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Enhancing Cybersecurity: Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing for Arabic Phishing Email Detection (2024)
Thesis

Phishing is a significant threat to the modern world, causing considerable financial losses. Although electronic mail has shown to be a valuable asset around the world in terms of facilitating communication for all parties involved, whether huge corp... Read More about Enhancing Cybersecurity: Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing for Arabic Phishing Email Detection.

Towards Explainable Deep Learning Models for Fault Prediction based on IoT Sensor Data (2024)
Thesis

This thesis addresses a pressing issue in the realm of IoT-based fault prediction using sensor data, focusing on the crucial yet challenging aspect of explainability within deep learning models. While deep learning has showcased remarkable advancemen... Read More about Towards Explainable Deep Learning Models for Fault Prediction based on IoT Sensor Data.

Acoustic Characterisation and Modelling of Multi-Fibrous Nonwovens (2024)
Thesis

This thesis explores the theoretical, numerical, and experimental approaches for nonwoven materials with the intent of quantifying, testing, and characterising the acoustic performance of currently available products and to guide the development of a... Read More about Acoustic Characterisation and Modelling of Multi-Fibrous Nonwovens.

A novel method for boundary layer flow that uses asymptotics and the Wiener-Hopf technique (2024)
Thesis

We consider the theory by (Chadwick, 2019) on the applications of Navier-Stokeslets (NSlets) by a Green’s integral distribution of fundamental solutions in boundary layer flow which we call BL-lets. This research investigates the application of the t... Read More about A novel method for boundary layer flow that uses asymptotics and the Wiener-Hopf technique.

Post Occupancy Evaluation in Educational Spaces: The Impact of Seasonal Discrepancies (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents 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. This research focuses on winter conditions and the ou... Read More about Post Occupancy Evaluation in Educational Spaces: The Impact of Seasonal Discrepancies.

Post Occupancy Evaluation in Educational Spaces The Impact of Seasonal Discrepancies (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents 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. This research focuses on winter conditions and the ou... Read More about Post Occupancy Evaluation in Educational Spaces The Impact of Seasonal Discrepancies.

Tailoring Agile for Medical Software Development: Global South Perspective (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Agile practices have been adopted in developing various software for ICT4D due to their flexibility in empowering development teams to provide higher-quality, customer-aligned software. Medical software developers find it challenging to adopt agile s... Read More about Tailoring Agile for Medical Software Development: Global South Perspective.

The transplant rejection response involves neutrophil and macrophage adhesion-mediated trogocytosis and is regulated by NFATc3 (2024)
Journal Article

The anti-foreign tissue (transplant rejection) response, mediated by the immune system, has been the biggest obstacle to successful organ transplantation. There are still many enigmas regarding this process and some aspects of the underlying mechanis... Read More about The transplant rejection response involves neutrophil and macrophage adhesion-mediated trogocytosis and is regulated by NFATc3.

Benefits of Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Technology (2024)
Journal Article

As a result of the recent energy crisis and concerns about the state of the environment, more people are opting for electric vehicles over the more typical internal combustion engine vehicle. This article provides a comprehensive overview of vehicle-... Read More about Benefits of Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Technology.

An Overview of Smart Cities Key Components (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In response to the challenges of modern urbanisation, the smart city concept emerged as a promising approach to creating a sustainable and efficient urban environment. Smart cities using the latest technology and data-based solutions are aimed at opt... Read More about An Overview of Smart Cities Key Components.

The distribution, fate, and environmental impacts of food additive nanomaterials in soil and aquatic ecosystems. (2024)
Journal Article

Nanomaterials in the food industry are used as food additives, and the main function of these food additives is to improve food qualities including texture, flavor, color, consistency, preservation, and nutrient bioavailability. This review aims to p... Read More about The distribution, fate, and environmental impacts of food additive nanomaterials in soil and aquatic ecosystems..

The Clarity & Cadenza Challenges (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Clarity (Speech in noise) and Cadenza (music) are two EPSRC projects that are exploiting the latest in machine learning to create improved listening experiences for those with a hearing loss. In both we are running a series of open competitions, for... Read More about The Clarity & Cadenza Challenges.

Operational measurement of frequency response functions (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A common problem that arises during modal testing is the inability to directly excite degrees-of-freedom to obtain frequency response functions (FRFs). It has been shown previously that reliable reproduction of FRFs via indirect excitation is difficu... Read More about Operational measurement of frequency response functions.

Investigating the Dose Response of UAS Noise: Designing a Listening Experiment (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In collaboration with the UK Civil Aviation Authority, the University of Salford is carrying out research to better understand the human perception and dose response of Unmaned Aerial Systems (UAS) noise. A listening experiment has been conducted to... Read More about Investigating the Dose Response of UAS Noise: Designing a Listening Experiment.

Urban Hedges as Noise Barriers: Does Plant Species Choice Affect Insertion Loss? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Noise in urban environments is responsible for annoyance and adverse health effects. Noise barriers are used to mitigate noise and are effective when properly designed and installed, but provide little visual or biodiversity benefit. Hedges are frequ... Read More about Urban Hedges as Noise Barriers: Does Plant Species Choice Affect Insertion Loss?.

FE Modelling Tibia Bone Vibration - The Influence of Shape, Twist, and Size (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The vibration response of bone has the potential to be used as a measure of bone strength for Osteoporosis detection. Modelling the vibration response requires capturing the shape of the long bones which have several complicated features. Yet modelli... Read More about FE Modelling Tibia Bone Vibration - The Influence of Shape, Twist, and Size.

Prediction of Radiated Structural Noise Using Decomposed Vibro-Acoustic Frequency Response Functions (2024)
Journal Article

The manner in which a system radiates noise is dependent upon the resonant behaviour and the forced vibration of the structure. It has been shown previously that the modes of such a system can be identified by performing a singular value decompositio... Read More about Prediction of Radiated Structural Noise Using Decomposed Vibro-Acoustic Frequency Response Functions.

Nonlinear behaviour of lossy acoustic black holes (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Sound absorption properties of acoustic black holes are studied for high pressure amplitudes. The absorbers consist of thin circular plates, each with a central perforation, separated by annular air cavities. Radius of the perforation of each plate d... Read More about Nonlinear behaviour of lossy acoustic black holes.

sUAS noise characterisation during hovering operations (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In the framework of the EPSRC - UK DroneNoise project, a multi-channel methodology for small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) noise measurement was applied under controlled conditions. The measurement campaign was carried out during August 2022 in Edze... Read More about sUAS noise characterisation during hovering operations.

Genomic Architecture Predicts Tree Topology, Population Structuring, and Demographic History in Amazonian Birds (2024)
Journal Article
Thom, G., Moreira, L. R., Batista, R., Gehara, M., Aleixo, A., & Smith, B. T. (in press). Genomic Architecture Predicts Tree Topology, Population Structuring, and Demographic History in Amazonian Birds. Genome Biology and Evolution, 16(1), evae002. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evae002

Geographic barriers are frequently invoked to explain genetic structuring across the landscape. However, inferences on the spatial and temporal origins of population variation have been largely limited to evolutionary neutral models, ignoring the pot... Read More about Genomic Architecture Predicts Tree Topology, Population Structuring, and Demographic History in Amazonian Birds.