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Soil provides multiple essential functions, such as provision of food and raw
materials, a platform for urban development and human wellbeing and as a
filtering and transforming medium. Many unregulated contaminants, ...
The aviation industry is currently facing increasing environmental and energy
challenges regarding its fuel use. Research is therefore currently under way to
develop new sustainable aviation fuels. Understanding the ...
The use of less-sensitive energetic formulations for military training activities
has driven the replacement of traditional explosive fills by a new generation
known as Insensitive High Explosives (IHE). Due to their ...
The essence of this PhD thesis is the analytical, aerodynamic modelling, as opposed to using grid-based methods such as CFD, of insect-like flapping wings in the hover for micro air vehicle applications. A key feature of ...
The research sought to find out what is really going on in the modern Kafala and to create
solutions for reform based on what is right for Saudi instead of being led by outside voices.
The research focuses on migrant ...
With the rise of the Information Age, there has also been a growing rate of attacks
targeting information. In order to better defend against these attacks being able to
understand attackers and simulate their behaviour ...
This project is about the development of band selection (BS) techniques for better
target detection and classification in remote sensing and hyperspectral imaging
(HSI). Conventionally, this is achieved just by using ...
Relative navigation is paramount in space missions that involve rendezvousing
between two spacecraft. It demands accurate and continuous estimation of the six
degree-of-freedom relative pose, as this stage involves ...
Insider threats are security incidents committed not by outsiders, such as malicious hack ers or advanced persistent threat groups, but instead an organisation’s employees or other
trusted individuals. These attacks are ...
Small calibre projectiles are spin-stabilised to increase ballistic stability, often at
high frequencies. Due to hardware limitations, conventional actuators and meth ods are unable to provide satisfactory control at such ...
The problematic situation this doctoral research project investigates concerns
how the quality of a person’s lived subjective experience is affected by differing
degrees of challenge: a product of pressures and demands ...
Chinese painted enamels are studied in this thesis with the goal of improving their
conservation. To do this the material was studied through elemental analysis
using two X-ray Fluorescence techniques and Environmental ...
The First World War took place between 1914 and 1918, with conflict occurring
in Europe and across the globe. By the end of the War, the bodies of the British
and Commonwealth dead were scattered across France and ...
This thesis aims to contribute to a better understanding of early medieval pottery production
in Lower Austria by the scientific analysis of ceramics. The investigation is based on 135
potsherds, including graphite-containing ...
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have already surpassed human-level
performance in complex computer vision applications, and can potentially
significantly advance the performance of infrared anti-ship guided missile ...
Small celestial bodies such as asteroids and comets are abundantly present in
the Solar System, yet their surfaces remain largely unexplored. Achieving regular
access to these surfaces would have a major impact on ...
This thesis has sought to aid the additive manufacture of propellants using a
novel dry powder printing system developed at Cranfield. The energetic
performance and hazard safety of crystalline energetic materials is ...
Full-scale military vehicles are teaming up with uninhabited ground vehicles (UGVs) to
improve the success rate of tactical operations on off-road terrains. UGV can perform initial
mobility testing on soft soils during ...
For the past decade, substantial progress has been achieved in the field of visual per ception for autonomous driving application thanks notably to the capabilities of deep
learning techniques. This work aims to leverage ...