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How to design and conduct listening tests (2015)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Perceptual thresholds for the effects of room modes as a function of modal decay (2015)
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of modal decay. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 137(3), 1088-1098. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4908217

Room modes cause audible artifacts in listening environments. Modal control approaches have
emerged in scientific literature over the years and, often, their performance is measured by criteria
that may be perceptually unfounded. Previous research... Read More about Perceptual thresholds for the effects of room modes as a function of modal decay.

A record “longest echo” within the Inchindown oil despository (2015)
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Cox, T., & Kilpatrick, A. (2015). A record “longest echo” within the Inchindown oil despository. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 137, 1602-1604. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4908218

In 2013, Guinness World Records awarded tank number 1 at the Inchindown oil despository, Ross-shire, Scotland, the record for the “longest echo” at 75 s. Guinness World Records calls it the longest echo because that was the name of the record that wa... Read More about A record “longest echo” within the Inchindown oil despository.

Nature of the N-Pd interaction in nitrogen-doped carbon nanotube catalysts (2015)
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Arrigo, R. (2015). Nature of the N-Pd interaction in nitrogen-doped carbon nanotube catalysts. ACS catalysis, 5(5), 2740-2753. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.5b00094

In this work, the geometric and electronic structure of N species in N-doped carbon nanotubes (NCNTs) is derived by X-ray photoemission (XPS) and absorption spectroscopy (NEXAFS) of the N 1s core excitation. Substitutional N species in pyridine-like... Read More about Nature of the N-Pd interaction in nitrogen-doped carbon nanotube catalysts.

Actin depolymerisation and crosslinking join forces with myosin II to contract actin coats on fused secretory vesicles (2015)
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Miklavc, P., Ehinger, K., Sultan, A., Felder, T., Paul, P., Gottschalk, K., & Frick, M. (2015). Actin depolymerisation and crosslinking join forces with myosin II to contract actin coats on fused secretory vesicles. Journal of Cell Science, 128(6), 1193-1203. https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.165571

In many secretory cells actin and myosin are specifically recruited to the surface of secretory granules following their fusion with the plasma membrane. Actomyosin-dependent compression of fused granules is essential to promote active extrusion of c... Read More about Actin depolymerisation and crosslinking join forces with myosin II to contract actin coats on fused secretory vesicles.

Modelling the response of single passive piles subjected to lateral soil movement using PLAXIS (2015)
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subjected to lateral soil movement using PLAXIS. International journal of engineering research and technology (Ahmedabad), 4(3), 176-180. https://doi.org/10.17577/IJERTV4IS030269

Response of single pile subjected to lateral displacements of soil mass using 3D finite element software (PLAXIS) is studied. Embedded pile feature in which the pile composed of beam elements with special interface elements to represent pile-soil int... Read More about Modelling the response of single passive piles subjected to lateral soil movement using PLAXIS.

Antibiotics that target mitochondria effectively eradicate cancer stem cells, across multiple tumor types : treating cancer like an infectious disease (2015)
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Lamb, R., Ozsvari, B., Lisanti, C., Tanowitz, H., Howell, A., Martinez-Outschoorn, U., …Lisanti, M. (2015). Antibiotics that target mitochondria effectively eradicate cancer stem cells, across multiple tumor types : treating cancer like an infectious disease. Oncotarget, 6(7), 4569-84. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.3174

Here, we propose a new strategy for the treatment of early cancerous lesions and advanced metastatic disease, via the selective targeting of cancer stem cells (CSCs), a.k.a., tumor-initiating cells (TICs). We searched for a global phenotypic characte... Read More about Antibiotics that target mitochondria effectively eradicate cancer stem cells, across multiple tumor types : treating cancer like an infectious disease.

An evolutionary approach to modelling the thermo-mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soils (2015)
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Ahangar Asr, A., Javadi, A., & Khalili, N. (2015). An evolutionary approach to modelling the thermo-mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soils. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 39(5), 539-557. https://doi.org/10.1002/nag.2323

A new data mining approach is presented for modelling of the stress-strain and volume change behaviour of unsaturated soils considering temperature effects. The proposed approach is based on the evolutionary polynomial regression (EPR), which unlike... Read More about An evolutionary approach to modelling the thermo-mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soils.