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Quantifying the hidden costs of imperfect detection for early detection surveillance (2019)
Journal Article
Mastin, A., van den Bosch, F., van den Berg, F., & Parnell, S. (2019). Quantifying the hidden costs of imperfect detection for early detection surveillance. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences, 374(1776), 20180261. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0261

The global spread of pathogens poses an increasing threat to health, ecosystems, and agriculture worldwide. As early detection of new incursions is key to effective control, new diagnostic tests which can detect pathogen presence shortly after initia... Read More about Quantifying the hidden costs of imperfect detection for early detection surveillance.

Computational fluid dynamics analysis of moisture ingress in aircraft structural composite materials (2019)
Journal Article
Beg, O., Islam, B., Shamshuddin, M., & Beg, T. (2019). Computational fluid dynamics analysis of moisture ingress in aircraft structural composite materials. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 44, 7809-7831. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-019-03917-4

Moisture in composite materials has been proven to be an important issue leading to significant deterioration of commercial aircraft wing structures. Lingering problems associated with this issue which is initiated with defects during manufacturing... Read More about Computational fluid dynamics analysis of moisture ingress in aircraft structural composite materials.

Exploring the effects of consumers’ trust : a predictive model for satisfying buyers’ expectations based on sellers’ behaviour in the marketplace (2019)
Journal Article
Al Sheikh, S., Shaalan, K., & Meziane, F. (2019). Exploring the effects of consumers’ trust : a predictive model for satisfying buyers’ expectations based on sellers’ behaviour in the marketplace. IEEE Access, 7(1), 73357-73372. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2917999

In recent years, Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) marketplaces have become very popular among Internet users. However, compared to traditional Business-to-Consumer (B2C) stores, most modern C2C marketplaces are reported to be associated with stronger negat... Read More about Exploring the effects of consumers’ trust : a predictive model for satisfying buyers’ expectations based on sellers’ behaviour in the marketplace.

Investigating the differences in Web browsing behaviour of Arabic (RTL) and English (LTR) users using mouse tracking (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Griffiths, L., Rasaei, A., & Haider, N. (2019, May). Investigating the differences in Web browsing behaviour of Arabic (RTL) and English (LTR) users using mouse tracking. Presented at 2nd International Conference on Digital Marketing : Strategy & Innovation in Digital Marketing, Galle Face Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka

The internet has become the global information and communication source. With such widespread usage of the web, it is crucial to marketing businesses to understand how users behave on websites. Mouse movement in any area on a webpage is an indicator... Read More about Investigating the differences in Web browsing behaviour of Arabic (RTL) and English (LTR) users using mouse tracking.

Numerical study of magneto-convective heat and mass transfer from inclined surface with Soret diffusion and heat generation effects : a model for ocean magnetohydrodynamics energy generator fluid dynamics (2019)
Journal Article
Beg, O., Beg, T., Karim, I., Khan, M., Alam, M., Ferdows, M., & Shamshuddin, M. (2019). Numerical study of magneto-convective heat and mass transfer from inclined surface with Soret diffusion and heat generation effects : a model for ocean magnetohydrodynamics energy generator fluid dynamics. Chinese Journal of Physics, 60(Aug 19), 167-179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjph.2019.05.002

A mathematical model is developed for steady state magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) heat and mass transfer flow along an inclined surface in an ocean MHD energy generator device with heat generation and thermo-diffusive (Soret) effects. The governing equa... Read More about Numerical study of magneto-convective heat and mass transfer from inclined surface with Soret diffusion and heat generation effects : a model for ocean magnetohydrodynamics energy generator fluid dynamics.

Long-term population monitoring of the threatened and endemic black-headed squirrel monkey (Saimiri vanzolinii) shows the importance of protected areas for primate conservation in Amazonia (2019)
Journal Article
Paim, F., Rocha El Bizri, H., Paglia, A., & Quieroz, H. (2019). Long-term population monitoring of the threatened and endemic black-headed squirrel monkey (Saimiri vanzolinii) shows the importance of protected areas for primate conservation in Amazonia. American Journal of Primatology, 81(6), https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.22988

Population monitoring of endangered species is essential to the improvement of their management and conservation plans. The black-headed squirrel monkey (Saimiri vanzolinii) is a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List and has extreme geographical en... Read More about Long-term population monitoring of the threatened and endemic black-headed squirrel monkey (Saimiri vanzolinii) shows the importance of protected areas for primate conservation in Amazonia.

Energy performance and summer thermal comfort of traditional courtyard buildings in a desert climate (2019)
Journal Article
Zamani, Z., Heidari, S., Azmoodeh, M., & Taleghani, M. (2019). Energy performance and summer thermal comfort of traditional courtyard buildings in a desert climate. Environmental Progress and Sustainable Energy, 38(6), e13256. https://doi.org/10.1002/ep.13256

Courtyards have been traditionally used as a passive design strategy in desert climates. However, few studies have quantified the thermal performance of this building archetype. This paper explored the indoor and outdoor thermal conditions of a typic... Read More about Energy performance and summer thermal comfort of traditional courtyard buildings in a desert climate.

A framework of intra-organisational knowledge sharing practices in implementing BIM within the Malaysian construction industry (2019)
Thesis
Musa, S. (in press). A framework of intra-organisational knowledge sharing practices in implementing BIM within the Malaysian construction industry. (Thesis). University of Salford

The Malaysian construction industry has been urged by the government to implement BIM to become a stable, developed, and modernised country by the year 2020. In the Malaysian context, research has shown that BIM implementation is relatively low and i... Read More about A framework of intra-organisational knowledge sharing practices in implementing BIM within the Malaysian construction industry.

Analyzing the deformation of multilayered saturated sandy soils under large building foundation (2019)
Journal Article
Li, C., Xiu, Z., Ji, Y., Wang, F., & Chan, A. (2019). Analyzing the deformation of multilayered saturated sandy soils under large building foundation. KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, 23, 3764-3776. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12205-019-0187-y

The generalized plasticity theory has been subject of much research in geomechanics. The Pastor-Zienkiewicz model and its modified versions are among these. For large foundations resting on multilayered soils the actual loading is often non-linear. I... Read More about Analyzing the deformation of multilayered saturated sandy soils under large building foundation.

Acoustic Event Detection from Weakly Labeled Data Using Auditory Salience (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Podwinska, Z., Sobieraj, I., Fazenda, B., Davies, W., & Plumbley, M. (2019, May). Acoustic Event Detection from Weakly Labeled Data Using Auditory Salience. Presented at 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brighton, UK

Acoustic Event Detection (AED) is an important task of machine listening which, in recent years, has been addressed using common machine learning methods like Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) or deep learning. However, most of these approaches... Read More about Acoustic Event Detection from Weakly Labeled Data Using Auditory Salience.

Background adaptation for improved listening experience in broadcasting (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Tang, Y., Cox, T., Fazenda, B., Liu, Q., & Wang, W. (2019, May). Background adaptation for improved listening experience in broadcasting. Presented at 44th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2019, Brighton, UK

The intelligibility of speech in noise can be improved by modifying the speech. But with object-based audio, there is the possibility of altering the background sound while leaving the speech unaltered. This may prove a less intrusive approach, affor... Read More about Background adaptation for improved listening experience in broadcasting.

Generalisation in environmental sound classification : the ‘making sense of sounds’ data set and challenge (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Kroos, C., Bones, O., Cao, Y., Harris, L., Jackson, P., Davies, W., …Plumbley, M. (2019, May). Generalisation in environmental sound classification : the ‘making sense of sounds’ data set and challenge. Presented at 44th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2019), Brighton, UK

Humans are able to identify a large number of environmental sounds and categorise them according to high-level semantic categories, e.g. urban sounds or music. They are also capable of generalising from past experience to new sounds when applying the... Read More about Generalisation in environmental sound classification : the ‘making sense of sounds’ data set and challenge.

Surface engineering of solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Anthony, R., Connell, A., Furnell, L., Kershaw, C., Mezarojas, D., Jones, E., …Holliman, P. (2019, May). Surface engineering of solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells. Poster presented at 11th International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics, Angelicum Universita Pontificia, Rome, Italy

The way that molecules interact with interfaces play a key role in the manufacture and performance of solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells (ssDSC). In order to maximise the performance of ssDSC, it is important to understand the interactions and t... Read More about Surface engineering of solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells.

A comparative study of energy storage systems and active front ends for networks of two electrified RTG cranes (2019)
Journal Article
Alasali, F., Luque, A., Mayer, R., & Holderbaum, W. (2019). A comparative study of energy storage systems and active front ends for networks of two electrified RTG cranes. Energies, 12(9), 1771. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12091771

The global consumerism trend and the increase in worldwide population is increasing the need to improve the efficiency of marine container transportation. The high operating costs, pollution and noise of the diesel yard equipment is leading sea ports... Read More about A comparative study of energy storage systems and active front ends for networks of two electrified RTG cranes.

DWV-A lethal to honey bees (Apis mellifera) : a colony level survey of DWV variants (A, B & C) in England, Wales and 32 states across the US (2019)
Journal Article
Kevill, J., de Souza, F., Sharples, C., Oliver, R., Schroeder, D., & Martin, S. (2019). DWV-A lethal to honey bees (Apis mellifera) : a colony level survey of DWV variants (A, B & C) in England, Wales and 32 states across the US. Viruses, 11(5), 426. https://doi.org/10.3390/v11050426

The strong association between Varroa destructor and Deformed wing virus (DWV), and high overwintering colony losses (OCL) of honey bees is well established. Three DWV master variants: DWV-A, B and C, have been described. However, their various roles... Read More about DWV-A lethal to honey bees (Apis mellifera) : a colony level survey of DWV variants (A, B & C) in England, Wales and 32 states across the US.

Metachronal propulsion of a magnetized particle-fluid suspension in a ciliated channel with heat and mass transfer (2019)
Journal Article
Abdelsalam, S., Bhatti, M., Zeeshan, A., Riaz, A., & Beg, O. (2019). Metachronal propulsion of a magnetized particle-fluid suspension in a ciliated channel with heat and mass transfer. Physica Scripta, 94(11), 115301. https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/ab207a

Biologically inspired pumping systems are of great interest in modern engineering since they achieve enhanced efficiency and circumvent the need for moving parts and maintenance. Industrial applications also often feature two-phase flows. In this ar... Read More about Metachronal propulsion of a magnetized particle-fluid suspension in a ciliated channel with heat and mass transfer.

Magnetic micro-swimmers propelling through bio-rheological liquid bounded within an active channel (2019)
Journal Article
Asghar, Z., Ali, N., Sajid, M., & Beg, O. (2019). Magnetic micro-swimmers propelling through bio-rheological liquid bounded within an active channel. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 486(Sep 19), 165283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2019.165283

The dynamics of a micro-organism swimming through a channel with undulating walls subject to constant transverse applied magnetic field is investigated. The micro-organism is modeled as self-propelling undulating sheet which is out of phase with the... Read More about Magnetic micro-swimmers propelling through bio-rheological liquid bounded within an active channel.

Complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of the small hive beetle Aethina tumida (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Hawaii (2019)
Journal Article
Takahashi, J., Okuyama, H., & Martin, S. (2019). Complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of the small hive beetle Aethina tumida (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Hawaii. Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 4(1), 1522-1523. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2019.1601516

We analyzed the complete mitochondrial genome of the small hive beetle Aethina tumida, a major honeybee pest that was accidentally transported to the Hawaii Islands, USA. The mitochondrial genome of A. tumida was identified as a 15,198 bp circular mo... Read More about Complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of the small hive beetle Aethina tumida (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Hawaii.

Towards the extraction of statistical information from digitised numerical tables - the Medical Officer of Health reports scoping study (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Clausner, C., Antonacopoulos, A., Henshaw, C., & Hayes, J. (2019). Towards the extraction of statistical information from digitised numerical tables - the Medical Officer of Health reports scoping study. In DATeCH2019 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage. https://doi.org/10.1145/3322905.3322932

Numerical data of considerable significance is present in historical documents in tabular form. Due to the challenges involved in the extraction of this data from the scanned documents it is not available to researchers in a useful representation tha... Read More about Towards the extraction of statistical information from digitised numerical tables - the Medical Officer of Health reports scoping study.