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Synthesis and Evaluation of Benzoyl containing compounds as potential anti-cancer agents (2021)
Thesis
Ahmed, S. M. Synthesis and Evaluation of Benzoyl containing compounds as potential anti-cancer agents. (Thesis). University of Salford

Seen as one of the major causes of death worldwide, Cancer requires the development of effective treatments to combat the disease. However, pharmaceutical companies are faced by the challenge of finding and developing a suitable compound that can ove... Read More about Synthesis and Evaluation of Benzoyl containing compounds as potential anti-cancer agents.

Acceptance of Google Meet during the spread of Coronavirus by Arab university students (2021)
Journal Article
Al-Maroof, R., Alshurideh, M., Salloum, S., AlHamad, A., & Gaber, T. (2021). Acceptance of Google Meet during the spread of Coronavirus by Arab university students. Informatics, 8(2), e24. https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics8020024

The COVID-19 pandemic not only affected our health and medical systems but also has created large disruption of education systems at school and universities levels. According to the United Nation’s report, COVID-19 has influenced more than 1.6 billio... Read More about Acceptance of Google Meet during the spread of Coronavirus by Arab university students.

Embodied carbon in commercial office buildings : lessons learned from Sri Lanka (2021)
Journal Article
Nawarathna, A., Alwan, Z., Gledson, B., & Fernando, N. (2021). Embodied carbon in commercial office buildings : lessons learned from Sri Lanka. Journal of Building Engineering, 42, 102441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2021.102441

Growing concerns over the importance of reducing the embodied carbon (EC1) of buildings have led to a greater focus on EC-related research and policymaking. Nevertheless, the Sri Lankan building sector is currently lagging behind on this issue. While... Read More about Embodied carbon in commercial office buildings : lessons learned from Sri Lanka.

Non-similar radiative bioconvection nanofluid flow under oblique magnetic field with entropy generation (2021)
Journal Article
Shukla, N., Rana, P., Kuharat, S., & Beg, O. (2022). Non-similar radiative bioconvection nanofluid flow under oblique magnetic field with entropy generation. Journal of applied and computational mechanics, 8(1), 206-218. https://doi.org/10.22055/JACM.2020.33580.2250

Motivated by exploring the near-wall transport phenomena involved in bioconvection fuel cells combined with electrically conducting
nanofluids, in the present article, a detailed analytical treatment using homotopy analysis method (HAM) is presented... Read More about Non-similar radiative bioconvection nanofluid flow under oblique magnetic field with entropy generation.

A research agenda for geographies of everyday intergenerational encounter (2021)
Journal Article
Yarker, S. (2021). A research agenda for geographies of everyday intergenerational encounter. Area, 53(2), 264-271. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12716

This paper calls for a research agenda that attends to the geographies of everyday intergenerational encounter that occur informally in communities. Using the theoretical framing of social infrastructure and encounter, it argues that we need to bette... Read More about A research agenda for geographies of everyday intergenerational encounter.

Stakeholder preference mapping : the case for built heritage of Georgetown, Malaysia (2021)
Journal Article
Georgetown, Malaysia. Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, 11(2), https://doi.org/10.1108/JCHMSD-08-2020-0114

Purpose
While there is an established body of literature that discusses the importance of
stakeholder management, and also the need for involvement of all stakeholders so
that all values of a heritage site can be captured in a heritage management... Read More about Stakeholder preference mapping : the case for built heritage of Georgetown, Malaysia.

On the security and privacy challenges of virtual assistants (2021)
Journal Article
Bolton, T., Dargahi, T., Belguith, S., Al-Rakhami, M., & Sodhro, A. (2021). On the security and privacy challenges of virtual assistants. Sensors, 21(7), e2312. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21072312

Since the purchase of Siri by Apple, and its release with the iPhone 4S in 2011, virtual assistants (VAs) have grown in number and popularity. The sophisticated natural language processing and speech recognition employed by VAs enables users to inter... Read More about On the security and privacy challenges of virtual assistants.

Measuring the Heat Transfer Coefficient (HTC) in buildings : a stakeholder’s survey (2021)
Journal Article
Deb, C., Gelder, L., Spiekman, M., Guillaume, P., Jack, R., & Fitton, R. (2021). Measuring the Heat Transfer Coefficient (HTC) in buildings : a stakeholder’s survey. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 144, 111008. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2021.111008

The heat transfer coefficient (HTC) is a very important factor influencing the energy performance of a building. Recent studies have shown the importance of on-site measurements of the HTC in reducing the performance gap in buildings. However, its me... Read More about Measuring the Heat Transfer Coefficient (HTC) in buildings : a stakeholder’s survey.

Developing a strategic framework to enhance readiness of UAE law enforcement agencies to effectively respond to road traffic emergencies (2021)
Thesis
Alzaabi, E. Developing a strategic framework to enhance readiness of UAE law enforcement agencies to effectively respond to road traffic emergencies. (Thesis). University of Salford

The high number of road traffic accidents and increasing prevalence of road traffic crises around the world has brought to the fore the need for a higher level of crisis preparedness and response. In the UAE, crisis response times are significantly b... Read More about Developing a strategic framework to enhance readiness of UAE law enforcement agencies to effectively respond to road traffic emergencies.

Taylor dispersion in non-Darcy porous media with bulk chemical reaction : a model for drug transport in impeded blood vessels (2021)
Journal Article
Roy, A., Beg, O., Saha, A., & Ramana Murthy, J. (2021). Taylor dispersion in non-Darcy porous media with bulk chemical reaction : a model for drug transport in impeded blood vessels. Journal of Engineering Mathematics, 127(1), 24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10665-021-10120-8

The present article discusses the solute transport process in unsteady laminar blood flow through
a non-Darcy porous medium, as a model for drug movement in blood vessels containing deposits.
The Darcy-Brinkman-Forchheimer drag force formulation is... Read More about Taylor dispersion in non-Darcy porous media with bulk chemical reaction : a model for drug transport in impeded blood vessels.

Primer biases in the molecular assessment of diet in multiple insectivorous mammals (2021)
Journal Article
Browett, S., Curran, T., O’Meara, D., Harrington, A., Guimaraes Sales, N., Antwis, R., …McDevitt, A. (2021). Primer biases in the molecular assessment of diet in multiple insectivorous mammals. Mammalian Biology, 101(3), 293-304. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42991-021-00115-4

Our understanding of trophic interactions of small insectivorous mammals has been drastically improved with the advent of DNA metabarcoding. The technique has continued to be optimised over the years, with primer choice repeatedly being a vital facto... Read More about Primer biases in the molecular assessment of diet in multiple insectivorous mammals.

Evaluating the risk of disclosure and utility in a synthetic dataset (2021)
Journal Article
Chen, K.-C., Yu, C.-M., & Dargahi, T. (2021). Evaluating the risk of disclosure and utility in a synthetic dataset. Computers, Materials & Continua, 68(1), 761-787. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2021.014984

The advancement of information technology has improved the delivery
of financial services by the introduction of Financial Technology (FinTech). To
enhance their customer satisfaction, Fintech companies leverage artificial
intelligence (AI) to col... Read More about Evaluating the risk of disclosure and utility in a synthetic dataset.

Age and sex-associated variation in the multi-site microbiome of an entire social group of free-ranging rhesus macaques (2021)
Journal Article
Janiak, M., Montague, M., Villamil, C., Stock, M., Trujillo, A., DePasquale, A., …Higham, J. (2021). Age and sex-associated variation in the multi-site microbiome of an entire social group of free-ranging rhesus macaques. Microbiome, 9(1), 68. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-021-01009-w

Background: An individual’s microbiome changes over the course of its lifetime, especially during infancy, and again in old age. Confounding factors such as diet and healthcare make it difficult to disentangle the interactions between age, health, an... Read More about Age and sex-associated variation in the multi-site microbiome of an entire social group of free-ranging rhesus macaques.

In depth characterisation of the biomolecular coronas of polymer coated inorganic nanoparticles with differential centrifugal sedimentation (2021)
Journal Article
Perez-Potti, A., Lopez, H., Pelaz, B., Abdelmonem, A., Soliman, M., Schoen, I., …Monopoli, M. (2021). In depth characterisation of the biomolecular coronas of polymer coated inorganic nanoparticles with differential centrifugal sedimentation. Scientific reports, 11(1), 6443. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-84029-8

Advances in nanofabrication methods have enabled the tailoring of new strategies towards the controlled production of nanoparticles with attractive applications in healthcare. In many cases, their characterisation remains a big challenge, particularl... Read More about In depth characterisation of the biomolecular coronas of polymer coated inorganic nanoparticles with differential centrifugal sedimentation.

Application of the Round-Trip theory to electro-dynamic sources of vibration (2021)
Thesis
Evans, J. Application of the Round-Trip theory to electro-dynamic sources of vibration. (Dissertation). University of Salford

The Round-Trip Identity, developed by Moorhouse & Elliott at The University of Salford allows the reconstruction of mechanical frequency response functions at remote locations on a test structure, without the need to physically measure at that locati... Read More about Application of the Round-Trip theory to electro-dynamic sources of vibration.

Continuous professional development changes for construction professionals post Covid-19 (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Watts, G., & Harris, N. (2021, March). Continuous professional development changes for construction professionals post Covid-19. Presented at Exploring Contemporary Issues and Challenges in the Construction Industry: (CCC2021), the 5th Coventry University Construction Conference, Online

Continuous Professional Development (CPD) is a requirement of all Chartered construction professionals. The benefits of CPD are also espoused by many construction companies so arguably CPD should also be undertaken by all professionals regardless of... Read More about Continuous professional development changes for construction professionals post Covid-19.

Comparing construction professionals job descriptions with university modules. Do the modules taught match the needs required? (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Harris, N., & Watts, G. (2021, March). Comparing construction professionals job descriptions with university modules. Do the modules taught match the needs required?. Presented at Exploring Contemporary Issues and Challenges in the Construction Industry: (CCC2021), the 5th Coventry University Construction Conference, Online

Long before Covid19 the roles and requirements of construction professionals have been evolving. The pandemic has served to increase this pace of change. Some of these changes are temporary (although who knows for how long) whilst other changes could... Read More about Comparing construction professionals job descriptions with university modules. Do the modules taught match the needs required?.

Community-based environmental protection in the Brazilian Amazon: recent history, legal landmarks and expansion across protected areas (2021)
Journal Article
Franco, C., Rocha El Bizri, H., Souza, P., Fa, J., Valsecchi, J., Sousa, I., & Quieroz, H. (2021). Community-based environmental protection in the Brazilian Amazon: recent history, legal landmarks and expansion across protected areas. Journal of Environmental Management, 287, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112314

Globally, community-based initiatives are effective in protecting ecosystems and the species within them. In this paper, we analyze the emergence and large-scale expansion of a community-based environmental protection system (the Voluntary Environmen... Read More about Community-based environmental protection in the Brazilian Amazon: recent history, legal landmarks and expansion across protected areas.