School of Science, Engineering & Environment

Street trees reduce the negative effects of urbanization on birds (2017)
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urbanization on birds. PLoS ONE, 12(e01744), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0174484

The effects of streets on biodiversity is an important aspect of urban ecology, but it has been neglected worldwide. Several vegetation attributes (e.g. street tree density and diversity) have important effects on biodiversity and ecological proces... Read More about Street trees reduce the negative effects of urbanization on birds.

Effect of cavities on the behaviour of laterally loaded pile in sand (2017)
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Al-Jazaairry, A., & Toma-Sabbagh, T. (2017). Effect of cavities on the behaviour of laterally loaded pile in sand. International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, 12(6), 567-577. https://doi.org/10.1080/19386362.2017.1305137

This paper sheds the light on the interaction between piles under lateral loading conditions embedded in sandy soils and adjacent to cavities. The experimental study comprised a full laboratory testing programme carried out on small scale piles embed... Read More about Effect of cavities on the behaviour of laterally loaded pile in sand.

Formulation of Biocides Increases Antimicrobial Potency and Mitigates the Enrichment of Nonsusceptible Bacteria in Multispecies Biofilms (2017)
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Forbes, S., Cowley, N., Humphreys, G., Mistry, H., Amézquita, A., & McBain, A. J. (2017). Formulation of Biocides Increases Antimicrobial Potency and Mitigates the Enrichment of Nonsusceptible Bacteria in Multispecies Biofilms. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 83(7), https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.03054-16

The current investigation aimed to generate data to inform the development of risk assessments of biocide usage. Stabilized domestic drain biofilm microcosms were exposed daily over 6 months to increasing concentrations (0.01% to 1%) of the biocide b... Read More about Formulation of Biocides Increases Antimicrobial Potency and Mitigates the Enrichment of Nonsusceptible Bacteria in Multispecies Biofilms.

Eosinophils are key regulators of perivascular adipose tissue and vascular functionality (2017)
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vascular functionality. Scientific reports, 7, 44571. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep44571

Obesity impairs the relaxant capacity of adipose tissue surrounding the vasculature (PVAT) and has been implicated in resultant obesity-related hypertension and impaired glucose intolerance. Resident immune cells are thought to regulate adipocyte a... Read More about Eosinophils are key regulators of perivascular adipose tissue and vascular functionality.

Angular reflectance of leaves with a dual-wavelength terrestrial lidar and its implications for leaf-bark separation and leaf moisture estimation (2017)
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Hancock, S., Gaulton, R., & Danson, F. (2017). Angular reflectance of leaves with a dual-wavelength terrestrial lidar and its implications for leaf-bark separation and leaf moisture estimation. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 55(6), https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2017.2652140

A new generation of multi-wavelength lidars offer the potential to measure the structure and biochemistry of vegetation simultaneously, using range resolved spectra indices to overcome the confounding effects in passive optical measurements. Howe... Read More about Angular reflectance of leaves with a dual-wavelength terrestrial lidar and its implications for leaf-bark separation and leaf moisture estimation.

Evaluation of spatial audio reproduction methods (part 2) : analysis of listener preference (2017)
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Francombe, J., Brookes, T., Mason, R., & Woodcock, J. (2017). Evaluation of spatial audio reproduction methods (part 2) : analysis of listener preference. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 65(3), 212-225. https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2016.0071

A paired-comparison preference rating experiment was performed in combination with a free-elicitation task for eight reproduction methods (consumer and professional systems with a wide range of expected quality) and seven program items (representativ... Read More about Evaluation of spatial audio reproduction methods (part 2) : analysis of listener preference.

Treatment of contaminated greywater using pelletised mine water sludge (2017)
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Abed, S., Almuktar, S., & Scholz, M. (2017). Treatment of contaminated greywater using pelletised mine water sludge. Journal of Environmental Management, 197(Jul 17), 10-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.03.021

Precipitated sludge (ochre) obtained from a mine water treatment plant was considered as an adsorbent substance for pollutants, since ochre is relatively free from problematic levels of toxic elements, which could impair on the quality of water to be... Read More about Treatment of contaminated greywater using pelletised mine water sludge.

An improved moth flame optimization algorithm based on rough sets for tomato diseases detection (2017)
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Hassanien, A., Gaber, T., Mokhtar, U., & Hefny, H. (2017). An improved moth flame optimization algorithm based on rough sets for tomato diseases detection. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 136, 86-96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2017.02.026

Plant diseases is one of the major bottlenecks in agricultural production that have bad effects on the economic of any country. Automatic detection of such disease could minimize these effects. Features selection is a usual pre-processing step used f... Read More about An improved moth flame optimization algorithm based on rough sets for tomato diseases detection.

Towards a classification strategy for complex nanostructures (2017)
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Castagnola, V., Cookman, J., De Araujo, J., Polo, E., Cai, Q., Silviera, P., …Dawson, K. (2017). Towards a classification strategy for complex nanostructures. Nanoscale horizons (Print), 2017(2), 187-198. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6NH00219F

The range of possible nanostructures is so large and continuously growing, that collating and unifying the knowledge connected to them, including their biological activity, is a major challenge. Here we discuss a conception that is based on connectio... Read More about Towards a classification strategy for complex nanostructures.

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