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Changes in prevalence of obesity and high waist circumference over four years across European regions: the European male ageing study (EMAS) (2016)
Journal Article

Diversity in lifestyles and socioeconomic status among European populations, and recent socio-political and economic changes in transitional countries, may affect changes in adiposity. We aimed to determine whether change in the prevalence of obesity... Read More about Changes in prevalence of obesity and high waist circumference over four years across European regions: the European male ageing study (EMAS).

Toll-like receptor variation in the bottlenecked population of the endangered Seychelles warbler (2016)
Journal Article
Gilroy, D., van Oosterhout, C., Komdeur, J., & Richardson, D. (2017). Toll-like receptor variation in the bottlenecked population of the endangered Seychelles warbler. Animal Conservation, 20(3), 235-250. https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12307

In small populations, drift results in a loss of genetic variation, which reduces adaptive evolutionary potential. Furthermore, the probability of consanguineous mating increases which may result in inbreeding depression. Under certain circumstances,... Read More about Toll-like receptor variation in the bottlenecked population of the endangered Seychelles warbler.

Translation effects in fluorine doped tin oxide thin film properties by atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition (2016)
Journal Article
Afzaal, M., Yates, H., & Hodgkinson, J. (2016). Translation effects in fluorine doped tin oxide thin film properties by atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition. Coatings, 6(4), 43. https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings6040043

In this work, the impact of translation rates in fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO) thin films using atmospheric pressure chemical vapour deposition (APCVD) were studied. We demonstrated that by adjusting the translation speeds of the susceptor, the grow... Read More about Translation effects in fluorine doped tin oxide thin film properties by atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition.

Moku virus : a new Iflavirus found in wasps, honey bees and Varroa (2016)
Journal Article

There is an increasing global trend of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) affecting a wide range of species, including honey bees. The global epidemic of the single stranded RNA Deformed wing virus (DWV), driven by the spread of Varroa destructor ha... Read More about Moku virus : a new Iflavirus found in wasps, honey bees and Varroa.

On the existence of two states in liquid water : impact on biological and nanoscopic systems (2016)
Journal Article

This work reviews several properties of liquid water, including the dielectric constant and the proton-spin lattice relaxation, and draws attention to a bilinear behaviour defining a crossover in the temperature range 50 ± 10°C between two possible s... Read More about On the existence of two states in liquid water : impact on biological and nanoscopic systems.

Behaviour of backfilled masonry arch bridges subjected to cyclic loading (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Experimental research has demonstrated that the interaction between soil fill surrounding
the arch barrel of a masonry arch bridge structure has a significant influence on ultimate
limit state behaviour. However, little work has been carried out to... Read More about Behaviour of backfilled masonry arch bridges subjected to cyclic loading.

Numerical solutions for nonlinear gyrotactic bioconvection in nanofluid-saturated porous media with stefan blowing and multiple slip effects (2016)
Journal Article
Uddin, M., Alginahi, Y., Beg, O., & Kabir, M. (2016). Numerical solutions for nonlinear gyrotactic bioconvection in nanofluid-saturated porous media with stefan blowing and multiple slip effects. Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 72(10), 2562-2581. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.camwa.2016.09.018

A mathematical model is developed to examine the effects of the Stefan blowing, second order velocity slip, thermal slip and microorganism species slip on nonlinear bioconvection boundary layer flow of a nanofluid over a horizontal plate embedded in... Read More about Numerical solutions for nonlinear gyrotactic bioconvection in nanofluid-saturated porous media with stefan blowing and multiple slip effects.

Proposed permissible limit state assessment criteria for masonry arch bridges (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Gilbert, M., Melbourne, C., Smith, C., Augusthus Nelson, L., & Swift, G. (2016, October). Proposed permissible limit state assessment criteria for masonry arch bridges. Presented at ARCH '16. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Arch Bridges, Wroclaw, Poland

The Ultimate Limit State (ULS) is commonly used when assessing masonry arch bridges. Traditionally one or more, relatively large, partial factors are applied to the ULS to determine the level of service loading that can be safely applied to a given b... Read More about Proposed permissible limit state assessment criteria for masonry arch bridges.

Digital health innovation ecosystems: from systematic literature review to conceptual framework (2016)
Journal Article
Ejehiohen Iyawa, G., Herselmann, M., & Botha, A. (2016). Digital health innovation ecosystems: from systematic literature review to conceptual framework. Procedia Computer Science, 100, 244-252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2016.09.149

This paper reviews existing literature on digital health innovation ecosystems. It aims to explore the terms digital health, innovation and digital ecosystems to identify components towards presenting a conceptual framework for a digital health innov... Read More about Digital health innovation ecosystems: from systematic literature review to conceptual framework.

Weight estimation of a conceptual wing for a high altitude, solar powered unmanned aerial vehicle (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Alsahlani, A., & Rahulan, T. (2016, October). Weight estimation of a conceptual wing for a high altitude, solar powered unmanned aerial vehicle. Presented at 5th Aircraft Structural Design Conference, Manchester, UK

In this paper, an in-house developed pre-conceptual design methodology and a composite structure module have
been used to study the impact of aerodynamic performance, payload requirements and wing thickness to estimate
the weight. In the first part... Read More about Weight estimation of a conceptual wing for a high altitude, solar powered unmanned aerial vehicle.