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Enhanced optical performance of APCVD zinc oxide via post growth plasma treatment at atmospheric pressure (2015)
Journal Article
Hodgkinson, J., Yates, H., & Sheel, D. (2015). Enhanced optical performance of APCVD zinc oxide via post growth plasma treatment at atmospheric pressure. physica status solidi (c), 12(7), 1016-1021. https://doi.org/10.1002/pssc.201510011

The use of atmospheric pressure (AP) CVD to produce
highly developed Transparent Conducting oxides (TCO)
for thin film photovoltaic systems has significant potential
to reduce manufacturing costs and increase the product
scope via in-line process... Read More about Enhanced optical performance of APCVD zinc oxide via post growth plasma treatment at atmospheric pressure.

Tracing the agency of spalling concrete (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Moustaka, A. (2015, June). Tracing the agency of spalling concrete. Presented at International Conference Arquitectonics Network: Architecture, Education and Society, Barcelona

Arriving into Sheffield by train, one is greeted by a vast concrete structure imposing on the urban landscape. Park Hill, a housing estate erected in 1961, once portrayed the vision of a promising future; today, most of it sits in neglect with a smal... Read More about Tracing the agency of spalling concrete.

Post-construction thermal testing : some recent measurements (2015)
Journal Article
Johnston, D., Miles-Shenton, D., Farmer, D., & Brooke-Peat, M. (2015). Post-construction thermal testing : some recent measurements. Proceedings of the ICE - Engineering Sustainability, 168(3), 131-139. https://doi.org/10.1680/ensu.14.00048

In the UK, it has become apparent in recent years that there is often a discrepancy between the steady-state predicted and the measured in situ thermal performance of the building fabric, with the measured in situ performance being greater than that... Read More about Post-construction thermal testing : some recent measurements.

Using local grammar for entity extraction from clinical reports (2015)
Journal Article
Ghoulam, A., Barigou, F., Belalem, G., & Meziane, F. (2015). Using local grammar for entity extraction from clinical reports. International journal of interactive multimedia and artificial intelligence, 3(3), 16-24. https://doi.org/10.9781/ijimai.2015.332

Information Extraction (IE) is a natural language processing (NLP) task whose aim is to analyze texts written in natural language to extract structured and useful information such as named entities and semantic relations linking these entities. Infor... Read More about Using local grammar for entity extraction from clinical reports.

Geographic comparison of plant genera used in frugivory among the pitheciids Cacajao, Callicebus, Chiropotes, and Pithecia (2015)
Journal Article

Pitheciids are known for their frugivorous diets, but there has been no broad-scale comparison of fruit genera used by these primates that range across five geographic regions in South America. We compiled 31 fruit lists from data collected from 18 s... Read More about Geographic comparison of plant genera used in frugivory among the pitheciids Cacajao, Callicebus, Chiropotes, and Pithecia.

Independent Component Analysis Methods to Improve Electrocardiogram Patterns Recognition in the Presence of Non-Trivial Artifacts (2015)
Journal Article
Sarfraz, M., Li, F., & Khan, A. (2015). Independent Component Analysis Methods to Improve Electrocardiogram Patterns Recognition in the Presence of Non-Trivial Artifacts. Journal of medical and bioengineering, 4(3), 221-226. https://doi.org/10.12720/jomb.4.3.221-226

Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals are affected by various kinds of noise and artifacts that may impede correct recognition by automated monitoring or diagnosis systems. Independent component analysis (ICA) is considered as a new technique suitable for... Read More about Independent Component Analysis Methods to Improve Electrocardiogram Patterns Recognition in the Presence of Non-Trivial Artifacts.

The impact of the diameter to height ratio on the compressibility parameters of saturated fine-grained soils (2015)
Journal Article
Rosine Larissa, T., & Toma-Sabbagh, T. (2015). The impact of the diameter to height ratio on the compressibility parameters of saturated fine-grained soils. International journal of research in engineering and technology, 4(6), 8-19

Compressibility parameters of fine-grained soils are mainly influenced by soil mineralogy, moisture content and soil diameter to height ratio (D/H). The British and American standards suggested that to obtain accurate engineering properties; it is ne... Read More about The impact of the diameter to height ratio on the compressibility parameters of saturated fine-grained soils.

Natural language processing and information systems : 20th international conference on applications of natural language to information systems, NLDB 2015, Passau, Germany, June 17-19, 2015, proceedings (2015)
Book
(2015). C. Biemann, S. Handschuh, A. Freitas, F. Meziane, & E. Metais (Eds.), Natural language processing and information systems : 20th international conference on applications of natural language to information systems, NLDB 2015, Passau, Germany, June 17-19, 2015, proceedings. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19581-0

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2015, held in Passau, Germany, in June 2015.

The 18 full papers, 15 short papers, 14 poster and... Read More about Natural language processing and information systems : 20th international conference on applications of natural language to information systems, NLDB 2015, Passau, Germany, June 17-19, 2015, proceedings.

Germ cells and mammary gland transcritome comparison generate a powerful gene expression profile that predicts breast cancer survival (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background: Predict clinical outcome and chemotherapy sensitivity in breast cancer remains a challenging task. Germ cells are the most undifferentiated cells in the human body. We aimed to identify breast cancer genetic signatures in order to predict... Read More about Germ cells and mammary gland transcritome comparison generate a powerful gene expression profile that predicts breast cancer survival.

Integrated nutrient management for okra in an inceptisol of eastern India and yield modeling through artificial neural network (2015)
Journal Article
Phonglosa, A., Bhattacharyya, K., Ray, K., Mandal, J., Pari, A., Banerjee, H., & Chattopadhyay, A. (2015). Integrated nutrient management for okra in an inceptisol of eastern India and yield modeling through artificial neural network. Scientia Horticulturae, 187, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scienta.2015.02.037

Present investigation has been conducted to assess the efficiency of few selected and simulated options of integrated nutrient management and plant growth regulator in improving okra growth and increasing okra yield (Abelmoschus esculentus L. Moench)... Read More about Integrated nutrient management for okra in an inceptisol of eastern India and yield modeling through artificial neural network.

Frequency weightings based on subjectively dominant spectral ranges (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Torija Martinez, A., Flindell, I., Self, R., & Torija Martinez, A. J. (2015, May). Frequency weightings based on subjectively dominant spectral ranges. Presented at 10th European Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering (EuroNoise2015), Maastricht, Holland

The optimisation of frequency weightings for the assessment of environmental and transportation
noise has been an enduring research theme, with no real consensus achieved, other than increasing
acknowledgement that the widespread adoption of the A-... Read More about Frequency weightings based on subjectively dominant spectral ranges.

Estimating variation in community noise due to variation in aircraft operations (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Synodinos, A., Self, R., Flindell, I., & Torija Martinez, A. (2015, May). Estimating variation in community noise due to variation in aircraft operations. Presented at 10th European Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering (EuroNoise2015), Maastricht, Holland

Notwithstanding considerable effort by many researchers world-wide, the estimation of community
noise due to changes in aircraft fleets and operations remains subject to considerable uncertainty.
This paper describes a new taxonomical architecture... Read More about Estimating variation in community noise due to variation in aircraft operations.

Seasonality and age is positively related to brain size in Andrew’s toad (Bufo andrewsi) (2015)
Journal Article
Jiang, A., Zhong, M., Xie, M., Lou, S., Yin, L., Jehle, R., & Liao, W. (2015). Seasonality and age is positively related to brain size in Andrew’s toad (Bufo andrewsi). Evolutionary Biology, 42(3), 339-348. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-015-9329-4

The Expensive Brain Framework (EBF) and the Cognitive Buffer Hypothesis are commonly used to explain inter- and intraspecific variation in brain size and brain architecture. Using Andrew’s toad (Bufo andrewsi) as a model species, we investigated whet... Read More about Seasonality and age is positively related to brain size in Andrew’s toad (Bufo andrewsi).

Electrical properties of bi-implanted amorphous chalcogenide films (2015)
Journal Article
Fedorenko, Y., & Hughes, M. (2015). Electrical properties of bi-implanted amorphous chalcogenide films. Thin Solid Films, 589, 369-375. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2015.05.036

The impact of Bi implantation on the conductivity and the thermopower of GeTe, Ge–Sb–Te, and Ga–La–S films is investigated. The enhanced conductivity appears to be notably sensitive to a dose of an implant. Incorporation of Bi in amorphous chalcogeni... Read More about Electrical properties of bi-implanted amorphous chalcogenide films.

Fast time domain modeling of surface scattering from reflectors and diffusers (2015)
Journal Article
Cox, T. (2015). Fast time domain modeling of surface scattering from reflectors and diffusers. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 137(6), 483-489. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4921675

Time-domain prediction models have been developed for
auditorium reflectors and room acoustic diffusers. The models are time-domain equivalents of the single-frequency formulations that exploit the Kirchhoff boundary conditions. Consequently, they a... Read More about Fast time domain modeling of surface scattering from reflectors and diffusers.

The effect of 2,5-di-(tert-butyl)-1,4-benzohydroquinone (TBQ) on intracellular Ca(2+) handling in rat ventricular myocytes (2015)
Journal Article
Miller, L., Greensmith, D., Sankaranarayanan, R., O'Neill, S., & Eisner, D. (2015). The effect of 2,5-di-(tert-butyl)-1,4-benzohydroquinone (TBQ) on intracellular Ca(2+) handling in rat ventricular myocytes. Cell Calcium, 58(2), 208-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceca.2015.05.002

2,5-Di-(tert-butyl)-1,4-benzohydroquinone (TBQ) is a reversible inhibitor of SERCA, potentially making it a useful tool to study the effects of SERCA inhibition in cardiac cells. However, it is unknown if TBQ also has effects on other components of v... Read More about The effect of 2,5-di-(tert-butyl)-1,4-benzohydroquinone (TBQ) on intracellular Ca(2+) handling in rat ventricular myocytes.

Raumplan after Loos : the European work of Heinrich Kulka, 1930-1939 (2015)
Journal Article
Poppelreuter, T. (2015). Raumplan after Loos : the European work of Heinrich Kulka, 1930-1939. Fabrications, 25(1), 84-103. https://doi.org/10.1080/10331867.2015.1006761

This paper analyses a selection of houses built by Heinrich Kulka between 1930 and 1939 that were influenced by the spatial design that Kulka termed “Raumplan” in the first monograph on his teacher Adolf Loos in 1931. The exterior organisation and th... Read More about Raumplan after Loos : the European work of Heinrich Kulka, 1930-1939.