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Millimetre wave frequency band as a candidate spectrum for 5G network architecture : a survey (2018)
Journal Article
Al-Falahy, N., & Alani, O. (2019). Millimetre wave frequency band as a candidate spectrum for 5G network architecture : a survey. Physical Communication, 32(Feb 19), 120-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phycom.2018.11.003

In order to meet the huge growth in global mobile data traffic in 2020 and beyond, the development of the 5th Generation (5G) system is required as the current 4G system is expected to fall short of the provision needed for such growth. 5G is anticip... Read More about Millimetre wave frequency band as a candidate spectrum for 5G network architecture : a survey.

Gut microbiome composition is associated with spatial structuring and social interactions in semi-feral Welsh mountain ponies (2018)
Journal Article
Antwis, R., Lea, J., Unwin, B., & Shultz, S. (2018). Gut microbiome composition is associated with spatial structuring and social interactions in semi-feral Welsh mountain ponies. Microbiome, 6(207), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-018-0593-2

Background: Microbiome composition is linked to host functional traits including metabolism and immune function. Drivers of microbiome composition are increasingly well-characterised; however, evidence of group-level microbiome convergence is limited... Read More about Gut microbiome composition is associated with spatial structuring and social interactions in semi-feral Welsh mountain ponies.

Stronger together : combining automated classifiers with manual post-validation optimizes the workload vs reliability trade-off of species identification in bat acoustic surveys (2018)
Journal Article
López-Baucells, A., Torrent, L., Rocha, R., Bobrowiec, P., Palmeirim, J., & Meyer, C. (2018). Stronger together : combining automated classifiers with manual post-validation optimizes the workload vs reliability trade-off of species identification in bat acoustic surveys. Ecological Informatics, 49(Jan 19), 45-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2018.11.004

Owing to major technological advances, bioacoustics has become a burgeoning field in ecological research worldwide. Autonomous passive acoustic recorders are becoming widely used to monitor aerial insectivorous bats, and automatic classifiers have... Read More about Stronger together : combining automated classifiers with manual post-validation optimizes the workload vs reliability trade-off of species identification in bat acoustic surveys.

The use of columns of the zeolite clinoptilolite in the remediation of aqueous nuclear waste streams (2018)
Journal Article
Dyer, A., Hriljac, J., Evans, N., Stokes, I., Rand, P., Kellet, S., …Bryan, N. (2018). The use of columns of the zeolite clinoptilolite in the remediation of aqueous nuclear waste streams. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 318(3), 2473-2491. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-018-6329-8

Mud Hills clinoptilolite has been used in an effluent treatment plant (SIXEP) at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site. This material has been used to remove 134/137Cs and 90Sr successfully from effluents for 3 decades. Samples of the zeolite have... Read More about The use of columns of the zeolite clinoptilolite in the remediation of aqueous nuclear waste streams.

Effects of gravity on flow behaviour of supercritical CO2 during enhanced gas recovery and sequestration (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Abba, M., Abbas, A., Saidu, B., Nasr, G., & Al-Otaibi, A. (2018, November). Effects of gravity on flow behaviour of supercritical CO2 during enhanced gas recovery and sequestration. Poster presented at Fifth CO2 Geological Storage Workshop, Utrecht, The Netherlands

A core flooding experiment was carried out to simulate an Enhanced Gas Recovery (EGR) process to inject supercritical Carbon Dioxide (SCO2) into a core sample saturated with methane (CH4). This was done to investigate the flow behaviour of the inject... Read More about Effects of gravity on flow behaviour of supercritical CO2 during enhanced gas recovery and sequestration.

Broadband characterisation of in-duct acoustic sources using an equivalent source approach (2018)
Journal Article
Meggitt, J., Elliott, A., Moorhouse, A., Banwell, G., Hopper, H., & Lamb, J. (2019). Broadband characterisation of in-duct acoustic sources using an equivalent source approach. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 442(Mar 19), 800-816. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2018.10.041

This paper is concerned with the development of an experimental method capable of independently characterising low Mach number, in-duct fluid machines, such as pumps, fans, etc. The aim is to propose and test a source characterisation method that is... Read More about Broadband characterisation of in-duct acoustic sources using an equivalent source approach.

Urban land-use dynamics in the Niger Delta : the case of Greater Port Harcourt watershed (2018)
Journal Article
Dan-Jumbo, N., Metzger, M., & Clark, A. (2018). Urban land-use dynamics in the Niger Delta : the case of Greater Port Harcourt watershed. Urban Science, 2(4), 108. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci2040108

Cities in developing countries are urbanising at a rapid rate, resulting in substantial pressures on environmental systems. Among the main factors that lead to flooding, controlling land-use change offers the greatest scope for the management of risk... Read More about Urban land-use dynamics in the Niger Delta : the case of Greater Port Harcourt watershed.

A vast 4000-year-old spatial pattern of termite mounds (2018)
Journal Article
Martin, S., Funch, R., Hanson, P., & Yoo, E. (2018). A vast 4000-year-old spatial pattern of termite mounds. Current Biology, 28(22), R1292-R1293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.09.061

The origins of many large-scale ‘biogenic’ earthen structures are controversial, because often the species that built them have vanished. This is especially true when they form regular (over-dispersed), self-organized vegetation patterns [1]. Here, w... Read More about A vast 4000-year-old spatial pattern of termite mounds.

Putting context to numbers : a geotechnical risk trajectory to cost overrun extremism (2018)
Journal Article
Amadi, A., & Higham, A. (2019). Putting context to numbers : a geotechnical risk trajectory to cost overrun extremism. Construction Management and Economics, 37(4), 217-237. https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2018.1513656

The study investigates the cause of the unusually high cost overruns experienced in highway project delivery in the tropical wetland setting of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. This is in view of the extensive literature supporting the link betw... Read More about Putting context to numbers : a geotechnical risk trajectory to cost overrun extremism.

Quantifying and contextualising cyclone-driven, extreme flood magnitudes in bedrock-influenced dryland rivers (2018)
Journal Article
Heritage, G., Entwistle, N., Milan, D., & Tooth, S. (2018). Quantifying and contextualising cyclone-driven, extreme flood magnitudes in bedrock-influenced dryland rivers. Advances in water resources, 123(Jan 19), 145-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2018.11.006

In many drylands worldwide, rivers are subjected to episodic, extreme flood events and associated sediment stripping. These events may trigger transformations from mixed bedrock-alluvial channels characterised by high geomorphic and ecological divers... Read More about Quantifying and contextualising cyclone-driven, extreme flood magnitudes in bedrock-influenced dryland rivers.

Critical success factors for Kaizen implementation in the Nigerian construction industry (2018)
Journal Article
Omotayo, T., Kulatunga, U., & Bjeirmi, B. (2018). Critical success factors for Kaizen implementation in the Nigerian construction industry. International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, 67(9), 1816-1836. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijppm-11-2017-0296

Purpose: Kaizen in construction is a new paradigm stemming out of lean production systems. Construction companies in developing economies, such as Nigeria, have a task to innovate to liquidate in certain cases. With the aid of kaizen, which encompass... Read More about Critical success factors for Kaizen implementation in the Nigerian construction industry.

Learning causality for Arabic - proclitics (2018)
Journal Article
Sadek, J., & Meziane, F. (2018). Learning causality for Arabic - proclitics. Procedia Computer Science, 142, 141-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2018.10.469

The use of prefixed particles is a prevalent linguistic form to express causation in Arabic Language. However, such particles are complicated and highly ambiguous as they imply different meanings according to their position in the text. This ambiguit... Read More about Learning causality for Arabic - proclitics.

Low cost triazatruxene hole transporting material for >20% efficiency perovskite solar cells (2018)
Journal Article
Connell, A., Zhiping, W., Lin, Y., Greenwood, P., Wiles, A., Jones, E., …Holliman, P. (2019). Low cost triazatruxene hole transporting material for >20% efficiency perovskite solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 7(18), 5235-5243. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8tc04231d

Organic hole-transporting materials (HTM) have shown excellent ability in achieving high efficiency perovskite solar cells. However, their high cost significantly limits their applications in scaling-up perovskite solar cells. Here, we report an ef... Read More about Low cost triazatruxene hole transporting material for >20% efficiency perovskite solar cells.

Azithromycin and Roxithromycin define a new family of “senolytic” drugs that target senescent human fibroblasts (2018)
Journal Article
Ozsvari, B., Nuttall, J., Sotgia, F., & Lisanti, M. (2018). Azithromycin and Roxithromycin define a new family of “senolytic” drugs that target senescent human fibroblasts. Aging, 10(11), 3294-3307. https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.101633

Here, we employed a “senolytic” assay system as a screening tool, with the goal of identifying and repurposing FDA-approved antibiotics, for the targeting of the senescent cell population. Briefly, we used two established human fibroblast cell lines... Read More about Azithromycin and Roxithromycin define a new family of “senolytic” drugs that target senescent human fibroblasts.

An evolutionary modelling approach to predicting stress-strain behaviour of saturated granular soils (2018)
Journal Article
Ahangar Asr, A., Faramarzi, A., & Javadi, A. (2018). An evolutionary modelling approach to predicting stress-strain behaviour of saturated granular soils. Engineering Computations, 35(8), 2931-2952. https://doi.org/10.1108/EC-01-2018-0025

Purpose: To develop a unified framework for modelling triaxial deviator stress - axial strain and volumetric strain – axial strain behaviour of granular soils with the ability to predict the entire stress paths, incrementally, point by point, in de... Read More about An evolutionary modelling approach to predicting stress-strain behaviour of saturated granular soils.

Application of differential transform method to unsteady free convective heat transfer of a couple stress fluid over a stretching sheet (2018)
Journal Article
Kumar, M., Reddy, G., Kumar, N., & Beg, O. (2018). Application of differential transform method to unsteady free convective heat transfer of a couple stress fluid over a stretching sheet. Heat Transfer - Asian Research, 48(2), 582-600. https://doi.org/10.1002/htj.21396

In the present article, the transient rheological boundary layer flow over a stretching sheet with heat transfer is investigated, a topic of relevance to non-Newtonian thermal materials processing. Stokes couple stress model is deployed to simulate... Read More about Application of differential transform method to unsteady free convective heat transfer of a couple stress fluid over a stretching sheet.

Novel design and position control strategy of a soft robot arm (2018)
Journal Article
Al-Ibadi, A., Nefti-Meziani, S., Davis, S., & Theodoridis, T. (2018). Novel design and position control strategy of a soft robot arm. Robotics, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics7040072

This article presents a novel design of a continuum arm, which has the ability to extend and bend efficiently. Numerous designs and experiments have been done to different dimensions on both types of McKibben pneumatic muscle actuators (PMA) in order... Read More about Novel design and position control strategy of a soft robot arm.

Individual consumption of supplemental food as a predictor of reproductive performance and viral infection intensity (2018)
Journal Article
Tollington, S., Ewen, J., Newton, J., McGill, R., Smith, D., Henshaw, A., …Groombridge, J. (2018). Individual consumption of supplemental food as a predictor of reproductive performance and viral infection intensity. Journal of Applied Ecology, 56(3), 594-603. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13303

Supplemental food is often provided to threatened species in order to maintain or enhance reproductive fitness and thus population growth. However, its impact on individual reproductive fitness is rarely evaluated, despite being associated with bot... Read More about Individual consumption of supplemental food as a predictor of reproductive performance and viral infection intensity.