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An Advanced Refurbishment Evaluation Methodology for Modernist Office Buildings (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Duran, O., & Lomas, K. J. (2021). An Advanced Refurbishment Evaluation Methodology for Modernist Office Buildings.

The energy used in non-domestic buildings accounts for 18 \% of the energy use in the UK. Modernist office buildings, typically defined as those built between 1945 and 1985, represent a promising sector for refurbishment and energy demand reduction.... Read More about An Advanced Refurbishment Evaluation Methodology for Modernist Office Buildings.

Ensemble Deep Learning for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Mohammadi, A., & Shaverizade, A. (2021). Ensemble Deep Learning for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis. #Journal not on list, 12, 29-38. https://doi.org/10.22075/ijnaa.2021.4769

Sentiment analysis is a subfield of Natural Language Processing (NLP) which tries to process a text to extract opinions or attitudes towards topics or entities. Recently, the use of deep learning methods for sentiment analysis has received noticeable... Read More about Ensemble Deep Learning for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis.

Thermographic detection of hidden archaeological features in a Cheshire thatched cottage, and related aspects of thermal performance : case study at Roadside Cottage (2021)
Journal Article
Simpson, A., & Nevell, M. (2021). Thermographic detection of hidden archaeological features in a Cheshire thatched cottage, and related aspects of thermal performance : case study at Roadside Cottage. Historic Environment: Policy and Practice, 13(2), 196-215. https://doi.org/10.1080/17567505.2022.2010924

Thermography can be an important tool for professionals working with traditional buildings. It is recognised by Historic England as providing information on a variety of structural features within buildings. Infrared thermography (IRT) is an acknowle... Read More about Thermographic detection of hidden archaeological features in a Cheshire thatched cottage, and related aspects of thermal performance : case study at Roadside Cottage.

Design and analysis of a six-wheeled companion robot with mechanical obstacle-overcoming adaptivity (2021)
Journal Article
Song, Z., Luo, Z., Wei, G., & Shang, J. (2021). Design and analysis of a six-wheeled companion robot with mechanical obstacle-overcoming adaptivity. Mechanical Sciences, 12(2), 1115-1136. https://doi.org/10.5194/ms-12-1115-2021

A six-wheeled companion exploration robot with an adaptive climbing mechanism is proposed and released for the complicated terrain environment of planetary exploration. Benefiting from its three-rocker-arm structure, the robot can adapt to complex... Read More about Design and analysis of a six-wheeled companion robot with mechanical obstacle-overcoming adaptivity.

Tailored methods for mapping urban heat islands in Greater Cairo Region (2021)
Journal Article
Elmarakby, E., Khalifa, M., Elsahter, A., & Afifi, S. (2021). Tailored methods for mapping urban heat islands in Greater Cairo Region. Ain Shams Engineering Journal ASEJ / Ain Shams University, 13(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asej.2021.06.030

Globally, there is a rapid development of urban heat island (UHI) detection tools, and their results can be accepted regardless of their accuracy in measuring the real impact of the phenomenon. In this study, we investigated various UHI measuring too... Read More about Tailored methods for mapping urban heat islands in Greater Cairo Region.

Why big brains? A comparison of models for both primate and carnivore brain size evolution (2021)
Journal Article
Chambers, H., Heldstab, S., & O'Hara, S. (2021). Why big brains? A comparison of models for both primate and carnivore brain size evolution. PLoS ONE, 16(12), e0261185. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261185

Despite decades of research, much uncertainty remains regarding the selection pressures responsible for brain size variation. Whilst the influential social brain hypothesis once garnered extensive support, more recent studies have failed to find supp... Read More about Why big brains? A comparison of models for both primate and carnivore brain size evolution.

Evaluation of Sentinel-3A and Sentinel-3B ocean land colour instrument green instantaneous fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (2021)
Journal Article
Gobron, N., Morgan, O., Adams, J., Brown, L., Cappucci, F., Dash, J., …Marioni, M. (2021). Evaluation of Sentinel-3A and Sentinel-3B ocean land colour instrument green instantaneous fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation. Remote Sensing of Environment, 270, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112850

This article presents the evaluation of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 Ocean Land Colour Instrument (OLCI) operational terrestrial products corresponding to the green instantaneous Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR) and its a... Read More about Evaluation of Sentinel-3A and Sentinel-3B ocean land colour instrument green instantaneous fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation.

Manchester Ship Canal : back to the future for disused European waterways (2021)
Book
Elkadi, H., & Biscaya, S. (2021). H. Elkadi, & S. Biscaya (Eds.), Manchester Ship Canal : back to the future for disused European waterways. Karlsruhe: KIT Scientific Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5445/KSP/1000129076

This book investigates how urban/rural patterns provide differing conditions for living and working. The project is to read and analyse these urban/rural settlement structures and provide insight into the patterns of living and working that have form... Read More about Manchester Ship Canal : back to the future for disused European waterways.

Deletion of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (gapN) in Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum N1-4(HMT) using CLEAVE™ increases the ATP pool and accelerates solvent production (2021)
Journal Article
Monahan, T., Baker, J. A., Krabben, P., Davies, E. T., Jenkinson, E. R., Goodhead, I. B., …Shepherd, M. (2021). Deletion of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (gapN) in Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum N1-4(HMT) using CLEAVE™ increases the ATP pool and accelerates solvent production. Microbial Biotechnology, 15(5), 1574-1585. https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.13990

SummaryThe development and advent of mutagenesis tools for solventogenic clostridial species in recent years has allowed for the increased refinement of industrially relevant strains. In this study we have utilised CLEAVE™, a CRISPR/Cas genome editin... Read More about Deletion of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (gapN) in Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum N1-4(HMT) using CLEAVE™ increases the ATP pool and accelerates solvent production.

Species identification and phylogenetic analysis of Leishmania isolated from patients, vectors and hares in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, The People's Republic of China (2021)
Journal Article
Chen, Y., Liao, L., Wu, N., Gao, J., Zhang, P., Wen, Y., …Lun, Z. (2021). Species identification and phylogenetic analysis of Leishmania isolated from patients, vectors and hares in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, The People's Republic of China. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 15(12), e0010055. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010055

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) has been declared as one of the six major tropical diseases by the World Health Organization. This disease has been successfully controlled in China, except for some areas in the western region, such as the Xinjiang Autono... Read More about Species identification and phylogenetic analysis of Leishmania isolated from patients, vectors and hares in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, The People's Republic of China.

Dynamics at polarized, carbon dioxide-iron oxyhydroxide interfaces unveil the origin of multicarbon product formation (2021)
Journal Article
Arrigo, R., Blume, R., Streibel, V., Genovese, C., Roldan, A., Schuster, M., …Centi, G. (2022). Dynamics at polarized, carbon dioxide-iron oxyhydroxide interfaces unveil the origin of multicarbon product formation. ACS catalysis, 12(1), 411-430. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.1c04296

Surface-sensitive ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and near edge X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy combined with an electrocatalytic reactivity study, multilength scale electron microscopy and theo-retical modelling provid... Read More about Dynamics at polarized, carbon dioxide-iron oxyhydroxide interfaces unveil the origin of multicarbon product formation.

Aero-acoustic turbulent computational fluid dynamics simulation of a generic automobile with multiple broadband source models (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Beg, O., Beg, T., Kitende, M., Kuharat, S., Kadir, A., Vasu, B., …Jouri, W. (2021, December). Aero-acoustic turbulent computational fluid dynamics simulation of a generic automobile with multiple broadband source models. Presented at ICMEAMT 2021: 15th International Conference on Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mechanics and Technology, Cairo, Egypt

Various transport engineering systems face numerous challenges to contain the excessive excitations due to aeroacoustics. The regulation of noise, stability and passenger comfort are some of the key parameters that are critical for optimi... Read More about Aero-acoustic turbulent computational fluid dynamics simulation of a generic automobile with multiple broadband source models.

Two-way fluid-structure interaction hydroelastic simulation of vibrating membranes with applications in marine engineering using ANSYS fluent FSI (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Beg, O., Beg, T., Pattison, J., Inam, O., Kuharat, S., Kadir, A., & Jouri, W. (2021, December). Two-way fluid-structure interaction hydroelastic simulation of vibrating membranes with applications in marine engineering using ANSYS fluent FSI. Presented at ICMEAMT 2021: 15th International Conference on Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mechanics and Technology, Cairo, Egypt

Modern ocean engineering is developing quickly and floating cities, new energy harvesting methods and novel marine systemsare unfolding in the 21stcentury. The intelligent design of many such systems is exploiting “compliant” structures w... Read More about Two-way fluid-structure interaction hydroelastic simulation of vibrating membranes with applications in marine engineering using ANSYS fluent FSI.

Influence of iron filing waste on the performance of warm mix asphalt (2021)
Journal Article
Wang, Y., Latief, R., Al‐Mosawe, H., Mohammad, H., Albayati, A., & Haynes, B. (2021). Influence of iron filing waste on the performance of warm mix asphalt. Sustainability, 13(24), 13828. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132413828

Recently, interest in the use of projectiles in research on recycling waste materials for construction applications has grown. Using recycled materials for the construction of asphalt concrete pavement, in the meantime, has become a topic of research... Read More about Influence of iron filing waste on the performance of warm mix asphalt.

Comparative analysis of gene prediction tools for viral genome annotation (2021)
Journal Article
Gonzalez-Tortuero, E., Krishnamurthi, R., Allison, H., Goodhead, I., & James, C. Comparative analysis of gene prediction tools for viral genome annotation. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.12.11.472104. Manuscript submitted for publication

The number of newly available viral genomes and metagenomes has increased exponentially since the development of high throughput sequencing platforms and genome analysis tools. Bioinformatic annotation pipelines are largely based on open reading fram... Read More about Comparative analysis of gene prediction tools for viral genome annotation.

Radiative bioconvection nanofluid squeezing flow between rotating circular plates : semi-numerical study with the DTM-Padé approach (2021)
Journal Article
Zeeshan, A., Arain, M., Bhatti, M., Alzahrani, F., & Beg, O. (2022). Radiative bioconvection nanofluid squeezing flow between rotating circular plates : semi-numerical study with the DTM-Padé approach. Modern Physics Letters B, 36(03), 2150552. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217984921505527

Modern biomedical and tribological systems are increasingly deploying combinations of nanofluids and bioconvecting micro-organisms which enable improved control of thermal management. Motivated by these developments, in this study a new mathematica... Read More about Radiative bioconvection nanofluid squeezing flow between rotating circular plates : semi-numerical study with the DTM-Padé approach.

Computation of reactive mixed convection radiative viscoelastic nanofluid thermo-solutal transport from a stretching sheet with Joule heating (2021)
Journal Article
Shamshuddin, M., Salawu, S., Beg, O., Kadir, A., & Beg, T. (2021). Computation of reactive mixed convection radiative viscoelastic nanofluid thermo-solutal transport from a stretching sheet with Joule heating. International Journal of Modelling and Simulation, 42(6), 1005-1029. https://doi.org/10.1080/02286203.2021.2012635

As a model for electroconductive nanomaterials processing, the present article examines incompressible mixed convection nanofluid flow with convective heat transport from a stretching sheet under the impact of Joule heating and radiative heat flux.... Read More about Computation of reactive mixed convection radiative viscoelastic nanofluid thermo-solutal transport from a stretching sheet with Joule heating.

Complement C5a and clinical markers as predictors of COVID-19 disease severity and mortality in a multi-ethnic population (2021)
Journal Article
Cyprian, F., Suleman, M., Abdelhafez, I., Doudin, A., Masud Danjuma, I., Mir, F., …Girardi, G. (2021). Complement C5a and clinical markers as predictors of COVID-19 disease severity and mortality in a multi-ethnic population. Frontiers in Immunology, 12, 707159. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2021.707159

Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) was declared as a pandemic by WHO in March 2020. SARS-CoV-2 causes a wide range of illness from asymptomatic to life-threatening. There is an essential need to identify biomarkers to predict disease severity and mo... Read More about Complement C5a and clinical markers as predictors of COVID-19 disease severity and mortality in a multi-ethnic population.