' grain families are affected by (i) the transformation strain, the load-bearing capacity of both phases and the strain continuity maintained at/near the B2-B19' interfaces at the centre of the gauge length, and (ii) the extent of …
Autonomous Control Strategy For Microgrid Operating Modes Smooth Transition, Yaran Li, Long Fu, Ke Meng, Zhao Dong, Kashem M. Muttaqi, Wenli Du
Autonomous Control Strategy For Microgrid Operating Modes Smooth Transition, Yaran Li, Long Fu, Ke Meng, Zhao Dong, Kashem M. Muttaqi, Wenli Du
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© 2013 IEEE. Microgrid transition between standalone and grid-connected modes is a promising alternative to provide the grid with increasing flexibility and availability. However, transition smoothness relies heavily on control topologies and corresponding parameters, which thus remains challengeable. Existing microgrid transition strategies have two major deficiencies: 1) Inverter control mode alters subjected to microgrid operating mode, for instance, the inverter in current control will switch to voltage control when microgrid disconnects to the utility grid; 2) Controller parameters are selected based on practice and experience, where a systematic and efficient approach does not exist. Motivated by these limitations, in this …
A 3d Printed Modular Soft Gripper For Conformal Grasping, Charbel Tawk, Rahim Mutlu, Gursel Alici
A 3d Printed Modular Soft Gripper For Conformal Grasping, Charbel Tawk, Rahim Mutlu, Gursel Alici
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© 2020 IEEE. In this work, a 3D printed modular soft gripper with highly conformal soft fingers was developed. A soft auxetic structure with compliant ribs is 3D printed simultaneously with each soft pneumatic finger for conformal grasping. The fingers of the soft gripper were printed monolithically, without requiring support material and postprocessing, using a low-cost and open-source fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3D printer that employs a commercially available thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU). The soft fingers of the gripper were optimized using finite element modeling (FEM). The FE simulations accurately predicted the performance of the fingers in terms of deformation and …
Pressure-Drop Modelling In The Softening And Melting Test For Ferrous Burden, Subhasish Mitra, Xinliang Liu, Tom Honeyands, Geoffrey Evans, Damien O'Dea, Paul Zulli
Pressure-Drop Modelling In The Softening And Melting Test For Ferrous Burden, Subhasish Mitra, Xinliang Liu, Tom Honeyands, Geoffrey Evans, Damien O'Dea, Paul Zulli
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© 2020 ISIJ The softening and melting (SM) under load test is routinely conducted to assess the quality of ferrous burden materials and to predict their possible performance in blast furnace. Due to complex phase interactions coupled with chemical reactions at an elevated temperature range (~973 to 1 873 K), the flow dynamics in the test system are quite complex. This study systematically investigates the contraction behaviour and associated pressure drop in a SM test bed for sinter, lump (NBLL, Newman Blend Lump) and a mixture of these two types of ore (21 wt% NBLL + 79 wt% sinter). To …
Beyond Covariance: Sice And Kernel Based Visual Feature Representation, Jianjia Zhang, Lei Wang, Luping Zhou, Wanqing Li
Beyond Covariance: Sice And Kernel Based Visual Feature Representation, Jianjia Zhang, Lei Wang, Luping Zhou, Wanqing Li
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
© 2020, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. The past several years have witnessed increasing research interest on covariance-based feature representation. Originally proposed as a region descriptor, it has now been used as a general representation in various recognition tasks, demonstrating promising performance. However, covariance matrix has some inherent shortcomings such as singularity in the case of small sample, limited capability in modeling complicated feature relationship, and a single, fixed form of representation. To achieve better recognition performance, this paper argues that more capable and flexible symmetric positive definite (SPD)-matrix-based representation shall be explored, and this is attempted …
Recent Advancements In G-C3n4-Based Photocatalysts For Photocatalytic Co2reduction: A Mini Review, Runlu Liu, Zhixin Chen, Yao Yao, Yao Li, Waqas A. Cheema, Dawei Wang, Shenmin Zhu
Recent Advancements In G-C3n4-Based Photocatalysts For Photocatalytic Co2reduction: A Mini Review, Runlu Liu, Zhixin Chen, Yao Yao, Yao Li, Waqas A. Cheema, Dawei Wang, Shenmin Zhu
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© 2020 The Royal Society of Chemistry. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a very important micro-molecular resource. Using CO2 captured from the atmosphere for high-output synthesis of chemicals as raw materials has great significance and potential for various industrial applications. Since the industrial revolution in the 18th century, manmade CO2 emission has increased by 45%, which negatively impacts the planetary climate by the so-called greenhouse effect. Therefore, high-efficiency photocatalysis and photocatalysts for CO2 conversion have become the most important challenges and milestones throughout the world. In consideration of this, various catalysts have been explored. Among these, graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) as …
An International Survey On The Clinical Use Of Rigid And Deformable Image Registration In Radiotherapy, Johnson Yuen, Jeffrey Barber, Anna C. Ralston, Alison Gray, Amy L. Walker, Nicholas G. Hardcastle, Laurel Schmidt, Kristie Harrison, Joel Poder, Jonathan Sykes, Michael G. Jameson
An International Survey On The Clinical Use Of Rigid And Deformable Image Registration In Radiotherapy, Johnson Yuen, Jeffrey Barber, Anna C. Ralston, Alison Gray, Amy L. Walker, Nicholas G. Hardcastle, Laurel Schmidt, Kristie Harrison, Joel Poder, Jonathan Sykes, Michael G. Jameson
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Objectives: Rigid image registration (RIR) and deformable image registration (DIR) are widely used in radiotherapy. This project aims to capture current international approaches to image registration. Methods: A survey was designed to identify variations in use, resources, implementation, and decision-making criteria for clinical image registration. This was distributed to radiotherapy centers internationally in 2018. Results: There were 57 responses internationally, from the Americas (46%), Australia/New Zealand (32%), Europe (12%), and Asia (10%). Rigid image registration and DIR were used clinically for computed tomography (CT)-CT registration (96% and 51%, respectively), followed by CT-PET (81% and 47%), CT-CBCT (84% and 19%), CT-MR …
Information Security Governance Challenges And Critical Success Factors: Systematic Review, Sultan Safar A Al Ghamdi, Khin Than Win, Elena Vlahu-Gjorgievska
Information Security Governance Challenges And Critical Success Factors: Systematic Review, Sultan Safar A Al Ghamdi, Khin Than Win, Elena Vlahu-Gjorgievska
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd Information security is a critical aspect and plays a significant role in protecting an organization's business. Organizations are required to safeguard their information and assets to sustain their value and reputation. The systematic literature review presented in this paper aims to introduce information security governance as a comprehensive solution for alignment between information security policies and the organization's objectives. The review identified the need for developing a holistic framework for the information security governance that (1) connects the organization's objectives and its protection, (2) addresses each aspect of strategy, control, and regulation, (3) ensures compliance of …
Ecological, Economical And Technological Perspectives Based Sustainability Assessment In Hybrid-Cooling Assisted Machining Of Ti-6al-4 V Alloy, Munish Gupta, Qinghua Song, Zhanqiang Liu, Murat Sarikaya, Muhammad Jamil, Mozammel Mia, Vinod Kushvaha, Anil Singla, Zhixiong Li
Ecological, Economical And Technological Perspectives Based Sustainability Assessment In Hybrid-Cooling Assisted Machining Of Ti-6al-4 V Alloy, Munish Gupta, Qinghua Song, Zhanqiang Liu, Murat Sarikaya, Muhammad Jamil, Mozammel Mia, Vinod Kushvaha, Anil Singla, Zhixiong Li
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Ti-6Al-4 V alloy is a well-acknowledged standard material for the application of modern aerospace, surgical equipment, and prosthetic body parts owing to its stable thermo-physical properties at elevated temperature. However, this structure stability imparts its low thermal conductivity that leads to buildup of heat at tool-workpiece interface during machining which subsequently has a damaging effect on the tool cutting edge. Several biodegradable cutting fluids have already been attempted controlling the heat generation, environmental footprints to improve the overall machinability. In this endeavor, the effectiveness of dry, liquid nitrogen (LN2) and hybrid cryogenic and minimum quantity lubrication …
Equivalent Static Force Method For Selective Storage Racks With Uplifting Baseplates, James Maguire, Lip H. Teh, G Charles Clifton, Timothy J. Mccarthy
Equivalent Static Force Method For Selective Storage Racks With Uplifting Baseplates, James Maguire, Lip H. Teh, G Charles Clifton, Timothy J. Mccarthy
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
This paper is concerned with the equivalent static force method for the seismic design of selective storage racks with uplifting baseplates. It proposes a new procedure for determining the effective natural period of such racks in the cross-aisle direction for use in the NZS 1170.5 equivalent static method. The procedure is derived by comparing the base shear results of trialled Rayleigh methods against nonlinear time history analysis results involving 15 upright frame configurations, comprising 5 baseplate types for three, five and seven level racks. The time history analyses use a suite of 44 ground motion records. It is recommended that …
A Blockchain Based System For Safe Vaccine Supply And Supervision, Binbin Yong, Jun Shen, Xin Liu, Fucun Li, Huaming Chen, Qingguo Zhou
A Blockchain Based System For Safe Vaccine Supply And Supervision, Binbin Yong, Jun Shen, Xin Liu, Fucun Li, Huaming Chen, Qingguo Zhou
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Immunization is an indispensable mechanism for preventing infectious diseases in modern society, and vaccine safety is closely related to public health and national security. However, issues such as vaccine expiration and vaccine record fraud are still widespread in vaccine supply chains. Therefore, an effective management system for the supervision of vaccine supply chains is urgently required. As the next generation of core technology after the Internet, blockchain is designed to build trust mechanisms that can change current information management methods. Meanwhile, the development of machine learning technologies provides additional ways to analyze the data in information management systems. The main …
From Ideal To Reality: Segmentation, Annotation, And Recommendation, The Vital Trajectory Of Intelligent Micro Learning, Jiayin Lin, Geng Sun, Tingru Cui, Jun Shen, Dongming Xu, Ghassan Beydoun, Ping Yu, David Pritchard, Li Li, Shiping Chen
From Ideal To Reality: Segmentation, Annotation, And Recommendation, The Vital Trajectory Of Intelligent Micro Learning, Jiayin Lin, Geng Sun, Tingru Cui, Jun Shen, Dongming Xu, Ghassan Beydoun, Ping Yu, David Pritchard, Li Li, Shiping Chen
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
The soaring development of Web technologies and mobile devices has blurred time-space boundaries of people’s daily activities. Such development together with the life-long learning requirement give birth to a new learning style, micro learning. Micro learning aims to effectively utilize learners’ fragmented time to carry out personalized learning activities through online education resources. The whole workflow of a micro learning system can be separated into three processing stages: micro learning material generation, learning materials annotation and personalized learning materials delivery. Our micro learning framework is firstly introduced in this paper from a higher perspective. Then we will review representative segmentation …
Multi-Period Data Driven Control Strategy For Real-Time Management Of Energy Storages In Virtual Power Plants Integrated With Power Grid, Chixin Xiao, Danny Sutanto, Kashem M. Muttaqi, Minjie Zhang
Multi-Period Data Driven Control Strategy For Real-Time Management Of Energy Storages In Virtual Power Plants Integrated With Power Grid, Chixin Xiao, Danny Sutanto, Kashem M. Muttaqi, Minjie Zhang
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2019 Elsevier Ltd This paper investigates a novel real-time stochastic multi-period management strategy of a virtual power plant (VPP) using a three-layer language protocol based on computer program compiler principle, which takes advantage of the availability of the battery storage in a VPP to maximize the revenue of the VPP over the entire trading horizon considering the predicted prices in each slice of that horizon. When the conventional scenario tree method is used to solve the computational complexity of the multi-period stochastic optimization problem, it may cause the problem to become intractable when the problem-scale increases. This paper proposes a …
Group Self-Build Housing: A Bottom-Up Approach To Environmentally And Socially Sustainable Housing, Emma Elizabeth Heffernan, Pieter De Wilde
Group Self-Build Housing: A Bottom-Up Approach To Environmentally And Socially Sustainable Housing, Emma Elizabeth Heffernan, Pieter De Wilde
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In England, there is a longstanding and increasing undersupply of both affordable and open-market housing. Around three quarters of all new homes in the UK are currently built speculatively by the developer-led private housing sector. However, demand for self-build housing is growing. Concurrently, there is also a need to address the sustainability of homes, which represent 29% of final energy consumption in the UK. There is a clear imperative to develop business models within the construction sector in which both social and environmental sustainability are inherent. The aim of this paper is to explore professional and expert opinions on the …
A Semi-Analytic Valuation Of American Options Under A Two-State Regime-Switching Economy, Xiaoping Lu, Endah Putri
A Semi-Analytic Valuation Of American Options Under A Two-State Regime-Switching Economy, Xiaoping Lu, Endah Putri
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In this study, we develop a semi-analytic method to evaluate American options under a two-state regime-switching economy. The two free boundaries corresponding to the states divide the pricing domain into two regions: a common continuation region and a transition region. Non-linear partial differential equation (PDE) systems are derived under the Black-Scholes framework for each region. The Laplace transform method is used to solve the PDE systems. Equations for determining the optimal exercise prices are obtained analytically and solved numerically in the Laplace space. A numerical inversion technique is then used to obtain the free boundaries and the option prices in …
Compressive Behaviour Of Slender Frp-Confined Concrete-Encased Cross-Shaped Steel Columns, Le Huang, Tao Yu, Zhen-Yu Wang, Shi-Shun Zhang
Compressive Behaviour Of Slender Frp-Confined Concrete-Encased Cross-Shaped Steel Columns, Le Huang, Tao Yu, Zhen-Yu Wang, Shi-Shun Zhang
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Fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP)-confined concrete-encased cross-shaped steel columns (FCCSCs) consist of a square FRP outer tube with round corners, a cross-shaped inner steel section and concrete filled in the between. The unique configuration of FCCSCs ensures that the concrete in the columns is well confined despite the square column shape, as demonstrated by the relevant existing research. The existing work on FCCSCs, however, has been limited to the behavior of short FCCSCs under axial compression. With their optimal configuration, the use of FCCSCs means that considerably reduced section dimensions may be adopted for the same load demand, leading to relatively slender …