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Applying design science approach to architectural design development (2019)
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Aburamadan, R., & Trillo, C. (2020). Applying design science approach to architectural design development. Frontiers of Architectural Research, 9(1), 216-235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foar.2019.07.08

Unlike research methods for social science and positivist sciences, those for architectural design lack a discipline- specific conceptual framework. Performative science aims at producing outcomes for future use and therefore needs a robust methodolo... Read More about Applying design science approach to architectural design development.

Geographical location influences the composition of the gut microbiota in wild house mice (Mus musculus domesticus) at a fine spatial scale. (2019)
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Goertz, S., de Menezes, A., Birtles, R., Fenn, J., Lowe, A., MacColl, A., …Taylor, C. (2019). Geographical location influences the composition of the gut microbiota in wild house mice (Mus musculus domesticus) at a fine spatial scale. PLoS ONE, 14(9), e0222501. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222501

The composition of the mammalian gut microbiota can be influenced by a multitude of environmental variables such as diet and infections. Studies investigating the effect of these variables on gut microbiota composition often sample across multiple se... Read More about Geographical location influences the composition of the gut microbiota in wild house mice (Mus musculus domesticus) at a fine spatial scale..

Pruning neural networks using multi-armed bandits (2019)
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Ameen, S., & Vadera, S. (2020). Pruning neural networks using multi-armed bandits. Computer Journal, 63(7), 1099-1108. https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/bxz078

The successful application of deep learning has led to increasing expectations of their use in embedded systems. This in turn, has created the need to find ways of reducing the size of neural networks. Decreasing the size of a neural network requi... Read More about Pruning neural networks using multi-armed bandits.

Rolling to mechanisation : excavations at Lymm Slitting Mill (2019)
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Miller, I. (2019). Rolling to mechanisation : excavations at Lymm Slitting Mill. Industrial Archaeology Review, 41(2), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/03090728.2019.1665900

An archaeological excavation at Lymm slitting mill in Cheshire was undertaken by Oxford Archaeology North in 2005 as a key component of the Lymm's Life Project, which was financed by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The slitting mill was established in the... Read More about Rolling to mechanisation : excavations at Lymm Slitting Mill.

BIM business value for asset owners through effective asset information management (2019)
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Munir, M., Kiviniemi, A., Finnegan, S., & Jones, S. (2020). BIM business value for asset owners through effective asset information management. Facilities, 38(3/4), 181-200. https://doi.org/10.1108/f-03-2019-0036

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the processes, tools and techniques of strategic asset information management (AIM) for built assets, and how the asset information content enhances the proficiency of asset managers to effectively manage t... Read More about BIM business value for asset owners through effective asset information management.

Homotopy semi-numerical modeling of non-Newtonian nanofluid transport external to multiple geometries using a revised Buongiorno Model (2019)
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Ray, A., Vasu, B., Beg, O., Gorla, R., & Murthy, P. (2019). Homotopy semi-numerical modeling of non-Newtonian nanofluid transport external to multiple geometries using a revised Buongiorno Model. Inventions, 4(4), https://doi.org/10.3390/inventions4040054

A semi-analytical solution for the convection of a power-law nanofluid external to three different geometries (i.e. cone, wedge and plate), subject to convective boundary condition is presented. A revised Buongiorno model is employed for the nanoflui... Read More about Homotopy semi-numerical modeling of non-Newtonian nanofluid transport external to multiple geometries using a revised Buongiorno Model.

Predicting biodiversity loss in island and countryside ecosystems through the lens of taxonomic and functional biogeography (2019)
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Farneda, F., Grelle, C., Rocha, R., Ferreira, D., López-Baucells, A., & Meyer, C. (2020). Predicting biodiversity loss in island and countryside ecosystems through the lens of taxonomic and functional biogeography. Ecography, 43(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04507

We investigate how variation in patch area and forest cover quantified for three different spatial scales (buffer size of 500, 1500 and 3000 m radius) affects species richness and functional diversity of bat assemblages in two ecosystems differing in... Read More about Predicting biodiversity loss in island and countryside ecosystems through the lens of taxonomic and functional biogeography.

Perivascular adipose tissue contributes to the modulation of vascular tone in vivo (2019)
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Saxton, S., Withers, S., Nyvad, J., Mazur, A., Matchkov, V., Heagerty, A., & Aalkjær, C. (2019). Perivascular adipose tissue contributes to the modulation of vascular tone in vivo. Journal of Vascular Research, 56(6), 320-332. https://doi.org/10.1159/000502689

Perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT) reduces vascular tone in isolated arteries in vitro, however there are no studies of PVAT effects on vascular tone in vivo. In vitro adipocyte β3-adrenoceptors play a role in PVAT function via secretion of the vasod... Read More about Perivascular adipose tissue contributes to the modulation of vascular tone in vivo.

Sirtuin family members selectively regulate autophagy in osteosarcoma and mesothelioma cells in response to cellular stress (2019)
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Garva, R., Thepmalee, C., Yasamut, U., Sudsaward, S., Guazzelli, A., Rajendran, R., …Demonacos, C. (2019). Sirtuin family members selectively regulate autophagy in osteosarcoma and mesothelioma cells in response to cellular stress. Frontiers in Oncology, 9, 949. https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2019.00949

The class III NAD+ dependent deacetylases-sirtuins (SIRTs) link transcriptional regulation to DNA damage response and reactive oxygen species generation thereby modulating a wide range of cellular signalling pathways. Here the contribution of SIRT1,... Read More about Sirtuin family members selectively regulate autophagy in osteosarcoma and mesothelioma cells in response to cellular stress.

Mobile assemblies of four-spherical-4R-integrated linkages and the associated four-crease-integrated rigid origami patterns (2019)
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Chen, Y., Lv, W., Peng, R., & Wei, G. (2019). Mobile assemblies of four-spherical-4R-integrated linkages and the associated four-crease-integrated rigid origami patterns. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 142, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2019.103613

Rigid origami, which can be regarded as assemblies of spherical linkages, inspires a new paradigm of design for mechanical metamaterials and deployable structural systems with large deployable ratio. In this paper, the kinematic properties of assembl... Read More about Mobile assemblies of four-spherical-4R-integrated linkages and the associated four-crease-integrated rigid origami patterns.

Solubility trapping as a potential secondary mechanism for CO2 sequestration during enhanced gas recovery by CO2 injection in conventional natural gas reservoirs : an experimental approach (2019)
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Abba, M., Abbas, A., Nasr, G., Athari, A., Burby, M., Saidu, B., & Suleiman, S. (2019). Solubility trapping as a potential secondary mechanism for CO2 sequestration during enhanced gas recovery by CO2 injection in conventional natural gas reservoirs : an experimental approach. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 71(103002), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jngse.2019.103002

This study aims to experimentally investigate the potential of solubility trapping mechanism in increasing CO2 storage during EGR by CO2 injection and sequestration in conventional natural gas reservoirs. A laboratory core flooding process was carrie... Read More about Solubility trapping as a potential secondary mechanism for CO2 sequestration during enhanced gas recovery by CO2 injection in conventional natural gas reservoirs : an experimental approach.

Biological interactions between carreau fluid and micro-swimmers in a complex wavy canal with MHD effects (2019)
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Ali, N., Asghar, Z., Sajid, M., & Beg, O. (2019). Biological interactions between carreau fluid and micro-swimmers in a complex wavy canal with MHD effects. Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, 41, 446. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40430-019-1953-y

The efficient magnetic swimming of actual or mechanically designed micro-swimmers within bounded regions is reliant on several factors. Few of which are: the actuation of these swimmers via magnetic field, rheology of surrounding liquid (with dominan... Read More about Biological interactions between carreau fluid and micro-swimmers in a complex wavy canal with MHD effects.

Urban wild meat consumption and trade in central Amazonia (2019)
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Rocha El Bizri, H., Morcatty, T., Valsecchi, J., & Mayor, P. (2019). Urban wild meat consumption and trade in central Amazonia. Conservation Biology, 34(2), 438-448. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13420

The switch from hunting wild meat for home consumption to supplying more lucrative city markets in Amazonia can adversely affect some game species. Despite this, information on the amounts of wild meat eaten in Amazonian cities is still limited. We e... Read More about Urban wild meat consumption and trade in central Amazonia.

Accountable privacy preserving attribute based framework for authenticated encrypted access in clouds (2019)
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Belguith, S., Kaaniche, N., Laurent, M., Jemai, A., & Attia, R. (2020). Accountable privacy preserving attribute based framework for authenticated encrypted access in clouds. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 135, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpdc.2019.08.014

In this paper, we propose an accountable privacy preserving attribute-based framework, called Ins-PAbAC, that combines attribute based encryption and attribute based signature techniques for securely sharing outsourced data contents via public clo... Read More about Accountable privacy preserving attribute based framework for authenticated encrypted access in clouds.

Estimating peanut leaf chlorophyll content with dorsiventral leaf adjusted indices: minimizing the impact of spectral differences between adaxial and abaxial leaf surfaces (2019)
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Xie, M., Wang, Z., Huete, A., Brown, L., Wang, H., Xie, Q., …Ding, Y. (2019). Estimating peanut leaf chlorophyll content with dorsiventral leaf adjusted indices: minimizing the impact of spectral differences between adaxial and abaxial leaf surfaces. Remote Sensing, 11(18), https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11182148

Relatively little research has assessed the impact of spectral differences among dorsiventral leaves caused by leaf structure on leaf chlorophyll content (LCC) retrieval. Based on reflectance measured from peanut adaxial and abaxial leaves and LCC me... Read More about Estimating peanut leaf chlorophyll content with dorsiventral leaf adjusted indices: minimizing the impact of spectral differences between adaxial and abaxial leaf surfaces.

Low-molecular-weight organic acids enable biochar to immobilize nitrate (2019)
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Heaney, N., Ukpong, E., & Lin, C. (2020). Low-molecular-weight organic acids enable biochar to immobilize nitrate. Chemosphere, 240, 124872. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.124872

Batch experiments were conducted using two biochar materials produced from different feedstocks to examine the behavior of solution-borne nitrate in the presence and absence of three model low-molecular weight organic acids (LMWOAs). The results show... Read More about Low-molecular-weight organic acids enable biochar to immobilize nitrate.

Features in extractive supervised single-document summarization : case of Persian news (2019)
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Rezaei, H., Moeinzadeh, S., Shahgholian, A., & Saraee, M. (2019). Features in extractive supervised single-document summarization : case of Persian news. Language Resources and Evaluation,

Text summarization has been one of the most challenging areas of research in NLP. Much effort has been made to overcome this challenge by using either the abstractive or extractive methods. Extractive methods are more popular, due to their simplicity... Read More about Features in extractive supervised single-document summarization : case of Persian news.

Unsupervised pre-trained filter learning approach for efficient convolution neural network (2019)
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Rehman, S., Tu, S., Waqas, M., Huang, Y., Rehman, O., Ahmad, B., & Ahmad, S. (2019). Unsupervised pre-trained filter learning approach for efficient convolution neural network. Neurocomputing, 365, 171-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2019.06.084

The concept of Convolution Neural Network (ConvNet or CNN) is evaluated from the animal visual cortex. Since humans can learn through experience, similarly, ConvNet changes its weight accordingly to accomplish the desired output through backpropagati... Read More about Unsupervised pre-trained filter learning approach for efficient convolution neural network.

Risk Assessment of Arsenic in Wheat and Maize Grown in Organic Matter Amended Soils of Indo-Gangetic Plain of Bihar, India (2019)
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Mandal, J., Golui, D., Raj, A., & Ganguly, P. (2019). Risk Assessment of Arsenic in Wheat and Maize Grown in Organic Matter Amended Soils of Indo-Gangetic Plain of Bihar, India. Soil and Sediment Contamination, 28(8), 757-772. https://doi.org/10.1080/15320383.2019.1661353

Recent outbreak of geogenic arsenic (As) contamination in the Gangetic Delta basin of Bihar drew due attention of researchers as prolonged consumption of As-contaminated drinking water and food leads to arsenicosis, with the symptoms of pigmentation... Read More about Risk Assessment of Arsenic in Wheat and Maize Grown in Organic Matter Amended Soils of Indo-Gangetic Plain of Bihar, India.