Loneliness kills : can autonomous systems and robotics assist in providing solutions?
(2016)
Journal Article
Gulrez, T., Nefti-Meziani, S., McEvoy, P., & Hodgson, A. (2016). Loneliness kills : can autonomous systems and robotics assist in providing solutions?. International Journal of Swarm Intelligence and Evolutionsary Computation (Online), 5(1), e113. https://doi.org/10.4172/2090-4908.1000e113
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Micrometeorological simulations to predict the impacts of heat mitigation strategies on pedestrian thermal comfort in a Los Angeles neighborhood (2016)
Journal Article
Taleghani, M., Sailor, D., & Ban-Weiss, G. (2016). Micrometeorological simulations to predict the impacts of heat mitigation strategies on pedestrian thermal comfort in a Los Angeles neighborhood. Environmental Research Letters, 11(2), https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/2/024003The urban heat island impacts the thermal comfort of pedestrians in cities. In this paper, the effects of four heat mitigation strategies on micrometeorology and the thermal comfort of pedestrians were simulated for a neighborhood in eastern Los Ange... Read More about Micrometeorological simulations to predict the impacts of heat mitigation strategies on pedestrian thermal comfort in a Los Angeles neighborhood.
Corporate social responsibility in construction industry: a comparative study between UK and Turkey (2016)
Journal Article
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has evolved to an important agenda for many industries and its scope has been widened from the responsible business to strategic decisions. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the concept of CSR from the pe... Read More about Corporate social responsibility in construction industry: a comparative study between UK and Turkey.
The integration between knowledge management and total quality management and its impact on educational performance (2016)
Thesis
Berrish, M. The integration between knowledge management and total quality management and its impact on educational performance. (Thesis). University of salford
Stakeholder perceptions on critical success factors for public-private partnership projects in Nigeria (2016)
Journal Article
Babatunde, S., Perera, S., Zhou, L., & Udeaja, C. (2016). Stakeholder perceptions on critical success factors for public-private partnership projects in Nigeria. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 6(1), 74-91. https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-11-2014-0061Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify and assess the perceptions of stakeholders on
critical success factors (CSFs) for Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects in Nigeria.
Design/methodology/approach – A comprehensive literature rev... Read More about Stakeholder perceptions on critical success factors for public-private partnership projects in Nigeria.
Effects of silver sulphadiazine on production of extracellular proteins by strains of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from burns wound (2016)
Journal Article
Khojasteh, V., Elfakhri, S., & Foster, H. (2016). Effects of silver sulphadiazine on production of extracellular proteins by strains of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from burns wound. Iranian journal of pharmaceutical research (Online), 15(2), 653-660Previous studies had shown that sub-inhibitory concentrations of silver sulphadiazine (AgSD)
stimulated the production of Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin-1 in certain strains (responder strains)of S.aureus and that protease production was also affected.... Read More about Effects of silver sulphadiazine on production of extracellular proteins by strains of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from burns wound.
Avian β-defensin variation in bottlenecked populations : the Seychelles warbler and other congeners (2016)
Journal Article
Gilroy, D., van Oosterhout, C., Komdeur, J., & Richardson, D. (2016). Avian β-defensin variation in bottlenecked populations : the Seychelles warbler and other congeners. Conservation Genetics, 17(3), 661-674. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-016-0813-xβ-defensins are important components of the vertebrate innate immune system responsible for encoding a variety of anti-microbial peptides. Pathogen-mediated selection is thought to act on immune genes and potentially maintain allelic variation in the... Read More about Avian β-defensin variation in bottlenecked populations : the Seychelles warbler and other congeners.
Informal developments in Nigeria: Findings from the Literature (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aging and computational systems biology (2016)
Journal Article
Mooney, K. M., Morgan, A. E., & Mc Auley, M. T. (2016). Aging and computational systems biology. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine, 8(2), 123-139. https://doi.org/10.1002/wsbm.1328Aging research is undergoing a paradigm shift, which has led to new and innovative methods of exploring this complex phenomenon. The systems biology approach endeavors to understand biological systems in a holistic manner, by taking account of intrin... Read More about Aging and computational systems biology.
Effect of biosurfactants on Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus biofilms in a BioFlux channel (2016)
Journal Article
De Rienzo, M., PS, S., R, M., & IM, B. (2016). Effect of biosurfactants on Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus biofilms in a BioFlux channel. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 100, 5773-5779. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-016-7310-5Recent studies have indicated that biosurfactants play a role both in maintaining channels between multicellular structures in biofilms and in dispersal of cells from biofilms. A combination of caprylic acid (0.01 % v/v) together with rhamnolipids (0... Read More about Effect of biosurfactants on Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus biofilms in a BioFlux channel.