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From the animal house to the field : are there consistent individual differences in immunological profile in wild populations of field voles (Microtus agrestis)? (2017)
Journal Article
Arriero, E., Wanelik, K., Birtles, R., Bradley, J., Jackson, J., Paterson, S., & Begon, M. (2017). From the animal house to the field : are there consistent individual differences in immunological profile in wild populations of field voles (Microtus agrestis)?. PLoS ONE, 12(8), e0183450. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183450

Inbred mouse strains, living in simple laboratory environments far removed from nature, have been shown to vary consistently in their immune response. However, wildlife populations are typically outbreeding and face a multiplicity of challenges, para... Read More about From the animal house to the field : are there consistent individual differences in immunological profile in wild populations of field voles (Microtus agrestis)?.

Soundscape assessment of a monumental place : a methodology based on the perception of dominant sounds (2017)
Journal Article
Perez-Martinez, G., Torija Martinez, A., & Ruiz, D. (2018). Soundscape assessment of a monumental place : a methodology based on the perception of dominant sounds. Landscape and Urban Planning, 169, 12-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.07.022

Some monumental sites have unique soundscapes that deserve to be managed not only by their tourist and cultural value, but also for enhancing the visitors’ overall impression. These sites can include a multitude of sound sources within a variety of... Read More about Soundscape assessment of a monumental place : a methodology based on the perception of dominant sounds.

Gut microbiota of a long-distance migrant demonstrates resistance against environmental microbe incursions (2017)
Journal Article
Risely, A., Waite, D., Ujvari, B., Klaassen, M., & Hoye, B. (2017). Gut microbiota of a long-distance migrant demonstrates resistance against environmental microbe incursions. Molecular Ecology, 26(20), 5842-5854. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14326

Migratory animals encounter suites of novel microbes as they move between disparate sites during their migrations, and are frequently implicated in the global spread of pathogens. Although wild animals have been shown to source a proportion of their... Read More about Gut microbiota of a long-distance migrant demonstrates resistance against environmental microbe incursions.

A social norms approach to changing school children’s perceptions of tobacco usage (2017)
Journal Article
Sheikh, A., Vadera, S., Ravey, M., Lovatt, G., & Kelly, G. (2017). A social norms approach to changing school children’s perceptions of tobacco usage. Health Education, 117(6), 530-539. https://doi.org/10.1108/he-01-2017-0006

Purpose: Over 200,000 young people in the UK embark on a smoking career annually, thus continued effort is required to understand the types of interventions that are most effective in changing perceptions about smoking amongst teenagers. Several auth... Read More about A social norms approach to changing school children’s perceptions of tobacco usage.

Skeleton of an unusual cat-sized marsupial relative (Metatheria: Marsupialiformes) from the middle Eocene (Lutetian: 44-43 million years ago) of Turkey (2017)
Journal Article
Murat Maga, A., & Beck, R. (2017). Skeleton of an unusual cat-sized marsupial relative (Metatheria: Marsupialiformes) from the middle Eocene (Lutetian: 44-43 million years ago) of Turkey. PLoS ONE, 12(8), e0181712. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0181712

We describe a near-complete, three-dimensionally preserved skeleton of a metatherian (relative of modern marsupials) from the middle Eocene (Lutetian: 44–43 million years ago) Lülük member of the Uzunçarşıdere Formation, central Turkey. With an estim... Read More about Skeleton of an unusual cat-sized marsupial relative (Metatheria: Marsupialiformes) from the middle Eocene (Lutetian: 44-43 million years ago) of Turkey.

Mitigating wind noise in outdoor microphone signals using a singular spectral subspace method (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Eldwaik, O., & Li, F. (2017, August). Mitigating wind noise in outdoor microphone signals using a singular spectral subspace method. Presented at IEEE, Seventh International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2107), Luton, UK

Wind noise is one of the major concerns of outdoor microphone signal acquisition. Filtering and removal of wind noise are known to be difficult due to its broadband and time varying nature. This paper proposes the use of singular spectrum analysis to... Read More about Mitigating wind noise in outdoor microphone signals using a singular spectral subspace method.

Robust speaker verification in reverberant conditions using estimated acoustic parameters : a maximum likelihood estimation and training on the fly approach (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Yousif, K., & Li, F. (2017, August). Robust speaker verification in reverberant conditions using estimated acoustic parameters : a maximum likelihood estimation and training on the fly approach. Presented at 7th International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2017), Luton, UK

Speaker recognition has been developed into a relatively mature state over the past few decades through continuous research and development work. Existing methods typically use the robust features extracted from noise and reverberation free speech si... Read More about Robust speaker verification in reverberant conditions using estimated acoustic parameters : a maximum likelihood estimation and training on the fly approach.

Mean and cell-mean imputation resulting in the use of a semicontinuous distribution and a mixture of semicontinuous distributions (2017)
Journal Article
Aliakbari Saba, R., Rezaei Ghahroodi, Z., Kiani, K., & Berridge, D. M. (in press). Mean and cell-mean imputation resulting in the use of a semicontinuous distribution and a mixture of semicontinuous distributions. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 46(23), 11450-11465. https://doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2016.1267762

Zero-inflated models are commonly used for modeling count and continuous data with extra zeros. Inflations at one point or two points apart from zero for modeling continuous data have been discussed less than that of zero inflation. In this article,... Read More about Mean and cell-mean imputation resulting in the use of a semicontinuous distribution and a mixture of semicontinuous distributions.

Bioconvection nanofluid slip flow past a wavy surface with applications in nano-biofuel cells (2017)
Journal Article
Beg, O., Uddin, M., Khan, W., & Qureshi, S. (2017). Bioconvection nanofluid slip flow past a wavy surface with applications in nano-biofuel cells. Chinese Journal of Physics, 55(5), 2048-2063. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjph.2017.08.005

A theoretical study is presented to examine free convective boundary layer flow of water-based bio-nanofluid containing gyrotactic microorganisms past a wavy surface. Buongiorno’s nanofluid model with passively controlled boundary condition is applie... Read More about Bioconvection nanofluid slip flow past a wavy surface with applications in nano-biofuel cells.

Medium/Long wavelength sensitive opsin diversity in Pitheciidae (2017)
Journal Article
Goulart, V., Boubli, J., & Young, R. (2017). Medium/Long wavelength sensitive opsin diversity in Pitheciidae. Scientific reports, 7(7737), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08143-2

New World primates feature a complex colour vision system. Most species have polymorphic colour vision where males have a dichromatic colour perception and females can be either ichromatic or trichromatic. The adaptive value of high allelic diversity... Read More about Medium/Long wavelength sensitive opsin diversity in Pitheciidae.

Surface-related properties of perovskite CH3NH3PbI3 thin films by aerosol-assisted chemical vapour deposition (2017)
Journal Article
Afzaal, M., Salhi, B., Al-Ahmed, A., Yates, H., & Hakeem, A. (2017). Surface-related properties of perovskite CH3NH3PbI3 thin films by aerosol-assisted chemical vapour deposition. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 5(33), 8366-8370. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7TC02968C

A modified three-step aerosol-assisted chemical vapour deposition process was used to grow dense and uniform CH3NH3PbI3 thin films directly on borosilicate glass. The resulting photoluminescence spectrum was blue shifted with respect to its bandgap.... Read More about Surface-related properties of perovskite CH3NH3PbI3 thin films by aerosol-assisted chemical vapour deposition.

Embryonic and fetal morphology in the lowland paca (Cuniculus paca): a precocial hystricomorph rodent (2017)
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Rocha El Bizri, H., Monteiro, F., Andrade, R., Valsecchi, J., Guimaraes, D., & Mayor, P. (2017). Embryonic and fetal morphology in the lowland paca (Cuniculus paca): a precocial hystricomorph rodent. Theriogenology, 104, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.theriogenology.2017.08.004

In mammals, the embryonic and fetal development of a species has evolved to maximize neonatal survival. In this study, we use a sample of 132 embryos/fetuses of wild lowland paca (Cuniculus paca), obtained over a period of 15 years through collaborat... Read More about Embryonic and fetal morphology in the lowland paca (Cuniculus paca): a precocial hystricomorph rodent.

Hook, line and infection : a guide to culturing parasites, establishing infections and assessing immune responses in the three-spined stickleback (2017)
Journal Article
Stewart, A., Jackson, J., Barber, I., Eizaguirre, C., Paterson, R., van West, P., …Cable, J. (2017). Hook, line and infection : a guide to culturing parasites, establishing infections and assessing immune responses in the three-spined stickleback. Advances in Parasitology, 98, 39-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.apar.2017.07.001

The three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) is a model organism with an extremely well-characterized ecology, evolutionary history, behavioural repertoire and parasitology that is coupled with published genomic data. These small temperate z... Read More about Hook, line and infection : a guide to culturing parasites, establishing infections and assessing immune responses in the three-spined stickleback.

Geographical variation in the high-duty cycle echolocation of the cryptic common mustached bat Pteronotus cf. rubiginosus (Mormoopidae) (2017)
Journal Article
Lopez-Baucells, A., Torrent, L., Rocha, R., Pavan, A., Bobrowiec, P., & Meyer, C. (2017). Geographical variation in the high-duty cycle echolocation of the cryptic common mustached bat Pteronotus cf. rubiginosus (Mormoopidae). Bioacoustics, 27(4), 341-357. https://doi.org/10.1080/09524622.2017.1357145

The use of bioacoustics as a tool for bat research is rapidly increasing worldwide. There is substantial evidence that environmental factors such as weather conditions or habitat structure can affect echolocation call structure in bats and thus compr... Read More about Geographical variation in the high-duty cycle echolocation of the cryptic common mustached bat Pteronotus cf. rubiginosus (Mormoopidae).

Influence of Stefan blowing on nanofluid flow submerged in microorganisms with leading edge accretion or ablation (2017)
Journal Article
Beg, O., Basir, M., Uddin, M., & Ismail, A. (2017). Influence of Stefan blowing on nanofluid flow submerged in microorganisms with leading edge accretion or ablation. Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, 39(11), 4519-4532. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40430-017-0877-7

The unsteady forced convective boundary layer flow of viscous incompressible fluid containing both nanoparticles and gyrotactic microorganisms, from a flat surface with leading edge accretion (or ablation), is investigated theoretically. Utilizing ap... Read More about Influence of Stefan blowing on nanofluid flow submerged in microorganisms with leading edge accretion or ablation.

Mitochondrial mRNA transcripts predict overall survival, tumor recurrence and progression in serous ovarian cancer : companion diagnostics for cancer therapy (2017)
Journal Article
Sotgia, F., & Lisanti, M. (2017). Mitochondrial mRNA transcripts predict overall survival, tumor recurrence and progression in serous ovarian cancer : companion diagnostics for cancer therapy. Oncotarget, 8(40), 66925-66939. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.19963

Here, we performed a systematic analysis to discover new biomarkers of overall survival and tumor progression in ovarian cancer patients. More specifically, we determined whether nuclear-encoded mitochondrial genes related to mitochondrial biogenesis... Read More about Mitochondrial mRNA transcripts predict overall survival, tumor recurrence and progression in serous ovarian cancer : companion diagnostics for cancer therapy.

Fenton reagent reduces the level of arsenic in paddy rice grain (2017)
Journal Article
Qin, J., Li, Y., Feng, M., Li, H., & Lin, C. (2017). Fenton reagent reduces the level of arsenic in paddy rice grain. Geoderma, 307, 73-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2017.07.039

Hydroponic and pot experiments were conducted to examine the effects of Fenton reagent on paddy rice plant growing in arsenic-contaminated soils. Fenton reagent significantly reduced arsenic phytotoxicity, uptake by the plants and accumulation in ric... Read More about Fenton reagent reduces the level of arsenic in paddy rice grain.

Mitochondrial biomarkers predict tumor progression and poor overall survival in gastric cancers : companion diagnostics for personalized medicine. (2017)
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Sotgia, F., & Lisanti, M. (2017). Mitochondrial biomarkers predict tumor progression and poor overall survival in gastric cancers : companion diagnostics for personalized medicine. Oncotarget, 8(40), 67117-67128. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.19962

Here, we employed a bioinformatics approach to identify novel molecular determinants to predict tumor progression and overall survival in gastric cancer patients. In particular, we directly assessed whether nuclear-derived mRNA species encoding prote... Read More about Mitochondrial biomarkers predict tumor progression and poor overall survival in gastric cancers : companion diagnostics for personalized medicine..

SSAM : towards supervised sentiment and aspect modeling on different levels of labeling (2017)
Journal Article
Zahedi, E., & Saraee, M. (2018). SSAM : towards supervised sentiment and aspect modeling on different levels of labeling. Soft Computing, 22(23), 7989-8000. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-017-2746-9

Abstract In recent years people want to express their opinion on every online service or product, and there are now a huge number of opinions on the social media, online stores and blogs. However, most of the opinions are presented in plain text and... Read More about SSAM : towards supervised sentiment and aspect modeling on different levels of labeling.