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Application of object-based audio for automated mixing of live football broadcast (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Oldfield, R., Shirley, B., & Satongar, D. (2015, October). Application of object-based audio for automated mixing of live football broadcast. Presented at 139th AES Convention, New York, USA

The challenge of creating a live sound mix for a sports event such as a football/soccer match cannot be underestimated. The mixing engineer needs to constantly raise and lower the levels of the faders corresponding to the pitch-side microphones that... Read More about Application of object-based audio for automated mixing of live football broadcast.

Superinfection exclusion and the long-term survival of honey bees in Varroa-infested colonies (2015)
Journal Article
Mordecai, G. J., Brettell, L., Martin, S. J., Dixon, D., Jones, I. M., & Schroeder, D. C. (2016). Superinfection exclusion and the long-term survival of honey bees in Varroa-infested colonies. ISME Journal, 10(5), 1182-1191. https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2015.186

Over the past 50 years, many millions of European honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies have died as the ectoparasitic mite, Varroa destructor, has spread around the world. Subsequent studies have indicated that the mite’s association with a group of R... Read More about Superinfection exclusion and the long-term survival of honey bees in Varroa-infested colonies.

Terrestrial laser scanning for plot-scale forest measurement (2015)
Journal Article
Newnham, G., Armston, J., Calders, K., Disney, M., Lovell, J., Schaaf, C., …Danson, F. (2015). Terrestrial laser scanning for plot-scale forest measurement. Current Forestry Reports, 1(4), 239-251. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40725-015-0025-5

Plot-scale measurements have been the foundation for forest surveys and reporting for over 200 years. Through recent integration with airborne and satellite remote sensing, manual measurements of vegetation structure at the plot scale are now the b... Read More about Terrestrial laser scanning for plot-scale forest measurement.

A new role for an old drug: Ambroxol triggers lysosomal exocytosis via pH-dependent Ca2+ release from acidic Ca2+ stores (2015)
Journal Article
Fois, G., Hobi, N., Felder, E., Ziegler, A., Miklavc, P., Walther, P., …Dietl, P. (2015). A new role for an old drug: Ambroxol triggers lysosomal exocytosis via pH-dependent Ca2+ release from acidic Ca2+ stores. Cell Calcium, 58(6), 628-637. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceca.2015.10.002

Ambroxol (Ax) is a frequently prescribed drug used to facilitate mucociliary clearance, but its mode of action is yet poorly understood. Here we show by X-ray spectroscopy that Ax accumulates in lamellar bodies (LBs), the surfactant storing, secretor... Read More about A new role for an old drug: Ambroxol triggers lysosomal exocytosis via pH-dependent Ca2+ release from acidic Ca2+ stores.

The role of fire in landscape dynamics : an example of two sediment records from the Rodna Mountains, northern Romanian Carpathians (2015)
Journal Article
Carpathians. CATENA, 137(2), 432-440. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2015.10.021

Fire is an important disturbance agent worldwide and one of the major causes of geomorphological change. Dependent on its characteristics (size, duration, temperature), fire induces changes in soil stability, modifying infiltration and promoting soi... Read More about The role of fire in landscape dynamics : an example of two sediment records from the Rodna Mountains, northern Romanian Carpathians.

Online news videos : the UX of subtitle position (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Crabb, M., Jones, R., Armstrong, M., & Hughes, C. (2015, October). Online news videos : the UX of subtitle position. Presented at 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility, Lisbon, Portugal

Millions of people rely on subtitles when watching video content. The current change in media viewing behaviour involving computers has resulted in a large proportion of people turning to online sources as opposed to regular television for news infor... Read More about Online news videos : the UX of subtitle position.

Cloud deployment patterns: Migrating a database driven application to the cloud using design patterns (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Adewojo, A., Bass, J., Allison, I., & Hui, K. (2015). Cloud deployment patterns: Migrating a database driven application to the cloud using design patterns.

Cloud computing provides scalable and reliable computing services that can be beneficial to software organizations that intend to migrate their existing or new applications to the cloud. However, migration is potentially complex, so cloud computi... Read More about Cloud deployment patterns: Migrating a database driven application to the cloud using design patterns.

Evaluation of residence time on nitrogen oxides removal in non-thermal plasma reactor (2015)
Journal Article
Talebizadeh, P., Rahimzadeh, H., Babaie, M., Anaghizi, S., Ghomi, H., Ahmadi, G., & Brown, R. (2015). Evaluation of residence time on nitrogen oxides removal in non-thermal plasma reactor. PLoS ONE, 10(10), e0140897. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140897

Non-thermal plasma (NTP) has been introduced over the last few years as a promising after- treatment system for nitrogen oxides and particulate matter removal from diesel exhaust. NTP technology has not been commercialised as yet, due to its high rat... Read More about Evaluation of residence time on nitrogen oxides removal in non-thermal plasma reactor.

Proteomic identification of prognostic tumour biomarkers, using chemotherapy-induced cancer-associated fibroblasts (2015)
Journal Article
Peiris-Pagès, M., Smith, D., Győrffy, B., Sotgia, F., & Lisanti, M. (2015). Proteomic identification of prognostic tumour biomarkers, using chemotherapy-induced cancer-associated fibroblasts. Aging, 7(10), 816-838. https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.100808

Cancer cells grow in highly complex stromal microenvironments, which through metabolic remodelling, catabolism, autophagy and inflammation nurture them and are able to facilitate metastasis and resistance to therapy. However, these changes in the met... Read More about Proteomic identification of prognostic tumour biomarkers, using chemotherapy-induced cancer-associated fibroblasts.

Turkish D-light : accentuating heritage values with daylight (2015)
Journal Article
Al-Maiyah, S., & Elkadi, H. (2015). Turkish D-light : accentuating heritage values with daylight. Proceedings of the ICE - Engineering History and Heritage, 168(4), 139-149. https://doi.org/10.1680/jenhh.15.00004

Historic buildings have their own cultural identity, which is often related to their aesthetic qualities such as period characteristics (geometry, size, colour, form and shape), materials and construction. Daylight is one of the primary elements co... Read More about Turkish D-light : accentuating heritage values with daylight.

Influence of cure kinetic, rheological and thermo-mechanical behavior on micro-level curing strain of an epoxy prepreg (2015)
Journal Article
Ammasai Sengodan, G., Joshi, S., & Chen, Z. (2015). Influence of cure kinetic, rheological and thermo-mechanical behavior on micro-level curing strain of an epoxy prepreg. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 124, 305-316. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-015-5090-2

The coupled nature of chemical kinetics, mechanical and rheological behavior of a curing prepreg dictates the dimensional accuracy of a composite laminate. In this work, an integrated study was carried out to understand the influence of thermo-chemo-... Read More about Influence of cure kinetic, rheological and thermo-mechanical behavior on micro-level curing strain of an epoxy prepreg.

Solid phase microextraction (SPME) method development in analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) as potential biomarkers of cancer (2015)
Journal Article
Schmidt, K., & Podmore, I. (2015). Solid phase microextraction (SPME) method development in analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) as potential biomarkers of cancer. Journal of Molecular Biomarkers & Diagnosis, 6(6), https://doi.org/10.4172/2155-9929.1000253

The analysis of volatile organic compounds [VOCs] is an attractive approach to the discovery of potential cancer biomarkers due to its non-invasive nature and potential low costs of sampling and analysis. Solid phase microextraction [SPME] is one of... Read More about Solid phase microextraction (SPME) method development in analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) as potential biomarkers of cancer.

Influence of hydrated lime on the properties and permanent deformation of the asphalt concrete layers in pavement (2015)
Journal Article
Al-Tameemi, A., Wang, Y., & Albayati, A. (2015). Influence of hydrated lime on the properties and permanent deformation of the asphalt concrete layers in pavement. Romanian Journal of Transport Infrastructure, 4(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1515/rjti-2015-0027

Flexible or asphalt concrete pavement is the paving system most widely adopted all over the world. It has been recognized that there are many different types of the factors affecting the performance and durability of asphalt concrete pavement, includ... Read More about Influence of hydrated lime on the properties and permanent deformation of the asphalt concrete layers in pavement.

Microphone handling noise : measurements of perceptual threshold and effects on audio quality (2015)
Journal Article
Kendrick, P., Jackson, I., Fazenda, B., Cox, T., & Li, F. (2015). Microphone handling noise : measurements of perceptual threshold and effects on audio quality. PLoS ONE, 10(10), e0140256. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140256

A psychoacoustic experiment was carried out to test the effects of microphone handling noise on perceived audio quality. Handling noise is a problem affecting both amateurs using their smartphones and cameras, as well as professionals using separate... Read More about Microphone handling noise : measurements of perceptual threshold and effects on audio quality.

Teachers’ views of their primary school classrooms (2015)
Journal Article
Barrett, P., Barett, L., & Zhang, Y. (2016). Teachers’ views of their primary school classrooms. Intelligent Buildings International, 8(3), 176-191. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508975.2015.1087835

This paper presents the views of 222 head teachers and classroom-based teachers about their experiences and perceptions of 193 specific classroom environments from 29 primary schools in three different areas in England, UK. One-to-one interviews we... Read More about Teachers’ views of their primary school classrooms.

Effects of Formulation on Microbicide Potency and Mitigation of the Development of Bacterial Insusceptibility (2015)
Journal Article
Cowley, N. L., Forbes, S., Amézquita, A., McClure, P., Humphreys, G. J., & McBain, A. J. (2015). Effects of Formulation on Microbicide Potency and Mitigation of the Development of Bacterial Insusceptibility. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 81(20), 7330-7338. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.01985-15

Risk assessments of the potential for microbicides to select for reduced bacterial susceptibility have been based largely on data generated through the exposure of bacteria to microbicides in aqueous solution. Since microbicides are normally formulat... Read More about Effects of Formulation on Microbicide Potency and Mitigation of the Development of Bacterial Insusceptibility.

30 years of mobile phones in the UK (2015)
Book
Linge, N., & Sutton, A. (2015). 30 years of mobile phones in the UK. Amberley Publishing

In 1985, the seeds of a revolution were sown in the UK when people were first able to communicate using one of the most remarkable items of personal technology to have been developed – the mobile phone. The authors, both acknowledged experts in this... Read More about 30 years of mobile phones in the UK.

Detecting wash trade in financial market using digraphs and dynamic programming (2015)
Journal Article
Cao, Y., Li, Y., Coleman, S., Belatreche, A., & McGinnity, T. (2016). Detecting wash trade in financial market using digraphs and dynamic programming. IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems, 27(11), 2351-2363. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNNLS.2015.2480959

Wash trade refers to the illegal activities of traders who utilise carefully designed limit orders to manually increase the trading volumes for creating a false impression of an active market. As one of the primary formats of market abuse, wash trade... Read More about Detecting wash trade in financial market using digraphs and dynamic programming.

Design of core/shell colloidal quantum dots for MEG solar cells (2015)
Journal Article
Tomic, S., Miloszewski, J., Tyrrell, E., & Binks, D. (2015). Design of core/shell colloidal quantum dots for MEG solar cells. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 6(1), 179-184. https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOTOV.2015.2483368

Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are the subject of intensive research worldwide due to a number of novel properties, which make them of interest for both fundamental science and technological applications. QDs are of particular interest for solar ce... Read More about Design of core/shell colloidal quantum dots for MEG solar cells.

Photoelectron spectroscopy at the graphene-liquid interface reveals the electronic structure of an electrodeposited cobalt/graphene electrocatalyst (2015)
Journal Article
Velasco-Vélez, J., Pfeifer, V., Hävecker, M., Weatherup, R., Arrigo, R., Chuang, C., …Knop-Gericke, A. (2018). Photoelectron spectroscopy at the graphene-liquid interface reveals the electronic structure of an electrodeposited cobalt/graphene electrocatalyst. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 54(48), 14554-14558. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201506044

Electrochemically grown cobalt on graphene exhibits exceptional performance as a catalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and provides the possibility of controlling the morphology and the chemical properties during deposition. However, the d... Read More about Photoelectron spectroscopy at the graphene-liquid interface reveals the electronic structure of an electrodeposited cobalt/graphene electrocatalyst.