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Oral squamous cell carcinoma detection using EfficientNet on histopathological images (2024)
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Albalawi, E., Thakur, A., Ramakrishna, M. T., Bhatia Khan, S., SankaraNarayanan, S., Almarri, B., & Hadi, T. H. (in press). Oral squamous cell carcinoma detection using EfficientNet on histopathological images. Frontiers in Medicine, 10, 1349336. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2023.1349336

Introduction: Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OSCC) poses a significant challenge in oncology due to the absence of precise diagnostic tools, leading to delays in identifying the condition. Current diagnostic methods for OSCC have limitations in accura... Read More about Oral squamous cell carcinoma detection using EfficientNet on histopathological images.

Inter-Organisational Collaboration Structures and Features to Facilitate Stakeholder Collaboration (2024)
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Ganeshu, P., Fernando, T., Therrien, M., & Keraminiyage, K. (in press). Inter-Organisational Collaboration Structures and Features to Facilitate Stakeholder Collaboration. Administrative Sciences, 14(2), 25. https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci14020025

Although inter-organisational collaborative structures play a vital role in determining the level of collaboration among organisations, the identification of required organisational structural types and their features to facilitate fruitful collabora... Read More about Inter-Organisational Collaboration Structures and Features to Facilitate Stakeholder Collaboration.

Self-assembling ferritin nanoplatform for the development of infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus vaccine (2024)
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Ahmadivand, S., Krpetic, Z., Martínez, M. M., Ordoñez, M. G., Roher, N., & Palić, D. (2024). Self-assembling ferritin nanoplatform for the development of infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus vaccine. Frontiers in Immunology, 15, 1346512. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2024.1346512

Self-assembling protein nanoparticles are used as a novel vaccine design platform to improve the stability and immunogenicity of safe subunit vaccines, while providing broader protection against viral infections. Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis vir... Read More about Self-assembling ferritin nanoplatform for the development of infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus vaccine.

The legacy of millennial-scale land-use practices on landscape composition, diversity and slope erosion in the subalpine areas of Eastern Carpathians, Romania (2024)
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Florescu, G., Hutchinson, S. M., Gałka, M., Mîndrescu, M., Tanțău, I., Petraș, A., & Feurdean, A. (2024). The legacy of millennial-scale land-use practices on landscape composition, diversity and slope erosion in the subalpine areas of Eastern Carpathians, Romania. Holocene, https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836231219473

We conducted multi-proxy analyses in two subalpine lakes, Lake Gropile, in the Rodna Mountains and Lake Vinderelu in the Maramureș Mountains, the Eastern Carpathians, Romania, to investigate the effect of different land-use practices on landscape com... Read More about The legacy of millennial-scale land-use practices on landscape composition, diversity and slope erosion in the subalpine areas of Eastern Carpathians, Romania.

The transplant rejection response involves neutrophil and macrophage adhesion-mediated trogocytosis and is regulated by NFATc3 (2024)
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Zhao, S., Hu, Y., Yang, B., Zhang, L., Xu, M., Jiang, K., …Shen, J. (in press). The transplant rejection response involves neutrophil and macrophage adhesion-mediated trogocytosis and is regulated by NFATc3. Cell Death and Disease, 15(1), 75. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41419-024-06457-4

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.

The distribution, fate, and environmental impacts of food additive nanomaterials in soil and aquatic ecosystems. (2024)
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Bolan, S., Sharma, S., Mukherjee, S., Zhou, P., Mandal, J., Srivastava, P., …Bolan, N. (in press). The distribution, fate, and environmental impacts of food additive nanomaterials in soil and aquatic ecosystems. #Journal not on list, 916, 170013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170013

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..

Upscaling Green Social Prescribing and Urban Agriculture in Cities: Reflections on Social and Horticultural Therapy in the United Kingdom (2024)
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Hardman, M., Hubbard, L., & Watson, H. (2024). Upscaling Green Social Prescribing and Urban Agriculture in Cities: Reflections on Social and Horticultural Therapy in the United Kingdom. Professional Geographer, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2023.2286591

Post-COVID policymaking has accelerated investment and support for urban greening initiatives. Even prior to the pandemic, we witnessed across the globe an ever-increasing appetite for the idea of bringing nature into the city through parks, allotmen... Read More about Upscaling Green Social Prescribing and Urban Agriculture in Cities: Reflections on Social and Horticultural Therapy in the United Kingdom.

Mathematical modelling of couple stress fluid flow around a semi-permeable sphere enclosing a solid core (2024)
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Selvi, R., & Beg, A. (2024). Mathematical modelling of couple stress fluid flow around a semi-permeable sphere enclosing a solid core. ZAMM, https://doi.org/10.1002/zamm.202300225

The focus of this article is to study theoretically the steady-axisymmetric creeping flow dynamics of a couple stress fluid external to a semi-permeable sphere containing a solid core. This problem is motivated by emulsion hydrodynamics in chemical e... Read More about Mathematical modelling of couple stress fluid flow around a semi-permeable sphere enclosing a solid core.

Urban Hedges as Noise Barriers: Does Plant Species Choice Affect Insertion Loss? (2024)
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Webb, J., Cox, T., Blanusa, T., Griffiths, A., & Umnova, O. (in press). Urban Hedges as Noise Barriers: Does Plant Species Choice Affect Insertion Loss?. #Journal not on list, https://doi.org/10.61782/fa.2023.1152

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?.

Genomic Architecture Predicts Tree Topology, Population Structuring, and Demographic History in Amazonian Birds (2024)
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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.

The Clarity & Cadenza Challenges (2024)
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Akeroyd, M., Bailey, W., Bannister, S., Firth, J., Graetzer, S., Roa Dabike, G., …Research Project, C. (in press). The Clarity & Cadenza Challenges. #Journal not on list, 1209-1211. https://doi.org/10.61782/fa.2023.0876

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)
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McGee, R., Elliott, A., Meggitt, J., & Smith, J. (in press). Operational measurement of frequency response functions. #Journal not on list, https://doi.org/10.61782/fa.2023.1265

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.

Prediction of Radiated Structural Noise Using Decomposed Vibro-Acoustic Frequency Response Functions (2024)
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Barton, L., Elliott, A., & Smith, J. (in press). Prediction of Radiated Structural Noise Using Decomposed Vibro-Acoustic Frequency Response Functions. #Journal not on list, https://doi.org/10.61782/fa.2023.1125

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)
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Umnova, O., Brooke, D., Leclaire, P., & Dupont, T. (in press). Nonlinear behaviour of lossy acoustic black holes. #Journal not on list, https://doi.org/10.61782/fa.2023.0652

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.

Investigating the Dose Response of UAS Noise: Designing a Listening Experiment (2024)
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Green, N., Ramos-Romero, C., & Torija Martinez, A. (in press). Investigating the Dose Response of UAS Noise: Designing a Listening Experiment. #Journal not on list, https://doi.org/10.61782/fa.2023.1170

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.

FE Modelling Tibia Bone Vibration - The Influence of Shape, Twist, and Size (2024)
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Scanlan, J., Umnova, O., & Li, F. (in press). FE Modelling Tibia Bone Vibration - The Influence of Shape, Twist, and Size. #Journal not on list, https://doi.org/10.61782/fa.2023.1141

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.

Mathematical modelling of couple stress fluid flow around a semi‐permeable sphere enclosing a solid core (2024)
Journal Article
Selvi, R., & Beg, A. (2024). Mathematical modelling of couple stress fluid flow around a semi‐permeable sphere enclosing a solid core. ZAMM, 104(4), https://doi.org/10.1002/zamm.202300225

AbstractThe focus of this article is to study theoretically the steady‐axisymmetric creeping flow dynamics of a couple stress fluid external to a semi‐permeable sphere containing a solid core. This problem is motivated by emulsion hydrodynamics in ch... Read More about Mathematical modelling of couple stress fluid flow around a semi‐permeable sphere enclosing a solid core.

sUAS noise characterisation during hovering operations (2024)
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Ramos-Romero, C., Green, N., Asensio, C., & Torija Martinez, A. (in press). sUAS noise characterisation during hovering operations. #Journal not on list, https://doi.org/10.61782/fa.2023.0249

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.

Comparing different approaches of agent-based occupancy modelling for predicting realistic electricity consumption in office buildings (2024)
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Mashuk, M. S., Pinchin, J., Siebers, P., & Moore, T. (2024). Comparing different approaches of agent-based occupancy modelling for predicting realistic electricity consumption in office buildings. Journal of Building Engineering, 84, 108420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2023.108420

Having a good grasp on modelling the dynamics of occupants for estimating electricity consumption in office buildings is a vital asset for realistic predictions. Nowadays, agent-based models are widely used for this purpose. Previous approaches to mo... Read More about Comparing different approaches of agent-based occupancy modelling for predicting realistic electricity consumption in office buildings.

Host- plasmid network structure in wastewater is linked to antimicrobial resistance genes (2024)
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Risely, A., Newbury, A., Stalder, T., Simmons, B. I., Top, E. M., Buckling, A., & Sanders, D. (in press). Host- plasmid network structure in wastewater is linked to antimicrobial resistance genes. Nature Communications, 15(1), 555. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-44827-w

As mobile genetic elements, plasmids are central for our understanding of antimicrobial resistance spread in microbial communities. Plasmids can have varying fitness effects on their host bacteria, which will markedly impact their role as antimicrobi... Read More about Host- plasmid network structure in wastewater is linked to antimicrobial resistance genes.