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Future Trends in Agile at Scale: A Summary of the 7th International Workshop on Large-Scale Agile Development (2019)
Conference Proceeding
M. Bass, J. (2019). Future Trends in Agile at Scale: A Summary of the 7th International Workshop on Large-Scale Agile Development. . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30126-2_9

This workshop explored the main research challenges in conducting agile software development in large-scale software development. We considered multi-site companies with projects that include a large number of teams which develop sophisticated system... Read More about Future Trends in Agile at Scale: A Summary of the 7th International Workshop on Large-Scale Agile Development.

Assessing the potential of environmental DNA metabarcoding for monitoring Neotropical mammals : a case study in the Amazon and Atlantic Forest, Brazil (2019)
Other
Sales, N., Da Cruz Kaizer, M., Coscia, I., Perkins, J., Highlands, A., Boubli, J., …McDevitt, A. (2019). Assessing the potential of environmental DNA metabarcoding for monitoring Neotropical mammals : a case study in the Amazon and Atlantic Forest, Brazil

The application of environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding as a biomonitoring tool has greatly increased in the last decade. However, most studies have focused on aquatic macro-organisms in temperate areas (e.g., fishes). We apply eDNA metabarcoding t... Read More about Assessing the potential of environmental DNA metabarcoding for monitoring Neotropical mammals : a case study in the Amazon and Atlantic Forest, Brazil.

Automatic recognition of feeding and non-nutritive feeding behaviour in pigs using deep learning (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Alameer, A., Dalton, H., & Kyriazakis, I. (2019). Automatic recognition of feeding and non-nutritive feeding behaviour in pigs using deep learning. . https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-890-2

Automated vision-based early warning systems have been developed to detect behavioural changes in groups of pigs to monitor their health and welfare status. However, automatic feed detection remains a problem in precision pig farming due to problems... Read More about Automatic recognition of feeding and non-nutritive feeding behaviour in pigs using deep learning.

Towards a shared understanding of the concept of heritage in the European context (2019)
Journal Article
heritage in the European context. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage2030155

The purpose of this paper is to develop an understanding of commonalities and differences in the concept of cultural heritage in Europe. This was achieved through a comprehensive academic and non-academic literature review focused on different defin... Read More about Towards a shared understanding of the concept of heritage in the European context.

Climatic conditions : conventional and nanotechnology-based methods for the control of mosquito vectors causing human health issues (2019)
Journal Article
Ahmed, T., Hyder, M., Liaqat, I., & Scholz, M. (2019). Climatic conditions : conventional and nanotechnology-based methods for the control of mosquito vectors causing human health issues. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(17), e3165. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16173165

Climate variability is highly impacting on mosquito-borne diseases causing malaria and dengue fever across the globe. Seasonal variability change in temperature and rainfall patterns are impacting on human health. Mosquitoes cause diseases like dengu... Read More about Climatic conditions : conventional and nanotechnology-based methods for the control of mosquito vectors causing human health issues.

Long-term retrospective assessment of a transmission hotspot for human alveolar echinococcosis in mid-west China (2019)
Journal Article
Giraudoux,, P., YuMin, Z., Afonso, E., HongBin, Y., Knapp, J., Rogan, M., …Craig, P. (2019). Long-term retrospective assessment of a transmission hotspot for human alveolar echinococcosis in mid-west China. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 13(8), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007701

Background Human alveolar echinococcosis caused by infection with Echinococcus multilocularis is one of the most potentially pathogenic helminthic zoonoses. Transmission occurs involving wildlife cycles typically between fox and small mammal interm... Read More about Long-term retrospective assessment of a transmission hotspot for human alveolar echinococcosis in mid-west China.

Terrestrial behavior in titi monkeys (Callicebus, Cheracebus, and Plecturocebus) : potential correlates, patterns, and differences between genera (2019)
Journal Article
Souza-Alves, J., Young, R., & Barnett, A. (2019). Terrestrial behavior in titi monkeys (Callicebus, Cheracebus, and Plecturocebus) : potential correlates, patterns, and differences between genera. International Journal of Primatology, 40, 553-572. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-019-00105-x

For arboreal primates, ground use may increase dispersal opportunities, tolerance to habitat change, access to ground-based resources, and resilience to human disturbances, and so has conservation implications. We collated published and unpublished d... Read More about Terrestrial behavior in titi monkeys (Callicebus, Cheracebus, and Plecturocebus) : potential correlates, patterns, and differences between genera.

Influence of variable viscosity and thermal conductivity, hydrodynamic and thermal slips on magnetohydrodynamic micropolar flow: a numerical study (2019)
Journal Article
Rahman, M., Uddin, M., Beg, O., & Kadir, A. (2019). Influence of variable viscosity and thermal conductivity, hydrodynamic and thermal slips on magnetohydrodynamic micropolar flow: a numerical study. Heat Transfer - Asian Research, 48(8), 3928-3944. https://doi.org/10.1002/htj.21575

Thermophysical and wall slip effects arise in many areas of nuclear technology. Motivated by such applications, in this article the collective influence ofvariable viscosity, thermal conductivity, velocity and thermal slipse... Read More about Influence of variable viscosity and thermal conductivity, hydrodynamic and thermal slips on magnetohydrodynamic micropolar flow: a numerical study.

Drone based quantification of channel response to an extreme flood for a piedmont stream (2019)
Journal Article
Heritage, G., & Entwistle, N. (2019). Drone based quantification of channel response to an extreme flood for a piedmont stream. Remote Sensing, 11(17), 2031. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11172031

The influence of extreme floods on the form and functioning of upland systems has concentrated on the erosive impact of these flows. They are seen to be highly competent with coarse sediment transport rates limited by upstream supply and moderated by... Read More about Drone based quantification of channel response to an extreme flood for a piedmont stream.

Extended wavelength responsivity of a germanium photodetector integrated with a silicon waveguide exploiting the indirect transition (2019)
Journal Article
Anthony, R., Hagan, D., Genuth-Okon, D., Martinez Maestro, L., Crowe, I., Halsall, M., & Knights, A. (2019). Extended wavelength responsivity of a germanium photodetector integrated with a silicon waveguide exploiting the indirect transition. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 26(2), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2019.2938057

Photo-detection in the wavelength range 1850 to 2000 nm using evanescently-coupled germanium detectors grown on silicon waveguides is described. Devices were fabricated at a silicon photonics foundry using a process flow associated with operation in... Read More about Extended wavelength responsivity of a germanium photodetector integrated with a silicon waveguide exploiting the indirect transition.

Tunicamycin induced endoplasmatic reticulum changes in endothelial cells investigated in vitro by confocal Raman imaging (2019)
Journal Article
endothelial cells investigated in vitro by confocal Raman imaging. Analyst, 144(22), 6561-6569. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9AN01456J

This paper describes how tunicamycin (Tu), the most widely used pharmacological agent for inducing endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, interacts with endothelial cells. Our results show that tunicamycin enters the cells and accumulates within the ER a... Read More about Tunicamycin induced endoplasmatic reticulum changes in endothelial cells investigated in vitro by confocal Raman imaging.

Computational unsteady flow analysis for third-grade fluid from an isothermal vertical cylinder through a Darcian porous medium (2019)
Journal Article
Hiremath, A., Reddy, G., & Beg, O. (2019). Computational unsteady flow analysis for third-grade fluid from an isothermal vertical cylinder through a Darcian porous medium. Heat Transfer - Asian Research, 48(7), 2752-2772. https://doi.org/10.1002/htj.21511

The present paper describes a mathematical model for free-convective laminar incompressible boundary layer flow of a third-grade fluid of the Reiner-Rivlin differential type, external to a uniformly heated semi-infinite vertical cylinder embedded in... Read More about Computational unsteady flow analysis for third-grade fluid from an isothermal vertical cylinder through a Darcian porous medium.

Improving Arabic neural machine translation via n-best list re-ranking (2019)
Journal Article
re-ranking. Machine Translation, 33, 279-314. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10590-019-09237-6

Even though the rise of the Neural Machine Translation (NMT) paradigm has brought a great deal of improvement to the machine translation field, the current translation results are still not perfect. One of the main reasons for t... Read More about Improving Arabic neural machine translation via n-best list re-ranking.

Institutional governance and protection motivation: theoretical insights into shaping employees’ security compliance behavior in higher education institutions in the developing world (2019)
Journal Article
Hina, S., Dominic, P., & Lowry, P. (2019). Institutional governance and protection motivation: theoretical insights into shaping employees’ security compliance behavior in higher education institutions in the developing world. Computers and Security, 87, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2019.101594

Higher education institutions (HEIs) are progressively computerized to deal with substantial academic and operational information. With the increase in enriched information systems (IS) comes the potential hazard of malicious exposure to internal and... Read More about Institutional governance and protection motivation: theoretical insights into shaping employees’ security compliance behavior in higher education institutions in the developing world.

Cuckoo Bumble Bees (Bombus (Psithyrus)) (2019)
Book Chapter
Martin, S. (2019). Cuckoo Bumble Bees (Bombus (Psithyrus)). In C. Starr (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Insects. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90306-4_33-1

There are about 250 species of bumble bees, genus Bombus, of which 30 have evolved into social parasites known as cuckoo bumble bees. All cuckoo bumble bees were at one time placed in their own genus, Psithyrus, which is now treated as a monophyletic... Read More about Cuckoo Bumble Bees (Bombus (Psithyrus)).

Cilia-assisted hydromagnetic pumping of biorheological couple stress fluids (2019)
Journal Article
Ramesh, K., Tripathi, D., & Beg, O. (2019). Cilia-assisted hydromagnetic pumping of biorheological couple stress fluids. Propulsion and Power Research, 8(3), 221-233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jppr.2018.06.002

A theoretical study is conducted for magnetohydrodynamic pumping of electro-conductive couple stress physiological liquids (e.g. blood) through a two-dimensional ciliated channel. A geometric model is employed for the cilia which are distributed at e... Read More about Cilia-assisted hydromagnetic pumping of biorheological couple stress fluids.

Globe-LFMC, a global plant water status database for vegetation ecophysiology and wildfire applications (2019)
Journal Article
Yebra, M., Scortechini, G., Badi, A., Beget, M., Boer, M., Bradstock, R., …Ustin, S. (2019). Globe-LFMC, a global plant water status database for vegetation ecophysiology and wildfire applications. Scientific Data, 6(155), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0164-9

Globe-LFMC is an extensive global database of live fuel moisture content (LFMC) measured from 1,383 sampling sites in 11 countries: Argentina, Australia, China, France, Italy, Senegal, Spain, South Africa, Tunisia, United Kingdom and the United State... Read More about Globe-LFMC, a global plant water status database for vegetation ecophysiology and wildfire applications.

Investigation of extensive green roof outdoor spatio-temporal thermal performance during summer in a subtropical monsoon climate (2019)
Journal Article
thermal performance during summer in a subtropical monsoon climate. Science of the Total Environment, 696, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133976

The thermal performance of green roofs is usually site-specific and changes temporally. Hence, thermal performance evaluation is necessary to optimize green roof design and its cooling effect. In this paper, we evaluated the outdoor spatio-temporal p... Read More about Investigation of extensive green roof outdoor spatio-temporal thermal performance during summer in a subtropical monsoon climate.

Exergy analysis of a diesel engine with waste cooking biodiesel and triacetin (2019)
Journal Article
Odibi, C., Babaie, M., Zare, A., Nabi, M., Bodisco, T., & Brown, R. (2019). Exergy analysis of a diesel engine with waste cooking biodiesel and triacetin. Energy Conversion and Management, 198(111912), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2019.111912

This study uses the first and second laws of thermodynamics to investigate the effect of 18 oxygenated fuels on the quality and quantity of energy in a turbo-charged, common-rail six19 cylinder diesel engine. This work was performed using a range of... Read More about Exergy analysis of a diesel engine with waste cooking biodiesel and triacetin.