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How many Pygmy Marmoset (Cebuella Gray, 1870) species are there? A taxonomic re-appraisal based on new molecular evidence (2017)
Journal Article
Boubli, J., da Silva, M., Rylands, A., Nash, S., Bertuol, F., Nunes, M., …Hrbek, T. (2017). How many Pygmy Marmoset (Cebuella Gray, 1870) species are there? A taxonomic re-appraisal based on new molecular evidence. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 120, 170-182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2017.11.010

The pygmy marmoset, Cebuella pygmaea, the smallest of the New World monkeys, has one of the largest geographical distributions of the Amazonian primates. Two forms have been recognized: Cebuella pygmaea pygmaea (Spix, 1823), and C. p. niveiventris Lö... Read More about How many Pygmy Marmoset (Cebuella Gray, 1870) species are there? A taxonomic re-appraisal based on new molecular evidence.

Airport noise modelling for strategic environmental impact assessment of aviation (2017)
Journal Article
Torija Martinez, A., Self, R., & Flindell, I. (2018). Airport noise modelling for strategic environmental impact assessment of aviation. Applied Acoustics, 132, 49-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2017.10.017

As projected by different agencies the aviation market will experience a significant increase in air traffic demand over the next decades, driven by the large demand of the Asia-Pacific region. To overcome the further deterioration of the quality o... Read More about Airport noise modelling for strategic environmental impact assessment of aviation.

Evidence of Varroa -mediated deformed wing virus spillover in Hawaii (2017)
Journal Article
Santamaria, J., Villalobos, E., Brettell, L., Nikaido, S., Graham, J., & Martin, S. (2017). Evidence of Varroa -mediated deformed wing virus spillover in Hawaii. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 151, 126-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jip.2017.11.008

The spread of disease between closely related species is often times exacerbated by a vector. In this study, the Varroa mite, a pest exclusive to honeybees, has been shown to amplify the natural levels of the Deformed Wing virus, resulting in a spill... Read More about Evidence of Varroa -mediated deformed wing virus spillover in Hawaii.

Microphone wind noise reduction using singular spectrum analysis techniques (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Eldwaik, O., & Li, F. (2017, November). Microphone wind noise reduction using singular spectrum analysis techniques. Presented at 33nd Annual Conference And Exhibition. Reproduced Sound 2017 : Sound Quality By Design, Nottingham, UK

Wind noise is a known problem that contaminates microphone signals in many field measurement and audio recording scenarios. A recently completed EPSRC project has led to the development of a tool to detect such noise; this paper takes a step further... Read More about Microphone wind noise reduction using singular spectrum analysis techniques.

A revised speech spectrum for STI calculations (2017)
Journal Article
Morales, L., Leembruggen, G., Dance, S., & Shield, B. (2018). A revised speech spectrum for STI calculations. Applied Acoustics, 132, 33-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2017.11.008

The ability of the Speech Transmission Index (STI) to predict speech intelligibility under noisy conditions is highly dependent on the assumed spectrum of the speech signal. Examination of the literature showed that the long-term average speech spe... Read More about A revised speech spectrum for STI calculations.

Big pictures and small screens; how television sound research can work with, and for, hard of hearing viewers (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Ward, L., Shirley, B., & Davies, W. (2017, November). Big pictures and small screens; how television sound research can work with, and for, hard of hearing viewers. Presented at Reproduced Sound 2017, Nottingham, UK

Hearing loss affects one in six people in the United Kingdom and, given an ageing population, this figure is increasing.1 Numerous studies highlight that improvements in the intelligibility of television sound are required to increase television’s... Read More about Big pictures and small screens; how television sound research can work with, and for, hard of hearing viewers.

The potential for cool roofs to improve the energy efficiency of single storey warehouse-type retail buildings in Australia : a simulation case study (2017)
Journal Article
Seifhashemi, M., Capra, B., Miller, W., & Bell, J. (2018). The potential for cool roofs to improve the energy efficiency of single storey warehouse-type retail buildings in Australia : a simulation case study. Energy and Buildings, 158, 1393-1403

Australia’s commercial building stock exceeds 134 million m2 of net lettable area, with retail buildings contributing 35% to this sector’s energy use. The energy intensity of retail buildings in hotter climates is higher than the national average, as... Read More about The potential for cool roofs to improve the energy efficiency of single storey warehouse-type retail buildings in Australia : a simulation case study.

Charge dynamics in colloidal quantum dots : recombination, trapping and multiple exciton generation (2017)
Book Chapter
Leontiadou, M., Smith, C., Lydon, C., & Binks, D. (2017). Charge dynamics in colloidal quantum dots : recombination, trapping and multiple exciton generation. In P. Skabara, & M. Malik (Eds.), Nanostructured Materials for Type III Photovoltaics. Royal Society of Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1039/9781782626749-00472

Colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) are semiconductor crystals, the nanometre-scale size of which both allows their absorption edge to be controlled during growth and enhances the yield of multiple exciton generation. These properties, combined with the fa... Read More about Charge dynamics in colloidal quantum dots : recombination, trapping and multiple exciton generation.

Electroosmosis modulated peristaltic biorheological flow through an asymmetric microchannel : mathematical model (2017)
Journal Article
Tripathi, D., Jhorar, R., Beg, O., & Shaw, S. (2017). Electroosmosis modulated peristaltic biorheological flow through an asymmetric microchannel : mathematical model. Meccanica, 53(8), 2079-2090. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11012-017-0795-x

A theoretical study is presented of peristaltic hydrodynamics of an aqueous electrolytic nonNewtonian Jeffrey bio-rheological fluid through an asymmetric microchannel under an applied axial electric field. An analytical approach is adopted to obtain... Read More about Electroosmosis modulated peristaltic biorheological flow through an asymmetric microchannel : mathematical model.

A Correlation Analysis of Factors Influencing Cooling Energy Demand of Condominiums in Sri Lanka (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Geekiyanage, D., & Ramachandra, T. (2017, November). A Correlation Analysis of Factors Influencing Cooling Energy Demand of Condominiums in Sri Lanka. Paper presented at Vidulka National Energy Symposium, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Often, energy use for Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning is the key contributor to operational energy demand which varies between 50-70% in most of the developed countries. Surprisingly, in Sri Lanka, the energy consumption of space cooling ac... Read More about A Correlation Analysis of Factors Influencing Cooling Energy Demand of Condominiums in Sri Lanka.

Oscillatory dissipative conjugate heat and mass transfer in chemically-reacting micropolar flow with wall couple stress : a finite element numerical study (2017)
Journal Article
Shamshuddin, M., Sheri, S., & Beg, O. (2017). Oscillatory dissipative conjugate heat and mass transfer in chemically-reacting micropolar flow with wall couple stress : a finite element numerical study. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering, 233(1), 48-64. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954408917743372

High temperature non-Newtonian materials processing provides a stimulating area for process engineering simulation. Motivated by emerging applications in this area, the present article investigates the time-dependent free convective flow of a chemica... Read More about Oscillatory dissipative conjugate heat and mass transfer in chemically-reacting micropolar flow with wall couple stress : a finite element numerical study.

Are isomeric alkenes used in species recognition among neo-tropical stingless bees (Melipona spp) (2017)
Journal Article
Martin, S., Shemilt, S., Lima, C., & Carvalho, C. (2017). Are isomeric alkenes used in species recognition among neo-tropical stingless bees (Melipona spp). Journal of Chemical Ecology, 43(11-12), 1066-1072. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-017-0901-5

The majority of our understanding of the role of cuticular hydrocarbons (CHC) in recognition is based largely on temperate ant species and honey bees. The stingless bees remain relatively poorly studied, despite being the largest group of eusocial be... Read More about Are isomeric alkenes used in species recognition among neo-tropical stingless bees (Melipona spp).

Carbon and cost critical elements of buildings : a comparative analysis of two office buildings (2017)
Journal Article
Victoria, M., Perera, S., Davies, A., & Fernando, N. (2017). Carbon and cost critical elements of buildings : a comparative analysis of two office buildings. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 7(5), 460-470. https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-12-2016-0086

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to identify and compare cost and carbon critical elements of two office buildings and to propose an early design stage cost and carbon control strategy to achieve an optimum balance between building Capital Cost (CC)... Read More about Carbon and cost critical elements of buildings : a comparative analysis of two office buildings.

ICDAR2017 Competition on Recognition of Documents with Complex Layouts – RDCL2017 (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Clausner, C., Antonacopoulos, A., & Pletschacher, S. (2017). ICDAR2017 Competition on Recognition of Documents with Complex Layouts – RDCL2017. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2017.229

This paper presents an objective comparative evaluation of page segmentation and region classification methods for documents with complex layouts. It describes the competition (modus operandi, dataset and evaluation methodology) held in the context o... Read More about ICDAR2017 Competition on Recognition of Documents with Complex Layouts – RDCL2017.

ICDAR2017 Competition on Recognition of Early Indian Printed Documents – REID2017 (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Clausner, C., Antonacopoulos, A., Derrick, T., & Pletschacher, S. (2017). ICDAR2017 Competition on Recognition of Early Indian Printed Documents – REID2017. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2017.230

This paper presents an objective comparative evaluation of page analysis and recognition methods for historical documents with text mainly in Bengali language and script. It describes the competition (modus operandi, dataset and evaluation methodolog... Read More about ICDAR2017 Competition on Recognition of Early Indian Printed Documents – REID2017.

Current condition and future directions for lean construction in highways projects : a small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) perspective (2017)
Journal Article
Tezel, A., Koskela, L., & Aziz, Z. (2018). Current condition and future directions for lean construction in highways projects : a small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) perspective. International Journal of Project Management, 36(2), 267-286. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2017.10.004

The aim of this study is to identify the parameters defining how Lean Construction (LC) is being implemented (current condition) and how LC can be further promoted (future direction) from a Small-Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) perspective. Although... Read More about Current condition and future directions for lean construction in highways projects : a small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) perspective.

The chronology of a sediment core from incised valley of the Yangtze River delta : comparative OSL and AMS 14C dating (2017)
Journal Article
Nian, X., Zhang, W., Wang, Z., Sun, Q., Chen, Z., & Hutchinson, S. (2017). The chronology of a sediment core from incised valley of the Yangtze River delta : comparative OSL and AMS 14C dating. Marine Geology, 395, 320-330. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2017.11.008

Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating has gained increased use in dating deltatic deposits, however, its application can be hindered by the problem of incomplete bleaching. To address this limitation, we test the single-grain OSL method for... Read More about The chronology of a sediment core from incised valley of the Yangtze River delta : comparative OSL and AMS 14C dating.

Turning up the background noise; The effects of salient non-speech audio elements on dialogue intelligibility in complex acoustic scenes (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Ward, L., Shirley, B., & Davies, W. (2017, November). Turning up the background noise; The effects of salient non-speech audio elements on dialogue intelligibility in complex acoustic scenes. Presented at Reproduced Sound, Southampton, UK

As an acoustic scene becomes more complex listeners increasingly rely on complementary intelligibility cues, such as context and language structure, to understand speech. Despite the role salient non-speech audio elements, like sound effects, play in... Read More about Turning up the background noise; The effects of salient non-speech audio elements on dialogue intelligibility in complex acoustic scenes.

Enhancing new user cold-start based on decision trees active learning by using past warm-users predictions (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Pozo, M., Chiky, R., Meziane, F., & Metais, E. (2017, November). Enhancing new user cold-start based on decision trees active learning by using past warm-users predictions. Presented at 33ème conférence sur la Gestion de Données — Principes, Technologies et Applications, Nancy, France

The cold-start is the situation in which the recommender system has no or not enough information about the (new) users/items i.e. their ratings/feedback; hence, the recommendations are not well performed. This issue is commonly encountered in techniq... Read More about Enhancing new user cold-start based on decision trees active learning by using past warm-users predictions.

The application of wireless sensor networks and wearable technologies for educational purposes: A scoping review (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Iyawa, G., Herselman, M., & Botha, A. (2017). The application of wireless sensor networks and wearable technologies for educational purposes: A scoping review. . https://doi.org/10.1145/3231830.3231839

Past researches in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and wearable technologies have mostly been conducted in the field of healthcare for the purpose of patients' health monitoring. However, recent studies in WSNs and wearable technologies suggest that... Read More about The application of wireless sensor networks and wearable technologies for educational purposes: A scoping review.