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Echinococcus multilocularis in Kyrgyzstan: similarity in the Asian EmsB genotypic profiles from village populations of Eastern mole voles (Ellobius tancrei) and dogs in the Alay valley (2015)
Journal Article
Afonso, E., Knapp, J., Tête, N., Umhang, G., Rieffel, D., van Kesteren, F., …Giraudoux, P. (2015). Echinococcus multilocularis in Kyrgyzstan: similarity in the Asian EmsB genotypic profiles from village populations of Eastern mole voles (Ellobius tancrei) and dogs in the Alay valley. Journal of Helminthology, 89(06), 664-670. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022149X15000474

Echinococcus multilocularis is a cestode that causes human alveolar echinococcosis, a lethal zoonosis of public health concern in central Asia and western China. In the present study, one of 42 Eastern mole voles (Ellobius tancrei) caught in Sary Mog... Read More about Echinococcus multilocularis in Kyrgyzstan: similarity in the Asian EmsB genotypic profiles from village populations of Eastern mole voles (Ellobius tancrei) and dogs in the Alay valley.

Re-writing the city (2015)
Book Chapter
Abel, P., Schliwa, G., Lindley, J., Turner, S., Devitt, J., MacDonald, J., …Barraclough, R. (2015). Re-writing the city. In Proceedings of the 2015 British HCI Conference on - British HCI '15 (147-156). ACM Digital Library. https://doi.org/10.1145/2783446.2783562

This paper is an output of a two day 'Festival Lab' held at the Future Everything Festival, Manchester, UK, March 2015. The Festival Lab invited a team of academic researchers to develop a model of public engagement during the festival that would exp... Read More about Re-writing the city.

Framework for cloud computing adoption : a roadmap for SMEs to cloud migration (2015)
Journal Article
Khan, N., & Al-Yasiri, A. (2015). Framework for cloud computing adoption : a roadmap for SMEs to cloud migration. International journal of cloud computing : service and architecture (Print), 5(5/6), 01-15. https://doi.org/10.5121/ijccsa.2015.5601

Small and Medium size Enterprises (SME) are considered as a backbone of many developing and developed economies of the world; they are the driving force to any major economy across the globe. Through Cloud Computing firms outsource their entire infor... Read More about Framework for cloud computing adoption : a roadmap for SMEs to cloud migration.

Drawing from the well of community participation: an evaluation of the utility of local knowledge in the health impact assessment process (2015)
Journal Article
Chilaka, M. (2015). Drawing from the well of community participation: an evaluation of the utility of local knowledge in the health impact assessment process. Community Development, 46(2), 100-110. https://doi.org/10.1080/15575330.2015.1014060

Engagement with local residents is increasingly being used as a source of evidence for making health impact assessment (HIA) predictions. However, there have been criticisms about the community engagement process and the value of evidence derived fro... Read More about Drawing from the well of community participation: an evaluation of the utility of local knowledge in the health impact assessment process.

Dispersion phenomena in symmetric pre-stressed layered elastic structures (2015)
Journal Article
Lashhab, M., Rogerson, G., & Sandiford, K. (2015). Dispersion phenomena in symmetric pre-stressed layered elastic structures. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 58, 220-232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2015.01.006

The dispersion relation associated with a symmetric three layer structure, composed of compressible, pre-stressed elastic layers, is derived. This mathematically elaborate transcendental equation gives phase speed as an implicit function of wave numb... Read More about Dispersion phenomena in symmetric pre-stressed layered elastic structures.

Strategies and incentives for enhancing the application of health impact assessment (HIA) in Nigeria: a view from those who should know (2015)
Journal Article
Chilaka, M., & Ndioho, I. (2015). Strategies and incentives for enhancing the application of health impact assessment (HIA) in Nigeria: a view from those who should know. International Journal of Health Promotion and Education, 53(4), 172-179. https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2014.983276

In consonance with the paradigm shift from curative to more preventive healthcare, there has been an increasing application of health impact assessment (HIA) in many developed countries. However, progress towards the integration of HIA into public po... Read More about Strategies and incentives for enhancing the application of health impact assessment (HIA) in Nigeria: a view from those who should know.

Synchrotron X-ray CT of rose peduncles – evaluation of tissue damage by radiation* (2015)
Journal Article
Herppich, W., Matsushima, U., Graf, W., Zabler, S., Dawson, M., Choinka, G., & Manke, I. (2015). Synchrotron X-ray CT of rose peduncles – evaluation of tissue damage by radiation*. MP Materials Testing, 57(1), 59-63. https://doi.org/10.3139/120.110675

"Bent-neck" syndrome, an important postharvest problem of cut roses, is probably caused by water supply limitations and/or the structural weakness of vascular bundles of the peduncle tissue. For this reason, advanced knowledge about the microstructur... Read More about Synchrotron X-ray CT of rose peduncles – evaluation of tissue damage by radiation*.

A newly discovered epidemic area of echinococcus multilocularis in West Gansu Province in China (2015)
Journal Article
Sim, R., Han, J., Bao, G., Zhang, D., Gao, P., Wu, T., …Jing, T. (2015). A newly discovered epidemic area of echinococcus multilocularis in West Gansu Province in China. PLoS ONE, 10(7), e0132731. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0132731

Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a lethal parasitic disease. In Gansu Province of China, all AE cases reported in literature were from Zhang and Min Counties, the southern part of the province. Here, we report the discovery of nine AE cases and one cy... Read More about A newly discovered epidemic area of echinococcus multilocularis in West Gansu Province in China.

Toxoplasma gondii coinfection with diseases and parasites in wild rabbits in Scotland (2015)
Journal Article
Mason, S., Dubey, J., SMITH, J., & Boag, B. (2015). Toxoplasma gondii coinfection with diseases and parasites in wild rabbits in Scotland. Parasitology, 142(11), 1415-1421. https://doi.org/10.1017/S003118201500075X

In wild rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) on an estate in Perthshire, central Scotland, the seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii was 18/548 (3.3%). The wild rabbit could be a T. gondii reservoir and it has potential value as a sentinel of T. gondii in e... Read More about Toxoplasma gondii coinfection with diseases and parasites in wild rabbits in Scotland.

BIM for client organisations : a continuous improvement approach (2015)
Journal Article
Al Ahbabi, M., & Alshawi, M. (2015). BIM for client organisations : a continuous improvement approach. Construction innovation (London. Online), 15(4), 402-408. https://doi.org/10.1108/CI-04-2015-0023

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to propose a continuous improvement approach for clients to improve their performance and to maximise the benefits gained from building information modelling (BIM) over time. The role of client organisations is... Read More about BIM for client organisations : a continuous improvement approach.

A source separation evaluation method in object-based spatial audio (2015)
Book Chapter
Liu, Q., Wang, W., Jackson, P., & Cox, T. (2015). A source separation evaluation method in object-based spatial audio. In 2015 23rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) (1088-1092). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/EUSIPCO.2015.7362551

Representing a complex acoustic scene with audio objects is desirable but challenging in object-based spatial audio production and reproduction, especially when concurrent sound signals are present in the scene. Source separation (SS) provides a pote... Read More about A source separation evaluation method in object-based spatial audio.

Insourcing a government information system : an analysis using institutions and the capability approach (2015)
Book Chapter
Omar, A., Bass, J., & Lowit, P. (2015). Insourcing a government information system : an analysis using institutions and the capability approach. In 2015 International Conference on Information Society (i-Society) (91-96). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/i-Society.2015.7366866

This study explores the effectiveness of insourcing in the Malaysian Government. The research discusses the factors and issues of insourcing in a Malaysian government agency in the context of post contract termination of an outsourcing agreement. A q... Read More about Insourcing a government information system : an analysis using institutions and the capability approach.

Enhanced cloud patterns : a case studyof multi-tenancy patterns (2015)
Book Chapter
Adewojo, A., Bass, J., & Allison, I. (2015). Enhanced cloud patterns : a case studyof multi-tenancy patterns. In 2015 International Conference on Information Society (i-Society) (53-58). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/i-Society.2015.7366858

Multi-tenancy is a vital cloud computing property that enables multiple tenants of an application to be served concurrently while guaranteeing isolation between the tenants. Current cloud deployment patterns catalogue for implementing multi-tenancy l... Read More about Enhanced cloud patterns : a case studyof multi-tenancy patterns.

Evaluating degrees of tenant isolation in multitenancy patterns : a case study of cloud-hosted Version Control System (VCS) (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Ochei, L., Petrovski, A., & Bass, J. (2015). Evaluating degrees of tenant isolation in multitenancy patterns : a case study of cloud-hosted Version Control System (VCS). In 2015 International Conference on Information Society (i-Society). https://doi.org/10.1109/i-Society.2015.7366859

One of the key concerns of implementing multitenancy (i.e., serving multiple tenants with a single instance of an application) on the cloud is how to enable the required degree of isolation between tenants, so that the required performance of one ten... Read More about Evaluating degrees of tenant isolation in multitenancy patterns : a case study of cloud-hosted Version Control System (VCS).

Potential cyber-attacks against global oil supply chain (2015)
Book Chapter
Nasir, M., Sultan, S., Nefti-Meziani, S., & Manzoor, U. (2015). Potential cyber-attacks against global oil supply chain. In 2015 International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics and Assessment (CyberSA) (1-7). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CyberSA.2015.7166137

The energy sector has been actively looking into cyber risk assessment at a global level, as it has a ripple effect; risk taken at one step in supply chain has an impact on all the other nodes. Cyber-attacks not only hinder functional operations in a... Read More about Potential cyber-attacks against global oil supply chain.

Improving robustness of speaker recognition in noisy and reverberant conditions via training (2015)
Book Chapter
Al-Noori, A., Al-Karawi, K., & Li, F. (2015). Improving robustness of speaker recognition in noisy and reverberant conditions via training. In 2015 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (180-180). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/EISIC.2015.20

Speaker recognition can be used as a security means to authenticate the speaker or as a forensic tool to determine who is likely to be the talker. For such critical applications, robustness or reliability of the system is crucial. In spite of the dev... Read More about Improving robustness of speaker recognition in noisy and reverberant conditions via training.

Quantum dot array based intermediate band solar cell : effect of light concentration (2015)
Book Chapter
Tomic, S., Sogabe, T., & Okada, Y. (2015). Quantum dot array based intermediate band solar cell : effect of light concentration. In 2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC) (1-3). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2015.7356067

Laterally coupled semiconductor quantum dot (QD) arrays emerged recently as promising structures for the next generation of high efficiency intermediate band solar cell (IBSC).We present here a method based on multi-band k·p Hamiltonian combined with... Read More about Quantum dot array based intermediate band solar cell : effect of light concentration.

Absorption characteristics of reduced graphene oxide : Application to TCO and solar cells active region (2015)
Book Chapter
Lundie, M., Slivancanin, Z., & Tomic, S. (2015). Absorption characteristics of reduced graphene oxide : Application to TCO and solar cells active region. In 2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC) (1-4). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2015.7355661

The controlled and patterned reduction of graphene oxide offers a promising method to tune the electronic and optical properties of the material through a wide range. Using ab initio calculations in which the exact exchange energy from Hartree-Fock t... Read More about Absorption characteristics of reduced graphene oxide : Application to TCO and solar cells active region.

An optimized strategy for speculative execution in a heterogeneous environment (2015)
Book Chapter
Liu, Q., Cai, W., Fu, Z., Shen, J., & Linge, N. (2015). An optimized strategy for speculative execution in a heterogeneous environment. In 2015 9th International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking (FGCN) (9-12). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/FGCN.2015.9

MapReduce is a popular programming model for the purposes of processing large data sets. Speculative execution known as an approach for dealing with the above problems works by backing up those tasks running on a low performance machine to a higher o... Read More about An optimized strategy for speculative execution in a heterogeneous environment.