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Magneto-bioconvection flow of a Casson thin film with nanoparticles over an unsteady stretching sheet : HAM and GDQ computation (2019)
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Vasu, B., Ray, A., Beg, O., & Gorla, R. (2019). Magneto-bioconvection flow of a Casson thin film with nanoparticles over an unsteady stretching sheet : HAM and GDQ computation. International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, 29(11), 4277-4309. https://doi.org/10.1108/HFF-02-2019-0158

Purpose – To numerically investigate the two-dimensional unsteady laminar magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) bioconvection flow and heat transfer of an electrically-conducting non-Newtonian Casson thin film with uniform thickness over a horizontal elastic sh... Read More about Magneto-bioconvection flow of a Casson thin film with nanoparticles over an unsteady stretching sheet : HAM and GDQ computation.

Are smart innovation ecosystems really seeking to meet citizens’ needs? Insights from the stakeholders’ vision on smart city strategy implementation (2019)
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vision on smart city strategy implementation. Smart Cities, 2(2), 307-327. https://doi.org/10.3390/smartcities2020019

The concept of a smart city is becoming the leading paradigm worldwide. Consequently, a creative mix of emerging technologies and open innovation is gradually becoming the defining element of smart city evolution, changing the ways in which city ad... Read More about Are smart innovation ecosystems really seeking to meet citizens’ needs? Insights from the stakeholders’ vision on smart city strategy implementation.

Seawater salt-trapped Pseudomonas aeruginosa survives for years and gets primed for salinity tolerance (2019)
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Elabed, H., Gonzalez Tortuero, E., Ibacache-Quiroga, C., Bakhrouf, A., Johnston, P., Gaddour, K., …Rodríguez-Rojas, A. (2019). Seawater salt-trapped Pseudomonas aeruginosa survives for years and gets primed for salinity tolerance. BMC Microbiology, 19, 142. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-019-1499-2

Background In nature, microorganisms have to adapt to long-term stressful conditions often with growth limitations. However, little is known about the evolution of the adaptability of new bacteria to such environments. Pseudomonas aeruginosa, an opp... Read More about Seawater salt-trapped Pseudomonas aeruginosa survives for years and gets primed for salinity tolerance.

Computational fluid dynamic and thermal stress analysis of coatings for high-temperature corrosion protection of aerospace gas turbine blades (2019)
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Kadir, A., Beg, O., El Gendy, M., Beg, T., & Shamshuddin, M. (2019). Computational fluid dynamic and thermal stress analysis of coatings for high-temperature corrosion protection of aerospace gas turbine blades. Heat Transfer - Asian Research, 48(6), 2302-2328. https://doi.org/10.1002/htj.21493

The current investigation presents detailed finite element simulations of coating stress analysis for a 3-dimensional, 3-layered model of a test sample representing a typical gas turbine component. Structural steel, Titanium alloy and Silicon Carbide... Read More about Computational fluid dynamic and thermal stress analysis of coatings for high-temperature corrosion protection of aerospace gas turbine blades.

Heavy metal contamination status in soil-plant system in the Upper Mersey estuarine floodplain, Northwest England. (2019)
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Enya, O., Lin, C., & Qin, J. (2019). Heavy metal contamination status in soil-plant system in the Upper Mersey estuarine floodplain, Northwest England. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 146, 292-304. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.06.026

Globally, soil contamination by heavy metals is common in estuarine floodplains. A study was conducted to assess heavy metal contamination in the soil-plant system in Mersey estuarine floodplain, North West England. Representative composite soil samp... Read More about Heavy metal contamination status in soil-plant system in the Upper Mersey estuarine floodplain, Northwest England..

Multi-agency collaboration in flood disaster management in sarawak Malaysia (2019)
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Sulaiman, N., Wei She, T., Fernando, T., Wei Chan, S., Roslan, A., & Kursiah Kamalia Abdul Latib, S. (2019). Multi-agency collaboration in flood disaster management in sarawak Malaysia. #Journal not on list, 8,

In reducing the impact of current and future disasters so as to form a resilient future, disaster management deserves highest priority and plays a vital role in managing the risk of disaster. However, it cannot be addressed or undertaken by the gover... Read More about Multi-agency collaboration in flood disaster management in sarawak Malaysia.

Computation of melting dissipative magnetohydrodynamic nanofluid bioconvection with second order slip and variable thermophysical properties (2019)
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Amirsom, N., Uddin, M., Basir, M., Kadir, A., Beg, O., & Ismail, A. (2019). Computation of melting dissipative magnetohydrodynamic nanofluid bioconvection with second order slip and variable thermophysical properties. Applied Sciences, 9(12), 2493. https://doi.org/10.3390/app9122493

This paper studies the combined effects of viscous dissipation, first and second order slip and variable transport properties on phase-change hydromagnetic bio-nanofluid convection flow from a stretching sheet. Nanoscale materials possess a much la... Read More about Computation of melting dissipative magnetohydrodynamic nanofluid bioconvection with second order slip and variable thermophysical properties.

A practical study on reducing CO2 density in educational buildings in North-East China (2019)
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Fu, C., & Lee, A. (2019). A practical study on reducing CO2 density in educational buildings in North-East China. Journal of Construction Research, 1(1), 10-18. https://doi.org/10.30564/jcr.v1i1.589

Indoor air quality is a major contributor to the quality of people’s lives. Notwithstanding pollutants that are becoming increasingly prevalent from new building materials, furnishings and consumer products, CO2 density in educational buildings has b... Read More about A practical study on reducing CO2 density in educational buildings in North-East China.

Dementia-friendly design of television news broadcasts (2019)
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Funnell, L., Garriock, I., Shirley, B., & Williamson, T. (2019). Dementia-friendly design of television news broadcasts. Journal of Enabling Technologies, 13(3), 137-149. https://doi.org/10.1108/JET-02-2018-0009

Purpose - To understand factors that affect viewing of television news programmes by people living with dementia; to identify dementia-friendly design principles for television news programmes and factors for personalising object-based media broadc... Read More about Dementia-friendly design of television news broadcasts.

Influence of permeability and injection orientation variations on dispersion coefficient during enhanced gas recovery by CO2 injection (2019)
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Abba, M., Al-Otaibi, A., Abbas, A., Nasr, G., & Burby, M. (2019). Influence of permeability and injection orientation variations on dispersion coefficient during enhanced gas recovery by CO2 injection. Energies, 12(12), 2328. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12122328

This investigation was carried out to highlight the influence of the variation of permeability of the porous media with respect to the injection orientations during enhanced gas recovery (EGR) by CO2 injection using different core samples of differen... Read More about Influence of permeability and injection orientation variations on dispersion coefficient during enhanced gas recovery by CO2 injection.

Analysis of attribute-based cryptographic techniques and their application to protect cloud services (2019)
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Belguith, S., Kaaniche, N., & Hammoudeh, M. (2019). Analysis of attribute-based cryptographic techniques and their application to protect cloud services. Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, e3667. https://doi.org/10.1002/ett.3667

Recent technological advances such as the Internet of Things (IoT), fog computing, cloud applications lead to exponential growth in the amount of generated data. Indeed, cloud storage services have experienced unprecedented usage demand. The loss of... Read More about Analysis of attribute-based cryptographic techniques and their application to protect cloud services.

Reconstructing reef fish communities using fish otoliths in coral reef sediments (2019)
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Lin, C., De Gracia, B., Pierotti, M. E., Andrews, A. H., Griswold, K., & O'Dea, A. (2019). Reconstructing reef fish communities using fish otoliths in coral reef sediments. PloS one, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218413

Little is known about long-term changes in coral reef fish communities. Here we present a new technique that leverages fish otoliths in reef sediments to reconstruct coral reef fish communities. We found over 5,400 otoliths in 169 modern and mid-Holo... Read More about Reconstructing reef fish communities using fish otoliths in coral reef sediments.

Measuring the radiation exposure of Norwegian reindeer under field conditions (2019)
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Aramrun, K., Beresford, N., Skuterud, L., Hevrøy, T., Drefvelin, J., Bennett, K., …Wood, M. (2019). Measuring the radiation exposure of Norwegian reindeer under field conditions. Science of the Total Environment, 687, 1337-1343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.177

Models and approaches have been developed to predict radiation exposure of wildlife under field conditions. However, there have been few attempts to directly measure radiation exposure of wildlife in the field and confirm the doses predicted by model... Read More about Measuring the radiation exposure of Norwegian reindeer under field conditions.

Refining the late-Holocene coastline and delta development of the northern Yangtze River delta : combining historical archives and OSL dating (2019)
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Wang, F., Zhang, W., Nian, X., Can, G., Zhao, X., Cheng, Q., …Hutchinson, S. (2019). Refining the late-Holocene coastline and delta development of the northern Yangtze River delta : combining historical archives and OSL dating. Holocene, 29(9), 1439-1449. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683619854522

Historical documents provide a general chronological overview of the environmental evolution of the Yangtze River delta (YRD) during the last ca. 2000 years; however, absolute dating of the region’s late Holocene sediment is relatively rare. Opticall... Read More about Refining the late-Holocene coastline and delta development of the northern Yangtze River delta : combining historical archives and OSL dating.

Combining deep and handcrafted image features for MRI brain scan classification (2019)
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Hasan, A., Jalab, H., Meziane, F., Kahtan, H., & Al-Ahmad, A. (2019). Combining deep and handcrafted image features for MRI brain scan classification. IEEE Access, 7(1), 79959-79967. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2922691

Progresses in the areas of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and medical imaging technologies have allowed the development of the medical image processing field with some astonishing results in the last two decad... Read More about Combining deep and handcrafted image features for MRI brain scan classification.

Assessing equilibria of organo-arsenic complexes and predicting uptake of arsenic by wheat grain from organic matter amended soils (2019)
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Mandal, J., Golui, D., & Datta, S. P. (2019). Assessing equilibria of organo-arsenic complexes and predicting uptake of arsenic by wheat grain from organic matter amended soils. Chemosphere, 234, 419-426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.06.088

In view of limited information, a laboratory experiment was conducted to study the stability of organo-arsenic complexes as affected by competing anions i.e. phosphate, nitrate and sulphate. For this purpose, humic acid (HA) and fulvic acid (FA) were... Read More about Assessing equilibria of organo-arsenic complexes and predicting uptake of arsenic by wheat grain from organic matter amended soils.

Deformed wing virus in honeybees and other insects (2019)
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Martin, S., & Brettell, L. (2019). Deformed wing virus in honeybees and other insects. Annual Review of Virology, 6(1), 49-69. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-virology-092818-015700

Deformed wing virus (DWV) has become the most well-known, widespread, and intensively studied insect pathogen in the world. Although DWV was previously present in honeybee populations, the arrival and global spread of a new vector, the ectoparasitic... Read More about Deformed wing virus in honeybees and other insects.

A dune with a view: the eyes of a neotropical fossorial lizard (2019)
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Yovanovich, C. A., Pierotti, M. E., Trefaut Rodrigues, M., & Grant, T. (2019). A dune with a view: the eyes of a neotropical fossorial lizard. Frontiers in Zoology, 16, Article 17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-019-0320-2

Background Lizards are excellent models to study the adaptations of the visual system to different scenarios, and surface-dwelling representatives have been relatively well studied. In contrast, very little is known about the functional anatomy of t... Read More about A dune with a view: the eyes of a neotropical fossorial lizard.

Environmental DNA metabarcoding as an effective and rapid tool for fish monitoring in canals (2019)
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McDevitt, A., Sales, N., Browett, S., Sparnenn, A., Mariani, S., Wangensteen Fuentes, O., …Benvenuto, C. (2019). Environmental DNA metabarcoding as an effective and rapid tool for fish monitoring in canals. Journal of Fish Biology, 95(2), 679-682. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14053

We focus on a case study along an English canal comparing environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding with two types of electrofishing techniques (wade‐and‐reach and boom‐boat). In addition to corroborating data obtained by electrofishing, eDNA provided a... Read More about Environmental DNA metabarcoding as an effective and rapid tool for fish monitoring in canals.