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A Quantitative Evaluation of Drive Patterns in Electrical Impedance Tomography (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Impedance Tomography. Presented at MOBIHEALTH 2016 - 6th EAI International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare, Milan

Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is a method used to display, through an image, the conductivity distribution inside a domain by using measurements taken from electrodes placed at its periphery. This paper presents our prototype of a stretchab... Read More about A Quantitative Evaluation of Drive Patterns in Electrical Impedance Tomography.

Application of iron and silicon fertilizers reduces arsenic accumulation by two Ipomoea aquatica varities (2016)
Journal Article
accumulation by two Ipomoea aquatica varities. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 15(11), 2613-2619. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2095-3119%2815%2961320-X

A 45 d pot experiment was conducted to examine the effects of silicon fertilizer or iron fertilizer on the growth of two typical Ipomoea aquatica cultivars and As accumuation of two typical Ipomoea aquatica cultivars grown in As-contaminated soils at... Read More about Application of iron and silicon fertilizers reduces arsenic accumulation by two Ipomoea aquatica varities.

Species-specific cuticular hydrocarbon stability within European Myrmica Ants (2016)
Journal Article
Guillem, R., Drijfhout, F., & Martin, S. (2016). Species-specific cuticular hydrocarbon stability within European Myrmica Ants. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 42(10), 1052-1062. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-016-0784-x

Recognition is a fundamental process on which all subsequent behaviors are based at every organizational level, from the gene up to the super-organism. At the whole organism level visual recognition is the best understood. However, chemical communi... Read More about Species-specific cuticular hydrocarbon stability within European Myrmica Ants.

Theoretical assessment of progressive collapse capacity of reinforced concrete structures (2016)
Journal Article
Alogla, K., Weekes, L., & Augusthus Nelson, L. (2017). Theoretical assessment of progressive collapse capacity of reinforced concrete structures. Magazine of Concrete Research, 69(3), 145-162. https://doi.org/10.1680/jmacr.16.00319

The progressive collapse behaviour of reinforced concrete (RC) structures requires consideration of material and geometric non-linearity, concrete crushing and rebar fracture. Compressive arch action (CAA) and catenary action (CTA) are the main res... Read More about Theoretical assessment of progressive collapse capacity of reinforced concrete structures.

A closer look at Syncany Windows and Ubuntu clients’ residual artefacts (2016)
Book Chapter
Yee Yang, T., Dehghantanha, A., Choo, R., Muda, Z., Taufik, A., & Wee-Chait, C. (2016). A closer look at Syncany Windows and Ubuntu clients’ residual artefacts. In Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (342-357). SpaCCS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49145-5_34

In this paper, we seek to determine the residual artefacts of forensic value on Windows and Ubuntu client machines of using Syncany private cloud storage service. We demonstrate the types and the locations of the artefacts that can be forensically re... Read More about A closer look at Syncany Windows and Ubuntu clients’ residual artefacts.

Aerosol-assisted CVD of cadmium diselenoimidodiphosphinate and formation of a new iPr2N2P3+ ion supported by combined DFT and mass spectrometric studies (2016)
Journal Article
Oyetunde, T., Afzaal, M., Vincent, M., & O'Brien, P. (2016). Aerosol-assisted CVD of cadmium diselenoimidodiphosphinate and formation of a new iPr2N2P3+ ion supported by combined DFT and mass spectrometric studies. Dalton Transactions, 45, 18603-18609. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6DT03186B

Aerosol-assisted chemical vapour deposition (AACVD) of Cd[(SePiPr2)2N]2 is shown to deposit cadmium selenide and/or cadmium phosphide on glass substrates, depending upon the growth conditions. The phase, structure, morphology and composition of the f... Read More about Aerosol-assisted CVD of cadmium diselenoimidodiphosphinate and formation of a new iPr2N2P3+ ion supported by combined DFT and mass spectrometric studies.

Driving lean and green project outcomes using BIM : a qualitative comparative analysis (2016)
Journal Article
Ahuja, R., Sawhney, A., & Arif, M. (2016). Driving lean and green project outcomes using BIM : a qualitative comparative analysis. International Journal for Sustainable Built Environment, 6(1), 69-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsbe.2016.10.006

Driven by a plethora of external and internal influences, the construction industry has independently embraced lean principles and green initiatives. Prima facie significant synergies have been reported between these two paradigms. It is foreseen tha... Read More about Driving lean and green project outcomes using BIM : a qualitative comparative analysis.

Three dimensional optimization of small-scale axial turbine for low temperature heat source driven organic Rankine cycle (2016)
Journal Article
Al Jubori, A., Al-Dadah, R. K., Mahmoud, S., Bahr Ennil, A., & Rahbar, K. (2017). Three dimensional optimization of small-scale axial turbine for low temperature heat source driven organic Rankine cycle. Energy Conversion and Management, 133, 411-426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2016.10.060

Advances in optimization techniques can be used to enhance the performance of turbines in various applications. However, limited work has been reported on using such optimization techniques to develop small-scale turbines for organic Rankine cycles.... Read More about Three dimensional optimization of small-scale axial turbine for low temperature heat source driven organic Rankine cycle.

MHD convective heat transfer of nanofluids through a flexible tube with buoyancy : a study of nano-particle shape effects (2016)
Journal Article
tube with buoyancy : a study of nano-particle shape effects. Robotics and autonomous systems, 28(2), 453-462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apt.2016.10.018

This paper presents an analytical study of magnetohydrodynamics and convective heat transfer of nanofluids synthesized by three different shaped (brick, platelet and cylinder) silver (Ag) nanoparticles in water. A two-phase nanoscale formulation is a... Read More about MHD convective heat transfer of nanofluids through a flexible tube with buoyancy : a study of nano-particle shape effects.

A real-time evaluation of energy management systems for smart hybrid home microgrids (2016)
Journal Article
Marzband, M., Ghazimirsaeid, S., Uppal, H., & Fernando, T. (2017). A real-time evaluation of energy management systems for smart hybrid home microgrids. Electric Power Systems Research, 143, 624-633. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2016.10.054

Real-time energy management within the concepts of home Microgrids (H-MG) systems is crucial for H-MG operational reliability and safe functionality, regardless of simultaneously emanated variations in generation and load demand transients. In this p... Read More about A real-time evaluation of energy management systems for smart hybrid home microgrids.

Metabarcoding techniques for assessing biodiversity of marine animal forests (2016)
Book Chapter
Wangensteen Fuentes, O. S., & Turon, X. (2016). Metabarcoding techniques for assessing biodiversity of marine animal forests. In Marine animal forests : the ecology of benthic biodiversity hotspots (1-29). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17001-5_53-1

The “marine animal forests” are among the most diverse ecosystems in the Biosphere. However, exhaustive biodiversity assessment of these communities has been so far elusive. The real extent of biodiversity and its temporal and spatial variability pat... Read More about Metabarcoding techniques for assessing biodiversity of marine animal forests.

A discourse-based approach for Arabic question answering (2016)
Journal Article
Sadek, J., & Meziane, F. (2016). A discourse-based approach for Arabic question answering. ACM transactions on Asian language information processing, 16(2), Art. 11. https://doi.org/10.1145/2988238

The treatment of complex questions with explanatory answers involves searching for arguments in texts. Because of the prominent role that discourse relations play in reflecting text-producers’ intentions, capturing the underlying structure of text co... Read More about A discourse-based approach for Arabic question answering.

Dibenzoyl-methane derivatives as potential and exciting new therapy for the treatment of childhood bone cancer (2016)
Journal Article
Almelah, E., Smith, D., McGown, A., Aziz, A., Potgieter, H., & Ragazzon, P. (2016). Dibenzoyl-methane derivatives as potential and exciting new therapy for the treatment of childhood bone cancer. Anticancer Research, 36(11), 6043-6050. https://doi.org/10.21873/anticanres.11193

Abstract. Childhood bone cancer though rare, has very limited treatment choices, with poor survival rates and often involving amputation. We have developed a novel molecule, 2', 4'-dihydroxy-dithion-dibenzoyl-methane and tested it on hepatic, colon,... Read More about Dibenzoyl-methane derivatives as potential and exciting new therapy for the treatment of childhood bone cancer.

Energy conversion under conjugate conduction, magneto-convection, diffusion and nonlinear radiation over a non-linearly stretching sheet with slip and multiple convective boundary conditions (2016)
Journal Article
Uddin, M., Beg, A., & Uddin, M. (2016). Energy conversion under conjugate conduction, magneto-convection, diffusion and nonlinear radiation over a non-linearly stretching sheet with slip and multiple convective boundary conditions. Energy, 115(Part 1), 1119-1129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2016.05.063

Energy conversion under conduction, convection, diffusion and radiation has been studied for MHD free convection heat transfer of a steady laminar boundary-layer flow past a moving permeable non-linearly extrusion stretching sheet. The nonlinear Ross... Read More about Energy conversion under conjugate conduction, magneto-convection, diffusion and nonlinear radiation over a non-linearly stretching sheet with slip and multiple convective boundary conditions.

Development of micro-scale axial and radial turbines for low-temperature heat source driven organic Rankine cycle (2016)
Journal Article
Al Jubori, A., Daabo, A., Al-Dadah, R. K., Mahmoud, S., & Ennil, A. B. (2016). Development of micro-scale axial and radial turbines for low-temperature heat source driven organic Rankine cycle. Energy Conversion and Management, 130, 141-155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2016.10.043

Most studies on the organic Rankine cycle (ORC) focused on parametric studies and selection working fluids to maximize the performance of organic Rankine cycle but without attention for turbine design features which are crucial to achieving them. The... Read More about Development of micro-scale axial and radial turbines for low-temperature heat source driven organic Rankine cycle.

Reciprocal sexual size dimorphism and Rensch’s rule in Toad-headed lizards (Phrynocephalus vlangalii) (2016)
Journal Article
Zhao, L., Chen, Y., Lou, S., Huang, Y., Jehle, R., & Liao, W. (2016). Reciprocal sexual size dimorphism and Rensch’s rule in Toad-headed lizards (Phrynocephalus vlangalii). Salamandra (Frankfurt), 52(3), 261-268

Rensch’s rule describes a pattern of allometry whereby sexual size dimorphism (SSD) increases with body size when males are the larger sex, and whereby SSD decreases with body size when females are larger in interspecific comparisons. In groups of re... Read More about Reciprocal sexual size dimorphism and Rensch’s rule in Toad-headed lizards (Phrynocephalus vlangalii).

A new energy-efficient clustering protocol for wireless sensor networks based on Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Nuaimi, R. (2016, October). A new energy-efficient clustering protocol for wireless sensor networks based on Network Function Virtualisation (NFV). Presented at 6th International Conference on Information Communication and Management (ICICM), UK

In wireless sensor networks, minimising energy consumption is the most important challenge that should be considered in their design. Routing consumes a considerable amount of energy in the communication to perform various functions such as clusterin... Read More about A new energy-efficient clustering protocol for wireless sensor networks based on Network Function Virtualisation (NFV).

Performance of grey level statistic features versus Gabor wavelet for screening MRI brain tumors : a comparative study (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Hasan, A., Meziane, F., & Jalab, H. (2016, October). Performance of grey level statistic features versus Gabor wavelet for screening MRI brain tumors : a comparative study. Presented at 6th International Conference on Information Communication and Management, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK

Medical imaging technologies have an important role in the care of all human’s organs and disease entities, where they are used widely for the effective diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of the disease. The MRI has been among the most important of... Read More about Performance of grey level statistic features versus Gabor wavelet for screening MRI brain tumors : a comparative study.