Drawing delicate connections by Sarah Casey

“…This paper discusses the methodology of a current drawing research project investigating delicacy as a value through case studies in other material practices. …”
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Rohacell radomes for delicate antennas on the body at 2.4GHz by Oluwaseun A. Ojerinde, Dina A.H. Al-Saffar, Robert Edwards, Chinthana Panagamuwa

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Talking delicately: Providing opportunistic weight loss advice to people living with obesity by Madeleine Tremblett, Helena Webb, Sue Ziebland, Elizabeth Stokoe, Paul Aveyard, Charlotte Albury

“…More delicate approaches included forecasting upcoming discussion of weight along with delicacy markers in talk (e.g. strategic use of hesitation). …”
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Delicate seafloor landforms reveal past Antarctic grounding-line retreat of kilometers per year by JA Dowdeswell, CL Batchelor, A Montelli, D Ottesen, FDW Christie, EK Dowdeswell, Jeffrey Evans

“…The landforms are delicate sets of up to 90 ridges, 10 km/yr) are inferred during regional deglaciation of the Larsen shelf after the Last Glacial Maximum. …”
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Theoretical prediction of ground vibrations from heavy military vehicles by Victor V. Krylov, J. McNuff, S. Pickup

“…The demand for reliable autonomous systems capable to detect and identify heavy military vehicles becomes an issue of paramount importance in the current complicated and delicate political climate. It is expected that such autonomous systems would alleviate some of the burden placed on UN peace keeping forces, who currently must patrol areas systematically to identify and monitor military activity. …”
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Calculation of ground vibration spectra from heavy military vehicles by Victor V. Krylov, S. Pickup, J. McNuff

“…The demand for reliable autonomous systems capable to detect and identify heavy military vehicles becomes an important issue for UN peacekeeping forces in the current delicate political climate. …”
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Removal of micrometer size particles from surfaces using laser-induced thermocapillary flow: Experimental results by Natalia A. Ivanova, Victor Starov, Anna Trybala, V.M. Flyagin

“…Experiments: Focusing the laser irradiation into the line laser beam allowed using this method for a large-scale cleaning of surfaces. Hexadecane was used as a cleaning liquid to remove micron-sized polyethylene, Teflon, talc and Al2O3 particles from surfaces of welding glass, carbolite and soft magnetic disc using the line beam of the IR laser. …”
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Nonlinearity estimator-based control of a class of uncertain nonlinear systems by Jun Yang, Ting Li, Cunjia Liu, Shihua Li, Wen-Hua Chen

“…Different from the existing results, the crucial but highly restrictive hypothesis on the boundedness of nonlinear uncertainties is removed from this paper by means of the tools of semi-global stabilization. By delicately constructing a specific composite Lyapunov function for the closed-loop system as well as several useful level sets, the rigorous qualitative robustness performance is presented for the closed-loop system. …”
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Inviting the patient to talk about a conversation they had with another healthcare practitioner: a way of promoting discussion about disease progression and end of life in palliati... by Marco Pino, Laura Jenkins

“…The study used conversation analysis to examine five consultations in which this action was identified. These were part of a larger data set of 37 consultations recorded in a large UK hospice and involving patients with palliative care needs, sometimes accompanied by family or friends, and palliative medicine doctors. …”
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Retail Colourscape of Narborough Road by Johnny Xu

“…Narborough Road as a shopping environment uses the display and visual communication approaches of design to create more engaging and meaningful interaction with customers. …”
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Challenging generalisations: Leveraging the power of individuality in support group interactions by Marco Pino

“…Explicit generalisations are statements that attribute a characteristic to all members of a social category (e.g., drug users). …”
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Conversational user interfaces in smart homecare interactions: a conversation analytic case study by Saul Albert, Magnus Hamann, Elizabeth Stokoe

“…We argue that CUI design is best inspired and underpinned by a better understanding of the joint coordination of homecare activities.…”
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Periodic event-triggered control for a class of nonminimum-phase nonlinear systems using dynamic triggering mechanism by Jiankun Sun, Jun Yang, Wei Xing Zheng, Shihua Li

“…In this paper, the output feedback based periodic event-triggered control problem is considered for a class of nonminimum-phase nonlinear systems via dynamic event-triggering mechanism. …”
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Visual Merchandising on Narborough Road by Johnny Xu

“…The operation of retail format differs because of different regulations and industry structure in market (Fernie et al., 2015: 9). The particular retail format on Narborough Road allows the extension of display of visual merchandising outside the shop, which is associated with the street structure as a distinctive pattern in contrast with other high streets in the city. …”
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Multi-stage adaptive regression for online activity recognition by Bangli Liu, Haibin Cai, Zhaojie Ju, Honghai Liu

“…Then multiple score functions corresponding to each specific performance stage are collaboratively learned via a adaptive label strategy to enhance its power of discriminating similar partial activities. …”
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Imperfect structure by Jessica Noske-Turner

“…The construction using different materials is not always fully connected as it is being built. But we work with what we have. The nest on top is a delicate, a life giving space; a space that nurtures things that are small and that will become bigger. …”
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Investigation of thermal degradation and decomposition of both pristine and damaged carbon/epoxy samples with thermal history by Gang Zhou, Ewa Mikinka, James Golding, Xujin Bao, W Sun, A Ashby

“…© 2020 Although the investigation of thermal damage in composite materials has increased, the short-term thermal degradation and decomposition mechanisms in a non-oxidative environment have not been well established, as the reported thermal damage results were heavily influenced by the analyses of delicately collected volatiles and the presence of oxygen. …”
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Effect of drill quality on biological damage in bone drilling by Khurshid Alam, Sayyad Zahid Qamar, Muhammad Iqbal, Sujan Piya, Mahmood Al-Kindi, Asim Qureshi, Ahmed Al-Ghaithi, Badar Al-Sumri, Vadim Silberschmidt

“…Wear of the cutting edges of a drill bit (worn drill) is detrimental for bone tissues and can seriously affect its performance. …”
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How companions speak on patients’ behalf without undermining their autonomy: Findings from a conversation analytic study of palliative care consultations by Marco Pino, Victoria Land

“…By contrast, through examination of palliative care consultations in a UK hospice, we found that these interventions are warranted by contextual circumstances: they are either invited by patients or HCPs (through questions or gaze) or volunteered to help with the progression of an activity (e.g., when a patient does not answer an HCP’s question). …”
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Weave structure development to improve the current design capability for double cloth fabrication via digital Jacquard weaving by Ken Ri Kim, Thomas Triebs

“…First, a basic plain weave structure is employed to explore a traditional double cloth weaving technique via digital Jacquard weaving. …”
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Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy as a non-destructive method for analysing herbarium specimens by M Barnes, J Sulé-Suso, Jonathan Millett, Paul Roach

“…FTIR, therefore, has the potential to be a powerful tool to unlock historic information within herbaria.…”
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Towards a more controllable sensorised soft gripper: a data-driven approach by Khaled Elgeneidy

“…Robotic grippers have been constantly improving over the years to become more dextrous and adaptable in handing difficult objects with variations in their shape or uncertainty in their positioning. A challenge that remains difficult until now is the ability to handle delicate objects that can be easily considered as defective due to their interaction with the gripper, such as the case for food products or finely machined parts. …”
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Window Display on Narborough Road by Johnny Xu

“…In addition, commercially selling things to people often means selling them an identity (Jenkins, 1996: 7). Identity and consumption has close connection whereby commodity was imprinted by certain culture that shared value within a particular social group. …”
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Supplementary information files for Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy as a non-destructive method for analysing herbarium specimens by M Barnes, J Sulé-Suso, Jonathan Millett, Paul Roach

“…FTIR, therefore, has the potential to be a powerful tool to unlock historic information within herbaria.…”
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“It sounds silly now but it was important then”: supporting the significance of a personal experience in psychotherapy by Mark Burdett, Marco Pino, Nima Moghaddam, Thomas Schroder

“…This practice is the phrase “it sounds X, but Y” (e.g., “which sounds silly now, but was like important then”). …”
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Fabrication and characterisation of a novel smart suspension for micro-CMM probes by Khalid Alblalaihid, Peter Kinnell, Simon Lawes

“…In tactile micro coordinate metrology, miniature probing systems are required to allow geometric measurements of miniature, delicate, high precision components. These probing systems typically comprise of a small stylus of only a few mm in length, with a spherical tip of around 100 μm in diameter or less. …”
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Community resilience in Bondo community, Southern Malawi: balancing energy, water and biodiversity by Vincent Dodoma Mwale, Long Seng To, Chrispin Gogoda, Tiyamike Ngonda, Richard Nkhoma

“…Purpose This study aims to investigate the intricate relationships between a community energy system, water resources and biodiversity conservation, with a specific focus on augmenting community energy resilience in Bondo. …”
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Output-based disturbance rejection control for non-linear uncertain systems with unknown frequency disturbances using an observer backstepping approach by Jun Yang, Zhengtao Ding, Wen-Hua Chen, Shihua Li

“…The total disturbances and uncertainties are delicately represented by a compact exogenous model first. …”
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Quantum systems engineering: a structured approach to accelerating the development of a quantum technology industry by Mark Everitt, Michael Henshaw, Vincent Dwyer

“…Precision timing, gravity sensors and imagers, cryptography, navigation, metrology, energy harvesting and recovery, biomedical sensors and imagers, and real-time optimisers all indicate the potential for quantum technologies to provide the basis of a technological revolution. From the field of Systems Engineering emerges a focused strategy for the development cycle, enabling the existence of hugely complex products. …”
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When assistance is not given: disaffiliative responses to therapeutic community clients’ implicit requests by Marco Pino

“…The staff members sometimes deal with this problem by disaffiliating with the clients’ projects to achieve particular outcomes (e.g. renewing a driver’s license) on the basis that the clients (allegedly) lack entitlement to those outcomes. …”
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An investigation into using laser micro channelling to assist fibre integration via Ultrasonic Consolidation by Simona Masurtschak

“…Ultrasonic Consolidation (UC) is a layer-by-layer metal-based additive manufacturing process. …”
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The need for advanced three-dimensional neural models and developing enabling technologies by Daniel Merryweather, Paul Roach

“…In this prospective, strategies for the generation of neuronal circuits and cultivation of complex three-dimensional (3D) cultures are explored. Frequently these constructs provide valuable insights into systems and processes that are difficult to explore in vivo due to the isolated and delicate nature of neuronal tissues. …”
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The precarious ecologies of cosmopolitanism by Marsha Meskimmon

“…In this sense, cosmopolitanism is not a finished product, but rather a delicate balance reached during the mutual making of subjects and worlds, when that making welcomes difference and encourages ethical encounters with others. …”
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Local peacebuilding in a victor’s peace. Why local peace fails without national reconciliation by Giulia Piccolino

“…It concludes that the popularity of the ‘local turn’ among peacebuilders might be due more to the opportunity that it offers to eschew delicate national-level political issues, than to its supposed emancipatory potential.…”
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Social media, professional media and mobilisation in contemporary Britain: explaining the strengths and weaknesses of the citizens’ movement 38 degrees by Andrew Chadwick, James Dennis

“…Digital media continue to reshape political activism in unexpected ways. Within a period of a few years, the internet-enabled UK citizens’ movement 38 Degrees has amassed a membership of 3 million and now sits alongside similar entities such as America’s MoveOn, Australia’s GetUp! …”
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Soft pneumatic grippers embedded with stretchable electroadhesion by Jianglong Guo, Khaled Elgeneidy, Chaoqun Xiang, Niels Lohse, Laura Justham, Jonathan Rossiter

“…As a result, the proposed PneuEA gripper was not only able to pick-and-place flat and flexible materials such as a porous cloth but also delicate objects such as a light bulb. …”
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Experimental analysis of the bending response of soft gripper fingers by Khaled Elgeneidy, Niels Lohse, Michael Jackson

“…The behaviour of a soft finger upon actuation is primarily determined through its predefined morphology. …”
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Thermo-mechanical modelling of polymer encapsulated electronics by Farhad Sarvar, Nee-Joo Teh, David Whalley, David Hutt, Paul Palmer

“…A two shot moulding technology protect delicate electronic circuitry mounted outside of the passenger compartment from extremes of temperature, vibration and humidity. …”
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Be prepared for your next 30-second T&L conversation by Pablo Ballesteros-Perez, M. Carmen Gonzalez-Cruz, Daniel Mora-Melia

“…At that moment, the (unprepared) lecturer needs to come up with a good answer. No postponement is allowed and, generally, this lecturer will just have around 30 seconds to go over his/her major points in a clear and comprehensible manner. …”
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Contact detection and object size estimation using a modular soft gripper with embedded flex sensors by Khaled Elgeneidy, Gerhard Neumann, Simon Pearson, Michael R. Jackson, Niels Lohse

“…The fingers can be assembled in different configurations using 3D printed connectors. The paper investigates the potential of utilizing the simple sensory feedback from the flex sensors to make additional meaningful inferences regarding the contact state and grasped object size. …”
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Incorporating coopetition into the entrepreneurial marketing literature: Directions for future research by Jim Crick

“…This paper is also designed to highlight the research gaps surrounding coopetition, so that academics, working at the marketing/entrepreneurship interface, can undertake more investigations linked with this topic. …”
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The mind-field of sport: emotion, mind and accountability in athletes by Abigail Locke

“…When narrating failure, the athletes have to delicately manage blame, stake and accountability. In contrast, when accounting for success, they have to manage their claims in the light of being seen as making immodest or arrogant claims. …”
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"Am I doing it right?": a discursive analysis of cancer narratives by Rosemary Chapman

“…It is proposed that not only do they have to contend with managing to live with a life threatening illness but the metaphorical descriptions attributed to cancer, the 'heroic model' and its accompanying discourses and expectations construct the ill person as being morally accountable. …”
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"Disabling essentialism" :accountability in family therapy :issues of disability, complaints and child abuse by Michelle O'Reilly

“…I examine the felicity conditions in place to construct it as a complaint. …”
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A theoretical model for the effectiveness of project-based learning in engineering design education by Mingyi Gao

“…Consequently, a 3D model of PBL is built by combining the data in aforementioned 2D models,through which the optimal PBL effectiveness in 3D are identified and measured and the interplay between different parameters are found. …”
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Diatoms as paleolimnological indicators: a reconstruction of Late Quaternary environments in two East African salt lakes by Philip A. Barker

“…Cores NF1 and NF2 from Magadi provide a detailed register of this phase indicating a major highstand from c. 12,700-11,000 BP when the lake became deep enough to stratify and deposit laminated couplets. …”
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Multifunctional vertical interconnections of multilayered flexible substrates for miniaturised POCT devices by Xiaolong Zhang

“…The functional properties of the via and their response to the external loadings which are likely encountered in the POCT devices are the primary concerns of this PhD project. …”
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The diatom ecology and palaeoecology of shallow lakes subject to eutrophication: three examples from the English midlands by Carl D. Sayer

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Cell culture models of insulin signalling and glucose uptake by Mark C. Turner

“…In these cultures, concentrations greater than 0.5 µCi for 15 minutes of insulin stimulation suggested an initial assay window for investigating insulin stimulated glucose uptake. …”
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Three-party interactions between neurologists, patients and their companions in the seizure clinic by Ann H. Doehring

“…My analysis shows that companions were explicitly invited to contribute in 20% of these cases (n=406), were implicitly invited to contribute in 27.6% of these cases (n=553), and that they volunteered themselves to contribute in the remaining 42.6% of cases (n=854). …”
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