School of Science, Engineering & Environment

Echolocation and stratum preference : key trait correlates of vulnerability of insectivorous bats to tropical forest fragmentation (2019)
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Núñez, S., López-Baucells, A., Rocha, R., Farneda, F., Bobrowiec, P., Palmeirim, J., & Meyer, C. (2019). Echolocation and stratum preference : key trait correlates of vulnerability of insectivorous bats to tropical forest fragmentation. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7, 373. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00373

Habitat loss and fragmentation rank high amongst the most pressing threats to biodiversity. Understanding how variation in functional traits is associated with species vulnerability in fragmented landscapes is central to the design of effective conse... Read More about Echolocation and stratum preference : key trait correlates of vulnerability of insectivorous bats to tropical forest fragmentation.

Bartonella clarridgeiae infection in a patient with aortic root abscess and endocarditis (2019)
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Logan, J., Hall, J., Chalker, V., O’Connell, B., & Birtles, R. (2019). Bartonella clarridgeiae infection in a patient with aortic root abscess and endocarditis. Access Microbiology, 1(10), https://doi.org/10.1099/acmi.0.000064

Introduction. Bartonella species are increasingly recognized as agents of culture-negative endocarditis. However, to date, almost all human cases have been associated with two members of the genus, Bartonella henselae and Bartonella quintana. B. hen... Read More about Bartonella clarridgeiae infection in a patient with aortic root abscess and endocarditis.

Is digital health care more equitable? The framing of health inequalities within England's digital health policy 2010–2017 (2019)
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Rich, E., Miah, A., & Lewis, S. (2019). Is digital health care more equitable? The framing of health inequalities within England's digital health policy 2010–2017. Sociology of Health and Illness, 41(S1), 31-49. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12980

Informed by a discourse analysis, this article examines the framing of equity within the UK's digital health policies between 2010 and 2017, focusing on England's development of NHS Digital and its situation within the UK Government's wider digital s... Read More about Is digital health care more equitable? The framing of health inequalities within England's digital health policy 2010–2017.

Finite element analysis of non-Newtonian magnetohemodynamic flow conveying nanoparticles through a stenosed coronary artery (2019)
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Vasu, B., Dubey, A., & Beg, O. (2020). Finite element analysis of non-Newtonian magnetohemodynamic flow conveying nanoparticles through a stenosed coronary artery. Heat Transfer - Asian Research, 49(1), 33-66. https://doi.org/10.1002/htj.21598

The present study considers two-dimensional mathematical modelling of non-Newtonian nanofluid hemodynamics with heat and mass transfer in a stenosed coronary artery in the presence of a radial magnetic field. The second-grade differential viscoelasti... Read More about Finite element analysis of non-Newtonian magnetohemodynamic flow conveying nanoparticles through a stenosed coronary artery.

Arsenic in Peruvian rice cultivated in the major rice growing region of Tumbes river basin (2019)
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Mondal, D., Periche, R., Tineo, B., Bermejo, L., Rahman, M., Siddique, A., …Cruz, G. (2020). Arsenic in Peruvian rice cultivated in the major rice growing region of Tumbes river basin. Chemosphere, 241, 125070. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.125070

Arsenic (As) exposure from surface and groundwater in Peru is being recognised as a 16 potential threat but there are limited studies on As in the food-chain and none on As in 17 Peruvian rice. In this study, we have determined the As content in rice... Read More about Arsenic in Peruvian rice cultivated in the major rice growing region of Tumbes river basin.

Project-specific constraints influencing productivity of tradespeople in the Nigerian construction industry (2019)
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Ugulu, R., Arewa, A., & Allen, S. (2019). Project-specific constraints influencing productivity of tradespeople in the Nigerian construction industry. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 10(1), 94-109. https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-10-2018-0124

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to establish the perception of tradespeople about project-specific constraints (PSCs) influencing construction productivity in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach Using a qualitative descriptive survey co... Read More about Project-specific constraints influencing productivity of tradespeople in the Nigerian construction industry.

MAT Seroprevalence infers low rates of Toxoplasma gondii in domestic pigs from Yucatan, Mexico (2019)
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Cubas-Atienzar, A., Hide, G., & Smith, J. (2019). MAT Seroprevalence infers low rates of Toxoplasma gondii in domestic pigs from Yucatan, Mexico. Journal of Parasitology, 105(5), 738-747. https://doi.org/10.1645/18-188

Toxoplasma gondii is a zoonotic parasite of worldwide distribution. The consumption of infected pork meat has been suggested to be an important source for human infection in the tropical area of Yucatan, Mexico. We performed a cross-sectional study o... Read More about MAT Seroprevalence infers low rates of Toxoplasma gondii in domestic pigs from Yucatan, Mexico.

Perturbation and numerical study of double-diffusive dissipative reactive convective flow in an open vertical duct containing a non-darcy porous medium with robin boundary conditions (2019)
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Umavathi, J., & Beg, O. (2019). Perturbation and numerical study of double-diffusive dissipative reactive convective flow in an open vertical duct containing a non-darcy porous medium with robin boundary conditions. Journal of Engineering Mathematics, 119, 135-147. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10665-019-10022-w

A mathematical model for thermosolutal convection flow in an open two-dimensional vertical channel containing a porous medium saturated with reactive Newtonian fluid is developed and studied. Robin boundary conditions are prescribed, and a first-orde... Read More about Perturbation and numerical study of double-diffusive dissipative reactive convective flow in an open vertical duct containing a non-darcy porous medium with robin boundary conditions.

Security of Streaming Media Communications with Logistic Map and Self-Adaptive Detection-Based Steganography (2019)
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Peng, J., Jiang, Y., Tang, S., & Meziane, F. (2021). Security of Streaming Media Communications with Logistic Map and Self-Adaptive Detection-Based Steganography. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 18(4), 1962-1973. https://doi.org/10.1109/TDSC.2019.2946138

Voice over IP (VoIP) is finding its way into several applications, but its security concerns still remain. This paper shows how a new self-adaptive steganographic method can ensure the security of covert VoIP communications over the Internet. In th... Read More about Security of Streaming Media Communications with Logistic Map and Self-Adaptive Detection-Based Steganography.

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