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Melita Grant and Juliet Willetts
Partnerships between water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and rights-holder organisations (RHOs) have become more common, important and impactful in the international development sector, and they have been driven by aligned agendas, mutual benefits and t...
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Jingyuan Yang, Huayu Duan, Linxiao Li, Edward Stewart, Junhui Huang and Roger Dixon
Defective droppers pose a significant threat to the performance of the contact between the train pantograph and railway catenary. In this paper, the impact of damaged droppers on the performance of pantograph?catenary interaction behaviour is analysed, a...
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Dimitris J. Apostolopoulos, Ioannis D. Apostolopoulos, Nikolaos D. Papathanasiou, Trifon Spyridonidis and George S. Panayiotakis
The pre-operative localisation of abnormal parathyroid glands (PG) in parathyroid scintigraphy is essential for suggesting treatment and assisting surgery. Human experts examine the scintigraphic image outputs. An assisting diagnostic framework for local...
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Anand George, Niko Koivumäki, Teemu Hakala, Juha Suomalainen and Eija Honkavaara
Positioning of unoccupied aerial systems (UAS, drones) is predominantly based on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). Due to potential signal disruptions, redundant positioning systems are needed for reliable operation. The objective of this study...
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Theofanis P. Raptis, Claudio Cicconetti, Manolis Falelakis, Grigorios Kalogiannis, Tassos Kanellos and Tomás Pariente Lobo
In terms of the calibre and variety of services offered to end users, smart city management is undergoing a dramatic transformation. The parties involved in delivering pervasive applications can now solve key issues in the big data value chain, including...
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Liyana Wijayathunga, Alexander Rassau and Douglas Chai
The capabilities of autonomous mobile robotic systems have been steadily improving due to recent advancements in computer science, engineering, and related disciplines such as cognitive science. In controlled environments, robots have achieved relatively...
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Sarah Barnes, Anzori Georgadze, Andrea Giammanco, Madis Kiisk, Vitaly A. Kudryavtsev, Maxime Lagrange and Olin Lyod Pinto
A key task for customs workers is the interception of hazardous, illegal and counterfeit items in order to protect the health and safety of citizens. However, it is estimated that only a small fraction of cargo is inspected and an even smaller fraction o...
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Dimitris J. Apostolopoulos, Ioannis D. Apostolopoulos, Nikolaos D. Papathanasiou, Trifon Spyridonidis and George S. Panayiotakis
Parathyroid scintigraphy with 99mTc-sestamibi (MIBI) is an established technique for localising abnormal parathyroid glands (PGs). However, the identification and localisation of PGs require much attention from medical experts and are time-consuming. Art...
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Christoph Tholen, Tarek A. El-Mihoub, Lars Nolle and Oliver Zielinski
In this study, a set of different search strategies for locating submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) are investigated. This set includes pre-defined path planning (PPP), adapted random walk (RW), particle swarm optimisation (PSO), inertia Levy-flight (...
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Ville Taajamaa, Minna Joensuu, Barbara Karanian and Luis Bettencourt
This practitioner paper is based on the need to make sense of UN Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the city level and in an urban context. We examine the need to explain how to utilise the SDGs in strategic, tactical and operative u...
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