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Knowledge intensive regeneration for knowledge societies and economies (2014)
Journal Article
and economies. Global built environment review (Online), 9(1), 68-85

Regeneration is deemed as the enabler to transform for societies from industrial age to knowledge. Knowledge intensive regeneration is one of the latest urban regeneration models, called “Ideopolises”, to make progress and achieve the transformatio... Read More about Knowledge intensive regeneration for knowledge societies and economies.

An object-based audio system for interactive broadcasting (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Oldfield, R., Shirley, B., & Spille, J. (2014, October). An object-based audio system for interactive broadcasting. Poster presented at 137th Audio Engineering Society Convention, Los Angeles, USA

This paper describes audio recording, delivery, and rendering for an end-to-end broadcast system allowing users free navigation of panoramic video content with matching interactive audio. The system is based on one developed as part of the EU FP7 fun... Read More about An object-based audio system for interactive broadcasting.

Investigation into the impact of 3D surround systems on envelopment (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Power, P., Davies, W., & Hirst, J. (2014, October). Investigation into the impact of 3D surround systems on envelopment. Presented at 137th Audio Engineering Society Convention 2014, Los Angeles

This investigation assessed a number of 2D and 3D surround systems focusing on the attribute „envelopment‟ to determine if surround systems with height significantly enhance the perception of envelopment over current 2D systems. To assess each of the... Read More about Investigation into the impact of 3D surround systems on envelopment.

A decision support framework for site safety monitoring using RFID and BIM (2014)
Thesis
Sattineni, A. A decision support framework for site safety monitoring using RFID and BIM. (Thesis). University of Salford, College of Science and Technology

Supervision of construction workers on a site is crucial to ensure construction worker safety, to maintain the quality of work performed and to maintain acceptable levels of productivity. The act of supervision itself requires the site superintendent... Read More about A decision support framework for site safety monitoring using RFID and BIM.

Biogeography of squirrel monkeys (genus Saimiri): South-central Amazon origin and rapid pan-Amazonian diversification of a lowland primate (2014)
Journal Article
Lynch Alfaro, J., Boubli, J., Paim, F., Ribas, C., Silva, M., Messias, M., …Farias, I. (2015). Biogeography of squirrel monkeys (genus Saimiri): South-central Amazon origin and rapid pan-Amazonian diversification of a lowland primate. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 82(Part B), 436-454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2014.09.004

The squirrel monkey, Saimiri, is a pan-Amazonian Pleistocene radiation. We use statistical phylogeographic methods to create a mitochondrial DNA-based timetree for 118 squirrel monkey samples across 68 localities spanning all Amazonian centers of end... Read More about Biogeography of squirrel monkeys (genus Saimiri): South-central Amazon origin and rapid pan-Amazonian diversification of a lowland primate.

A comparison of different chemometrics approaches for the robust classification of electronic nose data (2014)
Journal Article
Gromski, P., Correa, E., Vaughan, A., Wedge, D., Turner, M., & Goodacre, R. (2014). A comparison of different chemometrics approaches for the robust classification of electronic nose data. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 406(29), 7581-7590. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-014-8216-7

Accurate detection of certain chemical vapours is important, as these may be diagnostic for the presence of weapons, drugs of misuse or disease. In order to achieve this, chemical sensors could be deployed remotely. However, the readout from such sen... Read More about A comparison of different chemometrics approaches for the robust classification of electronic nose data.

Extending the natural range of a declining species : Genetic evidence that great crested newt (Triturus cristatus) populations in the Scottish highlands are native (2014)
Journal Article
O'Brien, C., Hall, J., Orchard, D., Barratt, C., Arntzen, J., & Jehle, R. (2015). Extending the natural range of a declining species : Genetic evidence that great crested newt (Triturus cristatus) populations in the Scottish highlands are native. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 61(1), 27-33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-014-0863-7

Determining whether isolated populations of a species are native or introduced is important for conservation, as non-native occurrences are likely to be of lower priority for conservation organisations with limited resources. The great crested newt T... Read More about Extending the natural range of a declining species : Genetic evidence that great crested newt (Triturus cristatus) populations in the Scottish highlands are native.

Spatial and temporal patterns of diversification on the Amazon : a test of the riverine hypothesis for all diurnal primates of Rio Negro and Rio Branco in Brazil (2014)
Journal Article
Boubli, J., Ribas, C., Lynch Alfaro, J., Alfaro, M., Da Silva, M., Pinho, G., & Farias, I. (2015). Spatial and temporal patterns of diversification on the Amazon : a test of the riverine hypothesis for all diurnal primates of Rio Negro and Rio Branco in Brazil. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 82(Part B), 400-412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2014.09.005

The role of Amazonian rivers as drivers of speciation through vicariance remains controversial. Here we explore the riverine hypothesis by comparing spatial and temporal concordances in pattern of diversification for all diurnal primates of Rio Negro... Read More about Spatial and temporal patterns of diversification on the Amazon : a test of the riverine hypothesis for all diurnal primates of Rio Negro and Rio Branco in Brazil.

Creative music neurotechnology with symphony of minds listening (2014)
Book Chapter
Miranda, E., Lloyd, D., Josipovic, Z., & Williams, D. (2014). Creative music neurotechnology with symphony of minds listening. In E. Miranda, & J. Castet (Eds.), Guide to Brain-Computer Music Interfacing (271-295). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6584-2_12

A better understanding of the musical brain combined with technical advances in biomedical engineering and music technology is pivotal for the development of increasingly more sophisticated brain–computer music interfacing (BCMI) systems. BCMI resear... Read More about Creative music neurotechnology with symphony of minds listening.

A novel feature selection method for text classification using association rules and clustering (2014)
Journal Article
Sheydaei, N., Saraee, M., & Shahgholian, A. (2015). A novel feature selection method for text classification using association rules and clustering. Journal of Information Science, 41(1), 3-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551514550143

Readability and accuracy are two important features of a good classifier. For reasons such as acceptable accuracy, rapid training and high interpretability, associative classifiers have been recently used in many categorization tasks. These features... Read More about A novel feature selection method for text classification using association rules and clustering.

Effects of visible implanted elastomer marking on physiological traits of frogs (2014)
Journal Article
Antwis, R., Purcell, R., Walker, S., Fidgett, A., & Preziosi, R. (2014). Effects of visible implanted elastomer marking on physiological traits of frogs. Conservation Physiology, 2(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/cou042

Amphibians possess innate immune defences, including antimicrobial peptides and symbiotic bacterial communities, that can protect them from infectious diseases, including chytridiomycosis. On-going research is attempting to use amphibian symbiotic ba... Read More about Effects of visible implanted elastomer marking on physiological traits of frogs.

Peatland restoration : controls on sediment production and reductions in carbon and pollutant export (2014)
Journal Article
Shuttleworth, E., Evans, M., Hutchinson, S., & Rothwell, J. (2015). Peatland restoration : controls on sediment production and reductions in carbon and pollutant export. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 40(4), 459-472. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.3645

Peatlands are an important store of soil carbon, and play a vital role in global carbon cycling, and when located in close proximity to urban and industrial areas, can also act as sinks of atmospherically deposited heavy metals. Large areas of the UK... Read More about Peatland restoration : controls on sediment production and reductions in carbon and pollutant export.

Demographic and growth analysis of broad snouted caiman (Caiman latirostris) in a disturbed environment in southeastern Brazil (2014)
Journal Article
southeastern Brazil. Herpetological journal, 24(4), 223-228

Crocodilian life history traits exhibit strong size and age dependence, which is determined, ultimately, by how fast individuals grow. Crocodilian population dynamics are dependent on environmental conditions such as local temperatures and hydrology... Read More about Demographic and growth analysis of broad snouted caiman (Caiman latirostris) in a disturbed environment in southeastern Brazil.

Electroluminescence from an electrostatically doped carbon nanotube field-effect transistor (2014)
Journal Article
carbon nanotube field-effect transistor. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters, 6(10), 881-886. https://doi.org/10.1166/nnl.2014.1831

We report electroluminescence (EL) from a carbon nanotube field-effect transistor with split-gates. EL is generated by the electrostatic doping technique. Six EL bands could be observed, with the strongest band peaking between 0.867 and 0.850 eV wi... Read More about Electroluminescence from an electrostatically doped carbon nanotube field-effect transistor.

Pluripotent stem cell miRNAs and metastasis in invasive breast cancer (2014)
Journal Article
Volinia, S., Nuovo, G., Drusco, A., Costinean, S., Abujarour, R., Desponts, C., …Croce, C. (2014). Pluripotent stem cell miRNAs and metastasis in invasive breast cancer. JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 106(12), https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/dju324

Background The purpose of this study is to determine whether microRNA for pluripotent stem cells are also expressed in breast cancer and are associated with metastasis and outcome. Methods We studied global microRNA profiles during differentiati... Read More about Pluripotent stem cell miRNAs and metastasis in invasive breast cancer.

Persian sentiment analyzer : a framework based on a novel feature selection method (2014)
Journal Article
feature selection method. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence, 12(2), 115-129

In the recent decade, with the enormous growth of digital content in internet and databases, sentiment analysis has received more and more attention between information retrieval and natural language processing researchers. Sentiment analysis aims... Read More about Persian sentiment analyzer : a framework based on a novel feature selection method.

Aspergillus fumigatus proteases, Asp f 5 and Asp f 13, are essential for airway inflammation and remodelling in a murine inhalation model (2014)
Journal Article
Namvar, S., Warn, P., Farnell, E., Bromley, M., Fraczek, M., Bowyer, P., & Herrick, S. (2015). Aspergillus fumigatus proteases, Asp f 5 and Asp f 13, are essential for airway inflammation and remodelling in a murine inhalation model. Clinical and Experimental Allergy, 45(5), 982-993. https://doi.org/10.1111/cea.12426

BACKGROUND: In susceptible individuals, exposure to Aspergillus fumigatus can lead to the development of atopic lung diseases such as allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) and severe asthma with fungal sensitization (SAFS). Protease allergen... Read More about Aspergillus fumigatus proteases, Asp f 5 and Asp f 13, are essential for airway inflammation and remodelling in a murine inhalation model.

Tracking timbral changes in metal productions from 1990 to 2013 (2014)
Journal Article
Williams, D. (2014). Tracking timbral changes in metal productions from 1990 to 2013. Metal music studies (Online), 1(1), 39-68. https://doi.org/10.1386/mms.1.1.39_1

The metal scene has undergone an evolution in sonic characteristics that is partially rooted in music technology developments and associated production techniques that have given rise to a set of identifiably distinct ‘metal’ timbres. The science of... Read More about Tracking timbral changes in metal productions from 1990 to 2013.