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A review of seagrass ecosystem services: providing nature-based solutions for a changing world (2023)
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do Amaral Camara Lima, M., Bergamo, T. F., Bergamo, T., Ward, R. D., Ward, R., Joyce, C. B., & Joyce, C. (2023). A review of seagrass ecosystem services: providing nature-based solutions for a changing world. Hydrobiologia, 850(12-13), 2655-2670. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-023-05244-0

Seagrasses are marine flowering plants, which form extensive meadows in intertidal and shallow water marine environments. They provide a wide range of ecosystem services, which directly or indirectly benefit humans and can be grouped into four broad... Read More about A review of seagrass ecosystem services: providing nature-based solutions for a changing world.

Fusion of Graph and Tabular Deep Learning Models for Predicting Chronic Kidney Disease (2023)
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Rao, P. K., Chatterjee, S., Nagaraju, K., Khan, S. B., Almusharraf, A., & Alharbi, A. I. (in press). Fusion of Graph and Tabular Deep Learning Models for Predicting Chronic Kidney Disease. Diagnostics, 13(12), 1981. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13121981

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) represents a considerable global health challenge, emphasizing the need for precise and prompt prediction of disease progression to enable early intervention and enhance patient outcomes. As per this study, we introduce a... Read More about Fusion of Graph and Tabular Deep Learning Models for Predicting Chronic Kidney Disease.

Barriers to chimpanzee gene flow at the south‐east edge of their distribution (2023)
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Bonnin, N., Piel, A. K., Brown, R. P., Li, Y., Connell, A. J., Avitto, A. N., …Stewart, F. A. (2023). Barriers to chimpanzee gene flow at the south‐east edge of their distribution. Molecular Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16986

Populations on the edge of a species' distribution may represent an important source of adaptive diversity, yet these populations tend to be more fragmented and are more likely to be geographically isolated. Lack of genetic exchanges between such pop... Read More about Barriers to chimpanzee gene flow at the south‐east edge of their distribution.

Load Balancing Using Artificial Intelligence for Cloud-Enabled Internet of Everything in Healthcare Domain (2023)
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Aqeel, I., Khormi, I. M., Khan, S. B., Shuaib, M., Almusharraf, A., Alam, S., & Alkhaldi, N. A. (in press). Load Balancing Using Artificial Intelligence for Cloud-Enabled Internet of Everything in Healthcare Domain. Sensors, 23(11), 5349. https://doi.org/10.3390/s23115349

The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its subsequent evolution into the Internet of Everything (IoE) is a result of the rapid growth of information and communication technologies (ICT). However, implementing these technologies comes with... Read More about Load Balancing Using Artificial Intelligence for Cloud-Enabled Internet of Everything in Healthcare Domain.

Overview of the 2023 ICASSP SP Clarity Challenge: Speech Enhancement for Hearing Aids (2023)
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Cox, T. J., Barker, J., Bailey, W., Graetzer, S., Akeroyd, M. A., Culling, J. F., & Naylor, G. (2023). Overview of the 2023 ICASSP SP Clarity Challenge: Speech Enhancement for Hearing Aids. Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (Online), https://doi.org/10.1109/icassp49357.2023.10433922

This paper reports on the design and outcomes of the ICASSP SP Clarity Challenge: Speech Enhancement for Hearing Aids. The scenario was a listener attending to a target speaker in a noisy, domestic environment. There were multiple interferers and hea... Read More about Overview of the 2023 ICASSP SP Clarity Challenge: Speech Enhancement for Hearing Aids.

Design, Dimensional Synthesis and Evaluation of a Novel Two-Degrees-of-Freedom Spherical Remote Center of Motion Mechanism for Minimally Invasive Surgery (2023)
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Li, J., Wang, J., Zhao, J., & Wei, G. (in press). Design, Dimensional Synthesis and Evaluation of a Novel Two-Degrees-of-Freedom Spherical Remote Center of Motion Mechanism for Minimally Invasive Surgery. Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, 1-38. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4062673

With the development of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) technology, higher requirements are put forward for the performance of remote center of motion (RCM) manipulator. This paper presents the conceptual design of a novel two degrees of freedom (2-... Read More about Design, Dimensional Synthesis and Evaluation of a Novel Two-Degrees-of-Freedom Spherical Remote Center of Motion Mechanism for Minimally Invasive Surgery.

The landscape of tolerated genetic variation in humans and primates. (2023)
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Gao, H., Hamp, T., Ede, J., Schraiber, J. G., McRae, J., Singer-Berk, M., …Jolly, C. J. (2023). The landscape of tolerated genetic variation in humans and primates. Science, 380(6648), https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abn8197

Personalized genome sequencing has revealed millions of genetic differences between individuals, but our understanding of their clinical relevance remains largely incomplete. To systematically decipher the effects of human genetic variants, we obtain... Read More about The landscape of tolerated genetic variation in humans and primates..

High Evolutionary Potential Maintained in Common Frog (Rana temporaria) Populations Inhabiting Urban Drainage Ponds (2023)
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Jehle, R., Hall, J., Hook, S. A., King, S., MacArthur, K., Miró, A., …O’Brien, D. (in press). High Evolutionary Potential Maintained in Common Frog (Rana temporaria) Populations Inhabiting Urban Drainage Ponds. Diversity, 15(6), 738. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15060738

Urbanisation leading to habitat change and fragmentation is a recognised global threat to biodiversity. However, it may also offer opportunities for some species. Genetic diversity, one of the three components of biodiversity, is often overlooked in... Read More about High Evolutionary Potential Maintained in Common Frog (Rana temporaria) Populations Inhabiting Urban Drainage Ponds.

Mechanisms of low susceptibility to the disinfectant benzalkonium chloride in a multidrug-resistant environmental isolate of Aeromonas hydrophila (2023)
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Chacón, L., Kuropka, B., González-Tortuero, E., Schreiber, F., Rojas-Jiménez, K., & Rodríguez-Rojas, A. (in press). Mechanisms of low susceptibility to the disinfectant benzalkonium chloride in a multidrug-resistant environmental isolate of Aeromonas hydrophila. Frontiers in Microbiology, 14, 1180128. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1180128

Excessive discharge of quaternary ammonium disinfectants such as benzalkonium chloride (BAC) into aquatic systems can trigger several physiological responses in environmental microorganisms. In this study, we isolated a less-susceptible strain of Aer... Read More about Mechanisms of low susceptibility to the disinfectant benzalkonium chloride in a multidrug-resistant environmental isolate of Aeromonas hydrophila.

Thermo-hydraulic phenomena of water-Al2O3 nanofluid flow over a rectangular channel with trapezoidal obstacles (2023)
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Saha, S., Prasad, V., Beg, O., & Das, A. (2023). Thermo-hydraulic phenomena of water-Al2O3 nanofluid flow over a rectangular channel with trapezoidal obstacles. Journal of Nanofluids, 12(5), 1383-1396. https://doi.org/10.1166/jon.2023.2027

Numerical simulations of water-Al,O, nanofluid flow in a rectangular channel with two trapezoidal obstacles have been studied, which has rmarkable effect in various engineering applications. The governing equations have been solved using SIMPLEC al... Read More about Thermo-hydraulic phenomena of water-Al2O3 nanofluid flow over a rectangular channel with trapezoidal obstacles.

Design and Development of IoT and Deep Ensemble Learning Based Model for Disease Monitoring and Prediction (2023)
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Venkatachala Appa Swamy, M., Periyasamy, J., Thangavel, M., Khan, S. B., Almusharraf, A., Santhanam, P., …Elsisi, M. (in press). Design and Development of IoT and Deep Ensemble Learning Based Model for Disease Monitoring and Prediction. Diagnostics, 13(11), 1942. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13111942

With the rapidly increasing reliance on advances in IoT, we persist towards pushing technology to new heights. From ordering food online to gene editing-based personalized healthcare, disruptive technologies like ML and AI continue to grow beyond our... Read More about Design and Development of IoT and Deep Ensemble Learning Based Model for Disease Monitoring and Prediction.

A global catalog of whole-genome diversity from 233 primate species. (2023)
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Kuderna, L. F. K., Gao, H., Janiak, M. C., Kuhlwilm, M., Orkin, J. D., Bataillon, T., …Jolly, C. J. (2023). A global catalog of whole-genome diversity from 233 primate species. Science, 380(6648), 906-913. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abn7829

The rich diversity of morphology and behavior displayed across primate species provides an informative context in which to study the impact of genomic diversity on fundamental biological processes. Analysis of that diversity provides insight into lon... Read More about A global catalog of whole-genome diversity from 233 primate species..

Research With Marginalized Communities: Reflections on Engaging Roma Women in Northern England (2023)
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Hubbard, L., Hardman, M., Race, O., Palmai, M., & Vamosi, G. (2023). Research With Marginalized Communities: Reflections on Engaging Roma Women in Northern England. Qualitative Inquiry, 30(6), 514-525. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004231176770

This article critically explores research with marginalized communities. We provide an insight into our work with the Roma community, reflecting on innovation, opportunities, and barriers, alongside the need for more work in this area. A particular f... Read More about Research With Marginalized Communities: Reflections on Engaging Roma Women in Northern England.

Exact similariton solution families and diverse composite waves in coherently coupled inhomogeneous systems (2023)
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Huo, K., Yang, R., Jia, H., He, Y., & Christian, J. (2023). Exact similariton solution families and diverse composite waves in coherently coupled inhomogeneous systems. Nonlinear Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-023-08574-9

Seeking analytical solutions of nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS)-like equations remains an open topic. In this paper, we revisit the general inhomogeneous nonautonomous NLS (inNLS) equation and report on exact similaritons under generic constraint relati... Read More about Exact similariton solution families and diverse composite waves in coherently coupled inhomogeneous systems.

Dual solutions of magnetite/cobalt/manganese-zinc-aqueous nano-ferrofluids from a stretching sheet with magnetic induction effects: MHD stagnation flow computation and analysis (2023)
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Ferdows, M., Tazin, T., Bég, A., Bég, T. A., & Ali, K. (2023). Dual solutions of magnetite/cobalt/manganese-zinc-aqueous nano-ferrofluids from a stretching sheet with magnetic induction effects: MHD stagnation flow computation and analysis. International Journal for Computational Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/15502287.2023.2211985

A theoretical study is presented for the steady magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) boundary layer stagnation point flow of a nano-ferrofluid along a linearly moving stretching sheet, as a simulation of functional magnetic materials processing. Due to having... Read More about Dual solutions of magnetite/cobalt/manganese-zinc-aqueous nano-ferrofluids from a stretching sheet with magnetic induction effects: MHD stagnation flow computation and analysis.

Optimal Operation of Distributed Generations Considering Demand Response in a Microgrid Using GWO Algorithm (2023)
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Shokouhandeh, H., Ahmadi Kamarposhti, M., Holderbaum, W., Colak, I., & Thounthong, P. (2023). Optimal Operation of Distributed Generations Considering Demand Response in a Microgrid Using GWO Algorithm. Computer Systems Science and Engineering, 47(1), 809-822. https://doi.org/10.32604/csse.2023.035827

The widespread penetration of distributed energy sources and the use of load response programs, especially in a microgrid, have caused many power system issues, such as control and operation of these networks, to be affected. The control and opera... Read More about Optimal Operation of Distributed Generations Considering Demand Response in a Microgrid Using GWO Algorithm.

Existence, Smoothness and Uniqueness (in smooth space) of the Navier-Stokes equation by using a new Boundary Integral representation (2023)
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Chadwick, E. Existence, Smoothness and Uniqueness (in smooth space) of the Navier-Stokes equation by using a new Boundary Integral representation. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2305.14219. Manuscript submitted for publication

Consider an exterior space-time domain where the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation and continuity equation hold with no bodies or force fields present, and smooth velocity at initial time. This is equivalent to the velocity being impulsively inst... Read More about Existence, Smoothness and Uniqueness (in smooth space) of the Navier-Stokes equation by using a new Boundary Integral representation.

Behavioural effects of noise on Linnaeus's two-toed sloth ( (2023)
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de Abreu Rezende, Y. G., Queiroz, M. B., Young, R. J., & da Silva Vasconcellos, A. (in press). Behavioural effects of noise on Linnaeus's two-toed sloth (. Animal Welfare Journal, 32, e40. https://doi.org/10.1017/awf.2023.34

Anthropogenic noise has been related to stress in captive animals; despite this there have been few studies on animal welfare assessment in walk-through zoo enclosures. We aimed to investigate the behavioural effects of noise on a male-female pair of... Read More about Behavioural effects of noise on Linnaeus's two-toed sloth (.

Limited environmental and yield benefits of intercropping practices in smallholder fields: Evidence from multi-source data (2023)
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Li, C., Kambombe, O., Gulule Chimimba, E., Fawcett, D., Brown, L., Yu, L., …Dash, J. (2023). Limited environmental and yield benefits of intercropping practices in smallholder fields: Evidence from multi-source data. Field Crops Research, 299, Article 108974. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2023.108974

Context To ensure food security in sub-Saharan Africa, it is necessary to improve crop yields while minimizing environmental impacts. Intercropping has been demonstrated to deliver such outcomes, but their performance in smallholder fields has recei... Read More about Limited environmental and yield benefits of intercropping practices in smallholder fields: Evidence from multi-source data.

Sustainable Irrigation Requirement Prediction Using Internet of Things and Transfer Learning (2023)
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Blessy, A., Kumar, A., Quadir Md, A., Alharbi, A. I., Almusharraf, A., Khan, S. B., …Md, A. Q. (2023). Sustainable Irrigation Requirement Prediction Using Internet of Things and Transfer Learning. Sustainability, 15(10), 8260. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15108260

Irrigation systems are a crucial research area because it is essential to conserve fresh water and utilize it wisely. As a part of this study, the reliability of predicting the usage of water in the present and future is investigated in order to deve... Read More about Sustainable Irrigation Requirement Prediction Using Internet of Things and Transfer Learning.