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A deep action-oriented video image classification system for text detection and recognition (2021)
Journal Article
Chaudhuri, A., Shivakumara, P., Nath Chowdhury, P., Pal, U., Lu, T., Lopresti, D., & Hemantha Kumar, G. (2021). A deep action-oriented video image classification system for text detection and recognition. SN Applied Sciences, 3, Article 838. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-021-04821-z

For the video images with complex actions, achieving accurate text detection and recognition results is very challenging. This paper presents a hybrid model for classification of action-oriented video images which reduces the complexity of the proble... Read More about A deep action-oriented video image classification system for text detection and recognition.

Unsteady magnetohydrodynamic couple stress fluid flow from a shrinking porous sheet: Variational iteration method study (2021)
Journal Article
Reddy, G. J., Hiremath, A., Kumar, M., Beg, O., & Kadir, A. (2022). Unsteady magnetohydrodynamic couple stress fluid flow from a shrinking porous sheet: Variational iteration method study. Heat Transfer, 51(2), 2219-2236. https://doi.org/10.1002/htj.22397

AbstractMotivated by magnetic polymer manufacturing applications, the present research article examines theoretically the hydromagnetic boundary layer flow of an electrically conducting non‐Newtonian couple stress fluid due to a transient shrinking (... Read More about Unsteady magnetohydrodynamic couple stress fluid flow from a shrinking porous sheet: Variational iteration method study.

Reduced-order modelling of parameterised incompressible and compressible unsteady flow problems using deep neural networks (2021)
Journal Article
Sugar-Gabor, O. (2021). Reduced-order modelling of parameterised incompressible and compressible unsteady flow problems using deep neural networks. International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 66(1), 36-50. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCAT.2021.119603

A non-intrusive reduced-order model for nonlinear parametric flow problems is developed. It is based on extracting a reduced-order basis from full-order snapshots via proper orthogonal decomposition and using both deep and shallow neural network a... Read More about Reduced-order modelling of parameterised incompressible and compressible unsteady flow problems using deep neural networks.

The School Farms Network in the UK : history, context, and adding value (2021)
Book Chapter
and adding value. In A. Farag, S. Badawi, G. Lalli, & M. Kamareddine (Eds.), School farms : feeding and educating children (67-83). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003176558-7

Alongside recent renewed interest in urban agriculture, there has been an increased focus on school farming. The School Farms Network has a large membership base and interest from other green space organisations across the UK. Using contributions fro... Read More about The School Farms Network in the UK : history, context, and adding value.

Facile synthesis and biological evaluation of chrysin derivatives (2021)
Journal Article
Omonga, N., Zia, Z., Ghanbour, H., Ragazzon-Smith, A., Foster, H., Hadfield, J., & Ragazzon, P. (2021). Facile synthesis and biological evaluation of chrysin derivatives. Journal of Chemical Research, 45(11-12), 1083-1092. https://doi.org/10.1177/17475198211057467

In this paper, novel synthetic methods, including microwave O-alkylation, were used to produce several chrysin derivatives. These compounds were purified, characterised and tested on different cell lines and bacterial strains. From this family, 7-(2,... Read More about Facile synthesis and biological evaluation of chrysin derivatives.

Wind tunnel measurements of the aerodynamic characteristics of a 3:2 rectangular cylinder including non-Gaussian and non-stationary features (2021)
Journal Article
Nguyen, C., Nguyen, D., Owen, J., & Hargreaves, D. (2022). Wind tunnel measurements of the aerodynamic characteristics of a 3:2 rectangular cylinder including non-Gaussian and non-stationary features. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 220, 104826. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jweia.2021.104826

This paper presents a wind tunnel investigation of the aerodynamic characteristics (force and pressure coefficients) of a static 3:2 rectangular cylinder in smooth flow for angles of attack between and at various values of Reynolds number. In contr... Read More about Wind tunnel measurements of the aerodynamic characteristics of a 3:2 rectangular cylinder including non-Gaussian and non-stationary features.

Numerical study of time-dependent flow of immiscible Saffman dusty (fluid-particle suspension) and Eringen micropolar fluids in a duct with a modified cubic B-spline Differential Quadrature method (2021)
Journal Article
Chandrawat, R., Joshi, V., & Beg, O. (2022). Numerical study of time-dependent flow of immiscible Saffman dusty (fluid-particle suspension) and Eringen micropolar fluids in a duct with a modified cubic B-spline Differential Quadrature method. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 130, 105758. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2021.105758

Immiscible flows arise in many diverse applications in mechanical, chemical, and environmental engineering. Such flows involve interfacial conditions and often feature mass (species) diffusion. Motivated by applications in non-Newtonian duct process... Read More about Numerical study of time-dependent flow of immiscible Saffman dusty (fluid-particle suspension) and Eringen micropolar fluids in a duct with a modified cubic B-spline Differential Quadrature method.

Heat transfer and entropy generation analysis of water-Fe3O4/CNT hybrid magnetic nanofluid flow in a trapezoidal wavy enclosure containing porous media with the Galerkin finite element method (2021)
Journal Article
Al-Kouz, W., Abderrahmane, A., Shamshuddin, M., Younis, O., Mohammed, S., Beg, O., & Toghraie, D. (2021). Heat transfer and entropy generation analysis of water-Fe3O4/CNT hybrid magnetic nanofluid flow in a trapezoidal wavy enclosure containing porous media with the Galerkin finite element method. European Physical Journal Plus, 136(11), 1184. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-02192-3

The present study addresses theoretically and computationally the performance of electrically conducting water-Fe3O4/CNT hybrid nanofluid in three-dimensional natural convective heat transfer and entropy generation within a wavy-walled trapezoidal... Read More about Heat transfer and entropy generation analysis of water-Fe3O4/CNT hybrid magnetic nanofluid flow in a trapezoidal wavy enclosure containing porous media with the Galerkin finite element method.

The role of aesthetics in energy-retrofit strategies: the case of solid wall houses in the UK (2021)
Thesis
Seifhashemi, S. (2021). The role of aesthetics in energy-retrofit strategies: the case of solid wall houses in the UK. (Thesis). University of Salford

Solid wall dwellings are responsible for 36% of the carbon emission from the domestic sector in the UK. Among energy retrofit measures, Solid Wall Insulation (SWI) is the most effective in reducing energy demand. However, the current rate for insu... Read More about The role of aesthetics in energy-retrofit strategies: the case of solid wall houses in the UK.

IoT data quality issues and potential solutions : a literature review (2021)
Journal Article
Mansouri, T., Sadeghi Moghadam, M., Monshizadeh, F., & Zareravasan, A. (2021). IoT data quality issues and potential solutions : a literature review. Computer Journal, https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/bxab183

In the Internet of Things (IoT), data gathered from dozens of devices are the base for creating business value and developing new products and services. If data are of poor quality, decisions are likely to be non-sense. Data quality is crucial to gai... Read More about IoT data quality issues and potential solutions : a literature review.

Efficient management of environmental control within electrical substations for decarbonisation purposes (2021)
Thesis
Collett, M. Efficient management of environmental control within electrical substations for decarbonisation purposes. (Dissertation). University of Salford

Decarbonisation of building operations is identified as a key component of national decarbonisation strategies. Reducing the energy demand of buildings is to be achieved through more stringent regulation for new construction and the retrofitting of e... Read More about Efficient management of environmental control within electrical substations for decarbonisation purposes.

IoT data quality issues and potential solutions: a literature review (2021)
Journal Article
Mansouri, T., Moghadam, M., Monshizadeh, F., & Zareravasan, A. (2021). IoT data quality issues and potential solutions: a literature review. Computer Journal, https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/bxab183

In the Internet of Things (IoT), data gathered from dozens of devices are the base for creating business value and developing new products and services. If data are of poor quality, decisions are likely to be non-sense. Data quality is crucial to gai... Read More about IoT data quality issues and potential solutions: a literature review.

The effectiveness of online platforms after the pandemic : will face-to-face classes affect students’ perception of their Behavioural Intention (BIU) to use online platforms? (2021)
Journal Article
Al-Maroof, R., Alnazzawi, N., Akour, I., Ayoubi, K., Alhumaid, K., AlAhbabi, N., …Salloum, S. (2021). The effectiveness of online platforms after the pandemic : will face-to-face classes affect students’ perception of their Behavioural Intention (BIU) to use online platforms?. Informatics, 8(4), e83. https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics8040083

The purpose of this study is to investigate students’ intention to continue using online learning platforms during face-to-face traditional classes in a way that is parallel to their usage during online virtual classes (during the pandemic). This inv... Read More about The effectiveness of online platforms after the pandemic : will face-to-face classes affect students’ perception of their Behavioural Intention (BIU) to use online platforms?.

Hall and ion‐slip effects on nanofluid transport from a vertical surface: Buongiorno's model (2021)
Journal Article
Reddy, P., Gaffar, S., Beg, O., & Khan, M. (2022). Hall and ion‐slip effects on nanofluid transport from a vertical surface: Buongiorno's model. ZAMM, 102(3), e202000174. https://doi.org/10.1002/zamm.202000174

AbstractThe non‐linear, non‐isothermal, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) laminar convection flows of Buongiorno's nanofluid past a vertical surface with Darcy‐Forchheimer model is mathematically investigated in the present article. Keller's Box implicit fin... Read More about Hall and ion‐slip effects on nanofluid transport from a vertical surface: Buongiorno's model.

Creating Spaces for an Ageing Society: The Role of Critical Social Infrastructure (2021)
Book
Yarker, S. (2021). Creating Spaces for an Ageing Society: The Role of Critical Social Infrastructure. Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/9781839827389

Creating Spaces for an Ageing Society considers the existing social science literature on shared neighbourhood spaces through the perspective of an ageing population. It asks the question; how can we use social infrastructure to build local neighbour... Read More about Creating Spaces for an Ageing Society: The Role of Critical Social Infrastructure.

Computation of Von Karman thermo-solutal swirling flow of a nanofluid over a rotating disk to a non-Darcian porous medium with hydrodynamic/thermal slip (2021)
Journal Article
Umavathi, J., & Beg, O. (2021). Computation of Von Karman thermo-solutal swirling flow of a nanofluid over a rotating disk to a non-Darcian porous medium with hydrodynamic/thermal slip. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-021-11126-1

Motivated by recent trends in spin coating operations in chemical engineering which are exploiting nanomaterials, the present article investigates theoretically and numerically the steady mass and heat transfer in Von Karman swirling slip flow of a... Read More about Computation of Von Karman thermo-solutal swirling flow of a nanofluid over a rotating disk to a non-Darcian porous medium with hydrodynamic/thermal slip.

Selected derivatives of erythromycin B- in silico and anti-malarial studies (2021)
Journal Article
Bhadra, P., Magwaza, R., Nirmalan, N., Freeman, S., Barber, J., & Arsic, B. (2021). Selected derivatives of erythromycin B- in silico and anti-malarial studies. Materials, 14(22), e6980. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14226980

Erythromycin A is an established anti-bacterial agent against Gram-positive bacteria, but it is unstable to acid. This led to an evaluation of erythromycin B and its derivatives because these have improved acid stability. These compounds were investi... Read More about Selected derivatives of erythromycin B- in silico and anti-malarial studies.

Design and performance investigation of a robot-assisted flexible ureteroscopy system (2021)
Journal Article
Zhao, J., Li, J., Cui, L., Shi, C., & Wei, G. (2021). Design and performance investigation of a robot-assisted flexible ureteroscopy system. Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, 2021, 6911202. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/6911202

Flexible ureteroscopy (FURS) has been developed and has become a preferred routine procedure for both diagnosis and treatment of kidney stones and other renal diseases inside the urinary tract. The traditional manual FURS procedure is highly skill-de... Read More about Design and performance investigation of a robot-assisted flexible ureteroscopy system.

UVC LED and conducting yarn-based heater for a smart germicidal face mask to protect against airborne viruses (2021)
Journal Article
Pattanaik, P., Holderbaum, W., Khandual, A., & Tripathy, H. (2021). UVC LED and conducting yarn-based heater for a smart germicidal face mask to protect against airborne viruses. Materials, 14(22), 6999. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14226999

“Wear a mask. Save lives” is the slogan of WHO and all the government agencies over the world to the public. One of the most adopted prevention measures that can limit the spread of the airborne virus in the form of respiratory viral diseases, includ... Read More about UVC LED and conducting yarn-based heater for a smart germicidal face mask to protect against airborne viruses.