Advancements in springtime phenologies of plants and their pollinators have been widely observed within the northern hemisphere due to climate change. The observed advancements have led to concern over potential mismatching ...

Geopolymer has received great attention in recent years as a new material that could replace Ordinary Portland cement (OPC) for producing concrete. Geopolymer uses the raw materials rich in aluminium and silicon, which are ...

This thesis addresses the study of evolutionary methods to achieve robustness and evolvability in artificial systems. Chapter 1 introduces the research area, reviews the state of the art, discusses promising research ...

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a meshfree, Lagrangian, particle method. It was first invented to solve astrophysical problems, but has since been developed and used to model a wide variety of fluid flows. Also, ...

While short-term interactions with robots benefit from the novelty effect, long-term interactions can suffer from a decrease in user interest and engagement. Based on the previous research within Human-Robot Interaction ...

A.H. Weinberg presented his classic boost topology in his 1974 publication intended for use in satellites. It comprises minimal external components and uses multiple coupled coil systems to provide a boost of up to 2x. Its ...

A challenge facing organisations is information security, as security breaches pose a serious threat to sensitive information. Organisations face security risks in relation to their information assets, which also stems ...

This thesis presents novel developmental robotics models of number cognition which take into account the embodied basis of this process. The ability to perceive quantity is undoubtedly crucial for both humans and ...

In order to create the cost function for variational data assimilation one needs to compute the background error covariance matrix, and this in turn requires information on the true state of the physical variables being ...