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A survey of environmental performance enhancement strategies and building data capturing techniques in the Nigerian context (2023)
Journal Article
Nigerian context. Buildings, 13(2), 452. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13020452

Abstract: The need to improve the performance of Nigeria’s office buildings is due to, energy challenges, increasing population, changing user needs, and climate change. With the expansion of
several Nigerian cities, existing buildings constitute a... Read More about A survey of environmental performance enhancement strategies and building data capturing techniques in the Nigerian context.

Investigating the potential of human brain tissue and patient fibroblast derived small extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer's disease research (2023)
Thesis

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia. Alzheimer’s disease is a
progressive and irreversible neurodegenerative disease leading on to a decline in cognitive
function causing language, memory and behavioural impairment. The two fam... Read More about Investigating the potential of human brain tissue and patient fibroblast derived small extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer's disease research.

Tldsmi: Genetic Algorithm Based Network for Text Localization in Distorted Social Media Images (2023)
Working Paper
Palaiahnakote, S., Pavan Kumar, C., Aggarwal, P., Sharma, S., Chandana, P., Basavanna, M., & Pal, U. Tldsmi: Genetic Algorithm Based Network for Text Localization in Distorted Social Media Images

This paper presents a novel model for understanding social image content through text localization. For text localization, we explore Maximally Stable Extremal Regions (MSER) for detecting components, that works by clustering pixels having similar pr... Read More about Tldsmi: Genetic Algorithm Based Network for Text Localization in Distorted Social Media Images.

Aspects of microbial communities in peatland carbon cycling under changing climate and land use pressures (2023)
Journal Article

Globally, major efforts are being made to restore peatlands to maximise their resilience to anthropogenic climate change, which puts continuous pressure on peatland ecosystems and modifies the geography of the environmental envelope that underpins pe... Read More about Aspects of microbial communities in peatland carbon cycling under changing climate and land use pressures.

Assessment of Drone Noise Within Urban Soundscapes (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Drones have the potential to be implemented in the infrastructure of metropolitan areas to provide services to the public such as delivery, maintenance, and even blue light services. The scope for drone capability is large, but this comes with the ri... Read More about Assessment of Drone Noise Within Urban Soundscapes.

Can acoustic design accommodate aural diversity? (2023)
Journal Article

Up to now, the acoustic design of almost everything has assumed a typical listener with "normal" hearing. This includes the physical environment (homes, workplaces, public space), products that make sound (transport, appliances, loudspeakers), and sy... Read More about Can acoustic design accommodate aural diversity?.

Good practice guidelines for long-term ecoacoustic monitoring in the UK (2023)
Report

The popularity of ecoacoustics as an innovative environmental discipline has enjoyed immense
growth within the last five years, to a point where it is now becoming difficult to keep up with
all the new research papers published. What soon becomes a... Read More about Good practice guidelines for long-term ecoacoustic monitoring in the UK.

A comparison between the high-frequency Boundary Element Method and Surface-Based Geometrical Acoustics (2023)
Journal Article
Hargreaves, J. (2023). A comparison between the high-frequency Boundary Element Method and Surface-Based Geometrical Acoustics. https://doi.org/10.3397/in_2022_1005

The audible frequency range covers many octaves in which the wavelength changes from being large with respect to dominant features of a space to being comparatively much smaller. This makes numerical prediction of a space's acoustic response, e.g. fo... Read More about A comparison between the high-frequency Boundary Element Method and Surface-Based Geometrical Acoustics.

Evaluation of the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership Green Social Prescribing Funding Programme (2023)
Report
Kenyon, A., Coventry, P., White, P., Montasem, A., Phukan, S., & Ozols-Riding, J. (2023). Evaluation of the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership Green Social Prescribing Funding Programme

A growing body of evidence shows health, wellbeing and ecosystem benefits of investment in Green Social Prescribing. West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership funded nine Green Social Prescribing pilot projects, with the aim of supporting and improv... Read More about Evaluation of the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership Green Social Prescribing Funding Programme.

Optimized and efficient image-based IoT malware detection method (2023)
Journal Article
El-Ghamry, A., Gaber, T., Mohammed, K., & Hassanien, A. (2023). Optimized and efficient image-based IoT malware detection method. Electronics, 12(3), 708. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12030708

With the widespread use of IoT applications, malware has become a difficult and sophisticated threat. Without robust security measures, a massive volume of confidential and classified data could be exposed to vulnerabilities through which hackers cou... Read More about Optimized and efficient image-based IoT malware detection method.

Transient solute dispersion in electro‐osmotic viscoplastic flow in a microchannel (2023)
Journal Article
Beg, O., Roy, A. K., & Debnath, S. (2023). Transient solute dispersion in electro‐osmotic viscoplastic flow in a microchannel. ZAMM, 103(6), https://doi.org/10.1002/zamm.202200260

The transport of a neutral solute in incompressible electro-osmotic flow of Bingham plastic
non-Newtonian liquid flowing through a microchannel is studied theoretically. The flow is driven by a
constant axially applied electric field. The non-dimen... Read More about Transient solute dispersion in electro‐osmotic viscoplastic flow in a microchannel.

Comparison of predictions of daily evapotranspiration based on climate variables using different data mining and empirical methods in various climates of Iran (2023)
Journal Article
Sharafi, S., Ghaleni, M., & Scholz, M. (2023). Comparison of predictions of daily evapotranspiration based on climate variables using different data mining and empirical methods in various climates of Iran. Heliyon, 9(2), e13245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e13245

To accurately manage water resources, a precise prediction of reference evapotranspiration (ETref) is necessary. The best empirical equations to determine ETref are usually the temperature-based Baier and Robertson (BARO), the radiation-based Jensen... Read More about Comparison of predictions of daily evapotranspiration based on climate variables using different data mining and empirical methods in various climates of Iran.

Enhancing employability through building graduate capital: a multi-faceted approach (2023)
Report
capital: a multi-faceted approach

The University of Salford is home to a diverse community of learners, a high proportion of whom are
from underprivileged socioeconomic backgrounds and/or underrepresented communities and many
are commuters. A significant proportion of the cohort ga... Read More about Enhancing employability through building graduate capital: a multi-faceted approach.

Post-Medieval Resource Assessment and Agenda (2023)
Book Chapter
Miller, I. (2023). Post-Medieval Resource Assessment and Agenda. In The Historic Environment of North West England: A Resource Assessment and Research Framework (169-200). University of Salford

The Barriers and Facilitators to Decentralised Nurse-Led Mental Health Service Delivery in Sierra Leone (2023)
Journal Article
Hopwood, H., Harris, D., Sevalie, S., Iyawa, G., Langan Martin, J., & Martin, J. (2023). The Barriers and Facilitators to Decentralised Nurse-Led Mental Health Service Delivery in Sierra Leone. Community Mental Health Journal, 59(6), 1071-1082. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-023-01087-0

In 2009, 98.0% of people with mental illness in Sierra Leone were not receiving treatment, partly due to the absence of public psychiatric facilities outside the capital. In response to this situation, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation rolled out... Read More about The Barriers and Facilitators to Decentralised Nurse-Led Mental Health Service Delivery in Sierra Leone.

Theorizing “Place” in Aging in Place: The Need for Territorial and Relational Perspectives (2023)
Journal Article
Yarker, S., Doran, P., & Buffel, T. (2024). Theorizing “Place” in Aging in Place: The Need for Territorial and Relational Perspectives. Gerontologist, 64(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnad002

This paper argues for a greater theorization of “place” within aging-in-place research. It extends calls for a relational conceptualization of place by demonstrating the need for aging-in-place researchers to also pay greater attention to territorial... Read More about Theorizing “Place” in Aging in Place: The Need for Territorial and Relational Perspectives.

A gauge modification-based railway out-of-gauge freight transportation route decision-making methodology (2023)
Journal Article
Zhang, Y., Liu, J., An, M., & Wang, J. (2023). A gauge modification-based railway out-of-gauge freight transportation route decision-making methodology. Alexandria engineering journal : AEJ, 68, 181-195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aej.2023.01.009

The loading outline of railway out-of-gauge freight (ROF) is beyond the railway gauge due to its larger size. The choice of a safe and economical transportation route according to the characteristics of the freights in the railway network becomes an... Read More about A gauge modification-based railway out-of-gauge freight transportation route decision-making methodology.

Acoustic monitoring of black-tufted marmosets in a tropical forest disturbed by mining noise (2023)
Journal Article
Bittencourt, E., Vasconcellos, A., Sousa-Lima, R., Young, R., & Duarte, M. (2023). Acoustic monitoring of black-tufted marmosets in a tropical forest disturbed by mining noise. Animals, 13(3), https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13030352

Simple Summary: Communication is one way that animals use to obtain and defend resources, escape predators and attract sexual partners. However, this process can be disrupted by anthropogenic noise, which often differs from natural sounds in frequenc... Read More about Acoustic monitoring of black-tufted marmosets in a tropical forest disturbed by mining noise.

Determination of bioavailable arsenic threshold and validation of modelled permissible total arsenic in paddy soil using machine learning (2023)
Journal Article

Minimizing arsenic intake from food consumption is a key aspect of the public health response in As-contaminated regions. In many of these regions, rice is the predominant staple food. Here we present a validated maximum allowable concentration of to... Read More about Determination of bioavailable arsenic threshold and validation of modelled permissible total arsenic in paddy soil using machine learning.

Investigating the effects of chronic low-dose radiation exposure in the liver of a hypothermic zebrafish model (2023)
Journal Article

Mankind's quest for a manned mission to Mars is placing increased emphasis on the development of innovative radio-protective countermeasures for long-term space travel. Hibernation confers radio-protective effects in hibernating animals, and this has... Read More about Investigating the effects of chronic low-dose radiation exposure in the liver of a hypothermic zebrafish model.