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Electrokinetic insect-bioinspired membrane pumping in a high aspect ratio bio-microfluidic system (2022)
Journal Article
Narla, V., Tripathi, D., Bhandari, D., & Beg, O. (2022). Electrokinetic insect-bioinspired membrane pumping in a high aspect ratio bio-microfluidic system. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 26(85), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10404-022-02588-2

Microscale flows utilizing stimulus-responsive working fluids are finding increasing applications in emerging areas in mechanical, biological and chemical engineering. Motivated by such applications, in the present article, an analytical study of t... Read More about Electrokinetic insect-bioinspired membrane pumping in a high aspect ratio bio-microfluidic system.

Earthship buildings: opinions on their contribution towards sustainable alternative housing in the UK (2022)
Journal Article
Booth, C. A., Horry, R., Isaac, C., Mahamadu, A., Manu, P., Awuah, K. G. B., …Prabhakaran, A. (2023). Earthship buildings: opinions on their contribution towards sustainable alternative housing in the UK. Proceedings of the ICE - Management, Procurement and Law, 176(4), 192-198. https://doi.org/10.1680/jmapl.22.00026

Earthship buildings are marketed as being an epitome of sustainable alternative housing. Built by reusing or repurposing mostly reclaimed urban waste products, their design includes the utilisation of low-embodied-energy materials, passive solar heat... Read More about Earthship buildings: opinions on their contribution towards sustainable alternative housing in the UK.

Building-as-a-service: theoretical foundations and conceptual framework (2022)
Journal Article
Wildenauer, A., Mbabu, A. M., Underwood, J., & Basl, J. (2022). Building-as-a-service: theoretical foundations and conceptual framework. Buildings, 12(10), https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12101594

The provision of data with information management are a significant challenge for the digital developing construction industry. The utilisation of data from a built asset’s planning, design, and construction phases to the operations phase core and to... Read More about Building-as-a-service: theoretical foundations and conceptual framework.

A bibliometric study of industry 4.0 in construction industry Using Oesterreich and Teuteberg (2016) as a key marker (2022)
Journal Article
Mansour, H., Aminudin, E., Mansour, T., Binti Zainal Abidin, N., & Roslan, A. F. B. (2022). A bibliometric study of industry 4.0 in construction industry Using Oesterreich and Teuteberg (2016) as a key marker. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 1067(1), https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1067/1/012056

This study examines how Industry 4.0 has been discussed in the construction industry and construction management (CM) research over the past four years using Oesterreich and Teuteberg’s (2016) article as a key marker. The techniques adopted in this p... Read More about A bibliometric study of industry 4.0 in construction industry Using Oesterreich and Teuteberg (2016) as a key marker.

Students as co-Researchers; POE of a Post-Pandemic Study Space (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Duran, O., & Zhao, J. (2022). Students as co-Researchers; POE of a Post-Pandemic Study Space.

This paper presents preliminary findings from a Post Occupancy Evaluation research of a BREEAM excellence-rated university building, to understand the experience of the students using university study spaces under a post-pandemic teaching and learnin... Read More about Students as co-Researchers; POE of a Post-Pandemic Study Space.

Co-flowering plants support diverse pollinator populations and facilitate pollinator visitation to sweet cherry crops (2022)
Journal Article
Gilpin, A., O'Brien, C., Kobel, C., E. Brettell, L., M. Cook, J., & A. Power, S. (2022). Co-flowering plants support diverse pollinator populations and facilitate pollinator visitation to sweet cherry crops. Basic and Applied Ecology, 63, 36-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2022.05.005

Many food crops depend on animal pollination to set fruit. In light of pollinator declines there is growing recognition of the need for agro-ecosystems that can sustain wild pollinator populations, ensuring fruit production and pollinator conservatio... Read More about Co-flowering plants support diverse pollinator populations and facilitate pollinator visitation to sweet cherry crops.

Role of nanoparticle size and shape in the design and characterisation of functional nanomaterials for applications in cancer nanotechnology (2022)
Thesis
applications in cancer nanotechnology. (Thesis). University of Salford

Gold nanoparticles are emerging novel theranostic agents with numerous applications as diagnostic and therapeutic tools owing to their unique optical properties and highly customisable surface chemistry, which allows for the careful design of perso... Read More about Role of nanoparticle size and shape in the design and characterisation of functional nanomaterials for applications in cancer nanotechnology.

Spectral relaxation computation of Maxwell fluid flow from a stretching surface with quadratic convection and non-Fourier heat flux using Lie symmetry transformations (2022)
Journal Article
Bhatti, M., Shahid, A., Sarris, I., & Beg, O. (2022). Spectral relaxation computation of Maxwell fluid flow from a stretching surface with quadratic convection and non-Fourier heat flux using Lie symmetry transformations. International Journal of Modern Physics B, https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217979223500820

A mathematical model for nonlinear quadratic convection with non-Fourier heat flux in coating boundary layer flow of a Maxwell viscoelastic fluid is presented. Nonlinear quadratic thermal radiation and heat source/sink effects are also considered.... Read More about Spectral relaxation computation of Maxwell fluid flow from a stretching surface with quadratic convection and non-Fourier heat flux using Lie symmetry transformations.

The Virtual Palaeosciences (ViPs) project: resources for online learning in or out of a pandemic (2022)
Journal Article
Hutchinson, S. M., Bacon, K. L., Bunting, M. J., & Hurrell, E. R. (2022). The Virtual Palaeosciences (ViPs) project: resources for online learning in or out of a pandemic. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 48(1), 133-143. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2022.2129599

The Virtual Palaeosciences (ViPs) project is a collaborative initiative bringing palaeoscientists together to locate, access and share online educational resources (OERs). It began as a response to the 2020 shift to online learning when the COVID-19... Read More about The Virtual Palaeosciences (ViPs) project: resources for online learning in or out of a pandemic.

Using population surveys and models to reassess the conservation status of an endemic Amazonian titi monkey in a deforestation hotspot (2022)
Journal Article
Silva, F. E., Pacca, L. G., Lemos, L. P., Gusmão, A. C., da Silva, O. D., Dalponte, J. C., …El Bizri, H. R. (2022). Using population surveys and models to reassess the conservation status of an endemic Amazonian titi monkey in a deforestation hotspot. Oryx, 56(6), 846-853. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0030605322000655

Assessing the conservation status of species is essential for implementing appropriate conservation measures. A lack of evidence of threats, rather than showing an absence of impacts, could reflect a lack of studies on how human activities could resu... Read More about Using population surveys and models to reassess the conservation status of an endemic Amazonian titi monkey in a deforestation hotspot.

A novel drone-station matching model in smart cities based on strict preferences (2022)
Journal Article
Nath, D., Bandyopadhyay, A., Rana, A., Gaber, T., & Hassanien, A. (2022). A novel drone-station matching model in smart cities based on strict preferences. Unmanned Systems, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1142/s2301385023500115

There has been a considerable increase in the use of drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), in recent times, for a wide variety of purposes such as security, surveillance, delivery, search and rescue operations, penetration of inaccessible or un... Read More about A novel drone-station matching model in smart cities based on strict preferences.

Exploring waste tyres problems and sustainable waste management in the Tunisian context (2022)
Journal Article
Abuzukhar, M., Hardman, M., & Clark, A. (2022). Exploring waste tyres problems and sustainable waste management in the Tunisian context. Current journal of applied science and technology, 41(35), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.9734/cjast/2022/v41i353956

Waste tyres represent one of the environmentally damaging fractions of the solid waste stream in Tunisia, where the problem of inefficient waste tyre management is endemic. This is easily identified by the piles of accumulating tyre waste located on... Read More about Exploring waste tyres problems and sustainable waste management in the Tunisian context.

Reducing Energy Consumption and Improving Comfort by Retrofitting Residential Buildings in the Hot Summer and Cold Winter Zone of China (2022)
Journal Article
Tsang, C., Spentzou, E., J. Lomas, K., & He, M. (2022). Reducing Energy Consumption and Improving Comfort by Retrofitting Residential Buildings in the Hot Summer and Cold Winter Zone of China. Journal of Architectural Engineering, 28(4), https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29AE.1943-5568.0000568

China’s Hot Summer and Cold Winter zone, with a 550 million population, accounts for 45% of China’s building energy consumption; as such, building retrofits could offer substantial energy savings. This paper presents results from a dynamic thermal mo... Read More about Reducing Energy Consumption and Improving Comfort by Retrofitting Residential Buildings in the Hot Summer and Cold Winter Zone of China.

Swirling bioconvective nanofluid flow from a spinning stretchable disk in a permeable medium (2022)
Journal Article
Umavathi, J. C., Beg, O., Beg, T., & Kadir, A. (2023). Swirling bioconvective nanofluid flow from a spinning stretchable disk in a permeable medium. International Journal of Modelling and Simulation, 43(5), 764-796. https://doi.org/10.1080/02286203.2022.2122928

Medical engineering is increasingly deploying nanotechnology and bio-inspired designs in the 21st century. Motivated by studying the spin coating of bio-nanofluid materials, gyrotactic bioconvection nanofluid swirling coating flow from a spinning d... Read More about Swirling bioconvective nanofluid flow from a spinning stretchable disk in a permeable medium.

Machine learning-based optimized link state routing protocol for D2D communication in 5G/B5G (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Bunu, S., Saraee, M., & Alani, O. (2022, September). Machine learning-based optimized link state routing protocol for D2D communication in 5G/B5G. Presented at The 4th International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Informatics (ICELTICs) 2022, Banda Aceh, Indonesia

Device to Device (D2D) communication in Fifth Generation (5G) and unavoidable in Beyond Fifth Generation (B5G) technology is designed to increase network capacity by offloading backhaul links and base stations traffic and improving the performanc... Read More about Machine learning-based optimized link state routing protocol for D2D communication in 5G/B5G.

A 'Surface-based' Geometrical Acoustic formulation within a Galerkin Boundary Element framework (2022)
Thesis
Emthyas, A. A 'Surface-based' Geometrical Acoustic formulation within a Galerkin Boundary Element framework. (Dissertation). University of Salford

As sound propagates within a room, it experiences high-order reflection, diffraction, and scattering. This causes the reflection density to increase over time, such that the sound field becomes diffuse and chaotic. Under these conditions, there is li... Read More about A 'Surface-based' Geometrical Acoustic formulation within a Galerkin Boundary Element framework.

Edge effects and vertical stratification of aerial insectivorous bats across the interface of primary-secondary Amazonian rainforest (2022)
Journal Article
Yoh, N., Clarke, J., López-Baucells, A., Mas, M., Bobrowiec, P., Rocha, R., & Meyer, C. (2022). Edge effects and vertical stratification of aerial insectivorous bats across the interface of primary-secondary Amazonian rainforest. PLoS ONE, 17(9), e0274637. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274637

Edge effects, abiotic and biotic changes associated with habitat boundaries, are key drivers of community change in fragmented landscapes. Their influence is heavily modulated by matrix composition. With over half of the world’s tropical forests pred... Read More about Edge effects and vertical stratification of aerial insectivorous bats across the interface of primary-secondary Amazonian rainforest.

Local and landscape scale effects of fragmentation on aerial insectivorous bats in the Amazon (2022)
Thesis
Rowley, S. Local and landscape scale effects of fragmentation on aerial insectivorous bats in the Amazon. (Dissertation). The University of Salford

Deforestation is the main driver of the biodiversity crisis. Resulting landscapes are left fragmented with isolated remnant forest patches embedded in a human-modified matrix which has the propensity to regenerate into successional forest. The Biolog... Read More about Local and landscape scale effects of fragmentation on aerial insectivorous bats in the Amazon.

Vertical and Horizontal Transmission of Cell Fusing Agent Virus in Aedes aegypti (2022)
Journal Article
Logan, R. A. E., Quek, S., Muthoni, J. N., von Eicken, A., Brettell, L. E., Anderson, E. R., …Patterson, E. I. (2022). Vertical and Horizontal Transmission of Cell Fusing Agent Virus in Aedes aegypti. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 88(18), https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.01062-22

Cell fusing agent virus (CFAV) is an insect-specific flavivirus (ISF) found in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. ISFs have demonstrated the ability to modulate the infection or transmission of arboviruses such as dengue, West Nile, and Zika viruses. It is th... Read More about Vertical and Horizontal Transmission of Cell Fusing Agent Virus in Aedes aegypti.