3D museum object retrieval and the semantic web. Semantic integration of data sources was used to produce a common search across museums and collections. Content-based retrieval was implemented for 2D images as well as for 3D objects.
Development of naturally-charged aerosol system for enhanced removal of airborne dust and allergens.
Use of essential oils for allergen denaturing.
Exposure of E Coli bacteria to unipolar ions shows varying levels of bacteria kill. Both negative and positive ions effective for culture grown bacteria and biofilms.
Development of passive charge-on-demand aerosol aerosol container for domestic products.
Evaluation of the effects of unipolar ionic bombardment on the denaturing of Der p1, Der f1, Fel d1 and Der p2 allergens. Both negative and positive ions have been shown to cause varying levels of allergen denaturing over long-range exposure.
The programme of work will aim to fabricate a variety of sensors onto a prosthetic hand. The chosen enabling technology for the sensors is thick-film fabrication, as this will allow multiple robust and compact sensor types to be deposited at a relatively low-cost. The design for the prosthetic hand will be based on an existing device that will be modified to incorporate the sensors. We are aiming to fabricate force sensors based on thick-film piezoresistive material; slip sensors that exploit the piezoelectric behaviour in specially formulated screen printable films and temperature sensors that are made from thick-film thermistors. The sensors will be characterised on a variety of different substrate materials so that the optimum combination can be selected for inclusion within the hand. Extensive testing will be undertaken on the assembled hand with the sensor arrays using a variety abstract objects representing the classification of the functional patterns of the natural hand. Other objects found in Activities of Daily Living tasks will also be used.
Organisations have invested considerable resources in developing intranets that attempt to capture aspects of �corporate knowledge�. When writing new documents, trying to find and reuse the intrinsic knowledge held in other documents amongst an ever-rising mountain of documentation, is at best impractical. The aim of this project is therefore, to produce a novel writing tool, which is underpinned by an enhanced knowledge structure and hypermedia design model. As a result we aim to help authors improve the coherence and consistency of documents they are creating by helping to assimilate key knowledge in each new document.