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Collaborative multidisciplinary learning : quantity surveying students’ perspectives (2020)
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Ekundayo, D., Shelbourn, M., & Babatunde, S. (2021). Collaborative multidisciplinary learning : quantity surveying students’ perspectives. Industry and Higher Education, 35(3), 211-222. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950422220944127

The construction industry is highly fragmented and is known for its adversarial culture, culminating in poor quality projects not completed on time or within budget. The aim of this study is thus to guide the design of QS programme curricula in ord... Read More about Collaborative multidisciplinary learning : quantity surveying students’ perspectives.

Computation of Eyring-Powell micropolar convective boundary layer flow from an inverted non-isothermal cone : thermal polymer coating simulation (2020)
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Gaffar, S., Khan, B., Beg, O., Kadir, A., & Prasad, V. (2020). Computation of Eyring-Powell micropolar convective boundary layer flow from an inverted non-isothermal cone : thermal polymer coating simulation. Computational Thermal Sciences, 12(4), 329-344. https://doi.org/10.1615/ComputThermalScien.2020033860

Thermal coating of components with non-Newtonian materials is a rich area of chemical and process mechanical engineering. Many different rheological characteristics can be simulated for such coatings with a variety of different mathematical models.... Read More about Computation of Eyring-Powell micropolar convective boundary layer flow from an inverted non-isothermal cone : thermal polymer coating simulation.

LED flashlight technology facilitates wild meat extraction across the tropics (2020)
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Bowler, M., Beirne, C., Tobler, M., Anderson, M., Rocha El Bizri, H., & et al. (2020). LED flashlight technology facilitates wild meat extraction across the tropics. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 18(9), 489-495. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2242

Hunting for wild meat in the tropics provides subsistence and income for millions of people. Methods have remained relatively unchanged since the introduction of shotguns and battery-powered incandescent flashlights, but the short battery life of suc... Read More about LED flashlight technology facilitates wild meat extraction across the tropics.

Lockdown urbanism: COVID-19 lifestyles and liveable futures opportunities in Wuhan and Manchester (2020)
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Jefferies, T., Cheng, J., & Coucill, L. (2020). Lockdown urbanism: COVID-19 lifestyles and liveable futures opportunities in Wuhan and Manchester. Cities and Health, 5, 155-158. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2020.1788771

Based on the authors’ personal experiences, this commentary discusses contrasting urban contexts and lockdown measures in twinned cities Wuhan, China and Manchester, UK, to examine spatial reach under COVID-19 restrictions in both places. Focusing on... Read More about Lockdown urbanism: COVID-19 lifestyles and liveable futures opportunities in Wuhan and Manchester.

Age, religion, and taboos influence subsistence hunting by indigenous people of the Lower Madeira River, Brazilian Amazon (2020)
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Knoop, S., Morcatty, T., Rocha El Bizri, H., & Cheyne, S. (2020). Age, religion, and taboos influence subsistence hunting by indigenous people of the Lower Madeira River, Brazilian Amazon. https://doi.org/10.2993/0278-0771-40.2.131

Subsistence hunting is an essential livelihood strategy of Indigenous people in the Amazon. The present study examines the aspects influencing hunting practices by the Indigenous Maraguá people in the central Amazon, Brazil. We used a Generalized Add... Read More about Age, religion, and taboos influence subsistence hunting by indigenous people of the Lower Madeira River, Brazilian Amazon.

Social and biological correlates of wild meat consumption and trade by rural communities in the Jutaí river basin, Central Amazonia (2020)
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Rocha El Bizri, H., Morcatty, T., Ferreira, J., Mayor, P., Neto, C., Valsecchi, J., …Fa, J. (2020). Social and biological correlates of wild meat consumption and trade by rural communities in the Jutaí river basin, Central Amazonia. https://doi.org/10.2993/0278-0771-40.2.183

Wild animals are an important source of food and income throughout the Amazon basin, particularly for forest-dependent communities living in the more remote regions. Through interviews in 51 households within 16 communities in the Jutaí River Extract... Read More about Social and biological correlates of wild meat consumption and trade by rural communities in the Jutaí river basin, Central Amazonia.

Utilizing an Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) for overcrowding level risk assessment in railway stations (2020)
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Alawad, H., An, M., & Kaewunruen, S. (2020). Utilizing an Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) for overcrowding level risk assessment in railway stations. Applied Sciences, 10(15), e5156. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10155156

The railway network plays a significant role (both economically and socially) in assisting the reduction of urban traffic congestion. It also accelerates the decarbonization in cities, societies and built environments. To ensure the safe and secure o... Read More about Utilizing an Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) for overcrowding level risk assessment in railway stations.

Partitioning the environmental drivers of immunocompetence (2020)
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Jackson, J., Friberg, I., Hablutzel, P., Masud, N., Stewart, A., Synnott, R., & Cable, J. (2020). Partitioning the environmental drivers of immunocompetence. Science of the Total Environment, 747, 141152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141152

By determining susceptibility to disease, environment-driven variation in immune responses can affect the health, productivity and fitness of vertebrates. Yet how the different components of the total environment control this immune variation is rema... Read More about Partitioning the environmental drivers of immunocompetence.

FoxP3+ T regulatory cells in cancer : prognostic biomarkers and therapeutic targets (2020)
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Saleh, R., & Elkord, E. (2020). FoxP3+ T regulatory cells in cancer : prognostic biomarkers and therapeutic targets. Cancer Letters, 490, 174-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canlet.2020.07.022

T Regulatory cells (Tregs) can have both protective and pathological roles. They maintain immune homeostasis and inhibit immune responses in various diseases, including cancer. Proportions of Tregs in the peripheral blood of some cancer patients incr... Read More about FoxP3+ T regulatory cells in cancer : prognostic biomarkers and therapeutic targets.

Social behavior in Nototriton brodiei in the Cloud Forest of Cusuco National Park, Honduras (2020)
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Sasso, T., Cox, C., & Gilroy, D. (2020). Social behavior in Nototriton brodiei in the Cloud Forest of Cusuco National Park, Honduras. South american journal of herpetology (Impresso), 17(1), 29-32. https://doi.org/10.2994/SAJH-D-18-00015.1

The slender and elusive Nototriton brodiei is known only from a few specimens at two separate sites in the Sierra de Merendón, in Guatemala and Honduras. We present the first record of an aggregation of three adults of N. brodiei on a single leaf in... Read More about Social behavior in Nototriton brodiei in the Cloud Forest of Cusuco National Park, Honduras.

Adomain computation of radiative-convective bi-directional stretching flow of a magnetic non-Newtonian fluid in porous media with homogeneous-heterogeneous reactions (2020)
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Mishra, S., Shamshuddin, M., Beg, O., & Kadir, A. (2020). Adomain computation of radiative-convective bi-directional stretching flow of a magnetic non-Newtonian fluid in porous media with homogeneous-heterogeneous reactions. International Journal of Modern Physics B, 34(18), 2050165. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217979220501659

In the present communication, laminar, incompressible, hydromagnetic flow of an electrically conducting non-Newtonian (Sisko) fluid over a bi-directional stretching sheet in a porous medium is studied theoretically. Thermal radiation flux, homogene... Read More about Adomain computation of radiative-convective bi-directional stretching flow of a magnetic non-Newtonian fluid in porous media with homogeneous-heterogeneous reactions.

Affordable housing provision in informal settlements through land value capture and inclusionary housing (2020)
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Nzau, B., & Trillo, C. (2020). Affordable housing provision in informal settlements through land value capture and inclusionary housing. Sustainability, 12(15), 5975. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12155975

Public-driven attempts to provide decent housing to slum residents in developing countries have either failed or achieved minimal output when compared to the growing slum population. This has been attributed mainly to shortage of public funds. Howeve... Read More about Affordable housing provision in informal settlements through land value capture and inclusionary housing.

Global status and conservation potential of reef sharks (2020)
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MacNeil, M., Chapman, D., Heupel, M., Simpfendorfer, C., Heithaus, M., Meekan, M., …et al. (2020). Global status and conservation potential of reef sharks. Nature, 583, 801-806. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2519-y

Decades of overexploitation have devastated shark populations, leaving considerable doubt as to their ecological status1,2. Yet much of what is known about sharks has been inferred from catch records in industrial fisheries, whereas far less informat... Read More about Global status and conservation potential of reef sharks.

Uniform flow past a closed body at low Reynolds number employing a novel matching in a boundary element formulation (2020)
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Dang, B., & Chadwick, E. (2020). Uniform flow past a closed body at low Reynolds number employing a novel matching in a boundary element formulation. Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, 119, 95-104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enganabound.2020.07.008

Consider a two dimensional steady low Reynolds number flow past a circular cylinder. A boundary integral representation that matches an outer Oseen flow and inner Stokes flow is given, and the matching error is shown to be smallest when the outer dom... Read More about Uniform flow past a closed body at low Reynolds number employing a novel matching in a boundary element formulation.

Computation of gold-water nanofluid natural convection in a three-dimensional tilted prismatic solar enclosure with aspect ratio and volume fraction effects (2020)
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Kuharat, S., Beg, O., Kadir, A., Vasu, B., Beg, T., & Jouri, W. (2020). Computation of gold-water nanofluid natural convection in a three-dimensional tilted prismatic solar enclosure with aspect ratio and volume fraction effects. Nanoscience and Technology: An International Journal, 11(2), 141-167. https://doi.org/10.1615/NanoSciTechnolIntJ.2020031257

Nanofluids are increasingly being deployed in numerous energy applications owing to their impressive thermal enhancement properties. Motivated by these developments in the current study we present finite volume numerical simulations of natural c... Read More about Computation of gold-water nanofluid natural convection in a three-dimensional tilted prismatic solar enclosure with aspect ratio and volume fraction effects.

Acoustic metamaterial for low frequency sound absorption in linear and nonlinear regimes (2020)
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Brooke, D., Umnova, O., Leclaire, P., & Dupont, T. (2020). Acoustic metamaterial for low frequency sound absorption in linear and nonlinear regimes. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 485, 115585. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2020.115585

Acoustic metamaterial absorbers have been built and tested with focus on low frequency airborne sound absorption in linear and nonlinear regimes. The absorbers are made up of a series of piled up flat cavities, separated by thin walls and traverse... Read More about Acoustic metamaterial for low frequency sound absorption in linear and nonlinear regimes.

Intelligibility vs. comprehension : understanding quality of accessible next-generation audio broadcast (2020)
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accessible next-generation audio broadcast. Universal Access in the Information Society, 20(4), 691-699. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-020-00741-8

For traditional broadcasting formats, imple-mentation of accessible audio strategies for hard of hear-ing people have used a binary, intelligibility-based ap-proach. In this approach sounds are categorized eitheras speech, contributing to compreh... Read More about Intelligibility vs. comprehension : understanding quality of accessible next-generation audio broadcast.

Role of epigenetic modifications in inhibitory immune checkpoints in cancer development and progression (2020)
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Saleh, R., Toor, S., Sasidharan Nair, V., & Elkord, E. (2020). Role of epigenetic modifications in inhibitory immune checkpoints in cancer development and progression. Frontiers in Immunology, 11, 1469. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2020.01469

A balance between co-inhibitory and co-stimulatory signals in the tumor microenvironment (TME) is critical to suppress tumor development and progression, primarily via maintaining effective immunosurveillance. Aberrant expression of immune checkpoint... Read More about Role of epigenetic modifications in inhibitory immune checkpoints in cancer development and progression.

Entropy generation of tangent hyperbolic nanofluid over a circular cylinder in the presence of nonlinear Boussinesq approximation : a non-similar solution (2020)
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Basha, H., Sivaraj, R., Prasad, V., & Beg, O. (2021). Entropy generation of tangent hyperbolic nanofluid over a circular cylinder in the presence of nonlinear Boussinesq approximation : a non-similar solution. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 143(3), 2273-2289. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-020-09981-5

The analysis of entropy generation has received notable attention in the study of nanofluids because the prime objective of nanofluids is to admit high heat fluxes. The entropy production can be utilized to generate the entropy in any irreversible... Read More about Entropy generation of tangent hyperbolic nanofluid over a circular cylinder in the presence of nonlinear Boussinesq approximation : a non-similar solution.

From tangled banks to toxic bunnies; a reflection on the issues involved in developing an ecosystem approach for environmental radiation protection (2020)
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Mothersill, C., Oughton, D., Schofield, P., Abend, M., Adam-Guillermin, C., Ariyoshi, K., …Wood, M. (2020). From tangled banks to toxic bunnies; a reflection on the issues involved in developing an ecosystem approach for environmental radiation protection. International Journal of Radiation Biology, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/09553002.2020.1793022

The objective of this paper is to present the results of discussions at a workshop held as part of the International Congress of Radiation Research (Environmental Health stream) in Manchester UK, 2019. The main objective of the workshop was to provid... Read More about From tangled banks to toxic bunnies; a reflection on the issues involved in developing an ecosystem approach for environmental radiation protection.