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Air pollution in a microclimate; the impact of different green barriers on the dispersion (2019)
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Taleghani, M., Clark, A., Swan, W., & Mohegh, A. (2020). Air pollution in a microclimate; the impact of different green barriers on the dispersion. Science of the Total Environment, 711, 134649. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134649

This paper studies the impact of different green barriers on the dispersion of air pollution in a neighbourhood. The study was performed with reference to air quality conditions in Manchester, UK. Manchester experiences a high level of NO2. Measure... Read More about Air pollution in a microclimate; the impact of different green barriers on the dispersion.

FoxO3a as a positive prognostic marker and a therapeutic target in Tamoxifen-resistant breast cancer (2019)
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Pellegrino, M., Rizza, P., Donà, A., Nigro, A., Ricci, E., Fiorillo, M., …Morelli, C. (2019). FoxO3a as a positive prognostic marker and a therapeutic target in Tamoxifen-resistant breast cancer. Cancers, 11(12), e1858. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers11121858

Background: Resistance to endocrine treatments is a major clinical challenge in the management of estrogen receptor positive breast cancers. Although multiple mechanisms leading to endocrine resistance have been proposed, the poor outcome of this sub... Read More about FoxO3a as a positive prognostic marker and a therapeutic target in Tamoxifen-resistant breast cancer.

Realization and experimental assessment of baseball-bat microwave antenna for low power cancer ablation (2019)
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Hassan, E., Takruri-Rizk, H., & Zaki, A. (2020). Realization and experimental assessment of baseball-bat microwave antenna for low power cancer ablation. IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology, 4(2), 133-139. https://doi.org/10.1109/JERM.2019.2955709

Experimental assessment of using low power microwave ablation for treating focal tumors is presented in this article. Confinement of heating generated by microwave radiation is one of the major concerns in cancer treatment to maintain the acceptable... Read More about Realization and experimental assessment of baseball-bat microwave antenna for low power cancer ablation.

An investigation into BIM based detailed cost estimating and drivers to the adoption of BIM in quantity surveying practices (2019)
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Babatunde, S., Perera, S., Ekundayo, D., & Adeleye, T. (2020). An investigation into BIM based detailed cost estimating and drivers to the adoption of BIM in quantity surveying practices. Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction, 25(1), 61-81. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFMPC-05-2019-0042

Purpose Although studies have shown the relevance of BIM (Building Information Modeling) in cost estimating process, efforts at investigating BIM based detailed cost estimating among professional quantity surveyors through quantitative approach are... Read More about An investigation into BIM based detailed cost estimating and drivers to the adoption of BIM in quantity surveying practices.

Gaps in terrestrial soundscape research : it’s time to focus on tropical wildlife (2019)
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Scarpelli, M., Ribeiro, M., Teixeira, F., Young, R., & Teixeira, C. (2020). Gaps in terrestrial soundscape research : it’s time to focus on tropical wildlife. Science of the Total Environment, 707, 135403. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135403

There has been a body of research examining the sounds produced in landscapes. These sounds are commonly defined as soundscapes, however, the term is often used in different contexts. To understand the various meanings attributed to soundscapes, we i... Read More about Gaps in terrestrial soundscape research : it’s time to focus on tropical wildlife.

Life cycle carbon emissions and comparative evaluation of selected open source UK embodied carbon counting tools (2019)
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Ekundayo, D., Babatunde, S., Ekundayo, A., Perera, S., & Udeaja, C. (2019). Life cycle carbon emissions and comparative evaluation of selected open source UK embodied carbon counting tools. Construction Economics and Building, 19(2), 220-242. https://doi.org/10.5130/AJCEB.v19i2.6692

Life cycle carbon emissions (LCO2), made up of operational and embodied carbon, have become a major metric of building environmental performance and energy efficiency. Whilst there are now standard methods for operational carbon assessment due to its... Read More about Life cycle carbon emissions and comparative evaluation of selected open source UK embodied carbon counting tools.

An improved two-hidden-layer extreme learning machine for malware hunting (2019)
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Namavar Jahromi, A., Hashemi, S., Dehghantanha, A., Choo, K., Karimipour, H., Newton, D., & Parizi, R. (2020). An improved two-hidden-layer extreme learning machine for malware hunting. Computers and Security, 89, 101655. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2019.101655

Detecting unknown malware and their variants remains both an operational challenge and a research challenge. In recent years, there have been attempts to design machine learning techniques to increase the success of existing automated malware detecti... Read More about An improved two-hidden-layer extreme learning machine for malware hunting.

Dynamic thermal simulation of advanced natural ventilation in buildings : current and future usage, UK exemplar (2019)
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Ji, Y., Lee, A., & Fernando, T. (2020). Dynamic thermal simulation of advanced natural ventilation in buildings : current and future usage, UK exemplar. Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 16(4), 293-309. https://doi.org/10.1080/17452007.2019.1693334

This paper evaluates the use of advanced natural ventilation (ANV) strategies in a range of climatic conditions from four cities in the UK. A prototype ANV system was proposed to determine the most effective case in mitigating overheating. The case w... Read More about Dynamic thermal simulation of advanced natural ventilation in buildings : current and future usage, UK exemplar.

Mixed-cropping between field pea varieties alters root bacterial and fungal communities (2019)
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Horner, A., Browett, S., & Antwis, R. (2019). Mixed-cropping between field pea varieties alters root bacterial and fungal communities. Scientific reports, 9(16953), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-53342-8

Modern agricultural practices have vastly increased crop production but negatively affected soil health. As such, there is a call to develop sustainable, ecologically-viable approaches to food production. Mixed-cropping of plant varieties can increas... Read More about Mixed-cropping between field pea varieties alters root bacterial and fungal communities.

PROUD : verifiable privacy-preserving outsourced attribute based signcryption supporting access policy update for cloud assisted IoT applications (2019)
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Belguith, S., Kaaniche, N., Hammoudeh, M., & Dargahi, T. (2020). PROUD : verifiable privacy-preserving outsourced attribute based signcryption supporting access policy update for cloud assisted IoT applications. Future Generation Computer Systems, 111, 899-918. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2019.11.012

The ever-growing number of Internet connected devices poses several cybersecurity risks. Most of the exchanged data between the Internet of Things (IoT) devices are not adequately secured due to resource constraints on IoT devices. Attribute Based... Read More about PROUD : verifiable privacy-preserving outsourced attribute based signcryption supporting access policy update for cloud assisted IoT applications.

An affordable methodology for quantifying waterborne microplastics - an emerging contaminant in inland-waters (2019)
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Dunn, C., Owens, J., Fears, L., Nunnerley, L., Kirby, J., Armstrong, O., …Freeman, C. (2020). An affordable methodology for quantifying waterborne microplastics - an emerging contaminant in inland-waters. Journal of Limnology, 79(1), https://doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2019.1943

The occurrence of microplastics in marine habitats is well documented and of growing concern. The presence of these small (

Biochemical performance modelling of non-vegetated and vegetated vertical subsurface-flow constructed wetlands treating municipal wastewater in hot and dry climate (2019)
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Rahi, M., Faisal, A., Naji, L., Almuktar, S., Abed, S., & Scholz, M. (2020). Biochemical performance modelling of non-vegetated and vegetated vertical subsurface-flow constructed wetlands treating municipal wastewater in hot and dry climate. Journal of Water Process Engineering, 33, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwpe.2019.101003

Wastewater treatment and subsequent effluent recycling for non-drinking purposes such as irrigation contributes to the mitigation of the pressure on freshwater resources. In this study, two vertical sub-surface flow constructed wetland (VSSF-CW) pilo... Read More about Biochemical performance modelling of non-vegetated and vegetated vertical subsurface-flow constructed wetlands treating municipal wastewater in hot and dry climate.

Thioalbamide, a thioamidated peptide from amycolatopsis alba, affects tumor growth and stemness by inducing metabolic dysfunction and oxidative stress (2019)
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Frattaruolo, L., Fiorillo, M., Brindisi, M., Curcio, R., Dolce, V., Lacret, R., …Cappello, A. (2019). Thioalbamide, a thioamidated peptide from amycolatopsis alba, affects tumor growth and stemness by inducing metabolic dysfunction and oxidative stress. Cells, 8(11), e1408. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells8111408

Thioalbamide, a thioamidated peptide biosynthesized by Amycolatopsis alba, is a thioviridamide-like molecule, and is part of a family of natural products representing a focus of biotechnological and pharmaceutical research in recent years due to thei... Read More about Thioalbamide, a thioamidated peptide from amycolatopsis alba, affects tumor growth and stemness by inducing metabolic dysfunction and oxidative stress.

Predominant mechanisms for the removal of nickel metal ion from aqueous solution using cement kiln dust (2019)
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Abd Ali, Z., Naji, L., Almuktar, S., Faisal, A., Abed, S., Scholz, M., …Ahamad, T. (2020). Predominant mechanisms for the removal of nickel metal ion from aqueous solution using cement kiln dust. Journal of Water Process Engineering, 33, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwpe.2019.101033

The experimental methodology achieved in the present study signified that the adsorption and precipitation were mainly mechanisms occurred together in the removal of nickel from aqueous solutions by sorption using cement kiln dust (CKD) byproduct... Read More about Predominant mechanisms for the removal of nickel metal ion from aqueous solution using cement kiln dust.

Extremes in Benthic ecosystem services; blue carbon natural capital shallower than 1000 m in isolated, small, and young Ascension Island’s EEZ (2019)
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Barnes, D., Sands, C., Richardson, A., & Smith, N. (2019). Extremes in Benthic ecosystem services; blue carbon natural capital shallower than 1000 m in isolated, small, and young Ascension Island’s EEZ. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00663

Biodiversity tends to decrease with increasing isolation and reduced habitat size, and increase with habitat age. Ascension Island and its seamounts are small, isolated and relatively young, yet harbor patchily dense life. Large areas of these waters... Read More about Extremes in Benthic ecosystem services; blue carbon natural capital shallower than 1000 m in isolated, small, and young Ascension Island’s EEZ.

Wheat is an emerging exposure route for arsenic in Bihar, India (2019)
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Mondal, D., Suman, S., Sharma, P., Siddique, A., Rahman, M., Kumar, R., …Matthews, H. (2020). Wheat is an emerging exposure route for arsenic in Bihar, India. Science of the Total Environment, 703, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134774

In arsenic (As) endemic areas of south-east Asia, where a subsistence rice-based diet is 19 prevalent, As exposure from food is mainly focused on rice intake. However, consumption of 20 wheat is substantial and increasing. We present a probabilistic... Read More about Wheat is an emerging exposure route for arsenic in Bihar, India.

First record of an Odontaspidid shark in Ascension Island waters (2019)
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Richardson, A., Burgess, G., Shepherd, C., & Weber, S. (2019). First record of an Odontaspidid shark in Ascension Island waters. Arquipélago - Life and Marine Sciences, 36, 79-84

The occurrence of the poorly understood shark species Odontapsis ferox is reported at an oceanic seamount in the central south Atlantic, within the Exclusive Economic Zone of Ascension Island. The presence of the species at this location is confirmed... Read More about First record of an Odontaspidid shark in Ascension Island waters.