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Building information modeling (BIM) benefits and challenges : Malaysian construction organization experience (2019)
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Musa, S., Marshall-Ponting, A., Shahron, S., & Nifa, F. (2019). Building information modeling (BIM) benefits and challenges : Malaysian construction organization experience. Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, 16(12), 4914-4924. https://doi.org/10.1166/jctn.2019.8542

Building Information Modeling is an innovative technology coupled with process and human interactions. BIM has been used by the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry in developed and developing countries including Malaysia. Th... Read More about Building information modeling (BIM) benefits and challenges : Malaysian construction organization experience.

Quasi-steady across-wind aerodynamic damping of tall structures (2019)
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Nguyen, C., Long, D., & Nguyen, D. (2019). Quasi-steady across-wind aerodynamic damping of tall structures. ˜The œInternational journal of high-rise buildings, 8(4), 275-281. https://doi.org/10.21022/IJHRB.2019.8.4.275

The paper presents a generalization of existing analytical approaches to determine the across-wind aerodynamic damping of tall structures through the quasi-steady theory. The theory takes into account the nature of non-uniform wind, structural mode s... Read More about Quasi-steady across-wind aerodynamic damping of tall structures.

Unsteady aerodynamic modeling and control of pusher and tilt-rotor quadplane configurations (2019)
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Govdeli, Y., Moheed Bin Muzaffar, S., Raj, R., Elhadidi, B., & Kayacan, E. (2019). Unsteady aerodynamic modeling and control of pusher and tilt-rotor quadplane configurations. Aerospace science and technology, 94, 105421. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ast.2019.105421

A nonlinear unsteady aerodynamics model is coupled with a three degree of freedom quadplane to control the forward and backward transition between hover and steady level flight. The unsteady lift and drag forces are modeled using a lumped vortex mode... Read More about Unsteady aerodynamic modeling and control of pusher and tilt-rotor quadplane configurations.

Ultrashort nonautonomous similariton solutions and the cascade tunneling of interacting similaritons (2019)
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Yang, R., Gao, J., Jia, H., Tian, J., & Christian, J. (2020). Ultrashort nonautonomous similariton solutions and the cascade tunneling of interacting similaritons. Optics Communications, 459, 125025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2019.125025

Similarity transformation and Hirota bilinearization are deployed to derive exact bright and dark ultrashort one- and two-similariton solutions of a nonautonomous cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Such wave packets may emerge when group... Read More about Ultrashort nonautonomous similariton solutions and the cascade tunneling of interacting similaritons.

Validation of a low-cost Electromyography (EMG) system via a commercial and accurate EMG device : pilot study (2019)
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Fuentes del Toro, S., Wei, Y., Olmeda, E., Ren, L., Wei, G., & Díaz, V. (2019). Validation of a low-cost Electromyography (EMG) system via a commercial and accurate EMG device : pilot study. Sensors, 19(23), e5214. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19235214

Electromyography (EMG) devices are well-suited for measuring the behaviour of muscles during an exercise or a task, and are widely used in many different research areas. Their disadvantage is that commercial systems are expensive. We designed a low-c... Read More about Validation of a low-cost Electromyography (EMG) system via a commercial and accurate EMG device : pilot study.

Integrating climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation in the global ocean (2019)
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Tittensor, D., Beger, M., Boerder, K., Boyce, D., Cavanagh, R., Cosandey-Godin, A., …Worm, B. (2019). Integrating climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation in the global ocean. Science Advances, 5(11), eaay9969. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aay9969

The impacts of climate change and the socioecological challenges they present are ubiquitous and increasingly severe. Practical efforts to operationalize climate-responsive design and management in the global network of marine protected areas (MPAs)... Read More about Integrating climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation in the global ocean.

Air pollution in a microclimate; the impact of different green barriers on the dispersion (2019)
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Taleghani, M., Clark, A., Swan, W., & Mohegh, A. (2020). Air pollution in a microclimate; the impact of different green barriers on the dispersion. Science of the Total Environment, 711, 134649. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134649

This paper studies the impact of different green barriers on the dispersion of air pollution in a neighbourhood. The study was performed with reference to air quality conditions in Manchester, UK. Manchester experiences a high level of NO2. Measure... Read More about Air pollution in a microclimate; the impact of different green barriers on the dispersion.

Realization and experimental assessment of baseball-bat microwave antenna for low power cancer ablation (2019)
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Hassan, E., Takruri-Rizk, H., & Zaki, A. (2020). Realization and experimental assessment of baseball-bat microwave antenna for low power cancer ablation. IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology, 4(2), 133-139. https://doi.org/10.1109/JERM.2019.2955709

Experimental assessment of using low power microwave ablation for treating focal tumors is presented in this article. Confinement of heating generated by microwave radiation is one of the major concerns in cancer treatment to maintain the acceptable... Read More about Realization and experimental assessment of baseball-bat microwave antenna for low power cancer ablation.

FoxO3a as a positive prognostic marker and a therapeutic target in Tamoxifen-resistant breast cancer (2019)
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Pellegrino, M., Rizza, P., Donà, A., Nigro, A., Ricci, E., Fiorillo, M., …Morelli, C. (2019). FoxO3a as a positive prognostic marker and a therapeutic target in Tamoxifen-resistant breast cancer. Cancers, 11(12), e1858. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers11121858

Background: Resistance to endocrine treatments is a major clinical challenge in the management of estrogen receptor positive breast cancers. Although multiple mechanisms leading to endocrine resistance have been proposed, the poor outcome of this sub... Read More about FoxO3a as a positive prognostic marker and a therapeutic target in Tamoxifen-resistant breast cancer.

An investigation into BIM based detailed cost estimating and drivers to the adoption of BIM in quantity surveying practices (2019)
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Babatunde, S., Perera, S., Ekundayo, D., & Adeleye, T. (2020). An investigation into BIM based detailed cost estimating and drivers to the adoption of BIM in quantity surveying practices. Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction, 25(1), 61-81. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFMPC-05-2019-0042

Purpose Although studies have shown the relevance of BIM (Building Information Modeling) in cost estimating process, efforts at investigating BIM based detailed cost estimating among professional quantity surveyors through quantitative approach are... Read More about An investigation into BIM based detailed cost estimating and drivers to the adoption of BIM in quantity surveying practices.

Gaps in terrestrial soundscape research : it’s time to focus on tropical wildlife (2019)
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Scarpelli, M., Ribeiro, M., Teixeira, F., Young, R., & Teixeira, C. (2020). Gaps in terrestrial soundscape research : it’s time to focus on tropical wildlife. Science of the Total Environment, 707, 135403. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135403

There has been a body of research examining the sounds produced in landscapes. These sounds are commonly defined as soundscapes, however, the term is often used in different contexts. To understand the various meanings attributed to soundscapes, we i... Read More about Gaps in terrestrial soundscape research : it’s time to focus on tropical wildlife.

Life cycle carbon emissions and comparative evaluation of selected open source UK embodied carbon counting tools (2019)
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Ekundayo, D., Babatunde, S., Ekundayo, A., Perera, S., & Udeaja, C. (2019). Life cycle carbon emissions and comparative evaluation of selected open source UK embodied carbon counting tools. Construction Economics and Building, 19(2), 220-242. https://doi.org/10.5130/AJCEB.v19i2.6692

Life cycle carbon emissions (LCO2), made up of operational and embodied carbon, have become a major metric of building environmental performance and energy efficiency. Whilst there are now standard methods for operational carbon assessment due to its... Read More about Life cycle carbon emissions and comparative evaluation of selected open source UK embodied carbon counting tools.

An improved two-hidden-layer extreme learning machine for malware hunting (2019)
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Namavar Jahromi, A., Hashemi, S., Dehghantanha, A., Choo, K., Karimipour, H., Newton, D., & Parizi, R. (2020). An improved two-hidden-layer extreme learning machine for malware hunting. Computers and Security, 89, 101655. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2019.101655

Detecting unknown malware and their variants remains both an operational challenge and a research challenge. In recent years, there have been attempts to design machine learning techniques to increase the success of existing automated malware detecti... Read More about An improved two-hidden-layer extreme learning machine for malware hunting.

Dynamic thermal simulation of advanced natural ventilation in buildings : current and future usage, UK exemplar (2019)
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Ji, Y., Lee, A., & Fernando, T. (2020). Dynamic thermal simulation of advanced natural ventilation in buildings : current and future usage, UK exemplar. Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 16(4), 293-309. https://doi.org/10.1080/17452007.2019.1693334

This paper evaluates the use of advanced natural ventilation (ANV) strategies in a range of climatic conditions from four cities in the UK. A prototype ANV system was proposed to determine the most effective case in mitigating overheating. The case w... Read More about Dynamic thermal simulation of advanced natural ventilation in buildings : current and future usage, UK exemplar.

Mixed-cropping between field pea varieties alters root bacterial and fungal communities (2019)
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Horner, A., Browett, S., & Antwis, R. (2019). Mixed-cropping between field pea varieties alters root bacterial and fungal communities. Scientific reports, 9(16953), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-53342-8

Modern agricultural practices have vastly increased crop production but negatively affected soil health. As such, there is a call to develop sustainable, ecologically-viable approaches to food production. Mixed-cropping of plant varieties can increas... Read More about Mixed-cropping between field pea varieties alters root bacterial and fungal communities.

PROUD : verifiable privacy-preserving outsourced attribute based signcryption supporting access policy update for cloud assisted IoT applications (2019)
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Belguith, S., Kaaniche, N., Hammoudeh, M., & Dargahi, T. (2020). PROUD : verifiable privacy-preserving outsourced attribute based signcryption supporting access policy update for cloud assisted IoT applications. Future Generation Computer Systems, 111, 899-918. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2019.11.012

The ever-growing number of Internet connected devices poses several cybersecurity risks. Most of the exchanged data between the Internet of Things (IoT) devices are not adequately secured due to resource constraints on IoT devices. Attribute Based... Read More about PROUD : verifiable privacy-preserving outsourced attribute based signcryption supporting access policy update for cloud assisted IoT applications.

An affordable methodology for quantifying waterborne microplastics - an emerging contaminant in inland-waters (2019)
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Dunn, C., Owens, J., Fears, L., Nunnerley, L., Kirby, J., Armstrong, O., …Freeman, C. (2020). An affordable methodology for quantifying waterborne microplastics - an emerging contaminant in inland-waters. Journal of Limnology, 79(1), https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2019.1943

The occurrence of microplastics in marine habitats is well documented and of growing concern. The presence of these small (

Biochemical performance modelling of non-vegetated and vegetated vertical subsurface-flow constructed wetlands treating municipal wastewater in hot and dry climate (2019)
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Rahi, M., Faisal, A., Naji, L., Almuktar, S., Abed, S., & Scholz, M. (2020). Biochemical performance modelling of non-vegetated and vegetated vertical subsurface-flow constructed wetlands treating municipal wastewater in hot and dry climate. Journal of Water Process Engineering, 33, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwpe.2019.101003

Wastewater treatment and subsequent effluent recycling for non-drinking purposes such as irrigation contributes to the mitigation of the pressure on freshwater resources. In this study, two vertical sub-surface flow constructed wetland (VSSF-CW) pilo... Read More about Biochemical performance modelling of non-vegetated and vegetated vertical subsurface-flow constructed wetlands treating municipal wastewater in hot and dry climate.