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Novel antibacterial silver-silica surface coatings prepared by chemical vapour deposition for infection control (2013)
Journal Article
Varghese, S., Elfakhri, S., Sheel, D., Sheel, P., Bolton, F., & Foster, H. (2013). Novel antibacterial silver-silica surface coatings prepared by chemical vapour deposition for infection control. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 115(5), 1107-1116. https://doi.org/10.1111/jam.12308

Aims: Environmental contamination plays an important role in the
transmission of infections, especially healthcare-associated infections.
Disinfection transiently reduces contamination, but surfaces can rapidly
become re-contaminated. Antimicrobia... Read More about Novel antibacterial silver-silica surface coatings prepared by chemical vapour deposition for infection control.

Accurate localization of incidental findings on the computed tomography attenuation correction image (2013)
Journal Article
Thompson, J., Hogg, P., Higham, S., & Manning, D. (2013). Accurate localization of incidental findings on the computed tomography attenuation correction image. Nuclear Medicine Communications, 34(2), 180-184. https://doi.org/10.1097/MNM.0b013e32835c0984

This observer performance study assessed lesion
detection in the computed tomography attenuation
correction image, as would be produced for myocardial
perfusion imaging over a tube current (mA) range. A static
anthropomorphic chest phantom contai... Read More about Accurate localization of incidental findings on the computed tomography attenuation correction image.

Evaluation of sampling methods for learning from imbalanced data (2013)
Book Chapter
Goel, G., Maguire, L., Li, Y., & McLoone, S. (2013). Evaluation of sampling methods for learning from imbalanced data. In D. Huang, V. Bevilacqua, J. Figueroa, & P. Premaratne (Eds.), Intelligent Computing Theories : 9th International Conference, ICIC 2013, Nanning, China, July 28-31, 2013, Proceedings (392-401). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39479-9_47

The problem of learning from imbalanced data is of critical importance in a large number of application domains and can be a bottleneck in the performance of various conventional learning methods that assume the data distribution to be balanced. The... Read More about Evaluation of sampling methods for learning from imbalanced data.

Human parasitology - book review (2013)
Journal Article
Hide, G. (2013). Human parasitology - book review. British Journal of Biomedical Science, 70(4), 184-184

Antimicrobial activity of novel nanostructured Cu-SiO2 coatings prepared by chemical vapour deposition against hospital related pathogens (2013)
Journal Article
Varghese, S., ElFakhri, S., Sheel, D., Sheel, P., Bolton, F., & Foster, H. (2013). Antimicrobial activity of novel nanostructured Cu-SiO2 coatings prepared by chemical vapour deposition against hospital related pathogens. AMB Express, 2(53), https://doi.org/10.1186/2191-0855-3-53

There is increasing recognition that the healthcare environment acts as an important reservoir for transmission of healthcare acquired infections (HCAI). One method of reducing environmental contamination would be use of antimicrobial materials. The... Read More about Antimicrobial activity of novel nanostructured Cu-SiO2 coatings prepared by chemical vapour deposition against hospital related pathogens.

The “round trip” theory for reconstruction of Green's functions at passive locations (2013)
Journal Article
Moorhouse, A., & Elliott, A. (2013). The “round trip” theory for reconstruction of Green's functions at passive locations. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 134(5), 3605. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4821210

An expression for the Green's function at an arbitrary set of passive locations (no applied force) is derived and validated by experiment. Three sets of points are involved, the passive reconstruction points, c, which lie on a virtual boundary and tw... Read More about The “round trip” theory for reconstruction of Green's functions at passive locations.

In-situ source path contribution analysis of structure borne road noise (2013)
Journal Article
Elliott, A., Moorhouse, A., Huntley, T., & Tate, S. (2013). In-situ source path contribution analysis of structure borne road noise. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 332(24), 6276-6295. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2013.05.031

Source-path-contribution (SPC) analysis, also known as transfer path analysis (TPA), is a technique widely used in the automotive industry for rank ordering noise and vibration sources. The SPC approach is known to provide reliable diagnostic informa... Read More about In-situ source path contribution analysis of structure borne road noise.

Disintegrated development at the rural–urban fringe: Re-connecting spatial planning theory and practice (2013)
Journal Article

The spaces where countryside meets town are often amongst society's most valued and pressured places which together form the rural–urban fringe (RUF). A ‘messy’ yet opportunistic space in policy and decision making processes, the RUF remains confused... Read More about Disintegrated development at the rural–urban fringe: Re-connecting spatial planning theory and practice.

Quality of urban spaces and wellbeing (2013)
Book Chapter
Adams, M. (2013). Quality of urban spaces and wellbeing. In Wellbeing (1-21). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118539415.wbwell064

What constitutes quality in an urban context is subjective and open to interpretation. This chapter begins by looking at the ways in which definitions of quality have been applied to the urban environment. It identifies that much research has focused... Read More about Quality of urban spaces and wellbeing.

Trends in android malware detection (2013)
Journal Article
Shaerpour, K., & Dehghantanha, A. (2013). Trends in android malware detection. Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law, 8(3), 21

This paper analyzes different Android malware detection techniques from several research papers, some of these techniques are novel while others bring a new perspective to the research work done in the past. The techniques are of various kinds rangin... Read More about Trends in android malware detection.

12,000-Years of fire regime drivers in the lowlands of Transylvania (Central-Eastern Europe): a data-model approach (2013)
Journal Article
Feurdean, A., Liakka, J., Vannière, B., Marinova, E., Hutchinson, S., Mosburgger, V., & Hickler, T. (2013). 12,000-Years of fire regime drivers in the lowlands of Transylvania (Central-Eastern Europe): a data-model approach. Quaternary Science Reviews, 81, 48-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.09.014

The usefulness of sedimentary charcoal records to document centennial to millennial scale trends in aspects of fire regimes (frequency, severity) is widely acknowledged, yet the long-term variability in these regimes is poorly understood. Here, we us... Read More about 12,000-Years of fire regime drivers in the lowlands of Transylvania (Central-Eastern Europe): a data-model approach.

The effect of Msh2 knockdown on toxicity induced by tert-butyl-hydroperoxide, potassium bromate, and hydrogen peroxide in base excision repair proficient and deficient cells (2013)
Journal Article
Cooley, N., Elder, R., & Povey, A. (2013). The effect of Msh2 knockdown on toxicity induced by tert-butyl-hydroperoxide, potassium bromate, and hydrogen peroxide in base excision repair proficient and deficient cells. BioMed Research International, 2013, https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/152909

The DNA mismatch repair (MMR) and base excision repair (BER) systems are important determinants of cellular toxicity following exposure to agents that cause oxidative DNA damage. To examine the interactions between these different repair systems, we... Read More about The effect of Msh2 knockdown on toxicity induced by tert-butyl-hydroperoxide, potassium bromate, and hydrogen peroxide in base excision repair proficient and deficient cells.

Developing a complementary framework for urban ecology (2013)
Journal Article
Kattel, G., Elkadi, H., & Meikle, H. (2013). Developing a complementary framework for urban ecology. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 12(4), 498-508. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2013.07.005

Cities are characterized by dynamic interactions between socio-economic and biophysical forces. Currently more than half of the global population reside in cities which influence the global biogeochemical
cycles and climate change, substantially exac... Read More about Developing a complementary framework for urban ecology.

Critical success factors for community-based post-disaster housing reconstruction projects in the pre-construction stage in Indonesia (2013)
Journal Article
Ophiyandri, T., Amaratunga, R., Pathirage, C., & Keraminiyage, K. (2013). Critical success factors for community-based post-disaster housing reconstruction projects in the pre-construction stage in Indonesia. International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, 4(2), 236-249. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJDRBE-03-2013-0005

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the critical success factors (CSFs) of community-based post-disaster housing reconstruction projects (CPHRP) during the pre-construction stage.
Design/methodology/approach: An extensive literature... Read More about Critical success factors for community-based post-disaster housing reconstruction projects in the pre-construction stage in Indonesia.

Adopting BIM standards for managing vision 2030 infrastructure development in Qatar (2013)
Journal Article
Al Mohannadi, F., Arif, M., Aziz, Z., & Richardson, P. (2013). Adopting BIM standards for managing vision 2030 infrastructure development in Qatar. International journal of 3-D information modeling (Online), 2(3), 64-73. https://doi.org/10.4018/ij3dim.2013070105

This research was designed to assess the significance of using Building Information Modeling (BIM) standards to enhance efficiency in the Qatari construction industry. The need for more efficient processes arose in part from the Qatari government’s i... Read More about Adopting BIM standards for managing vision 2030 infrastructure development in Qatar.