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A cognitive framework for the categorisation of auditory objects in urban soundscapes (2017)
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Woodcock, J., Davies, W., & Cox, T. (2017). A cognitive framework for the categorisation of auditory objects in urban soundscapes. Applied Acoustics, 121, 56-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2017.01.027

Categorisation is a fundamental cognitive process that plays a central role in everyday behaviour and action. Whereas previous studies have investigated the categorisation of isolated everyday sounds, this paper presents an experiment to investiga... Read More about A cognitive framework for the categorisation of auditory objects in urban soundscapes.

Contaminated sediment dynamics in peatland headwater catchments (2017)
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headwater catchments. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 17(11), 2637-2647. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-017-1674-8

Purpose Despite substantial research into Pb storage in peatlands, formal description of the mechanisms of contaminated sediment mobilisation is limited. This study explores the controlling factors of contaminated sediment dynamics in an eroding... Read More about Contaminated sediment dynamics in peatland headwater catchments.

Large-scale physical modelling of soil-filled masonry arch bridges (2017)
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masonry arch bridges. International Journal of Physical Modelling in Geotechnics, 18(2), 81-94. https://doi.org/10.1680/jphmg.16.00037

The presence of soil backfill has been shown to have a significant influence on the load-carrying capacity of masonry arch bridges, with the soil fill providing a number of important functions, including inter alia, the distribution of surface load... Read More about Large-scale physical modelling of soil-filled masonry arch bridges.

Covert deformed wing virus infections have long-term deleterious effects on honeybee foraging and survival (2017)
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deleterious effects on honeybee foraging and survival. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284(1848), 20162149. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.2149

Several studies have suggested that covert stressors can contribute to bee colony declines. Here we provide a novel case study and show using radio-frequency identification (RFID) tracking technology that covert deformed wing virus (DWV) infections... Read More about Covert deformed wing virus infections have long-term deleterious effects on honeybee foraging and survival.

A convolutional neural network to classify American Sign Language fingerspelling from depth and colour images (2017)
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Ameen, S., & Vadera, S. (2017). A convolutional neural network to classify American Sign Language fingerspelling from depth and colour images. Expert Systems, 34(3), e12197. https://doi.org/10.1111/exsy.12197

Sign language is used by approximately 70 million1 people throughout the world, and an automatic tool for interpreting it could make a major impact on communication between those who use it and those who may not understand it. However, computer inte... Read More about A convolutional neural network to classify American Sign Language fingerspelling from depth and colour images.

Analytical study of electro-osmosis modulated capillary peristaltic hemodynamics (2017)
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Tripathi, D., Bushan, S., & Beg, O. (2017). Analytical study of electro-osmosis modulated capillary peristaltic hemodynamics. Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology, 17(3), 1750052. https://doi.org/10.1142/S021951941750052X

A mathematical model is developed to analyse electro-kinetic effects on unsteady peristaltic transport of blood in cylindrical vessels of finite length. The Newtonian viscous model is adopted. The analysis is restricted under Debye-Hückel linearizati... Read More about Analytical study of electro-osmosis modulated capillary peristaltic hemodynamics.

Stochastic analysis of a deterministic and seasonally forced SEI model for improved disease spread simulation (2017)
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Sohail, A., Li, Z., Iftikhar, M., Mohamed, M., & Beg, O. (2017). Stochastic analysis of a deterministic and seasonally forced SEI model for improved disease spread simulation. Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology, 17(4), 1750067. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219519417500671

The geographic distribution of different viruses has developed widely, giving rise to an escalating number of cases during the past two decades. The deterministic Susceptible, Exposed, Infectious (SEI) models can demonstrate the spatio-temporal dynam... Read More about Stochastic analysis of a deterministic and seasonally forced SEI model for improved disease spread simulation.

Numerical study of nonlinear heat transfer from a wavy surface to a high permeability medium with pseudo-spectral and smoothed particle methods (2017)
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Beg, O., Motsa, S., Beg, T., Abbas, A., Kadir, A., & Sohail, A. (2017). Numerical study of nonlinear heat transfer from a wavy surface to a high permeability medium with pseudo-spectral and smoothed particle methods. International Journal of Applied and Computational Mathematics, 3(4), 3593-3613. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40819-017-0318-4

Motivated by petro-chemical geological systems, we consider the natural convection boundary layer flow from a vertical isothermal wavy surface adjacent to a saturated non-Darcian high permeability porous medium. High permeability is considered to rep... Read More about Numerical study of nonlinear heat transfer from a wavy surface to a high permeability medium with pseudo-spectral and smoothed particle methods.

Potential technologies to 5G network : challenges and opportunities (2017)
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Al-Falahy, N., & Alani, O. (2017). Potential technologies to 5G network : challenges and opportunities. IT Professional, 19(1), 12-20. https://doi.org/10.1109/MITP.2017.9

Recently, there has been a substantial growth in mobile data traffic due to the widespread of data hungry devices such as smart handsets and laptops. This has encouraged researchers and system designers to develop a further efficient network design.... Read More about Potential technologies to 5G network : challenges and opportunities.

Technologies for 5G networks : challenges and opportunities (2017)
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Al-Falahy, N., & Alani, O. (2017). Technologies for 5G networks : challenges and opportunities. IT Professional, 19(1), 12-20. https://doi.org/10.1109/MITP.2017.9

Mobile data traffic has grown substantially owing to the widespread use of data-hungry devices such as smart handsets and laptops. This has encouraged researchers and system designers to develop more efficient network designs. The authors review the... Read More about Technologies for 5G networks : challenges and opportunities.

Detection of glycosylation and iron-binding protein modifications using Raman spectroscopy (2017)
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Ashton, L., Brewster, V., Correa, E., & Goodacre, R. (2017). Detection of glycosylation and iron-binding protein modifications using Raman spectroscopy. Analyst, 5, https://doi.org/10.1039/C6AN02516A

In this study we demonstrate the use of Raman spectroscopy to determine protein modifications as a result of glycosylation and iron binding. Most proteins undergo some modifications after translation which can directly affect protein function. Identi... Read More about Detection of glycosylation and iron-binding protein modifications using Raman spectroscopy.

Inhibition of the platelet-derived growth factor receptor beta (PDGFRB) using gene silencing, crenolanib besylate, or imatinib mesylate hampers the malignant phenotype of mesothelioma cell lines (2017)
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Melaiu, O., Catalano, C., De Santi, C., Cipollini, M., Figlioli, G., Pellè, L., …Landi, S. (2017). Inhibition of the platelet-derived growth factor receptor beta (PDGFRB) using gene silencing, crenolanib besylate, or imatinib mesylate hampers the malignant phenotype of mesothelioma cell lines. Genes and Cancer, 8(1-2), 438-452. https://doi.org/10.18632/genesandcancer.129

Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a cancer of the pleural cavity resistant to chemotherapy. The identification of novel therapeutic targets is needed to improve its poor prognosis. Following a review of literature and a screening of specimens w... Read More about Inhibition of the platelet-derived growth factor receptor beta (PDGFRB) using gene silencing, crenolanib besylate, or imatinib mesylate hampers the malignant phenotype of mesothelioma cell lines.

Capuchin monkey biogeography : understanding Sapajus Pleistocene range expansion and the current sympatry between Cebus and Sapajus (2017)
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Lima, M., Buckner, J., Silva-Júnior, J., Aleixo, A., Martins, A., Boubli, J., …Lynch Alfaro, J. (2017). Capuchin monkey biogeography : understanding Sapajus Pleistocene range expansion and the current sympatry between Cebus and Sapajus. Journal of Biogeography, 44(4), 810-820. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12945

Aim: Our aim was to examine gracile capuchin (Cebus) and robust capuchin monkey (Sapajus) diversification, with a focus on recent Sapajus expansion within Amazonia. We wanted to reconstruct the biogeographical history of the clade using statistical... Read More about Capuchin monkey biogeography : understanding Sapajus Pleistocene range expansion and the current sympatry between Cebus and Sapajus.

Swimming dynamics of a micro-organism in a couple stress fluid : a rheological model of embryological hydrodynamic propulsion (2017)
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Ali, N., Sajid, M., Abbas, Z., & Beg, O. (2017). Swimming dynamics of a micro-organism in a couple stress fluid : a rheological model of embryological hydrodynamic propulsion. Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology, 17(3), https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219519417500543

Mathematical simulations of embryological fluid dynamics are fundamental to improving clinical understanding of the intricate mechanisms underlying sperm locomotion. The strongly rheological nature of reproductive fluids has been established for a nu... Read More about Swimming dynamics of a micro-organism in a couple stress fluid : a rheological model of embryological hydrodynamic propulsion.

Guanylate-binding Protein 1 (GBP1) contributes to the immunity of human mesenchymal stromal cells against toxoplasma gondii (2017)
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Qin, A., Lai, D., Liu, Q., Huang, W., Wu, Y., Chen, X., …Xiang, A. (2017). Guanylate-binding Protein 1 (GBP1) contributes to the immunity of human mesenchymal stromal cells against toxoplasma gondii. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(6), 1365-1370. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1619665114

Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) have recently been shown to play important roles in mammalian host defenses against intracellular pathogens, but the molecular mechanism still needs to be clarified. We confirmed that human MSCs (hMSCs) pre-stimulated... Read More about Guanylate-binding Protein 1 (GBP1) contributes to the immunity of human mesenchymal stromal cells against toxoplasma gondii.

Experimental study and modelling of the thermal conductivity of sandy soils of different porosities and water contents (2017)
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and water contents. Applied Sciences, 7(2), 119. https://doi.org/10.3390/app7020119

This paper at first reports an experimental work to test the thermal conductivity of formulated sandy soil specimens of different porosities and water contents. Both needle probe and hot-plate methods were conducted and compared. It has been confirme... Read More about Experimental study and modelling of the thermal conductivity of sandy soils of different porosities and water contents.

Potential effects of rainwater-borne hydrogen peroxide on pollutants in stagnant water environments (2017)
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pollutants in stagnant water environments. Chemosphere, 174, 90-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.01.111

Microcosm experiments were conducted to examine the effects of rainwater-borne H2O2 on inactivation of water-borne coliforms, oxidation of ammonia and nitrite, and degradation of organic pollutants in canal and urban lake water. The results show that... Read More about Potential effects of rainwater-borne hydrogen peroxide on pollutants in stagnant water environments.

Numerical study of oxygen diffusion from capillary to tissues during hypoxia with external force effects (2017)
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to tissues during hypoxia with external force effects. Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology, 17(2), 1750027.1-1750027.20. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219519417500270

A mathematical model to simulate oxygen delivery through a capillary to tissues under the influence of an external force field is presented. The multi-term general fractional diffusion equation containing force terms and a time dependent absorbent te... Read More about Numerical study of oxygen diffusion from capillary to tissues during hypoxia with external force effects.

Urocortin suppresses endometrial cancer cell migration via CRFR2 and its system components are differentially modulated by estrogen (2017)
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Owens, G., Lawrence, K., Jackson, T., Crosbie, E., Sayan, B., Kitchener, H., & Townsend, P. (2017). Urocortin suppresses endometrial cancer cell migration via CRFR2 and its system components are differentially modulated by estrogen. Cancer Medicine, 6(2), 408-415. https://doi.org/10.1002/cam4.967

Urocortin (UCN1) peptide shares structural and functional homology with corticotropin‐releasing factor (CRF). UCN1 is significantly reduced in endometrial adenocarcinoma compared to healthy controls. However, there are no data which evaluate the effe... Read More about Urocortin suppresses endometrial cancer cell migration via CRFR2 and its system components are differentially modulated by estrogen.