Simulating drug-induced changes in an easy to deploy software service
September 25, 2019
Containerising and scaling applications using Kubernetes and Azure Dr Gary Mirams is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and member of the Centre for Mathematical Medicine & Biology (CMMB) in the School of Mathematical Sciences, where he constructs mathematical and computational models to describe biological processes. Mathematical models offer a way to describe the evolution …
Locating Ancient Trees
Mapping ancient trees using high performance computing Ancient trees are ecologically, historically and culturally important, and although we know the locations of many, there are plenty more to be discovered. Victoria Nolan, a PhD candidate at the University of Nottingham is using mathematical models to produce predictions of likely suitable areas for ancient trees allowing …
Generating Insights from Big Data
September 6, 2019
The analysis of ‘Big Data’ is one of the main challenges faced today by both academia and industry. The project titled Value Enhancement for Data from Assets & Transactions (VEDAT), which was carried out in partnership with the ASAP group in the School of Computer Science aimed to “provide tools that enable intelligent, predictive modelling …
HGV Incident Hotspot Analysis
Hot spot identification (HSID) problems are present across several domains, such as health care, security, maintenance, energy or transport. A hot spot can be defined as an area with high likelihood of occurrence for a certain event. In public health care, algorithms to determine hot spots could be employed for early detection of locations of …
Police interactions and interventions with suspects flagged as experiencing mental health problems
Interactions between individuals experiencing mental health (MH) problems and the police are complex, and effectiveness of innovative support and diversion models in England and Wales not yet fully evaluated. Researchers in the University of Nottingham examined police interactions with suspects and measured the immediate effectiveness of police/NHS MH interventions. Data on police interactions with suspects …
Helping to find the UK’s best HGV driver
The hotspot analysis and HGV driver profiling work also contributed to Microlise’s Driver of the Year competition which recognises the UK’s most talented HGV drivers. Data analysis undertaken by members of the Digital Research Service generates an initial shortlist of fifteen drivers in each of the three categories – short, medium and long-distance drivers. The …
Individual 1, who at that point had become the President of the United States
May 17, 2019
Anonymisation and research Human data are among the richest and most complex available to researchers. With such data comes great responsibility, however, not least that of protecting the safety and privacy of subjects. Recent changes in the legal landscape, most prominently the General Data Protection Regulation, have enshrined in law the obligation to safeguard …
Mapping Ethical Challenges in the Internet of Things for Research
January 31, 2019
Dr Lachlan Urquhart (Lecturer in Technology Law, University of Edinburgh) and Dr Martin Flintham (Assistant Professor in Computer Science, University of Nottingham). Lachlan.urquhart@ed.ac.uk and martin.flintham@nottingham.ac.uk Jan 2019. Towards the Internet of Things The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.” He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told …
Digital Research Vision at Nottingham
January 11, 2019
Research excellence at Nottingham is underpinned by a broad range of digital facilities and services and the Digital Research Strategy underpins the overall Research Vision. Over the past two years we have been focused on delivering new capability while also exploiting new opportunities through digital initiatives. New services have been developed to enable effective management …
Computing Chemistry, Modelling Molecules
October 4, 2018
When Ellen Guest was struggling with A Level Chemistry, her teacher suggested she drop the course altogether. And yet she persisted. Fast forward a few years and Ellen has an MSci in Chemistry and is Chemistry PhD candidate conducting important drug discovery research. You might assume this type of work is conducted in a traditional chemistry lab, …
