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The role of task complexity in valuation errors analysis in a developing real estate market (2017)
Journal Article
Baffour Awuah, K., & Gyamfi-Yeboah, F. (2017). The role of task complexity in valuation errors analysis in a developing real estate market. Journal of Property Research, 34(1), 54-76. https://doi.org/10.1080/09599916.2017.1315444

The real estate valuation literature on sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) shows a growing concern over valuation errors, especially wide variation in valuations. Although there have been increased business and investment activities in the last decade or more... Read More about The role of task complexity in valuation errors analysis in a developing real estate market.

Electro-osmotic flow of couple stress fluids in a microchannel propagated by peristalsis (2017)
Journal Article
Tripathi, D., Yadav, A., & Beg, O. (2017). Electro-osmotic flow of couple stress fluids in a microchannel propagated by peristalsis. European Physical Journal Plus, 132(4:173), https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2017-11416-x

A mathematical model is developed for electro-osmotic peristaltic pumping of a non-Newtonian liquid in a deformable micro-channel. Stokes’ couple stress fluid model is deployed to represent realistic working liquids. The Poisson-Boltzmann equation fo... Read More about Electro-osmotic flow of couple stress fluids in a microchannel propagated by peristalsis.

Electro-magneto-hydrodynamic peristaltic pumping of couple stress biofluids through a complex wavy micro-channel (2017)
Journal Article
Tripathi, D., Jorar, R., Beg, O., & Kadir, A. (2017). Electro-magneto-hydrodynamic peristaltic pumping of couple stress biofluids through a complex wavy micro-channel. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 236, 358-367. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2017.04.037

Biomimetic propulsion mechanisms are increasingly being explored in engineering sciences. Peristalsis is one of the most efficient of these mechanisms and offers considerable promise in microscale fluidics. Electrokinetic peristalsis has recently al... Read More about Electro-magneto-hydrodynamic peristaltic pumping of couple stress biofluids through a complex wavy micro-channel.

The money side of livelihoods: Economics of an unregulated small-scale Indonesian sea cucumber fishery in the Timor Sea (2017)
Journal Article
Prescott, J., Riwu, J., Prasetyo, A., & Stacey, N. (2017). The money side of livelihoods: Economics of an unregulated small-scale Indonesian sea cucumber fishery in the Timor Sea. Marine Policy, 82, 197-205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2017.03.033

Fishers from several ethnic groups on islands in eastern Indonesia seasonally fish for sea cucumbers at Scott Reef in Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone in the Timor Sea. Despite evidence suggesting that sea cucumbers are severely over-exploited fis... Read More about The money side of livelihoods: Economics of an unregulated small-scale Indonesian sea cucumber fishery in the Timor Sea.

Public-Private Partnership (PPPs) in the development and operation of airport passenger terminal in Lagos, Nigeria (2017)
Thesis
Ayo-Vaughan, E. Public-Private Partnership (PPPs) in the development and operation of airport passenger terminal in Lagos, Nigeria. (Dissertation). University of Salford

Against the backdrop of low passenger terminal capacity in many airports in Africa, countries in this continent like their counterparts across the world are taking steps to improve the quality and capacity of this vital component of airport infrastru... Read More about Public-Private Partnership (PPPs) in the development and operation of airport passenger terminal in Lagos, Nigeria.

The passivating effect of cadmium in PbS/CdS colloidal quantum dots probed by nm-scale depth profiling (2017)
Journal Article
Clark, P., Radtke, H., Pengpad, A., Williamson, A., Spencer, B., Hardman, S., …Flavell, W. (2017). The passivating effect of cadmium in PbS/CdS colloidal quantum dots probed by nm-scale depth profiling. Nanoscale, 9(2017), 6056-6067. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7nr00672a

Achieving control of the surface chemistry of colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) is essential to fully exploit their properties in solar cells, but direct measurement of the chemistry and electronic structure in the outermost atomic layers is challenging.... Read More about The passivating effect of cadmium in PbS/CdS colloidal quantum dots probed by nm-scale depth profiling.

Oldest Varroa tolerant honey bee population provides insight into the origins of the global decline of honey bees (2017)
Journal Article
Brettell, L., & Martin, S. (2017). Oldest Varroa tolerant honey bee population provides insight into the origins of the global decline of honey bees. Scientific reports, 7, https://doi.org/10.1038/srep45953

The ecto-parasitic mite Varroa destructor has transformed the previously inconsequential Deformed Wing Virus (DWV) into the most important honey bee viral pathogen responsible for the death of millions of colonies worldwide. Naturally, DWV persists a... Read More about Oldest Varroa tolerant honey bee population provides insight into the origins of the global decline of honey bees.

Understanding ethnography through a life course framework : a research journey into alternative spiritual spaces (2017)
Journal Article
Fois, F. (2017). Understanding ethnography through a life course framework : a research journey into alternative spiritual spaces. Area, 49(4), 421-428. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12332

Recently scholars have emphasised the importance of looking at the researcher's experience and how positionality, emotions and embodiment shape the ethnographic fieldwork process. Specifically, feminist contributions have shown how the professional a... Read More about Understanding ethnography through a life course framework : a research journey into alternative spiritual spaces.

Electrothermal transport of nanofluids via peristaltic pumping in a finite micro-channel : effects of joule heating and Helmholtz-Smoluchowski velocity (2017)
Journal Article
Beg, O., Tripathi, D., & Sharma, A. (2017). Electrothermal transport of nanofluids via peristaltic pumping in a finite micro-channel : effects of joule heating and Helmholtz-Smoluchowski velocity. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 111, 138-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2017.03.089

The present article studies theoretically the electrokinetic pumping of nanofluids with heat and mass transfer in a micro-channel under peristaltic waves, a topic of some interest in medical nano-scale electro-osmotic devices. The microchannel walls... Read More about Electrothermal transport of nanofluids via peristaltic pumping in a finite micro-channel : effects of joule heating and Helmholtz-Smoluchowski velocity.

Comprehensive survey on quality of service provisioning approaches in cognitive radio networks : part one (2017)
Journal Article
Fakhrudeen, A., & Alani, O. (2017). Comprehensive survey on quality of service provisioning approaches in cognitive radio networks : part one. International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, 24(4), 356-388. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10776-017-0352-5

Much interest in Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs) has been raised recently by enabling unlicensed (secondary) users to utilize the unused portions of the licensed spectrum. CRN utilization of residual spectrum bands of Primary (licensed) Networks (PNs... Read More about Comprehensive survey on quality of service provisioning approaches in cognitive radio networks : part one.

Metrology of dye-sensitized solar cells (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Furnell, L., Holliman, P., Anthony, R., Connell, A., Jones, E., & Kershaw, C. (2017, April). Metrology of dye-sensitized solar cells. Presented at PVSAT 13 2017 (The 13th Photovoltaic Science, Applications and Technology Conference), Bangor University, Bangor

Metrology of dye-sensitised solar cells (Poster Presentation) (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Furnell, L., Holliman, P., Anthony, R., Connell, A., Jones, E., & Kershaw, C. (2017, April). Metrology of dye-sensitised solar cells (Poster Presentation). Poster presented at PVSAT 13 2017 (The 13th Photovoltaic Science, Applications and Technology Conference), Bangor University, Bangor

Greenhouse gases (GHG) performance of refurbishment projects – lessons from UK higher education student accommodation case studies (2017)
Journal Article
Lou, E., Lee, A., & Welfle, A. (2017). Greenhouse gases (GHG) performance of refurbishment projects – lessons from UK higher education student accommodation case studies. Journal of Cleaner Production, 154, 309-317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.03.226

The student accommodation sector in now the best-performing asset in the UK and US property markets and this is projected to further accelerate, with building refurbishment of existing student accommodations being the preferred method to satisfy gro... Read More about Greenhouse gases (GHG) performance of refurbishment projects – lessons from UK higher education student accommodation case studies.

Effect of cavities on the behaviour of model pile under axial loading in sand (2017)
Journal Article
Al-Jazaairry, A., & Toma-Sabbagh, T. (2017). Effect of cavities on the behaviour of model pile under axial loading in sand. Proceedings of the World Congress on Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering, 2(4), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.11159/icgre17.107

Presence of cavities in soils is an important area of interest within the field of geotechnical engineering. A better understanding of the behaviour of such soils, particularly in locations where the presence of gypsum deposits is apparent, will have... Read More about Effect of cavities on the behaviour of model pile under axial loading in sand.

A review on hyperthermia via nanoparticle-mediated therapy (2017)
Journal Article
Beg, O., Sohail, A., Ahmed, Z., Arshad, S., & Sherin, L. (2017). A review on hyperthermia via nanoparticle-mediated therapy. Bulletin du Cancer, 104(5), 452-461. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bulcan.2017.02.003

Hyperthermia treatment, generated by magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) is promising since it is tumour-focused, minimally invasive and uniform. The most unique feature of magnetic nanoparticles is their reaction to and manipulation by a magnetic force wh... Read More about A review on hyperthermia via nanoparticle-mediated therapy.

50 important research questions in microbial ecology (2017)
Journal Article
Antwis, R., Griffiths, S., Harrison, X., Aranega-Bou, P., Arce, A., Bettridge, A., …Sutherland, W. (2017). 50 important research questions in microbial ecology. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 93(5), https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fix044

Microbial ecology provides insights into the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of microbial communities underpinning every ecosystem on Earth. Microbial communities can now be investigated in unprecedented detail, although there is still a wealth... Read More about 50 important research questions in microbial ecology.

Anthropogenic noise reduces bird species richness and diversity in urban parks (2017)
Journal Article
and diversity in urban parks. Ibis, 159(3), 638-646. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12481

Anthropogenic noise is becoming more prevalent in the world and has been shown to affect many animal species, including birds. The impact of such noise was measured in Neotropical urban parks to assess how the noise affects avifauna diversity and spe... Read More about Anthropogenic noise reduces bird species richness and diversity in urban parks.

Platinum composite nanowires for ultrasensitive mass detection (2017)
Journal Article
Hao, T., Shen, T., Li, W., Song, C., Xu, Z., Jin, A., …Gu, C. (2017). Platinum composite nanowires for ultrasensitive mass detection. Applied Physics Letters, 110(14), 143102. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4979645

Platinum (Pt) composite nanowires were grown on the tip of tungsten (W) microprobes by focused-electron-beam induced chemical vapor deposition (FEB-CVD). An electrical field was used to drive a transversal mechanical vibration of the nanowires. Such... Read More about Platinum composite nanowires for ultrasensitive mass detection.

Handbook of research on machine learning innovations and trends (2017)
Book
Gaber, T., & Hassanien, A. (2017). Handbook of research on machine learning innovations and trends. Hershey: IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2229-4

Continuous improvements in technological applications have allowed more opportunities to develop automated systems. This not only leads to higher success in smart data analysis, but it increases the overall probability of technological progression.... Read More about Handbook of research on machine learning innovations and trends.

Strangely familiar! Or, what the smell of grease revealed about my curious self (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Shayya, F. (2017, April). Strangely familiar! Or, what the smell of grease revealed about my curious self. Presented at PhD By Design Conference, Sheffield, United Kingdom

It’s a windy, cold February Saturday at The Imperial War Museum in Manchester. I stand next to a 1979 Leopard patrol vehicle and a WWII T34 tank when a strong, thick, nauseating smell takes me 23 years back to a boyish childhood memory. I recall clim... Read More about Strangely familiar! Or, what the smell of grease revealed about my curious self.