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Critical success factors for Kaizen implementation in the Nigerian construction industry (2018)
Journal Article
Omotayo, T., Kulatunga, U., & Bjeirmi, B. (2018). Critical success factors for Kaizen implementation in the Nigerian construction industry. International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, 67(9), 1816-1836. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijppm-11-2017-0296

Purpose: Kaizen in construction is a new paradigm stemming out of lean production systems. Construction companies in developing economies, such as Nigeria, have a task to innovate to liquidate in certain cases. With the aid of kaizen, which encompass... Read More about Critical success factors for Kaizen implementation in the Nigerian construction industry.

Learning causality for Arabic - proclitics (2018)
Journal Article
Sadek, J., & Meziane, F. (2018). Learning causality for Arabic - proclitics. Procedia Computer Science, 142, 141-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2018.10.469

The use of prefixed particles is a prevalent linguistic form to express causation in Arabic Language. However, such particles are complicated and highly ambiguous as they imply different meanings according to their position in the text. This ambiguit... Read More about Learning causality for Arabic - proclitics.

Low cost triazatruxene hole transporting material for >20% efficiency perovskite solar cells (2018)
Journal Article
Connell, A., Zhiping, W., Lin, Y., Greenwood, P., Wiles, A., Jones, E., …Holliman, P. (2019). Low cost triazatruxene hole transporting material for >20% efficiency perovskite solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 7(18), 5235-5243. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8tc04231d

Organic hole-transporting materials (HTM) have shown excellent ability in achieving high efficiency perovskite solar cells. However, their high cost significantly limits their applications in scaling-up perovskite solar cells. Here, we report an ef... Read More about Low cost triazatruxene hole transporting material for >20% efficiency perovskite solar cells.

Azithromycin and Roxithromycin define a new family of “senolytic” drugs that target senescent human fibroblasts (2018)
Journal Article
Ozsvari, B., Nuttall, J., Sotgia, F., & Lisanti, M. (2018). Azithromycin and Roxithromycin define a new family of “senolytic” drugs that target senescent human fibroblasts. Aging, 10(11), 3294-3307. https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.101633

Here, we employed a “senolytic” assay system as a screening tool, with the goal of identifying and repurposing FDA-approved antibiotics, for the targeting of the senescent cell population. Briefly, we used two established human fibroblast cell lines... Read More about Azithromycin and Roxithromycin define a new family of “senolytic” drugs that target senescent human fibroblasts.

An evolutionary modelling approach to predicting stress-strain behaviour of saturated granular soils (2018)
Journal Article
Ahangar Asr, A., Faramarzi, A., & Javadi, A. (2018). An evolutionary modelling approach to predicting stress-strain behaviour of saturated granular soils. Engineering Computations, 35(8), 2931-2952. https://doi.org/10.1108/EC-01-2018-0025

Purpose: To develop a unified framework for modelling triaxial deviator stress - axial strain and volumetric strain – axial strain behaviour of granular soils with the ability to predict the entire stress paths, incrementally, point by point, in de... Read More about An evolutionary modelling approach to predicting stress-strain behaviour of saturated granular soils.

Application of differential transform method to unsteady free convective heat transfer of a couple stress fluid over a stretching sheet (2018)
Journal Article
Kumar, M., Reddy, G., Kumar, N., & Beg, O. (2018). Application of differential transform method to unsteady free convective heat transfer of a couple stress fluid over a stretching sheet. Heat Transfer - Asian Research, 48(2), 582-600. https://doi.org/10.1002/htj.21396

In the present article, the transient rheological boundary layer flow over a stretching sheet with heat transfer is investigated, a topic of relevance to non-Newtonian thermal materials processing. Stokes couple stress model is deployed to simulate... Read More about Application of differential transform method to unsteady free convective heat transfer of a couple stress fluid over a stretching sheet.

Novel design and position control strategy of a soft robot arm (2018)
Journal Article
Al-Ibadi, A., Nefti-Meziani, S., Davis, S., & Theodoridis, T. (2018). Novel design and position control strategy of a soft robot arm. Robotics, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics7040072

This article presents a novel design of a continuum arm, which has the ability to extend and bend efficiently. Numerous designs and experiments have been done to different dimensions on both types of McKibben pneumatic muscle actuators (PMA) in order... Read More about Novel design and position control strategy of a soft robot arm.

Individual consumption of supplemental food as a predictor of reproductive performance and viral infection intensity (2018)
Journal Article
Tollington, S., Ewen, J., Newton, J., McGill, R., Smith, D., Henshaw, A., …Groombridge, J. (2018). Individual consumption of supplemental food as a predictor of reproductive performance and viral infection intensity. Journal of Applied Ecology, 56(3), 594-603. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13303

Supplemental food is often provided to threatened species in order to maintain or enhance reproductive fitness and thus population growth. However, its impact on individual reproductive fitness is rarely evaluated, despite being associated with bot... Read More about Individual consumption of supplemental food as a predictor of reproductive performance and viral infection intensity.

Numerical study of viscoelastic micropolar heat transfer from a vertical cone for thermal polymer coating (2018)
Journal Article
Madhavi, K., Prasad, V., Rao, A., Beg, O., & Kadir, A. (2018). Numerical study of viscoelastic micropolar heat transfer from a vertical cone for thermal polymer coating. Nonlinear Engineering, 8(1), 449-460. https://doi.org/10.1515/nleng-2018-0064

A mathematical model is developed to study laminar, nonlinear, non-isothermal, steady-state free convection boundary layer flow and heat transfer of a micropolar viscoelastic fluid from a vertical isothermal cone. The Eringen model and Jeffery’s visc... Read More about Numerical study of viscoelastic micropolar heat transfer from a vertical cone for thermal polymer coating.