School of Science, Engineering & Environment

Visitor influence on the behavior of captive greater rheas (Rhea americana, Rheidae Aves) (2012)
Journal Article
de Azevedo, C., Lima, M., da Silva, V., Young, R., & Rodrigues, M. (2012). Visitor influence on the behavior of captive greater rheas (Rhea americana, Rheidae Aves). Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 15(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/10888705.2012.624895

Visitors can affect and reduce the welfare of nonhuman animals. The Belo Horizonte Zoo, Brazil, had a group of greater rheas intended for reintroduction to the wild. Because this group received public visitation, evaluating its effect on the birds' b... Read More about Visitor influence on the behavior of captive greater rheas (Rhea americana, Rheidae Aves).

Apportioning liability in construction delay claims : an evaluation of contemporary practices in the U.A.E. and a proposal for improvements (2012)
Thesis
Perera, N. Apportioning liability in construction delay claims : an evaluation of contemporary practices in the U.A.E. and a proposal for improvements. (Thesis). University of Salford

Various theories, concepts and methodologies exist for apportioning liabilities in construction delay claims. Yet, there is no much consensus among the practitioners towards them. Often, the implementation of these theories, concepts and methodolog... Read More about Apportioning liability in construction delay claims : an evaluation of contemporary practices in the U.A.E. and a proposal for improvements.

Metabolomic analyses show that electron donor and acceptor ratios control anaerobic electron transfer pathways in Shewanella oneidensis (2012)
Journal Article
Wang, H., Correa, E., Dunn, W., Winder, C., Goodacre, R., & Lloyd, J. (2013). Metabolomic analyses show that electron donor and acceptor ratios control anaerobic electron transfer pathways in Shewanella oneidensis. Metabolomics, 9(3), 642-656. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11306-012-0488-3

This study investigated the physiological impact of changing electron donor–acceptor ratios on electron transfer pathways in the metabolically flexible subsurface bacterium Shewanella oneidensis, using batch and chemostat cultures, with an azo dye (r... Read More about Metabolomic analyses show that electron donor and acceptor ratios control anaerobic electron transfer pathways in Shewanella oneidensis.

Parallel processing for real-time 3D reconstruction from video streams (2012)
Journal Article
Duckworth, T., & Roberts, D. (2014). Parallel processing for real-time 3D reconstruction from video streams. Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, 9(3), 427-445. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11554-012-0306-1

Our ultimate aim was to achieve commodity telepresence systems capable of communicating both what someone looks like and what, within the technology joined space, they are looking at. Towards this we have implemented a previously distributed approach... Read More about Parallel processing for real-time 3D reconstruction from video streams.

Linking sustainable urban drainage systems (SuDS) and ecosystem services: New connections in urban ecology (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Mak, C., James, P., & Scholz, M. (2012, December). Linking sustainable urban drainage systems (SuDS) and ecosystem services: New connections in urban ecology. Presented at British Ecological Society Annual Meeting (18-20 December 2012), University of Birmingham

The relationship between Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) and ecosystem services has not been articulated clearly, leading to misinformed and inadequate SuDS designs. A new conceptual model, informed by literature review, sets out the relationshi... Read More about Linking sustainable urban drainage systems (SuDS) and ecosystem services: New connections in urban ecology.

Effect of road narrowing on junction capacity using microsimulation (2012)
Journal Article
Yousif, S., Alterawi, M., & Henson, R. (2013). Effect of road narrowing on junction capacity using microsimulation. Journal of Transportation Engineering, 139(6), 574-584. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29TE.1943-5436.0000534

Traffic-calming measures have been widely used in urban areas, aiming sometimes to reduce vehicle flow rates but primarily to reduce speed and, hence, the number and severity of traffic accidents. The one-way priority working road narrowing (throttle... Read More about Effect of road narrowing on junction capacity using microsimulation.

Identification of coupling parameters between shear strength behaviour of compacted soils and chemical's effects with an evolutionary-based data mining technique (2012)
Journal Article
Cuisinier, O., Javadi, A. A., Ahangar-Asr, A., & Masrouri, F. (2013). Identification of coupling parameters between shear strength behaviour of compacted soils and chemical's effects with an evolutionary-based data mining technique. Computers and Geotechnics, 48, 107-116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2012.10.005

When subjected to a very high-pH, most of the soil minerals undergo physico-chemical transformation. This could induce strong modifications of the shear strength behaviour of the soil. This issue is of high interest in the framework of the design of... Read More about Identification of coupling parameters between shear strength behaviour of compacted soils and chemical's effects with an evolutionary-based data mining technique.

Preface to the workshop on cost sensitive data mining (2012)
Book Chapter
Vadera, S., Saraee, M., & Lomax, S. (2012). Preface to the workshop on cost sensitive data mining. In J. Vreeken, C. Ling, M. Zaki, A. Siebes, J. Yu, B. Goethals, …X. Wu (Eds.), The 12th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining : Workshops. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDMW.2012.148

Much of the early work on data mining concentrated on developing algorithms that focused on classification accuracy. A more challenging and practical problem is to devise algorithms that learn rules or associations that optimize income and take bette... Read More about Preface to the workshop on cost sensitive data mining.

A multi-armed bandit approach to cost-sensitive decision tree learning (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Lomax, S., Vadera, S., & Saraee, M. (2012, December). A multi-armed bandit approach to cost-sensitive decision tree learning. Presented at 2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, Brussels, Belgium

Several authors have studied the problem of inducing decision trees that aim to minimize costs of misclassification and take account of costs of tests. The approaches adopted vary from modifying the information theoretic attribute selection measure u... Read More about A multi-armed bandit approach to cost-sensitive decision tree learning.

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