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A scene image classification technique for a ubiquitous visual surveillance system (2019)
Journal Article
Asadzadeh Kaljahi, M., Palaiahnakote, S., Hossein Anisi, M., Yamani Idna Idris, M., Blumenstein, M., & Khurram Khan, M. (2019). A scene image classification technique for a ubiquitous visual surveillance system. Multimedia Tools and Applications, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-018-6151-x

The concept of smart cities has quickly evolved to improve the quality of life and provide public safety. Smart cities mitigate harmful environmental impacts and offences and bring energy-efficiency, cost saving and mechanisms for better use of resou... Read More about A scene image classification technique for a ubiquitous visual surveillance system.

Hooked on you: shape of attachment structures in cymothoid isopods reflects parasitic strategy (2019)
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Baillie, C., Welicky, R., Hadfield, K., Smit, N., Mariani, S., & Beck, R. (2019). Hooked on you: shape of attachment structures in cymothoid isopods reflects parasitic strategy. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 19, 207. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1533-x

Background
Parasite attachment structures are critical traits that influence effective host exploitation and survival. Morphology of attachment structures can reinforce host specificity and niche specialisation, or even enable host switching. Theref... Read More about Hooked on you: shape of attachment structures in cymothoid isopods reflects parasitic strategy.

Simulation of natural convection heat transfer in a 2-D trapezoidal enclosure (2019)
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Natural convection within trapezoidal enclosures finds significant practical applications. The natural convection flows play a prominent role in the transport of energy in energy-related applications, in case of proper design enclosures to achieve hi... Read More about Simulation of natural convection heat transfer in a 2-D trapezoidal enclosure.

Captive-born collared peccaries learning about their predators : lessons learnt but not remembered (2019)
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de Faria, C., de Souza Sá, F., Lovenstain Costa, D., da Silva, M., da Silva, B., Young, R., & de Azevedo, C. (2020). Captive-born collared peccaries learning about their predators : lessons learnt but not remembered. Behavioural Processes, 171, 104031. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2019.104031

Captive-born animals frequently lose their anti-predatory abilities due to the absence of encounters with their predators, but these abilities can be regained through specific training. Anti-predator training can, thus, enhance the success of reintro... Read More about Captive-born collared peccaries learning about their predators : lessons learnt but not remembered.

Preferred levels for background ducking to produce esthetically pleasing audio for TV with clear speech (2019)
Journal Article
Torcoli, M., Freke-Morin, A., Paulus, J., Simon, C., & Shirley, B. (2019). Preferred levels for background ducking to produce esthetically pleasing audio for TV with clear speech. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 67(12), 1003-1011. https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2019.0052

In audio production, background ducking facilitates speech intelligibility while allowing the background to fulfill its purpose, e.g., to create ambience, set the mood, or convey semantic cues. Technical details for recommended ducking practices are... Read More about Preferred levels for background ducking to produce esthetically pleasing audio for TV with clear speech.

Learning from accidents : machine learning for safety at railway stations (2019)
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Alawad, H., Kaewunruen, S., & An, M. (2020). Learning from accidents : machine learning for safety at railway stations. IEEE Access, 8(1), 633-648. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2962072

In railway systems, station safety is a critical aspect of the overall structure, and yet, accidents at stations still occur. It is time to learn from these errors and improve conventional methods by utilizing the latest technology, such as machine l... Read More about Learning from accidents : machine learning for safety at railway stations.

Numerical simulation of thermal radiation influence on natural convection in a trapezoidal enclosure : heat flow visualization through energy flux vectors (2019)
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Venkatadri, K., Beg, O., Rajarajeswar, P., & Prasad, V. (2020). Numerical simulation of thermal radiation influence on natural convection in a trapezoidal enclosure : heat flow visualization through energy flux vectors. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 171, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2019.105391

A theoretical and numerical study of natural convection intwo-dimensional laminar
incompressible flow in a trapezoidal enclosurein the presence of thermal radiation is conducted,
motivated by energy systems applications. Heat flow visualization via... Read More about Numerical simulation of thermal radiation influence on natural convection in a trapezoidal enclosure : heat flow visualization through energy flux vectors.

Environmental drivers of sediment carbon storage in temperate seagrass meadows (2019)
Journal Article
Do Amaral Camara Lima, M., Ward, R., & Joyce, C. (2020). Environmental drivers of sediment carbon storage in temperate seagrass meadows. Hydrobiologia, 847, 1773-1792. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-019-04153-5

Seagrass meadows are productive ecosystems that contribute to climate change mitigation by accumulating ‘Blue Carbon’ in their plant biomass and sediments. However, there is wide variation in reported sediment carbon stocks (Cstocks) across different... Read More about Environmental drivers of sediment carbon storage in temperate seagrass meadows.

Energy transfer in Cr and Nd co-doped Si-B-Na-Al-Ca-Zr-O glasses (2019)
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Cr and Nd co-doped glasses are potential gain media for solar pumped lasers (SPLs). Tanabe-Sugano analysis
shows that Cr doped Si-B-Na-Al-Ca-Zr-O (SBNACZ) glass contains a mixture of Cr3+ with octahedral coordination and Cr6+with unknown coordinatio... Read More about Energy transfer in Cr and Nd co-doped Si-B-Na-Al-Ca-Zr-O glasses.

Experimental investigation on liquefaction and post-liquefaction deformation of stratified saturated sand under cyclic loading (2019)
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The soils are often distributed in a stratified structure. When an earthquake occurs, there are always risks of liquefaction for stratified soils which can cause serious consequences. The research aims to investigate the liquefaction and post-liquefa... Read More about Experimental investigation on liquefaction and post-liquefaction deformation of stratified saturated sand under cyclic loading.

Effects of a hovering Unmanned Aerial Vehicle on urban soundscapes perception (2019)
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Torija Martinez, A., Zhengguang, L., & Self, R. (2020). Effects of a hovering Unmanned Aerial Vehicle on urban soundscapes perception. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 78, 102195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2019.11.024

Several industry leaders and governmental agencies are currently investigating the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or ‘drones’ as commonly known, for an ever-growing number of applications from blue light services to parcel delivery. For the... Read More about Effects of a hovering Unmanned Aerial Vehicle on urban soundscapes perception.

Nonlinear dynamics of coupled transverse-rotational waves in granular chains (2019)
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Zhang, Q., Umnova, O., & Venegas, R. (2019). Nonlinear dynamics of coupled transverse-rotational waves in granular chains. Physical Review E, 100(6), 062206. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.100.062206

The nonlinear dynamics of coupled waves in one-dimensional granular chains with and without a substrate
is theoretically studied accounting for quadratic nonlinearity. The multiple time scale method is used to derive
the nonlinear dispersion relati... Read More about Nonlinear dynamics of coupled transverse-rotational waves in granular chains.

EBNO: Evolution of cost‐sensitive Bayesian networks (2019)
Journal Article
Nashnush, E., & VADERA, S. (2020). EBNO: Evolution of cost‐sensitive Bayesian networks. Expert Systems, 37(3), e12495. https://doi.org/10.1111/exsy.12495

The last decade has seen an increase in the attention paid to the development of cost sensitive learning algorithms that
aim to minimize misclassification costs while still maintaining accuracy. Most of this attention has been on cost sensitive
dec... Read More about EBNO: Evolution of cost‐sensitive Bayesian networks.

Behavioural responses in a congested sea : an observational study on a coastal nest-guarding fish (2019)
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The deleterious effects of anthropogenic noise on animal communication are nowadays recognised, not only in urban environments but also in terrestrial habitats and along coasts and in open waters. Yet, the assessment of short- and long-term exposure... Read More about Behavioural responses in a congested sea : an observational study on a coastal nest-guarding fish.

Immune checkpoints in circulating and tumor-Infiltrating CD4 + T Cell Subsets in Colorectal cancer patients (2019)
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Toor, S., Murshed, K., Al-Dhaheri, M., Khawar, M., Abu Nada, M., & Elkord, E. (2019). Immune checkpoints in circulating and tumor-Infiltrating CD4 + T Cell Subsets in Colorectal cancer patients. Frontiers in Immunology, 10, 2936. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2019.02936

Blockade of inhibitory immune checkpoints (ICs) is a promising therapeutic approach; however, it has shown limited success in some cancers including colorectal cancer (CRC). The tumor microenvironment (TME) is largely responsible for response to ther... Read More about Immune checkpoints in circulating and tumor-Infiltrating CD4 + T Cell Subsets in Colorectal cancer patients.

Multi-omics analysis of multiple missions to space reveal a theme of lipid dysregulation in mouse liver (2019)
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Spaceflight has several detrimental effects on the physiology of astronauts, many of which are recapitulated in rodent models. Mouse studies performed on the Space Shuttle showed disruption of lipid metabolism in liver. However, given that these anim... Read More about Multi-omics analysis of multiple missions to space reveal a theme of lipid dysregulation in mouse liver.

Differential transform solution for hall and ion slip effects on radiative-convective casson flow from a stretching sheet with convective heating (2019)
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Bhatti, M., Khan, S., Beg, O., & Kadir, A. (2020). Differential transform solution for hall and ion slip effects on radiative-convective casson flow from a stretching sheet with convective heating. Heat Transfer - Asian Research, 49(2), 872-888. https://doi.org/10.1002/htj.21643

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) materials processing is becoming increasingly popular in the 21st
century since it offers significant advantages over conventional systems including improved
manipulation of working fluids, reduction in wear and enhanced s... Read More about Differential transform solution for hall and ion slip effects on radiative-convective casson flow from a stretching sheet with convective heating.

Subject-specific finite element modelling of the human hand complex : muscle-driven simulations and experimental validation (2019)
Journal Article
Wei, Y., Zou, Z., Wei, G., Ren, L., & Qian, Z. (2020). Subject-specific finite element modelling of the human hand complex : muscle-driven simulations and experimental validation. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 48(4), 1181-1195. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-019-02439-2

This paper aims to develop and validate a subject-specific framework for modelling the human hand. This was achieved by combining medical image-based finite element modelling, individualized muscle force and kinematic measurements. Firstly, a subject... Read More about Subject-specific finite element modelling of the human hand complex : muscle-driven simulations and experimental validation.

Entropy analysis on convective film flow of power-law fluid with nanoparticles along an inclined plate (2019)
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fluid with nanoparticles along an inclined plate. Journal of Applied Mechanics and Technical Physics, 60, 827-841. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021894419050067

Entropy generation in a two-dimensional steady laminar thin film convection flow of a non-Newtonian nanofluid (Ostwald-de-Waele-type power-law fluid with embedded nanoparticles) along an inclined plate is examined theoretically. A revised Buongiorno... Read More about Entropy analysis on convective film flow of power-law fluid with nanoparticles along an inclined plate.

A covariance based framework for the propagation of correlated uncertainty in frequency based dynamic sub-structuring (2019)
Journal Article
Meggitt, J., & Moorhouse, A. (2020). A covariance based framework for the propagation of correlated uncertainty in frequency based dynamic sub-structuring. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 136, 106505. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymssp.2019.106505

Dynamic sub-structuring (DS) is the procedure by which the passive properties (i.e. frequency response functions)
of an assembled structure are predicted from those of its constituent sub-structures. In this paper we are concerned
with the propagat... Read More about A covariance based framework for the propagation of correlated uncertainty in frequency based dynamic sub-structuring.