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Functional genomics of a symbiotic community : shared traits in the olive fruit fly gut microbiota (2019)
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Blow, F., Gioti, A., Goodhead, I., Kalyva, M., Kampouraki, A., Vontas, J., & Darby, A. (2020). Functional genomics of a symbiotic community : shared traits in the olive fruit fly gut microbiota. Genome Biology and Evolution, 12(2), 3778-3791. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evz258

The olive fruit fly Bactrocera oleae is a major pest of olives worldwide and houses a specialized gut microbiota dominated by the obligate symbiont “Candidatus Erwinia dacicola”. Ca. E. dacicola is thought to supplement dietary nitrogen to the host,... Read More about Functional genomics of a symbiotic community : shared traits in the olive fruit fly gut microbiota.

Changes in social groups across reintroductions and effects on post‐release survival (2019)
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R. Franks, V., E. Andrews, C., G. Ewen, J., McCready, M., A. Parker, K., & Thorogood, R. (2020). Changes in social groups across reintroductions and effects on post‐release survival. Animal Conservation, 23(4), 443-454. https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12557

Reintroductions, essential to many conservation programmes, disrupt both abiotic and social environments. Despite growing recognition that social connections in animals might alter survival (e.g. social transmission of foraging skills, or transmissio... Read More about Changes in social groups across reintroductions and effects on post‐release survival.

Impact of alloy fluctuations and Coulomb effects on the electronic and optical properties of c-plane GaN/AlGaN quantum wells (2019)
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Leontiadou, M., Roble, A., Patra, S., Massabau, F., Fentrup, M., Dawson, P., …Schulz, S. (2019). Impact of alloy fluctuations and Coulomb effects on the electronic and optical properties of c-plane GaN/AlGaN quantum wells. Scientific reports, 9(1), 18862. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-53693-2

We report on a combined theoretical and experimental study of the impact of alloy fluctuations and Coulomb effects on the electronic and optical properties of c-plane GaN/AlGaN multi-quantum well systems. The presence of carrier localization effect... Read More about Impact of alloy fluctuations and Coulomb effects on the electronic and optical properties of c-plane GaN/AlGaN quantum wells.

Influence of synthesis conditions on the structure of nickel nanoparticles and their reactivity in selective asymmetric hydrogenation (2019)
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Arrigo, R., Gallarati, S., Schuster, M., Seymour, J., Gianolio, D., da Silva, I., …Held, G. (2020). Influence of synthesis conditions on the structure of nickel nanoparticles and their reactivity in selective asymmetric hydrogenation. ChemCatChem, 12(5), 1491-1503. https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.201901955

Unsupported and SiO2-supported Ni nanoparticles (NPs), were synthesised via hot-injection colloidal route using oleylamine (OAm) and trioctylphosphine (TOP) as reducing and protective agents, respectively. By adopting a multi-length scale structural... Read More about Influence of synthesis conditions on the structure of nickel nanoparticles and their reactivity in selective asymmetric hydrogenation.

Hypoxia and hyperglycaemia determine why some endometrial tumours fail to respond to metformin (2019)
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Sivalingam, V., Latif, A., Kitson, S., McVey, R., Finegan, K., Marshall, K., …Crosbie, E. (2020). Hypoxia and hyperglycaemia determine why some endometrial tumours fail to respond to metformin. British Journal of Cancer, 122(1), 62-71. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41416-019-0627-y

High expression of Ki67, a proliferation marker, is associated with reduced endometrial cancer-specific survival. Pre-surgical metformin reduces tumour Ki-67 expression in some women with endometrial cancer. Metformin's anti-cancer activity may relat... Read More about Hypoxia and hyperglycaemia determine why some endometrial tumours fail to respond to metformin.

Varroa destructor reproduction and cell re-capping in mite-resistant Apis mellifera populations (2019)
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Martin, S., Hawkins, G., Brettell, L., Reece, N., Correia-Oliveira, M., & Allsopp, M. (2020). Varroa destructor reproduction and cell re-capping in mite-resistant Apis mellifera populations. Apidologie, 51(3), 369-381. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-019-00721-9

Globalization has facilitated the spread of emerging pests such as the Varroa destructor mite, resulting in the near global distribution of the pest. In South African and Brazilian honey bees, mite-resistant colonies appeared within a decade; in Euro... Read More about Varroa destructor reproduction and cell re-capping in mite-resistant Apis mellifera populations.

Numerical study of slip and radiative effects on magnetic Fe3O4-water-based nanofluid flow from a nonlinear stretching sheet in porous media with Soret and Dufour diffusion (2019)
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Bhatti, M., Khalique, C., Beg, T., Beg, O., & Kadir, A. (2020). Numerical study of slip and radiative effects on magnetic Fe3O4-water-based nanofluid flow from a nonlinear stretching sheet in porous media with Soret and Dufour diffusion. Modern Physics Letters B, 34(02), 2050026. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217984920500268

Increasingly sophisticated techniques are being developed for the manufacture of functional nanomaterials. A growing interest is also developing in magnetic nanofluid coatings which contain magnetite nanoparticles suspended in a base fluid and are re... Read More about Numerical study of slip and radiative effects on magnetic Fe3O4-water-based nanofluid flow from a nonlinear stretching sheet in porous media with Soret and Dufour diffusion.

How the Journal of Transport Geography has evolved since 1993 (2019)
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Knowles, R. (2019). How the Journal of Transport Geography has evolved since 1993. Journal of Transport Geography, 81, 102525. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2019.102525

The Journal of Transport Geography was founded in 1993 by British and American transport geographers to create a focus for research in the field of transport geography. This paper examines how the journal has expanded and evolved over 25 years into o... Read More about How the Journal of Transport Geography has evolved since 1993.

VISE : an interface for Visual Search and Exploration of museum collections (2019)
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Usman, M., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2020). VISE : an interface for Visual Search and Exploration of museum collections. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 12(4), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1145/3340936

This article presents VISE, an interface that enables VIsual Search and Exploration across collections of approximately 836,000 museum objects extracted from the websites of the National Museums Scotland and the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands. VISE p... Read More about VISE : an interface for Visual Search and Exploration of museum collections.

Climate variability impact on the spatiotemporal characteristics of drought and aridity in arid and semi-arid regions (2019)
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Mohammed, R., & Scholz, M. (2019). Climate variability impact on the spatiotemporal characteristics of drought and aridity in arid and semi-arid regions. Water Resources Management, 33(15), 5015-5033. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-019-02397-3

Investigating the spatiotemporal distribution of climate data and their impact on the allocation of the regional aridity and meteorological drought, particularly in semi-arid and arid climate, it is critical to evaluate the climate variability effect... Read More about Climate variability impact on the spatiotemporal characteristics of drought and aridity in arid and semi-arid regions.

Effects of land‐use change on functional and taxonomic diversity of Neotropical bats (2019)
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Farneda, F., Meyer, C., & Grelle, C. (2019). Effects of land‐use change on functional and taxonomic diversity of Neotropical bats. Biotropica, 52(1), 120-128. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12736

Human land-use changes are particularly extensive in tropical regions, representing one of the greatest threats to terrestrial biodiversity and a key research topic in conservation. However, studies considering the effects of different types of anthr... Read More about Effects of land‐use change on functional and taxonomic diversity of Neotropical bats.

Biodiversity assessment of tropical shelf eukaryotic communities via pelagic eDNA metabarcoding (2019)
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Bakker, J., Wangensteen Fuentes, O., Baillie, C., Buddo, D., Chapman, D., Gallagher, A., …Mariani, S. (2019). Biodiversity assessment of tropical shelf eukaryotic communities via pelagic eDNA metabarcoding. Ecology and Evolution, 9(24), 14341-14355. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5871

Our understanding of marine communities and their functions in an ecosystem relies on the ability to detect and monitor species distributions and abundances. Currently, the use of environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is increasingly being applied f... Read More about Biodiversity assessment of tropical shelf eukaryotic communities via pelagic eDNA metabarcoding.

Application of complex network principles to key station identification in railway network efficiency analysis (2019)
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Wang, L., An, M., Jia, L., & Qin, Y. (2019). Application of complex network principles to key station identification in railway network efficiency analysis. Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2019, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/1574136

Network efficiency analysis becomes important in railways in order to contribute towards improving the safety and capacity of the rail network, making rail travel more attractive for passengers, and improving industry practice and informing policy de... Read More about Application of complex network principles to key station identification in railway network efficiency analysis.

Neo Ekistics for flood mitigation in cities (2019)
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Abdulkareem, M., Kenawy, I., & Elkadi, H. (2019). Neo Ekistics for flood mitigation in cities. World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, 17(2), 167-181. https://doi.org/10.1108/WJSTSD-01-2018-0008

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the potential of ecologically driven urban design interventions to substantiate urban form performance in coping with the increasing flood threats particularly in the Middle East region. The pa... Read More about Neo Ekistics for flood mitigation in cities.

Building information modeling (BIM) benefits and challenges : Malaysian construction organization experience (2019)
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Musa, S., Marshall-Ponting, A., Shahron, S., & Nifa, F. (2019). Building information modeling (BIM) benefits and challenges : Malaysian construction organization experience. Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, 16(12), 4914-4924. https://doi.org/10.1166/jctn.2019.8542

Building Information Modeling is an innovative technology coupled with process and human interactions. BIM has been used by the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry in developed and developing countries including Malaysia. Th... Read More about Building information modeling (BIM) benefits and challenges : Malaysian construction organization experience.

Quasi-steady across-wind aerodynamic damping of tall structures (2019)
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Nguyen, C., Long, D., & Nguyen, D. (2019). Quasi-steady across-wind aerodynamic damping of tall structures. ˜The œInternational journal of high-rise buildings, 8(4), 275-281. https://doi.org/10.21022/IJHRB.2019.8.4.275

The paper presents a generalization of existing analytical approaches to determine the across-wind aerodynamic damping of tall structures through the quasi-steady theory. The theory takes into account the nature of non-uniform wind, structural mode s... Read More about Quasi-steady across-wind aerodynamic damping of tall structures.

Unsteady aerodynamic modeling and control of pusher and tilt-rotor quadplane configurations (2019)
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Govdeli, Y., Moheed Bin Muzaffar, S., Raj, R., Elhadidi, B., & Kayacan, E. (2019). Unsteady aerodynamic modeling and control of pusher and tilt-rotor quadplane configurations. Aerospace science and technology, 94, 105421. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ast.2019.105421

A nonlinear unsteady aerodynamics model is coupled with a three degree of freedom quadplane to control the forward and backward transition between hover and steady level flight. The unsteady lift and drag forces are modeled using a lumped vortex mode... Read More about Unsteady aerodynamic modeling and control of pusher and tilt-rotor quadplane configurations.

Validation of a low-cost Electromyography (EMG) system via a commercial and accurate EMG device : pilot study (2019)
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Fuentes del Toro, S., Wei, Y., Olmeda, E., Ren, L., Wei, G., & Díaz, V. (2019). Validation of a low-cost Electromyography (EMG) system via a commercial and accurate EMG device : pilot study. Sensors, 19(23), e5214. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19235214

Electromyography (EMG) devices are well-suited for measuring the behaviour of muscles during an exercise or a task, and are widely used in many different research areas. Their disadvantage is that commercial systems are expensive. We designed a low-c... Read More about Validation of a low-cost Electromyography (EMG) system via a commercial and accurate EMG device : pilot study.

Ultrashort nonautonomous similariton solutions and the cascade tunneling of interacting similaritons (2019)
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Yang, R., Gao, J., Jia, H., Tian, J., & Christian, J. (2020). Ultrashort nonautonomous similariton solutions and the cascade tunneling of interacting similaritons. Optics Communications, 459, 125025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2019.125025

Similarity transformation and Hirota bilinearization are deployed to derive exact bright and dark ultrashort one- and two-similariton solutions of a nonautonomous cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Such wave packets may emerge when group... Read More about Ultrashort nonautonomous similariton solutions and the cascade tunneling of interacting similaritons.

Integrating climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation in the global ocean (2019)
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Tittensor, D., Beger, M., Boerder, K., Boyce, D., Cavanagh, R., Cosandey-Godin, A., …Worm, B. (2019). Integrating climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation in the global ocean. Science Advances, 5(11), eaay9969. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aay9969

The impacts of climate change and the socioecological challenges they present are ubiquitous and increasingly severe. Practical efforts to operationalize climate-responsive design and management in the global network of marine protected areas (MPAs)... Read More about Integrating climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation in the global ocean.