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Consequences of replacing native savannahs with acacia plantations for the taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic α- and β-diversity of bats in the northern Brazilian Amazon (2020)
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Carvalho, W., Meyer, C., Xavier, B., Mustin, K., Castro, I., Silvestre, S., …Toledo, J. (2020). Consequences of replacing native savannahs with acacia plantations for the taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic α- and β-diversity of bats in the northern Brazilian Amazon. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8, 609214. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.609214

Across the globe, millions of hectares of native vegetation have been replaced by commercial plantations, with negative consequences for biodiversity. The effects of the replacement of native vegetation with commercial plantations on the functional a... Read More about Consequences of replacing native savannahs with acacia plantations for the taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic α- and β-diversity of bats in the northern Brazilian Amazon.

Quantifying and addressing the prevalence and bias of study designs in the environmental and social sciences (2020)
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Christie, A., Abecasis, D., ..., .., Meyer, C., ..., .., & Sutherland, W. (2020). Quantifying and addressing the prevalence and bias of study designs in the environmental and social sciences. Nature communications, 11(1), 6377. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20142-y

Building trust in science and evidence-based decision-making depends heavily on the credibility of studies and their findings. Researchers employ many different study designs that vary in their risk of bias to evaluate the true effect of intervention... Read More about Quantifying and addressing the prevalence and bias of study designs in the environmental and social sciences.

Mysterious disappearances of a large mammal in Neotropical forests (2020)
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Fragoso, J., Antunes, A., Altrichter, M., Constantino, P., Zapate-Rios, G., Camino, M., …et al. (2020). Mysterious disappearances of a large mammal in Neotropical forests. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.08.416552

The drivers of periodic population cycling by some animal species in northern systems remain unresolved1. Mysterious disappearances of populations of the Neotropical, herdforming white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari, henceforth “WLP”) have been anecd... Read More about Mysterious disappearances of a large mammal in Neotropical forests.

Mixed convection flows of tangent hyperbolic fluid past an isothermal wedge with entropy : a mathematical study (2020)
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Reddy, P., Gaffar, S., Khan, M., Venkatadri, K., & Beg, O. (2021). Mixed convection flows of tangent hyperbolic fluid past an isothermal wedge with entropy : a mathematical study. Heat Transfer, 50(3), 2895-2928. https://doi.org/10.1002/htj.22011

The non-linear, steady, mixed convective boundary layer flow and heat transfer of an incompressible tangent hyperbolic non-Newtonian fluid from an isothermal wedge in the presence of magnetic field is analyzed numerically using the Keller Box implici... Read More about Mixed convection flows of tangent hyperbolic fluid past an isothermal wedge with entropy : a mathematical study.

A framework for sustainable planning and decision-making on resource recovery from wastewater : showcase for São Paulo megacity (2020)
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Chrispim, M., de Souza, F. D. M., Scholz, M., & Nolasco, M. (2020). A framework for sustainable planning and decision-making on resource recovery from wastewater : showcase for São Paulo megacity. Water, 12(12), e3466. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12123466

Currently, it is important to develop strategic frameworks to support the selection of sustainable resource recovery solutions. This study applies a new framework for planning, implementation, and assessment of resource recovery strategies for a full... Read More about A framework for sustainable planning and decision-making on resource recovery from wastewater : showcase for São Paulo megacity.

Life in a drop : sampling environmental DNA for marine fishery management and ecosystem monitoring (2020)
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Gilbey, J., Carvalho, G., Castilho, R., Coscia, I., Coulson, M., Dahle, G., …Volckaert, F. (2021). Life in a drop : sampling environmental DNA for marine fishery management and ecosystem monitoring. Marine Policy, 124, 104331. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104331

Science-based management of marine fisheries and effective ecosystem monitoring both require the analysis of large amounts of often complex and difficult to collect information. Legislation also increasingly requires the attainment of good environmen... Read More about Life in a drop : sampling environmental DNA for marine fishery management and ecosystem monitoring.

Chloride binding in cement paste with calcined Mg-Al-CO3 LDH (CLDH) under different conditions (2020)
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Geng, J., Pan, C., Wang, Y., Chen, W., & Zhu, Y. (2021). Chloride binding in cement paste with calcined Mg-Al-CO3 LDH (CLDH) under different conditions. Construction and Building Materials, 273, 121678. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2020.121678

The chloride binding capacity of cement paste with Mg-Al CLDH, obtained through calcining a commercial LDH, is investigated under different chloride concentration, environmental temperature, and concrete pore solution alkalinity conditions. The trans... Read More about Chloride binding in cement paste with calcined Mg-Al-CO3 LDH (CLDH) under different conditions.

Synthetic biology approaches to copper remediation: bioleaching, accumulation and recycling (2020)
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Giachino, A., Focarelli, F., Marles-Wright, J., & Waldron, K. (2020). Synthetic biology approaches to copper remediation: bioleaching, accumulation and recycling. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 97(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiaa249

One of the current aims of synthetic biology is the development of novel microorganisms that can mine economically important elements from the environment or remediate toxic waste compounds. Copper, in particular, is a high-priority target for biorem... Read More about Synthetic biology approaches to copper remediation: bioleaching, accumulation and recycling.

Modified Oesophago-Gastric Dissociation (M-OGD) — a technical modification (2020)
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Coletta, R., Mussi, E., Bianchi, A., & Morabito, A. (2021). Modified Oesophago-Gastric Dissociation (M-OGD) — a technical modification. Updates in Surgery, 73(2), 775-778. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13304-020-00934-z

Adhesions and fibrosis following failed primary surgery for severe gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR) in neurologically impaired children (NI) can render mobilization of the lower oesophagus and oesophago-jejunal anastomosis a technically demanding exer... Read More about Modified Oesophago-Gastric Dissociation (M-OGD) — a technical modification.

Fast and accurate quasi-3D aerodynamic methods for aircraft conceptual design studies (2020)
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Sugar-Gabor, O., & Koreanschi, A. (2021). Fast and accurate quasi-3D aerodynamic methods for aircraft conceptual design studies. Aeronautical Journal, 125(1286), 593-617. https://doi.org/10.1017/aer.2020.128

In this paper, recent developments in quasi-3D aerodynamic methods are presented. At their core, these methods are based on the Lifting-Line Theory and Vortex Lattice Method, but with a relaxed set of hypotheses, while also considering the effect o... Read More about Fast and accurate quasi-3D aerodynamic methods for aircraft conceptual design studies.

Network traffic analysis for threats detection in the Internet of Things (2020)
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Hammoudeh, M., Pimlott, J., Belguith, S., Epiphaniou, G., Baker, T., Kayes, A., …Bounceur, A. (2020). Network traffic analysis for threats detection in the Internet of Things. IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, 3(4), 40-45. https://doi.org/10.1109/IOTM.0001.2000015

As the prevalence of the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to increase, cyber criminals are quick to exploit the security gaps that many devices are inherently designed with. Whilst users can not be expected to tackle this threat alone, many cur... Read More about Network traffic analysis for threats detection in the Internet of Things.

Long-term trends in helminth infections of wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus) from the vicinity of Malham Tarn in North Yorkshire, England (2020)
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Behnke, J., Rogan, M., Craig, P., Jackson, J., & Hide, G. (2021). Long-term trends in helminth infections of wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus) from the vicinity of Malham Tarn in North Yorkshire, England. Parasitology, 184(4), 451-463. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182020002243

Helminth infections in wood mice (n=483), trapped over a period of 26 years in the woods surrounding Malham Tarn in N. Yorkshire, were analysed. Although ten species of helminths were identified, the overall mean species richness was 1.01 species/m... Read More about Long-term trends in helminth infections of wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus) from the vicinity of Malham Tarn in North Yorkshire, England.

Nonlinear model predictive growth control of a class of plant-inspired soft growing robots (2020)
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Hussien, H., Hameed, I., & Ryu, J. (2020). Nonlinear model predictive growth control of a class of plant-inspired soft growing robots. IEEE Access, 8, 214495-214503. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3041616

Recently, researchers have shown an increased interest in considering plants as a model of inspiration for designing new robot locomotions. Growing robots, that imitate the biological growth presented by plants, have proved irresistible in unpredicta... Read More about Nonlinear model predictive growth control of a class of plant-inspired soft growing robots.

A supervisory-based collaborative Obstacle-Guided Path Refinement algorithm for path planning in wide terrains (2020)
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Atia, M., Hussien, H., & Salah, O. (2020). A supervisory-based collaborative Obstacle-Guided Path Refinement algorithm for path planning in wide terrains. IEEE Access, 8, 214672-214684. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3041802

Robotic exploration of wide terrains, such as agricultural fields, could be challenging while considering the limited robot’s capabilities in terms of sensing and power. Thus, in this article, we proposed OGPR*, an Obstacle Guided Path Refinement alg... Read More about A supervisory-based collaborative Obstacle-Guided Path Refinement algorithm for path planning in wide terrains.

Numerical investigation of the effect of tread pattern on rotating wheel aerodynamics (2020)
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Soliman, M., El-Baz, A., Abdel-Aziz, M., Abdel-Aziz, N., & Sugar-Gabor, O. (2020). Numerical investigation of the effect of tread pattern on rotating wheel aerodynamics. International journal of automotive and mechanical engineering (Kuantan), 17(4), 8234-8245. https://doi.org/10.15282/IJAME.17.4.2020.01.0621

The present work investigates the dynamic effect of wheel rotation on the aerodynamic characteristics of slick type (ST) wheel of Formula One racing cars using a computational approach. The ST wheel model was compared to experimental results as a val... Read More about Numerical investigation of the effect of tread pattern on rotating wheel aerodynamics.

Homotopy simulation of dissipative micropolar flow and heat transfer from a two-dimensional body with heat sink effect : applications in polymer coating (2020)
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Beg, O., Vasu, B., Ray, A., Beg, T., Kadir, A., Leonard, H., & Gorla, R. (2020). Homotopy simulation of dissipative micropolar flow and heat transfer from a two-dimensional body with heat sink effect : applications in polymer coating. Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Quarterly, 34(4), 257-275. https://doi.org/10.15255/CABEQ.2020.1849

Non-Newtonian flow from a wedge constitutes a fundamental problem in chemical engineering systems and is relevant to processing of polymers, coating systems etc. Motivated by such applications, we employ the homotopy analysis method (HAM) to obtain... Read More about Homotopy simulation of dissipative micropolar flow and heat transfer from a two-dimensional body with heat sink effect : applications in polymer coating.

Settlement, land-use and communication at Cuerden, Central Lancashire : an archaeological case study (2020)
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Cook, O., & Miller, I. (2020). Settlement, land-use and communication at Cuerden, Central Lancashire : an archaeological case study

An archaeological investigation undertaken by Salford Archaeology in 2016-18 ahead of a large development at Cuerden in Central Lancashire yielded significant evidence for land use in the area from the prehistoric period through to the present day. I... Read More about Settlement, land-use and communication at Cuerden, Central Lancashire : an archaeological case study.

Parapatric pied and red-handed tamarin responses to congeneric and conspecific calls (2020)
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Sobroza, T., Gordo, M., Barnett, A., Boubli, J., & Spironello, W. (2021). Parapatric pied and red-handed tamarin responses to congeneric and conspecific calls. Acta oecologica, 110, 103688. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2020.103688

Aggressive behaviors are widespread among territorial species and asymmetrical aggressiveness may imply differential access to resources. At a larger scale, such asymmetry may also drive shifts in geographic distributions. The pied tamarin (Saguinus... Read More about Parapatric pied and red-handed tamarin responses to congeneric and conspecific calls.