• Misinformation: Technology, Elections and Democracy - Who, what, why, when, where? 

  Danbury, Richard (Conference)

  This was an international, comparative and historical survey of the phenomenon of misinformation and fake news; and a brief analysis of some contemporary policy and legislative responses to it.
• Vulnerability Analysis of Network Scanning on SCADA Systems 

  Coffey, K. ; Smith, Richard ; Maglaras, Leandros ; Janicke, Helge (Article)

  Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems and Industrial Control Systems (ICSs) have controlled the regulation and management of Critical National Infrastructure environments for decades. With the demand for ...
• Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics 

  Lahiri, Indrani ; Ayesh, Aladdin, 1972- ; Mills, Simon (Conference)

  Call for papers We invite contributions to a Special Issue on Big Data, AI and Digital Futures: Challenges, changes and continuities, to be published by the AI & Society Journal of Culture, Knowledge and Communication ...
• Matrix Factorization Techniques for Context-Aware Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems: A Survey 

  Abdi, Mohamed Hussein ; Okeyo, George ; Mwangi, Ronald Waweru (Article)

  Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems predict user preferences for online information, products or services by learning from past user-item relationships. A predominant approach to Collaborative Filtering ...
• Order-Preserving Encryption Using Approximate Integer Common Divisors 

  Dyer, James ; Dyer, Martin ; Xu, Jie (Conference)

  We present a new, but simple, randomised order-preserving encryption (OPE) scheme based on the general approximate common divisor problem (GACDP). This appears to be the first OPE scheme to be based on a computational ...
• The Violence of Impact: unpacking relations between gender, media and politics 

  Savigny, Heather (Article)

  Engaging in public dialogue is a crucial part of the impact agenda, but what are the politics of this engagement? What happens when female academics engage with, or are reported by media, in disseminating their research? ...
• Experimental investigation of aerodynamic hysteresis using a 5-DoF wind tunnel manoeuvre rig 

  Gong, Z. ; Araujo-Estrada, Sergio A. ; Lowenberg, M. H. ; Neild, Simon ; Goman, M. (Mikhail G.) (Article)

  The high-incidence aerodynamics of a lightweight jet trainer aircraft model has been investigated using a novel five-degree-of-freedom (DOF) dynamic maneuver rig, recently updated with improved actuation and data acquisition ...
• “Town centres first”: the relocation of the cinema from out of town to the town centre (Invited paper) 

  Hanson, Stuart (Conference)

  In 2013 the British Film Institute (BFI, 2013) reported that 48 per cent of Britain’s 3,817 cinema screens were in town/city centres, 14 per cent in ‘edge of centre’ sites and 34 per cent in ‘out of town’ sites. Though the ...
• From Greenfield to Brownfield: the movement of the multiplex into the urban centre’ (Invited paper) 

  Hanson, Stuart (Conference)

  When Britain’s first multiplex, The Point, opened in Milton Keynes in 1985 the site chosen was a green field one in what was at the time a planned new town. For the next ten years new multiplex developments were primarily ...
• Entering the age of the hypermarket cinema’: the first five years of the multiplex in the United Kingdom 

  Hanson, Stuart (Conference)

  Jim Higgins, managing director of distributor UIP, commenting on the imminent opening by American Multi-Cinema (AMC) of Britain’s first multiplex in Milton Keynes; summarised the future attraction of the multiplex when he ...
• The Point: Birth of the Multiplex in Great Britain (Invited paper) 

  Hanson, Stuart (Conference)

  By the early 1980s Britain was viewed as a market in which the domestic exhibition sector was in terminal decline, whilst at the same time being a market in which films from the United States were both popular and dominant. ...
• Parametric analysis of influencing factors in Phase Change Material Wallboard (PCMW) 

  Zhou, D. ; Shire, G.S.F ; Tian, Y. (Article)

  Incorporating Phase Change Materials (PCMs) into traditional building structures has been considered as an effective way to reduce the mismatch between energy supply and demand and in turn to minimise energy consumption ...
• Effects of multiple sintering parameters on the thermal performance of bi-porous nickel wicks in Loop Heat Pipes 

  Qu, Y. ; Zhou, Kan ; Zhang, Kunfeng ; Tian, Y. (Article)

  The thermal performances of a bi-porous nickel wicks in Loop Heat Pipe (LHP) including porosity, permeability, capillary pumping head and effective thermal conductivity (ETC) have been examined theoretically and experimentally, ...
• A review of thermal performance in multiple evaporators loop heat pipe 

  Qu, Y. ; Wang, S. ; Tian, Y. (Article)

  Multi-evaporator loop heat pipe (ME-LHP), as one of the typical two-phase closed capillary circulation systems, exhibits tremendous potential in applications which involve high heat flux and multi-heat sources, and is ...
• Computational and experimental investigations of an omni-flow wind turbine 

  Ying, P. ; Chen, Y.K. ; Xu, Y.G. ; Tian, Y. (Article)

  Both numerical and experimental studies were conducted to evaluate the performance of an omni-flow wind turbine designed to provide renewable electricity on the top of urban buildings like skyscrapers. The numerical approach ...
• Thermal analysis of phase change material board (PCMB) under weather conditions in the summer 

  Zhou, D. ; Tian, Y. ; Qu, Y. ; Chen, Y.K. ; Tian, Y (Article)

  Phase Change Material Board (PCMB) has been considered as an effective way to improve the thermal comfort in either new or existing buildings. In this work, firstly the optimal melting temperatures of internal and external ...
• Memories of cinema-going, community and the revival of the local cinema 

  Hanson, Stuart (Conference)

  This presentation will consider some preliminary data from a quantitative study, undertaken by members of De Montfort University’s Cinema and Television History Research Institute and the University of Leicester’s Research ...
• A performance indicator for reference-point-based multiobjective evolutionary optimization 

  Hou, Zhanglu ; Yang, Shengxiang ; Zou, Juan ; Zheng, Jinhua ; Yu, Guo ; Ruan, Gan (Conference)

  Aiming at the difficulty in evaluating preference-based evolutionary multiobjective optimization, this paper proposes a new performance indicator. The main idea is to project the preferred solutions onto a constructed ...
• An evolutionary dynamic multi-objective optimization algorithm based on center-point prediction and sub-population autonomous guidance 

  Zhou, Jianwei ; Zou, Juan ; Yang, Shengxiang ; Ruan, Gan ; Ou, Junwei ; Zheng, Jinhua (Conference)

  Dynamic multi-objective optimization problems (DMOPs) provide a challenge in that objectives conflict each other and change over time. In this paper, a hybrid approach based on prediction and autonomous guidance is proposed, ...
• Multidimensional prognostics for rotating machinery: A review 

  Li, Xiaochuan ; Duan, Fang ; Mba, David ; Bennett, Ian (Article)

  Determining prognosis for rotating machinery could potentially reduce maintenance costs and improve safety and avail- ability. Complex rotating machines are usually equipped with multiple sensors, which enable the development ...

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