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The use of a gas chromatography-sensor system combined with advanced statistical methods, towards the diagnosis of urological malignancies (2016)
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Aggio, R. B. M., De Lacy Costello, B., White, P., Khalid, T., Ratcliffe, N. M., Persad, R., & Probert, C. S. J. (2016). The use of a gas chromatography-sensor system combined with advanced statistical methods, towards the diagnosis of urological malignancies. Journal of Breath Research, 10(1), https://doi.org/10.1088/1752-7155/10/1/017106

© 2016 IOP Publishing Ltd. Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers. Serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is used to aid the selection of men undergoing biopsies. Its use remains controversial. We propose a GC-sensor algorithm system for cl... Read More about The use of a gas chromatography-sensor system combined with advanced statistical methods, towards the diagnosis of urological malignancies.

High frequency haplotypes are expected events, not historical figures (2016)
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Guillot, E. G., Guillot, E., & Cox, M. P. (2016). High frequency haplotypes are expected events, not historical figures. F1000Research, 4, https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.7023.2

Cultural transmission of reproductive success states that successful men have more children and pass this raised fecundity to their offspring. Balaresque and colleagues found high frequency haplotypes in a Central Asian Y chromosome dataset, which th... Read More about High frequency haplotypes are expected events, not historical figures.

Can tailored non-linearity of hierarchical structures inform future material development? (2016)
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O'Donnell, M. P., Weaver, P. M., & Pirrera, A. (2016). Can tailored non-linearity of hierarchical structures inform future material development?. Extreme Mechanics Letters, 7, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2016.01.006

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd. An analytical investigation into the non-linear elastic response of helical lattice structures coupled with an elastic medium is presented. Novel composite templates are then obtained to produce bespoke material characteristics b... Read More about Can tailored non-linearity of hierarchical structures inform future material development?.

3D finite element model for predicting manufacturing distortions of composite parts (2016)
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Çinar, K., Çınar, K., & Ersoy, N. (2016). 3D finite element model for predicting manufacturing distortions of composite parts. Journal of Composite Materials, 50(27), 3791-3807. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021998315625789

© SAGE Publications. A 3D finite element model has been developed for predicting manufacturing distortions of fibre-reinforced thermosetting composite parts. The total curing process is divided into three steps that correspond to the states that resi... Read More about 3D finite element model for predicting manufacturing distortions of composite parts.

Creating statistics e-assessments using Dewis with embedded R code (2016)
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Weir, I., Gwynllyw, R., & Henderson, K. (2017). Creating statistics e-assessments using Dewis with embedded R code. MSOR Connections, 15(2), 51-59

We report on the creation of statistics e-assessments using the Dewis system with embedded R code. Dewis is a fully algorithmic open-source e-assessment system designed and developed at the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE). Dewis’ abi... Read More about Creating statistics e-assessments using Dewis with embedded R code.

A Review on the Mechanical Modeling of Composite Manufacturing Processes (2016)
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Baran, I., Cinar, K., Ersoy, N., Akkerman, R., & Hattel, J. H. (2017). A Review on the Mechanical Modeling of Composite Manufacturing Processes. Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 24(2), 365-395. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11831-016-9167-2

© 2016, The Author(s). The increased usage of fiber reinforced polymer composites in load bearing applications requires a detailed understanding of the process induced residual stresses and their effect on the shape distortions. This is utmost necess... Read More about A Review on the Mechanical Modeling of Composite Manufacturing Processes.

A comparison of visible wavelength reflectance hyperspectral imaging and Acid Black 1 for the detection and identification of blood stained fingerprints (2016)
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Cadd, S., Li, B., Beveridge, P., O′Hare, W. T., Campbell, A., & Islam, M. (2016). A comparison of visible wavelength reflectance hyperspectral imaging and Acid Black 1 for the detection and identification of blood stained fingerprints. Science and Justice, 56(4), 247-255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2015.12.007

© 2016 The Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences. Bloodstains are often encountered at scenes of violent crime and have significant forensic value for criminal investigations. Blood is one of the most commonly encountered types of biological evidenc... Read More about A comparison of visible wavelength reflectance hyperspectral imaging and Acid Black 1 for the detection and identification of blood stained fingerprints.

Comprehensive Study on Ceramic Membranes for Low-Cost Microbial Fuel Cells (2016)
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Pasternak, G., Greenman, J., & Ieropoulos, I. (2016). Comprehensive Study on Ceramic Membranes for Low-Cost Microbial Fuel Cells. ChemSusChem, 9(1), 88-96. https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201501320

© 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) made with different types of ceramic membranes were investigated to find a low-cost alternative to commercially available proton exchange membranes. The MFCs operated wi... Read More about Comprehensive Study on Ceramic Membranes for Low-Cost Microbial Fuel Cells.

Failure behavior of composite laminates under four-point bending (2016)
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Sonmez, F. O., Koc, M., Sonmez, F. O., Ersoy, N., & Cinar, K. (2016). Failure behavior of composite laminates under four-point bending. Journal of Composite Materials, 50(26), 3679-3697. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021998315624251

© The Author(s) 2015. In this study, failure behavior of fiber-reinforced composites under four-point bending is investigated. First, the tests are modeled analytically using the classical lamination theory (CLT). The maximum allowable moment resulta... Read More about Failure behavior of composite laminates under four-point bending.

Pee power urinal-microbial fuel cell technology field trials in the context of sanitation (2016)
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Ieropoulos, I., Stinchcombe, A., Gajda, I., Forbes, S., Merino-Jimenez, I., Pasternak, G., …Greenman, J. (2016). Pee power urinal-microbial fuel cell technology field trials in the context of sanitation. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, 2(2), 336-343. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5ew00270b

This paper reports on the pee power urinal field trials, which are using microbial fuel cells for internal lighting. The first trial was conducted on Frenchay Campus (UWE, Bristol) from February-May 2015 and demonstrated the feasibility of modular MF... Read More about Pee power urinal-microbial fuel cell technology field trials in the context of sanitation.

A structured approach to hypotheses involving continuous exposures over the life course (2016)
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Lawlor, D. A., Joinson, C. J., Smith, A. D., Smith, A. D. A. C., Hardy, R., Heron, J., …Tilling, K. (2016). A structured approach to hypotheses involving continuous exposures over the life course. International Journal of Epidemiology, 45(4), 1271-1279. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyw164

© The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association. Background: Epidemiologists are often interested in examining different hypotheses for how exposures measured repeatedly over the life... Read More about A structured approach to hypotheses involving continuous exposures over the life course.

The effect of social information on the collective choices of ant colonies (2016)
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Burns, D. D., Burns, D., Sendova-Franks, A. B., & Franks, N. R. (2016). The effect of social information on the collective choices of ant colonies. Behavioral Ecology, 27(4), 1033-1040. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arw005

© 2016 The Author. In collective decision making, groups collate social information to inform their decisions. Indeed, societies can gather more information than individuals - so social information can be more reliable than private information. Colon... Read More about The effect of social information on the collective choices of ant colonies.

Exploration adjustment by ant colonies (2016)
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Sendova-Franks, A., Stumpe, M. C., Doran, C., Stumpe, M., Sendova-Franks, A. B., & Franks, N. R. (2016). Exploration adjustment by ant colonies. Royal Society Open Science, 3(1), 150533. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150533

© 2016 The Authors. How do animals in groups organize their work? Division of labour, i.e. the process by which individuals within a group choose which tasks to perform, has been extensively studied in social insects. Variability among individuals wi... Read More about Exploration adjustment by ant colonies.

Human-Inspired Neurorobotic System for Classifying Surface Textures by Touch (2016)
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Voelker, A. R., Friedl, K. E., Friedl, K., Voelker, A., Peer, A., & Eliasmith, C. (2016). Human-Inspired Neurorobotic System for Classifying Surface Textures by Touch. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 1(1), 516-523. https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2016.2517213

© 2016 IEEE. Giving robots the ability to classify surface textures requires appropriate sensors and algorithms. Inspired by the biology of human tactile perception, we implement a neurorobotic texture classifier with a recurrent spiking neural netwo... Read More about Human-Inspired Neurorobotic System for Classifying Surface Textures by Touch.

Dynamic soaring mechanisms in the ocean boundary layer (2016)
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Toomer, C. A., Bonnin, V., Benard, E., Toomer, C., & Moschetta, J. M. (2016). Dynamic soaring mechanisms in the ocean boundary layer. International Journal of Engineering Systems Modelling and Simulation, 8(2), 136-148. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJESMS.2016.075550

Copyright © 2016 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Dynamic soaring is a flying technique which extracts energy from an environment where wind gradients form, such as the air-sea interface above oceans that sees such gradients developing through multiple... Read More about Dynamic soaring mechanisms in the ocean boundary layer.

Migration control: A distance compensation strategy in ants (2016)
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O’shea-Wheller, T. A., O'Shea-Wheller, T., Sendova-Franks, A. B., & Franks, N. R. (2016). Migration control: A distance compensation strategy in ants. Naturwissenschaften, 103(7), article 66. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-016-1386-8

©The Author(s) 2016. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com. Migratory behaviour forms an intrinsic part of the life histories of many organisms but is often a high-risk process. Consequently, varied strategies have evolved to... Read More about Migration control: A distance compensation strategy in ants.

Relationship between mediation analysis and the structured life course approach (2016)
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Lawlor, D. A., Anderson, E. L., Smith, A. D., Howe, L. D., Howe, L. D., Smith, A. D. A. C., …Fraser, A. (2016). Relationship between mediation analysis and the structured life course approach. International Journal of Epidemiology, 45(4), 1280-1294. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyw254

© The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association. Many questions in life course epidemiology involve mediation and/or interaction because of the long latency period between exposures a... Read More about Relationship between mediation analysis and the structured life course approach.

An improved local remeshing algorithm for moving boundary problems (2016)
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Zheng, J., Chen, J., Zheng, Y., Yao, Y., Li, S., & Xiao, Z. (2016). An improved local remeshing algorithm for moving boundary problems. Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, 10(1), 403-426. https://doi.org/10.1080/19942060.2016.1174888

© 2016 The Author(s). Three issues are tackled in this study to improve the robustness of local remeshing techniques. Firstly, the local remeshing region (hereafter referred to as ‘hole’) is initialized by removing low-quality elements and then conti... Read More about An improved local remeshing algorithm for moving boundary problems.

Slime Mould Controller for Microbial Fuel Cells (2016)
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Taylor, B., Adamatzky, A., Greenman, J., & Ieropoulos, I. (2016). Slime Mould Controller for Microbial Fuel Cells. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26662-6_14

Microbial fuels cells (MFCs) are bio-electrochemical transducers that generate energy from the metabolism of electro-active microorganisms. The organism Physarum polycephalum is a species of slime mould, which has demonstrated many novel and interest... Read More about Slime Mould Controller for Microbial Fuel Cells.

Ethanol production from brown seaweed using non-conventional yeasts (2016)
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Obata, O., Akunna, J., Bockhorn, H., & Walker, G. (2016). Ethanol production from brown seaweed using non-conventional yeasts. Bioethanol, 2(1), 134-145. https://doi.org/10.1515/bioeth-2016-0010

The use of macroalgae (seaweed) as a potential source of biofuels has attracted considerable worldwide interest. Since brown algae, especially the giant kelp, grow very rapidly and contain considerable amounts of polysaccharides, coupled with low lig... Read More about Ethanol production from brown seaweed using non-conventional yeasts.