All Outputs (619)

Thermal responses of single zone offices on existing near-extreme summer weather data (2017)
Journal Article
Ji, Y., Korolija, I., & Zhang, Y. (2018). Thermal responses of single zone offices on existing near-extreme summer weather data. Building Simulation, 11(1), 15-35. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12273-017-0367-y

There have been a number of attempts in the past to define “near extreme” weather for facilitating overheating analysis in free running buildings. The most recently efforts include CIBSE latest release of Design Summer Year (DSY) weather using multip... Read More about Thermal responses of single zone offices on existing near-extreme summer weather data.

Optimizing oil production in horizontal wells (water/oil cresting in horizontal wells) (2017)
Thesis
Akangbou, H. Optimizing oil production in horizontal wells (water/oil cresting in horizontal wells). (Thesis). University of Salford

In recent years, the application of horizontal wells has been predominant in minimizing cresting scenarios due to significant reservoir exposure of its laterals. Cresting is known to occur in horizontal wells when the pressure drop supersedes the hyd... Read More about Optimizing oil production in horizontal wells (water/oil cresting in horizontal wells).

Neural basis of virtual reality exposure threatment (2017)
Journal Article
Landowska, A., Roberts, D., & Eachus, P. (2017). Neural basis of virtual reality exposure threatment. Annual review of cybertherapy and telemedicine (Print), 15, 16-18

Virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) is an increasingly common treatment for a range of anxiety disorder, specific phobias, PTSD and addictions, however neural mechanisms supporting VRET are yet to be understood. This review summarises existing st... Read More about Neural basis of virtual reality exposure threatment.

Triggering and measuring social inhibitory response in humans immersed in interactions with virtual humans (2017)
Journal Article
Ahamba, G., Roberts, D., & Eachus, P. (2017). Triggering and measuring social inhibitory response in humans immersed in interactions with virtual humans. Annual review of cybertherapy and telemedicine (Print), 15, 185-188

The aim of the proposed study is to determine if a virtual human can evoke a measurable inhibitory response to anti-social stimuli within the prefrontal cortex. Justification, protocol and demonstrator are described here. The work follows a previo... Read More about Triggering and measuring social inhibitory response in humans immersed in interactions with virtual humans.

Building BORIS – an outreach project on drug design and molecular modelling (2017)
Journal Article
Rossington, S. (2017). Building BORIS – an outreach project on drug design and molecular modelling. ˜The œbiochemist (London. Online), 39(2), 50-51. https://doi.org/10.1042/bio03902050

Within university chemistry departments, organic chemists are formulating reaction pathways which will yield a desired chemical product. In most cases, it is often found that the targeted product exerts some beneficial biological effect towards cellu... Read More about Building BORIS – an outreach project on drug design and molecular modelling.

Environment and health impact assessment – developing an online knowledge sharing platform and network : report of an expert consultation, 25-26 April 2017, Bonn, Germany (2017)
Report
Fischer, T., Hayes, S., & Fung, H. (2017). Environment and health impact assessment – developing an online knowledge sharing platform and network : report of an expert consultation, 25-26 April 2017, Bonn, Germany

Aim of the expert consultation was to discuss the need of and options for the development of an online knowledge exchange platform on environment and health in impact assessments. Importantly, the target group of such an online platform would be th... Read More about Environment and health impact assessment – developing an online knowledge sharing platform and network : report of an expert consultation, 25-26 April 2017, Bonn, Germany.

A survey on the security of stateful SDN data planes (2017)
Journal Article
Dargahi, T., Caponi, A., Ambrosin, M., Bianchi, G., & Conti, M. (2017). A survey on the security of stateful SDN data planes. Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Communications Society, 19(3), 1701-1725. https://doi.org/10.1109/COMST.2017.2689819

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) emerged as an attempt to introduce network innovations faster, and to radically simplify and automate the management of large networks. SDN traditionally leverages OpenFlow as device-level abstraction. Since OpenFlo... Read More about A survey on the security of stateful SDN data planes.

Visual management in highways construction and maintenance in England (2017)
Journal Article
Tezel, B., & Aziz, Z. (2017). Visual management in highways construction and maintenance in England. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 24(3), 486-513. https://doi.org/10.1108/ECAM-02-2016-0052

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the current Visual Management practices in highways construction projects in England. Design/methodology/approach: Following a comprehensive literature review, the research topic was investigat... Read More about Visual management in highways construction and maintenance in England.

Maturity Matrix Assessment: evaluation of energy efficiency strategies in Brussels historic residential stock (2017)
Journal Article
Gonzalez, A., Zotano, M., Swan, W., Bouillard, P., & Elkadi, H. (2017). Maturity Matrix Assessment: evaluation of energy efficiency strategies in Brussels historic residential stock. Energy Procedia, 1(111), 407-416. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.202

Energy retrofitting of historic or existing buildings is a challenge that it has not yet been properly fully addressed. Multiple projects and methodologies are published every day but neither of them with the holistic approach that will assure comple... Read More about Maturity Matrix Assessment: evaluation of energy efficiency strategies in Brussels historic residential stock.

Risk-based management of invading plant disease (2017)
Journal Article
Hyatt-Twynam, S., Parnell, S., Stutt, R., Gottwald, T., Gilligan, C., & Cunniffe, N. (2017). Risk-based management of invading plant disease. New Phytologist, 214(3), 1317-1329. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14488

Effective control of plant disease remains a key challenge. Eradication attempts often involve removal of host plants within a certain radius of detection, targeting asymptomatic infection. Here we develop and test potentially more effective, epidemi... Read More about Risk-based management of invading plant disease.

Toll-like receptor variation in the bottlenecked population of the Seychelles warbler : computer simulations see the ‘ghost of selection past’ and quantify the ‘drift debt’ (2017)
Journal Article
Gilroy, D., Phillips, K., Richardson, D., & van Oosterhout, C. (2017). Toll-like receptor variation in the bottlenecked population of the Seychelles warbler : computer simulations see the ‘ghost of selection past’ and quantify the ‘drift debt’. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 30(7), 1276-1287. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13077

Balancing selection can maintain immunogenetic variation within host populations, but detecting its signal in a postbottlenecked population is challenging due to the potentially overriding effects of drift. Toll-like receptor genes (TLRs) play a fund... Read More about Toll-like receptor variation in the bottlenecked population of the Seychelles warbler : computer simulations see the ‘ghost of selection past’ and quantify the ‘drift debt’.

Quantifying pigment cover to assess variation in animal colouration (2017)
Journal Article
Siegenthaler, A., Mondal, D., & Benvenuto, C. (2017). Quantifying pigment cover to assess variation in animal colouration. Biology Methods and Protocols, 2(1), bpx003. https://doi.org/10.1093/biomethods/bpx003

The study of animal colouration addresses fundamental and applied aspects relevant to a wide range of fields, including behavioural ecology, environmental adaptation and visual ecology. Although a variety of methods are available to measure animal... Read More about Quantifying pigment cover to assess variation in animal colouration.

Greening cloud-enabled big data storage forensics : Syncany as a case study (2017)
Journal Article
Teing, Y., Dehghantanha, A., Raymond Choo, K., Abdullah, M., & Muda, Z. (2019). Greening cloud-enabled big data storage forensics : Syncany as a case study. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, 4(2), 204-216. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSUSC.2017.2687103

The pervasive nature of cloud-enabled big data storage solutions introduces new challenges in the identification, collection, analysis, preservation and archiving of digital evidences. Investigation of such complex platforms to locate and recover tra... Read More about Greening cloud-enabled big data storage forensics : Syncany as a case study.

Mathematical model for ciliary-induced transport in MHD flow of Cu-H2O nanoßuids with magnetic induction (2017)
Journal Article
Akbar, N., Tripathi, D., Khan, Z., & Beg, O. (2017). Mathematical model for ciliary-induced transport in MHD flow of Cu-H2O nanoßuids with magnetic induction. Chinese Journal of Physics, 55(3), 947-962. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjph.2017.03.005

Motivated by novel developments in surface-modified, nanoscale, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) biomedical devices, we study theoretically the ciliary induced transport by metachronal wave propagation in hydromagnetic flow of copper-water nanofluids throu... Read More about Mathematical model for ciliary-induced transport in MHD flow of Cu-H2O nanoßuids with magnetic induction.

Effective geometric restoration of distorted historical documents for large-scale digitization (2017)
Journal Article
Yang, P., Antonacopoulos, A., Clausner, C., Pletschacher, S., & Qi, J. (2017). Effective geometric restoration of distorted historical documents for large-scale digitization. IET Image Processing, 11(10), 841-853. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-ipr.2016.0973

Due to storage conditions and material’s non-planar shape, geometric distortion of the 2-D content is widely present in scanned document images. Effective geometric restoration of these distorted document images considerably increases character recog... Read More about Effective geometric restoration of distorted historical documents for large-scale digitization.

Improving competition within Public Private Partnership (PPP) procurement process for infrastructure delivery in Malaysia (2017)
Thesis
Zin Zawawi, M. Improving competition within Public Private Partnership (PPP) procurement process for infrastructure delivery in Malaysia. (Thesis). University of Salford

Public Private Partnerships (PPP) have come to be preferred by governments for infrastructure development over traditional procurement. PPP is seen as the answer to many shortcomings of traditional procurement. Despite the complex nature of a PPP pro... Read More about Improving competition within Public Private Partnership (PPP) procurement process for infrastructure delivery in Malaysia.

Street trees reduce the negative effects of urbanization on birds (2017)
Journal Article
urbanization on birds. PLoS ONE, 12(e01744), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0174484

The effects of streets on biodiversity is an important aspect of urban ecology, but it has been neglected worldwide. Several vegetation attributes (e.g. street tree density and diversity) have important effects on biodiversity and ecological proces... Read More about Street trees reduce the negative effects of urbanization on birds.

Effect of cavities on the behaviour of laterally loaded pile in sand (2017)
Journal Article
Al-Jazaairry, A., & Toma-Sabbagh, T. (2017). Effect of cavities on the behaviour of laterally loaded pile in sand. International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, 12(6), 567-577. https://doi.org/10.1080/19386362.2017.1305137

This paper sheds the light on the interaction between piles under lateral loading conditions embedded in sandy soils and adjacent to cavities. The experimental study comprised a full laboratory testing programme carried out on small scale piles embed... Read More about Effect of cavities on the behaviour of laterally loaded pile in sand.

MRI brain scan classification using novel 3-D statistical features (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Hasan, A., Meziane, F., Aspin, R., & Jalab, H. (2017, March). MRI brain scan classification using novel 3-D statistical features. Presented at The Second International Conference on Internet of Things, Data and Cloud Computing (ICC 2017), University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

The paper presents an automated algorithm for detecting and classifying magnetic resonance brain slices into normal and abnormal based on a novel three-dimensional modified grey level co-occurrence matrix approach that is used for extracting texture... Read More about MRI brain scan classification using novel 3-D statistical features.

Formulation of Biocides Increases Antimicrobial Potency and Mitigates the Enrichment of Nonsusceptible Bacteria in Multispecies Biofilms (2017)
Journal Article
Forbes, S., Cowley, N., Humphreys, G., Mistry, H., Amézquita, A., & McBain, A. J. (2017). Formulation of Biocides Increases Antimicrobial Potency and Mitigates the Enrichment of Nonsusceptible Bacteria in Multispecies Biofilms. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 83(7), https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.03054-16

The current investigation aimed to generate data to inform the development of risk assessments of biocide usage. Stabilized domestic drain biofilm microcosms were exposed daily over 6 months to increasing concentrations (0.01% to 1%) of the biocide b... Read More about Formulation of Biocides Increases Antimicrobial Potency and Mitigates the Enrichment of Nonsusceptible Bacteria in Multispecies Biofilms.