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Fungal microbiomes are determined by host phylogeny and exhibit widespread associations with the bacterial microbiome (2021)
Journal Article
Harrison, X., McDevitt, A., Dunn, J., Grifftihs, S., Benvenuto, C., Birtles, R., …Antwis, R. (2021). Fungal microbiomes are determined by host phylogeny and exhibit widespread associations with the bacterial microbiome. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288(1957), 20210552. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0552

Interactions between hosts and their resident microbial communities are a fundamental component of fitness for both agents. Though recent research has highlighted the importance of interactions between animals and their bacterial communities, compara... Read More about Fungal microbiomes are determined by host phylogeny and exhibit widespread associations with the bacterial microbiome.

Mapping differences in mammalian distributions and diversity using environmental DNA from rivers (2021)
Journal Article
Broadhurst, H., Gregory, L., Bleakley, E., Perkins, J., Lavin, J., Bolton, P., …McDevitt, A. (2021). Mapping differences in mammalian distributions and diversity using environmental DNA from rivers. Science of the Total Environment, 801, 149724. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149724

Finding more efficient ways to monitor and estimate the diversity of mammalian communities is a major step towards their management and conservation. Environmental DNA (eDNA) from river water has recently been shown to be a viable method for biomonit... Read More about Mapping differences in mammalian distributions and diversity using environmental DNA from rivers.

Assessment of an ex vivo porcine lung model to investigate host-microbe interactions in cases of ventilator associated pneumonia (2021)
Thesis
Barber, E. (in press). Assessment of an ex vivo porcine lung model to investigate host-microbe interactions in cases of ventilator associated pneumonia. (Dissertation). University of Salford

VAP is described as a pneumonic lung infection afflicting those that have been mechanically ventilated typically with an endotracheal tube. Unfortunately, there is no singular diagnostic test for VAP (Grossman & Fein, 2000) or ‘gold standard’ for the... Read More about Assessment of an ex vivo porcine lung model to investigate host-microbe interactions in cases of ventilator associated pneumonia.

Low-cost multisensor integrated system for online walking gait detection (2021)
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Yan, L., Wei, G., Hu, Z., Xiu, H., Wei, Y., & Ren, L. (2021). Low-cost multisensor integrated system for online walking gait detection. Journal of Sensors, 2021, 6378514. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/6378514

A three-dimensional motion capture system is a useful tool for analysing gait patterns during walking or exercising, and it is frequently applied in biomechanical studies. However, most of them are expensive. This study designs a low-cost gait detect... Read More about Low-cost multisensor integrated system for online walking gait detection.

Estuarine molecular bycatch as a landscape-wide biomonitoring tool (2021)
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Mariani, S., Harper, L., Collins, R., Baillie, C., Wangensteen, O., McDevitt, A., …Genner, M. (2021). Estuarine molecular bycatch as a landscape-wide biomonitoring tool. Biological Conservation, 261, 109287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109287

Environmental DNA analysis is rapidly transforming biodiversity monitoring and bolstering conservation applications worldwide. This approach has been assisted by the development of metabarcoding PCR primers that are suited for detection of a wide ran... Read More about Estuarine molecular bycatch as a landscape-wide biomonitoring tool.

Novel copper-catalysed coupling reactions of diphenylmethane (2021)
Thesis
Breski, A. (in press). Novel copper-catalysed coupling reactions of diphenylmethane. (Dissertation). University of Salford

In this thesis, a novel synthesis of the drug fendiline was attempted. Fendiline was sold commercially as an angina therapeutic, and recent studies have shown that it is also anti-malarial and has activity against cancers with a high mortality rate.... Read More about Novel copper-catalysed coupling reactions of diphenylmethane.

Acceptance determinants of 5G services (2021)
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Al-Maroof, R., Akour, I., Aljanada, R., Alfaisal, A., Alfaisal, R., Aburayya, A., & Salloum, S. (in press). Acceptance determinants of 5G services. International journal of data and network science (Online), 5(4), 613-628. https://doi.org/10.5267/j.ijdns.2021.8.006

5G is a revolutionary development in network technologies which is gradually becoming very common among people contributing significantly in different fields such as education, industry, agriculture, health, tourism and military. Currently, 5G is an... Read More about Acceptance determinants of 5G services.

Microstructural, mechanical and physical assessment of Portland Cement Concrete pavement modified by sodium acetate under various curing conditions (2021)
Journal Article
Al-Kheetan, M., Ghaffar, S., Awad, S., Chougan, M., Byzyka, J., & Rahman, M. (2021). Microstructural, mechanical and physical assessment of Portland Cement Concrete pavement modified by sodium acetate under various curing conditions. Infrastructures, 6(8), e113. https://doi.org/10.3390/infrastructures6080113

Portland Cement Concrete (PCC) pavement was studied with incorporation of an environmentally friendly eco-additive, sodium acetate (C2H3NaO2). This additive was added to PCC pavement in three different percentages of 2%, 4% and 6% of binder weight. F... Read More about Microstructural, mechanical and physical assessment of Portland Cement Concrete pavement modified by sodium acetate under various curing conditions.

Fiducial reference measurements for vegetation bio-geophysical variables: an end-to-end uncertainty evaluation framework (2021)
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Brown, L., Camacho, F., Garcia-Santos, V., Origo, N., Fuster, B., Morris, H., …Dash, J. (2021). Fiducial reference measurements for vegetation bio-geophysical variables: an end-to-end uncertainty evaluation framework. Remote Sensing, 13(16), https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13163194

With a wide range of satellite-derived vegetation bio-geophysical products now available to users, validation efforts are required to assess their accuracy and fitness for purpose. Substantial progress in the validation of such products has been made... Read More about Fiducial reference measurements for vegetation bio-geophysical variables: an end-to-end uncertainty evaluation framework.

A Stokes polarimetric light microscopy view of liquid crystal droplets (2021)
Journal Article
Gou, J., Shen, T., Bao, P., Ramos Angulo, J., & Evans, S. (2021). A Stokes polarimetric light microscopy view of liquid crystal droplets. Scientific reports, 11(1), 16329. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-95674-4

The optical characteristics of materials, such as their magnetooptical effects, birefringence, optical activities, linear and circular dichroism, are probed via the polarisation states of light transmitted through or reflected from the specimens. As... Read More about A Stokes polarimetric light microscopy view of liquid crystal droplets.

SH3BGRL3 binds to myosin 1c in a calcium dependent manner and modulates migration in the MDA-MB-231 cell line (2021)
Journal Article
Di Pisa, F., Pesenti, E., Bono, M., Mazzarello, A., Bernardi, C., Lisanti, M., …Ghiotto, F. (2021). SH3BGRL3 binds to myosin 1c in a calcium dependent manner and modulates migration in the MDA-MB-231 cell line. BMC Molecular and Cell Biology, 22(1), 41. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12860-021-00379-1

Background: The human SH3 domain Binding Glutamic acid Rich Like 3 (SH3BGRL3) gene is highly conserved in phylogeny and widely expressed in human tissues. However, its function is largely undetermined. The protein was found to be overexpressed in sev... Read More about SH3BGRL3 binds to myosin 1c in a calcium dependent manner and modulates migration in the MDA-MB-231 cell line.

Mapping participatory methods in the urban development process : a systematic review and case-based evidence analysis (2021)
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Hemba Geekiyanage, M., Fernando, T., & Keraminiyage, K. (2021). Mapping participatory methods in the urban development process : a systematic review and case-based evidence analysis. Sustainability, 13(16), e8992. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13168992

Despite the fact that vulnerable communities are the most affected by unplanned cities, considerably less attention has been given to involving them in urban development in order to ensure equitable outcomes. In this regard, there is an urgent need f... Read More about Mapping participatory methods in the urban development process : a systematic review and case-based evidence analysis.

Shark and ray trade in and out of Indonesia : addressing knowledge gaps on the path to sustainability (2021)
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Prasetyo, A., McDevitt, A., Murray, J., Barry, J., Agung, F., Muttaqin, E., & Mariani, S. (2021). Shark and ray trade in and out of Indonesia : addressing knowledge gaps on the path to sustainability. Marine Policy, 133, 104714. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104714

Indonesian marine resources are among the richest on the planet, sustaining highly diverse fisheries. These fisheries include the largest shark and ray landings in the world, making Indonesia one of the world’s largest exporters of elasmobranch produ... Read More about Shark and ray trade in and out of Indonesia : addressing knowledge gaps on the path to sustainability.

Source Term-Based Turbulent Flow Simulation on GPU with Link-Wise Artificial Compressibility Method (2021)
Journal Article
Fan, S., Santasmasas, M. C., Guo, X., Yang, C., & Revell, A. (2021). Source Term-Based Turbulent Flow Simulation on GPU with Link-Wise Artificial Compressibility Method. International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics, 35(7), 549-561. https://doi.org/10.1080/10618562.2021.1980212

We present a GPU-based turbulent flow simulation by link-wise artificial compressibility method (LW-ACM). The standard implementations of the lattice Boltzmann method are limited by memory requirements due to the nature of the distribution functions... Read More about Source Term-Based Turbulent Flow Simulation on GPU with Link-Wise Artificial Compressibility Method.

Anomaly Detection in Natural Scene Images Based on Enhanced Fine-Grained Saliency and Fuzzy Logic (2021)
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Mokayed, H., Shivakumara, P., Saini, R., Liwicki, M., Chee Hin, L., & Pal, U. (2021). Anomaly Detection in Natural Scene Images Based on Enhanced Fine-Grained Saliency and Fuzzy Logic. IEEE Access, 9, https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3103279

This paper proposes a simple yet effective method for anomaly detection in natural scene images improving natural scene text detection and recognition. In the last decade, there has been significant progress towards text detection and recognition in... Read More about Anomaly Detection in Natural Scene Images Based on Enhanced Fine-Grained Saliency and Fuzzy Logic.

Novel diarylamides and diarylureas with N-substitution dependent activity against medulloblastoma (2021)
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Lawson, C., Ahmed Alta, T., Moschou, G., Skamnaki, V., Solovou, T., Topham, C., …Snape, T. (2021). Novel diarylamides and diarylureas with N-substitution dependent activity against medulloblastoma. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 225, 113751. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmech.2021.113751

Medulloblastoma - highly aggressive and heterogeneous tumours of the cerebellum - account for 15-20% of all childhood brain tumours, and are the most common high-grade childhood embryonal tumour of the central nervous system. Herein, potent in vitro... Read More about Novel diarylamides and diarylureas with N-substitution dependent activity against medulloblastoma.

Text and web content mining : a systematic review (2021)
Journal Article
Almatrooshi, F., Alhammadi, S., Salloum, S., & Shaalan, K. (2022). Text and web content mining : a systematic review. Lecture notes in networks and systems (Online), 1, 79-87. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82616-1_8

Text and content mining are the subcategory of data mining. This category of data mining is used to extract the information from web or web pages of a website. This mining identifies useful information from web content like web pages, search logs, an... Read More about Text and web content mining : a systematic review.

An overview of sentiment analysis with dialectical processing (2021)
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Nelci, J., Salloum, S., & Shaalan, K. (2022). An overview of sentiment analysis with dialectical processing. Lecture notes in networks and systems (Online), 1, 3-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82616-1_1

Sentiment analysis (SA) is one of the most emerging field of study in natural language processing (NLP) domain that primarily focuses on the opinion extortion of people’s lingual and penned articulation. Considerable number of studies about sentiment... Read More about An overview of sentiment analysis with dialectical processing.

Feasibility of using attention mechanism in abstractive summarization (2021)
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AlMazrouei, R., Nelci, J., Salloum, S., & Shaalan, K. (2022). Feasibility of using attention mechanism in abstractive summarization. Lecture notes in networks and systems (Online), 299, 13-20. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82616-1_2

The Prevalence of information and its magnitude mandates a short description of the core of a document, an article, or legal documents. Abstractive summarization helps to concur with this problem utilizing the evolutions in machine learning and deep... Read More about Feasibility of using attention mechanism in abstractive summarization.