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A practical model for ensemble estimation of QoS and QoE in VoIP services via fuzzy inference systems and fuzzy evidence theory (2015)
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Mansouri, T., Nabavi, A., Ravasan, A., & Ahangarbahan, H. (2016). A practical model for ensemble estimation of QoS and QoE in VoIP services via fuzzy inference systems and fuzzy evidence theory. Telecommunication Systems, 61(4), 861-873. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-015-0041-6

Nowadays, there is an increasing number of Voices over IP (VoIP) services offered in telecommunication networks with specific quality requirements. Such requirements impact upon both the objective quality of service (QoS) of the end-to end connection... Read More about A practical model for ensemble estimation of QoS and QoE in VoIP services via fuzzy inference systems and fuzzy evidence theory.

Last millennium hydro-climate variability in Central–Eastern Europe (Northern Carpathians, Romania) (2015)
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Feurdean, A., Galka, M., Kuske, E., Tantau, I., Lamentowicz, M., Florescu, G., …Hickler, T. (2015). Last millennium hydro-climate variability in Central–Eastern Europe (Northern Carpathians, Romania). Holocene, 25(7), 1179-1192. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615580197

Proxy-based reconstructions of climate variability over the last millennium provide important insights for understanding current climate change within a long-term context. Past hydrological changes are particularly difficult to reconstruct, yet rainf... Read More about Last millennium hydro-climate variability in Central–Eastern Europe (Northern Carpathians, Romania).

Acoustical properties of air-saturated porous material with periodically distributed dead-end pores (2015)
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with periodically distributed dead-end pores. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 137(4), 1772-1782. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4916712

A theoretical and numerical study of the sound propagation in air-saturated porous media with straight main pores bearing lateral cavities (dead-ends) is presented. The lateral cavities are located at “nodes” periodically spaced along each main por... Read More about Acoustical properties of air-saturated porous material with periodically distributed dead-end pores.

Intrasexual competition and throat color evolution in female three-spined sticklebacks (2015)
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Yong, L., Woodall, B. E., Pierotti, M. E., & McKinnon, J. S. (2015). Intrasexual competition and throat color evolution in female three-spined sticklebacks. Behavioral Ecology, 26(4), 1030–1038. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arv037

Interest in the evolution of female ornaments has been growing but explaining their presence remains a challenge for many animal taxa. Although female ornaments may be sexually selected via male choice, they can also function in female–female competi... Read More about Intrasexual competition and throat color evolution in female three-spined sticklebacks.

Imaging of dynamic magnetic fields with spin-polarized neutron beams (2015)
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Tremsin, A., Kardjilov, N., Strobl, M., Manke, I., Dawson, M., McPhate, J., …Feller, W. (2015). Imaging of dynamic magnetic fields with spin-polarized neutron beams. New Journal of Physics, 17(4), 043047. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/17/4/043047

Precession of neutron spin in a magnetic field can be used for mapping of a magnetic field distribution, as demonstrated previously for static magnetic fields at neutron beamline facilities. The fringing in the observed neutron images depends on both... Read More about Imaging of dynamic magnetic fields with spin-polarized neutron beams.

Metabolic Profiling of Geobacter sulfurreducens during Industrial Bioprocess Scale-Up (2015)
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Muhamadali, H., Xu, Y., Ellis, D., Allwood, J., Rattray, N., Correa, E., …Löffler, F. (2015). Metabolic Profiling of Geobacter sulfurreducens during Industrial Bioprocess Scale-Up. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 81(10), 3288-3298. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00294-15

During the industrial scale-up of bioprocesses it is important to establish that the biological system has not changed significantly when moving from small laboratory-scale shake flasks or culturing bottles to an industrially relevant production leve... Read More about Metabolic Profiling of Geobacter sulfurreducens during Industrial Bioprocess Scale-Up.

Performance evaluation of non-thermal plasma on particulate matter, ozone and CO2 correlation for diesel exhaust emission reduction (2015)
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Babaie, M., Davari, P., Talebizadeh, P., Zare, F., Rahimzadeh, H., Ristovski, Z., & Brown, R. (2015). Performance evaluation of non-thermal plasma on particulate matter, ozone and CO2 correlation for diesel exhaust emission reduction. Chemical Engineering Journal, 276, 240-248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2015.04.086

This study is seeking to investigate the effect of non-thermal plasma technology in the abatement of particulate matter (PM) from the actual diesel exhaust. Ozone (O3) strongly promotes PM oxidation, the main product of which is carbon dioxide (CO2).... Read More about Performance evaluation of non-thermal plasma on particulate matter, ozone and CO2 correlation for diesel exhaust emission reduction.

Real estate student satisfaction in Australia : what matters most? (2015)
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Poon, J., & Brownlow, M. (2015). Real estate student satisfaction in Australia : what matters most?. Property Management, 33(2), 100-132. https://doi.org/10.1108/PM-05-2014-0023

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the relative importance of the factors that influence the overall satisfaction of real estate students and also examine the extent to which demographic backgrounds affect this. Furthermore, this paper... Read More about Real estate student satisfaction in Australia : what matters most?.

An invasive mammal (the gray squirrel, sciurus carolinensis) commonly hosts diverse and atypical genotypes of the zoonotic pathogen borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato (2015)
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Millins, C., Magierecka, A., Gilbert, L., Edoff, A., Brereton, A., Kilbride, E., …Biek, R. (2015). An invasive mammal (the gray squirrel, sciurus carolinensis) commonly hosts diverse and atypical genotypes of the zoonotic pathogen borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 81(13), 4236-4245. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00109-15

Invasive vertebrate species can act as hosts for endemic pathogens and may alter pathogen community composition and dynamics. For the zoonotic pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, the agent of Lyme borreliosis, recent work shows invasive rodent... Read More about An invasive mammal (the gray squirrel, sciurus carolinensis) commonly hosts diverse and atypical genotypes of the zoonotic pathogen borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato.

Life cycle costing : evaluating its use in UK practice (2015)
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Higham, A., Fortune, C., & James, H. (2015). Life cycle costing : evaluating its use in UK practice. Structural survey, 33(1), 73-87. https://doi.org/10.1108/SS-06-2014-0026

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to establish the extent to which life cycle costing is used as an early stage project evaluation tool by practitioners in the UK construction industry. The use of this evaluation tool has long been advocated by acad... Read More about Life cycle costing : evaluating its use in UK practice.

C:N ratio drives soil actinobacterial cellobiohydrolase gene diversity (2015)
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De Menezes, A., Prendergast-Miller, M., Poonpatana, P., Farrell, M., Bissett, A., Macdonald, L., …Thrall, P. (2015). C:N ratio drives soil actinobacterial cellobiohydrolase gene diversity. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 8(9), 3016-3028. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00067-15

Cellulose accounts for approximately half of photosynthesis-fixed carbon; however, the ecology of its degradation in soil is still relatively poorly understood. The role of actinobacteria in cellulose degradation has not been extensively investigated... Read More about C:N ratio drives soil actinobacterial cellobiohydrolase gene diversity.

SugarSync forensic analysis (2015)
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Shariatia, M., Dehghantanha, A., & Choo, K. (2015). SugarSync forensic analysis. Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 48(1), 95-117. https://doi.org/10.1080/00450618.2015.1021379

Cloud storage services are popular with both individuals and businesses as they offer cost-effective, large capacity storage and multi-functional services on a wide range of devices such as personal computers (PCs), Mac computers, and smart mobile de... Read More about SugarSync forensic analysis.

Making the most of what we have: application of extrapolation approaches in radioecological wildlife transfer models (2015)
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Beresford, N., Wood, M., Vives i Batlle, J., Yankovich, T., Bradshaw, C., & Willey, N. (2016). Making the most of what we have: application of extrapolation approaches in radioecological wildlife transfer models. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 151(Part 2), 373-386. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2015.03.022

We will never have data to populate all of the potential radioecological modelling parameters required for wildlife assessments. Therefore, we need robust extrapolation approaches which allow us to make best use of our available knowledge. This paper... Read More about Making the most of what we have: application of extrapolation approaches in radioecological wildlife transfer models.

Oxidized phosphatidylcholines suggest oxidative stress in patients with medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (2015)
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Najdekr, L., Gardlo, A., Mádrová, L., Friedecký, D., Janečková, H., Correa, E., …Adam, T. (2015). Oxidized phosphatidylcholines suggest oxidative stress in patients with medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency. Talanta, 139, 62-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.talanta.2015.02.041

Inborn errors of metabolism encompass a large group of diseases caused by enzyme deficiencies and are therefore amenable to metabolomics investigations. Medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (MCADD) is a defect in β-oxidation of fatty acids,... Read More about Oxidized phosphatidylcholines suggest oxidative stress in patients with medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency.

Clean Audio for TV broadcast: an object-based approach for hearing impaired viewers (2015)
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Shirley, B., & Oldfield, R. (2015). Clean Audio for TV broadcast: an object-based approach for hearing impaired viewers. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 63(4), 245-256. https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2015.0017

As the percentage of the population with hearing loss increases, broadcasters are receiving more complaints about the difficulty in understanding dialog in the presence of background sound and music. This article explores these issues, reviews previo... Read More about Clean Audio for TV broadcast: an object-based approach for hearing impaired viewers.

A fuzzy ANP based weighted RFM model for customer segmentation in auto insurance sector (2015)
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Ravasan, A., & Mansouri, T. (2015). A fuzzy ANP based weighted RFM model for customer segmentation in auto insurance sector. International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector, 7(2), 5. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijisss.2015040105

Data mining has a tremendous contribution for researchers to extract the hidden knowledge and information which have been inherited in the raw data. This study has proposed a brand new and practical fuzzy analytic network process (FANP) based weighte... Read More about A fuzzy ANP based weighted RFM model for customer segmentation in auto insurance sector.

Hartley transform and the use of the Whitened Hartley spectrum as a tool for phase spectral processing (2015)
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Paraskevas, I., Barbarosou, M., & Chilton, E. (2015). Hartley transform and the use of the Whitened Hartley spectrum as a tool for phase spectral processing. Journal of Engineering, 2015(3), 95-101. https://doi.org/10.1049/joe.2014.0350

The Hartley transform is a mathematical transformation which is closely related to the better known Fourier transform. The properties that differentiate the Hartley Transform from its Fourier counterpart are that the forward and the inverse transform... Read More about Hartley transform and the use of the Whitened Hartley spectrum as a tool for phase spectral processing.

Mapping protein binding sites on the biomolecular corona of nanoparticles (2015)
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Kelly, P., Åberg, C., Polo, E., O'Connell, A., Cookman, J., Fallon, J., …Dawson, K. (2015). Mapping protein binding sites on the biomolecular corona of nanoparticles. Nature Nanotechnology, 10(5), 472-479. https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.47

Nanoparticles in a biological milieu are known to form a sufficiently long-lived and well-organized ‘corona’ of biomolecules to confer a biological identity to the particle. Because this nanoparticle–biomolecule complex interacts with cells and biolo... Read More about Mapping protein binding sites on the biomolecular corona of nanoparticles.

Amphibian symbiotic bacteria do not show universal ability to inhibit growth of the global pandemic lineage of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (2015)
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Antwis, R., Preziosi, R., Harrison, X., & Garner, T. (2015). Amphibian symbiotic bacteria do not show universal ability to inhibit growth of the global pandemic lineage of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 81, 3706-3711. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00010-15

Microbiomes associated with multicellular organisms influence the disease susceptibility of hosts. The potential exists for such bacteria to protect wildlife from infectious diseases, particularly in the case of the globally distributed and highly vi... Read More about Amphibian symbiotic bacteria do not show universal ability to inhibit growth of the global pandemic lineage of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.

Predicting multiple functions of sustainable flood retention basins under uncertainty via multi-instance multi-label learning (2015)
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Yang, Q., Boehm, C., Scholz, M., Plant, C., & Shao, J. (2015). Predicting multiple functions of sustainable flood retention basins under uncertainty via multi-instance multi-label learning. Water, 7(4), 1359-1377. https://doi.org/10.3390/w7041359

The ambiguity of diverse functions of sustainable flood retention basins (SFRBs) may lead to conflict and risk in water resources planning and management. How can someone provide an intuitive yet efficient strategy to uncover and distinguish the mult... Read More about Predicting multiple functions of sustainable flood retention basins under uncertainty via multi-instance multi-label learning.