School of Science, Engineering & Environment

Sustainable soundscapes : noise policy and the urban experience (2006)
Journal Article
Adams, M., Cox, T., Moore, G., Croxford, B., & Refaee, M. (2006). Sustainable soundscapes : noise policy and the urban experience. Urban Studies, 43(13), 2385-2398. https://doi.org/10.1080/00420980600972504

This paper introduces regulatory components influencing city soundscapes in Europe and the UK, illustrating the abatement approach taken within noise policy, demonstrating the importance of individual experience in assessing the soundscapes of urban... Read More about Sustainable soundscapes : noise policy and the urban experience.

Modelling 3D scanned data to visualise and analyse the Built Environment for regeneration (2006)
Journal Article
Arayici, Y., Hamilton, A., & Gamito, P. (2006). Modelling 3D scanned data to visualise and analyse the Built Environment for regeneration. Surveying and built environment, 17(2), 7-28

The renovation and refurbishment market is rapidly expanding in the construction industry. The regeneration and transformation of cities from the industrial age (unsustainable) to the knowledge age (sustainable) is essentially a "whole life cycle" pr... Read More about Modelling 3D scanned data to visualise and analyse the Built Environment for regeneration.

Innovation in small construction knowledge-intensive professional service firms: a case study of an architectural practice (2006)
Journal Article
Lu, S., & Sexton, M. (2006). Innovation in small construction knowledge-intensive professional service firms: a case study of an architectural practice. Construction Management and Economics, 24(12), 1269-1282. https://doi.org/10.1080/01446190600879109

Small construction knowledge-intensive professional service firms (SCKIPSFs) are becoming increasingly important agents of innovation within the construction industry. The nature and process of innovation in SCKIPSFs, however, is generally considered... Read More about Innovation in small construction knowledge-intensive professional service firms: a case study of an architectural practice.

Causation in personal injury: legal or epidemiological common sense? (2006)
Journal Article
Miller, C. (2006). Causation in personal injury: legal or epidemiological common sense?. Legal Studies, 26(4), 544-569. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-121X.2006.00029.x

The approach adopted by epidemiologists when attributing a causal mechanism to an observed statistical association is contrasted with the common law of causation in personal injury cases. By recognising the need to distinguish between probabilistic m... Read More about Causation in personal injury: legal or epidemiological common sense?.

Sentence similarity based on semantic nets and corpus statistics (2006)
Journal Article
Li, Y., McLean, D., Bandar, Z., O'Shea, J., & Crockett, K. (2006). Sentence similarity based on semantic nets and corpus statistics. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 18(8), 1138-1150. https://doi.org/10.1109/TKDE.2006.130

Sentence similarity measures play an increasingly important role in text-related research and applications in areas such as text mining, Web page retrieval, and dialogue systems. Existing methods for computing sentence similarity have been adopted fr... Read More about Sentence similarity based on semantic nets and corpus statistics.

Developing a knowledge infrastructure for INTUITION network and future VR communities (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Mihindu, S. (2006, November). Developing a knowledge infrastructure for INTUITION network and future VR communities. Poster presented at Intuition, 3rd Workshop, Fellbach, Germany

Intuition Knowledge Base Software Tool (IKBST) is a centralised, Web-based tool for managing distributed VR related knowledge content and development work. It runs on an application server and an underlying database (PostgreSQL). For optimum security... Read More about Developing a knowledge infrastructure for INTUITION network and future VR communities.

Getting to no: managing the delicate business of refusing a contractor's claim (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Rooke, J. (2006, November). Getting to no: managing the delicate business of refusing a contractor's claim. Presented at Symposium on sustainability and value through construction procurement, CIB W092, Digital World Centre, Salford

A short transcript from a meeting between a contractor and employer's representatives is presented and analysed to reveal some of the conversational methods employed in the negotiation. A key sequence is analysed to show how the refusal to grant a cl... Read More about Getting to no: managing the delicate business of refusing a contractor's claim.

Contracts and production (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Koskela, L., Howell, G., & Lichtig, W. (2006, November). Contracts and production. Presented at CIB W92 Symposium on Sustainability and Value through Construction Procurement, Digital World Centre, Salford Quays

It is argued that a change in the prevailing theory of production is also influencing how contracts, especially in construction, are being conceived. It is contended that the theoretical shift in question, both in production and contracting, concern... Read More about Contracts and production.

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