The need for the early identification of children with permanent childhood hearing impairment (PCHI), most of which is congenital, has long been recognised in the UK. The early work of the School Medical Service, and of the Ewings in Manchester, supported by key developments elsewhere in the UK, led in the 1960s to a de facto national screening programme. This was configured around a “distracti...

In order to control residual stress distribution in glass, techniques based on the phenomenon of photoelasticity are efficient, though subject to the inherent limitations of all optical techniques. To mitigate these limitations, we exploit the phenomenon of acoustoelasticity to estimate residual stress distribution, using surface acoustic waves. In this study, we characterize the surface residu...

Mobile payment refers to the use of mobile devices to conduct payment transactions. Users can use mobile devices for remote and proximity payments; moreover, they can purchase digital contents and physical goods and services. It offers an alternative payment method for consumers. However, there are relative low adoption rates in this payment method. This research aims to identify and explore ke...

This paper makes a comparison in terms of the bit error rate (BER) and frame error rate (FER) versus signal to noise ratio (SNR) between the different methods of the trellis termination of the recursive, systematic, single and double-binary convolutional codes used in turbo-codes. The best four well known termination methods were investigated: circular (tailbiting), single-termination, interlea...

To reach sustainable aviation, one approach is to use electro-fuels (e-fuels) within the gas turbine engines. E-fuels are CO2-neutral synthetic fuels which produced employing electrical energy generated from renewable resources, where carbon taken out of atmosphere or biomass. Our is, find e-fuels, can be utilized in lean premixed prevaporized (LPP) combustion, most non-CO2 emissions prevented....

Surface acoustic waves (SAW) have underpinned many acoustofluidic applications. But the typical straight, full-width interdigital transducers used to generate these are problematic. Fresnel diffraction of propagating SAW causes strong nonuniformity in wave's amplitude as it propagates across substrate, leading flow variations, recirculation, and peculiar wetting phenomena fluids driven by such ...

We propose a feature for action recognition called Trajectory-Set (TS), on top of the improved Dense Trajectory (iDT). The TS feature encodes only trajectories around densely sampled interest points, without any appearance features. Experimental results on the UCF50, UCF101, and HMDB51 action datasets demonstrate that TS is comparable to state-of-the-arts, and outperforms many other methods; fo...