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Developing an industry 4.0 readiness model using fuzzy cognitive maps approach (2022)
Journal Article
Monshizadeh, F., Moghadam, M., Mansouri, T., & Kumar, M. (2022). Developing an industry 4.0 readiness model using fuzzy cognitive maps approach. International Journal of Production Economics, 255, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2022.108658

Industry 4.0, or the fourth industrial revolution, is a new paradigm in manufacturing digitalization, which provides various opportunities for enterprises. Industry 4.0 readiness models are worthy methods to aid manufacturing organizations in trackin... Read More about Developing an industry 4.0 readiness model using fuzzy cognitive maps approach.

Energy aware routing protocol for sparse underwater acoustic wireless sensor network (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Saleh, M. H., Takruri, H., & Linge, N. (2022). Energy aware routing protocol for sparse underwater acoustic wireless sensor network. . https://doi.org/10.1109/csndsp54353.2022.9907973

Rapid changes in technological transformation have brought about changes for devices involved in network communication. The emergence of internet of underwater things (IoUT) has led to an autonomous monitoring of underwater environment using underwat... Read More about Energy aware routing protocol for sparse underwater acoustic wireless sensor network.

Integrating teachers’ TPACK levels and students’ learning motivation, technology innovativeness, and optimism in an IoT acceptance model (2022)
Journal Article
Almaiah, M., Alfaisal, R., Salloum, S., Al-Otaibi, S., Shishakly, R., Lutfi, A., …Al-Maroof, R. (2022). Integrating teachers’ TPACK levels and students’ learning motivation, technology innovativeness, and optimism in an IoT acceptance model. Electronics, 11(19), https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11193197

The growing use of the Internet of Things (IoT) around the world has encouraged researchers to investigate how and why the IoT is implemented in colleges and universities. Previous studies have focused on individual attitudes rather than the integrat... Read More about Integrating teachers’ TPACK levels and students’ learning motivation, technology innovativeness, and optimism in an IoT acceptance model.

A hydroalcoholic extract of Senecio nutans SCh. Bip (Asteraceae); its effects on cardiac function and chemical characterization (2022)
Journal Article
Palacios, J., Paredes, A., Cifuentes, F., Catalan, M., Garcia-Villalon, A., Borquez, J., …Greensmith, D. (2023). A hydroalcoholic extract of Senecio nutans SCh. Bip (Asteraceae); its effects on cardiac function and chemical characterization. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 300, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2022.115747

Ethnopharmacology relevance The plant Senecio nutans SCh. Bip. is used by Andean communities to treat altitude sickness. Recent evidence suggests it may produce vasodilation and negative cardiac inotropy, though the cellular mechanisms have not been... Read More about A hydroalcoholic extract of Senecio nutans SCh. Bip (Asteraceae); its effects on cardiac function and chemical characterization.

Electrokinetic insect-bioinspired membrane pumping in a high aspect ratio bio-microfluidic system (2022)
Journal Article
Narla, V., Tripathi, D., Bhandari, D., & Beg, O. (2022). Electrokinetic insect-bioinspired membrane pumping in a high aspect ratio bio-microfluidic system. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 26(85), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10404-022-02588-2

Microscale flows utilizing stimulus-responsive working fluids are finding increasing applications in emerging areas in mechanical, biological and chemical engineering. Motivated by such applications, in the present article, an analytical study of t... Read More about Electrokinetic insect-bioinspired membrane pumping in a high aspect ratio bio-microfluidic system.

Earthship buildings: opinions on their contribution towards sustainable alternative housing in the UK (2022)
Journal Article
Booth, C. A., Horry, R., Isaac, C., Mahamadu, A., Manu, P., Awuah, K. G. B., …Prabhakaran, A. (2023). Earthship buildings: opinions on their contribution towards sustainable alternative housing in the UK. Proceedings of the ICE - Management, Procurement and Law, 176(4), 192-198. https://doi.org/10.1680/jmapl.22.00026

Earthship buildings are marketed as being an epitome of sustainable alternative housing. Built by reusing or repurposing mostly reclaimed urban waste products, their design includes the utilisation of low-embodied-energy materials, passive solar heat... Read More about Earthship buildings: opinions on their contribution towards sustainable alternative housing in the UK.

Building-as-a-service: theoretical foundations and conceptual framework (2022)
Journal Article
Wildenauer, A., Mbabu, A. M., Underwood, J., & Basl, J. (2022). Building-as-a-service: theoretical foundations and conceptual framework. Buildings, 12(10), https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12101594

The provision of data with information management are a significant challenge for the digital developing construction industry. The utilisation of data from a built asset’s planning, design, and construction phases to the operations phase core and to... Read More about Building-as-a-service: theoretical foundations and conceptual framework.

A bibliometric study of industry 4.0 in construction industry Using Oesterreich and Teuteberg (2016) as a key marker (2022)
Journal Article
Mansour, H., Aminudin, E., Mansour, T., Binti Zainal Abidin, N., & Roslan, A. F. B. (2022). A bibliometric study of industry 4.0 in construction industry Using Oesterreich and Teuteberg (2016) as a key marker. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 1067(1), https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1067/1/012056

This study examines how Industry 4.0 has been discussed in the construction industry and construction management (CM) research over the past four years using Oesterreich and Teuteberg’s (2016) article as a key marker. The techniques adopted in this p... Read More about A bibliometric study of industry 4.0 in construction industry Using Oesterreich and Teuteberg (2016) as a key marker.

Students as co-Researchers; POE of a Post-Pandemic Study Space (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Duran, O., & Zhao, J. (2022). Students as co-Researchers; POE of a Post-Pandemic Study Space.

This paper presents preliminary findings from a Post Occupancy Evaluation research of a BREEAM excellence-rated university building, to understand the experience of the students using university study spaces under a post-pandemic teaching and learnin... Read More about Students as co-Researchers; POE of a Post-Pandemic Study Space.

Co-flowering plants support diverse pollinator populations and facilitate pollinator visitation to sweet cherry crops (2022)
Journal Article
Gilpin, A.-M., O'Brien, C., Kobel, C., E. Brettell, L., M. Cook, J., & A. Power, S. (2022). Co-flowering plants support diverse pollinator populations and facilitate pollinator visitation to sweet cherry crops. Basic and Applied Ecology, 63, 36-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2022.05.005

Many food crops depend on animal pollination to set fruit. In light of pollinator declines there is growing recognition of the need for agro-ecosystems that can sustain wild pollinator populations, ensuring fruit production and pollinator conservatio... Read More about Co-flowering plants support diverse pollinator populations and facilitate pollinator visitation to sweet cherry crops.

Role of nanoparticle size and shape in the design and characterisation of functional nanomaterials for applications in cancer nanotechnology (2022)
Thesis
applications in cancer nanotechnology. (Thesis). University of Salford

Gold nanoparticles are emerging novel theranostic agents with numerous applications as diagnostic and therapeutic tools owing to their unique optical properties and highly customisable surface chemistry, which allows for the careful design of perso... Read More about Role of nanoparticle size and shape in the design and characterisation of functional nanomaterials for applications in cancer nanotechnology.

Spectral relaxation computation of Maxwell fluid flow from a stretching surface with quadratic convection and non-Fourier heat flux using Lie symmetry transformations (2022)
Journal Article
Bhatti, M., Shahid, A., Sarris, I., & Beg, O. (2022). Spectral relaxation computation of Maxwell fluid flow from a stretching surface with quadratic convection and non-Fourier heat flux using Lie symmetry transformations. International Journal of Modern Physics B, https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217979223500820

A mathematical model for nonlinear quadratic convection with non-Fourier heat flux in coating boundary layer flow of a Maxwell viscoelastic fluid is presented. Nonlinear quadratic thermal radiation and heat source/sink effects are also considered.... Read More about Spectral relaxation computation of Maxwell fluid flow from a stretching surface with quadratic convection and non-Fourier heat flux using Lie symmetry transformations.

The Virtual Palaeosciences (ViPs) project: resources for online learning in or out of a pandemic (2022)
Journal Article
Hutchinson, S. M., Bacon, K. L., Bunting, M. J., & Hurrell, E. R. (2022). The Virtual Palaeosciences (ViPs) project: resources for online learning in or out of a pandemic. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 48(1), 133-143. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2022.2129599

The Virtual Palaeosciences (ViPs) project is a collaborative initiative bringing palaeoscientists together to locate, access and share online educational resources (OERs). It began as a response to the 2020 shift to online learning when the COVID-19... Read More about The Virtual Palaeosciences (ViPs) project: resources for online learning in or out of a pandemic.

Using population surveys and models to reassess the conservation status of an endemic Amazonian titi monkey in a deforestation hotspot (2022)
Journal Article
Silva, F. E., Pacca, L. G., Lemos, L. P., Gusmão, A. C., da Silva, O. D., Dalponte, J. C., …El Bizri, H. R. (2022). Using population surveys and models to reassess the conservation status of an endemic Amazonian titi monkey in a deforestation hotspot. Oryx, 56(6), 846-853. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0030605322000655

Assessing the conservation status of species is essential for implementing appropriate conservation measures. A lack of evidence of threats, rather than showing an absence of impacts, could reflect a lack of studies on how human activities could resu... Read More about Using population surveys and models to reassess the conservation status of an endemic Amazonian titi monkey in a deforestation hotspot.

A novel drone-station matching model in smart cities based on strict preferences (2022)
Journal Article
Nath, D., Bandyopadhyay, A., Rana, A., Gaber, T., & Hassanien, A. (2022). A novel drone-station matching model in smart cities based on strict preferences. Unmanned Systems, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1142/s2301385023500115

There has been a considerable increase in the use of drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), in recent times, for a wide variety of purposes such as security, surveillance, delivery, search and rescue operations, penetration of inaccessible or un... Read More about A novel drone-station matching model in smart cities based on strict preferences.

Exploring waste tyres problems and sustainable waste management in the Tunisian context (2022)
Journal Article
Abuzukhar, M., Hardman, M., & Clark, A. (2022). Exploring waste tyres problems and sustainable waste management in the Tunisian context. Current journal of applied science and technology, 41(35), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.9734/cjast/2022/v41i353956

Waste tyres represent one of the environmentally damaging fractions of the solid waste stream in Tunisia, where the problem of inefficient waste tyre management is endemic. This is easily identified by the piles of accumulating tyre waste located on... Read More about Exploring waste tyres problems and sustainable waste management in the Tunisian context.

Reducing Energy Consumption and Improving Comfort by Retrofitting Residential Buildings in the Hot Summer and Cold Winter Zone of China (2022)
Journal Article
Tsang, C., Spentzou, E., J. Lomas, K., & He, M. (2022). Reducing Energy Consumption and Improving Comfort by Retrofitting Residential Buildings in the Hot Summer and Cold Winter Zone of China. Journal of Architectural Engineering, 28(4), https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29AE.1943-5568.0000568

China’s Hot Summer and Cold Winter zone, with a 550 million population, accounts for 45% of China’s building energy consumption; as such, building retrofits could offer substantial energy savings. This paper presents results from a dynamic thermal mo... Read More about Reducing Energy Consumption and Improving Comfort by Retrofitting Residential Buildings in the Hot Summer and Cold Winter Zone of China.