Dynamically configured vehicle
Patent
Charissis, V., Anderson, P., & Kenny, T. (2006)
Dynamically configured vehicle. GB2424398
An off-road vehicle able to negotiate a variable terrain comprising a cabin section 2 which is set on the hub body, in addition to a plurality of arms 4, with ground engaging ...
Replication fork blockage by transcription factor-DNA complexes in Escherichia coli
Journal Article
Payne, B., van Knippenberg, I., Bell, H., Filipe, S., Sherratt, D., & McGlynn, P. (2006)
Replication fork blockage by transcription factor-DNA complexes in Escherichia coli. Nucleic Acids Research, 34(18), 5194-5202. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkl682
All organisms require mechanisms that resuscitate replication forks when they break down, reflecting the complex intracellular environments within which DNA replication occurs...
PN code acquisition with a CA-CFAR adaptive digital matched filter and its realisation using FPGA.
Conference Proceeding
Wie, B., Sharif, M., Almaini, A. E. A. & Binnie, D. (2006)
PN code acquisition with a CA-CFAR adaptive digital matched filter and its realisation using FPGA. In Proceedings of IEEE 13th International Conference on Systems, Signals & Image Processing, IWSSIP’06
In this paper the performance of a Cell Averaging Constant False Alarm Rate (CA-CFAR) Pseudo-Noise (PN) code adaptive detector is analysed for a single path communication chan...
Chronic pancreatitis: pathophysiology and patient care
Journal Article
Smith, G., & Fawcett, T. (2006)
Chronic pancreatitis: pathophysiology and patient care. Gastrointestinal Nursing, 4(7), 20-26
Chronic pancreatitis represents a continuous and prolonged inflammatory and fibrosing process in the pancreas resulting in permanent exocrine and often also endocrine dysfunct...
The production of service in the digital city: a social informatics inquiry.
Conference Proceeding
Davenport, E., & Horton, K. (2006)
The production of service in the digital city: a social informatics inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-37876-3_19
The authors discuss eGovernment as a computerization movement, and present a case study of a small project that was part of a modernising government initiative in a UK municip...
Gender differences and mental health: An exploratory study of knowledge and attitudes to mental health among Scottish teenagers
Journal Article
Williams, B., & Pow, J. (2007)
Gender differences and mental health: An exploratory study of knowledge and attitudes to mental health among Scottish teenagers. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 12(1), 8-12. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-3588.2006.00413.x
Method:  A cross-sectional survey of 496 teenagers was conducted in order to explore their knowledge and attitude towards mental health and people with mental health problems....
Non-linear predictors based on the functionally expanded neural networks for speech feature extraction
Conference Proceeding
Chetouani, M., Hussain, A., Gas, B., & Zarader, J. (2006)
Non-linear predictors based on the functionally expanded neural networks for speech feature extraction. In 2006 IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Intelligent Systemshttps://doi.org/10.1109/ICEIS.2006.1703129
In this paper we focus on the design of the feature extractor stage of the speech recognition system which aims to compute optimal vectors for the next phoneme classification ...
Heuristics and meta-heuristics for bandwidth minimization of sparse matrices
Conference Proceeding
Abdullah, A., & Hussain, A. (2006)
Heuristics and meta-heuristics for bandwidth minimization of sparse matrices. In 2006 IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Intelligent Systemshttps://doi.org/10.1109/ICEIS.2006.1703188
In this paper a new crossing minimization based method is proposed to solve the well-known matrix bandwidth minimization problem, which is to permute the rows and columns of t...
Blind equalization of communication channels with equal energy sources using a combined HOS-SOS approach
Conference Proceeding
Naveed, A., Qureshi, I., Hussain, A., & Cheema, T. (2006)
Blind equalization of communication channels with equal energy sources using a combined HOS-SOS approach. In 2006 IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Intelligent Systemshttps://doi.org/10.1109/ICEIS.2006.1703137
This paper presents a combined higher order statistics (HOS) and second order statistics (SOS) approach to blind equalization of white as well as colored sources. Remarkable c...
Stabilization of non-linear inertia wheel pendulum system using a new dynamic surface control based technique
Conference Proceeding
Qaiser, N., Iqbal, N., & Hussain, A. (2006)
Stabilization of non-linear inertia wheel pendulum system using a new dynamic surface control based technique. In 2006 IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Intelligent Systemshttps://doi.org/10.1109/ICEIS.2006.1703194
This paper considers the stabilization problem of inertia-wheel pendulum (IWP), a widely studied nonlinear mechanical system. The IWP is a classical example of flat under-actu...