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Bioconvective electromagnetic nanofluid transport from a wedge geometry : simulation of smart electro-conductive bio-nano-polymer processing (2017)
Journal Article
Zohra, F., Uddin, M., Ismail, A., & Beg, O. (2017). Bioconvective electromagnetic nanofluid transport from a wedge geometry : simulation of smart electro-conductive bio-nano-polymer processing. Heat Transfer - Asian Research, 47(1), 231-250. https://doi.org/10.1002/htj.21300

A mathematical model is presented for steady, two-dimensional, stagnation-point flow, heat, mass, and micro-organism transfer in a viscous, incompressible, bioconvective, electromagnetic nanofluid along a wedge with Stefan blowing effects, hydrodynam... Read More about Bioconvective electromagnetic nanofluid transport from a wedge geometry : simulation of smart electro-conductive bio-nano-polymer processing.

A method of determining where to target surveillance efforts in heterogeneous epidemiological systems (2017)
Journal Article
Mastin, A., van den Bosch, F., Gottwald, T., Alonso Chavez, V., & Parnell, S. (2017). A method of determining where to target surveillance efforts in heterogeneous epidemiological systems. PLoS Computational Biology, 13(8), e1005712. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005712

The spread of pathogens into new environments poses a considerable threat to human, animal, and plant health, and by extension, human and animal wellbeing, ecosystem function, and agricultural productivity, worldwide. Early detection through effectiv... Read More about A method of determining where to target surveillance efforts in heterogeneous epidemiological systems.

Soundscape simulator as a tool to predict the perception of acoustic environment (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Sudarsono, A., Lam, Y., & Davies, W. (2017, August). Soundscape simulator as a tool to predict the perception of acoustic environment. Presented at INTER-NOISE 2017, Hong Kong

Previous studies have shown relationships between sound objects by grouping general sound objects according to how people perceive them (i.e. positively or negatively), but not according to how specific sound objects and their interaction affect so... Read More about Soundscape simulator as a tool to predict the perception of acoustic environment.

Hydromagnetic non-Newtonian nanofluid transport phenomena from an isothermal vertical cone with partial slip : aerospace nanomaterial enrobing simulation (2017)
Journal Article
Annasagaram, S., Amanulla, C., Nagendra, N., Surya Narayana Reddy, M., & Beg, O. (2017). Hydromagnetic non-Newtonian nanofluid transport phenomena from an isothermal vertical cone with partial slip : aerospace nanomaterial enrobing simulation. Heat Transfer - Asian Research, 47(1), 203-230. https://doi.org/10.1002/htj.21299

In this article, the combined magneto-hydrodynamic heat, momentum, and mass (species) transfer in external boundary layer flow of Casson nanofluid from a vertical cone surface with convective conditions under an applied magnetic field is studied theo... Read More about Hydromagnetic non-Newtonian nanofluid transport phenomena from an isothermal vertical cone with partial slip : aerospace nanomaterial enrobing simulation.

Numerical exploration of thermal radiation and Biot number effects on the flow of a non-Newtonian MHD Williamson fluid over a vertical convective surface (2017)
Journal Article
Amanulla, C., Nagendra, N., Subba Rao, A., Beg, O., & Kadir, A. (2017). Numerical exploration of thermal radiation and Biot number effects on the flow of a non-Newtonian MHD Williamson fluid over a vertical convective surface. Heat Transfer - Asian Research, 47(2), 286-304. https://doi.org/10.1002/htj.21303

A theoretical and computational study of the magnetohydrodynamic flow and free convection heat transfer in an electroconductive polymer on the external surface of a vertical plate under radial magnetic field is presented. The Biot number effects are... Read More about Numerical exploration of thermal radiation and Biot number effects on the flow of a non-Newtonian MHD Williamson fluid over a vertical convective surface.

Review of motivations, success factors, and barriers to the adoption of offsite manufacturing in Nigeria (2017)
Journal Article
Kolo, S., Rahimian, F., Goulding, J., & Akintoye, A. (2017). Review of motivations, success factors, and barriers to the adoption of offsite manufacturing in Nigeria. Procedia Engineering, 196, 512 - 519. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2017.07.232

Despite several mitigation attempts, Nigeria is still facing a deficit of 17 million houses. Seminal literature argues that this problem is predominantly due to a myriad of issues, including high construction costs, skills shortages, the slow pace of... Read More about Review of motivations, success factors, and barriers to the adoption of offsite manufacturing in Nigeria.

The effect of environmental stress and selective glucocorticoid receptor modulators on chicken and human leukaemia cells (2017)
Thesis
Al-ibadi, I. The effect of environmental stress and selective glucocorticoid receptor modulators on chicken and human leukaemia cells. (Thesis). University of Salford

Glucocorticoids (GCs) play important functions in human physiology, and are commonly prescribed anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive drugs. GCs are used in treatment of childhood acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), however resistance to therapy and... Read More about The effect of environmental stress and selective glucocorticoid receptor modulators on chicken and human leukaemia cells.

The effect of situation-specific non-speech acoustic cues on the intelligibility of speech in noise (2017)
Journal Article
Ward, L., Shirley, B., Tang, Y., & Davies, W. (2017). The effect of situation-specific non-speech acoustic cues on the intelligibility of speech in noise. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2017-500

In everyday life, speech is often accompanied by a situationspecific acoustic cue; a hungry bark as you ask ‘Has anyone fed the dog?’. This paper investigates the effect such cues have on speech intelligibility in noise and evaluates their interact... Read More about The effect of situation-specific non-speech acoustic cues on the intelligibility of speech in noise.

Detecting crypto-ransomware in IoT networks based on energy consumption footprint (2017)
Journal Article
energy consumption footprint. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 9(4), 1141-1152. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-017-0558-5

An Internet of Things (IoT) architecture generally consists of a wide range of Internet-connected devices or things such as Android devices, and devices that have more computational capabilities (e.g., storage capacities) are likely to be targeted by... Read More about Detecting crypto-ransomware in IoT networks based on energy consumption footprint.

Numerical evaluation of thermal comfort in traditional courtyards to develop new microclimate design in a hot and dry climate (2017)
Journal Article
Nasrollahi, N., Hatami, M., Khastar, S., & Taleghani, M. (2017). Numerical evaluation of thermal comfort in traditional courtyards to develop new microclimate design in a hot and dry climate. Sustainable Cities and Society, 35, 449-467. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2017.08.017

The growing interest in thermal comfort of outdoor environments yields in different analysis on courtyards as a common space between urban and architectural scales. However, there is a limited knowledge regarding the microclimatic behavior of such sp... Read More about Numerical evaluation of thermal comfort in traditional courtyards to develop new microclimate design in a hot and dry climate.

Acoustics of multiscale sorptive porous materials (2017)
Journal Article
Venegas, R., Boutin, C., & Umnova, O. (2017). Acoustics of multiscale sorptive porous materials. Physics of Fluids, 29(8), 082006. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4999053

This paper investigates sound propagation in multiscale rigid-frame porous materials that support mass transfer processes, such as sorption and different types of diffusion, in addition to the usual visco-thermo-inertial interactions. The two-scale a... Read More about Acoustics of multiscale sorptive porous materials.

On the relationship between continuous measures of canopy greenness derived using near-surface remote sensing and satellite-derived vegetation products (2017)
Journal Article
Brown, L., Dash, J., Ogutu, B., & Richardson, A. (2017). On the relationship between continuous measures of canopy greenness derived using near-surface remote sensing and satellite-derived vegetation products. Agricultural and forest meteorology, 247, 280-292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.08.012

Over the last two decades, satellite-derived estimates of biophysical variables have been increasingly used in operational services, requiring quantification of their accuracy and uncertainty. Evaluating satellite-derived vegetation products is chall... Read More about On the relationship between continuous measures of canopy greenness derived using near-surface remote sensing and satellite-derived vegetation products.

Ecological and evolutionary consequences of alternative sex-change pathways in fish (2017)
Journal Article
Benvenuto, C., Coscia, I., Chopelet, J., Sala-Bozano, M., & Mariani, S. (2017). Ecological and evolutionary consequences of alternative sex-change pathways in fish. Scientific reports, 7(9804), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-09298-8

Sequentially hermaphroditic fish change sex from male to female (protandry) or vice versa (protogyny), increasing their fitness by becoming highly fecund females or large dominant males, respectively. These life-history strategies present different s... Read More about Ecological and evolutionary consequences of alternative sex-change pathways in fish.

Assessment of the efficacy of BTI Larvicide, VectoBac 12AS® (BTI AM65-52) against “nuisance” flies at water treatment plants in North West England (2017)
Thesis
Wenjere, S. Assessment of the efficacy of BTI Larvicide, VectoBac 12AS® (BTI AM65-52) against “nuisance” flies at water treatment plants in North West England. (Dissertation). University of Salford

In treating wastewater using percolating filters, nature employs diverse biota, which includes nematoceran larvae, to sustain filter function. This study sought to generate evidence on the efficacy of a Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis-deriv... Read More about Assessment of the efficacy of BTI Larvicide, VectoBac 12AS® (BTI AM65-52) against “nuisance” flies at water treatment plants in North West England.

Differential effects of low-molecular-weight organic acids on the mobilization of soil-borne arsenic and trace metals (2017)
Journal Article
arsenic and trace metals. Toxics, 5(3), https://doi.org/10.3390/toxics5030018

A batch experiment was conducted to examine the effects of six low-molecular-weight organic acids on the mobilization of arsenic and trace metals from a range of contaminated soils. The results showed that the organic acids behaved differently when r... Read More about Differential effects of low-molecular-weight organic acids on the mobilization of soil-borne arsenic and trace metals.

Sources and reliability of property market information for property valuation practice in Ghana (2017)
Journal Article
Baffour Awuah, K., Gyamfi-Yeboah, F., Proverbs, D., & Lamond, J. (2017). Sources and reliability of property market information for property valuation practice in Ghana. Property Management, 35(4), 448-466. https://doi.org/10.1108/PM-05-2016-0019

Purpose Adequate reliable property market data are critical to the production of professional and ethical valuations as well as better real estate transaction decision-making. However, the availability of reliable property market information repres... Read More about Sources and reliability of property market information for property valuation practice in Ghana.

The effect of situation-specific non-speech acoustic cues on the intelligibility of speech in noise (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Ward, L., Shirley, B., Tang, Y., & Davies, W. (2017, August). The effect of situation-specific non-speech acoustic cues on the intelligibility of speech in noise. Presented at INTERSPEECH 2017, 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Stockholm, Sweden

In everyday life, speech is often accompanied by a situation-specific acoustic cue; a hungry bark as you ask ‘Has anyone fed the dog?’. This paper investigates the effect such cues have on speech intelligibility in noise and evaluates their interactio... Read More about The effect of situation-specific non-speech acoustic cues on the intelligibility of speech in noise.

A parametric study on strength and stiffness of hybrid scarf joints (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Shankar, S., Ammasai Sengodan, G., & Idapalpati, S. (2017, August). A parametric study on strength and stiffness of hybrid scarf joints. Presented at ICCM International Conferences on Composite Materials, Xi'an, China

This work presents a parametric study of adhesively bonded scarf joints enriched with mechanical fasteners. Tensile tests of two different fastener positions along the load path were carried out and compared with bonded scarf joint. It was found that... Read More about A parametric study on strength and stiffness of hybrid scarf joints.

Thermo-mechanical de-bonding of composite-titanium single-lap adhesive joints (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Ammasai Sengodan, G. (2017, August). Thermo-mechanical de-bonding of composite-titanium single-lap adhesive joints. Presented at 21st International Conference on Composite Materials, Xi'an, China

The aim of this work is to isolate the constituent adherends of the adhesively bonded single lap joints with minimal or no damage to them and prepare the debonded surfaces for re-bonding. Thermo-mechanical separation of carbon fiber reinforced plasti... Read More about Thermo-mechanical de-bonding of composite-titanium single-lap adhesive joints.

Finite element computation of multi-physical micropolar transport phenomena from an inclined moving plate in porous media (2017)
Journal Article
Shamshuddin, M., Beg, O., Ram, M., & Kadir, A. (2017). Finite element computation of multi-physical micropolar transport phenomena from an inclined moving plate in porous media. Indian Journal of Physics, 92(2), 215-230. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12648-017-1095-y

Non-Newtonian flows arise in numerous industrial transport processes including materials fabrication systems. Micropolar theory offers an excellent mechanism for exploring the fluid dynamics of new non-Newtonian materials which possess internal micr... Read More about Finite element computation of multi-physical micropolar transport phenomena from an inclined moving plate in porous media.