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Renaturing a microclimate : the impact of greening a neighbourhood on indoor thermal comfort during a heatwave in Manchester, UK (2019)
Journal Article
Taleghani, M., Marshall, A., Fitton, R., & Swan, W. (2019). Renaturing a microclimate : the impact of greening a neighbourhood on indoor thermal comfort during a heatwave in Manchester, UK. Solar Energy, 182, 245-255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2019.02.062

Higher air temperatures in large cities like Manchester, UK, reduce human thermal comfort. In this paper, the impact of land cover on microclimate, and consequently on indoor thermal comfort is studied. Through different stages, field measurements an... Read More about Renaturing a microclimate : the impact of greening a neighbourhood on indoor thermal comfort during a heatwave in Manchester, UK.

Small unmanned aerial model accuracy for photogrammetrical fluvial bathymetric survey (2019)
Journal Article
Entwistle, N., & Heritage, G. (2019). Small unmanned aerial model accuracy for photogrammetrical fluvial bathymetric survey. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 13(1), 014523. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.13.014523

Fluvial systems offer a challenging and varied environment for topographic survey, displaying a rapidly varying morphology, vegetation assemblage and degree of submergence. Traditionally theodolite or GPS based systems have been used to capture cross... Read More about Small unmanned aerial model accuracy for photogrammetrical fluvial bathymetric survey.

Sustainability of bridge maintenance (2019)
Journal Article
Balogun, T., Tomor, A., Lamond, J., Gouda, H., & Booth, C. (2019). Sustainability of bridge maintenance. Proceedings of the ICE - Bridge Engineering, 172(1), 54-64. https://doi.org/10.1680/jbren.15.00027

Bridge maintenance activities are important to consider within sustainable development due to the cost and environmental impact associated with various maintenance activities. Comparisons have been made between different bridge structural forms, base... Read More about Sustainability of bridge maintenance.

A systematic literature review of blockchain cyber security (2019)
Journal Article
Taylor, P., Dargahi, T., Dehghantanha, A., Parizi, R., & Choo, K. (2020). A systematic literature review of blockchain cyber security. Digital Communications and Networks, 6(2), 147-156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcan.2019.01.005

Since the publication of Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper on Bitcoin in 2008, blockchain has (slowly) become one of the most frequently discussed methods for securing data storage and transfer through decentralized, trustless, peer-to-peer systems. Thi... Read More about A systematic literature review of blockchain cyber security.

A hybrid intelligent agent for notification of users distracted by mobile phones in an urban environment (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Gelaim, T., Langer, G., Santos, E., Silveira, R., O'Hare, J., Kendrick, P., & Fazenda, B. (2019, February). A hybrid intelligent agent for notification of users distracted by mobile phones in an urban environment. Presented at 11th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), Prague, Czech Republic

Mobile devices are now ubiquitous in daily life and the number of activities that can be performed using them
is continually growing. This implies increased attention being placed on the device and diverted away from
events taking place in the surr... Read More about A hybrid intelligent agent for notification of users distracted by mobile phones in an urban environment.

Highlights of the novel dewaterability estimation test (DET) device (2019)
Journal Article
Scholz, M., Almuktar, S., Clausner, C., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2020). Highlights of the novel dewaterability estimation test (DET) device. Environmental Technology, 41(20), 2594-2602. https://doi.org/10.1080/09593330.2019.1575916

Many industries, which are producing sludge in large quantities, depend on sludge dewatering technology to reduce the corresponding water content. A key design parameter for dewatering equipment is the capillary suction time (CST) test, which has, ho... Read More about Highlights of the novel dewaterability estimation test (DET) device.

Rare gut microbiota associated with breeding success, hormone metabolites and ovarian cycle phase in the critically endangered eastern black rhino (2019)
Journal Article
Antwis, R., Edwards, K., Unwin, B., Walker, S., & Shultz, S. (2019). Rare gut microbiota associated with breeding success, hormone metabolites and ovarian cycle phase in the critically endangered eastern black rhino. Microbiome, 7(27), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-019-0639-0

Background: Host microbiomes play a role in hormone production and subsequent fertility in humans, but this is less well understood in non-model organisms. This is of particular relevance to species in zoo-based conservation breeding programmes, as r... Read More about Rare gut microbiota associated with breeding success, hormone metabolites and ovarian cycle phase in the critically endangered eastern black rhino.