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A new context-based feature for classification of emotions in photographs (2021)
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Krishnani, D., Shivakumara, P., Lu, T., Pal, U., Lopresti, D., & Hemantha Kumar, G. (2021). A new context-based feature for classification of emotions in photographs. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 80, 15589–15618. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-020-10404-8

A high volume of images is shared on the public Internet each day. Many of these are photographs of people with facial expressions and actions displaying various emotions. In this work, we examine the problem of classifying broad categories of emotio... Read More about A new context-based feature for classification of emotions in photographs.

Animal personality and conservation : basics for inspiring new research (2021)
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de Azevedo, C., & Young, R. (2021). Animal personality and conservation : basics for inspiring new research. Animals, 11(4), e1019. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11041019

The number of animal species threatened with extinction are increasing every year, and biologists are conducting animal translocations, as one strategy, to try to mitigate this situation. Furthermore, researchers are evaluating methods to increase tr... Read More about Animal personality and conservation : basics for inspiring new research.

Homotopy and adomian semi-numerical solutions for oscillatory flow of partially ionized dielectric hydrogen gas in a rotating MHD energy generator duct (2021)
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Beg, O., Beg, T., Munjam, S., & Jangili, S. (2021). Homotopy and adomian semi-numerical solutions for oscillatory flow of partially ionized dielectric hydrogen gas in a rotating MHD energy generator duct. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 46(34), 17677-17696. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2021.02.189

Hydrogen-based MHD power generators offer significant advantages over conventional designs. The optimization of these energy devices benefits from both laboratory scale testing and computational simulation. Motivated by this, in the current work, a... Read More about Homotopy and adomian semi-numerical solutions for oscillatory flow of partially ionized dielectric hydrogen gas in a rotating MHD energy generator duct.

Double diffusive convection in a dissipative electrically conducting nanofluid under orthogonal electrical and magnetic fields : a numerical study (2021)
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Umavathi, J., & Beg, O. (2021). Double diffusive convection in a dissipative electrically conducting nanofluid under orthogonal electrical and magnetic fields : a numerical study. Nanoscience and Technology: An International Journal, 12(2), 59-90. https://doi.org/10.1615/NanoSciTechnolIntJ.2021036786

Two-dimensional double-diffusive convective flow in a duct is studied numerically. The duct is filled with electrically conducting nanofluid and subjected to mutually orthogonal static electrical and magnetic fields. The one-phase Tiwari-Das model is... Read More about Double diffusive convection in a dissipative electrically conducting nanofluid under orthogonal electrical and magnetic fields : a numerical study.

Transcriptome of tumor-Infiltrating T cells in colorectal cancer patients uncovered a unique gene signature in CD4 + T cells associated with poor disease-specific survival (2021)
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Toor, S., Sasidharan Nair, V., Saleh, R., Taha, R., Murshed, K., Al-Dhaheri, M., …Elkord, E. (2021). Transcriptome of tumor-Infiltrating T cells in colorectal cancer patients uncovered a unique gene signature in CD4 + T cells associated with poor disease-specific survival. Vaccines, 9(4), e334. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9040334

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is influenced by infiltration of immune cell populations in the tumor microenvironment. While elevated levels of cytotoxic T cells are associated with improved prognosis, limited studies have reported associations between CD4+... Read More about Transcriptome of tumor-Infiltrating T cells in colorectal cancer patients uncovered a unique gene signature in CD4 + T cells associated with poor disease-specific survival.

Bibliometric studies on emissions from diesel engines running on alcohol/diesel fuel blends. A case study about noise emissions (2021)
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Redel-Macías, M., Pinzi, S., Babaie, M., Zare, A., Cubero-Atienza, A., & Dorado, M. (2021). Bibliometric studies on emissions from diesel engines running on alcohol/diesel fuel blends. A case study about noise emissions. Processes, 9(4), e623. https://doi.org/10.3390/pr9040623

The growing demand for fossil fuels, the rise in their price and many environmental concerns strengthen the incessant search for fuel alternatives. Recently, traffic noise has been described as a threat to human health and the environment, being resp... Read More about Bibliometric studies on emissions from diesel engines running on alcohol/diesel fuel blends. A case study about noise emissions.

Variation in predicted COVID-19 risk among lemurs and lorises (2021)
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Melin, A., Orkin, J., Janiak, M., Valenzuela, A., Kuderna, L., Marrone, F., …Higham, J. (2021). Variation in predicted COVID-19 risk among lemurs and lorises. American Journal of Primatology, 83(6), e23255. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23255

The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which in humans leads to the disease COVID-19, has caused global disruption and more than 2 million fatalities since it first emerged in late 2019. As we write, infection rates are at their highest point globally and... Read More about Variation in predicted COVID-19 risk among lemurs and lorises.

A tutorial on the finite and boundary element methods in acoustics (2021)
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Hargreaves, J. A. (2021). A tutorial on the finite and boundary element methods in acoustics. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 149(4_Supplement), A92-A92. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0004613

The Finite Element Method (FEM) and Boundary Element Method (BEM) are established numerical simulation techniques that are widely used in Engineering, including in Acoustics. This tutorial lecture will give a brief tour of both methods, some discussi... Read More about A tutorial on the finite and boundary element methods in acoustics.

A set of equations for numerically calculating the interaural level difference in the horizontal plane (2021)
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Akeroyd, M. A., Firth, J., Graetzer, S., & Smith, S. (2021). A set of equations for numerically calculating the interaural level difference in the horizontal plane. JASA Express Letters, 1(4), 044402. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0004261

The variation of interaural level difference (ILD) with direction and frequency is particularly complex and convoluted. The purpose of this work was to determine a set of parametric equations that can be used to calculate ILDs continuously at any val... Read More about A set of equations for numerically calculating the interaural level difference in the horizontal plane.

Seascape ecology : identifying research priorities for an emerging ocean sustainability science (2021)
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Pittman, S., Yates, K., Bouchet, P., Alvarez-Berastegui, D., Andréfouët, S., Bell, S., …Young, M. (2021). Seascape ecology : identifying research priorities for an emerging ocean sustainability science. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 663, 1-29. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13661

Seascape ecology, the marine-centric counterpart to landscape ecology, is rapidly emerging as an interdisciplinary and spatially explicit ecological science with relevance to marine management, biodiversity conservation, and restoration. While import... Read More about Seascape ecology : identifying research priorities for an emerging ocean sustainability science.

Mobile apps for self-management in pregnancy: a systematic review (2021)
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Ejehiohen Iyawa, G., Rabiu Dansharif, A., & Khan, A. (2021). Mobile apps for self-management in pregnancy: a systematic review. Health and Technology, 11, 283-294. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12553-021-00523-z

Complications during pregnancy is a major problem affecting healthcare systems which requires the efforts of both patients and healthcare practitioners. For this reason, mobile apps have been increasingly sought to support self-management during preg... Read More about Mobile apps for self-management in pregnancy: a systematic review.

Acceptance of Google Meet during the spread of Coronavirus by Arab university students (2021)
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Al-Maroof, R., Alshurideh, M., Salloum, S., AlHamad, A., & Gaber, T. (2021). Acceptance of Google Meet during the spread of Coronavirus by Arab university students. Informatics, 8(2), e24. https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics8020024

The COVID-19 pandemic not only affected our health and medical systems but also has created large disruption of education systems at school and universities levels. According to the United Nation’s report, COVID-19 has influenced more than 1.6 billio... Read More about Acceptance of Google Meet during the spread of Coronavirus by Arab university students.

Embodied carbon in commercial office buildings : lessons learned from Sri Lanka (2021)
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Nawarathna, A., Alwan, Z., Gledson, B., & Fernando, N. (2021). Embodied carbon in commercial office buildings : lessons learned from Sri Lanka. Journal of Building Engineering, 42, 102441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2021.102441

Growing concerns over the importance of reducing the embodied carbon (EC1) of buildings have led to a greater focus on EC-related research and policymaking. Nevertheless, the Sri Lankan building sector is currently lagging behind on this issue. While... Read More about Embodied carbon in commercial office buildings : lessons learned from Sri Lanka.

Non-similar radiative bioconvection nanofluid flow under oblique magnetic field with entropy generation (2021)
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Shukla, N., Rana, P., Kuharat, S., & Beg, O. (2022). Non-similar radiative bioconvection nanofluid flow under oblique magnetic field with entropy generation. Journal of applied and computational mechanics, 8(1), 206-218. https://doi.org/10.22055/JACM.2020.33580.2250

Motivated by exploring the near-wall transport phenomena involved in bioconvection fuel cells combined with electrically conducting nanofluids, in the present article, a detailed analytical treatment using homotopy analysis method (HAM) is presented... Read More about Non-similar radiative bioconvection nanofluid flow under oblique magnetic field with entropy generation.

A research agenda for geographies of everyday intergenerational encounter (2021)
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Yarker, S. (2021). A research agenda for geographies of everyday intergenerational encounter. Area, 53(2), 264-271. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12716

This paper calls for a research agenda that attends to the geographies of everyday intergenerational encounter that occur informally in communities. Using the theoretical framing of social infrastructure and encounter, it argues that we need to bette... Read More about A research agenda for geographies of everyday intergenerational encounter.

Stakeholder preference mapping : the case for built heritage of Georgetown, Malaysia (2021)
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Georgetown, Malaysia. Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, 11(2), https://doi.org/10.1108/JCHMSD-08-2020-0114

Purpose While there is an established body of literature that discusses the importance of stakeholder management, and also the need for involvement of all stakeholders so that all values of a heritage site can be captured in a heritage management... Read More about Stakeholder preference mapping : the case for built heritage of Georgetown, Malaysia.

On the security and privacy challenges of virtual assistants (2021)
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Bolton, T., Dargahi, T., Belguith, S., Al-Rakhami, M., & Sodhro, A. (2021). On the security and privacy challenges of virtual assistants. Sensors, 21(7), e2312. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21072312

Since the purchase of Siri by Apple, and its release with the iPhone 4S in 2011, virtual assistants (VAs) have grown in number and popularity. The sophisticated natural language processing and speech recognition employed by VAs enables users to inter... Read More about On the security and privacy challenges of virtual assistants.

Measuring the Heat Transfer Coefficient (HTC) in buildings : a stakeholder’s survey (2021)
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Deb, C., Gelder, L., Spiekman, M., Guillaume, P., Jack, R., & Fitton, R. (2021). Measuring the Heat Transfer Coefficient (HTC) in buildings : a stakeholder’s survey. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 144, 111008. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2021.111008

The heat transfer coefficient (HTC) is a very important factor influencing the energy performance of a building. Recent studies have shown the importance of on-site measurements of the HTC in reducing the performance gap in buildings. However, its me... Read More about Measuring the Heat Transfer Coefficient (HTC) in buildings : a stakeholder’s survey.

Taylor dispersion in non-Darcy porous media with bulk chemical reaction : a model for drug transport in impeded blood vessels (2021)
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Roy, A., Beg, O., Saha, A., & Ramana Murthy, J. (2021). Taylor dispersion in non-Darcy porous media with bulk chemical reaction : a model for drug transport in impeded blood vessels. Journal of Engineering Mathematics, 127(1), 24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10665-021-10120-8

The present article discusses the solute transport process in unsteady laminar blood flow through a non-Darcy porous medium, as a model for drug movement in blood vessels containing deposits. The Darcy-Brinkman-Forchheimer drag force formulation is... Read More about Taylor dispersion in non-Darcy porous media with bulk chemical reaction : a model for drug transport in impeded blood vessels.