All Outputs (429)

Microbial diversity in stingless bee gut is linked to host wing size and influenced by the environment (2023)
Journal Article
Liu, H., Hall, M. A., Brettell, L. E., Wang, J., Halcroft, M., Nacko, S., …Singh, B. K. (2023). Microbial diversity in stingless bee gut is linked to host wing size and influenced by the environment. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 198, 107909. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jip.2023.107909

Stingless bees are important social corbiculate bees, fulfilling critical pollination roles in many ecosystems. However, their gut microbiota, particularly the fungal communities associated with them, remains inadequately characterised. This knowledg... Read More about Microbial diversity in stingless bee gut is linked to host wing size and influenced by the environment.

Molecular systematics of tamarins with emphasis on genus Tamarinus (Primates, Callitrichidae) (2023)
Journal Article
Lopes, G. P., Rohe, F., Bertuol, F., Polo, É., Valsecchi, J., Santos, T. C. M., …Hrbek, T. (in press). Molecular systematics of tamarins with emphasis on genus Tamarinus (Primates, Callitrichidae). Zoologica Scripta, https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12617

The genus Saguinus comprises three principal clades that diverged in the Middle to Late Miocene. Their taxa are ecologically differentiated and allopatrically distributed. These clades were recently recognized as different genera, Saguinus, Tamarinus... Read More about Molecular systematics of tamarins with emphasis on genus Tamarinus (Primates, Callitrichidae).

Immediate and accessible grief treatment via cold reading chatbots (2023)
Thesis
Tracey, P. (2023). Immediate and accessible grief treatment via cold reading chatbots. (Thesis). University of Salford

This thesis presents a potential solution for prolonged grief disorder (PGD) sufferers waiting for psychological aid, by simulating the cold reading process through a chatbot model. PGD occurs in approximately 10% of all bereavements, and there is cu... Read More about Immediate and accessible grief treatment via cold reading chatbots.

Constructive Conservation and Cultural Identity: Greek Church Manchester. (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Yioutani-Iacovides, M. (2023, June). Constructive Conservation and Cultural Identity: Greek Church Manchester. Paper presented at AMPS Conference, Prague-Heritages, Past and Present-Built and Social, Prague (&online)

UNESCO’S Convention has set the framework for Cultural Heritage protection but current challenges have an impact on efforts to enhance cultural heritage significance for people and communities. The Conservation project of the Grade II Listed Greek... Read More about Constructive Conservation and Cultural Identity: Greek Church Manchester..

A New English/Arabic Parallel Corpus for Phishing Emails (2023)
Journal Article
Salloum, S., Gaber, T., Vadera, S., & Shaalan, K. (in press). A New English/Arabic Parallel Corpus for Phishing Emails. #Journal not on list, https://doi.org/10.1145/3606031

Phishing involves malicious activity whereby phishers, in the disguise of legitimate entities, obtain illegitimate access to the victims’ personal and private information, usually through emails. Currently, phishing attacks and threats are being hand... Read More about A New English/Arabic Parallel Corpus for Phishing Emails.

Social regulation of reproduction: control or signal? (2023)
Journal Article
Benvenuto, C., & Lorenzi, M. C. (in press). Social regulation of reproduction: control or signal?. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, S0169-5347(23)00132-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.05.009

Traditionally, dominant breeders have been considered to be able to control the reproduction of other individuals in multimember groups that have high variance in reproductive success/reproductive skew (e.g., forced sterility/coercion of conspecifics... Read More about Social regulation of reproduction: control or signal?.

The effect of brick properties on hygrothermal performance of solid walls (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Tsang, C., Thomas, F., Hardy, A., & Glew, D. (2023). The effect of brick properties on hygrothermal performance of solid walls. . https://doi.org/10.14293/icmb230018

To construct buildings of the future that are both energy-efficient and moisture-resilient, it is critical to have an in-depth understanding of the varying characteristics of brick properties. This study sampled eight brick-cores taken from solid wal... Read More about The effect of brick properties on hygrothermal performance of solid walls.

Sentiment Analysis of Semantically Interoperable Social Media Platforms Using Computational Intelligence Techniques (2023)
Journal Article
Alqahtani, A., Khan, S. B., Alqahtani, J., AlYami, S., & Alfayez, F. (in press). Sentiment Analysis of Semantically Interoperable Social Media Platforms Using Computational Intelligence Techniques. Applied Sciences, 13(13), 7599. https://doi.org/10.3390/app13137599

Competitive intelligence in social media analytics has significantly influenced behavioral finance worldwide in recent years; it is continuously emerging with a high growth rate of unpredicted variables per week. Several surveys in this large field h... Read More about Sentiment Analysis of Semantically Interoperable Social Media Platforms Using Computational Intelligence Techniques.

Deep learning and wearable sensors for the diagnosis and monitoring of Parkinson’s disease: A systematic review (2023)
Journal Article
Sigcha, L., Borzì, L., Amato, F., Rechichi, I., Ramos-Romero, C., Cárdenas, A., …Olmo, G. (2023). Deep learning and wearable sensors for the diagnosis and monitoring of Parkinson’s disease: A systematic review. Expert systems with applications, 229, 120541. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.120541

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that produces both motor and non-motor complications, degrading the quality of life of PD patients. Over the past two decades, the use of wearable devices in combination with machine learning a... Read More about Deep learning and wearable sensors for the diagnosis and monitoring of Parkinson’s disease: A systematic review.

Managing User Requirements in Social Housing Upgrading (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Awwal, S., Tzortzopoulos, P., Kagioglou, M., & Soliman-Junior, J. (2023). Managing User Requirements in Social Housing Upgrading. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (1072-1081). https://doi.org/10.24928/2023/0167

User requirement management is essential to improve value generation in construction projects. Requirements management is also vital in the context of social housing upgrading/retrofit projects, as such projects generally involve a poor consideration... Read More about Managing User Requirements in Social Housing Upgrading.

An Informed Decision Support Framework from a Strategic Perspective in the Health Sector (2023)
Journal Article
Alojail, M., Alturki, M., & Bhatia Khan, S. (in press). An Informed Decision Support Framework from a Strategic Perspective in the Health Sector. Information, 14(7), 363. https://doi.org/10.3390/info14070363

This paper introduces an informed decision support framework (IDSF) from a strategic perspective in the health sector, focusing on Saudi Arabia. The study addresses the existing challenges and gaps in decision-making processes within Saudi organizati... Read More about An Informed Decision Support Framework from a Strategic Perspective in the Health Sector.

Efficient thermal face recognition method using optimized curvelet features for biometric authentication (2023)
Journal Article
Ali, M. A. S., Meselhy Eltoukhy, M., Rajeena P. P., F., & Gaber, T. (in press). Efficient thermal face recognition method using optimized curvelet features for biometric authentication. PloS one, 18(6), e0287349. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287349

Biometric technology is becoming increasingly prevalent in several vital applications that substitute traditional password and token authentication mechanisms. Recognition accuracy and computational cost are two important aspects that are to be consi... Read More about Efficient thermal face recognition method using optimized curvelet features for biometric authentication.

Computation of EMHD ternary hybrid non-Newtonian nanofluid over a wedge embedded in a Darcy-Forchheimer porous medium with zeta potential and wall suction/injection effects (2023)
Journal Article
Beg, A., Prakash, J., & Tripathi, D. (2023). Computation of EMHD ternary hybrid non-Newtonian nanofluid over a wedge embedded in a Darcy-Forchheimer porous medium with zeta potential and wall suction/injection effects. International Journal of Ambient Energy, 44(1), 2155-2169. https://doi.org/10.1080/01430750.2023.2224339

The field of engineering is witnessing an increasing number of applications for intelligent electromagnetic nano-coatings. These recent advancements serve as the impetus for an investigation into a theoretical and computational study of an unsteady... Read More about Computation of EMHD ternary hybrid non-Newtonian nanofluid over a wedge embedded in a Darcy-Forchheimer porous medium with zeta potential and wall suction/injection effects.

A New Language-Independent Deep CNN for Scene Text Detection and Style Transfer in Social Media Images (2023)
Journal Article
Shivakumara, P., Banerjee, A., Pal, U., Nandanwar, L., Lu, T., & Liu, C.-L. (2023). A New Language-Independent Deep CNN for Scene Text Detection and Style Transfer in Social Media Images. IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, 32, 3552 - 3566. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIP.2023.3287038

Due to the adverse effect of quality caused by different social media and arbitrary languages in natural scenes, detecting text from social media images and transferring its style is challenging. This paper presents a novel end-to-end model for text... Read More about A New Language-Independent Deep CNN for Scene Text Detection and Style Transfer in Social Media Images.

Molecular Evidence Supports Five Lineages within Chiropotes (Pitheciidae, Platyrrhini) (2023)
Journal Article
Carneiro, J., Sampaio, I., Silva-Júnior, J. D. S. E., Martins-Junior, A., Farias, I., Hrbek, T., …Schneider, H. (in press). Molecular Evidence Supports Five Lineages within Chiropotes (Pitheciidae, Platyrrhini). Genes, 14(7), 1309. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes14071309

Pitheciines have unique dental specializations among New World monkeys that allow them to feed on fruits with hard pericarps, thus playing a major role as seed predators. The three extant pitheciine genera, Pithecia, Cacajao and Chiropotes, are all e... Read More about Molecular Evidence Supports Five Lineages within Chiropotes (Pitheciidae, Platyrrhini).

Chornobyl radiation spikes are not due to military vehicles disturbing soil (2023)
Journal Article
Wood, M., Beresford, N., Barnett, C., Burgess, P., & Mobbs, S. (in press). Chornobyl radiation spikes are not due to military vehicles disturbing soil. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 265, 107220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2023.107220

On 25th February 2022, increased gamma radiation dose rates were reported within the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ). This coincided with Russian military vehicles entering the Ukrainian part of the CEZ from neighbouring Belarus. It... Read More about Chornobyl radiation spikes are not due to military vehicles disturbing soil.

Development of a cloud-assisted classification technique for the preservation of secure data storage in smart cities (2023)
Journal Article
Kumar, A., Khan, S. B., Pandey, S. K., Shankar, A., Maple, C., Mashat, A., & Malibari, A. A. (in press). Development of a cloud-assisted classification technique for the preservation of secure data storage in smart cities. #Journal not on list, 12(1), 92. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13677-023-00469-9

Cloud computing is the most recent smart city advancement, made possible by the increasing volume of heterogeneous data produced by apps. More storage capacity and processing power are required to process this volume of data. Data analytics is used t... Read More about Development of a cloud-assisted classification technique for the preservation of secure data storage in smart cities.

Numerical study of transient convective turbulent boundary layer flow along a vertical plate: analysis of kinetic energy and its dissipation rate (2023)
Journal Article
Suresha, S. P., Janardhana Reddy, G., Reddy, G. J., Kumar, M., Rani, H. P., & Anwar Bég, O. (in press). Numerical study of transient convective turbulent boundary layer flow along a vertical plate: analysis of kinetic energy and its dissipation rate. Waves in Random and Complex Media, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/17455030.2023.2220821

The present article numerically investigates the turbulent buoyancy-driven (natural convection) flow along a vertical plate with a low Reynolds turbulence two-equation k-ε model. The deployed turbulence model is appropriate for low Reynolds number (L... Read More about Numerical study of transient convective turbulent boundary layer flow along a vertical plate: analysis of kinetic energy and its dissipation rate.

Computation of three-dimensional blood flow development in a 180O curved tube geometry (2023)
Journal Article
Chiang, C., Kao, R., Hung, T., & Beg, A. (2023). Computation of three-dimensional blood flow development in a 180O curved tube geometry. Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology, 23(5), https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219519423500537

Computational blood flow studies are providing an increasingly important compliment to clinical experiments in 21st century biomedical engineering. Motivated by probing deeper into this topic, a theoretical and numerical study is presented of the f... Read More about Computation of three-dimensional blood flow development in a 180O curved tube geometry.

Review of concepts for construction and demolition waste and the circular economy (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Alhawamdeh, M., Ferriz-Papi, J., Goicolea, E., Ros Dosdá, T., & Valentine, J. (2023). Review of concepts for construction and demolition waste and the circular economy.

In order forconstruction and demolition waste (CDW)volumes, recovery targets and associated calculation rules to be quantified more accurately, it is critical that the types of CDW are classified andthatthe domains of the various ways in which... Read More about Review of concepts for construction and demolition waste and the circular economy.