RDE vehicle emissions improvements assessed on a London route by Jamie Parnell, Mark Peckham, Byron Mason, Edward Winward

“…Euro 5 diesel, Euro 6 PHEV gasoline and Euro 6d-TEMP diesel passenger cars have been tested for tailpipe NOx on TfL’s “West London Route”. …”
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Ultra-wideband flat metamaterial GRIN lenses assisted with additive manufacturing technique by Shiyu Zhang, Ravi Kumar Arya, William Whittow, Darren Cadman, Raj Mittra, J. C. Vardaxoglou

“…Measured results demonstrate that the GRIN lenses improve the gain of open-ended waveguide sources by 8.7 to 15.6 dB over a wide frequency range from 12 to 40 GHz, with the realized gain of up to 23.6 dBi. …”
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Bespoke Luneburg lens for two-dimensional beam-steering antennas for satcomms on the move by Aakash Bansal, Harvinder Nagi, Paul Febvre, William Whittow

“…The lens design is used with a circularly polarized horn antenna, operating in the Ku Band of 10 to 15 GHz with a total efficiency greater than 80% and presents a gain of 20.6 dBi.…”
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GPU computing for accelerating the numerical Path Integration approach by Panagiotis Alevras, Daniil Yurchenko

“…Three degree-of-freedom system (6D) is approached by the Path Integration technique for the first time. …”
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Feasibility study of 4G cellular antennas for eyewear communicating devices by Aykut Cihangir, William Whittow, Chinthana Panagamuwa, F. Ferrero, Gilles Jacquemod, Frederic Gianesello, Cyril Luxey

“…Three different antennas are examined in terms of obtainable bandwidth potential, reflection coefficient, and specific absorption rate (SAR) values considering two human-head models (SAM and Visible Human). The best antenna is -6 dB matched and has radiation efficiencies around 14% and 36% in respectively low and high frequency bands. …”
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Object recognition and localisation from 3D point clouds by maximum likelihood estimation by Harshana Dantanarayana, Jonathan Huntley

“…Surfaces segmented from depth images are used as the features, unlike ‘interest point’ based algorithms which normally discard such data. Compared to the 6D Hough transform it has negligible memory requirements, and is computationally efficient compared to iterative closest point (ICP) algorithms. …”
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Ultra-broadband antenna with robustness to body detuning for 4G eyewear devices by Aykut Cihangir, Chinthana Panagamuwa, William Whittow, Frederic Gianesello, Cyril Luxey

“…In order to overcome any negative effects from the antenna's surroundings (frequency detuning due to the head and the hand of the user), the antenna was designed to cover continuously the 700-2700 MHz band with a reflection coefficient below -6 dB instead of a dual-band behavior usually required for 4G operation: 700-960 MHz and 1700-2700 MHz. …”
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Wideband tilted beam end-fire antenna using double semi-circular rings by Amitkumar Patel, Chinthana Panagamuwa, William Whittow

“…Across this entire band, the antenna exhibits a return loss better than 12 dB and a gain exceeding 6.5 dBi, with a peak gain of 11.6 dBi at 40 GHz. The overall electrical size of the antenna is 1.28 x 1 x 0.08 $$\lambda _0^3$$ , where $$\lambda _{0}$$ corresponds to the free-space wavelength at 32 GHz. …”
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Evidence for seasonal subglacial outburst events at a polythermal-based glacier, Finsterwalderbreen, Svalbard by Jemma Wadham, Richard Hodgkins, Richard Cooper, Martyn Tranter

“…A 100 m high bedrock ridge traverses the glacier 6Ð5 km from its terminus. The overdeepened area up-glacier from this is the most probable site for subglacial meltwater accumulation.…”
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Effects of intermittent games activity on postprandial lipemia in young adults by Laura Barrett, John G. Morris, David Stensel, Mary Nevill

“…Trials were performed a minimum of 6 d apart in a balanced crossover design. In the rest trial, subjects took no exercise on day 1. …”
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The effect of experimental diabetes and glycaemic control on guided bone regeneration: histology and gene expression analyses by M. Retzepi, E. Calciolari, I. Wall, Mark Lewis, Nikolaos Donos

“…In 75 animals (25H, 25D, 25CD), one defect was treated with an intracranial and extracranial membrane according to the GBR principle, and one defect was left empty (control); five animals per group were then randomly sacrificed at 3, 7, 15, 30 and 60 days and processed for decalcified histology. In 18 animals (6H, 6D, 6CD), both defects were treated according to the GBR principle; three animals from each group were then randomly sacrificed at 7 and 15 days of healing and employed for gene expression analysis. …”
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Effects of sprint interval training on ectopic lipids and tissue-specific insulin sensitivity in men with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease by Jack Sargeant, Stephen Bawden, Guruprasad P. Aithal, Elizabeth J. Simpson, Ian MacDonald, Mark Turner, Jessica Cegielski, Kenneth Smith, James L. Dorling, Penny Gowland, Myra A. Nimmo, James King

“…IHTG, VAT and ScAT were measured using magnetic resonance spectroscopy or imaging and insulin sensitivity was assessed via dual-step hyperinsulinaemic-euglycaemic clamp with [6,6-D2] glucose tracer. Results: Participants adhered to SIT, completing ≥96.7% of prescribed intervals. …”
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Differential encoding techniques applied to speech signals by Constantinos S. Xydeas

“…The snr is increased by 6 dB compared with the peak snr of a First Order DPCM codea. …”
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COVID-19 lockdowns: a worldwide survey of circadian rhythms and sleep quality in 3911 athletes from 49 countries, with data-driven recommendations by M Romdhani, DE Rae, M Nédélec, A Ammar, H Chtourou, R Al Horani, H Ben Saad, N Bragazzi, G Dönmez, T Driss, HHK Fullagar, A Farooq, S Garbarino, O Hammouda, B Hassanmirzaei, K Khalladi, S Khemila, LJ Mataruna-Dos-Santos, I Moussa-Chamari, I Mujika, H Muñoz Helú, A Norouzi Fashkhami, LL Paineiras-Domingos, M Rahbari Khaneghah, Y Saita, K Trabelsi, JA Vitale, JA Washif, J Weber, N Souissi, Lee Taylor, K Chamari

“…Athletes went to bed (+ 75 min; 5.4%; d = 1.14) and woke up (+ 150 min; 34.5%; d = 1.71) later during lockdown with an increased total sleep time (+ 48 min; 10.6%; d = 0.83). Lockdown-mediated circadian disruption had more deleterious effects on the sleep quality of individual-sport athletes compared with team-sport athletes (p < 0.001; d = 0.41), elite compared with non-elite athletes (p = 0.028; d = 0.44) and older compared with younger (p = 0.008; d = 0.46) athletes.  …”
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Supplementary information files for COVID-19 lockdowns: a worldwide survey of circadian rhythms and sleep quality in 3911 athletes from 49 countries, with data-driven recommendatio... by Mohamed Romdhani, Dale E Rae, Mathieu Nédélec, Achraf Ammar, Hamdi Chtourou, Ramzi Al Horani, Helmi Ben Saad, Nicola Bragazzi, Gürhan Dönmez, Tarak Driss, Hugh HK Fullagar, Abdulaziz Farooq, Sergio Garbarino, Omar Hammouda, Bahar Hassanmirzaei, Karim Khalladi, Syrine Khemila, Leonardo Jose Mataruna-Dos-Santos, Imen Moussa-Chamari, Iñigo Mujika, Hussein Muñoz Helú, Amin Norouzi Fashkhami, Laisa Liane Paineiras-Domingos, Mehrshad Rahbari Khaneghah, Yoshitomo Saita, Khaled Trabelsi, Jacopo Antonino Vitale, Jad Adrian Washif, Johanna Weber, Nizar Souissi, Lee Taylor, Karim Chamari

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The effect of exercise and nutritional interventions on promoting adaptations to redox signalling by Josh Thorley

“…Accordingly, the experimental Chapters presented in this thesis explored the effects of exercise, exercise with (poly)phenol supplementation, and sex, on NRF2 activity in healthy, human participants.Chapter 3 investigated the effects of eccentric-heavy exercise and combined with 6 d supplementation of green tea, a popular therapeutic beverage abundant in (poly)phenols, on NRF2 activity in healthy male participants. …”
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