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Soundwalking in Salford: A Soundscape Approach to Drone Noise Assessment (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper introduces the method of controlled addition of drone sound sources to an existing acoustic scene in order to assess their impact using the soundwalking technique. A set of soundwalks were conducted at The Meadow, Salford to assess the per... Read More about Soundwalking in Salford: A Soundscape Approach to Drone Noise Assessment.

Towards a Taxonomy for the Assessment of the Unmanned Aerial Systems Noise Emissions (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Despite the many advantages of unconventional aerial systems, mainly for logistics and transportation applications, noise has emerged as one of the main public acceptance factors that can delay the start of commercial operations of Advanced Air Mobil... Read More about Towards a Taxonomy for the Assessment of the Unmanned Aerial Systems Noise Emissions.

How do flight operations and ambient acoustic environments influence noticeability and noise annoyance associated with unmanned aircraft systems? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In advance of anticipated wider deployments of advanced air mobility technology, the potential effects of introducing new sound sources such as unmanned aircraft systems (UAS, aka ‘drones’) on communities are largely unknown. To support the developme... Read More about How do flight operations and ambient acoustic environments influence noticeability and noise annoyance associated with unmanned aircraft systems?.

The practice, nature, and impact of nurse-led type 2 diabetic foot prevention services and educational programs in Sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review (2024)
Journal Article

Objective: The objective of this study is to assess the scope of existing practice, nature, and impact of nurse-led type 2 diabetic foot prevention services and educational programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

Introduction: Type 2 diabetes mel... Read More about The practice, nature, and impact of nurse-led type 2 diabetic foot prevention services and educational programs in Sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review.

Soil stressors on ecophysiology of bauxite mine impacted soil: heavy metal-acidity- organic matter nexus (2024)
Journal Article

Soil ecophysiology is adversely affected by various environmental hazards, particularly in mining regions. While there has been substantial research on the effects of coal, mica, copper (Cu), and manganese (Mn) mining, on soil quality, the impact of... Read More about Soil stressors on ecophysiology of bauxite mine impacted soil: heavy metal-acidity- organic matter nexus.

Soil stressors on ecophysiology of bauxite mine impacted soil: heavy metal-acidity- organic matter nexus (2024)
Journal Article

Soil ecophysiology is adversely affected by various environmental hazards, particularly in mining regions. While there has been substantial research on the effects of coal, mica, copper (Cu), and manganese (Mn) mining, on soil quality, the impact of... Read More about Soil stressors on ecophysiology of bauxite mine impacted soil: heavy metal-acidity- organic matter nexus.

An Optimized Field Programmable Gate Array Based Noise Reduction Techniques for Fetal Electrocardiogram Signal Processing (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Analyzing fetal electrocardiogram (FECG) signals is essential for identifying fetal cardiac disorders early on, although noise interference is still a problem. Conventional signal processing techniques can produce conflicting findings. With an emphas... Read More about An Optimized Field Programmable Gate Array Based Noise Reduction Techniques for Fetal Electrocardiogram Signal Processing.

An acoustic and psychoacoustic assessment on the noise control of propellers in distributed propulsion configuration using phase-synchronisation Session: Experimental Techniques (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Distributed electric propulsion is widely recoginised as a promising propulsion configuration for next-generation aerial vehicles, including short-to-medium-haul passenger aircraft and urban air mobility vehicles. The presence of multiple propulsors... Read More about An acoustic and psychoacoustic assessment on the noise control of propellers in distributed propulsion configuration using phase-synchronisation Session: Experimental Techniques.

Turning Cancer Immunotherapy to the Emerging Immune Checkpoint TIGIT: Will This Break Through the Limitations of the Legacy Approach? (2024)
Journal Article
Tripp, R. A., Cui, H., & Elkord, E. (2024). Turning Cancer Immunotherapy to the Emerging Immune Checkpoint TIGIT: Will This Break Through the Limitations of the Legacy Approach?. Vaccines, 12(12), 1306. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines12121306

The discovery of immune checkpoints (ICs) has pushed cancer treatment into the next era. As an emerging immune checkpoint, the TIGIT/CD155 axis inhibits the cytotoxicity of T and NK cells through multiple pathways. Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs)... Read More about Turning Cancer Immunotherapy to the Emerging Immune Checkpoint TIGIT: Will This Break Through the Limitations of the Legacy Approach?.

Healthcare Applications of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) (2024)
Book Chapter
Esseme, A. C. B., Oladipupo, M. A., Ogechukwu, O. N., Andrew-Vitalis, N., Akpan, E. E., Oseni, V. E., & Matthew, U. O. (2024). Healthcare Applications of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR). In Creating Immersive Learning Experiences Through Virtual Reality (VR) (201-238). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-6407-9.ch010

With the advancement of technology, digital gadgets have progressively become tools for educational pedagogy, enabling the widespread application of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) in healthcare education. Neurological rehabilitation,... Read More about Healthcare Applications of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR).

Brief response to Terrar (2024)
Journal Article
Eisner, D. A., Greensmith, D. J., & Trafford, A. W. (2024). Brief response to Terrar. Journal of Physiology, https://doi.org/10.1113/JP288008

Investigating the use of t-lymphocyte and cytokine biomarkers to predict clinical outcomes of major trauma patients (2024)
Thesis
Edirisinghe, N. Investigating the use of t-lymphocyte and cytokine biomarkers to predict clinical outcomes of major trauma patients. (Thesis). University of Salford

Trauma remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally with a significant burden across the globe irrespective of socio-economic levels. In the UK, major trauma (MT) as a result of motor vehicle accidents is the leading cause of death in... Read More about Investigating the use of t-lymphocyte and cytokine biomarkers to predict clinical outcomes of major trauma patients.

The Role Of Interleukin-1β In Coronary Artery Disease (2024)
Thesis
Pearson, L. The Role Of Interleukin-1β In Coronary Artery Disease. (Thesis). University of Salford

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a leading cause of mortality worldwide, with an estimated 17.8 million CAD-associated deaths each year. A prominent pathogenic factor in CAD is inflammation, which is associated with elevated levels of the cytokine in... Read More about The Role Of Interleukin-1β In Coronary Artery Disease.

Sanitation Challenges in Southern Ghor, Jordan (2024)
Data

Video developed as part of the research project: Engineering skills where most needed: Enhancing capabilities of engineering safety practices by using emerging technology in sanitation infrastructure: prototype of mobile latrine in poverty pockets in... Read More about Sanitation Challenges in Southern Ghor, Jordan.

Adaptive federated learning for resource-constrained IoT devices through edge intelligence and multi-edge clustering (2024)
Journal Article
Mughal, F. R., He, J., Das, B., Dharejo, F. A., Zhu, N., Khan, S. B., & Alzahrani, S. (2024). Adaptive federated learning for resource-constrained IoT devices through edge intelligence and multi-edge clustering. Scientific Reports, 14, Article 28746. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-78239-z

In the rapidly growing Internet of Things (IoT) landscape, federated learning (FL) plays a crucial role in enhancing the performance of heterogeneous edge computing environments due to its scalability, robustness, and low energy consumption. However,... Read More about Adaptive federated learning for resource-constrained IoT devices through edge intelligence and multi-edge clustering.

MAGNETO-CONVECTIVE FLOW IN A DIFFERENTIALLY HEATED ENCLOSURE CONTAINING A NON-DARCY POROUS MEDIUM WITH THERMAL RADIATION EFFECTS-A LATTICE BOLTZMANN SIMULATION (2024)
Journal Article

A computational study is presented for the impact of thermal radiation on incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) free convection within a square-shaped enclosure that is differentially heated and contains a non-Darcian porous medium saturated with... Read More about MAGNETO-CONVECTIVE FLOW IN A DIFFERENTIALLY HEATED ENCLOSURE CONTAINING A NON-DARCY POROUS MEDIUM WITH THERMAL RADIATION EFFECTS-A LATTICE BOLTZMANN SIMULATION.

Aonchotheca annulosa and Aonchotheca murissylvatici, which is which? A reappraisal of the gastrointestinal Aonchotheca (Nematoda: Capillariidae) species common in wood mice and bank voles (2024)
Journal Article
Behnke, J. M., & Jackson, J. A. (in press). Aonchotheca annulosa and Aonchotheca murissylvatici, which is which? A reappraisal of the gastrointestinal Aonchotheca (Nematoda: Capillariidae) species common in wood mice and bank voles. Parasitology, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031182024001471

Wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus) and bank voles (Myodes glareolus) are often employed as natural study models in infectious disease ecology. Yet the identities of some elements of their parasite fauna have been subject to long-standing confusion. One... Read More about Aonchotheca annulosa and Aonchotheca murissylvatici, which is which? A reappraisal of the gastrointestinal Aonchotheca (Nematoda: Capillariidae) species common in wood mice and bank voles.

Genome dynamics across the evolutionary transition to endosymbiosis (2024)
Journal Article

Endosymbiosis—where a microbe lives and replicates within a host—is an important contributor to organismal function that has accelerated evolutionary innovations and catalyzed the evolution of complex life. The evolutionary processes associated with... Read More about Genome dynamics across the evolutionary transition to endosymbiosis.

MosAIC: An annotated collection of mosquito-associated bacteria with high-quality genome assemblies (2024)
Journal Article

Mosquitoes transmit medically important human pathogens, including viruses like dengue virus and parasites such as Plasmodium spp., the causative agent of malaria. Mosquito microbiomes are critically important for the ability of mosquitoes to transmi... Read More about MosAIC: An annotated collection of mosquito-associated bacteria with high-quality genome assemblies.

Spatial-Frequency Based EEG Features for Classification of Human Emotions (2024)
Journal Article

Human emotion classification without bias and unfairness is challenging because most existing image-based methods are directly or indirectly affected by subjectivity. Therefore, we propose an EEG (Electroencephalogram) based model for an accurate emo... Read More about Spatial-Frequency Based EEG Features for Classification of Human Emotions.