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Metabolomic analyses show that electron donor and acceptor ratios control anaerobic electron transfer pathways in Shewanella oneidensis (2012)
Journal Article
Wang, H., Correa, E., Dunn, W., Winder, C., Goodacre, R., & Lloyd, J. (2013). Metabolomic analyses show that electron donor and acceptor ratios control anaerobic electron transfer pathways in Shewanella oneidensis. Metabolomics, 9(3), 642-656. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11306-012-0488-3

This study investigated the physiological impact of changing electron donor–acceptor ratios on electron transfer pathways in the metabolically flexible subsurface bacterium Shewanella oneidensis, using batch and chemostat cultures, with an azo dye (r... Read More about Metabolomic analyses show that electron donor and acceptor ratios control anaerobic electron transfer pathways in Shewanella oneidensis.

Parallel processing for real-time 3D reconstruction from video streams (2012)
Journal Article
Duckworth, T., & Roberts, D. (2014). Parallel processing for real-time 3D reconstruction from video streams. Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, 9(3), 427-445. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11554-012-0306-1

Our ultimate aim was to achieve commodity telepresence systems capable of communicating both what someone looks like and what, within the technology joined space, they are looking at. Towards this we have implemented a previously distributed approach... Read More about Parallel processing for real-time 3D reconstruction from video streams.

Effect of road narrowing on junction capacity using microsimulation (2012)
Journal Article
Yousif, S., Alterawi, M., & Henson, R. (2013). Effect of road narrowing on junction capacity using microsimulation. Journal of Transportation Engineering, 139(6), 574-584. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29TE.1943-5436.0000534

Traffic-calming measures have been widely used in urban areas, aiming sometimes to reduce vehicle flow rates but primarily to reduce speed and, hence, the number and severity of traffic accidents. The one-way priority working road narrowing (throttle... Read More about Effect of road narrowing on junction capacity using microsimulation.

Preface to the workshop on cost sensitive data mining (2012)
Book Chapter
Vadera, S., Saraee, M., & Lomax, S. (2012). Preface to the workshop on cost sensitive data mining. In J. Vreeken, C. Ling, M. Zaki, A. Siebes, J. Yu, B. Goethals, …X. Wu (Eds.), The 12th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining : Workshops. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDMW.2012.148

Much of the early work on data mining concentrated on developing algorithms that focused on classification accuracy. A more challenging and practical problem is to devise algorithms that learn rules or associations that optimize income and take bette... Read More about Preface to the workshop on cost sensitive data mining.

A multi-armed bandit approach to cost-sensitive decision tree learning (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Lomax, S., Vadera, S., & Saraee, M. (2012, December). A multi-armed bandit approach to cost-sensitive decision tree learning. Presented at 2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, Brussels, Belgium

Several authors have studied the problem of inducing decision trees that aim to minimize costs of misclassification and take account of costs of tests. The approaches adopted vary from modifying the information theoretic attribute selection measure u... Read More about A multi-armed bandit approach to cost-sensitive decision tree learning.

Drivers’ lane utilization for UK motorways (2012)
Journal Article
Yousif, S., Al-Obaedi, J., & Henson, R. (2013). Drivers’ lane utilization for UK motorways. Journal of Transportation Engineering, 139(5), 441-447. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29TE.1943-5436.0000531

Lane utilization represents how the rate of traffic flow is distributed among the available number of lanes in a given section. This utilization or split is affected by several factors including traffic flow rates as well as the presence and amount o... Read More about Drivers’ lane utilization for UK motorways.

Optimization of parameters for the quantitative surface-enhanced raman scattering detection of mephedrone using a fractional factorial design and a portable raman spectrometer (2012)
Journal Article
Mabbott, S., Correa, E., Cowcher, D., Allwood, J., & Goodacre, R. (2013). Optimization of parameters for the quantitative surface-enhanced raman scattering detection of mephedrone using a fractional factorial design and a portable raman spectrometer. Analytical Chemistry, 85(2), 923-931. https://doi.org/10.1021/ac302542r

A new optimization strategy for the SERS detection of mephedrone using a portable Raman system has been developed. A fractional factorial design was employed, and the number of statistically significant experiments (288) was greatly reduced from the... Read More about Optimization of parameters for the quantitative surface-enhanced raman scattering detection of mephedrone using a fractional factorial design and a portable raman spectrometer.

The development of high performance SnO2:F as TCOs for thin film silicon solar cells (2012)
Journal Article
Yates, H., Evans, P., Sheel, D., Nicolay, S., Ding, L., & Ballif, C. (2012). The development of high performance SnO2:F as TCOs for thin film silicon solar cells. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2012.10.040

High performance transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) have significance for optimising photovoltaic (PV)
performance. The efficiency of the resulting solar cells is dependent particularly on achieving high light scattering,
low resistivity and low... Read More about The development of high performance SnO2:F as TCOs for thin film silicon solar cells.

An context-aware management and control mechanism in a mobile ad-hoc environment (2012)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Linge, N., Wang, J., Ji, S., & Ma, T. (2012). An context-aware management and control mechanism in a mobile ad-hoc environment. International journal of grid and distributed computing (Print. 2008), 5(4), 21-32

Complete integration and interaction of network objects can be achieved in a mobile adhoc environment. Yet, the dynamic nature of free movement and interaction among these objects also brings challenges on information representation, processing and c... Read More about An context-aware management and control mechanism in a mobile ad-hoc environment.

The fabrication and analysis of the magnetic and crystallographic properties of Fe-rich (Fe x Ga 1-x) Galfenol alloys (2012)
Thesis
Quinn, C. The fabrication and analysis of the magnetic and crystallographic properties of Fe-rich (Fe x Ga 1-x) Galfenol alloys. (Thesis). University of Salford

Understanding the fundamental physics and properties of smart materials is a very important area of research for nano and micro mechanical systems especially in the applications of sensing and actuation, such as SONAR.
This thesis is focused on the... Read More about The fabrication and analysis of the magnetic and crystallographic properties of Fe-rich (Fe x Ga 1-x) Galfenol alloys.

Localisation of elevated virtual sources in higher order ambisonic sound fields (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Power, P., Davies, W., Hirst, J., & Dunn, C. (2012, November). Localisation of elevated virtual sources in higher order ambisonic sound fields. Presented at Reproduced Sound, Brighton

Ambisonics allows the reproduction of 3D sound-fields. Higher-order Ambisonics provides improved resolution, and the promise of enhanced localisation at the expense of higher channel counts, and increased broadcast bandwidth, and storage requirements... Read More about Localisation of elevated virtual sources in higher order ambisonic sound fields.

Helmholtz bright spatial solitons and surface waves at power-law optical interfaces (2012)
Journal Article
Christian, J., McCoy, E., McDonald, G., Sanchez-Curto, J., & Chamorro-Posada, P. (2012). Helmholtz bright spatial solitons and surface waves at power-law optical interfaces. Journal of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 2012, 137967. https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/137967

We consider arbitrary-angle interactions between spatial solitons and the planar boundary between two optical materials with a single power-law nonlinear refractive index. Extensive analysis has uncovered a wide range of new qualitative phenomena in... Read More about Helmholtz bright spatial solitons and surface waves at power-law optical interfaces.

A physico-chemical model of the water vapour sorption isotherm of hardened cementitious materials (2012)
Journal Article
Wang, Y., Wang, X., Scholz, M., & Ross, D. (2012). A physico-chemical model of the water vapour sorption isotherm of hardened cementitious materials. Construction and Building Materials, 35, 941-946. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2012.05.021

This paper reports on the recent development of a physico-chemical model for the water retention characteristic of porous media and its application to the prediction of water vapour sorption isotherm of cementitious materials. This research aims to d... Read More about A physico-chemical model of the water vapour sorption isotherm of hardened cementitious materials.

Measurement of ground-to-building frequency response functions for assessment of human exposure to vibration from railway vibration (2012)
Presentation / Conference
from railway vibration. Presented at International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering 2012, Leuven, Belgium

The University of Salford has derived exposure-response relationships for vibration caused by railway construction and operation in residential environments. The exposure assessment methodology for almost 1000 case studies has its key factor in the m... Read More about Measurement of ground-to-building frequency response functions for assessment of human exposure to vibration from railway vibration.

An integrated model of sound localisation in rooms (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Sheaffer, J., & Fazenda, B. (2012, September). An integrated model of sound localisation in rooms. Presented at Acoustics and Audio 2012, Ben Gurion University

Human perception of sound localisation in enclosed spaces has been studied extensively from physiological as well as psychological perspectives. As it is not feasible to conduct some experiments in-situ, researchers have employed alternative methodol... Read More about An integrated model of sound localisation in rooms.

Investigating alginate production and carbon utilization in Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25 using mass spectrometry-based metabolic profiling (2012)
Journal Article
Lien, S., Sletta, H., Ellingsen, T., Valla, S., Correa, E., Goodacre, R., …Bruheim, P. (2013). Investigating alginate production and carbon utilization in Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25 using mass spectrometry-based metabolic profiling. Metabolomics, 9(2), 403-417. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11306-012-0454-0

Metabolic profiling of Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25 and various mutants derived thereof was performed to explore how the bacterium adapt to changes in carbon source and upon induction of alginate synthesis. The experiments were performed at steady-s... Read More about Investigating alginate production and carbon utilization in Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25 using mass spectrometry-based metabolic profiling.

Human response to vibration in residential environments (NANR209), executive summary (2012)
Report
Waddington, D., Moorhouse, A., Steele, A., Woodcock, J., Condie, J., Peris, E., …Koziel, Z. (2012). Human response to vibration in residential environments (NANR209), executive summary

The aim of the Defra-funded project NANR209 ‘Human response to vibration in residential environments’ was to develop exposure-response relationships for vibration experienced in residential environments from sources outside of the residents’ control.... Read More about Human response to vibration in residential environments (NANR209), executive summary.

Time domain analysis of Helmholtz soliton propagation using the TLM method (2012)
Journal Article
Chamorro-Posada, P., & McDonald, G. (2012). Time domain analysis of Helmholtz soliton propagation using the TLM method. Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics and Materials, 21(03), https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218863512500312

The transmission line matrix method is used to study Helmholtz solitons as solutions of the two-dimensional time-domain Maxwell equations in nonlinear media. This approach permits to address, in particular, the propagation and intrinsic stability pr... Read More about Time domain analysis of Helmholtz soliton propagation using the TLM method.

Enhancing Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) detection of propranolol with multiobjective evolutionary optimization (2012)
Journal Article
Levene, C., Correa, E., Blanch, E., & Goodacre, R. (2012). Enhancing Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) detection of propranolol with multiobjective evolutionary optimization. Analytical Chemistry, 84(18), 7899-7905. https://doi.org/10.1021/ac301647a

Colloidal-based surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is a complex technique, where interaction between multiple parameters, such as colloid type, its concentration, and aggregating agent, is poorly understood. As a result SERS has so far achieved... Read More about Enhancing Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) detection of propranolol with multiobjective evolutionary optimization.

Reproducibility of soundscape dimensions (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Davies, W., & Murphy, J. (2012, August). Reproducibility of soundscape dimensions. Presented at Internoise 2012, New York

The aim of this work was to investigate the validity of laboratory soundscape reproduction and the robustness of soundscape dimensional analysis. The soundscapes in four urban locations in Manchester (UK) were recorded with a soundfield microphone. T... Read More about Reproducibility of soundscape dimensions.