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A future for seafood point-of-origin testing using DNA and stable isotope signatures (2021)
Journal Article
Cusa, M., St John Glew, K., Trueman, C., Mariani, S., Buckley, L., Neat, F., & Longo, C. (2021). A future for seafood point-of-origin testing using DNA and stable isotope signatures. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 32, 597-621. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11160-021-09680-w

Demand for seafood products is increasing worldwide, contributing to ever more complex supply chains and posing challenges to trace their origin and guarantee legal, well-managed, sustainable sources from confirmed locations. While DNA-based methods... Read More about A future for seafood point-of-origin testing using DNA and stable isotope signatures.

Antibiotic Resistance Profiles and Population Structure of Healthcare-associated and Community-associated Staphylococcus aureus isolated in Fort Portal, Western Uganda (2021)
Thesis
Ackers Johnson, G. Antibiotic Resistance Profiles and Population Structure of Healthcare-associated and Community-associated Staphylococcus aureus isolated in Fort Portal, Western Uganda. (Thesis). University of Salford

Antimicrobials currently hold infectious pathogens at bay, but with cases of resistance ever increasing, those same pathogens have the potential to reverse decades of medical progress, creating one of the biggest threats to global health, food securi... Read More about Antibiotic Resistance Profiles and Population Structure of Healthcare-associated and Community-associated Staphylococcus aureus isolated in Fort Portal, Western Uganda.

Seasonal variation in tissue-borne heavy metal(loid)s in herbaceous plants growing in contaminated soils developed from industrial wastes of Industrial Revolution age (2021)
Journal Article
Nworie, O., & Lin, C. (2021). Seasonal variation in tissue-borne heavy metal(loid)s in herbaceous plants growing in contaminated soils developed from industrial wastes of Industrial Revolution age. Environmental Advances, 5, 100113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envadv.2021.100113

A 1-year monitoring program was performed to examine the seasonal variation in shoot-borne heavy metal(loid)s in a dominant herbaceous plant species (creeping bentgrass) growing in contaminated soils developed from industrial wastes of Industrial Rev... Read More about Seasonal variation in tissue-borne heavy metal(loid)s in herbaceous plants growing in contaminated soils developed from industrial wastes of Industrial Revolution age.

Assessment of capsicum annuum L. grown in controlled and semi-controlled environments irrigated with greywater treated by floating wetland systems (2021)
Journal Article
Almuktar, S., Abed, S., Scholz, M., & Uzomah, V. (2021). Assessment of capsicum annuum L. grown in controlled and semi-controlled environments irrigated with greywater treated by floating wetland systems. Agronomy, 11(9), e1817. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11091817

Accumulation of trace elements, including heavy metals, were evaluated in soil and fruits of chilli plants (Capsicum annuum L.) grown under both laboratory-controlled and semi-controlled greenhouse location conditions. Chilli plant biomass growth in... Read More about Assessment of capsicum annuum L. grown in controlled and semi-controlled environments irrigated with greywater treated by floating wetland systems.

The detection and characterisation of novel alkyl spin-adducts of PBN and its derivatives using capillary gas chromatography coupled to electron-ionisation mass spectrometry (2021)
Thesis
Zafar, M. (2021). The detection and characterisation of novel alkyl spin-adducts of PBN and its derivatives using capillary gas chromatography coupled to electron-ionisation mass spectrometry. (Thesis). University of Salford

Free radical induced oxidative stress has been reported to be involved in several diseases such as diabetes mellitus, neurodegenerative disorders, cardiovascular diseases (atherosclerosis and hypertension), respiratory diseases (asthma), cataract dev... Read More about The detection and characterisation of novel alkyl spin-adducts of PBN and its derivatives using capillary gas chromatography coupled to electron-ionisation mass spectrometry.

Technology acceptance drivers for AR smart glasses in the middle east : a quantitative study (2021)
Journal Article
Alsharhan, A., Salloum, S., & Aburayya, A. (2022). Technology acceptance drivers for AR smart glasses in the middle east : a quantitative study. International journal of data and network science (Online), 6(1), 193-208. https://doi.org/10.5267/J.IJDNS.2021.9.008

This study aims to establish Middle East users' perspectives on the major factors that impact their
decision to adopt Augmented Reality AR smart glasses (ARSG). Thus, an online questionnaire was
designed and sent directly to the respondents, and 58... Read More about Technology acceptance drivers for AR smart glasses in the middle east : a quantitative study.

Diagnostic and prognostic potential of MiR-379/656 MicroRNA cluster in molecular subtypes of breast cancer (2021)
Journal Article
Lal, M., Ansari, A., Agrawal, A., & Mukhopadhyay, A. (2021). Diagnostic and prognostic potential of MiR-379/656 MicroRNA cluster in molecular subtypes of breast cancer. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 10(18), e4071. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm10184071

Introduction: Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer globally and is one of the most important contributors to cancer-related deaths. Earlier diagnosis is known to reduce mortality, and better biomarkers are needed. MiRNA clusters ofte... Read More about Diagnostic and prognostic potential of MiR-379/656 MicroRNA cluster in molecular subtypes of breast cancer.

An executable method for an intelligent speech and call recognition system using a machine learning-based approach (2021)
Journal Article
Rajarajeswari, P., & Beg, O. (2021). An executable method for an intelligent speech and call recognition system using a machine learning-based approach. Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology, 21(07), 2150055. https://doi.org/10.1142/S021951942150055X

This paper describes a novel call recognizer system based on the machine learning
approach. Current trends, intelligence, emotional recognition and other factors are important
challenges in the real world. The proposed system provides robustness wi... Read More about An executable method for an intelligent speech and call recognition system using a machine learning-based approach.

Numerical simulation of the transport of nanoparticles as drug carriers in hydromagnetic blood flow through a diseased artery with vessel wall permeability and rheological effects (2021)
Journal Article
Tripathi, J., Vasu, B., Beg, O., & Gorla, R. (2022). Numerical simulation of the transport of nanoparticles as drug carriers in hydromagnetic blood flow through a diseased artery with vessel wall permeability and rheological effects. Microvascular Research, 139, 104241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mvr.2021.104241

The present study considers the mathematical modelling of unsteady non-Newtonian hydro-magnetic nanohemodynamics through a rigid cylindrical artery featuring two different stenoses (composite and irregular).
The Ostwald-De Waele power-law fluid mode... Read More about Numerical simulation of the transport of nanoparticles as drug carriers in hydromagnetic blood flow through a diseased artery with vessel wall permeability and rheological effects.

A new deep wavefront based model for text localization in 3D video (2021)
Journal Article
Nandanwar, L., Shivakumara, P., Ramachandra, R., Lu, T., Pal, U., Antonacopoulos, A., & Lu, Y. (2021). A new deep wavefront based model for text localization in 3D video. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 32(6), 3375-3389. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSVT.2021.3110990

With the evolution of electronic devices, such as 3D cameras, addressing the challenges of text localization in 3D video (e.g., for indexing) is increasingly drawing the attention of the multimedia and video processing community. Existing methods foc... Read More about A new deep wavefront based model for text localization in 3D video.

A survey of OCR evaluation tools and metrics (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Neudecker, C., Baierer, K., Gerber, M., Clausner, C., Antonacopoulos, A., & Pletschacher, S. (2021). A survey of OCR evaluation tools and metrics. In HIP '21: The 6th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing. https://doi.org/10.1145/3476887.3476888

The millions of pages of historical documents that are digitized in libraries are increasingly used in contexts that have more specific requirements for OCR quality than keyword search. How to comprehensively, efficiently and reliably assess the qual... Read More about A survey of OCR evaluation tools and metrics.

A laboratory investigation on thermal properties of virgin and aged asphalt mixture (2021)
Journal Article
Byzyka, J., Rahman, M., & Chamberlain, D. (2021). A laboratory investigation on thermal properties of virgin and aged asphalt mixture. Construction and Building Materials, 305, 124757. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2021.124757

In this paper, the thermal properties of three dense graded asphalt mixtures, 20 mm DBM, 13 AC 14, and AC 6, are presented. Density and air voids of the compacted specimens are also shown. Thermal conductivity was measured in the laboratory for non-a... Read More about A laboratory investigation on thermal properties of virgin and aged asphalt mixture.

Clarity-2021 challenges : machine learning challenges for advancing hearing aid processing (2021)
Journal Article
Graetzer, S., Barker, J., Cox, T., Akeroyd, M., Culling, J., Naylor, G., …Viveros Munoz, R. (2021). Clarity-2021 challenges : machine learning challenges for advancing hearing aid processing. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2021-1574

In recent years, rapid advances in speech technology have been made possible by machine learning challenges such as CHiME, REVERB, Blizzard, and Hurricane. In the Clarity project, the machine learning approach is applied to the problem of hearing aid... Read More about Clarity-2021 challenges : machine learning challenges for advancing hearing aid processing.

Prediction of two-phase composite microstructure properties through deep learning of reduced dimensional structure-response data (2021)
Journal Article
Ammasai Sengodan, G. (2021). Prediction of two-phase composite microstructure properties through deep learning of reduced dimensional structure-response data. Composites Part B: Engineering, 225, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2021.109282

A novel method to predict the mechanical responses of arbitrary microstructures from the deep learning of microstructures and their stress-strain response is presented in this work. Two-phase microstructural images that consist of different grain siz... Read More about Prediction of two-phase composite microstructure properties through deep learning of reduced dimensional structure-response data.

Coupling of erbium-implanted silicon to a superconducting resonator (2021)
Journal Article
Hughes, M., Panjwani, N., Urdampilleta, M., Theodoropoulou, N., Wisby, I., Homewood, K., …Carey, J. (2021). Coupling of erbium-implanted silicon to a superconducting resonator. Physical Review Applied, 16(3), 034006. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.16.034006

Erbium-implanted silicon is promising for both photonic and quantum-technology platforms, since it possesses both telecommunications and integrated-circuit processing compatibility. However, several different
Er
centers are generated during the i... Read More about Coupling of erbium-implanted silicon to a superconducting resonator.

Automated compliance checking in healthcare building design (2021)
Journal Article
Soliman-Junior, J., Tzortzopoulos, P., Parise Baldauf, J., Pedo, B., Kagioglou, M., T. Formoso, C., & S. Humphreys, J. (2021). Automated compliance checking in healthcare building design. Automation in Construction, 129, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2021.103822

Regulatory frameworks associated to building design are usually complex, representing extensive sets of requirements. For healthcare projects in the UK, this includes statutory and guidance documents. Existing research indicates that they contain sub... Read More about Automated compliance checking in healthcare building design.

Ion slip and hall effects on generalized time-dependent hydromagnetic Couette flow of immiscible micropolar and dusty micropolar fluids with heat transfer and dissipation : a numerical study (2021)
Journal Article
Chandrawat, R., Joshi, V., & Beg, O. (2021). Ion slip and hall effects on generalized time-dependent hydromagnetic Couette flow of immiscible micropolar and dusty micropolar fluids with heat transfer and dissipation : a numerical study. Journal of Nanofluids, 10(3), 431-446. https://doi.org/10.1166/jon.2021.1792

The hydrodynamics of immiscible micropolar fluids are important in a variety of engineering problems, including biofluid dynamics of arterial blood flows, pharmacodynamics, Principle of Boundary layers, lubrication technology, short waves for heat-co... Read More about Ion slip and hall effects on generalized time-dependent hydromagnetic Couette flow of immiscible micropolar and dusty micropolar fluids with heat transfer and dissipation : a numerical study.

Biology and bioinspiration of soft robotics : actuation, sensing, and system integration (2021)
Journal Article
Ren, L., Li, B., Wei, G., Wang, K., Song, Z., Wei, Y., …Liu, Q. (2021). Biology and bioinspiration of soft robotics : actuation, sensing, and system integration. iScience, 24(9), 103075. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.103075

Organisms in nature grow with senses, nervous, and actuation systems coordinated in ingenious ways to sustain metabolism and other essential life activities. The understanding of biological structures and functions guide the construction of soft robo... Read More about Biology and bioinspiration of soft robotics : actuation, sensing, and system integration.

On cloud studies (2021)
Journal Article
Shayya, F., & Walker, S. (2021). On cloud studies. arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, 25(3), 204-211. https://doi.org/10.1017/s135913552200001x

Suspend your disbelief for a second, and ask yourself: what is architectural about clouds? For many researchers, practitioners and students of the field, a concern with the architectural is a concern with stable forms, organised layouts, inert materi... Read More about On cloud studies.