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Effects of land‐use change on functional and taxonomic diversity of Neotropical bats (2019)
Journal Article
Farneda, F., Meyer, C., & Grelle, C. (2019). Effects of land‐use change on functional and taxonomic diversity of Neotropical bats. Biotropica, 52(1), 120-128. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12736

Human land-use changes are particularly extensive in tropical regions, representing one of the greatest threats to terrestrial biodiversity and a key research topic in conservation. However, studies considering the effects of different types of anthr... Read More about Effects of land‐use change on functional and taxonomic diversity of Neotropical bats.

Biodiversity assessment of tropical shelf eukaryotic communities via pelagic eDNA metabarcoding (2019)
Journal Article
Bakker, J., Wangensteen Fuentes, O., Baillie, C., Buddo, D., Chapman, D., Gallagher, A., …Mariani, S. (2019). Biodiversity assessment of tropical shelf eukaryotic communities via pelagic eDNA metabarcoding. Ecology and Evolution, 9(24), 14341-14355. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5871

Our understanding of marine communities and their functions in an ecosystem relies on the ability to detect and monitor species distributions and abundances. Currently, the use of environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is increasingly being applied f... Read More about Biodiversity assessment of tropical shelf eukaryotic communities via pelagic eDNA metabarcoding.

Application of complex network principles to key station identification in railway network efficiency analysis (2019)
Journal Article
Wang, L., An, M., Jia, L., & Qin, Y. (2019). Application of complex network principles to key station identification in railway network efficiency analysis. Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2019, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/1574136

Network efficiency analysis becomes important in railways in order to contribute towards improving the safety and capacity of the rail network, making rail travel more attractive for passengers, and improving industry practice and informing policy de... Read More about Application of complex network principles to key station identification in railway network efficiency analysis.

Neo Ekistics for flood mitigation in cities (2019)
Journal Article
Abdulkareem, M., Kenawy, I., & Elkadi, H. (2019). Neo Ekistics for flood mitigation in cities. World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, 17(2), 167-181. https://doi.org/10.1108/WJSTSD-01-2018-0008

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the potential of ecologically driven urban design interventions to substantiate urban form performance in coping with the increasing flood threats particularly in the Middle East region. The pa... Read More about Neo Ekistics for flood mitigation in cities.

Building information modeling (BIM) benefits and challenges : Malaysian construction organization experience (2019)
Journal Article
Musa, S., Marshall-Ponting, A., Shahron, S., & Nifa, F. (2019). Building information modeling (BIM) benefits and challenges : Malaysian construction organization experience. Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, 16(12), 4914-4924. https://doi.org/10.1166/jctn.2019.8542

Building Information Modeling is an innovative technology coupled with process and human interactions. BIM has been used by the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry in developed and developing countries including Malaysia. Th... Read More about Building information modeling (BIM) benefits and challenges : Malaysian construction organization experience.

Quasi-steady across-wind aerodynamic damping of tall structures (2019)
Journal Article
Nguyen, C., Long, D., & Nguyen, D. (2019). Quasi-steady across-wind aerodynamic damping of tall structures. ˜The œInternational journal of high-rise buildings, 8(4), 275-281. https://doi.org/10.21022/IJHRB.2019.8.4.275

The paper presents a generalization of existing analytical approaches to determine the across-wind aerodynamic damping of tall structures through the quasi-steady theory. The theory takes into account the nature of non-uniform wind, structural mode s... Read More about Quasi-steady across-wind aerodynamic damping of tall structures.

Unsteady aerodynamic modeling and control of pusher and tilt-rotor quadplane configurations (2019)
Journal Article
Govdeli, Y., Moheed Bin Muzaffar, S., Raj, R., Elhadidi, B., & Kayacan, E. (2019). Unsteady aerodynamic modeling and control of pusher and tilt-rotor quadplane configurations. Aerospace science and technology, 94, 105421. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ast.2019.105421

A nonlinear unsteady aerodynamics model is coupled with a three degree of freedom quadplane to control the forward and backward transition between hover and steady level flight. The unsteady lift and drag forces are modeled using a lumped vortex mode... Read More about Unsteady aerodynamic modeling and control of pusher and tilt-rotor quadplane configurations.

Validation of a low-cost Electromyography (EMG) system via a commercial and accurate EMG device : pilot study (2019)
Journal Article
Fuentes del Toro, S., Wei, Y., Olmeda, E., Ren, L., Wei, G., & Díaz, V. (2019). Validation of a low-cost Electromyography (EMG) system via a commercial and accurate EMG device : pilot study. Sensors, 19(23), e5214. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19235214

Electromyography (EMG) devices are well-suited for measuring the behaviour of muscles during an exercise or a task, and are widely used in many different research areas. Their disadvantage is that commercial systems are expensive. We designed a low-c... Read More about Validation of a low-cost Electromyography (EMG) system via a commercial and accurate EMG device : pilot study.

Ultrashort nonautonomous similariton solutions and the cascade tunneling of interacting similaritons (2019)
Journal Article
Yang, R., Gao, J., Jia, H., Tian, J., & Christian, J. (2020). Ultrashort nonautonomous similariton solutions and the cascade tunneling of interacting similaritons. Optics Communications, 459, 125025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2019.125025

Similarity transformation and Hirota bilinearization are deployed to derive exact bright and dark ultrashort one- and two-similariton solutions of a nonautonomous cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Such wave packets may emerge when group... Read More about Ultrashort nonautonomous similariton solutions and the cascade tunneling of interacting similaritons.

Integrating climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation in the global ocean (2019)
Journal Article
Tittensor, D., Beger, M., Boerder, K., Boyce, D., Cavanagh, R., Cosandey-Godin, A., …Worm, B. (2019). Integrating climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation in the global ocean. Science Advances, 5(11), eaay9969. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aay9969

The impacts of climate change and the socioecological challenges they present are ubiquitous and increasingly severe. Practical efforts to operationalize climate-responsive design and management in the global network of marine protected areas (MPAs)... Read More about Integrating climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation in the global ocean.