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Glucocorticoid resistance in COPD patients and lung cancer (2015)
Thesis
Almusrati, W. (in press). Glucocorticoid resistance in COPD patients and lung cancer. (Dissertation). University of Salford

COPD is linked to inflammatory mediators that orchestrate the disease progression, mainly in the small airways and in parenchymal tissue. Inflammatory mediators, such as cytokines, chemokines and oxygen free radicals, orchestrate the inflammatory res... Read More about Glucocorticoid resistance in COPD patients and lung cancer.

Urban form and urban security : insights from a Southern Italian neighbourhood (2015)
Book Chapter
Bevilacqua, C., Trillo, C., Pizzimenti, P., & Maione, C. (2015). Urban form and urban security : insights from a Southern Italian neighbourhood. In Plan Together - Right Now - Overall From Vision to Reality for Vibrant Cities and Regions 20th International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in the Information Society (651-659). CORP

Contemporary cities are affected by several challenges. Rapid urbanisation processes combined with unstable economic conditions, uncontrolled physical development and social exclusion, political instability make difficult the understanding of “securi... Read More about Urban form and urban security : insights from a Southern Italian neighbourhood.

Success factors for ICT implementation in Saudi secondary schools : from the perspective of ICT directors, head teachers, teachers and students (2015)
Journal Article
Albugami, S., & Ahmed, V. (2015). Success factors for ICT implementation in Saudi secondary schools : from the perspective of ICT directors, head teachers, teachers and students. International journal of education and development using information and communication technology, 11(1), 36-54

The role of Information Communication and Technology (ICT) in education is undisputed globally.
Therefore, many developed and developing countries have invested heavily in the ICT sector in education. Saudi Arabia is one of these countries. However,... Read More about Success factors for ICT implementation in Saudi secondary schools : from the perspective of ICT directors, head teachers, teachers and students.

ICDAR2015 competition on recognition of documents with complex layouts - RDCL2015 (2015)
Book Chapter
Antonacopoulos, A., Clausner, C., Papadopoulos, C., & Pletschacher, S. (2015). ICDAR2015 competition on recognition of documents with complex layouts - RDCL2015. In 2015 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) (1151-1155). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2015.7333941

This paper presents an objective comparative evaluation of page segmentation and region classification methods for documents with complex layouts. It describes the competition (modus operandi, dataset and evaluation methodology) held in the context o... Read More about ICDAR2015 competition on recognition of documents with complex layouts - RDCL2015.

Historical typewritten document recognition using minimal user interaction (2015)
Book Chapter
Retsinas, G., Gatos, B., Antonacopoulos, A., Louloudis, G., & Stamatopoulos, N. (2015). Historical typewritten document recognition using minimal user interaction. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP2015) (31-38). ACM Digital Library. https://doi.org/10.1145/2809544.2809559

Recognition of low-quality historical typewritten documents can still be considered as a challenging and difficult task due to several issues i.e. the existence of faint and degraded characters, stains, tears, punch holes etc. In this paper, we explo... Read More about Historical typewritten document recognition using minimal user interaction.

The use of direct current voltage systems to increase a city’s resilience and reduce the vulnerability of economic activity from a disaster (2015)
Book Chapter
Kinn, M., & Abbott, C. (2015). The use of direct current voltage systems to increase a city’s resilience and reduce the vulnerability of economic activity from a disaster. In Global assessment report on disaster risk reduction 2015 (1-26). United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)

The overarching purpose of this paper is to address the challenges facing the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 in a holistic way. The emphasis will be on Thematic Research Area 8, which concentrates on what can be done to mi... Read More about The use of direct current voltage systems to increase a city’s resilience and reduce the vulnerability of economic activity from a disaster.

Spatio-temporal variability in the population structure in North-east Atlantic stocks of horse mackerel (Trachurus trachurus) (2015)
Journal Article
Bozano, M., Mariani, S., Barratt, C., Sacchi, C., Boufana, B., & Coscia, I. (2015). Spatio-temporal variability in the population structure in North-east Atlantic stocks of horse mackerel (Trachurus trachurus). Biology and Environment, 115B(3), 211-220. https://doi.org/10.3318/BIOE.2015.20

The long-term sustainability of fish stocks is dependent upon the identification of biologically meaningful demographic boundaries and, subsequently, appropriate assessment figures and management strategies. In the case of the horse mackerel, Trachur... Read More about Spatio-temporal variability in the population structure in North-east Atlantic stocks of horse mackerel (Trachurus trachurus).

Cloud storage forensic : HubiC as a case-study (2015)
Book Chapter
Blakele, B., Cooney, C., Dehghantanha, A., & Aspin, R. (2015). Cloud storage forensic : HubiC as a case-study. In 2015 IEEE 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom) (536-541). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CloudCom.2015.24

In today’s society where we live in a world of
constant connectivity, many people are now looking to cloud
services in order to store their files so they can have access to them
wherever they are. By using cloud services, users can access files
a... Read More about Cloud storage forensic : HubiC as a case-study.

A corpus of noise-induced word misperceptions for Spanish (2015)
Journal Article
Tóth, M., García Lecumberri, M., Tang, Y., & Cooke, M. (2015). A corpus of noise-induced word misperceptions for Spanish. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 137(2), EL184-EL189. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4905877

Word misperceptions are valuable in designing and evaluating detailed computational models of speech perception, especially when a number of listeners agree on the misperceived word. The current paper describes the elicitation of a corpus of Spanish... Read More about A corpus of noise-induced word misperceptions for Spanish.

On the use of inclusion structure in fuzzy clustering algorithm in case of Gaussian membership functions (2015)
Journal Article
Nefti-Meziani, S., Oußalah, M., & Soufian, M. (2015). On the use of inclusion structure in fuzzy clustering algorithm in case of Gaussian membership functions. Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, 28(4), 1477-1493. https://doi.org/10.3233/IFS-141407

This article addresses the problem of incorporating an inclusion structure in the general class of fuzzy c-means algorithms. Conventionally, all the classes of fuzzy clustering algorithms involve a distance structure as the main tool to compute the i... Read More about On the use of inclusion structure in fuzzy clustering algorithm in case of Gaussian membership functions.

Elastodynamic metasurface: Depolarization of mechanical waves and time effects (2015)
Journal Article
Boutin, C., Schwan, L., & Dietz, M. (2015). Elastodynamic metasurface: Depolarization of mechanical waves and time effects. Journal of Applied Physics, 117(6), 064902. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4908135

We report the concept of microstructured surfaces with inner resonance in the field of elastodynamics, so-called elastodynamic metasurfaces. Such metasurfaces allow for wavefield manipulation of mechanical waves by tuning the boundary conditions at s... Read More about Elastodynamic metasurface: Depolarization of mechanical waves and time effects.

High toughness TiB2–Al2O3composite ceramics produced by reactive hot pressing with fusible components (2015)
Journal Article
Yu. Popov, A., Sivak, A., Yu. Borodianska, H., & Shabalin, I. (2015). High toughness TiB2–Al2O3composite ceramics produced by reactive hot pressing with fusible components. Advances in applied ceramics, 114(3), 178-182. https://doi.org/10.1179/1743676114Y.0000000202

A manufacturing method of high toughness TiB2–Al2O3 ceramic composites by reactive hot pressing via exothermic reactions with Al, B2O3, C and TiB2 has been developed. The usage of fusible initial components (Al and B2O3) in the hot pressing procedure... Read More about High toughness TiB2–Al2O3composite ceramics produced by reactive hot pressing with fusible components.

A preliminary investigation into the genetic variation and population structure of Taenia hydatigena from Sardinia, Italy (2015)
Journal Article

Cysticercosis caused by the metacestode stage of Taenia hydatigena is endemic in Sardinia. Information on the genetic variation of this parasite is important for epidemiological studies and implementation of control programs. Using two mitochondrial... Read More about A preliminary investigation into the genetic variation and population structure of Taenia hydatigena from Sardinia, Italy.

A disaster resilient built environment in urban cities (2015)
Journal Article
Chamindi, M., & Amaratunga, D. (2015). A disaster resilient built environment in urban cities. International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, 6(1), 102-116. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJDRBE-10-2014-0071

Purpose

– This research aims at making recommendations to empower the Sri Lankan local governments in creating a disaster resilient built environment. Disasters make a huge impact on the built environment. In turn, failure of the built environment... Read More about A disaster resilient built environment in urban cities.

A WSN-based prediction model of microclimate in a greenhouse using an extreme learning approach (2015)
Book Chapter
Liu, Q., Zhang, Y., Shen, J., Xiao, B., & Linge, N. (2015). A WSN-based prediction model of microclimate in a greenhouse using an extreme learning approach. In 2015 17th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT) (133-137). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICACT.2015.7224772

Monitoring and controlling microclimate in a greenhouse becomes one of the research hotspots in the field of agrometeorology, where the application of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) recently attracts more attentions due to its features of self-adapti... Read More about A WSN-based prediction model of microclimate in a greenhouse using an extreme learning approach.

The use of instrumented gait analysis for individually tailored interdisciplinary interventions in children with cerebral palsy: a randomised controlled trial protocol (2015)
Journal Article

Background:

Children with cerebral palsy (CP) often have an altered gait. Orthopaedic surgery, spasticity management, physical therapy and orthotics are used to improve the gait. Interventions are individually tailored and are planned on the basi... Read More about The use of instrumented gait analysis for individually tailored interdisciplinary interventions in children with cerebral palsy: a randomised controlled trial protocol.

Alignment of project management with business strategy in construction: evidence from the Turkish contractors (2015)
Journal Article
Budayan, C., Dikmen, I., & Birgonul, M. (2015). Alignment of project management with business strategy in construction: evidence from the Turkish contractors. Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, 21(1), 94-106. https://doi.org/10.3846/13923730.2013.802737

The importance of fit between an organization's implementation of project management (PM), and its business level strategy is emphasized in the literature. However, there are a limited number of studies investigating the relationship between business... Read More about Alignment of project management with business strategy in construction: evidence from the Turkish contractors.