| | 3. | On impact damage detection and quantification for CFRP laminates using structural response data only Original Research Article
Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 17 June 2011
M.T.H. Sultan, K. Worden, S.G. Pierce, D. Hickey, W.J. Staszewski, J.M. Dulieu-Barton, A. Hodzic
Highlights► Description of high-quality corpus of composite impact data. ► Detection of damaging impacts on composite laminates from response data alone. ► Correlation of impact response and other parameters with damage extent.
| | | | 4. | Industrial assembly of parts with dimensional variations. Case study: Assembling vehicle headlamps Original Research Article
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 17 June 2011
J. Gomez Ortega, J. Gamez Garcia, S. Satorres Martinez, A. Sanchez Garcia
Highlights► A new methodology of dynamic assembly, that requires an adaptive positioning of the parts that are to be assembled, is proposed. ► This work presents a successful example of an industrial prototype where different technologies were analyzed and tested. ► A robust industrial prototype for vehicle headlamp assembly has been built using this methodology. ► This prototype achieves a final product with minimum dimensional errors and offers an example of a solution to the problem of the assembly of pieces with dimensional errors.
| | | | 6. | Speckle Reduction of Ultrasound Images Based on Rayleigh-trimmed Anisotropic Diffusion Filter Original Research Article
Pattern Recognition Letters, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 16 June 2011
Yinhui Deng, Yuanyuan Wang, Yuzhong Shen
Highlights► Estimate relative ultrasound signals based on Rayleigh distribution of speckle. ► Use relative signals to control an alpha-trimmed mean filter for mainly denoising. ► Perform a corresponding anisotropic diffusion for robustness. ► Extend the proposed method to ultrasound sequences.
| | | | 8. | Resistive switching behavior of La-doped ZnO films for nonvolatile memory applications Original Research Article
Solid-State Electronics, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 16 June 2011
M.H. Tang, Z.Q. Zeng, J.C. Li, Z.P. Wang, X.L. Xu, G.Y. Wang, L.B. Zhang, S.B. Yang, Y.G. Xiao, B. Jiang
Highlights► La-doped ZnO films exhibit reversible, controllable and remarkable reliability unipolar resistive switching behaviors. ► Impurities La3+ doped will increase the interface trap density, which will help to increase the ON/OFF ratio. ► The filament theory is applied to explain the resistive switching (RS) phenomenon for the Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si substrate. ► The interface effect is suggested to be responsible for the RS phenomenon for Pt/ZnLaO/p-Si device.
| | | | 14. | A new model based approach for the prediction and optimisation of thermal homogeneity in single screw extrusion Original Research Article
Control Engineering Practice, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 14 June 2011
Chamil Abeykoon, Kang Li, Marion McAfee, Peter J. Martin, Qun Niu, Adrian L. Kelly, Jing Deng
Highlights► New model to predict melt temperature at desired die radial positions in extrusion. ► Explored effects of each process parameter on melt temperature homogeneity/level. ► Optimum settings, achieved desired temperature with reduced variance of up to 60%. ► Method to select optimum initial process settings quickly at a high screw speed. ► An alternative method to time-consuming trial and error process setting selection.
| | | | 15. | Visual discomfort of 3D TV: assessment methods and modeling Original Research Article
Displays, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 14 June 2011
M. Lambooij, W.A. IJsselsteijn, I. Heynderickx
Highlights► Short 3D sequences have poor visual comfort correlations with the same sequences embedded in long 3D sequence. ► retrospective assessments have high visual comfort correlations with the visual comfort of the entire 3D movie. ► visual comfort of static scenes depends on screen disparity offset and range. ► visual comfort of dynamic scenes depends on screen disparity range, lateral motion and change in screen disparity.
| | | | 16. | Optical cryptanalysis: Metrics of robustness and cost functions Original Research Article
Optics and Lasers in Engineering, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 14 June 2011
Christian Lingel, John T. Sheridan
Highlights► Cost functions are used to examine the robustness of optical encryption systems. ► They are also used to heuristically attack such systems iteratively. ► Several such metrics, which quantify system performance, are examined. ► The normalised root mean squared error parameter provides the best results.
| | | | 17. | An integrated platform for in-vitro single-site cell electroporation: controlled delivery and electrodes functionalization Original Research Article
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 14 June 2011
L. Odorizzi, C. Ress, C. Collini, E. Morganti, L. Lorenzelli, N. Coppedè, A.B. Alabi, S. Iannotta, E. Cazzanelli, L. Vidalino, P. Macchi
| | | | 19. | A two-stage affine projection algorithm with mean-square-error-matching step-sizes Original Research Article
Signal Processing, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 14 June 2011
NamWoong Kong, JaeWook Shin, PooGyeon Park
Highlights► We propose a two-stage affine projection algorithm with different projection orders and step-sizes. ► The stage transition is introduced to achieve fast convergence rate and small steady-state estimation errors. ► A matching step-size method prevents the sudden drop of convergence rate at the switching point. ► A scheduling method of the step-size reduces steady-state estimation errors at the second stage.
| | | | 20. | Evaluating the transmission rate of covert timing channels in a network Original Research Article
Computer Networks, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 13 June 2011
Xiaochao Zi, Lihong Yao, Xinghao Jiang, Li Pan, Jianhua Li
Highlights► We propose a method to evaluate the maximum transmission rate over covert channels. ► The evaluation method is based on the network status instead of transmission schemes. ► Actual channel construction and transmission process are unnecessary in the method.
| | | | 21. | Distributing weights under hierarchical clustering: A way in reducing performance breakdown Original Research Article
Expert Systems with Applications, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 13 June 2011
Jin Zhang, Dietmar Maringer
Highlights► We introduce a clustering scheme to improve portfolio Sharpe ratio. ► Mean and Skewness of Sharpe ratio can be improved by using the clustering scheme. ► Genetic Algorithm is apt at finding an optimal clustering structure. ► Clustering asset helps to improve portfolio risk-adjusted performance. ► Sharpe ratio maximization can be considered as a suitable clustering criterion.
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