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Analysis and validation of a 3D finite element model for human forearm fracture. (2022)
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Liu, J., Mustafa, A., Lees, V. C., Qian, Z., Wei, G., Lu, X., …Wang, K. (2022). Analysis and validation of a 3D finite element model for human forearm fracture. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, 38(9), e3617. https://doi.org/10.1002/cnm.3617

Most researchers have performed finite element (FE) analysis of the human forearm fracture by exploring the strength and load transmission of the bones. However, few studies concentrated a complete simulation of the whole forearm complex including li... Read More about Analysis and validation of a 3D finite element model for human forearm fracture..

Amazonia camtrap: A dataset of mammal, bird, and reptile species recorded with camera traps in the Amazon forest. (2022)
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Antunes, A., Montanarin, A., Gräbin, D., Monteiro, E., de Pinho, F., Alvarenga, G., …Ribeiro, M. (2022). Amazonia camtrap: A dataset of mammal, bird, and reptile species recorded with camera traps in the Amazon forest. Ecology, 103(9), e3738. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3738

The Amazon forest has the highest biodiversity on earth. However, information on Amazonian vertebrate diversity is still deficient and scattered across the published, peer-reviewed and grey literature and in unpublished raw data. Camera traps are an... Read More about Amazonia camtrap: A dataset of mammal, bird, and reptile species recorded with camera traps in the Amazon forest..

A novel RBFNN-CNN model for speaker identification in stressful talking environments (2022)
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Nassif, A., Alnazzawi, N., Shahin, I., Salloum, S., Hindawi, N., Lataifeh, M., & Elnagar, A. (2022). A novel RBFNN-CNN model for speaker identification in stressful talking environments. Applied Sciences, 12(10), https://doi.org/10.3390/app12104841

Speaker identification systems perform almost ideally in neutral talking environments. However, these systems perform poorly in stressful talking environments. In this paper, we present an effective approach for enhancing the performance of speaker i... Read More about A novel RBFNN-CNN model for speaker identification in stressful talking environments.

Assessing Soil Degradation and Risk in Relation to Metal Pollution in Hindon River Water-Irrigated Soils of Western Uttar Pradesh of India (2022)
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Golui, D., Dali, M., Singh, R., Datta, S. P., Mandal, J., Ray, P., …Kumar, R. (2022). Assessing Soil Degradation and Risk in Relation to Metal Pollution in Hindon River Water-Irrigated Soils of Western Uttar Pradesh of India. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 233(5), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-022-05640-7

Soil degradation with metal pollution was assessed in polluted river water-irrigated soils. Human health risk from ingestion of metal by way of eating of edible portion of plants, raised on these soils, was predicted based on the free ion activity in... Read More about Assessing Soil Degradation and Risk in Relation to Metal Pollution in Hindon River Water-Irrigated Soils of Western Uttar Pradesh of India.

Characterisation of a Novel Acetyl Xylan Esterase (BaAXE) screened from the Gut Microbiota of the Common Black Slug (Arion ater) (2022)
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Madubuike, H., & Ferry, N. (2022). Characterisation of a Novel Acetyl Xylan Esterase (BaAXE) screened from the Gut Microbiota of the Common Black Slug (Arion ater). Molecules, 27(9), 2999. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27092999

Acetyl xylan esterases (AXEs) are enzymes capable of hydrolysing the acetyl bonds in acetylated xylan, allowing for enhanced activity of backbone-depolymerizing enzymes. Bioprospecting novel AXE is essential in designing enzyme cocktails with desired... Read More about Characterisation of a Novel Acetyl Xylan Esterase (BaAXE) screened from the Gut Microbiota of the Common Black Slug (Arion ater).

The International Virus Bioinformatics Meeting 2022 (2022)
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Hufsky, F., Beslic, D., Boeckaerts, D., Duchene, S., Gonzalez Tortuero, E., Gruber, A., …Marz, M. (2022). The International Virus Bioinformatics Meeting 2022. Viruses, 14(5), 973. https://doi.org/10.3390/v14050973

The International Virus Bioinformatics Meeting 2022 took place online, on 23-25 March 2022, and has attracted about 380 participants from all over the world. The goal of the meeting was to provide a meaningful and interactive scientific environment t... Read More about The International Virus Bioinformatics Meeting 2022.

Ensuring robust radiological risk assessment for wildlife: insights from the International Atomic Energy Agency EMRAS and MODARIA programmes. (2022)
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Beresford, N., Beaugelin-Seiller, K., Barnett, C., Brown, J., Doering, C., Caffrey, E., …beresford, N. (2022). Ensuring robust radiological risk assessment for wildlife: insights from the International Atomic Energy Agency EMRAS and MODARIA programmes. Journal of Radiological Protection, 42(2), https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6498/ac6043

In response to changing international recommendations and national requirements, a number of assessment approaches, and associated tools and models, have been developed over the last circa 20 years to assess radiological risk to wildlife. In this pap... Read More about Ensuring robust radiological risk assessment for wildlife: insights from the International Atomic Energy Agency EMRAS and MODARIA programmes..

An Episodic Learning Network for Text Detection on Human Bodies in Sports Images (2022)
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Nath Chowdhury, P., Shivakumara, P., Raghavendra, R., Nag, S., Pal, U., Lu, T., & Lopresti, D. (2022). An Episodic Learning Network for Text Detection on Human Bodies in Sports Images. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 32, 2279 - 2289. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSVT.2021.3092713

Due to the proliferation of sports-related multimedia content on the WWW, effective visual search and retrieval present interesting research challenges. These are caused by poor image quality, a wide range of possible camera points of view, pose vari... Read More about An Episodic Learning Network for Text Detection on Human Bodies in Sports Images.

Gender differences in perception and awareness of climate change in the Suru valley of Western Himalayas, India (2022)
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Khan, K., Chattopadhyay, A., & Ali, I. (2022). Gender differences in perception and awareness of climate change in the Suru valley of Western Himalayas, India. Current World Environment Journal, 17(1), 88-98. https://doi.org/10.12944/cwe.17.1.8

The Suru valley of the Ladakh region in the Indian western Himalayas has a cold-arid climate and semi-desert landscape. Any change in climate in this fragile landscape will impact the lives of local communities in the region. The region has limited w... Read More about Gender differences in perception and awareness of climate change in the Suru valley of Western Himalayas, India.

Modern Optimal Controllers for Hybrid Active Power Filter to Minimize Harmonic Distortion (2022)
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Alasali, F., Nusair, K., Foudeh, H., Holderbaum, W., Vinayagam, A., & Aziz, A. (2022). Modern Optimal Controllers for Hybrid Active Power Filter to Minimize Harmonic Distortion. Electronics, 11(9), e1453. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11091453

Nowadays, AC distributed power networks are facing many challenges in guaranteeing and improving the required level of power quality indices in power networks with increasing nonlinear, time-variable and unbalanced loads. Power networks can benefit f... Read More about Modern Optimal Controllers for Hybrid Active Power Filter to Minimize Harmonic Distortion.

Environmental enrichment for collared peccaries Dicotyles tajacu, Tayassuidae in managed care: Different items provoke different behavioural responses (2022)
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de Faria, C., Fa, F., Costa, D., da Silva, M., da Silva, B., Young, R., & Azevado, C. (2022). Environmental enrichment for collared peccaries Dicotyles tajacu, Tayassuidae in managed care: Different items provoke different behavioural responses. ˜The œJournal of zoo and aquarium research, 10(2), 82-90. https://doi.org/10.19227/jzar.v10i2.61082OPEN

Being in human care often modifies the behaviour of animals, mainly because of the lack of environmental stimuli, and the ease of finding food and reproductive partners. Animals in human care may have a poorer behavioural repertoire and lower welfare... Read More about Environmental enrichment for collared peccaries Dicotyles tajacu, Tayassuidae in managed care: Different items provoke different behavioural responses.

The rise of electrochemical NAPXPS operated in the soft X-ray regime exemplified by the oxygen evolution reaction on IrO (2022)
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Velasco Vélez, J. J., Bernsmeier, D., Jones, T. E., Zeller, P., Carbonio, E., Chuang, C., …Schlögl, R. (2022). The rise of electrochemical NAPXPS operated in the soft X-ray regime exemplified by the oxygen evolution reaction on IrO. Faraday Discussions, 236, 103-125. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1fd00114k

Different operando approaches based in PES were used and compared under OER conditions on IrOx. ResPES indicates that single coordinated oxygen atoms (μ1-O) are the active species yielding the formation of peroxo (μ1-OO) and finally O2 as product.

Improving the measurement and acoustic performance of transparent face masks and shields (2022)
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Cox, T. J., Dodgson, G., Harris, L., Perugia, E., Stone, M. A., & Walsh, M. (2022). Improving the measurement and acoustic performance of transparent face masks and shields. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 151(5), 2931-2944. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0010384

Opaque face masks harm communication by preventing speech-reading (lip-reading) and attenuating high-frequency sound. Although transparent masks and shields (visors) with clear plastic inserts allow speech-reading, they usually create more sound atte... Read More about Improving the measurement and acoustic performance of transparent face masks and shields.

Multi-cloud load distribution for three-tier applications (2022)
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Adewojo, A., & Bass, J. (in press). Multi-cloud load distribution for three-tier applications. CLOSER (Setúbal), 296-304. https://doi.org/10.5220/0011092100003200

Web-based business applications commonly experience user request spikes called flash crowds. Flash crowds in web applications might result in resource failure and/or performance degradation. To alleviate these challenges, this class of applications... Read More about Multi-cloud load distribution for three-tier applications.

A novel weight-assignment load balancing algorithm for cloud applications (2022)
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Adewojo, A., & Bass, J. (in press). A novel weight-assignment load balancing algorithm for cloud applications. CLOSER (Setúbal), 86-96. https://doi.org/10.5220/0011091600003200

Load balancing dynamically optimizes cloud resources and performance, and enhances the performance of applications deployed on cloud. We have chosen to investigate the class of cloud deployed web-based threetier business applications. There is a pro... Read More about A novel weight-assignment load balancing algorithm for cloud applications.

Reproduction of the mechanical behavior of ligament and tendon for artificial joint using bioinspired 3d braided fibers (2022)
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Lu, X., Ren, L., Wang, K., Wei, G., Qian, Z., Liang, W., & Ren, L. (2022). Reproduction of the mechanical behavior of ligament and tendon for artificial joint using bioinspired 3d braided fibers. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 30, 1172-1180. https://doi.org/10.1109/tnsre.2022.3170892

The level of joint laxity, which is an indicator of accurate diagnosis for musculoskeletal conditions is manually determined by a physician. Studying joint laxity via artificial joints is an efficient and economical way to improve patient experience... Read More about Reproduction of the mechanical behavior of ligament and tendon for artificial joint using bioinspired 3d braided fibers.

Towards an ecological modelling approach for assessing ionizing radiation impact on wildlife populations. (2022)
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Vives I Batlle, J., Biermans, G., Copplestone, D., Kryshev, A., Melintescu, A., Mothersill, C., …Wood, M. (2022). Towards an ecological modelling approach for assessing ionizing radiation impact on wildlife populations. Journal of Radiological Protection, 42(2), 020507. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6498/ac5dd0

The emphasis of the international system of radiological protection of the environment is to protect populations of flora and fauna. Throughout the MODARIA programmes, the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has facilitated know... Read More about Towards an ecological modelling approach for assessing ionizing radiation impact on wildlife populations..

Weed Identification by Single-Stage and Two-Stage Neural Networks: A Study on the Impact of Image Resizers and Weights Optimization Algorithms (2022)
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Saleem, M. H., Velayudhan, K. K., Potgieter, J., & Arif, K. M. (in press). Weed Identification by Single-Stage and Two-Stage Neural Networks: A Study on the Impact of Image Resizers and Weights Optimization Algorithms. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.850666

The accurate identification of weeds is an essential step for a site-specific weed management system. In recent years, deep learning (DL) has got rapid advancements to perform complex agricultural tasks. The previous studies emphasized the evaluation... Read More about Weed Identification by Single-Stage and Two-Stage Neural Networks: A Study on the Impact of Image Resizers and Weights Optimization Algorithms.