Solitary bee larvae prioritize carbohydrate over protein in parentally provided pollen (2021)
Journal Article
Austin, A. J., & Gilbert, J. D. (2021). Solitary bee larvae prioritize carbohydrate over protein in parentally provided pollen. Functional ecology, 35(5), 1069-1080. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13746

1. Most organisms must regulate their nutritional intake in an environment full of complex food choices. While this process is well understood for self-sufficient organisms, dependent offspring, such as bee larvae, in practice have limited food choic... Read More about Solitary bee larvae prioritize carbohydrate over protein in parentally provided pollen.

Sporopollenin as a dilution agent in artificial diets for solitary bees (2020)
Journal Article
Tainsh, F., Woodmansey, S. R., Austin, A. J., Bagnall, T. E., & Gilbert, J. D. (in press). Sporopollenin as a dilution agent in artificial diets for solitary bees. Apidologie, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-020-00801-1

Nutritional studies often require precise control of nutrients via dilution of artificial diets with indigestible material, but such studies in bees are limited. Common diluents like cellulose typically result in total mortality of bee larvae, making... Read More about Sporopollenin as a dilution agent in artificial diets for solitary bees.

Detection of nitrous oxide using infrared optical plasmonics coupled with carbon nanotubes (2020)
Journal Article
Allsop, T., Al Araimi, M., Neal, R., Wang, C., Culverhouse, P., Ania-Castañón, J. D., …Rozhin, A. (2020). Detection of nitrous oxide using infrared optical plasmonics coupled with carbon nanotubes. Nanoscale advances, 2(10), 4615-4626. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0na00525h

© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2020. Interest in gas sensing using functionalised carbon nanotubes is a major area of research that utilises changes in their electrical properties induced by the reaction with a specific gas. This paper describes sp... Read More about Detection of nitrous oxide using infrared optical plasmonics coupled with carbon nanotubes.

Predation drives recurrent convergence of an interspecies mutualism (2018)
Journal Article
Feeney, W. E., Brooker, R. M., Johnston, L. N., Gilbert, J. D., Besson, M., Lecchini, D., …Manica, A. (2019). Predation drives recurrent convergence of an interspecies mutualism. Ecology letters, 22(2), 256-264. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13184

Mutualisms are fundamental ecological interactions that underpin much of the world’s biodiversity. Recent studies have demonstrated how external pressures, such as predation, can regulate the dynamics of interspecific interactions and cause the break... Read More about Predation drives recurrent convergence of an interspecies mutualism.

Skew in ovarian activation depends on domicile size in phyllode-glueing thrips (2018)
Journal Article
Gilbert, J. D., Wells, A., & Simpson, S. J. (2018). Skew in ovarian activation depends on domicile size in phyllode-glueing thrips. Scientific reports, 8(1), Article 3597. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-21635-z

Costs and benefits of group living are a fundamental topic in behavioural ecology. Resource availability affects individuals’ breeding prospects alone and in groups, as well as how reproduction is distributed within groups (“reproductive skew”). Here... Read More about Skew in ovarian activation depends on domicile size in phyllode-glueing thrips.

Everything is connected: network thinking in entomology (2017)
Journal Article
Evans, D. M., Gilbert, J. D., & Port, G. R. (2017). Everything is connected: network thinking in entomology. Ecological entomology, 42, 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1111/een.12449

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Aposematism in the burying beetle? Dual function of anal fluid in parental care and chemical defense (2017)
Journal Article
Lindstedt, C., Boncoraglio, G., Cotter, S., Gilbert, J., & Kilner, R. M. (2017). Aposematism in the burying beetle? Dual function of anal fluid in parental care and chemical defense. Behavioral ecology, 28(6), 1414-1422. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arx100

© 2017 The Author. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology. All rights reserved. Burying beetles (Nicrophorus vespilloides) bear distinctive and variable orange-black patterning on their ely... Read More about Aposematism in the burying beetle? Dual function of anal fluid in parental care and chemical defense.

Male genital titillators and the intensity of post-copulatory sexual selection across bushcrickets (2017)
Journal Article
Lehmann, G. U., Gilbert, J. D., Vahed, K., & Lehmann, A. W. (2017). Male genital titillators and the intensity of post-copulatory sexual selection across bushcrickets. Behavioral ecology, 28(5), 1198-1205. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arx094

Animal genitalia are diverse and a growing body of evidence suggests that they evolve rapidly under post-copulatory sexual selection. This process is predicted to be more intense in polyandrous species, although there have been very few comparative s... Read More about Male genital titillators and the intensity of post-copulatory sexual selection across bushcrickets.

Larval exposure to field-realistic concentrations of clothianidin has no effect on development rate, over-winter survival or adult metabolic rate in a solitary bee, Osmia bicornis (2017)
Journal Article
Nicholls, E., Fowler, R., Niven, J. E., Gilbert, J. D., & Goulson, D. (2017). Larval exposure to field-realistic concentrations of clothianidin has no effect on development rate, over-winter survival or adult metabolic rate in a solitary bee, Osmia bicornis. PeerJ, 5(6), e3417. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3417

© 2017 Nicholls et al. There is widespread concern regarding the effects of agro-chemical exposure on bee health, of which neonicotinoids, systemic insecticides detected in the pollen and nectar of both crops and wildflowers, have been the most stron... Read More about Larval exposure to field-realistic concentrations of clothianidin has no effect on development rate, over-winter survival or adult metabolic rate in a solitary bee, Osmia bicornis.

Towards an intraoral-based silent speech restoration system for post-laryngectomy voice replacement (2017)
Journal Article
Cheah, L. A., Gilbert, J. M., Gonzalez, J. A., Bai, J., Ell, S. R., Green, P. D., & Moore, R. K. (2017). Towards an intraoral-based silent speech restoration system for post-laryngectomy voice replacement. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 690, 22-38. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54717-6_2

© Springer International Publishing AG 2017, Silent Speech Interfaces (SSIs) are alternative assistive speech technologies that are capable of restoring speech communication for those individuals who have lost their voice due to laryngectomy or disea... Read More about Towards an intraoral-based silent speech restoration system for post-laryngectomy voice replacement.

Voice restoration after laryngectomy based on magnetic sensing of articulator movement and statistical articulation-to-speech conversion (2017)
Journal Article
Gonzalez, J. A., Cheah, L. A., Gilbert, J. M., Bai, J., Ell, S. R., Green, P. D., & Moore, R. K. (2017). Voice restoration after laryngectomy based on magnetic sensing of articulator movement and statistical articulation-to-speech conversion. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 690, 295-316. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54717-6_17

© Springer International Publishing AG 2017. In this work, we present a silent speech system that is able to generate audible speech from captured movement of speech articulators. Our goal is to help laryngectomy patients, i.e. patients who have lost... Read More about Voice restoration after laryngectomy based on magnetic sensing of articulator movement and statistical articulation-to-speech conversion.

Restoring Speech Following Total Removal of the Larynx (2017)
Journal Article
Gonzalez, J. A., Cheah, L. A., Green, P. D., Gilbert, J. M., Ell, S. R., Moore, R. K., & Holdsworth, E. (2017). Restoring Speech Following Total Removal of the Larynx. Studies in health technology and informatics, 242, 314-321. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-798-6-314

© 2017 The authors and IOS Press. All rights reserved. By speech articulator movement and training a transformation to audio we can restore the power of speech to someone who has lost their larynx. We sense changes in magnetic field caused by movemen... Read More about Restoring Speech Following Total Removal of the Larynx.

Macroecology of parental care in arthropods: higher mortality risk leads to higher benefits of offspring protection in tropical climates (2016)
Journal Article
Santos, E. S., Bueno, P. P., Gilbert, J. D. J., & Machado, G. (2017). Macroecology of parental care in arthropods: higher mortality risk leads to higher benefits of offspring protection in tropical climates. Biological Reviews, 92(3), 1688-1701. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12303

The intensity of biotic interactions varies around the world, in such a way that mortality risk imposed by natural enemies is usually higher in the tropics. A major role of offspring attendance is protection against natural enemies, so the benefits o... Read More about Macroecology of parental care in arthropods: higher mortality risk leads to higher benefits of offspring protection in tropical climates.

Analytical and finite-element study of optimal strain distribution in various beam shapes for energy harvesting applications (2016)
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Ooi, B. L., Gilbert, J. M., & Aziz, A. R. A. (2016). Analytical and finite-element study of optimal strain distribution in various beam shapes for energy harvesting applications. Acta Mechanica Sinica, 32(4), 670-683. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10409-016-0557-3

Due to the increasing demand for harvesting energy from environmental vibration, for use in self-powered electronic applications, cantilever-based vibration energy harvesting has attracted great interest from various parties and become one of the mos... Read More about Analytical and finite-element study of optimal strain distribution in various beam shapes for energy harvesting applications.

A silent speech system based on permanent magnet articulography and direct synthesis (2016)
Journal Article
Gonzalez, J. A., Cheah, L. A., Gilbert, J. M., Bai, J., Ell, S. R., Green, P. D., & Moore, R. K. (2016). A silent speech system based on permanent magnet articulography and direct synthesis. Computer speech & language, 39, 67-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2016.02.002

In this paper we present a silent speech interface (SSI) system aimed at restoring speech communication for individuals who have lost their voice due to laryngectomy or diseases affecting the vocal folds. In the proposed system, articulatory data cap... Read More about A silent speech system based on permanent magnet articulography and direct synthesis.

Modelling and optimisation of a bimorph piezoelectric cantilever beam in an energy harvesting application (2016)
Journal Article
Thein, C. K., Ooi, B. L., Liu, J. S., & Gilbert, J. M. (2016). Modelling and optimisation of a bimorph piezoelectric cantilever beam in an energy harvesting application. Journal of Engineering Science and Technology, 11(2), 212-227

Piezoelectric materials are excellent transducers in converting vibrational energy into electrical energy, and vibration-based piezoelectric generators are seen as an enabling technology for wireless sensor networks, especially in selfpowered devices... Read More about Modelling and optimisation of a bimorph piezoelectric cantilever beam in an energy harvesting application.

Analytical modeling for switched damping electromagnetic energy harvester (2016)
Journal Article
Ooi, B. L., Gilbert, J. M., Aziz, A. R. A., & Thein, C. K. (2016). Analytical modeling for switched damping electromagnetic energy harvester. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 379, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30117-4_1

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. This paper presents a novel switched damping method which is able to improve the operational bandwidth of a linear electromagnetic energy harvester. In this system, different damping coefficients,... Read More about Analytical modeling for switched damping electromagnetic energy harvester.

Integrating user-centred design in the development of a silent speech interface based on permanent magnetic articulography (2015)
Book Chapter
Cheah, L. A., Gilbert, J. M., Gonzalez, J. A., Bai, J., Ell, S. R., Fagan, M. J., …Rychenko, S. I. (2015). Integrating user-centred design in the development of a silent speech interface based on permanent magnetic articulography. In Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies; Communications in Computer and Information Science (324-337). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27707-3_20

Abstract: A new wearable silent speech interface (SSI) based on Permanent Magnetic Articulography (PMA) was developed with the involvement of end users in the design process. Hence, desirable features such as appearance, port-ability, ease of use and... Read More about Integrating user-centred design in the development of a silent speech interface based on permanent magnetic articulography.

Switching damping for a frequency-tunable electromagnetic energy harvester (2015)
Journal Article
Ooi, B. L., Gilbert, J. M., & Aziz, A. R. A. (2015). Switching damping for a frequency-tunable electromagnetic energy harvester. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 234, 311-320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2015.09.022

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. This paper demonstrates the possibility to widen the operational bandwidth of an electromagnetic energy harvester by switching the values of electrical damping coefficient at different points within the oscil... Read More about Switching damping for a frequency-tunable electromagnetic energy harvester.

Sex-biased parental care and sexual size dimorphism in a provisioning arthropod (2015)
Journal Article
Field, J., Shreeves, G., Kennedy, M., Brace, S., & Gilbert, J. D. J. (2015). Sex-biased parental care and sexual size dimorphism in a provisioning arthropod. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 69(12), 1897-1906. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-015-2002-1

The diverse selection pressures driving the evolution of sexual size dimorphism (SSD) have long been debated. Whilst the balance between fecundity selection and sexual selection has received much attention, explanations based on sex-specific ecology... Read More about Sex-biased parental care and sexual size dimorphism in a provisioning arthropod.