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Technology for Older Adults: Maximising Personal and Social Interaction : Exploring Opportunities for eHealth to Support the Older Rural Population with Chronic Pain
Funding The TOPS project is supported by an award made by the RCUK Digital Economy programme to the dot.rural Digital Economy Hub, award reference EP/G066051/1.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Aeroacoutic characteristics of a large, variable-pitch, variable-speed fan system
The acoustic and aerodynamic performance of the new drive fans for the NASA Ames 40- by 80-/80- by 120-foot wind tunnel was investigated. Results show that a fan system with variable-speed and variable-pitch rotor blades allows the operator to control noise and energy consumption, at a given mass flow rate, through the choice of blade speed and pitch. A low speed and high blade pitch will generally create the least noise at the least energy cost. An empirical method is described which predicts the sound power of this fan system reasonably well
Science Pipelines for the Square Kilometre Array
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be both the largest radio telescope
ever constructed and the largest Big Data project in the known Universe. The
first phase of the project will generate on the order of 5 zettabytes of data
per year. A critical task for the SKA will be its ability to process data for
science, which will need to be conducted by science pipelines. Together with
polarization data from the LOFAR Multifrequency Snapshot Sky Survey (MSSS), we
have been developing a realistic SKA-like science pipeline that can handle the
large data volumes generated by LOFAR at 150 MHz. The pipeline uses task-based
parallelism to image, detect sources, and perform Faraday Tomography across the
entire LOFAR sky. The project thereby provides a unique opportunity to
contribute to the technological development of the SKA telescope, while
simultaneously enabling cutting-edge scientific results. In this paper, we
provide an update on current efforts to develop a science pipeline that can
enable tight constraints on the magnetised large-scale structure of the
Universe.Comment: Published in Galaxies, as part of a Special Issue on The Power of
Faraday Tomograph
Aerodynamic design guidelines and computer program for estimation of subsonic wind tunnel performance
General guidelines are given for the design of diffusers, contractions, corners, and the inlets and exits of non-return tunnels. A system of equations, reflecting the current technology, has been compiled and assembled into a computer program (a user's manual for this program is included) for determining the total pressure losses. The formulation presented is applicable to compressible flow through most closed- or open-throat, single-, double-, or non-return wind tunnels. A comparison of estimated performance with that actually achieved by several existing facilities produced generally good agreement
Field Recordings
A 'found' poem built from abstracts submitted for a Poetry in Public Spaces colloquium at Lancaster University. The submission constitutes a sound recording and the text of the poem plus an essay reflecting on its composition and ideas about installation in public space
Taking Liberties:Ideals of freedom in contemporary South Africa: a practice-based approach to research with multilingual writing communities.
Taking Liberties Abstract This paper will focus on a Leverhulme Foundation-funded research project, Taking Liberties, which took place at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, from January to May 2018. The paper will trace some antecedents for this multilingual Creative Writing project, drawing out methodological practices that informed its design and implementation. It will trace the engagement with students at the University of the Western Cape in the context of historical and contemporary political conditions. Outputs from the project will be featured and discussed in terms of text and performance. Links will be provided to web-based outputs to create an interactive dimension. My discussion of the project will reflect upon the nature of practice-based research in Creative Writing and the wider implications for the discipline and its inter-disciplinary capacity
Consumer Cultures, Political Discourse and the Problem of Cultural Politics
Also CSST Working Paper #86.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51248/1/482.pd
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