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Building information modelling and vertical farming : data integration to manage facilities and processes (2017)
Journal Article
Khan, R., & Ahmed, V. (2017). Building information modelling and vertical farming : data integration to manage facilities and processes. Facilities, 35(13/14), 710-724. https://doi.org/10.1108/f-03-2016-0026

Purpose The UN statistics shows that the world’s population is expected to be 9 billion by the 2050. As a result, the food production must also to be raised 70% or more. Vertical Farming (VF) is an innovative alternative approaches to meet the chal... Read More about Building information modelling and vertical farming : data integration to manage facilities and processes.

Leveraging BIM and big data to deliver well maintained highways (2017)
Journal Article
highways. Facilities, 35(13/14), 818-832. https://doi.org/10.1108/F-02-2016-0021

The Highway infrastructure is one of the most valuable assets for any state or national Government. Efficient operations of Highways lead to success of national and local economies as well as improve the quality of life of the general public dependen... Read More about Leveraging BIM and big data to deliver well maintained highways.

Bioconvective electromagnetic nanofluid transport from a wedge geometry : simulation of smart electro-conductive bio-nano-polymer processing (2017)
Journal Article
Zohra, F., Uddin, M., Ismail, A., & Beg, O. (2017). Bioconvective electromagnetic nanofluid transport from a wedge geometry : simulation of smart electro-conductive bio-nano-polymer processing. Heat Transfer - Asian Research, 47(1), 231-250. https://doi.org/10.1002/htj.21300

A mathematical model is presented for steady, two-dimensional, stagnation-point flow, heat, mass, and micro-organism transfer in a viscous, incompressible, bioconvective, electromagnetic nanofluid along a wedge with Stefan blowing effects, hydrodynam... Read More about Bioconvective electromagnetic nanofluid transport from a wedge geometry : simulation of smart electro-conductive bio-nano-polymer processing.

A method of determining where to target surveillance efforts in heterogeneous epidemiological systems (2017)
Journal Article
Mastin, A., van den Bosch, F., Gottwald, T., Alonso Chavez, V., & Parnell, S. (2017). A method of determining where to target surveillance efforts in heterogeneous epidemiological systems. PLoS Computational Biology, 13(8), e1005712. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005712

The spread of pathogens into new environments poses a considerable threat to human, animal, and plant health, and by extension, human and animal wellbeing, ecosystem function, and agricultural productivity, worldwide. Early detection through effectiv... Read More about A method of determining where to target surveillance efforts in heterogeneous epidemiological systems.

Hydromagnetic non-Newtonian nanofluid transport phenomena from an isothermal vertical cone with partial slip : aerospace nanomaterial enrobing simulation (2017)
Journal Article
Annasagaram, S., Amanulla, C., Nagendra, N., Surya Narayana Reddy, M., & Beg, O. (2017). Hydromagnetic non-Newtonian nanofluid transport phenomena from an isothermal vertical cone with partial slip : aerospace nanomaterial enrobing simulation. Heat Transfer - Asian Research, 47(1), 203-230. https://doi.org/10.1002/htj.21299

In this article, the combined magneto-hydrodynamic heat, momentum, and mass (species) transfer in external boundary layer flow of Casson nanofluid from a vertical cone surface with convective conditions under an applied magnetic field is studied theo... Read More about Hydromagnetic non-Newtonian nanofluid transport phenomena from an isothermal vertical cone with partial slip : aerospace nanomaterial enrobing simulation.

Numerical exploration of thermal radiation and Biot number effects on the flow of a non-Newtonian MHD Williamson fluid over a vertical convective surface (2017)
Journal Article
Amanulla, C., Nagendra, N., Subba Rao, A., Beg, O., & Kadir, A. (2017). Numerical exploration of thermal radiation and Biot number effects on the flow of a non-Newtonian MHD Williamson fluid over a vertical convective surface. Heat Transfer - Asian Research, 47(2), 286-304. https://doi.org/10.1002/htj.21303

A theoretical and computational study of the magnetohydrodynamic flow and free convection heat transfer in an electroconductive polymer on the external surface of a vertical plate under radial magnetic field is presented. The Biot number effects are... Read More about Numerical exploration of thermal radiation and Biot number effects on the flow of a non-Newtonian MHD Williamson fluid over a vertical convective surface.

Review of motivations, success factors, and barriers to the adoption of offsite manufacturing in Nigeria (2017)
Journal Article
Kolo, S., Rahimian, F., Goulding, J., & Akintoye, A. (2017). Review of motivations, success factors, and barriers to the adoption of offsite manufacturing in Nigeria. Procedia Engineering, 196, 512 - 519. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2017.07.232

Despite several mitigation attempts, Nigeria is still facing a deficit of 17 million houses. Seminal literature argues that this problem is predominantly due to a myriad of issues, including high construction costs, skills shortages, the slow pace of... Read More about Review of motivations, success factors, and barriers to the adoption of offsite manufacturing in Nigeria.

The effect of situation-specific non-speech acoustic cues on the intelligibility of speech in noise (2017)
Journal Article
Ward, L., Shirley, B., Tang, Y., & Davies, W. (2017). The effect of situation-specific non-speech acoustic cues on the intelligibility of speech in noise. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2017-500

In everyday life, speech is often accompanied by a situationspecific acoustic cue; a hungry bark as you ask ‘Has anyone fed the dog?’. This paper investigates the effect such cues have on speech intelligibility in noise and evaluates their interact... Read More about The effect of situation-specific non-speech acoustic cues on the intelligibility of speech in noise.

Detecting crypto-ransomware in IoT networks based on energy consumption footprint (2017)
Journal Article
energy consumption footprint. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 9(4), 1141-1152. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-017-0558-5

An Internet of Things (IoT) architecture generally consists of a wide range of Internet-connected devices or things such as Android devices, and devices that have more computational capabilities (e.g., storage capacities) are likely to be targeted by... Read More about Detecting crypto-ransomware in IoT networks based on energy consumption footprint.

Numerical evaluation of thermal comfort in traditional courtyards to develop new microclimate design in a hot and dry climate (2017)
Journal Article
Nasrollahi, N., Hatami, M., Khastar, S., & Taleghani, M. (2017). Numerical evaluation of thermal comfort in traditional courtyards to develop new microclimate design in a hot and dry climate. Sustainable Cities and Society, 35, 449-467. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2017.08.017

The growing interest in thermal comfort of outdoor environments yields in different analysis on courtyards as a common space between urban and architectural scales. However, there is a limited knowledge regarding the microclimatic behavior of such sp... Read More about Numerical evaluation of thermal comfort in traditional courtyards to develop new microclimate design in a hot and dry climate.