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Renaturing a microclimate : the impact of greening a neighbourhood on indoor thermal comfort during a heatwave in Manchester, UK (2019)
Journal Article
Taleghani, M., Marshall, A., Fitton, R., & Swan, W. (2019). Renaturing a microclimate : the impact of greening a neighbourhood on indoor thermal comfort during a heatwave in Manchester, UK. Solar Energy, 182, 245-255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2019.02.062

Higher air temperatures in large cities like Manchester, UK, reduce human thermal comfort. In this paper, the impact of land cover on microclimate, and consequently on indoor thermal comfort is studied. Through different stages, field measurements an... Read More about Renaturing a microclimate : the impact of greening a neighbourhood on indoor thermal comfort during a heatwave in Manchester, UK.

Small unmanned aerial model accuracy for photogrammetrical fluvial bathymetric survey (2019)
Journal Article
Entwistle, N., & Heritage, G. (2019). Small unmanned aerial model accuracy for photogrammetrical fluvial bathymetric survey. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 13(1), 014523. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.13.014523

Fluvial systems offer a challenging and varied environment for topographic survey, displaying a rapidly varying morphology, vegetation assemblage and degree of submergence. Traditionally theodolite or GPS based systems have been used to capture cross... Read More about Small unmanned aerial model accuracy for photogrammetrical fluvial bathymetric survey.

Tailoring product ownership in large-scale agile (2019)
Journal Article
Bass, J., & Haxby, A. (2019). Tailoring product ownership in large-scale agile. IEEE Software, 36(2), 58-63. https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2018.2885524

In large-scale agile projects, product owners undertake a range of challenging and varied activities beyond those conventionally associated with that role. Using in-depth research interviews from 93 practitioners working in cross-border teams, from 2... Read More about Tailoring product ownership in large-scale agile.

Sustainability of bridge maintenance (2019)
Journal Article
Balogun, T., Tomor, A., Lamond, J., Gouda, H., & Booth, C. (2019). Sustainability of bridge maintenance. Proceedings of the ICE - Bridge Engineering, 172(1), 54-64. https://doi.org/10.1680/jbren.15.00027

Bridge maintenance activities are important to consider within sustainable development due to the cost and environmental impact associated with various maintenance activities. Comparisons have been made between different bridge structural forms, base... Read More about Sustainability of bridge maintenance.

Diet in the driving seat: natural diet-immunity-microbiome interactions in wild fish (2019)
Journal Article
Friberg, I., Taylor, J., & Jackson, J. (2019). Diet in the driving seat: natural diet-immunity-microbiome interactions in wild fish. Frontiers in Immunology, 10(243), https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2019.00243

Natural interactions between the diet, microbiome and immunity are largely unstudied. Here we employ wild three-spined sticklebacks as a model, combining field observations with complementary experimental manipulations of diet designed to mimic sea... Read More about Diet in the driving seat: natural diet-immunity-microbiome interactions in wild fish.

A hybrid intelligent agent for notification of users distracted by mobile phones in an urban environment (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Gelaim, T., Langer, G., Santos, E., Silveira, R., O'Hare, J., Kendrick, P., & Fazenda, B. (2019, February). A hybrid intelligent agent for notification of users distracted by mobile phones in an urban environment. Presented at 11th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), Prague, Czech Republic

Mobile devices are now ubiquitous in daily life and the number of activities that can be performed using them is continually growing. This implies increased attention being placed on the device and diverted away from events taking place in the surr... Read More about A hybrid intelligent agent for notification of users distracted by mobile phones in an urban environment.

A systematic literature review of blockchain cyber security (2019)
Journal Article
Taylor, P., Dargahi, T., Dehghantanha, A., Parizi, R., & Choo, K. (2020). A systematic literature review of blockchain cyber security. Digital Communications and Networks, 6(2), 147-156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcan.2019.01.005

Since the publication of Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper on Bitcoin in 2008, blockchain has (slowly) become one of the most frequently discussed methods for securing data storage and transfer through decentralized, trustless, peer-to-peer systems. Thi... Read More about A systematic literature review of blockchain cyber security.

Highlights of the novel dewaterability estimation test (DET) device (2019)
Journal Article
Scholz, M., Almuktar, S., Clausner, C., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2020). Highlights of the novel dewaterability estimation test (DET) device. Environmental Technology, 41(20), 2594-2602. https://doi.org/10.1080/09593330.2019.1575916

Many industries, which are producing sludge in large quantities, depend on sludge dewatering technology to reduce the corresponding water content. A key design parameter for dewatering equipment is the capillary suction time (CST) test, which has, ho... Read More about Highlights of the novel dewaterability estimation test (DET) device.

Loss of Function in Escherichia coli Exposed to Environmentally Relevant Concentrations of Benzalkonium Chloride (2019)
Journal Article
Forbes, S., Morgan, N., Humphreys, G. J., Amézquita, A., Mistry, H., & McBain, A. J. (2019). Loss of Function in Escherichia coli Exposed to Environmentally Relevant Concentrations of Benzalkonium Chloride. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 85(4), https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.02417-18

Assessing the risk of resistance associated with biocide exposure commonly involves exposing microorganisms to biocides at concentrations close to the MIC. With the aim of representing exposure to environmental biocide residues, Escherichia coli MG16... Read More about Loss of Function in Escherichia coli Exposed to Environmentally Relevant Concentrations of Benzalkonium Chloride.

Rare gut microbiota associated with breeding success, hormone metabolites and ovarian cycle phase in the critically endangered eastern black rhino (2019)
Journal Article
Antwis, R., Edwards, K., Unwin, B., Walker, S., & Shultz, S. (2019). Rare gut microbiota associated with breeding success, hormone metabolites and ovarian cycle phase in the critically endangered eastern black rhino. Microbiome, 7(27), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-019-0639-0

Background: Host microbiomes play a role in hormone production and subsequent fertility in humans, but this is less well understood in non-model organisms. This is of particular relevance to species in zoo-based conservation breeding programmes, as r... Read More about Rare gut microbiota associated with breeding success, hormone metabolites and ovarian cycle phase in the critically endangered eastern black rhino.

Homotopy study of magnetohydrodynamic mixed convection nanofluid multiple slip flow and heat transfer from a vertical cylinder with entropy generation (2019)
Journal Article
Shukla, N., Rana, P., Beg, O., Singh, B., & Kadir, A. (2019). Homotopy study of magnetohydrodynamic mixed convection nanofluid multiple slip flow and heat transfer from a vertical cylinder with entropy generation. Propulsion and Power Research, 8(2), 147-162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jppr.2019.01.005

Stimulated by thermal optimization in magnetic materials process engineering, the present work investigates theoretically the entropy generation in mixed convection magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow of an electrically-conducting nanofluid from a vertica... Read More about Homotopy study of magnetohydrodynamic mixed convection nanofluid multiple slip flow and heat transfer from a vertical cylinder with entropy generation.

Effects of coagulation on the two-phase peristaltic pumping of magnetized Prandtl biofluid through an endoscopic annular geometry containing a porous medium (2019)
Journal Article
Bhatti, M., Zeeshan, A., Ellahi, R., Beg, O., & Kadir, A. (2019). Effects of coagulation on the two-phase peristaltic pumping of magnetized Prandtl biofluid through an endoscopic annular geometry containing a porous medium. Chinese Journal of Physics, 58(Apr 19), 222-234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjph.2019.02.004

In this article, motivated by more accurate simulation of electromagnetic blood flow in annular vessel geometries in intravascular thrombosis, a mathematical model is developed for elucidating the effects of coagulation (i.e. a blood clot) on perista... Read More about Effects of coagulation on the two-phase peristaltic pumping of magnetized Prandtl biofluid through an endoscopic annular geometry containing a porous medium.

Asian Honey Bee Apis cerana foraging on mushrooms (2019)
Journal Article
Takahashi, J., Hosaki, K., Martin, S., & Kawabe, A. (2019). Asian Honey Bee Apis cerana foraging on mushrooms. Bee World, 96(1), 10-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/0005772X.2018.1556964

Honey bees (Apis spp.) are well known for obtaining their nutrition from pollen and nectar collected from a wide range of flowers (Winston, 1991). They also collect honeydew secreted by aphids and scale insects as an additional source of carbohydrate... Read More about Asian Honey Bee Apis cerana foraging on mushrooms.

Collusion defender : preserving subscribers’ privacy in publish and subscribe systems (2019)
Journal Article
in publish and subscribe systems. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 18(3), 1051-1064. https://doi.org/10.1109/TDSC.2019.2898827

The Publish and Subscribe (pub/sub) system is an established paradigm to disseminate the data from publishers to subscribers in a loosely coupled manner using a network of dedicated brokers. However, sensitive data could be exposed to malicious e... Read More about Collusion defender : preserving subscribers’ privacy in publish and subscribe systems.

Hallmarks of the cancer cell of origin : comparisons with "energetic" cancer stem cells (e-CSCs) (2019)
Journal Article
Sotgia, F., Fiorillo, M., & Lisanti, M. (2019). Hallmarks of the cancer cell of origin : comparisons with "energetic" cancer stem cells (e-CSCs). Aging, 11(3), 1065-1068. https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.101822

Here, we discuss the expected hallmark(s) of the cancer cell of origin and how this may be related to a new tumor cell phenotype, namely "energetic" cancer stem cells (e-CSCs). e-CSCs show many features that would be characteristic of the cancer cell... Read More about Hallmarks of the cancer cell of origin : comparisons with "energetic" cancer stem cells (e-CSCs).

Agile on a large scale (2019)
Journal Article
Bass, J. (2019). Agile on a large scale. ITNOW, 61(1), 56-57. https://doi.org/10.1093/itnow/bwz023

Agile is sometimes seen as an approach that’s best suited to small project and small teams. Julian M. Bass FBCS shows how, through methods and practice, Agile can work equally well on global scale projects too.

Ultrasound reports standardisation using rhetorical structure theory and domain ontology (2019)
Journal Article
Zulkarnain, N., & Meziane, F. (2019). Ultrasound reports standardisation using rhetorical structure theory and domain ontology. Journal of biomedical informatics. X, 1, 100003. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yjbinx.2019.100003

Ultrasound reporting plays an important role in diagnosis as images produced during an ultrasound examination do not give the whole view of the medical conditions. However, in practice there are many issues that are inherent to ultrasound reporting a... Read More about Ultrasound reports standardisation using rhetorical structure theory and domain ontology.

Finite element analysis of melting effects on MHD stagnation-point non-Newtonian flow and heat transfer from a stretching/shrinking sheet (2019)
Journal Article
Gupta, D., Kumar, L., Beg, O., & Singh, B. (2019). Finite element analysis of melting effects on MHD stagnation-point non-Newtonian flow and heat transfer from a stretching/shrinking sheet. AIP conference proceedings, 2061(1), 020024. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5086646

A numerical study is presented for boundary layer flow and heat transfer of micropolar (non-Newtonian) fluid from a stretching/shrinking sheet in the presence of melting and viscous heating. In this study the velocity of ambient fluid and stretching/... Read More about Finite element analysis of melting effects on MHD stagnation-point non-Newtonian flow and heat transfer from a stretching/shrinking sheet.

A model for estimating cooling energy demand at early design stage of condominiums (2019)
Journal Article
Hemba Geekiyanage, M., & Ramachandra, T. (in press). A model for estimating cooling energy demand at early design stage of condominiums. Journal of Building Engineering, 17, 43-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2018.01.011

Amongst the energy end-use sectors of an economy, residential buildings have become the dominant by consuming 50–70% of operational energy for Heating Ventilation & Air Conditioning (HVAC). Surprisingly, in Sri Lanka, energy consumption for space coo... Read More about A model for estimating cooling energy demand at early design stage of condominiums.

A covariance based framework for the propagation of uncertainty through inverse problems with an application to force identification (2019)
Journal Article
Meggitt, J., Moorhouse, A., & Elliott, A. (2019). A covariance based framework for the propagation of uncertainty through inverse problems with an application to force identification. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 124, 275-297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymssp.2018.11.038

Inverse problems are widely encountered in fields as diverse as physics, geophysics, engineering and finance. In the present paper, a covariance based framework for the estimation of their uncertainty is presented and applied to the problem of inve... Read More about A covariance based framework for the propagation of uncertainty through inverse problems with an application to force identification.