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Tsunami Generation By Combined Fault Rupture And Landsliding, Natalia Perez Del Postigo Prieto Jan 2020

Tsunami Generation By Combined Fault Rupture And Landsliding, Natalia Perez Del Postigo Prieto

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

Tsunami generation and propagation mechanisms need to be clearly understood in order to inform predictive models and improve coastal community preparedness. In the last two decades, unexpectedly large tsunamis have devastated localised coastal communities claiming thousands of lives (i.e. the Japan Tsunami of 2011 and Palu Bay Tsunami 2018). An earthquake primarily caused these devastating tsunamis, although the moderate earthquake magnitude for case of (Palu Bay Tsunami 2018), wave directivity and wave arrival time, and extremely large run-up heights in localised areas did not agree with predictions or later tsunami simulations. However, evidence has been later found to suggest that …


Investigation Of The Chemical Composition Of Plasma-Treated Water By Midiplexc And Its Antimicrobial Effect On L. Monocytogenes And Pseudomonas Fluorescens Monospecies Suspension Cultures, Oliver Handorf, Harald Below, Uta Schnabel, Katharina Riedel Jan 2020

Investigation Of The Chemical Composition Of Plasma-Treated Water By Midiplexc And Its Antimicrobial Effect On L. Monocytogenes And Pseudomonas Fluorescens Monospecies Suspension Cultures, Oliver Handorf, Harald Below, Uta Schnabel, Katharina Riedel

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Plasma -generated compounds conceived by microwave -induced plasma (MidiPLexc) were physicochemically investigated in their molecular compositions. Therefore, plasma -treated water (PTW) was generated by treatment with the MidiPLexc within a 1 l glass bottle for a pre -treatment time of 100 s, 300 s and 900 s. The PTW was further investigated in its composition of reactive oxygen/nitrogen species. For this purpose, the hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) concentration of the PTW was determined electrochemically using chronoamperometry, and the anionic components were determined using ion chromatography. As a result, H2O2 concentrations of up to 720 mg l−1 , nitrite concentrations of 1600 …


Analysis Of A Large Spatiotemporal Groundwater Quality Dataset, Ontario 2010–2017: Informing Human Health Risk Assessment And Testing Guidance For Private Drinking Water Wells, Tessa Latchmore, Paul Hynds, R. Stephen Brown, Corinne Schuster-Wallace, Sarah Dickson-Anderson, Kevin Mcdermott, Anna Majury Jan 2020

Analysis Of A Large Spatiotemporal Groundwater Quality Dataset, Ontario 2010–2017: Informing Human Health Risk Assessment And Testing Guidance For Private Drinking Water Wells, Tessa Latchmore, Paul Hynds, R. Stephen Brown, Corinne Schuster-Wallace, Sarah Dickson-Anderson, Kevin Mcdermott, Anna Majury

Articles

Approximately 1.5 million individuals in Ontario are supplied by private water wells (private groundwater supplies). Unlike municipal supplies, private well water quality remains unregulated, with owners responsible for testing, treating, and maintaining their own water supplies. The primary goal of this study was to assess the effect of repeat sampling of private well water in Ontario and investigate the efficacy of geographically- and/or temporally specific testing recommendations and health risk assessments. The current study combines the Well Water Information System Dataset and the Well Water Testing Dataset from 2010 to 2017, inclusive. These two large existing province-wide datasets collated over …


Knowledge And Behavioural Interventions To Reduce Human Health Risk From Private Groundwater Systems: A Global Review And Pooled Analysis Based On Development Status, S. Mooney, C. P. Mcdowell, J. O'Dwyer, P. D. Hynds Jan 2020

Knowledge And Behavioural Interventions To Reduce Human Health Risk From Private Groundwater Systems: A Global Review And Pooled Analysis Based On Development Status, S. Mooney, C. P. Mcdowell, J. O'Dwyer, P. D. Hynds

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Groundwater contamination constitutes a significant health risk for private well users residing in rural areas. As the responsibility to safeguard rural private domestic groundwater typically rests with non-expert homeowners, interventions promoting risk mitigation and awareness represent the most viable means of preventing supply contamination. However, no global review or pooled analyses of these interventions has been undertaken to date. The current study sought to identify and quantify the performance of private well interventions from 1990 to 2018 via a global systematised review and pooled analysis. The PICO (Population-Intervention-Comparison-Outcome) approach was employed for literature identification. Relevant studies were statistically analysed across …


Risk Communication Approaches For Preventing Private Groundwater Contamination In The Republic Of Ireland: A Mixed-Methods Study Of Multidisciplinary Expert Opinion, S. Mooney, J. O'Dwyer, Paul Hynds Jan 2020

Risk Communication Approaches For Preventing Private Groundwater Contamination In The Republic Of Ireland: A Mixed-Methods Study Of Multidisciplinary Expert Opinion, S. Mooney, J. O'Dwyer, Paul Hynds

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The mechanisms of private-well groundwater contamination are uniquely complex, necessitating a multisector communicative approach to risk management, premised on behaviour promotion. In countries such as the Republic of Ireland (ROI), characterised by oftentimes high groundwater contamination risk and concurrently limited user awareness, incorporation of multidisciplinary, ‘expert-based’ knowledge may facilitate design of evidence-based, practical interventions. Expert interviews represent an efficient form of expert consultation, enabling ease of access to niche information and comparison of procedure, but remain under-utilised within the groundwater management literature. In response, the current study elicited opinion from 50 experts across four broad categories (communications, engineering/science, policy, and …


Emotion-Related Socialization In The Classroom: Considering The Roles Of Teachers And Peers, Carlos Valiente, Jodi Swanson, Dawn Delay, Ashley M. Fraser, Julia H. Parker Jan 2020

Emotion-Related Socialization In The Classroom: Considering The Roles Of Teachers And Peers, Carlos Valiente, Jodi Swanson, Dawn Delay, Ashley M. Fraser, Julia H. Parker

Faculty Publications

The goal of this paper was to apply aspects of the heuristic model advanced by Eisenberg, Cumberland, and Spinrad (1998)to the study of socialization that takes place in preschool and elementary school classrooms. Investigating socialization in this context is important given the number of hours students spend in school, the emotional nature of social interactions that take place involving teachers and students, and the emotions students often experience in the context of academic work. Guided by Eisenberg and colleagues’(1998) call to consider complex socialization pathways, we focus our discussion on ways teachers, peers, and the classroom context can shape students’ …


A Statistically Significant Test To Evaluate The Order Or Disorder For A Binary String Of A Finite Length, Jonathan Blackledge, N. Mosola Jan 2020

A Statistically Significant Test To Evaluate The Order Or Disorder For A Binary String Of A Finite Length, Jonathan Blackledge, N. Mosola

Conference papers

—This paper addresses a basic problem in regard to the analysis of a finite binary string or bit stream (of compact support), namely, how to tell whether the string is representative of non-random or intelligible information (involving some form of periodicity, for example), whether it is the product of an entirely random process or whether it is something in between thetwo.Thisproblemhasapplicationsthatincludecryptanalysis, quantitative finance, machine learning, artificial intelligence and other forms of signal and image processing involving the general problem of how to distinguishing real noise from information embedded in noise, for example. After providing a short introductiontotheproblem,wefocusontheapplicationofinformation entropy for solving …


Deep Learning Towards Intelligent Vehicle Fault Diagnosis, Mohammed Al-Zeyadi, Javier Andreu-Perez, Hani Hagras, Chris Royce, Darren Smith, Piotr Rzonsowski, Ali Malik Jan 2020

Deep Learning Towards Intelligent Vehicle Fault Diagnosis, Mohammed Al-Zeyadi, Javier Andreu-Perez, Hani Hagras, Chris Royce, Darren Smith, Piotr Rzonsowski, Ali Malik

Conference papers

Recently, the rapid development of automotive industries has given rise to large multidimensional datasets both in the production sites and after-sale services. Fault diagnostic systems are one of the services that the automotive industries provide. As a consequence of the rapid development of cars features, traditional rule-based diagnostic systems became very limited. Therefore, more sophisticated AI approaches need to be investigated towards more efficient solutions. In this paper, we focus on utilising deep learning so as to build a diagnostic system that is able to estimate the required services in an efficient and effective way. We propose a new model, …


Nanomagnetic Resonance Imaging (Nano-Mri) Gives Personalized Medicine A New Perspective, Lorenzo Rosa, Jonathan Blackledge, Albert Boretti Jan 2020

Nanomagnetic Resonance Imaging (Nano-Mri) Gives Personalized Medicine A New Perspective, Lorenzo Rosa, Jonathan Blackledge, Albert Boretti

Books/Book chapters

This chapter provides a brief overview of molecular imaging techniques and its present and future potential in personalized medicine, with special a focus on the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) approach. It discusses the current techniques that allow for the in vivo visualization of molecular processes at the nanoscale resolution (nano-MRI). Nano-MRI is progressing rapidly thanks to the work of a very small but extremely brilliant community of experts. This paper is not intended to be a comprehensive review of nano-MRI written for these experts, but rather a concise description of the present achievements for a much broader audience of medical …


Comparison Of Rans Turbulence Models In Predicting Wake Development In A 2-Dimensional Actuator Disk Model, Chee Meng Pang, David Kennedy, Fergal O'Rourke Dr Jan 2020

Comparison Of Rans Turbulence Models In Predicting Wake Development In A 2-Dimensional Actuator Disk Model, Chee Meng Pang, David Kennedy, Fergal O'Rourke Dr

Conference Papers

One of the most popular methodologies used to predict the wake of a tidal stream turbine (TST) is the RANS turbulence models coupled with the actuator disk method. This methodology has been widely adopted in the in the wind industry, since the mid-1990s, to predict wake development of wind turbines. Moreover, the reason for its popularity is its capability to give accurate results at an affordable computational cost, and the application of 2-dimensional actuator disk approach could further reduce the computational cost. In this paper, a number of RANS turbulence models represented by a porous disk were used to simulate …


The Fabrication And Properties Of Magnetorheological Elastomers Employing Bio-Inspired Dopamine Modified Carbonyl Iron Particles, Yanfen Zhou, Lele Li, Wenyue Li, Shipeng Wen, Liang Jiang, Stephen Jerrams, Jianwei Ma, Shaojuan Chen Jan 2020

The Fabrication And Properties Of Magnetorheological Elastomers Employing Bio-Inspired Dopamine Modified Carbonyl Iron Particles, Yanfen Zhou, Lele Li, Wenyue Li, Shipeng Wen, Liang Jiang, Stephen Jerrams, Jianwei Ma, Shaojuan Chen

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To obtain magnetorheological elastomers (MREs) with improved mechanical properties and exhibiting an enhanced magnetorheological (MR) effect, bio-inspired dopamine modification has been used to improve the functionality at the surface of carbonyl iron (CI) particles. Various techniques including x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) were used to confirm that a polydopamine (PDA) layer of about 27.5 nm had been successfully deposited on the surface of the carbonyl iron particles prior to their inclusion in the MRE composites. The magnetic properties of PDA modified CI particles were shown to be almost the same as those …


Enhanced Covalent Interface, Crosslinked Network And Gas Barrier Property Of Functionalized Graphene Oxide/Styrene-Butadiene Rubber Composites Triggered By Thiol-Ene Click Reaction, Long Zheng, Stephen Jerrams, Tian Su, Zongchao Xu, Liqun Zhang, Li Liu, Shipeng Wen Jan 2020

Enhanced Covalent Interface, Crosslinked Network And Gas Barrier Property Of Functionalized Graphene Oxide/Styrene-Butadiene Rubber Composites Triggered By Thiol-Ene Click Reaction, Long Zheng, Stephen Jerrams, Tian Su, Zongchao Xu, Liqun Zhang, Li Liu, Shipeng Wen

Articles

The high gas barrier property of a rubber composite is of great significance for reducing the exhaust gas emissions due to tire rolling resistance and hence the contribution this factor makes to environmental protection. Enhanced covalent interfaces and crosslinked networks are crucial to the gas barrier property of rubber composites. In this research, γ-mercaptopropyltriethoxysilane (MPS) modified GO (MGO)/styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) composites were prepared by a synergetic strategy of latex compounding method and thiol-ene click reaction. It was found that the mercapto groups in MGO reacted with the vinyl groups in SBR molecules through thiol-ene click reaction during the crosslinking process …


Low Cost And Sustainable Repair Material Made From Alkali-Activated High-Calcium Fly Ash With Calcium Carbide Residue, Tanakorn Phoo-Ngernkham, Chattarika Phiangphimai, Darrakorn Intarabut, Sakonwan Hanjitsuwan, Nattapong Damrongwiriyanupap, Long Yuan Li, Prinya Chindaprasirt Jan 2020

Low Cost And Sustainable Repair Material Made From Alkali-Activated High-Calcium Fly Ash With Calcium Carbide Residue, Tanakorn Phoo-Ngernkham, Chattarika Phiangphimai, Darrakorn Intarabut, Sakonwan Hanjitsuwan, Nattapong Damrongwiriyanupap, Long Yuan Li, Prinya Chindaprasirt

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.


Stacked Volume Holographic Gratings For Extending The Operational Wavelength Range In Led And Solar Applications, Sanjay Keshri, Julia Marín-Sáez, Izabela Naydenova, Kevin Murphy, Jesús Atencia, Daniel Chemisana, Sean Garner, María-Victoria Collados, Suzanne Martin Jan 2020

Stacked Volume Holographic Gratings For Extending The Operational Wavelength Range In Led And Solar Applications, Sanjay Keshri, Julia Marín-Sáez, Izabela Naydenova, Kevin Murphy, Jesús Atencia, Daniel Chemisana, Sean Garner, María-Victoria Collados, Suzanne Martin

Articles

A novel stacking procedure is presented for volume phase holographic gratings (VPHGs) recorded in photopolymer material using Corning Willow Glass as a flexible substrate in order to achieve broader angular and spectral selectivity in a diffractive device with high efficiency for solar and LED applications. For the first time to our knowledge, we have shown a device designed for use with a white LED that has the same input and output angles and high efficiency when illuminated by different wavelengths. In this paper, two VPHGs were designed, experimentally recorded, and tested when illuminated at normal incidence. The experimental approach is …


Are Electric Vehicles A Panacea For Reducing Ozone Precursor Emissions?, Gary A. Bishop Jan 2020

Are Electric Vehicles A Panacea For Reducing Ozone Precursor Emissions?, Gary A. Bishop

Fuel Efficiency Automobile Test Publications

No abstract provided.


On-Road Remote Sensing Of Automobile Emissions In The Denver Area: Winter 2020, Gary A. Bishop Jan 2020

On-Road Remote Sensing Of Automobile Emissions In The Denver Area: Winter 2020, Gary A. Bishop

Fuel Efficiency Automobile Test Publications

No abstract provided.


On-Road Remote Sensing Of Automobile Emissions In The Tulsa Area: Fall 2019, Gary A. Bishop Jan 2020

On-Road Remote Sensing Of Automobile Emissions In The Tulsa Area: Fall 2019, Gary A. Bishop

Fuel Efficiency Automobile Test Publications

No abstract provided.


Maturity Model For Healthcare Cloud Security, Opeoluwa Ore Akinsanya Jan 2020

Maturity Model For Healthcare Cloud Security, Opeoluwa Ore Akinsanya

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

Management of security across eHealth cloud services is a major organizational challenge that healthcare organizations seek to resolve in order to aid their trusts in cloud and increase the adoption of cloud services in healthcare. The organizational challenges regarding implementations of technical security solutions are the major limiting factors for the adoption of the eHealth cloud. As such, the aim of this research will focus on developing a security maturity model, which will help healthcare organizations to provide a description of the application of their cloud security services, and an assessment and improvement of their cloud security services over time, …


User Profiling Based On Network Application Traffic Monitoring, Faisal Shaman Jan 2020

User Profiling Based On Network Application Traffic Monitoring, Faisal Shaman

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

There is increasing interest in identifying users and behaviour profiling from network traffic metadata for traffic engineering and security monitoring. However, user identification and behaviour profiling in real-time network management remains a challenge, as the activities and underlying interactions of network applications are constantly changing. User behaviour is also changing and adapting in parallel, due to changes in the online interaction environment. A major challenge is how to detect user activity among generic network traffic in terms of identifying the user and his/her changing behaviour over time. Another issue is that relying only on computer network information (Internet Protocol [IP] …


Preparation Of Supporting Photocatalysts For Water Treatment Using Natural Sunlight As An Alternative Driving Energy, Puttaiah S Harikaranahalli, S Menon, Ravindra Y Shivamurthy, S Kumari, H Revanna, D Jenkins Jan 2020

Preparation Of Supporting Photocatalysts For Water Treatment Using Natural Sunlight As An Alternative Driving Energy, Puttaiah S Harikaranahalli, S Menon, Ravindra Y Shivamurthy, S Kumari, H Revanna, D Jenkins

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.


High Throughput Wmn For The Communication In Disaster Scenario, Auberlin Paguem Tchinda, Gregor Frick, Ulrich Trick, Armin Lehmann, Bogdan Ghita Jan 2020

High Throughput Wmn For The Communication In Disaster Scenario, Auberlin Paguem Tchinda, Gregor Frick, Ulrich Trick, Armin Lehmann, Bogdan Ghita

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.


A Survey Investigating The Combination And Number Of Imus On The Human Body Used For Detecting Activities And Human Tracking, Olaf Reich, Erik Hubner, Bogdan Ghita, Matthias F. Wagner, Jorg Schafer Jan 2020

A Survey Investigating The Combination And Number Of Imus On The Human Body Used For Detecting Activities And Human Tracking, Olaf Reich, Erik Hubner, Bogdan Ghita, Matthias F. Wagner, Jorg Schafer

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.


Effective Online Safety Awareness For Young People In Less Developed Countries, Kona Ramesswar Kona Herkanaidu Jan 2020

Effective Online Safety Awareness For Young People In Less Developed Countries, Kona Ramesswar Kona Herkanaidu

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

In less developed countries (LDCs) there is a research deficit on the positive and negative aspects of their respective emerging digital cultures. Education programmes that seek to raise awareness of online safety, needs to be based on evidence and not simply transposed from other countries as the issues involved may be very different. Thailand, in particular, has very little data that can be used to create meaningful educational material. This was determined after a thorough literature review which found that most of the research has been carried out in the advanced economies of North America, Europe and Australasia. By contrast …


Multi-Modal Personalisation In Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction, Bahar Irfan Jan 2020

Multi-Modal Personalisation In Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction, Bahar Irfan

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

While short-term interactions with robots benefit from the novelty effect, long-term interactions can suffer from a decrease in user interest and engagement. Based on the previous research within Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), the thesis presented here is that user experience in long-term human-robot interactions can be improved by personalising the interaction through recognising users and recalling previously learned information. User recognition is the first step towards personalising the interaction, however, there does not exist a reliable user recognition method for fully autonomous user recognition in long- term HRI for real-world applications. Correspondingly, this thesis proposes a Multi-modal Incremental Bayesian Network (MMIBN) …


The Role And Contribution Of Knowledge And Knowledge Management Practices In Policing. The Case Of An Garda Síochána, Paul Mc Evoy Jan 2020

The Role And Contribution Of Knowledge And Knowledge Management Practices In Policing. The Case Of An Garda Síochána, Paul Mc Evoy

Doctoral

Thisresearch was undertaken in response to knowledge, and particularly knowledge management practice in policing that finds it complex, multifaceted, under researched and lacking in structure and cohesion. This exploratory research sets out to evaluate the role and contribution of knowledge and knowledge management practices in policing, and using An Garda Síochána, (the Police Service ofthe Republic of Ireland), as the underlying case exemplar in this work, it will contribute to the extant literature and understanding in the area by use of a study which contains unprecedented insider access to a modern police force, practical findings for knowledge change predicated on …


Identity As A Service: An Adaptive Security Infrastructure And Privacy-Preserving User Identity For The Cloud Environment, Hoang Tri Vo Jan 2020

Identity As A Service: An Adaptive Security Infrastructure And Privacy-Preserving User Identity For The Cloud Environment, Hoang Tri Vo

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

In recent years, enterprise applications have begun to migrate from a local hosting to a cloud provider and may have established a business-to-business relationship with each other manually. Adaptation of existing applications requires substantial implementation changes in individual architectural components. Existing work has focused on migrating the applications with functional and non-functional aspects. However, none of them has focused so far on the adaptation of the required security infrastructure. On the other hand, users may store their Personal Identifiable Information (PII) in the cloud environment so that cloud services may access and use it on demand. Although cloud services specify …


An Adaptable Interleaved Dc-Dc Boost Converter, Stuart Macveigh Jan 2020

An Adaptable Interleaved Dc-Dc Boost Converter, Stuart Macveigh

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

A.H. Weinberg presented his classic boost topology in his 1974 publication intended for use in satellites. It comprises minimal external components and uses multiple coupled coil systems to provide a boost of up to 2x. Its simplicity makes it inherently robust and reliable as minimal components means lower chance of failure. While its simplicity makes it attractive it has limited boost capability which makes it unsuitable for many modern day applications. No significant investigation has been carried out on adapting the Weinberg topology for high boost operation so far as can be ascertained. An investigation into adapting the Weinberg converter …


Offshore Conversion Of Wind Power To Gaseous Fuels: Feasibility Study In A Depleted Gas Field, P. D. O'Kelly-Lynch, P. D. Gallagher, A. G.L. Borthwick, E. J. Mckeogh, P. G. Leahy Jan 2020

Offshore Conversion Of Wind Power To Gaseous Fuels: Feasibility Study In A Depleted Gas Field, P. D. O'Kelly-Lynch, P. D. Gallagher, A. G.L. Borthwick, E. J. Mckeogh, P. G. Leahy

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

A proof-of-concept study is presented of a Power-to-Gas system that is located fully offshore. This paper analyses how such a system would perform if based at the depleted Kinsale Gas Field in the Celtic Sea Basin off the south coast of Ireland. An offshore wind farm is proposed as the power source for the system. Several conversion technologies are examined in detail in terms of resource efficiency, technological maturity, and platform area footprint, the aim being to ascertain their overall applicability to an offshore Power-to-Gas system. The technologies include proton exchange membrane electrolysers for electrolysis of water to release H2. …


Global Trends In Water And Sediment Fluxes Of The World’S Large Rivers, Li Li, Jinren Ni, Fang Chang, Yao Yue, Natalia Frolova, Dmitry Magritsky, Alistair G.L. Borthwick, Philippe Ciais, Yichu Wang, Chunmiao Zheng, Desmond E. Walling Jan 2020

Global Trends In Water And Sediment Fluxes Of The World’S Large Rivers, Li Li, Jinren Ni, Fang Chang, Yao Yue, Natalia Frolova, Dmitry Magritsky, Alistair G.L. Borthwick, Philippe Ciais, Yichu Wang, Chunmiao Zheng, Desmond E. Walling

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.


Alternate Erosion And Deposition In The Yangtze Estuary And The Future Change, Boyuan Zhu, Yitian Li, Yao Yue, Yunping Yang, Enhang Liang, Chuncai Zhang, Alistair G.L. Borthwick Jan 2020

Alternate Erosion And Deposition In The Yangtze Estuary And The Future Change, Boyuan Zhu, Yitian Li, Yao Yue, Yunping Yang, Enhang Liang, Chuncai Zhang, Alistair G.L. Borthwick

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.