Collagen-based devices are frequently associated with foreign body response. Although several pre- (e.g. species, state of animal, tissue, isolation protocol) and post- (e.g. cross-linking, scaffold architecture, sterilisation) ...

Bone tissue engineering is a promising field with the potential to generate tissue substitutes, by taking advantage of mesenchymal stem cells ability to grow and produce tissue substitutes under specific physical conditions. ...

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a paradigm which involves an agent interacting with an environment. The agent carries out actions in the environment and receives positive reinforcement for actions that are deemed “good” and ...

The solution of marine contaminant transport problems is a significant research topic in civil engineering. Typically, the problem is represented as a partial differential equation described by the non-stationary, ...

In recent years the Deep Neural Networks (DNN) has been using widely in a big range of machine learning and data-mining purposes. This pattern recognition approach can handle highly nonlinear problems. In this work, ...

Climate change, driven by global energy consumption, is one of the major challenges to humanity today. The buildings sector consumes a significant portion of global energy resources and much of this is due to inefficient ...

This thesis aims to provide the state of the art "nature-inspired computing" (NIC) approaches and investigate their applications in system dynamics (SD) models. Specifically, we will focus on particle swarm optimisation ...

Microbial lipids can be used as a feedstock for biodiesel production, and use of biowastes as the substrate for microbial lipid production can reduce its production cost. The aims of this research include: (i) isolation ...

This thesis presents a new probability-based framework which exploits existing domain knowledge in the form of mathematical models and uses real-time data streams to individualise model parameters. We apply this new ...

Ultrawideband (UWB) microwave imaging is an emerging breast screening modality based on the electromagnetic reflections generated by the dielectric contrast between soft tissue types within the breast at microwave ...