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Electrokinetic insect-bioinspired membrane pumping in a high aspect ratio bio-microfluidic system (2022)
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Narla, V., Tripathi, D., Bhandari, D., & Beg, O. (2022). Electrokinetic insect-bioinspired membrane pumping in a high aspect ratio bio-microfluidic system. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 26(85), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10404-022-02588-2

Microscale flows utilizing stimulus-responsive working fluids are finding increasing applications in emerging areas in mechanical, biological and chemical engineering. Motivated by such applications, in the present article, an analytical study of t... Read More about Electrokinetic insect-bioinspired membrane pumping in a high aspect ratio bio-microfluidic system.

Earthship buildings: opinions on their contribution towards sustainable alternative housing in the UK (2022)
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Booth, C. A., Horry, R., Isaac, C., Mahamadu, A., Manu, P., Awuah, K. G. B., …Prabhakaran, A. (2023). Earthship buildings: opinions on their contribution towards sustainable alternative housing in the UK. Proceedings of the ICE - Management, Procurement and Law, 176(4), 192-198. https://doi.org/10.1680/jmapl.22.00026

Earthship buildings are marketed as being an epitome of sustainable alternative housing. Built by reusing or repurposing mostly reclaimed urban waste products, their design includes the utilisation of low-embodied-energy materials, passive solar heat... Read More about Earthship buildings: opinions on their contribution towards sustainable alternative housing in the UK.

A hydroalcoholic extract of Senecio nutans SCh. Bip (Asteraceae); its effects on cardiac function and chemical characterization (2022)
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Palacios, J., Paredes, A., Cifuentes, F., Catalan, M., Garcia-Villalon, A., Borquez, J., …Greensmith, D. (2023). A hydroalcoholic extract of Senecio nutans SCh. Bip (Asteraceae); its effects on cardiac function and chemical characterization. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 300, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2022.115747

Ethnopharmacology relevance The plant Senecio nutans SCh. Bip. is used by Andean communities to treat altitude sickness. Recent evidence suggests it may produce vasodilation and negative cardiac inotropy, though the cellular mechanisms have not been... Read More about A hydroalcoholic extract of Senecio nutans SCh. Bip (Asteraceae); its effects on cardiac function and chemical characterization.

Building-as-a-service: theoretical foundations and conceptual framework (2022)
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Wildenauer, A., Mbabu, A. M., Underwood, J., & Basl, J. (2022). Building-as-a-service: theoretical foundations and conceptual framework. Buildings, 12(10), https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12101594

The provision of data with information management are a significant challenge for the digital developing construction industry. The utilisation of data from a built asset’s planning, design, and construction phases to the operations phase core and to... Read More about Building-as-a-service: theoretical foundations and conceptual framework.

A bibliometric study of industry 4.0 in construction industry Using Oesterreich and Teuteberg (2016) as a key marker (2022)
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Mansour, H., Aminudin, E., Mansour, T., Binti Zainal Abidin, N., & Roslan, A. F. B. (2022). A bibliometric study of industry 4.0 in construction industry Using Oesterreich and Teuteberg (2016) as a key marker. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 1067(1), https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1067/1/012056

This study examines how Industry 4.0 has been discussed in the construction industry and construction management (CM) research over the past four years using Oesterreich and Teuteberg’s (2016) article as a key marker. The techniques adopted in this p... Read More about A bibliometric study of industry 4.0 in construction industry Using Oesterreich and Teuteberg (2016) as a key marker.

The Virtual Palaeosciences (ViPs) project: resources for online learning in or out of a pandemic (2022)
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Hutchinson, S. M., Bacon, K. L., Bunting, M. J., & Hurrell, E. R. (2022). The Virtual Palaeosciences (ViPs) project: resources for online learning in or out of a pandemic. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 48(1), 133-143. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2022.2129599

The Virtual Palaeosciences (ViPs) project is a collaborative initiative bringing palaeoscientists together to locate, access and share online educational resources (OERs). It began as a response to the 2020 shift to online learning when the COVID-19... Read More about The Virtual Palaeosciences (ViPs) project: resources for online learning in or out of a pandemic.

Spectral relaxation computation of Maxwell fluid flow from a stretching surface with quadratic convection and non-Fourier heat flux using Lie symmetry transformations (2022)
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Bhatti, M., Shahid, A., Sarris, I., & Beg, O. (2022). Spectral relaxation computation of Maxwell fluid flow from a stretching surface with quadratic convection and non-Fourier heat flux using Lie symmetry transformations. International Journal of Modern Physics B, https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217979223500820

A mathematical model for nonlinear quadratic convection with non-Fourier heat flux in coating boundary layer flow of a Maxwell viscoelastic fluid is presented. Nonlinear quadratic thermal radiation and heat source/sink effects are also considered.... Read More about Spectral relaxation computation of Maxwell fluid flow from a stretching surface with quadratic convection and non-Fourier heat flux using Lie symmetry transformations.

Co-flowering plants support diverse pollinator populations and facilitate pollinator visitation to sweet cherry crops (2022)
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Gilpin, A., O'Brien, C., Kobel, C., E. Brettell, L., M. Cook, J., & A. Power, S. (2022). Co-flowering plants support diverse pollinator populations and facilitate pollinator visitation to sweet cherry crops. Basic and Applied Ecology, 63, 36-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2022.05.005

Many food crops depend on animal pollination to set fruit. In light of pollinator declines there is growing recognition of the need for agro-ecosystems that can sustain wild pollinator populations, ensuring fruit production and pollinator conservatio... Read More about Co-flowering plants support diverse pollinator populations and facilitate pollinator visitation to sweet cherry crops.

Using population surveys and models to reassess the conservation status of an endemic Amazonian titi monkey in a deforestation hotspot (2022)
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Silva, F. E., Pacca, L. G., Lemos, L. P., Gusmão, A. C., da Silva, O. D., Dalponte, J. C., …El Bizri, H. R. (2022). Using population surveys and models to reassess the conservation status of an endemic Amazonian titi monkey in a deforestation hotspot. Oryx, 56(6), 846-853. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0030605322000655

Assessing the conservation status of species is essential for implementing appropriate conservation measures. A lack of evidence of threats, rather than showing an absence of impacts, could reflect a lack of studies on how human activities could resu... Read More about Using population surveys and models to reassess the conservation status of an endemic Amazonian titi monkey in a deforestation hotspot.

A novel drone-station matching model in smart cities based on strict preferences (2022)
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Nath, D., Bandyopadhyay, A., Rana, A., Gaber, T., & Hassanien, A. (2022). A novel drone-station matching model in smart cities based on strict preferences. Unmanned Systems, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1142/s2301385023500115

There has been a considerable increase in the use of drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), in recent times, for a wide variety of purposes such as security, surveillance, delivery, search and rescue operations, penetration of inaccessible or un... Read More about A novel drone-station matching model in smart cities based on strict preferences.

Exploring waste tyres problems and sustainable waste management in the Tunisian context (2022)
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Abuzukhar, M., Hardman, M., & Clark, A. (2022). Exploring waste tyres problems and sustainable waste management in the Tunisian context. Current journal of applied science and technology, 41(35), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.9734/cjast/2022/v41i353956

Waste tyres represent one of the environmentally damaging fractions of the solid waste stream in Tunisia, where the problem of inefficient waste tyre management is endemic. This is easily identified by the piles of accumulating tyre waste located on... Read More about Exploring waste tyres problems and sustainable waste management in the Tunisian context.

Reducing Energy Consumption and Improving Comfort by Retrofitting Residential Buildings in the Hot Summer and Cold Winter Zone of China (2022)
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Tsang, C., Spentzou, E., J. Lomas, K., & He, M. (2022). Reducing Energy Consumption and Improving Comfort by Retrofitting Residential Buildings in the Hot Summer and Cold Winter Zone of China. Journal of Architectural Engineering, 28(4), https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29AE.1943-5568.0000568

China’s Hot Summer and Cold Winter zone, with a 550 million population, accounts for 45% of China’s building energy consumption; as such, building retrofits could offer substantial energy savings. This paper presents results from a dynamic thermal mo... Read More about Reducing Energy Consumption and Improving Comfort by Retrofitting Residential Buildings in the Hot Summer and Cold Winter Zone of China.

Swirling bioconvective nanofluid flow from a spinning stretchable disk in a permeable medium (2022)
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Umavathi, J. C., Beg, O., Beg, T., & Kadir, A. (2023). Swirling bioconvective nanofluid flow from a spinning stretchable disk in a permeable medium. International Journal of Modelling and Simulation, 43(5), 764-796. https://doi.org/10.1080/02286203.2022.2122928

Medical engineering is increasingly deploying nanotechnology and bio-inspired designs in the 21st century. Motivated by studying the spin coating of bio-nanofluid materials, gyrotactic bioconvection nanofluid swirling coating flow from a spinning d... Read More about Swirling bioconvective nanofluid flow from a spinning stretchable disk in a permeable medium.

Edge effects and vertical stratification of aerial insectivorous bats across the interface of primary-secondary Amazonian rainforest (2022)
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Yoh, N., Clarke, J., López-Baucells, A., Mas, M., Bobrowiec, P., Rocha, R., & Meyer, C. (2022). Edge effects and vertical stratification of aerial insectivorous bats across the interface of primary-secondary Amazonian rainforest. PLoS ONE, 17(9), e0274637. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274637

Edge effects, abiotic and biotic changes associated with habitat boundaries, are key drivers of community change in fragmented landscapes. Their influence is heavily modulated by matrix composition. With over half of the world’s tropical forests pred... Read More about Edge effects and vertical stratification of aerial insectivorous bats across the interface of primary-secondary Amazonian rainforest.

Rural vitalization promoted by industrial transformation under globalization: The case of Tengtou village in China (2022)
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Liu, Y., Dai, L., Long, H., Woods, M., & Fois, F. (2022). Rural vitalization promoted by industrial transformation under globalization: The case of Tengtou village in China. Journal of Rural Studies, 95, 241-255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.09.020

Globalization has deeply changed the rural socio-economic form and spatial pattern, and caused a comprehensive and profound transformation of rural industries. By establishing a theoretical analysis framework for industrial transformation, this paper... Read More about Rural vitalization promoted by industrial transformation under globalization: The case of Tengtou village in China.

Tectonic, climatic and autogenic controls on the late quaternary evolution of the Someș fluvial fan, North-East Pannonian Basin, Central Europe (2022)
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Persoiu, I., Sipos, G., Radoane, M., Hutchinson, S., Michczyńska, D., & Persoiu, A. (2022). Tectonic, climatic and autogenic controls on the late quaternary evolution of the Someș fluvial fan, North-East Pannonian Basin, Central Europe. Geomorphology, 417, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108450

The Someș fluvial fan is located in the NW extremity of the Great Hungarian Plain (Pannonian Basin). It was formed by the left-side tributaries of the Tisa River (a tributary of the Danube) as they developed westward, following the avulsion of the ma... Read More about Tectonic, climatic and autogenic controls on the late quaternary evolution of the Someș fluvial fan, North-East Pannonian Basin, Central Europe.

Vertical and Horizontal Transmission of Cell Fusing Agent Virus in Aedes aegypti (2022)
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Logan, R. A. E., Quek, S., Muthoni, J. N., von Eicken, A., Brettell, L. E., Anderson, E. R., …Patterson, E. I. (2022). Vertical and Horizontal Transmission of Cell Fusing Agent Virus in Aedes aegypti. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 88(18), https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.01062-22

Cell fusing agent virus (CFAV) is an insect-specific flavivirus (ISF) found in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. ISFs have demonstrated the ability to modulate the infection or transmission of arboviruses such as dengue, West Nile, and Zika viruses. It is th... Read More about Vertical and Horizontal Transmission of Cell Fusing Agent Virus in Aedes aegypti.

A Conformable Moments-Based Deep Learning System for Forged Handwriting Detection (2022)
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Nandanwar, L., Shivakumara, P., A. Jalab, H., W. Ibrahim, R., Raghavendra, R., Pal, U., …Blumenstein, M. (2022). A Conformable Moments-Based Deep Learning System for Forged Handwriting Detection. IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNNLS.2022.3204390

Detecting forged handwriting is important in a wide variety of machine learning applications, and it is challenging when the input images are degraded with noise and blur. This article presents a new model based on conformable moments (CMs) and deep... Read More about A Conformable Moments-Based Deep Learning System for Forged Handwriting Detection.

Predictive analysis of Covid 19 disease based on mathematical modelling and machine learning techniques (2022)
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Rajarajeswari, P., Santhi, K., Saraswathi, R., & Beg, O. (2022). Predictive analysis of Covid 19 disease based on mathematical modelling and machine learning techniques. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging and Visualization, https://doi.org/10.1080/21681163.2022.2120829

During the emergence of a novel pandemic, predictive modelling process is more important in the phase of public health planning and response. Relating models to data provides a view into unseen variables, such as the occurrence of cryptic transmiss... Read More about Predictive analysis of Covid 19 disease based on mathematical modelling and machine learning techniques.