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Merging academic research and industry requirements for innovative construction management practices in Sri Lanka : a study on critical success factors (2020)
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critical success factors. International Journal of Construction Education and Research, 18(1), 32-48. https://doi.org/10.1080/15578771.2020.1781303

The application of a ‘knowledge-based economy’, which is a mainstream theory in many sectors, is rarely visible in the construction industry, especially in developing countries. Accordingly, the negative consequence of weak academic-industry interac... Read More about Merging academic research and industry requirements for innovative construction management practices in Sri Lanka : a study on critical success factors.

A survey of IoT security based on a layered architecture of sensing and data analysis (2020)
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Mrabet, H., Belguith, S., Alhomoud, A., & Jemai, A. (2020). A survey of IoT security based on a layered architecture of sensing and data analysis. Sensors, 20(13), 3625

The Internet of Things (IoT) is leading today’s digital transformation. Relying on a combination of technologies, protocols, and devices such as wireless sensors and newly developed wearable and implanted sensors, IoT is changing every aspect of dail... Read More about A survey of IoT security based on a layered architecture of sensing and data analysis.

Isolation and partial characterisation of a novel Trypanosoma from the tick Ixodes ricinus (2020)
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Luu, L., Bown, K., Palomar, A., Kazimírová, M., & Bell-Sakyi, L. (2020). Isolation and partial characterisation of a novel Trypanosoma from the tick Ixodes ricinus. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 11(5), 101501. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2020.101501

Trypanosomes have long been recognised as being amongst the most important protozoan parasites of vertebrates, from both medical and veterinary perspectives. Whilst numerous insect species have been identified as vectors, the role of ticks is less we... Read More about Isolation and partial characterisation of a novel Trypanosoma from the tick Ixodes ricinus.

Omega 3 versus Omega 6 polyunsaturated fatty acids in cardio-metabolic health (2020)
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Halim, M., & Halim, A. (2020). Omega 3 versus Omega 6 polyunsaturated fatty acids in cardio-metabolic health. https://doi.org/10.36502/2020/hcr.6166

Background: Cardiometabolic diseases like type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, heart failure, and other cardiovascular complications are the leading cause of mortality and morbidity across the globe. These conditions are directly attributed to modifi... Read More about Omega 3 versus Omega 6 polyunsaturated fatty acids in cardio-metabolic health.

Thermal conductivity and conditioning of grey expanded polystyrene foams (2020)
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Simpson, A., Rattigan, I., Kalavsky, E., & Parr, G. (2020). Thermal conductivity and conditioning of grey expanded polystyrene foams. Cellular polymers, 39(6), 238-262. https://doi.org/10.1177/0262489320934263

This article focuses on the thermal conductivity of 50 mm thick silver grey (infrared absorbing) expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam boards blown with pentane. The effect of short-term ageing from the point of production, by ambient conditioning at 23°C/... Read More about Thermal conductivity and conditioning of grey expanded polystyrene foams.

Endoplasmic reticulum stress, unfolded protein response and autophagy contribute to resistance to glucocorticoid treatment in human acute lymphoblastic leukaemia cells (2020)
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Sudsaward, S., Khunchai, S., Thepmalee, C., Othman, A., Limjindaporn, T., Yenchitsomanus, P., …Demonacos, C. (2020). Endoplasmic reticulum stress, unfolded protein response and autophagy contribute to resistance to glucocorticoid treatment in human acute lymphoblastic leukaemia cells. International Journal of Oncology, 57(3), 835-844. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.2020.5089

Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is the most frequent childhood cancer and, although it is highly treatable, resistance to therapy, toxicity and side effects remain challenging. The synthetic glucocorticoid (GC) dexamethasone (Dex) is commonly use... Read More about Endoplasmic reticulum stress, unfolded protein response and autophagy contribute to resistance to glucocorticoid treatment in human acute lymphoblastic leukaemia cells.

Stakeholder perceptions of the Considerate Constructors Scheme in UK construction (2020)
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Watts, G., Higham, A., & Alotaibi, A. (2021). Stakeholder perceptions of the Considerate Constructors Scheme in UK construction. Proceedings of the ICE - Engineering Sustainability, 174(1), 46-52. https://doi.org/10.1680/jensu.20.00028

The Considerate Constructors Scheme was introduced in 1997 to improve the image of the UK construction industry and has grown dramatically with over 6,000 construction and infrastructure projects registered valued at £43 billion. Whilst evidence exis... Read More about Stakeholder perceptions of the Considerate Constructors Scheme in UK construction.

Melting heat transfer analysis of electrically conducting nanofluid flow over an exponentially shrinking/stretching porous sheet with radiative heat flux under magnetic field (2020)
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Venkatadri, K., Gaffar, S., Rajarajeswari, P., Prasad, V., Beg, O., & Khan, B. (2020). Melting heat transfer analysis of electrically conducting nanofluid flow over an exponentially shrinking/stretching porous sheet with radiative heat flux under magnetic field. Heat Transfer, 49(8), 4281-4303. https://doi.org/10.1002/htj.21827

Modern magnetic nanomaterials processing operations are progressing rapidly and require increasingly sophisticated mathematical models for their optimization. Stimulated by such developments, in this article, a theoretical and computational study o... Read More about Melting heat transfer analysis of electrically conducting nanofluid flow over an exponentially shrinking/stretching porous sheet with radiative heat flux under magnetic field.

A new family of diprotodontian marsupials from the latest Oligocene of Australia and the evolution of wombats, koalas, and their relatives (Vombatiformes) (2020)
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Beck, R., Louys, J., Brewer, P., Archer, M., Black, K., & Tedford, R. (2020). A new family of diprotodontian marsupials from the latest Oligocene of Australia and the evolution of wombats, koalas, and their relatives (Vombatiformes). Scientific reports, 10(9741), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66425-8

We describe the partial cranium and skeleton of a new diprotodontian marsupial from the late Oligocene (~26–25 Ma) Namba Formation of South Australia. This is one of the oldest Australian marsupial fossils known from an associated skeleton and it rev... Read More about A new family of diprotodontian marsupials from the latest Oligocene of Australia and the evolution of wombats, koalas, and their relatives (Vombatiformes).

The hills are alive with … Many different folk! Rationalising and operationalising a professional judgment and decision making approach within mountain leadership (2020)
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Carson, H., Davies, N., & Collins, L. (2021). The hills are alive with … Many different folk! Rationalising and operationalising a professional judgment and decision making approach within mountain leadership. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 21(4), 311-322. https://doi.org/10.1080/14729679.2020.1784768

Growth in the adventure sector has increased the demands on adventure sport professionals. Satisfying a diverse range of participatory motivations, however, requires an adaptable and flexible workforce. In this discursive paper, we suggested that a n... Read More about The hills are alive with … Many different folk! Rationalising and operationalising a professional judgment and decision making approach within mountain leadership.

Deferiprone (DFP) targets cancer stem cell (CSC) propagation by inhibiting mitochondrial metabolism and inducing ROS production (2020)
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Fiorillo, M., Tóth, F., Brindisi, M., Sotgia, F., & Lisanti, M. (2020). Deferiprone (DFP) targets cancer stem cell (CSC) propagation by inhibiting mitochondrial metabolism and inducing ROS production. Cells, 9(6), e1529. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells9061529

Deferiprone (DFP), also known as Ferriprox, is an FDA-approved, orally active, iron chelator that is currently used clinically for the treatment of iron-overload, especially in thalassaemia major. As iron is a critical factor in Fe-S cluster assembly... Read More about Deferiprone (DFP) targets cancer stem cell (CSC) propagation by inhibiting mitochondrial metabolism and inducing ROS production.

Evaluation of global leaf area index and fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation products over North America using copernicus ground based observations for validation data (2020)
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Brown, L., Meier, C., Morris, H., Pastor-Guzman, J., Bai, G., Lerebourg, C., …Dash, J. (2020). Evaluation of global leaf area index and fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation products over North America using copernicus ground based observations for validation data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 247, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.111935

With a growing number of Earth observation (EO) products available through operational programmes such as the European Union’s Copernicus, there is increasing emphasis on product accuracy and uncertainty, necessitating evaluation against in situ refe... Read More about Evaluation of global leaf area index and fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation products over North America using copernicus ground based observations for validation data.

Cost, risk, and avoidance of inbreeding in a cooperatively breeding bird (2020)
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Leedale, A., Simeoni, M., Sharp, S., Green, J., Slate, J., Lachlan, R., …Hatchwell, B. (2020). Cost, risk, and avoidance of inbreeding in a cooperatively breeding bird. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(27), 15724-15730. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918726117

Inbreeding is often avoided in natural populations by passive processes such as sex-biased dispersal. But, in many social animals, opposite-sexed adult relatives are spatially clustered, generating a risk of incest and hence selection for active inbr... Read More about Cost, risk, and avoidance of inbreeding in a cooperatively breeding bird.

Alternating N2 gas injection as a potential technique for enhanced gas recovery and CO2 storage in consolidated rocks : an experimental study (2020)
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Mohammed, N., Abbas, A., Enyi, G., Suleiman, S., Edem, D., & Abba, M. (2020). Alternating N2 gas injection as a potential technique for enhanced gas recovery and CO2 storage in consolidated rocks : an experimental study. Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technologies, 10(8), 3883-3903. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13202-020-00935-z

The promotion of enhanced gas recovery (EGR) and CO2 storage is still shrouded in contention, and is not well accepted, due to the excessive in-situ CO2 mixing with the nascent natural gas. This adulterates the recovered CH4 and thus, results in a... Read More about Alternating N2 gas injection as a potential technique for enhanced gas recovery and CO2 storage in consolidated rocks : an experimental study.

Linking the Phyllosphere Microbiome to Plant Health (2020)
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Liu, H., Brettell, L., & Singh, B. (2020). Linking the Phyllosphere Microbiome to Plant Health. Trends in Plant Science, 25(9), 841-844. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2020.06.003

The phyllosphere harbors diverse microbial communities that influence ecosystem functioning. Emerging evidence suggests that plants impaired in genetic networks harbor an altered microbiome and develop dysbiosis in the phyllosphere, which pinpoints p... Read More about Linking the Phyllosphere Microbiome to Plant Health.

Residential neighbourhood classification : an environmentally enhanced approach (2020)
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Walford, N., & Armitage, R. (2020). Residential neighbourhood classification : an environmentally enhanced approach. Applied Geography, 121, 102219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2020.102219

National small area classifications in Britain were first produced over 40 years ago using statistics from 1971 Population Census and have now become a regular feature of governmental, academic and commercial analysis of census information. These c... Read More about Residential neighbourhood classification : an environmentally enhanced approach.

Nexus between running costs and building characteristics of commercial buildings: hedonic regression modelling (2020)
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Hemba Geekiyanage, M., & Ramachandra, T. (2020). Nexus between running costs and building characteristics of commercial buildings: hedonic regression modelling. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 10(3), 389-406. https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-12-2018-0156

Purpose Traditionally, early-stage investment decisions on buildings purely based initial capital costs and simply ignored running costs and total lifecycle cost. This was basically due to the absence of estimating models that yield running costs at... Read More about Nexus between running costs and building characteristics of commercial buildings: hedonic regression modelling.

Vulnerability of drug‐resistant EML4‐ALK rearranged lung cancer to transcriptional inhibition (2020)
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Paliouras, A., Buzzetti, M., Shi, L., Donaldson, I., Magee, P., Sahoo, S., …Garofalo, M. (2020). Vulnerability of drug‐resistant EML4‐ALK rearranged lung cancer to transcriptional inhibition. EMBO Molecular Medicine, 12(7), e11099. https://doi.org/10.15252/emmm.201911099

A subset of lung adenocarcinomas is driven by the EML4‐ALK translocation. Even though ALK inhibitors in the clinic lead to excellent initial responses, acquired resistance to these inhibitors due to on‐target mutations or parallel pathway alterations... Read More about Vulnerability of drug‐resistant EML4‐ALK rearranged lung cancer to transcriptional inhibition.

Analytical modelling of bond-slip failure between epoxy bonded FRP and concrete substrate (2020)
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Augusthus Nelson, L., Al-Allaf, M., & Weekes, L. (2020). Analytical modelling of bond-slip failure between epoxy bonded FRP and concrete substrate. Composite Structures, 251, 112956. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2020.112596

In this paper, a set of explicit theoretical derivations from a generalised bond-slip model for an epoxy bonded fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) sheet to concrete are presented. The derivations address the maximum bond resistance, load-slip response,... Read More about Analytical modelling of bond-slip failure between epoxy bonded FRP and concrete substrate.

Neural and physiological data from participants listening to affective music (2020)
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Daly, I., Nicolaou, N., Williams, D., Hwang, F., Kirke, A., Miranda, E., & Nasuto, S. (2020). Neural and physiological data from participants listening to affective music. Scientific Data, 7(1), 177. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0507-6

Music provides a means of communicating affective meaning. However, the neurological mechanisms by which music induces affect are not fully understood. Our project sought to investigate this through a series of experiments into how humans react to af... Read More about Neural and physiological data from participants listening to affective music.