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C:N ratio drives soil actinobacterial cellobiohydrolase gene diversity (2015)
Journal Article
De Menezes, A., Prendergast-Miller, M., Poonpatana, P., Farrell, M., Bissett, A., Macdonald, L., …Thrall, P. (2015). C:N ratio drives soil actinobacterial cellobiohydrolase gene diversity. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 8(9), 3016-3028. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00067-15

Cellulose accounts for approximately half of photosynthesis-fixed carbon; however, the ecology of its degradation in soil is still relatively poorly understood. The role of actinobacteria in cellulose degradation has not been extensively investigated... Read More about C:N ratio drives soil actinobacterial cellobiohydrolase gene diversity.

SugarSync forensic analysis (2015)
Journal Article
Shariatia, M., Dehghantanha, A., & Choo, K. (2015). SugarSync forensic analysis. Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 48(1), 95-117. https://doi.org/10.1080/00450618.2015.1021379

Cloud storage services are popular with both individuals and businesses as they offer cost-effective, large capacity storage and multi-functional services on a wide range of devices such as personal computers (PCs), Mac computers, and smart mobile de... Read More about SugarSync forensic analysis.

Automatic retrieval of closed captions for web clips from broadcast TV content (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Hughes, C., & Armstrong, M. (2015, April). Automatic retrieval of closed captions for web clips from broadcast TV content. Presented at 2015 NAB Broadcast Engineering Conference, Las Vegas, USA

As broadcasters’ web sites become more media
rich it would be prohibitively expensive to manually caption
all of the videos provided. However, many of these videos
have been clipped from broadcast television and would have
been captioned at the p... Read More about Automatic retrieval of closed captions for web clips from broadcast TV content.

Making the most of what we have: application of extrapolation approaches in radioecological wildlife transfer models (2015)
Journal Article
Beresford, N., Wood, M., Vives i Batlle, J., Yankovich, T., Bradshaw, C., & Willey, N. (2016). Making the most of what we have: application of extrapolation approaches in radioecological wildlife transfer models. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 151(Part 2), 373-386. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2015.03.022

We will never have data to populate all of the potential radioecological modelling parameters required for wildlife assessments. Therefore, we need robust extrapolation approaches which allow us to make best use of our available knowledge. This paper... Read More about Making the most of what we have: application of extrapolation approaches in radioecological wildlife transfer models.

Oxidized phosphatidylcholines suggest oxidative stress in patients with medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (2015)
Journal Article
Najdekr, L., Gardlo, A., Mádrová, L., Friedecký, D., Janečková, H., Correa, E., …Adam, T. (2015). Oxidized phosphatidylcholines suggest oxidative stress in patients with medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency. Talanta, 139, 62-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.talanta.2015.02.041

Inborn errors of metabolism encompass a large group of diseases caused by enzyme deficiencies and are therefore amenable to metabolomics investigations. Medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (MCADD) is a defect in β-oxidation of fatty acids,... Read More about Oxidized phosphatidylcholines suggest oxidative stress in patients with medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency.

Can elusive cancer stem cells seed new tumours months after chemotherapy? (2015)
Report
Pye, D. (2015). Can elusive cancer stem cells seed new tumours months after chemotherapy?. The Conversation

Clean Audio for TV broadcast: an object-based approach for hearing impaired viewers (2015)
Journal Article
Shirley, B., & Oldfield, R. (2015). Clean Audio for TV broadcast: an object-based approach for hearing impaired viewers. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 63(4), 245-256. https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2015.0017

As the percentage of the population with hearing loss increases, broadcasters are receiving more complaints about the difficulty in understanding dialog in the presence of background sound and music. This article explores these issues, reviews previo... Read More about Clean Audio for TV broadcast: an object-based approach for hearing impaired viewers.

How to design and conduct listening tests (2015)
Other
Fazenda, B. (2015). How to design and conduct listening tests

This is a copy of a presentation on listening tests delivered at lectures and invited talks.
Optimisation of acoustic spaces and audio equipment is often dependent on objective metrics that can be measured directly and defined numerically. However,... Read More about How to design and conduct listening tests.

A fuzzy ANP based weighted RFM model for customer segmentation in auto insurance sector (2015)
Journal Article
Ravasan, A., & Mansouri, T. (2015). A fuzzy ANP based weighted RFM model for customer segmentation in auto insurance sector. International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector, 7(2), 5. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijisss.2015040105

Data mining has a tremendous contribution for researchers to extract the hidden knowledge and information which have been inherited in the raw data. This study has proposed a brand new and practical fuzzy analytic network process (FANP) based weighte... Read More about A fuzzy ANP based weighted RFM model for customer segmentation in auto insurance sector.

Hartley transform and the use of the Whitened Hartley spectrum as a tool for phase spectral processing (2015)
Journal Article
Paraskevas, I., Barbarosou, M., & Chilton, E. (2015). Hartley transform and the use of the Whitened Hartley spectrum as a tool for phase spectral processing. Journal of Engineering, 2015(3), 95-101. https://doi.org/10.1049/joe.2014.0350

The Hartley transform is a mathematical transformation which is closely related to the better known Fourier transform. The properties that differentiate the Hartley Transform from its Fourier counterpart are that the forward and the inverse transform... Read More about Hartley transform and the use of the Whitened Hartley spectrum as a tool for phase spectral processing.

Mapping protein binding sites on the biomolecular corona of nanoparticles (2015)
Journal Article
Kelly, P., Åberg, C., Polo, E., O'Connell, A., Cookman, J., Fallon, J., …Dawson, K. (2015). Mapping protein binding sites on the biomolecular corona of nanoparticles. Nature Nanotechnology, 10(5), 472-479. https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.47

Nanoparticles in a biological milieu are known to form a sufficiently long-lived and well-organized ‘corona’ of biomolecules to confer a biological identity to the particle. Because this nanoparticle–biomolecule complex interacts with cells and biolo... Read More about Mapping protein binding sites on the biomolecular corona of nanoparticles.

Amphibian symbiotic bacteria do not show universal ability to inhibit growth of the global pandemic lineage of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (2015)
Journal Article
Antwis, R., Preziosi, R., Harrison, X., & Garner, T. (2015). Amphibian symbiotic bacteria do not show universal ability to inhibit growth of the global pandemic lineage of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 81, 3706-3711. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00010-15

Microbiomes associated with multicellular organisms influence the disease susceptibility of hosts. The potential exists for such bacteria to protect wildlife from infectious diseases, particularly in the case of the globally distributed and highly vi... Read More about Amphibian symbiotic bacteria do not show universal ability to inhibit growth of the global pandemic lineage of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.

Predicting multiple functions of sustainable flood retention basins under uncertainty via multi-instance multi-label learning (2015)
Journal Article
Yang, Q., Boehm, C., Scholz, M., Plant, C., & Shao, J. (2015). Predicting multiple functions of sustainable flood retention basins under uncertainty via multi-instance multi-label learning. Water, 7(4), 1359-1377. https://doi.org/10.3390/w7041359

The ambiguity of diverse functions of sustainable flood retention basins (SFRBs) may lead to conflict and risk in water resources planning and management. How can someone provide an intuitive yet efficient strategy to uncover and distinguish the mult... Read More about Predicting multiple functions of sustainable flood retention basins under uncertainty via multi-instance multi-label learning.

Conspicuous female ornamentation and tests of male mate preference in threespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) (2015)
Journal Article
Wright, D. S., Pierotti, M. E., Rundle, H. D., & McKinnon, J. S. (2015). Conspicuous female ornamentation and tests of male mate preference in threespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus). PloS one, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0120723

Sexual selection drives the evolution of exaggerated male ornaments in many animal species. Female ornamentation is now acknowledged also to be common but is generally less well understood. One example is the recently documented red female throat col... Read More about Conspicuous female ornamentation and tests of male mate preference in threespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

Supporting environmental surveillance on construction sites using mobile environmental information system (2015)
Journal Article
construction sites using mobile environmental information system. International journal of engineering research and technology (Ahmedabad), 4(3), https://doi.org/10.17577/IJERTV4IS030808

Data and data retrieval remain central to the challenge of environmental protection initiatives. Approaches such as walk-through inspections and environmental monitoring rely on environmental information that is concise, accurate, material timely and... Read More about Supporting environmental surveillance on construction sites using mobile environmental information system.

Caveolae and signalling in cancer (2015)
Journal Article
Martinez-Outschoorn, U., Sotgia, F., & Lisanti, M. (2015). Caveolae and signalling in cancer. Nature Reviews Cancer, 15(4), 225-37. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrc3915

It has been over 20 years since the discovery that caveolar lipid rafts function as signalling organelles. Lipid rafts create plasma membrane heterogeneity, and caveolae are the most extensively studied subset of lipid rafts. A newly emerging paradig... Read More about Caveolae and signalling in cancer.

Infection by Toxoplasma gondii, a severe parasite in neonates and AIDS patients, causes impaired anion secretion in airway epithelia (2015)
Journal Article
Guo, H., Gao, J., Luo, Y., Wen, Y., Zhang, Y., Hide, G., …Lun, Z. (2015). Infection by Toxoplasma gondii, a severe parasite in neonates and AIDS patients, causes impaired anion secretion in airway epithelia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(14), 4435-40. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1503474112

The airway epithelia initiate and modulate the inflammatory responses to various pathogens. The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator-mediated Cl(-) secretion system plays a key role in mucociliary clearance of inhaled pathogens. We hav... Read More about Infection by Toxoplasma gondii, a severe parasite in neonates and AIDS patients, causes impaired anion secretion in airway epithelia.

Revealing and re-valuing cultural intermediaries in the 'real' creative city : insights from a diary-keeping exercise (2015)
Journal Article
Perry, B., Smith, K., & Warren, S. (2015). Revealing and re-valuing cultural intermediaries in the 'real' creative city : insights from a diary-keeping exercise. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 18(6), 724-740. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549415572324

From critics and cultural commentators to professionals who mediate between production and consumption for economic gain, the term ‘cultural intermediaries’ has been variously interpreted over recent decades. Often framed as self-interested entrepren... Read More about Revealing and re-valuing cultural intermediaries in the 'real' creative city : insights from a diary-keeping exercise.

Soft bodies make estimation hard: Correlations among body dimensions and weights of multiple species of sea cucumbers (2015)
Journal Article
Prescott, J., Zhou, S., & Prasetyo, A. (2015). Soft bodies make estimation hard: Correlations among body dimensions and weights of multiple species of sea cucumbers. Marine and Freshwater Research, 66, 857-865. https://doi.org/10.1071/MF14146

Tropical sea cucumbers are commonly exploited by small-scale, poorly managed fisheries. A fundamental problem in managing sea cucumber fisheries is the lack of basic knowledge of important life history characteristics for most species. As a result of... Read More about Soft bodies make estimation hard: Correlations among body dimensions and weights of multiple species of sea cucumbers.

DL-ReSuMe : a delay learning-based remote supervised method for spiking neurons (2015)
Journal Article
Taherkhani, A., Belatreche, A., Li, Y., & Maguire, L. (2015). DL-ReSuMe : a delay learning-based remote supervised method for spiking neurons. IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems, 26(12), 3137-3149. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNNLS.2015.2404938

Recent research has shown the potential capability of spiking neural networks (SNNs) to model complex information processing in the brain. There is biological evidence to prove the use of the precise timing of spikes for information coding. However,... Read More about DL-ReSuMe : a delay learning-based remote supervised method for spiking neurons.