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Ranking microbial metabolomic and genomic links in the NPLinker framework using complementary scoring functions. [Dataset] (2021)
Data
ELDJÁRN, G.H., RAMSAY, A., VAN DER HOOFT, J.J.J., DUNCAN, K.R., SOLDATOU, S., ROUSU, J., DALY, J., WANDY, J. and ROGERS, S. 2021. Ranking microbial metabolomic and genomic links in the NPLinker framework using complementary scoring functions. [Dataset]. PLOS computational biology [online], 17(5), e1008920. Available from: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008920#sec021

In this article, we introduce NPLinker, a software framework to link genomic and metabolomic data, to link microbial secondary metabolites to their producing genomic regions. Two of the major approaches for such linking are analysis of the correlatio... Read More about Ranking microbial metabolomic and genomic links in the NPLinker framework using complementary scoring functions. [Dataset].

Ranking microbial metabolomic and genomic links in the NPLinker framework using complementary scoring functions. (2021)
Journal Article
ELDJÁRN, G.H., RAMSAY, A., VAN DER HOOFT, J.J.J., DUNCAN, K.R., SOLDATOU, S., ROUSU, J., DALY, J., WANDY, J. and ROGERS, S. 2021. Ranking microbial metabolomic and genomic links in the NPLinker framework using complementary scoring functions. PLOS computational biology [online], 17(5), e1008920. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008920

Specialised metabolites from microbial sources are well-known for their wide range of biomedical applications, particularly as antibiotics. When mining paired genomic and metabolomic data sets for novel specialised metabolites, establishing links bet... Read More about Ranking microbial metabolomic and genomic links in the NPLinker framework using complementary scoring functions..

Foundation stone of empire: the role of Portland stone in ‘heritage’, commemoration, and identity. (2021)
Journal Article
BUTLER-WARKE, A. and WARKE, M.R. 2021. Foundation stone of empire: the role of Portland stone in 'heritage', commemoration, and identity. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers [online], 46(4), pages 958-972. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12462

In 2013, Portland Stone, a creamy white limestone from the Isle of Portland in Dorset, was named the world’s first ‘Global Heritage Stone Resource’ (GSHR) by the Heritage Stone Task Group, a sub-commission of the International Union of Geological Sci... Read More about Foundation stone of empire: the role of Portland stone in ‘heritage’, commemoration, and identity..

Financing electricity access in Africa: a choice experiment study of household investor preferences for renewable energy investments in Ghana. (2021)
Journal Article
MENYEH, B.O. 2021. Financing electricity access in Africa: a choice experiment study of household investor preferences for renewable energy investments in Ghana. Renewable and sustainable energy reviews [online], 146, article 111132. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2021.111132

Inadequate access to electricity is one of the pressing developmental challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ensuring universal access by 2030 will require additional sources of finance as current investment volumes are inadequate. Increasingly, the integ... Read More about Financing electricity access in Africa: a choice experiment study of household investor preferences for renewable energy investments in Ghana..

GPR55 regulates the responsiveness to, but does not dimerise with, α1A-adrenoceptors. (2021)
Journal Article
WALSH, S.K., LIPINA, C., ANG, S.Y., SATO, M., CHIA, L.Y., KOCAN, M., HUTCHINSON, D.S., SUMMERS, R.J. and WAINWRIGHT, C.L. 2021. GPR55 regulates the responsiveness to, but does not dimerise with, α1A-adrenoceptors. Biochemical pharmacology [online], 188, article ID 114560. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bcp.2021.114560

Emerging evidence suggests that G protein coupled receptor 55 (GPR55) may influence adrenoceptor function/activity in the cardiovascular system. Whether this reflects direct interaction (dimerization) between receptors or signalling crosstalk has not... Read More about GPR55 regulates the responsiveness to, but does not dimerise with, α1A-adrenoceptors..

A man standing in a forest listening intently, noting down what he hears. (2021)
Book Chapter
DOUGLAS, A. 2021. A man standing in a forest listening intently, noting down what he hears. In M. Collier, B. Hogg and J. Strachan (eds.) Song of place and time: birdsong and the dawn chorus in natural history and the arts. Manchester: Gaia Project Press [online], pages 192-203. Available from: https://tinyurl.com/yawnpn5r

This essay considers how the human ear can interact with birdsong, which uses registers that are higher and faster in tempo than human music and therefore beyond the capacity and skill of most human performers. The author admires how Messaien’s ‘Le R... Read More about A man standing in a forest listening intently, noting down what he hears..

Social capital and engagement in Nigerian small business marketing. (2021)
Thesis
JAMES, I.N. 2021. Social capital and engagement in Nigerian small business marketing. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-1447143

This study explores social capital and engagement in Nigerian small business marketing. It examines how Nigerian small business owner-managers develop and use social capital in the network of relationships to overcome marketing constraints. Social ca... Read More about Social capital and engagement in Nigerian small business marketing..

Novel nanoparticle drug delivery systems: application in the in vitro study of Bisnaphthalimidopropyl derivatives against human colorectal cancer cell lines. (2021)
Thesis
BRUNET, M. 2021. Novel nanoparticle drug delivery systems: application in the in vitro study of Bisnaphthalimidopropyl derivatives against human colorectal cancer cell lines. Robert Gordon University, MRes thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-1446968

Colorectal cancer is one of the most severe causes of mortality worldwide accounting for 10% of total cancer cases. Although recent advances in early diagnosis have reduced the mortality rate associated with CRC, patients suffering from the later met... Read More about Novel nanoparticle drug delivery systems: application in the in vitro study of Bisnaphthalimidopropyl derivatives against human colorectal cancer cell lines..

Novel feedback-Bayesian BP neural network combined with extended Kalman filtering for the battery state-of-charge estimation. (2021)
Journal Article
ZHANG, Y., WANG, S., XU, W., FERNANDEZ, C. and FAN, Y. 2021. Novel feedback-Bayesian BP neural network combined with extended Kalman filtering for the battery state-of-charge estimation. International journal of electrochemical science [online], 16(6), article ID 210624. Available from: https://doi.org/10.20964/2021.06.40

The state of charge estimation of lithium-ion batteries plays an important role in real-time monitoring and safety. To solve the problem that high non-linearity during real-time estimation of lithium-ion batteries who cause that it is dif... Read More about Novel feedback-Bayesian BP neural network combined with extended Kalman filtering for the battery state-of-charge estimation..

A novel high-fidelity unscented particle filtering method for the accurate state of charge estimation of lithium-ion batteries. (2021)
Journal Article
XIE, Y., WANG, S., FERNANDEZ, C., YU, C., FAN, Y. and CAO, W. 2021. A novel high-fidelity unscented particle filtering method for the accurate state of charge estimation of lithium-ion batteries. International journal of electrochemical science [online], 16(6), article ID 210623. Available from: https://doi.org/10.20964/2021.06.38

Power Li-ion batteries are one of the core "three powers" systems of new energy vehicles, and its accurate batteries modeling and state prediction have become the core technology of the scientific and technological progress in the industry. This pape... Read More about A novel high-fidelity unscented particle filtering method for the accurate state of charge estimation of lithium-ion batteries..

A novel autoregressive rainflow-integrated moving average modeling method for the accurate state of health prediction of lithium-ion batteries. (2021)
Journal Article
HUANG, J., WANG, S., XU, W., SHI, W. and FERNANDEZ, C. 2021. A novel autoregressive rainflow-integrated moving average modeling method for the accurate state of health prediction of lithium-ion batteries. Processes [online], 9(5), article 795. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/pr9050795

The accurate estimation and prediction of lithium-ion battery state of health are one of the important core technologies of the battery management system, and are also the key to extending battery life. However, it is difficult to track state of heal... Read More about A novel autoregressive rainflow-integrated moving average modeling method for the accurate state of health prediction of lithium-ion batteries..

A review of combined sewer overflows as a source of wastewater-derived emerging contaminants in the environment and their management. (2021)
Journal Article
PETRIE, B. 2021. A review of combined sewer overflows as a source of wastewater-derived emerging contaminants in the environment and their management. Environmental science and pollution research [online], 28(25), pages 32095-32110. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-14103-1

Emerging contaminants such as pharmaceuticals, illicit drugs and personal care products can be released to the environment in untreated wastewater/stormwater mixtures following storm events. The frequency and intensity of combined sewer overflows (CS... Read More about A review of combined sewer overflows as a source of wastewater-derived emerging contaminants in the environment and their management..

The Scottish suffragettes and the press. (2021)
Book Chapter
PEDERSEN, S. 2021. The Scottish suffragettes and the press. In Wiley, C. and Rose, L.E. (eds.) Women's suffrage in word, image, music, stage and screen: the making of a movement. Abingdon: Routledge, pages 67-81. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429344534-6

This chapter focuses on the coverage of the suffragettes in Scottish newspapers. While Scottish readers were similar to everyone else in Britain in their interest in the more shocking elements of suffragette militancy, it was only with the establishm... Read More about The Scottish suffragettes and the press..

Co-combustion of blends of coal and underutilised biomass residues for environmental friendly electrical energy production. (2021)
Journal Article
KANWAL, F., AHMED, A., JAMIL, F., RAFIQ, S., AYUB, H.M.U., GHAURI, M., KHURRAM, M.S., MUNIR, S., INAYAT, A., ABU BAKAR, M.S., MOOGI, S., LAM, S.S., and PARK, Y.-K. 2021. Co-combustion of blends of coal and underutilised biomass residues for environmental friendly electrical energy production. Sustainability [online], 13(9), article number 4881. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/su13094881

This study investigated the co-combustion of the blends of coal and biomass residues from poplar sawdust, rice husk, pine nut shells, and sunflower residues for ecofriendly energy production. Proximate and ultimate analyses and calorific values of th... Read More about Co-combustion of blends of coal and underutilised biomass residues for environmental friendly electrical energy production..

ConfIs: a tool for privacy and security analysis and conflict resolution for supporting GDPR compliance through privacy-by-design. (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ALKUBAISY, D., PIRAS, L., AL-OBEIDALLAH, M.G., COX, K. and MOURATIDIS, H. 2021. ConfIs: a tool for privacy and security analysis and conflict resolution for supporting GDPR compliance through privacy-by-design. In Ali, R., Kaindl, H. and Maciaszek, L. (eds.) Proceedings of 16th Evaluation of novel approaches to software engineering international conference 2021 (ENASE 2021), 26-27 April 2021, [virtual conference]. Setúbal, Portugal: SciTePress [online], pages 80-91. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5220/0010406100800091

Privacy and security requirements, and their potential conflicts, are increasingly having more and more importance. It is becoming a necessary part to be considered, starting from the very early stages of requirements engineering, and in the entire s... Read More about ConfIs: a tool for privacy and security analysis and conflict resolution for supporting GDPR compliance through privacy-by-design..

Study on quality in 3D digitisation of tangible cultural heritage. (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
PRITCHARD, D., RIGAUTS, T., RIPANTI, F., IOANNIDES, M., BRUMANA, R., DAVIES, R., AVOURI, E., CLIFFEN, H., JONCIC, N., OSTI, G. and TOUMPOURI, M. 2021. Study on quality in 3D digitisation of tangible cultural heritage. In Proceedings of the 9th International congress on archaeology, computer graphics, cultural heritage and innovation (Arqueológica 2.0 2021) and 3rd Geomatics and preservation (GEORES 2021), 26-28 April 2021, [virtual event]. València: Universitat Politècnica de València [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4995/arqueologica9.2021.12113

Following the implementation of the Virtual Multimodal Museum (ViMM) project, which finished in March 2019, the European Commission issued a Declaration on Cooperation on Advancing Digitisation of Cultural Heritage during the Digital Day in April 201... Read More about Study on quality in 3D digitisation of tangible cultural heritage..

Evaluating the effects of oral contraceptive use on biomarkers and body composition during a competitive season in collegiate female soccer players. [Dataset] (2021)
Data
BOZZINI, B.N., MCFADDEN, B.A., ELLIOTT-SALE, K.J., SWINTON, P.A. and ARENT, S.M. [2021]. Evaluating the effects of oral contraceptive use on biomarkers and body composition during a competitive season in collegiate female soccer players. [Dataset]. Hosted on Figshare [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12996794

High training demands throughout the competitive season in female collegiate soccer players have been shown to induce changes in biomarkers indicative of stress, inflammation, and reproduction, which may be exacerbated in athletes using oral contrace... Read More about Evaluating the effects of oral contraceptive use on biomarkers and body composition during a competitive season in collegiate female soccer players. [Dataset].

A review of state-of-the-art in face presentation attack detection: from early development to advanced deep learning and multi-modal fusion methods. (2021)
Journal Article
ABDULLAKUTTY, F., ELYAN, E. and JOHNSTON, P. 2021. A review of state-of-the-art in face presentation attack detection: from early development to advanced deep learning and multi-modal fusion methods. Information fusion [online], 75, pages 55-69. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2021.04.015

Face Recognition is considered one of the most common biometric solutions these days and is widely used across a range of devices for various security purposes. The performance of FR systems has improved by orders of magnitude over the past decade. T... Read More about A review of state-of-the-art in face presentation attack detection: from early development to advanced deep learning and multi-modal fusion methods..

Mathematical modelling of a static concentrating photovoltaic: simulation and experimental validation. (2021)
Journal Article
MUHAMMAD-SUKKI, F., FAROOQ, H., ABU-BAKAR, S.H., ARDILA-REY, J.A., SELLAMI, N., KILPATRICK, C., MUHTAZARUDDIN, M.N., BANI, N.A. and ZULKIPLI, M. 2021. Mathematical modelling of a static concentrating photovoltaic: simulation and experimental validation. Applied sciences [online], 11(9), article 3894. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/app11093894

For the past twenty years, there has been increasing interest and investment in solar photovoltaic (PV) technology. One particular area of interest is the development of concentrating PV (CPV), especially for use in building integration. Many CPV des... Read More about Mathematical modelling of a static concentrating photovoltaic: simulation and experimental validation..

Development of a student-led pulmonary rehabilitation maintenance clinic. (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
KNIGHT, S. 2021. Development of a student-led pulmonary rehabilitation maintenance clinic. Presented at the 2021 Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Respiratory Care annual conference (ACPRC 2021), 23-24 April 2021, [virtual event].

The emergence of SARS coronavirus-2 has disrupted education and requires attention from Health Sciences educators. Logistical challenges and concerns for patient safety are evident, recognising that students may potentially spread the virus when asym... Read More about Development of a student-led pulmonary rehabilitation maintenance clinic..