Laser processing of hard and ultra-hard materials for micro-machining and surface engineering applications by Kafayat Hazzan, Manuela Pacella, Tian Long See

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Hard Bop by John Atkin

“…•How to redefine the locale through the process of regeneration, using children’s workshops: local radio interviews: ABC TV news items: exhibition of documentary film. the neighborhood Fillmore Centre, in order to test and project concepts to the wider audience of the District Research processes involved: Testing a range of reflective materials that could be perceived as ‘celebratory’; Consultation (British Stainless Steel Advisory Service) on the grade and type of stainless steel to withstand the urban & saline atmosphere of San Francisco; Testing different grades of polishing that will be reflective and simultaneously deliver low maintenance; Devising forms that translate recognizable references to musical rhythm into sculptural form: Using MAYA software to test how to reflect notions of spontaneity, which equate with musical rhythm and to further inform viewer interpretation of the sculpture with musical instrument-based references, such as Machine Head Keys, carved in granite; How to surmount the sculpture onto a water feature so that the confluence of audible water movement can intertwine with the rhythmic structure of the stainless steel reflective surfaces.…”
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Hydrogeology of three hard rock catchments in Britain by Mazadu Dader Bako

“…Water balance computations for each of the three catchments is presented in chapter 2. …”
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Droplet-assisted laser micromachining of hard ceramics by Jose M. Lopez-Lopez, Alan Bakrania, Jeremy Coupland, Sundar Marimuthu

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Characterisation of ball impact conditions in professional tennis: matches played on hard court by Ben Lane, Paul Sherratt, Xiao Hu, Andy Harland

“…To assess ball performance for research and development purposes requires greater understanding of the impact conditions a tennis ball experiences in professional tournament play. …”
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Productivity in longwall mining of hard coal by Alan I. Stainer

“…The inadequacies of international comparison to date are examined in order to construct a firm base for this study. [Continues.]…”
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Investigating the use of low-cost tactile sensor in emulating mechanoreceptor patterns and in hardness-based classification by Yash Sharma, Pedro Ferreira, Laura Justham, Matthew Beatty

“…Artificial mechanoreceptor type sensors have also been used to perform different types of classification, but hardness-based classification has never been investigated. …”
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Surface engineering of ultra-hard polycrystalline structures using a nanosecond Yb fibre laser: Effect of process parameters on microstructure, hardness and surface finish by Manuela Pacella, Vahid Nekouie, Amir Badiee

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Networking in hard real time vehicle applications by Sajed Husein

“…Computer-based control systems are widely used in vehicle applications (e.g., aircraft, marine and automobile). …”
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The SMART approach: a solution for the hard to reach? by Henk Holtslag, James McGill

“…A range of new low cost technologies that also can be produced locally are SMARTechs, SMART stands for Simple, Market-based, Affordable, Repairable Technologies and examples include household water filters, manual drilling, EMAS and Rope pumps, Tube ground water recharge to store rainwater in the ground, SaTo Pan latrines etc. …”
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Refurbishing the UK's 'hard to treat' dwelling stock: understanding challenges and constraints by Dennis L. Loveday, Keyur Vadodaria, Victoria Haines, Neil Hewitt, Trevor Hyde, Philip Griffiths, Bob Critoph, Philip C. Eames, Phil Banfill, Mark Gillott, Robert Darlington, Matthew Hall, Edman Tsang

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An investigation of cadmium, hard chromium and their possible replacement coatings for aerospace applications by Han Jiang

“…High velocity oxygen fuel (HVOF) thermally sprayedWC/Co/Cr coating is considered as an electroplated hard Cr (EHC) coating replacement and Al-based coatings including electrodeposited Al (EDAl), flame sprayed Al (FSAl) and SermeTel 962 are considered as electrodeposited Cd (EC) coating replacements. …”
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‘Stones Hard’ and a ‘Sea like Glass’: Orwell’s island pastoral by Craig Richardson

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Removal of hardness from well water using a solar still by K.T. Oladepo

“…The solar still was constructed with a 2 mm thick galvanized iron sheet with basin area of 800 mm x 600 mm and covered with transparent plain glass sheet of thickness 4 mm. …”
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Laser micro-nano texturing of a polycrystalline ultra-hard cutting tool to improve wear behaviour by Manuela Pacella, Amir Badiee, Priyanka Ghosh

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Effect of laser texturing on the performance of ultra-hard single-point cutting tools by Priyanka Ghosh, Manuela Pacella

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Between a rock and a hard place: The development of Chinese tabloid television by Lian Zhu

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Hardness of alumina/silicon carbide nanocomposites at various silicon carbide volume percentages by James Wade, Houzheng Wu

“…Vickers indentation was employed to measure the microhardness of monolithic alumina and six alumina-based nanocomposites consisting of variable silicon carbide nanoparticle volume percentages of 0.3% to 20%. …”
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Formation of twins in AlON material and its effects on the Vickers hardness and fracture toughness by Maomao Ding, Tun Wang, Benjamin Maerz, Stuart Robertson, Zehan Sun, Lingcong Fan, Ying Shi, Houzheng Wu

“…High-resolution electron backscattered diffraction (HREBSD) was used to determine the residual elastic stress distributions in AlON powders and ceramics. …”
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A Minimum Income Standard for the UK in 2012: keeping up in hard times by Abigail Davis, Donald Hirsch, Noel Smith, Jacqueline Beckhelling, Matt Padley

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A soft solution for a hard problem? The value of football for European refugee resettlement by Alessio Norrito

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Estimation of a risk profile to operatives and the public from motorway hard-shoulder incursions by Paraskevi Michalaki

“…An observation-based survey was conducted to gain initial knowledge on the frequency of incursions within a motorway stretch and also basic conditions that may affect the severity as well. …”
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A new model of third generation artificial turf degradation, maintenance interventions and benefits by Paul Fleming, Charlie Watts, Steph Forrester

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Functionalised polycrystalline boron nitride materials via laser surface engineering by Manuela Pacella, Amir Badiee

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Micro-indentation based study on steel sheet degradation through forming and flattening: Toward a predictive model to assess cold recyclability by Javad Falsafi, Emrah Demirci

“…A roll forming process is taken as case study and experimental investigation using extensive microhardness mapping alongside FE simulation of the process are the basis of material damage study. Indentation on different cross-sectional cutting angles -45, 0, 45 has been performed to study the sensitivity to orientation and crystallographic texture. …”
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Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) as hard templates for preparing mesoporous zeolite Y assemblies with high catalytic activity by Samer Abdulridha, Jiuxing Jiang, Shaojun Xu, Zhaoxia Zhou, He Liang, Boyang Mao, Yangtao Zhou, Arthur A Garforth, Yilai Jiao, Xiaolei Fan

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Improving visual-semantic embeddings by learning semantically-enhanced hard negatives for cross-modal information retrieval by Yan Gong, Georgina Cosma

“…To address the challenge of measuring the optimal similarities between image–description pairs before obtaining the trained VSE networks, this paper presents a novel approach that comprises two main parts: (1) finds the underlying semantics of image descriptions; and (2) proposes a novel semantically-enhanced hard negatives loss function, where the learning objective is dynamically determined based on the optimal similarity scores between irrelevant image–description pairs. …”
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Integration of geophysical methods for groundwater exploration in hard rock areas : application to Alla Valley, Eritrea, NE Africa by Bereket M. Derie

“…Survey sites for the two dimensional electrical resistivity imaging and the seismic refraction surveys were selected based on the results from the electromagnetic ground conductivity surveys. …”
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The van Hove distribution function for Brownian hard spheres: Dynamical test particle theory and computer simulations for bulk dynamics. by Paul Hopkins, Andrea Fortini, Andrew Archer, Matthias Schmidt

“…We describe a test particle approach based on dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) for studying the correlated time evolution of the particles that constitute a fluid. …”
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An enterprise modeling and integration framework based on knowledge discovery and data mining by Elena I. Neaga, Jennifer Harding

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Description logic-based knowledge merging for concrete- and fuzzy- domain ontologies by Sri K. Kumar, Jennifer Harding

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Relationships between football properties and player perceptions by Benjamin A. Thompsett

“…A series of experiments was carried out evaluating the relationships between players’ perceptions of weight and hardness, and football properties. Players’ perceivable difference thresholds in respect to ball properties were first investigated, prior to evaluating the contribution of multiple ball properties towards perceived weight and hardness for several match relevant player-ball interactions. …”
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A satisfaction based framework for continuous development of PSS by Felix Ng, Jennifer Harding, Emma L. Rosamond

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Data mining in manufacturing: a review based on the kind of knowledge by Alok Choudhary, Jennifer Harding, Manoj K. Tiwari

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Part selection and operation-machine assignment in FMS environment: A genetic algorithm with chromosome differentiation based methodology by Alok Choudhary, Manoj K. Tiwari, Jennifer Harding

“…The proposed algorithm overcomes the drawbacks of the simple genetic algorithm and the methodology reported here is capable of achieving a better balance between exploration and exploitation and of escaping from local minima. …”
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Comparison of player perceptions to mechanical measurements of third generation synthetic turf football surfaces by David Cole, Paul Fleming, Jonathan Roberts, David James, Mickael Benetti, Katharina Wistel, Johsan Billingham, Steph Forrester

“…Using a trained panel paired comparisons technique, 18 University footballers (11 males and 7 females) identified differences in the surfaces based on four sensory attributes Movement Speed, Slip, Leg Shock and Give. …”
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Supplementary information files for Comparison of player perceptions to mechanical measurements of third generation synthetic turf football surfaces by David Cole, Paul Fleming, Jonathan Roberts, David James, Mickael Benetti, Katharina Wistel, Johsan Billingham, Steph Forrester

“…Using a trained panel paired comparisons technique, 18 University footballers (11 males and 7 females) identified differences in the surfaces based on four sensory attributes Movement Speed, Slip, Leg Shock and Give. …”
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Microhardness and wear behaviour of polycrystalline diamond after warm laser shock processing with and without coating by Manuela Pacella, Marah G. St. John, Nader Dolatabadi, Amir Badiee

“…The as-received and processed materials were tested on a pin-on-disc for the evaluation of their wear performance. An analytical model based on the asperities of pin and disc after wear test is proposed to predict the trend of wear performance of different laser-processed materials. …”
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A decision support system based on ontology and data mining to improve design using warranty data by Mohammed Alkahtani, Alok Choudhary, Arijit De, Jennifer Harding

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A multiscale-indentation study of deformation and fracture in 6H polycrystalline silicon carbide by Dezhou Zhang, Liguo Zhao, Anish Roy

“…For nanoindentation, severe plastic deformation was discovered beneath the imprints on the basal plane (0001) which is the most favourable crystallographic plane for dislocation movement. …”
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Thiacalix[4]arene derivatives bearing imidazole units: a ditopic hard/soft receptor for Na+ and K+/Ag+ with an allosteric effect and a reusable extractant for dichromate anions by Jiang-Lin Zhao, Chong Wu, Xi Zeng, Shofiur Rahman, P.E. Georghiou, Mark Elsegood, Thomas G. Warwick, Carl Redshaw, Simon J. Teat, Takehiko Yamato

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Knowledge management based collaboration moderator services to support SMEs in virtual organisations by Alok Choudhary, Jennifer Harding, Manoj K. Tiwari, Ravi Shankar

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Cross domain knowledge verification: verifying knowledge in foundation based domain ontologies by Najam A. Anjum, Jennifer Harding, Robert I.M. Young

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Microstructural and mechanical characterisation of laser-welded high-carbon and stainless steel by Mohammadreza Nekouie Esfahani, Jeremy Coupland, Sundar Marimuthu

“…To reduce the hardness of the HAZ, a new heat treatment strategy was proposed and evaluated using a finite element analysis-based numerical simulation model. …”
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‘A lock so tallying in all its parts, that any part of one lock may fit another’: exploring the standardisation and interchangeable manufacturing of New Land Pattern Musket Locks... by David Williams, Philip Abbott, David Harding

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Shape feature based ontological engineering product models by Najam A. Anjum, Jennifer Harding, Robert I.M. Young, Keith Case

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Mediation of foundation ontology based knowledge sources by Najam A. Anjum, Jennifer Harding, Robert I.M. Young, Keith Case

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Manufacturability verification through feature-based ontological product models by Najam A. Anjum, Jennifer Harding, Robert I.M. Young, Keith Case

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