Two biometric approaches for cattle identification based on features and classifiers fusion (2015)
Journal Article
Tharwat, A., Gaber, T., & Hassanien, A. (2015). Two biometric approaches for cattle identification based on features and classifiers fusion. International journal of image mining (Online), 1(4), 342. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIM.2015.073902

There is an increasing need for controlling safety policies of animals
and efficient management of food production. One way to help achieve this need
is the automatic animal identification/identification and traceability systems. In
this paper, tw... Read More about Two biometric approaches for cattle identification based on features and classifiers fusion.

Sentiment classification in the financial domain using SVM and multi-objective optimisation (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Sun, F., Belatreche, A., Coleman, S., Mcginnity, T., & Li, Y. (2015, December). Sentiment classification in the financial domain using SVM and multi-objective optimisation. Presented at 2015 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, Cape Town, South Africa

Online financial textual information containing a large amount of investor sentiment is growing rapidly and an effective solution to automate the sentiment classification of such large amounts of text would be extremely beneficial. A novel approach t... Read More about Sentiment classification in the financial domain using SVM and multi-objective optimisation.

Modelling of chloride penetration in unsaturated concrete (2015)
Journal Article
Geng, J., Li, L., & Wang, Y. (2015). Modelling of chloride penetration in unsaturated concrete. Advances in cement research, 28(1), 51-61. https://doi.org/10.1680/adcr.15.00003

In this paper, a new model is proposed to describe the coupled transport of ionic species and ionic solution in
unsaturated concrete. The main difference between the present model and most existing models is the inclusion of
osmotic effect due to s... Read More about Modelling of chloride penetration in unsaturated concrete.

Stationary rotary force waves on the liquid–air core interface of a swirl atomizer (2015)
Journal Article
Chinn, J., Cooper, D., Yule, A., & Nasr, G. (2016). Stationary rotary force waves on the liquid–air core interface of a swirl atomizer. Heat and Mass Transfer, 52(10), 2037-2050. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00231-015-1706-0

A one-dimensional wave equation, applicable to the waves on the surface of the air-core of a swirl atomizer is derived analytically, by analogy to the similar one-dimensional wave equation derivation for shallowwater gravity waves. In addition an ana... Read More about Stationary rotary force waves on the liquid–air core interface of a swirl atomizer.

Data standards can boost metabolomics research, and if there is a will, there is a way (2015)
Journal Article

Thousands of articles using metabolomics approaches are published every year. With the increasing amounts of data being produced, mere description of investigations as text in manuscripts is not sufficient to enable re-use anymore: the underlying dat... Read More about Data standards can boost metabolomics research, and if there is a will, there is a way.

The 1st international conference on advanced intelligent system and informatics (AISI2015), November 28-30, 2015, Beni Suef, Egypt (2015)
Book

The conference topics address different theoretical and practical aspects, and implementing solutions for intelligent systems and informatics disciplines including bioinformatics, computer science, medical informatics, biology, social studies, as wel... Read More about The 1st international conference on advanced intelligent system and informatics (AISI2015), November 28-30, 2015, Beni Suef, Egypt.

Experimental study of the performance related properties of asphalt concrete modified with hydrated lime (2015)
Journal Article
of asphalt concrete modified with hydrated lime. Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 28(5), 04015185-1. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29MT.1943-5533.0001474

The use of additives is one of the effective techniques adopted to improve pavement properties. Recently, hydrated lime has been categorized as a major additive in asphalt pavement because of its wide availability and relatively cheap cost. The main... Read More about Experimental study of the performance related properties of asphalt concrete modified with hydrated lime.

The influence of headphones on the localization of external loudspeaker sources (2015)
Journal Article
Satongar, D., Pike, C., Lam, Y., & Tew, A. (2015). The influence of headphones on the localization of external loudspeaker sources. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 63(10), 799-810. https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2015.0072

When validating systems that use headphones to synthesize virtual sound sources, a direct
comparison between virtual and real sources is sometimes needed. This paper considers the
passive influence of headphones on the sound transmission and percep... Read More about The influence of headphones on the localization of external loudspeaker sources.

Workshop on numerical acoustic simulation and auralisation as built environment design consultation tools (2015)
Journal Article

Extended version of an article appearing in the November 2015 issue of Acoustics Bulletin, the UK Institute of Acoustics magazine. Describes an EPSRC-funded workshop, which was co-hosted by Arup and the University of Salford.

For more informatio... Read More about Workshop on numerical acoustic simulation and auralisation as built environment design consultation tools.

Automatic Speaker Recognition System in Adverse Conditions — Implication of Noise and Reverberation on System Performance (2015)
Journal Article
A. Al-Karawi, K., H. Al-Noori, A., Li, F., & Ritchings, T. (2015). Automatic Speaker Recognition System in Adverse Conditions — Implication of Noise and Reverberation on System Performance. International journal of information and electronics engineering (Singapore : Online), 5(6), 423-427. https://doi.org/10.7763/IJIEE.2015.V5.571

Speaker recognition has been developed and evolved over the past few decades into a supposedly mature technique. Existing methods typically utilize robust features
extracted from clean speech. In real-world applications,
especially security and for... Read More about Automatic Speaker Recognition System in Adverse Conditions — Implication of Noise and Reverberation on System Performance.

30 years of mobile phones in the UK (2015)
Book
Linge, N., & Sutton, A. (2015). 30 years of mobile phones in the UK. Amberley Publishing

In 1985, the seeds of a revolution were sown in the UK when people were first able to communicate using one of the most remarkable items of personal technology to have been developed – the mobile phone. The authors, both acknowledged experts in this... Read More about 30 years of mobile phones in the UK.

Perceived audio quality of sounds degraded by non-linear distortions and single-ended assessment using HASQI (2015)
Journal Article
assessment using HASQI. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 63(9), 698-712. https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2015.0068

For field recordings and user generated content recorded on phones, tablets, and other mobile
devices nonlinear distortions caused by clipping and limiting at pre-amplification stages, and
dynamic range control (DRC) are common causes of poor audio... Read More about Perceived audio quality of sounds degraded by non-linear distortions and single-ended assessment using HASQI.

MonSLAR : a middleware for monitoring SLA for RESTFUL services in cloud computing (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Shammari, S., & Al-Yasiri, A. (2015, October). MonSLAR : a middleware for monitoring SLA for RESTFUL services in cloud computing. Presented at IEEE 9th International Symposium on the Maintenance and Evolution of Service-Oriented and Cloud-Based Environments (MESOCA), 2015, Bremen, Germany

Measuring the quality of cloud computing provision from the client's point of view is important in order to ensure that the service conforms to the level specified in the service level agreement (SLA). With a view to avoid SLA violation, the main par... Read More about MonSLAR : a middleware for monitoring SLA for RESTFUL services in cloud computing.

Investigating factors affecting software maintenance in e-commerce companies in Jordan (2015)
Thesis
Salameen, R. (in press). Investigating factors affecting software maintenance in e-commerce companies in Jordan. (Thesis). University of Salford

The most costly phase in the software life cycle is the software maintenance phase. It consumes between 40% and 90% of a software project’s budget. Software applications play an important role in e-commerce companies and the significance of software... Read More about Investigating factors affecting software maintenance in e-commerce companies in Jordan.

Predicting the valence of a scene from observers’ eye movements (2015)
Journal Article
observers’ eye movements. PLoS ONE, 10(9), e0138198. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138198

Multimedia analysis benefits from understanding the emotional content of a scene in a variety of tasks such as video genre classification and content-based image retrieval. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in applying human bio-signals... Read More about Predicting the valence of a scene from observers’ eye movements.

M0Droid : an android behavioral-based malware detection model (2015)
Journal Article
Damshenas, M., Dehghantanha, A., Choo, K., & Mahmud, R. (2015). M0Droid : an android behavioral-based malware detection model. Journal of information privacy & security, 11(3), 141-157. https://doi.org/10.1080/15536548.2015.1073510

Anti-mobile malware has attracted the attention of the research and security community in recent
years due to the increasing threat of mobile malware and the significant increase in the number of
mobile devices. M0Droid, a novel Android behavioral-... Read More about M0Droid : an android behavioral-based malware detection model.

Flood-runoff in semi-arid and sub-humid regions, a case study : a simulation of jianghe watershed in Northern China (2015)
Journal Article
study : a simulation of jianghe watershed in Northern China. Water, 7(9), 5155-5172. https://doi.org/10.3390/w7095155

This paper presents a modeling application of surface runoff using the Hydrologic Modelling System (HEC-HMS). A case study was carried out for the Jianghe watershed, a typical semi-arid and sub-humid geo-climatic region in northern China. Two modelin... Read More about Flood-runoff in semi-arid and sub-humid regions, a case study : a simulation of jianghe watershed in Northern China.

Two-dimensional experimental and numerical modelling of a soil-filled masonry arch (2015)
Book Chapter
Ahmad, S., Augusthus Nelson, L., & Swift, G. (2015). Two-dimensional experimental and numerical modelling of a soil-filled masonry arch. In Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructure and Development: XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. ICE Publishing

The ultimate load carrying capactiy of soil-filled masonry arches is significantly higher than that of bare masonry arches. The soil fill has a stabalising effect on the masonry arch, distributing the live load and providing passive resistance to def... Read More about Two-dimensional experimental and numerical modelling of a soil-filled masonry arch.

An analytical design approach for self-powered active lateral secondary suspensions for railway vehicles (2015)
Journal Article
Wang, P., Li, H., Zhang, J., & Mei, T. (2015). An analytical design approach for self-powered active lateral secondary suspensions for railway vehicles. Vehicle System Dynamics, 53(10), 1439-1454. https://doi.org/10.1080/00423114.2015.1050964

In this paper, an analytical design approach for the development of self-powered active suspensions is investigated and is applied to optimise the control system design for an active lateral secondary suspension for railway vehicles. The conditions f... Read More about An analytical design approach for self-powered active lateral secondary suspensions for railway vehicles.

Impact pressure distribution in flat fan nozzles for descaling oil wells (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Abbas, A., Nasr, G., Nourian, A., & Enyi, G. (2015, August). Impact pressure distribution in flat fan nozzles for descaling oil wells. Presented at 13th Triennial International Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, Tainan, Taiwan

The suitability of High pressure nozzles in terms of impact upon targeted surfaces has indicated its effectiveness for the cleaning of oil production tubing scale, which has recently attract wider industrial applications considering its efficiency,... Read More about Impact pressure distribution in flat fan nozzles for descaling oil wells.