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CUPS : Secure Opportunistic Cloud of Things Framework based on Attribute Based Encryption Scheme Supporting Access Policy Update (2019)
Journal Article
Belguith, S., Kaaniche, N., & Russello, G. (2020). CUPS : Secure Opportunistic Cloud of Things Framework based on Attribute Based Encryption Scheme Supporting Access Policy Update. Security and Privacy, 3(4), e85. https://doi.org/10.1002/spy2.85

The ever‐growing number of internet connected devices, coupled with the new computing trends, namely within emerging opportunistic networks, engenders several security concerns. Most of the exchanged data between the internet of things (IoT) devices... Read More about CUPS : Secure Opportunistic Cloud of Things Framework based on Attribute Based Encryption Scheme Supporting Access Policy Update.

Phenotypic plasticity of nest-mate recognition cues in formica exsecta ants (2019)
Journal Article
Martin, S., Drijfhout, F., & Hart, A. (2019). Phenotypic plasticity of nest-mate recognition cues in formica exsecta ants. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 45(9), 735-740. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-019-01103-2

It is well established that many ant species have evolved qualitatively distinct species-specific chemical profile that are stable overlarge geographical distances. Within these species profiles quantitative variations in the chemical profile allows... Read More about Phenotypic plasticity of nest-mate recognition cues in formica exsecta ants.

Dementia-friendly heritage settings : a research review (2019)
Journal Article
Sharma, M., & Lee, A. (2020). Dementia-friendly heritage settings : a research review. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 38(2), 279-310. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJBPA-01-2019-0005

Purpose

Preserving our built heritage from the onslaught of weather, pollution, development and the effects of tourism is a complex endeavour. Appended to this is the need to ensure that heritage buildings are inclusive to all users. Thus, built h... Read More about Dementia-friendly heritage settings : a research review.

Analysis of BIM maturity level among AEC firms in developing countries : a case of Nigeria (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Babatunde, S., Ekundayo, D., & Adekunle, A. (2019, September). Analysis of BIM maturity level among AEC firms in developing countries : a case of Nigeria. Presented at 35th Annual ARCOM Conference, Leeds, UK

Although studies on BIM abound, but there is limited empirical study on the current level of BIM maturity among Architectural, Engineering and Construction (AEC) firms, particularly in developing countries. The purpose of this study is to assess and... Read More about Analysis of BIM maturity level among AEC firms in developing countries : a case of Nigeria.

Evidence of non-contiguous flood driven coarse sediment transfer and implications for sediment management (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Heritage, G., Entwistle, N., & Milan, D. (2019, September). Evidence of non-contiguous flood driven coarse sediment transfer and implications for sediment management. Presented at 38th IAHR World Congress, Panama City, Panama

We investigate gravel redistribution and morphological response of three headwater streams following the Storm
Desmond floods of December 2015. Reactive management of the watercourses following the flooding
concentrated on removal of gravel and cle... Read More about Evidence of non-contiguous flood driven coarse sediment transfer and implications for sediment management.

BIM business value generation theory : a grounded theory approach (2019)
Journal Article
Munir, M., Kiviniemi, A., Jones, S., & Finnegan, S. (2019). BIM business value generation theory : a grounded theory approach. Journal of Information Technology in Construction, 24, 406-423

Theoretical developments in the Architectural Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry have been deficient, especially for the operations and use phase. The need for asset owners to understand the Building Information Modelling (BIM) process and t... Read More about BIM business value generation theory : a grounded theory approach.

Asphalt-surface defects detection, based on tyre/road noise analysis and geo-processing (2019)
Journal Article
Ramos Romero, C., & Asensio, C. (2019). Asphalt-surface defects detection, based on tyre/road noise analysis and geo-processing. International Congress on Acoustics, 7195-7199. https://doi.org/10.18154/RWTH-CONV-238915

A new approach to detect different asphalt defectology based on tyre/road noise analysis by Machine Learning algorithms is proposed. In this way, a probe of concept was carried out to exploit the acoustic signal generated by the tyre-asphalt interact... Read More about Asphalt-surface defects detection, based on tyre/road noise analysis and geo-processing.

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.