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Future Developments in Noise from Transport (2025)
Book Chapter
Torija Martinez, A. (2025). Future Developments in Noise from Transport. In I. van Kamp, & F. Woudenberg (Eds.), A Sound Approach to Noise and Health. Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-6121-0

This open access book highlights the negative and positive health effects of chronic exposure to environmental sound. It describes the state of the art in the field from a public health point of view and puts it in a broad societal perspective lookin... Read More about Future Developments in Noise from Transport.

Struck-Out Handwritten Word Detection and Restoration for Automatic Descriptive Answer Evaluation (2025)
Journal Article
Zhong, D., Palaiahnakote, S., Pal, U., & Lu, Y. (2025). Struck-Out Handwritten Word Detection and Restoration for Automatic Descriptive Answer Evaluation. Signal Processing: Image Communication, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.image.2024.117214

Unlike objective type evaluation, descriptive answer evaluation is challenging due to unpredictable answers and free writing style of answers. Because of these, descriptive answer evaluation has received special attention from many researchers. Autom... Read More about Struck-Out Handwritten Word Detection and Restoration for Automatic Descriptive Answer Evaluation.

Quantifying the Social Value of the UK Construction Industry (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Watts, G., Khan, W., & Maleki Sadabad, M. (2024). Quantifying the Social Value of the UK Construction Industry.

Since the introduction of the Social Value Act in 2012, a focus on time, cost, and quality is no longer sufficient to guarantee procurement success. However, to only communicate social value achievements as part of tender submissions may be viewed su... Read More about Quantifying the Social Value of the UK Construction Industry.

A Comprehensive Review of Most Competitive Maximum Power Point Tracking Techniques for Enhanced Solar Photovoltaic Power Generation (2024)
Journal Article
Al Garni, H. Z., Sundaram, A., Awasthi, A., Chandel, R., Tajjour, S., & Singh Chandel, S. (2024). A Comprehensive Review of Most Competitive Maximum Power Point Tracking Techniques for Enhanced Solar Photovoltaic Power Generation. #Journal not on list, 11(3), 60-80. https://doi.org/10.30501/jree.2024.408699.1638

A major design challenge for a grid-integrated photovoltaic power plant is to generate maximum power under varying loads, irradiance, and outdoor climatic conditions using competitive algorithm-based controllers. The objective of this study is to rev... Read More about A Comprehensive Review of Most Competitive Maximum Power Point Tracking Techniques for Enhanced Solar Photovoltaic Power Generation.

The adoption of big data analytics in Jordanian SMEs: An extended technology organization environment framework with diffusion of innovation and perceived usefulness (2024)
Journal Article
Al-shanableh, N., Alzyoud, M., Alomar, S., Kilani, Y., Nashnush, E., Al-Hawary, S., & Al-Momani, A. (2024). The adoption of big data analytics in Jordanian SMEs: An extended technology organization environment framework with diffusion of innovation and perceived usefulness. International journal of data and network science (Print), 8(2), 753-764. https://doi.org/10.5267/j.ijdns.2024.1.003

While many small and medium enterprises (SMEs)recognize the benefits of Big Data Analytics (BDA) for digital transformation, they face challenges in implementing this technology, highlighting the need for more research on its adoption by SMEs. The ob... Read More about The adoption of big data analytics in Jordanian SMEs: An extended technology organization environment framework with diffusion of innovation and perceived usefulness.

CFD Modelling of Combustion and NOX Production in a Propulsion Duct with Aspect Ratio Effects (2024)
Book Chapter
Beg, O., Morand, T., Beg, T., Kuharat, S., Vasu, B., Leonard, H., & Burby, M. (2024). CFD Modelling of Combustion and NOX Production in a Propulsion Duct with Aspect Ratio Effects. In Eco-Materials and Green Energy for a Sustainable Future (188-220). Boca Raton, USA: CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003473749-11

Combustion simulation is fundamental to numerous propulsion systems including gas turbine engines, chemical rocket propulsion etc. It is a complex area involving viscous fluid dynamics, heat transfer, combustion chemistry and flame dynamics. In the p... Read More about CFD Modelling of Combustion and NOX Production in a Propulsion Duct with Aspect Ratio Effects.

Friend or foe? Attitudes of rice farmers toward wild animals in West Africa (2024)
Journal Article
Chaves, P., Schaafsma, M., Dabo, D., Lomba, J. Z., Mane, F., De Lima, R. F., …Rainho, A. (2024). Friend or foe? Attitudes of rice farmers toward wild animals in West Africa. Ecology and Society, 29(4), https://doi.org/10.5751/es-15486-290424

As the global human population grows and the demand for space and resources increases, human-wildlife interactions and conflicts are expected to rise, particularly in biodiversity-rich tropical agroecosystems where subsistence farmers and wildlife co... Read More about Friend or foe? Attitudes of rice farmers toward wild animals in West Africa.

Authenticity and Negativism. Social Value in UK Construction (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Watts, G. (2024). Authenticity and Negativism. Social Value in UK Construction.

Social value engagement in UK construction procurement provides contractors with a competitive edge. Arguably this serves to force contractor social value action. Whilst this is seemingly of benefit to the social value agenda and wider societal needs... Read More about Authenticity and Negativism. Social Value in UK Construction.

What demotivates homeowners to retrofit their houses: a systematic review (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Coates, P., Munir, M., & Panakaduwa, C. (2024). What demotivates homeowners to retrofit their houses: a systematic review.

The study identifies the factors that demotivate homeowners from
retrofitting their houses. Retrofit is defined as improving the energy performance, ventilation or reducing carbon emission of a building. According to the statistics, the progress rat... Read More about What demotivates homeowners to retrofit their houses: a systematic review.

Transforming Housing Retrofit: The Potential Impact of Artificial Intelligence (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Panakaduwa, C., Coates, P., & Munir, M. (2024). Transforming Housing Retrofit: The Potential Impact of Artificial Intelligence.

80% of the housing stock by 2050 in the UK has already been built. Currently, the UK housing stock contributes 18% of the total UK emissions. Due to the legal requirement of the UK government to achieve net zero by 2050, the housing stock poses a con... Read More about Transforming Housing Retrofit: The Potential Impact of Artificial Intelligence.

Integrating susceptibility maps of multiple hazards and building exposure distribution: a case study of wildfires and floods for the province of Quang Nam, Vietnam (2024)
Journal Article
Luu, C., Forino, G., Yorke, L., Ha, H., Bui, Q. D., Tran, H. H., …Kervyn, M. (2024). Integrating susceptibility maps of multiple hazards and building exposure distribution: a case study of wildfires and floods for the province of Quang Nam, Vietnam. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 24, 4385-4408. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-4385-2024

Natural hazards have serious impacts worldwide on society, economy, and environment. In Vietnam, through- out the years, natural hazards have caused significant loss of lives as well as severe devastation to houses, crops, and trans- portation. This... Read More about Integrating susceptibility maps of multiple hazards and building exposure distribution: a case study of wildfires and floods for the province of Quang Nam, Vietnam.

Soft set-based MSER end-to-end system for occluded scene text detection, recognition and prediction (2024)
Journal Article
Das, A., Palaiahnakote, S., Banerjee, A., Antonacopoulos, A., & Pal, U. (2024). Soft set-based MSER end-to-end system for occluded scene text detection, recognition and prediction. Knowledge-Based Systems, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2024.112593

The presence of unpredictable occlusions on natural scene text is a significant challenge, exacerbating the difficulties already posed on text detection and recognition by the variability of such images. Addressing the need for a robust, consistently... Read More about Soft set-based MSER end-to-end system for occluded scene text detection, recognition and prediction.

Solute dispersion in a permeable capillary with wall exchange: Darcy flow model (2024)
Journal Article
Kumar, A., Anwar Bég, O., Shaw, S., Mashiku, L. R., & Bég, T. A. (in press). Solute dispersion in a permeable capillary with wall exchange: Darcy flow model. Korea-Australia rheology journal,

Complex chemical reactions and hydrodynamic dispersion feature in many aspects of hemodynamics. Motivated by examining the reactive phase change dispersion in perfusion, a mathematical study is presented for solute dispersion in incompressible lamina... Read More about Solute dispersion in a permeable capillary with wall exchange: Darcy flow model.

Human perception and response to sound from unmanned aircraft systems within ambient acoustic environments (2024)
Journal Article
Lotinga, M. J. B., Green, M. C., & Torija, A. J. (in press). Human perception and response to sound from unmanned aircraft systems within ambient acoustic environments. #Journal not on list,

Potential opportunities for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to offer societal benefits are accompanied by noise impact risks. Accordingly, it is important to develop greater understanding of perception and response to UAS sound. A laboratory listenin... Read More about Human perception and response to sound from unmanned aircraft systems within ambient acoustic environments.

Flight Performance and Acoustics of Asymmetric Propellers with Uneven Blade Spacing (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Koning, D., Usov, D., Ramos Romero, C., & Filippone, A. (2024). Flight Performance and Acoustics of Asymmetric Propellers with Uneven Blade Spacing. . https://doi.org/10.17866/rd.salford.27886224.v1

Anexperimental campaign is conducted to characterise the acoustics and flight performance of asymmetric propellers with uneven blade spacing by taking field measurements of an unmanned aerial system in hover. Further, the study compares the acoustics... Read More about Flight Performance and Acoustics of Asymmetric Propellers with Uneven Blade Spacing.

Comparing the Human Response of Unmanned Aircraft System Noise and Other Transportation Noise (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Green, N., & Torija Martinez, A. (2024). Comparing the Human Response of Unmanned Aircraft System Noise and Other Transportation Noise. . https://doi.org/10.17866/rd.salford.27886197.v1

An experiment was designed to investigate the perception of noise from different Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) alongside three other vehicle types, including road traffic, conven tional aircraft, and helicopters. The aim of this experiment was to un... Read More about Comparing the Human Response of Unmanned Aircraft System Noise and Other Transportation Noise.

Soil stressors on ecophysiology of bauxite mine impacted soil: heavy metal-acidity- organic matter nexus (2024)
Journal Article
Mandal, J. (in press). Soil stressors on ecophysiology of bauxite mine impacted soil: heavy metal-acidity- organic matter nexus. Journal of Environmental Quality,

Soil ecophysiology is adversely affected by various environmental hazards, particularly in mining regions. While there has been substantial research on the effects of coal, mica, copper (Cu), and manganese (Mn) mining, on soil quality, the impact of... Read More about Soil stressors on ecophysiology of bauxite mine impacted soil: heavy metal-acidity- organic matter nexus.

Interpreting Noise Nuisance Law: Challenges, Emerging Issues, and the Need for Expanded Standards (2024)
Journal Article
Williams, D. (in press). Interpreting Noise Nuisance Law: Challenges, Emerging Issues, and the Need for Expanded Standards. Planning and Environmental Law,

The enforcement of noise pollution laws is impeded by subjective interpretations within legislation, fragmented statutes, and inconsistent enforcement mechanisms.
Noise pollution has significant impacts on public health, ranging from sleep disrupti... Read More about Interpreting Noise Nuisance Law: Challenges, Emerging Issues, and the Need for Expanded Standards.

An acoustic and psychoacoustic assessment on the noise control of propellers in distributed propulsion configuration using phase-synchronisation Session: Experimental Techniques (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Zang, B., Turhan, B., Torija, A. J., Ramos-Romero, C., & Azarpeyvand, M. (2024). An acoustic and psychoacoustic assessment on the noise control of propellers in distributed propulsion configuration using phase-synchronisation Session: Experimental Techniques. . https://doi.org/10.17866/rd.salford.27868674.v1

Distributed electric propulsion is widely recoginised as a promising propulsion configuration for next-generation aerial vehicles, including short-to-medium-haul passenger aircraft and urban air mobility vehicles. The presence of multiple propulsors... Read More about An acoustic and psychoacoustic assessment on the noise control of propellers in distributed propulsion configuration using phase-synchronisation Session: Experimental Techniques.

Evaluation of auditory alerting systems for safe electric scooter operations (2024)
Journal Article
Walton, T., Torija, A. J., Hughes, R. J., & Elliott, A. S. (in press). Evaluation of auditory alerting systems for safe electric scooter operations. Scientific Reports,

It is well understood that a significant shift away from fossil fuel based transportation is necessary to limit the impacts of the climate crisis. Electric micromobility modes, such as electric scooters and electric bikes, have the potential to offer... Read More about Evaluation of auditory alerting systems for safe electric scooter operations.