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Numerical study of self-similar natural convection mass transfer from a rotating cone in anisotropic porous media with Stefan blowing and Navier slip (2019)
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Beg, O., Uddin, M., Beg, T., Kadir, A., Shamshuddin, M., & Babaie, M. (2020). Numerical study of self-similar natural convection mass transfer from a rotating cone in anisotropic porous media with Stefan blowing and Navier slip. Indian Journal of Physics, 94, 863-877. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12648-019-01520-9

A mathematical model is presented for laminar, steady natural convection mass transfer in boundary layer flow from a rotating porous vertical cone in anisotropic high permeability porous media. The transformed boundary value problem is solved subje... Read More about Numerical study of self-similar natural convection mass transfer from a rotating cone in anisotropic porous media with Stefan blowing and Navier slip.

Evaluation of uncertainties in classical and component (blocked force) transfer path analysis (TPA) (2019)
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Moorhouse, A., Meggitt, J., & Elliott, A. (2019). Evaluation of uncertainties in classical and component (blocked force) transfer path analysis (TPA). SAE Technical Papers, 1(4), 1779-1789. https://doi.org/10.4271/2019-01-1544

Transfer path analysis (TPA) has become a widely used diagnostic technique in the automotive and other sectors. In classic TPA, a two-stage measurement is conducted including operational and frequency response function (FRF) phases from which the con... Read More about Evaluation of uncertainties in classical and component (blocked force) transfer path analysis (TPA).

Robust NVH engineering using experimental methods - source characterization techniques for component Transfer Path Analysis and Virtual Acoustic Prototyping (2019)
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Wienen, K., Sturm, M., Moorhouse, A., & Meggitt, J. (2019). Robust NVH engineering using experimental methods - source characterization techniques for component Transfer Path Analysis and Virtual Acoustic Prototyping. SAE Technical Papers, 1(4), 1766-1778. https://doi.org/10.4271/2019-01-1542

A major challenge in automotive NVH engineering is to approach complex structure-borne sound and vibration problems with sufficient accuracy but reasonable experimental effort. Typical issues encountered are poor correlation between objective compone... Read More about Robust NVH engineering using experimental methods - source characterization techniques for component Transfer Path Analysis and Virtual Acoustic Prototyping.

Sponges as natural environmental DNA samplers (2019)
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Mariani, S., Baillie, C., Colosimo, G., & Riesgo, A. (2019). Sponges as natural environmental DNA samplers. Current Biology, 29(11), R401-R402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.04.031

At a time of unprecedented impacts on marine biodiversity, scientists are rapidly becoming persuaded by the potential of screening large swathes of the oceans through the retrieval, amplification and sequencing of trace DNA fragments left behind by m... Read More about Sponges as natural environmental DNA samplers.

Comments on local cod (Gadus morhua) revealed by egg surveys and population genetic analysis after longstanding depletion on the Swedish Skagerrak Coast by Svedäng et al (2019)
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Cardinale, M., Mariani, S., & Hjelm, J. (2019). Comments on local cod (Gadus morhua) revealed by egg surveys and population genetic analysis after longstanding depletion on the Swedish Skagerrak Coast by Svedäng et al. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 76(4), 1209-1211. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsz095

Abstract Svedäng et al. (2018) concluded that “the occurrence of locally spawned cod eggs suggests that spawning on the Swedish Skagerrak coast takes place, which belong to either a coastal subpopulation that is a remnant stock of a once much larger... Read More about Comments on local cod (Gadus morhua) revealed by egg surveys and population genetic analysis after longstanding depletion on the Swedish Skagerrak Coast by Svedäng et al.

Transient analysis of Casson fluid thermo-convection from a vertical cylinder embedded in a porous medium : entropy generation and thermal energy transfer visualization (2019)
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Reddy, G., Kethireddy, B., Kumar, M., & Beg, O. (2019). Transient analysis of Casson fluid thermo-convection from a vertical cylinder embedded in a porous medium : entropy generation and thermal energy transfer visualization. Journal of Central South University, 26(5), 1342-1361. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11771-019-4091-x

Thermal transport in porous media has stimulated substantial interest in engineering sciences due to increasing applications in filtration systems, porous bearings, porous layer insulation, biomechanics, geomechanics etc. Motivated by such applicatio... Read More about Transient analysis of Casson fluid thermo-convection from a vertical cylinder embedded in a porous medium : entropy generation and thermal energy transfer visualization.

Acid microenvironment promotes cell survival of human bone sarcoma through the activation of cIAP proteins and NF-κB pathway (2019)
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Avnet, S., Chano, T., Massa, A., Bonuccelli, G., Lemma, S., Falzetti, L., …Baldini, N. (2019). Acid microenvironment promotes cell survival of human bone sarcoma through the activation of cIAP proteins and NF-κB pathway. American Journal of Cancer Research, 9(6), 1127-1144

Extracellular acidification is a very common cause of stress in tumor microenvironment and of Darwinian pressure. In acid areas of the tumor, most cancer cells are-albeit slowly proliferating-more resistant to cell death than those in well-perfused r... Read More about Acid microenvironment promotes cell survival of human bone sarcoma through the activation of cIAP proteins and NF-κB pathway.

Collaborative virtual reality platform for visualizing space data and mission planning (2019)
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Garcia, A., Fernando, T., Roberts, D., Bar, C., Cencetti, M., Engelke, W., & Gerndt, A. (2019). Collaborative virtual reality platform for visualizing space data and mission planning. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 78, 33191-33220. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-019-7736-8

This paper presents the system architecture of a collaborative virtual environment in which distributed multidisciplinary teams involved in space exploration activities come together and explore areas of scientific interest of a planet for future mis... Read More about Collaborative virtual reality platform for visualizing space data and mission planning.

Influence of preservation methods, sample medium and sampling time on eDNA recovery in a neotropical river (2019)
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Sales, N., Wangensteen Fuentes, O., Carvalho, D., & Mariani, S. (2019). Influence of preservation methods, sample medium and sampling time on eDNA recovery in a neotropical river. Environmental DNA, 1(2), 119-130. https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.14

Environmental DNA (eDNA) has rapidly emerged as a promising biodiversity monitoring technique, proving to be a sensitive and cost‐effective method for species detection. Despite the increasing popularity of eDNA, several questions regarding its limit... Read More about Influence of preservation methods, sample medium and sampling time on eDNA recovery in a neotropical river.

Saving Manchester's industrial past : regeneration and new uses of industrial archaeology structures in Greater Manchester, 1980 to 2018 (2019)
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Nevell, M. (2019). Saving Manchester's industrial past : regeneration and new uses of industrial archaeology structures in Greater Manchester, 1980 to 2018. Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 111, 99-117

2020 marks the 40th anniversary of the establishment of professional archaeology within the Manchester city region, with the creation of the Greater Manchester Archaeological Unit (GMAU) in 1980. This was the culmination of a decade of raising awaren... Read More about Saving Manchester's industrial past : regeneration and new uses of industrial archaeology structures in Greater Manchester, 1980 to 2018.

Assessing the minimum sampling effort required to reliably monitor wild meat trade in urban markets (2019)
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Mayor, P., Rocha El Bizri, H., Morcatty, T., Moya, K., Solis, S., & Bodmer, R. (2019). Assessing the minimum sampling effort required to reliably monitor wild meat trade in urban markets. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7, https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.180

The trade of wild meat generates great economic returns for local communities but at a cost of increasing harvest rates of game species. Monitoring wild meat trade in urban markets is a low-cost method that can be employed to assess impacts of huntin... Read More about Assessing the minimum sampling effort required to reliably monitor wild meat trade in urban markets.

Is automatic detection of hidden knowledge an anomaly? (2019)
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Preiss, J. (2019). Is automatic detection of hidden knowledge an anomaly?. BMC Bioinformatics, 20(Sup 10), 251. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-019-2815-4

Background: The quantity of documents being published requires researchers to specialize to a narrower field, meaning that inferable connections between publications (particularly from different domains) can be missed. This has given rise to autom... Read More about Is automatic detection of hidden knowledge an anomaly?.

Transient analysis of third-grade viscoelastic nanofluid flow external to a heated cylinder with buoyancy effects (2019)
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Hiremath, A., Reddy, G., & Beg, O. (2019). Transient analysis of third-grade viscoelastic nanofluid flow external to a heated cylinder with buoyancy effects. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 44, 7875-7893. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-019-03933-4

Nanotechnology is rapidly embracing numerous areas of manufacturing and process engineering. New types of nanomaterials are being exploited to improve, for example, coating integrity, anti-corrosion characteristics and other features of fabricated... Read More about Transient analysis of third-grade viscoelastic nanofluid flow external to a heated cylinder with buoyancy effects.

Rating the components of indoor environmental quality in students classrooms in warm humid climate of Uli, Nigeria (2019)
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Munonye, C., & Ji, Y. (2019). Rating the components of indoor environmental quality in students classrooms in warm humid climate of Uli, Nigeria

The indoor environment of classrooms needs to be comfortable for the occupants to perform their class work effectively. To achieve this objective, architects and engineers need to be proactive at the early design stage by considering the very compone... Read More about Rating the components of indoor environmental quality in students classrooms in warm humid climate of Uli, Nigeria.

High frequency of infection of lung cancer patients with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii (2019)
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Bajnok, J., Tarabulsi, M., Carlin, H., Bown, K., Southworth, T., Dungwa, J., …Hide, G. (2019). High frequency of infection of lung cancer patients with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. ERJ Open Research, 5(2), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00143-2018

Toxoplasma gondii is an intracellular protozoan parasite that can cause a wide range of clinical conditions, including miscarriage and pneumonia. The global prevalence is 30% in humans but varies locally (e.g. UK is typically 10%). The association be... Read More about High frequency of infection of lung cancer patients with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii.

E-readiness in construction (ERiC) : self-assessment framework for UK small and medium enterprise building services providers (2019)
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Lou, E., Lee, A., & Goulding, J. (2019). E-readiness in construction (ERiC) : self-assessment framework for UK small and medium enterprise building services providers. Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 16(1), 3-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/17452007.2019.1617669

The construction industry’s ability to innovate in order to improve its practices has been widely debated. As organisations in other sectors globally are addressing technology challenges, is the UK construction industry e-ready? Of particular concern... Read More about E-readiness in construction (ERiC) : self-assessment framework for UK small and medium enterprise building services providers.

Parametric Sensitivity Analyses for Perceived Impedance in Haptic Teleoperation (2019)
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Uddin, R., Saleem, M. H., & Ryu, J. (2019). Parametric Sensitivity Analyses for Perceived Impedance in Haptic Teleoperation. International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems, 17(8), 2083-2096. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12555-018-0614-8

In this paper, sensitivity analyses (SA) are performed in order to find the effect of variations of master/slave site dynamics parameters on the perceived impedance in haptic teleoperation in the absence/presence of communication time delays. These a... Read More about Parametric Sensitivity Analyses for Perceived Impedance in Haptic Teleoperation.

Embryonic and fetal development of the red brocket deer (Mazama americana) (2019)
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Mayor, P., Pereira, T., Andrade, R., Gonzalez-Benavent, E., Monteiro, F., Bodmer, R., …Rocha El Bizri, H. (2019). Embryonic and fetal development of the red brocket deer (Mazama americana). Theriogenology, 134, 53-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.theriogenology.2019.05.015

The red brocket deer (Mazama americana), a medium-sized Neotropical ungulate, is one of the most hunted mammals in the Amazon. This study analyzes the intrauterine development in the red brocket deer through the description of the external and intern... Read More about Embryonic and fetal development of the red brocket deer (Mazama americana).

An emerging consensus in the evolution, phylogeny, and systematics of marsupials and their fossil relatives (Metatheria) (2019)
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Eldridge, M., Beck, R., Croft, D., Travouillon, K., & Fox, B. (2019). An emerging consensus in the evolution, phylogeny, and systematics of marsupials and their fossil relatives (Metatheria). Journal of Mammalogy, 100(3), 802-837. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyz018

Marsupials and their fossil relatives, which collectively comprise Metatheria, have been of scientific interest for centuries, with many aspects of their evolution and systematics subject to intense research and debate. Here, we review progress over... Read More about An emerging consensus in the evolution, phylogeny, and systematics of marsupials and their fossil relatives (Metatheria).