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Neural basis of virtual reality exposure threatment (2017)
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Landowska, A., Roberts, D., & Eachus, P. (2017). Neural basis of virtual reality exposure threatment. Annual review of cybertherapy and telemedicine (Print), 15, 16-18

Virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) is an increasingly common treatment for a range of anxiety disorder, specific phobias, PTSD and addictions, however neural mechanisms supporting VRET are yet to be understood. This review summarises existing st... Read More about Neural basis of virtual reality exposure threatment.

Triggering and measuring social inhibitory response in humans immersed in interactions with virtual humans (2017)
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Ahamba, G., Roberts, D., & Eachus, P. (2017). Triggering and measuring social inhibitory response in humans immersed in interactions with virtual humans. Annual review of cybertherapy and telemedicine (Print), 15, 185-188

The aim of the proposed study is to determine if a virtual human can evoke a measurable inhibitory response to anti-social stimuli within the prefrontal cortex. Justification, protocol and demonstrator are described here. The work follows a previo... Read More about Triggering and measuring social inhibitory response in humans immersed in interactions with virtual humans.

Building BORIS – an outreach project on drug design and molecular modelling (2017)
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Rossington, S. (2017). Building BORIS – an outreach project on drug design and molecular modelling. ˜The œbiochemist (London. Online), 39(2), 50-51. https://doi.org/10.1042/bio03902050

Within university chemistry departments, organic chemists are formulating reaction pathways which will yield a desired chemical product. In most cases, it is often found that the targeted product exerts some beneficial biological effect towards cellu... Read More about Building BORIS – an outreach project on drug design and molecular modelling.

A survey on the security of stateful SDN data planes (2017)
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Dargahi, T., Caponi, A., Ambrosin, M., Bianchi, G., & Conti, M. (2017). A survey on the security of stateful SDN data planes. Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Communications Society, 19(3), 1701-1725. https://doi.org/10.1109/COMST.2017.2689819

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) emerged as an attempt to introduce network innovations faster, and to radically simplify and automate the management of large networks. SDN traditionally leverages OpenFlow as device-level abstraction. Since OpenFlo... Read More about A survey on the security of stateful SDN data planes.

Visual management in highways construction and maintenance in England (2017)
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Tezel, B., & Aziz, Z. (2017). Visual management in highways construction and maintenance in England. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 24(3), 486-513. https://doi.org/10.1108/ECAM-02-2016-0052

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the current Visual Management practices in highways construction projects in England. Design/methodology/approach: Following a comprehensive literature review, the research topic was investigat... Read More about Visual management in highways construction and maintenance in England.

Maturity Matrix Assessment: evaluation of energy efficiency strategies in Brussels historic residential stock (2017)
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Gonzalez, A., Zotano, M., Swan, W., Bouillard, P., & Elkadi, H. (2017). Maturity Matrix Assessment: evaluation of energy efficiency strategies in Brussels historic residential stock. Energy Procedia, 1(111), 407-416. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.202

Energy retrofitting of historic or existing buildings is a challenge that it has not yet been properly fully addressed. Multiple projects and methodologies are published every day but neither of them with the holistic approach that will assure comple... Read More about Maturity Matrix Assessment: evaluation of energy efficiency strategies in Brussels historic residential stock.

Risk-based management of invading plant disease (2017)
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Hyatt-Twynam, S., Parnell, S., Stutt, R., Gottwald, T., Gilligan, C., & Cunniffe, N. (2017). Risk-based management of invading plant disease. New Phytologist, 214(3), 1317-1329. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14488

Effective control of plant disease remains a key challenge. Eradication attempts often involve removal of host plants within a certain radius of detection, targeting asymptomatic infection. Here we develop and test potentially more effective, epidemi... Read More about Risk-based management of invading plant disease.

Toll-like receptor variation in the bottlenecked population of the Seychelles warbler : computer simulations see the ‘ghost of selection past’ and quantify the ‘drift debt’ (2017)
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Gilroy, D., Phillips, K., Richardson, D., & van Oosterhout, C. (2017). Toll-like receptor variation in the bottlenecked population of the Seychelles warbler : computer simulations see the ‘ghost of selection past’ and quantify the ‘drift debt’. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 30(7), 1276-1287. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13077

Balancing selection can maintain immunogenetic variation within host populations, but detecting its signal in a postbottlenecked population is challenging due to the potentially overriding effects of drift. Toll-like receptor genes (TLRs) play a fund... Read More about Toll-like receptor variation in the bottlenecked population of the Seychelles warbler : computer simulations see the ‘ghost of selection past’ and quantify the ‘drift debt’.

Quantifying pigment cover to assess variation in animal colouration (2017)
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Siegenthaler, A., Mondal, D., & Benvenuto, C. (2017). Quantifying pigment cover to assess variation in animal colouration. Biology Methods and Protocols, 2(1), bpx003. https://doi.org/10.1093/biomethods/bpx003

The study of animal colouration addresses fundamental and applied aspects relevant to a wide range of fields, including behavioural ecology, environmental adaptation and visual ecology. Although a variety of methods are available to measure animal... Read More about Quantifying pigment cover to assess variation in animal colouration.

Greening cloud-enabled big data storage forensics : Syncany as a case study (2017)
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Teing, Y., Dehghantanha, A., Raymond Choo, K., Abdullah, M., & Muda, Z. (2019). Greening cloud-enabled big data storage forensics : Syncany as a case study. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, 4(2), 204-216. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSUSC.2017.2687103

The pervasive nature of cloud-enabled big data storage solutions introduces new challenges in the identification, collection, analysis, preservation and archiving of digital evidences. Investigation of such complex platforms to locate and recover tra... Read More about Greening cloud-enabled big data storage forensics : Syncany as a case study.

Mathematical model for ciliary-induced transport in MHD flow of Cu-H2O nanoßuids with magnetic induction (2017)
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Akbar, N., Tripathi, D., Khan, Z., & Beg, O. (2017). Mathematical model for ciliary-induced transport in MHD flow of Cu-H2O nanoßuids with magnetic induction. Chinese Journal of Physics, 55(3), 947-962. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjph.2017.03.005

Motivated by novel developments in surface-modified, nanoscale, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) biomedical devices, we study theoretically the ciliary induced transport by metachronal wave propagation in hydromagnetic flow of copper-water nanofluids throu... Read More about Mathematical model for ciliary-induced transport in MHD flow of Cu-H2O nanoßuids with magnetic induction.

Effective geometric restoration of distorted historical documents for large-scale digitization (2017)
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Yang, P., Antonacopoulos, A., Clausner, C., Pletschacher, S., & Qi, J. (2017). Effective geometric restoration of distorted historical documents for large-scale digitization. IET Image Processing, 11(10), 841-853. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-ipr.2016.0973

Due to storage conditions and material’s non-planar shape, geometric distortion of the 2-D content is widely present in scanned document images. Effective geometric restoration of these distorted document images considerably increases character recog... Read More about Effective geometric restoration of distorted historical documents for large-scale digitization.

Street trees reduce the negative effects of urbanization on birds (2017)
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urbanization on birds. PLoS ONE, 12(e01744), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0174484

The effects of streets on biodiversity is an important aspect of urban ecology, but it has been neglected worldwide. Several vegetation attributes (e.g. street tree density and diversity) have important effects on biodiversity and ecological proces... Read More about Street trees reduce the negative effects of urbanization on birds.

Effect of cavities on the behaviour of laterally loaded pile in sand (2017)
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Al-Jazaairry, A., & Toma-Sabbagh, T. (2017). Effect of cavities on the behaviour of laterally loaded pile in sand. International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, 12(6), 567-577. https://doi.org/10.1080/19386362.2017.1305137

This paper sheds the light on the interaction between piles under lateral loading conditions embedded in sandy soils and adjacent to cavities. The experimental study comprised a full laboratory testing programme carried out on small scale piles embed... Read More about Effect of cavities on the behaviour of laterally loaded pile in sand.

Formulation of Biocides Increases Antimicrobial Potency and Mitigates the Enrichment of Nonsusceptible Bacteria in Multispecies Biofilms (2017)
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Forbes, S., Cowley, N., Humphreys, G., Mistry, H., Amézquita, A., & McBain, A. J. (2017). Formulation of Biocides Increases Antimicrobial Potency and Mitigates the Enrichment of Nonsusceptible Bacteria in Multispecies Biofilms. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 83(7), https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.03054-16

The current investigation aimed to generate data to inform the development of risk assessments of biocide usage. Stabilized domestic drain biofilm microcosms were exposed daily over 6 months to increasing concentrations (0.01% to 1%) of the biocide b... Read More about Formulation of Biocides Increases Antimicrobial Potency and Mitigates the Enrichment of Nonsusceptible Bacteria in Multispecies Biofilms.

Eosinophils are key regulators of perivascular adipose tissue and vascular functionality (2017)
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vascular functionality. Scientific reports, 7, 44571. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep44571

Obesity impairs the relaxant capacity of adipose tissue surrounding the vasculature (PVAT) and has been implicated in resultant obesity-related hypertension and impaired glucose intolerance. Resident immune cells are thought to regulate adipocyte a... Read More about Eosinophils are key regulators of perivascular adipose tissue and vascular functionality.

Angular reflectance of leaves with a dual-wavelength terrestrial lidar and its implications for leaf-bark separation and leaf moisture estimation (2017)
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Hancock, S., Gaulton, R., & Danson, F. (2017). Angular reflectance of leaves with a dual-wavelength terrestrial lidar and its implications for leaf-bark separation and leaf moisture estimation. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 55(6), https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2017.2652140

A new generation of multi-wavelength lidars offer the potential to measure the structure and biochemistry of vegetation simultaneously, using range resolved spectra indices to overcome the confounding effects in passive optical measurements. Howe... Read More about Angular reflectance of leaves with a dual-wavelength terrestrial lidar and its implications for leaf-bark separation and leaf moisture estimation.

Evaluation of spatial audio reproduction methods (part 2) : analysis of listener preference (2017)
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Francombe, J., Brookes, T., Mason, R., & Woodcock, J. (2017). Evaluation of spatial audio reproduction methods (part 2) : analysis of listener preference. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 65(3), 212-225. https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2016.0071

A paired-comparison preference rating experiment was performed in combination with a free-elicitation task for eight reproduction methods (consumer and professional systems with a wide range of expected quality) and seven program items (representativ... Read More about Evaluation of spatial audio reproduction methods (part 2) : analysis of listener preference.

Treatment of contaminated greywater using pelletised mine water sludge (2017)
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Abed, S., Almuktar, S., & Scholz, M. (2017). Treatment of contaminated greywater using pelletised mine water sludge. Journal of Environmental Management, 197(Jul 17), 10-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.03.021

Precipitated sludge (ochre) obtained from a mine water treatment plant was considered as an adsorbent substance for pollutants, since ochre is relatively free from problematic levels of toxic elements, which could impair on the quality of water to be... Read More about Treatment of contaminated greywater using pelletised mine water sludge.

An improved moth flame optimization algorithm based on rough sets for tomato diseases detection (2017)
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Hassanien, A., Gaber, T., Mokhtar, U., & Hefny, H. (2017). An improved moth flame optimization algorithm based on rough sets for tomato diseases detection. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 136, 86-96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2017.02.026

Plant diseases is one of the major bottlenecks in agricultural production that have bad effects on the economic of any country. Automatic detection of such disease could minimize these effects. Features selection is a usual pre-processing step used f... Read More about An improved moth flame optimization algorithm based on rough sets for tomato diseases detection.