All Outputs (504)

GBOV (Ground-Based Observation for Validation): a copernicus service for validation of vegetation land products (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Bai, G., Dash, J., Brown, L., Meier, C., Lerebourg, C., Ronco, E., …Gobron, N. (2019, July). GBOV (Ground-Based Observation for Validation): a copernicus service for validation of vegetation land products. Presented at 2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Yokohama, Japan

The Copernicus Ground-Based Observations for Validation (GBOV) service aims to develop and distribute robust in-situ datasets from a selection of ground-based monitoring sites for a systematic and quantitative validation of Earth Observation (EO) lan... Read More about GBOV (Ground-Based Observation for Validation): a copernicus service for validation of vegetation land products.

The provision and use of urban public spaces for female physical activity in Saudi Arabia (2019)
Thesis
Maghrabi, A. The provision and use of urban public spaces for female physical activity in Saudi Arabia. (Thesis). University of Salford

With the development and expansion of the city of Jeddah, the increase in the population and the integration of a variety of social structures has changed. The need for public open spaces has increased and the purpose of visiting these spaces has als... Read More about The provision and use of urban public spaces for female physical activity in Saudi Arabia.

Evaluating environmental and ecological landscape characteristics relevant to urban resilience across gradients of land-sharing-sparing and urbanity (2019)
Journal Article
Dennis, M., Scaletta, K., & James, P. Evaluating environmental and ecological landscape characteristics relevant to urban resilience across gradients of land-sharing-sparing and urbanity. PLoS ONE, 14(7), e0215796. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215796

Within urban landscape planning, debate continues around the relative merits of land-sparing (compaction) and land-sharing (sprawl) scenarios. Using part of Greater Manchester (UK) as a case-study, we present a landscape approach to mapping green inf... Read More about Evaluating environmental and ecological landscape characteristics relevant to urban resilience across gradients of land-sharing-sparing and urbanity.

Evaluating urban environmental and ecological landscape characteristics as a function of land-sharing-sparing, urbanity and scale (2019)
Journal Article
Dennis, M., Scaletta, K., & James, P. (2019). Evaluating urban environmental and ecological landscape characteristics as a function of land-sharing-sparing, urbanity and scale. PLoS ONE, 14(7), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215796

Within urban landscape planning, debate continues around the relative merits of land-sharing (sprawl) and land-sparing (compaction) scenarios. Using three of the ten districts in Greater Manchester (UK) as a case-study, we present a landscape approac... Read More about Evaluating urban environmental and ecological landscape characteristics as a function of land-sharing-sparing, urbanity and scale.

Learning through successful digital opportunities for effective competition preparations (2019)
Book Chapter
Scott, L., Shelbourn, M., & Harris, N. (2019). Learning through successful digital opportunities for effective competition preparations. In S. Mostafa, & P. Rahnamayiezekavat (Eds.), Claiming Identity Through Redefined Teaching in Construction Programs (61-80). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8452-0.ch004

Education of the built environment is moving towards more collaborative practices. The intent behind the collaborative approach of teaching is to encourage students to explore the unknowns and unravel the problems themselves with the professor acting... Read More about Learning through successful digital opportunities for effective competition preparations.

The Munduruku marmoset : a new monkey species from southern Amazonia (2019)
Journal Article
Costa-Araújo, R., de Melo, F., Canale, G., Hernández-Rangel, S., Messias, M., Rossi, R., …Hrbek, T. (2019). The Munduruku marmoset : a new monkey species from southern Amazonia. PeerJ, 7, e7019. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7019

Although the Atlantic Forest marmosets (Callithrix spp.) are among the best studied Neotropical primates, the Amazonian marmosets (Callibella humilis, Cebuella spp. and Mico spp.) are much less well-known. Even species diversity and distributions are... Read More about The Munduruku marmoset : a new monkey species from southern Amazonia.

Estimating forest leaf area index and canopy chlorophyll content with Sentinel-2: an evaluation of two hybrid retrieval algorithms (2019)
Journal Article
Brown, L., Ogutu, B., & Dash, J. (2019). Estimating forest leaf area index and canopy chlorophyll content with Sentinel-2: an evaluation of two hybrid retrieval algorithms. Remote Sensing, 11(15), https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11151752

Estimates of biophysical and biochemical variables such as leaf area index (LAI) and canopy chlorophyll content (CCC) are a fundamental requirement for effectively monitoring and managing forest environments. With its red-edge bands and high spatial... Read More about Estimating forest leaf area index and canopy chlorophyll content with Sentinel-2: an evaluation of two hybrid retrieval algorithms.

Multi-individual Microsatellite identification: a multiple genome approach to microsatellite design (MiMi) (2019)
Journal Article
Fox, G., Preziosi, R., Antwis, R., Benavides‐Serrato, M., Combe, F., Edwin Harris, W., …Rowntree, J. (2019). Multi-individual Microsatellite identification: a multiple genome approach to microsatellite design (MiMi). Molecular Ecology Resources, 19(6), 1672-1680. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13065

Bespoke microsatellite marker panels are increasingly affordable and tractable to researchers and conservationists. The rate of microsatellite discovery is very high within a shotgun genomic dataset, but extensive laboratory testing of markers is req... Read More about Multi-individual Microsatellite identification: a multiple genome approach to microsatellite design (MiMi).

Mechanistic links between obesity, diabetes, and blood pressure : role of perivascular adipose tissue (2019)
Journal Article
Saxton, S., Clark, B., Withers, S., Eringa, E., & Heagerty, A. (2019). Mechanistic links between obesity, diabetes, and blood pressure : role of perivascular adipose tissue. Physiological Reviews, 99(4), 1701-1763. https://doi.org/10.1152/physrev.00034.2018

Obesity is increasingly prevalent and is associated with substantial cardiovascular risk. Adipose tissue distribution and morphology play a key role in determining the degree of adverse effects, and a key factor in the disease process appears to be t... Read More about Mechanistic links between obesity, diabetes, and blood pressure : role of perivascular adipose tissue.

Global spatial risk assessment of sharks under the footprint of fisheries (2019)
Journal Article
Quieroz, N., Humphries, N., Couto, A., Vedor, M., da Costa, I., Sequeira, A., …et, A. (2019). Global spatial risk assessment of sharks under the footprint of fisheries. Nature, 572, 461-466. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1444-4

Effective ocean management and the conservation of highly migratory species depend on resolving the overlap between animal movements and distributions, and fishing effort. However, this information is lacking at a global scale. Here we show, using a... Read More about Global spatial risk assessment of sharks under the footprint of fisheries.

A nearly complete juvenile skull of the marsupial Sparassocynus derivatus from the Pliocene of Argentina, the affinities of “sparassocynids”, and the diversification of opossums (Marsupialia; Didelphimorphia; Didelphidae) (2019)
Journal Article
Beck, R., & Taglioretti, M. (2020). A nearly complete juvenile skull of the marsupial Sparassocynus derivatus from the Pliocene of Argentina, the affinities of “sparassocynids”, and the diversification of opossums (Marsupialia; Didelphimorphia; Didelphidae). Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 27, 385-417. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-019-09471-y

“Sparassocynids” are small, carnivorously-adapted marsupials known from the late Miocene and Pliocene of South America, thought to be relatives of living didelphid opossums but of otherwise uncertain phylogenetic relationships. Here, we describe a... Read More about A nearly complete juvenile skull of the marsupial Sparassocynus derivatus from the Pliocene of Argentina, the affinities of “sparassocynids”, and the diversification of opossums (Marsupialia; Didelphimorphia; Didelphidae).

Host genetics and geography influence microbiome composition in the sponge Ircinia campana (2019)
Journal Article
Griffiths, S., Antwis, R., Lenzi, L., Lucaci, A., Behringer, D., Butler, M., & Preziosi, R. (2019). Host genetics and geography influence microbiome composition in the sponge Ircinia campana. Journal of Animal Ecology, 88(11), 1684-1695. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13065

1.Marine sponges are host to large, diverse communities of microorganisms. These microbiomes are distinct among sponge species and from seawater bacterial communities, indicating a key role of host identity in shaping its resident microbial community... Read More about Host genetics and geography influence microbiome composition in the sponge Ircinia campana.

Embryonic and fetal development of the collared peccary (Pecari tajacu) (2019)
Journal Article
Mayor, P., da Silva, G., Andrade, R., Monteiro, F., & Rocha El Bizri, H. (2019). Embryonic and fetal development of the collared peccary (Pecari tajacu). Animal Reproduction Science, 208, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anireprosci.2019.106123

The relative timing of the main fetal development events in species determine the extent of fetal development at birth, which range along a gradient of having altricial and precocial traits. The results from this study allow for description of import... Read More about Embryonic and fetal development of the collared peccary (Pecari tajacu).

Phosphorus recovery from municipal wastewater treatment : critical review of challenges and opportunities for developing countries. (2019)
Journal Article
Chrispim, M., Scholz, M., & Nolasco, M. (2019). Phosphorus recovery from municipal wastewater treatment : critical review of challenges and opportunities for developing countries. Journal of Environmental Management, 248, 109268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109268

The aim of this paper is to provide guidance in selecting phosphorus recovery options within the municipal wastewater treatment sector regarding developing countries. This critical review includes a brief contextualization of the resource-oriented sa... Read More about Phosphorus recovery from municipal wastewater treatment : critical review of challenges and opportunities for developing countries..

Measuring infrastructure skills productivity (2019)
Book Chapter
Asibuodu Ugulu, R., Allen, S., & Arewa, A. (2019). Measuring infrastructure skills productivity. In Management of Critical Infrastructure [Working Title]. IntechOpen. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.85953

This chapter presents the concept and meaning of construction productivity and the techniques used in measuring workforce skills productivity in the construction industry. There are three major methods highlighted for monitoring and measuring product... Read More about Measuring infrastructure skills productivity.

Thermal slip and radiative heat transfer effects on electro-osmotic magnetonanoliquid peristaltic propulsion through a microchannel (2019)
Journal Article
Prakash, J., Siva, E., Tripathi, D., & Beg, O. (2019). Thermal slip and radiative heat transfer effects on electro-osmotic magnetonanoliquid peristaltic propulsion through a microchannel. Heat Transfer - Asian Research, 48(7), 2882-2908. https://doi.org/10.1002/htj.21522

A mathematical study is described to examine the concurrent influence of thermal radiation and thermal wall slip on the dissipative magnetohydrodynamic electro-osmotic peristaltic propulsion of a viscous nano-liquid in an asymmetric microchannel un... Read More about Thermal slip and radiative heat transfer effects on electro-osmotic magnetonanoliquid peristaltic propulsion through a microchannel.

Mitochondrial and ribosomal biogenesis are new hallmarks of stemness, oncometabolism and biomass accumulation in cancer : mito-stemness and ribo-stemness features (2019)
Journal Article
Peiris-Pagès, M., Ozsvari, B., Sotgia, F., & Lisanti, M. (2019). Mitochondrial and ribosomal biogenesis are new hallmarks of stemness, oncometabolism and biomass accumulation in cancer : mito-stemness and ribo-stemness features. Aging, 11(14), 4801-4835. https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.102054

Using proteomics analysis, we previously compared MCF7 breast cancer cells grown as 3D tumor spheres, with the same cell line grown as monolayers. Our results indicated that during 3D anchorage‐independent growth, the cellular machinery associated wi... Read More about Mitochondrial and ribosomal biogenesis are new hallmarks of stemness, oncometabolism and biomass accumulation in cancer : mito-stemness and ribo-stemness features.

Business value of integrated BIM-based asset management (2019)
Journal Article
Munir, M., Kiviniemi, A., & Jones, S. (2019). Business value of integrated BIM-based asset management. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 26(6), 1171-1191. https://doi.org/10.1108/ecam-03-2018-0105

Currently, building information modelling (BIM) is largely seen as a 3D model, not as an information model or information management tool. This wrong perception of BIM and low interest in 3D asset management (AM) is one of the major reasons for the s... Read More about Business value of integrated BIM-based asset management.

Identification and mapping of asphalt surface deterioration by tyre-pavement interaction noise measurement (2019)
Journal Article
Ramos Romero, C., Leon-Rios, P., Al-Hadithi, B., Sigcha, L., de Arcas, G., & Asensio, C. (2019). Identification and mapping of asphalt surface deterioration by tyre-pavement interaction noise measurement. Measurement, 146, 718-727. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2019.06.034

This paper proposes a novel approach to detect the pavement surface deterioration using tyre/road noise produced from a sensorized test-vehicle during a regular driving. The acoustic data have shown to be relevant on automatic asphalt-damage classifi... Read More about Identification and mapping of asphalt surface deterioration by tyre-pavement interaction noise measurement.

Sustainable high-performance concrete using metakaolin additive and polymer admixture : mechanical properties, durability and microstructure (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Al Menhosh, A., Wang, Y., Augusthus Nelson, L., Dakhil, A., & Matooq, J. (2019, July). Sustainable high-performance concrete using metakaolin additive and polymer admixture : mechanical properties, durability and microstructure. Presented at 5th International Conference on Sustainable Construction Materials & Technologies, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, UK

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the use of supplementary cementitious materials and polymers to produce high-performance concrete. This paper shows the results of a study on the effect of metakaolin and polymer admixture on mech... Read More about Sustainable high-performance concrete using metakaolin additive and polymer admixture : mechanical properties, durability and microstructure.