Sustainable high-performance concrete using metakaolin additive and polymer admixture : mechanical properties, durability and microstructure (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Al Menhosh, A., Wang, Y., Augusthus Nelson, L., Dakhil, A., & Matooq, J. (2019, July). Sustainable high-performance concrete using metakaolin additive and polymer admixture : mechanical properties, durability and microstructure. Presented at 5th International Conference on Sustainable Construction Materials & Technologies, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, UK

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the use of supplementary cementitious materials and polymers to produce high-performance concrete. This paper shows the results of a study on the effect of metakaolin and polymer admixture on mech... Read More about Sustainable high-performance concrete using metakaolin additive and polymer admixture : mechanical properties, durability and microstructure.

The effect of pressure on hydrogen solubility in Zircaloy-4 (2019)
Journal Article
Weekes, H., Dye, D., Proctor, J., Smith, D., Simionescu, C., Prior, T., & Wenman, M. (2019). The effect of pressure on hydrogen solubility in Zircaloy-4. Journal of Nuclear Materials, 524, 256-262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2019.07.012

The effect of pressure on the room temperature solubility of hydrogen in Zircaloy-4 was examined using synchrotron X-ray diffraction on small ground flake samples in a diamond anvil cell at pressures up to 20.9 GPa. Different combinations of hydrogen... Read More about The effect of pressure on hydrogen solubility in Zircaloy-4.

ANETAC: Arabic named entity transliteration and classification dataset (2019)
Dataset
Hadj Ameur, M., Meziane, F., & Guessoum, A. (2019). ANETAC: Arabic named entity transliteration and classification dataset. [Dataset]

In this paper, we make freely accessible ANETAC, our English-Arabic named entity transliteration and classification dataset that we built from freely available parallel translation corpora. The dataset contains 79, 924 instances, each instance is a t... Read More about ANETAC: Arabic named entity transliteration and classification dataset.

ANETAC: Arabic named entity transliteration and classification dataset (2019)
Other
Hadj Ameur, M., Meziane, F., & Guessoum, A. (2019). ANETAC: Arabic named entity transliteration and classification dataset

In this paper, we make freely accessible ANETAC, our English-Arabic named entity transliteration and classification dataset that we built from freely available parallel translation corpora. The dataset contains 79, 924 instances, each instance is a t... Read More about ANETAC: Arabic named entity transliteration and classification dataset.

SPARC 2019 Fake news & home truths : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts (2019)
Book
Aarons, T., Abduljawad, S. A. S., Aboelkheir, A., Addis, M. C., Adeboye, O., Adeniyi, I. A., …Yusup, N. H. (2019). E. M. Barnes, D. Greensmith, M. Griffiths, U. Hurley, T. Ireland, C. Starbuck, …D. Whitnall (Eds.), SPARC 2019 Fake news & home truths : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts. Salford, UK: University of Salford

Welcome to the Book of Abstracts for the 2019 SPARC conference. This year we not only celebrate the work of our PGRs but also our first ever Doctoral School Best Supervisor awards, which makes this year’s conference extra special. Once again we have... Read More about SPARC 2019 Fake news & home truths : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts.

Influence of visual stimuli on perceptual attributes of spatial audio (2019)
Journal Article
Woodcock, J., Davies, W., & Cox, T. (2019). Influence of visual stimuli on perceptual attributes of spatial audio. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 67(7/8), 557-567. https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2019.0019

Reproduced audio is often accompanied with visuals (i.e. television, virtual reality, gaming, and cinema). However, the audio technology for these systems is often researched and evaluated in isolation from the visual component. Previous research ind... Read More about Influence of visual stimuli on perceptual attributes of spatial audio.

Testing spatial aspects of auditory salience (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Podwinska, Z., Fazenda, B., & Davies, W. (2019, June). Testing spatial aspects of auditory salience. Presented at The 25th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2019), Northumbria University, UK

Auditory salience describes the extent to which sounds attract the listener’s attention. So far, there have not been any published studies testing if the location of sound relative to the listener influences its salience. In fact, not many experiment... Read More about Testing spatial aspects of auditory salience.

Natural Language Processing and Information Systems : 24th International Conference on applications of natural language to information systems, NLDB 2019, Salford, UK, June 26–28, 2019, proceedings (2019)
Book
24th International Conference on applications of natural language to information systems, NLDB 2019, Salford, UK, June 26–28, 2019, proceedings. Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23281-8

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2019, held in Salford, UK, in June 2019. The 21 full papers and 16 short papers were carefully re... Read More about Natural Language Processing and Information Systems : 24th International Conference on applications of natural language to information systems, NLDB 2019, Salford, UK, June 26–28, 2019, proceedings.

Influence of permeability and injection orientation variations on dispersion coefficient during enhanced gas recovery by CO2 injection (2019)
Journal Article
Abba, M., Al-Otaibi, A., Abbas, A., Nasr, G., & Burby, M. (2019). Influence of permeability and injection orientation variations on dispersion coefficient during enhanced gas recovery by CO2 injection. Energies, 12(12), 2328. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12122328

This investigation was carried out to highlight the influence of the variation of permeability of the porous media with respect to the injection orientations during enhanced gas recovery (EGR) by CO2 injection using different core samples of differen... Read More about Influence of permeability and injection orientation variations on dispersion coefficient during enhanced gas recovery by CO2 injection.

Analysis of attribute-based cryptographic techniques and their application to protect cloud services (2019)
Journal Article
Belguith, S., Kaaniche, N., & Hammoudeh, M. (2019). Analysis of attribute-based cryptographic techniques and their application to protect cloud services. Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, e3667. https://doi.org/10.1002/ett.3667

Recent technological advances such as the Internet of Things (IoT), fog computing, cloud applications lead to exponential growth in the amount of generated data. Indeed, cloud storage services have experienced unprecedented usage demand. The loss of... Read More about Analysis of attribute-based cryptographic techniques and their application to protect cloud services.

Combining deep and handcrafted image features for MRI brain scan classification (2019)
Journal Article
Hasan, A., Jalab, H., Meziane, F., Kahtan, H., & Al-Ahmad, A. (2019). Combining deep and handcrafted image features for MRI brain scan classification. IEEE Access, 7(1), 79959-79967. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2922691

Progresses in the areas of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and medical imaging technologies have allowed the development of the medical image processing field with some astonishing results in the last two decad... Read More about Combining deep and handcrafted image features for MRI brain scan classification.

Understanding causes of low voltage (LV) faults in electricity distribution network using association rule mining and text clustering (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Silva, H., & Saraee, M. (2019, June). Understanding causes of low voltage (LV) faults in electricity distribution network using association rule mining and text clustering. Presented at 3RD IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power System Europe (I&CPS), Genoa, Italy

In-depth understanding of a fault cause in electricity distribution network has always been of paramount importance to Distributed Network Operators (DNO) for a reliable power supply. Faults in the network have direct effect on its stability, availab... Read More about Understanding causes of low voltage (LV) faults in electricity distribution network using association rule mining and text clustering.

Numerical modelling and underlying electrochemical mechanism characterisation of cathodic protection for chloride contaminated reinforced concrete structures (2019)
Thesis
Xiang, N. Numerical modelling and underlying electrochemical mechanism characterisation of cathodic protection for chloride contaminated reinforced concrete structures. (Thesis). University of Salford

Cathodic Protection (CP) as an effective electrochemical repair technique has been widely employed in the rehabilitation of deterioratedReinforced Concrete (RC) structures worldwide. However, the quantitative specifications of CP tech... Read More about Numerical modelling and underlying electrochemical mechanism characterisation of cathodic protection for chloride contaminated reinforced concrete structures.

Evaluation of uncertainties in classical and component (blocked force) transfer path analysis (TPA) (2019)
Journal Article
Moorhouse, A., Meggitt, J., & Elliott, A. (2019). Evaluation of uncertainties in classical and component (blocked force) transfer path analysis (TPA). SAE Technical Papers, 1(4), 1779-1789. https://doi.org/10.4271/2019-01-1544

Transfer path analysis (TPA) has become a widely used diagnostic technique in the automotive and other sectors. In classic TPA, a two-stage measurement is conducted including operational and frequency response function (FRF) phases from which the con... Read More about Evaluation of uncertainties in classical and component (blocked force) transfer path analysis (TPA).

Integration of digital watermarking technique into medical imaging systems (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Qasim, A., Aspin, R., & Meziane, F. (2019, June). Integration of digital watermarking technique into medical imaging systems. Presented at 10th International Conference Dependable Systems, Services and Technologies (DESSERT’2019), Leeds, UK

This paper presents the process of integrating digital watermarking technique into medical imaging workflow to evaluate, validate and verify its applicability and appropriateness to medical domains. This is significant to ensure the ability of the pr... Read More about Integration of digital watermarking technique into medical imaging systems.

Is automatic detection of hidden knowledge an anomaly? (2019)
Journal Article
Preiss, J. (2019). Is automatic detection of hidden knowledge an anomaly?. BMC Bioinformatics, 20(Sup 10), 251. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-019-2815-4

Background: The quantity of documents being published requires researchers to specialize to a narrower field, meaning that inferable connections between publications (particularly from different domains) can be missed. This has given rise to autom... Read More about Is automatic detection of hidden knowledge an anomaly?.

Exploring the effects of consumers’ trust : a predictive model for satisfying buyers’ expectations based on sellers’ behaviour in the marketplace (2019)
Journal Article
Al Sheikh, S., Shaalan, K., & Meziane, F. (2019). Exploring the effects of consumers’ trust : a predictive model for satisfying buyers’ expectations based on sellers’ behaviour in the marketplace. IEEE Access, 7(1), 73357-73372. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2917999

In recent years, Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) marketplaces have become very popular among Internet users. However, compared to traditional Business-to-Consumer (B2C) stores, most modern C2C marketplaces are reported to be associated with stronger negat... Read More about Exploring the effects of consumers’ trust : a predictive model for satisfying buyers’ expectations based on sellers’ behaviour in the marketplace.

Investigating the differences in Web browsing behaviour of Arabic (RTL) and English (LTR) users using mouse tracking (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Griffiths, L., Rasaei, A., & Haider, N. (2019, May). Investigating the differences in Web browsing behaviour of Arabic (RTL) and English (LTR) users using mouse tracking. Presented at 2nd International Conference on Digital Marketing : Strategy & Innovation in Digital Marketing, Galle Face Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka

The internet has become the global information and communication source. With such widespread usage of the web, it is crucial to marketing businesses to understand how users behave on websites. Mouse movement in any area on a webpage is an indicator... Read More about Investigating the differences in Web browsing behaviour of Arabic (RTL) and English (LTR) users using mouse tracking.

Generalisation in environmental sound classification : the ‘making sense of sounds’ data set and challenge (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Kroos, C., Bones, O., Cao, Y., Harris, L., Jackson, P., Davies, W., …Plumbley, M. (2019, May). Generalisation in environmental sound classification : the ‘making sense of sounds’ data set and challenge. Presented at 44th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2019), Brighton, UK

Humans are able to identify a large number of environmental sounds and categorise them according to high-level semantic categories, e.g. urban sounds or music. They are also capable of generalising from past experience to new sounds when applying the... Read More about Generalisation in environmental sound classification : the ‘making sense of sounds’ data set and challenge.

Background adaptation for improved listening experience in broadcasting (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Tang, Y., Cox, T., Fazenda, B., Liu, Q., & Wang, W. (2019, May). Background adaptation for improved listening experience in broadcasting. Presented at 44th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2019, Brighton, UK

The intelligibility of speech in noise can be improved by modifying the speech. But with object-based audio, there is the possibility of altering the background sound while leaving the speech unaltered. This may prove a less intrusive approach, affor... Read More about Background adaptation for improved listening experience in broadcasting.