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The practice of construction management : people and business performance (2004)
Book
Fryer, B., Egbu, C., Ellis, R., & Gorse, C. (2004). The practice of construction management : people and business performance. Wiley-Blackwell

This book offers construction managers and students a readable account of management ideas and practices, concentrating particularly on the human side of construction management. It pulls together what has been learned both from management practice a... Read More about The practice of construction management : people and business performance.

Planning For Claims: An Ethnography of Industry Culture (2004)
Journal Article
Rooke, J., Seymour, D., & Fellows, R. (2004). Planning For Claims: An Ethnography of Industry Culture. Construction Management and Economics, 22(6), 655-662. https://doi.org/10.1080/014461904200026324

Claims by contractors for additional payments have been identified by commentators as a major source of difficulty in the industry. Ethnographic research with industry members reveals some key features of planning practices that underlie such events.... Read More about Planning For Claims: An Ethnography of Industry Culture.

Planning For Claims: An Ethnography of Industry Culture (2004)
Journal Article
Rooke, J., Seymour, D., & Fellows, R. (2004). Planning For Claims: An Ethnography of Industry Culture. Construction Management and Economics, 22(6), 655-662. https://doi.org/10.1080/014461904200026324

Claims by contractors for additional payments have been identified by commentators as a major source of difficulty in the industry. Ethnographic research with industry members reveals some key features of planning practices that underlie such events.... Read More about Planning For Claims: An Ethnography of Industry Culture.

An IFC-based Space Analysis for Accessibility Layout for all Users (2004)
Journal Article
Wu, S., Lee, A., Koh, W., Aouad, G., & Fu, C. (2004). An IFC-based Space Analysis for Accessibility Layout for all Users. Construction innovation (London. Online), 4(3), 129-141. https://doi.org/10.1191/1471417504ci072oa

An accessible or inclusive building design does not disable any user; it should enable the independent and equal use of a facility by all. With the introduction of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA), the consideration of issues such as acce... Read More about An IFC-based Space Analysis for Accessibility Layout for all Users.

An IFC-based Space Analysis for Accessibility Layout for all Users (2004)
Journal Article
Wu, S., Lee, A., Koh, W., Aouad, G., & Fu, C. (2004). An IFC-based Space Analysis for Accessibility Layout for all Users. Construction innovation (London. Online), 4(3), 129-141. https://doi.org/10.1191/1471417504ci072oa

An accessible or inclusive building design does not disable any user; it should enable the independent and equal use of a facility by all. With the introduction of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA), the consideration of issues such as acce... Read More about An IFC-based Space Analysis for Accessibility Layout for all Users.

Development of the Brunel Balance Assessment: a new measure of balance disability post stroke (2004)
Journal Article
Tyson, S., & DeSouza, L. (2004). Development of the Brunel Balance Assessment: a new measure of balance disability post stroke. Clinical Rehabilitation, 18(7), 801-810. https://doi.org/10.1191/0269215504cr744oa

Objective: To report the psychometric properties of the Brunel Balance Assessment (BBA), a new test of balance disability post stroke.

Design: Data from 92 subjects were collected and cohorts used to test hierarchical scaling, reliability and vali... Read More about Development of the Brunel Balance Assessment: a new measure of balance disability post stroke.

Innovation in engineering education (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Laws, E. (2004, June). Innovation in engineering education. Presented at International Conference on Engineering Education and Research (ICEER): 'Progress Through Partnership', University of Ostrava, Czechoslovakia

One scan is enough: Optimising association rules mining (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Saraee, M., & Al-Mejrab, M. (2004, June). One scan is enough: Optimising association rules mining. Presented at The 2004 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering, June 21-24, 2004, Las Vegas, USA

Data mining is as a new area of research has taken its place as one of the most important techniques in the decision making process. Mining association rules is one of simple yet powerful technique in the data mining process The problem of mining ass... Read More about One scan is enough: Optimising association rules mining.

Data mining application : case of road traffic accidents in the UK West Midlands area 2000 (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Saraee, M., Kerry, J., Lloyd, M., & Markey, C. (2004, June). Data mining application : case of road traffic accidents in the UK West Midlands area 2000. Presented at IC-AI, Las Vegas, USA

We are aiming to use data mining techniques in the analysis of data recorded about road traffic accidents in the UK West Midlands Area in the year 2000. This data will then hopefully provide drivers with guidelines relating to what measures can be t... Read More about Data mining application : case of road traffic accidents in the UK West Midlands area 2000.

SVM categorizer: a generic categorization tool using support vector machines (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Kapoutsis, E., Theodoulidis, B., & Saraee, M. (2004, June). SVM categorizer: a generic categorization tool using support vector machines. Presented at IC-AI 2004, Las Vegas, USA

Supervised text categorisation is a significant tool considering the vast amount of structured, unstruc-tured, or semi-structured texts that are available from internal or external enterprise resources. The goal of supervised text categorisation is t... Read More about SVM categorizer: a generic categorization tool using support vector machines.