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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.

Power, Status and War: The Archaeology of the Castle in North West England. (2012)
Book Chapter
Nevell, M., Nevell, R., & Grimsditch, B. (2012). Power, Status and War: The Archaeology of the Castle in North West England. In Buckton Castle and the Castles of North West England (1-35). University of Salford: Centre for Applied Archaeology

Buckton Castle is one of the least known, but most dramatically situated, castles in North West England. Its origins have been shrouded in mystery until quite recently, with tales of treasure and battles, but little in the way of hard fact. This mono... Read More about Power, Status and War: The Archaeology of the Castle in North West England..

Mobile and semantic web-based delivery of context-aware information and services in construction (2012)
Book Chapter
Anumba, C., Aziz, Z., & Ruikar, D. (2012). Mobile and semantic web-based delivery of context-aware information and services in construction. In C. Anumba, & X. Wang (Eds.), Mobile and Pervasive Computing in Construction (11-25). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118422281.ch2

This chapter discusses the integrated use of mobile communication technologies and the Semantic Web to provide context-aware information and services within the construction sector. Emerging technologies such as Wi-Fi, IEEE 802.11, 4G, Web Services a... Read More about Mobile and semantic web-based delivery of context-aware information and services in construction.

Excellence, relevance and the construction of regional science policy : science frictions and fictions in the North West of England (2012)
Book Chapter
Perry, B. (2012). Excellence, relevance and the construction of regional science policy : science frictions and fictions in the North West of England. In R. Pinheiro, P. Benneworth, & G. Jones (Eds.), Universities and regional development: A critical assessment of tensions and contradictions (105-123). London: Routledge

Like many developed and developing economies around the globe, the UK has embraced the concept of the knowledge economy as a route to economic prosperity and growth. e roles that universities can play in national economic development, through collabo... Read More about Excellence, relevance and the construction of regional science policy : science frictions and fictions in the North West of England.

The grocers’ warehouse, Castlefield: the first true canal warehouse? (2012)
Book Chapter
Nevell, M. (2012). The grocers’ warehouse, Castlefield: the first true canal warehouse?. In Bridgewater 250. The Archaeology of the World's First Industrial Canal (83-92). Salford: Centre for Applied Archaeology, University of Salford

This article studies the archaeology and development of the Grocers' Warehouse at the Castelfield terminus of the Bridgewater Canal in Manchester. Built around 1770 it argues that it was the first canal warehouse to use internal split-level loading a... Read More about The grocers’ warehouse, Castlefield: the first true canal warehouse?.

The Bridgewater in Cheshire: Recent archaeological investigations (2012)
Book Chapter
Nevell, M. (2012). The Bridgewater in Cheshire: Recent archaeological investigations. In M. Nevell, & T. Wyke (Eds.), Bridgewater 250. The Archaeology of the World's First Industrial Canal (93-104). Salford: Centre for Applied Archaeology, University of Salford

The book chapter reviews nearly two decades of archaeological resesearch along the Cheshire extension of the Bridgewater Canal, opened in 1776. This includes studies of Cornbrook Weir, the Dunham Aqueduct, Runcorn terminus and the surviving buildings... Read More about The Bridgewater in Cheshire: Recent archaeological investigations.

New concepts of post occupancy evaluation (POE) utilizing BIM benchmarking techniques and sensing devices (2012)
Book Chapter
Coates, S., Arayici, Y., & Ozturk, Z. (2012). New concepts of post occupancy evaluation (POE) utilizing BIM benchmarking techniques and sensing devices. In Sustainability in Energy and Buildings (319-329). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27509-8_27

Traditionally Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) is conducted against the prescribed performance specification and it mainly relies on two activities; i) The effective collection of real world data and information and ii) the formulation of this data /... Read More about New concepts of post occupancy evaluation (POE) utilizing BIM benchmarking techniques and sensing devices.

Urbanisation and climate change (2012)
Book Chapter
Hammond, F., Gyau, K., & Adiaba, S. (2012). Urbanisation and climate change. In C. Booth, F. Hammond, J. Lamond, & D. Proverbs (Eds.), Solutions to Climate Change Challenges in the Built Environment. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing / Wiley

Successes and failures in plant-insect interactions: Is it possible to stay one step ahead of the insects? (2012)
Book Chapter
Gatehouse, A., & Ferry, N. (2012). Successes and failures in plant-insect interactions: Is it possible to stay one step ahead of the insects?. . Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3873-7_4

Home Arthropod-Plant Interactions Chapter Successes and Failures in Plant-Insect Interactions: Is it Possible to Stay One Step Ahead of the Insects? Angharad Gatehouse & Natalie Ferry Chapter First Online: 01 January 2012 1567 Accesses Par... Read More about Successes and failures in plant-insect interactions: Is it possible to stay one step ahead of the insects?.

From interpretation to action; standards for evaluating ethnography in the built environment (2012)
Book Chapter
Rooke, J., & Rooke, C. (2012). From interpretation to action; standards for evaluating ethnography in the built environment. In S. Pink, D. Tutt, & A. Dainty (Eds.), Ethnographic research in the construction industry (141-159). Abingdon: Routledge

The development of ethnographic work in construction management in recent years has been associated with a growing challenge to the dominant positivist paradigm within the subject area. Ethnography, with its emphasis on shared meaning and its conseq... Read More about From interpretation to action; standards for evaluating ethnography in the built environment.

From interpretation to action; unique adequacy as a common standard for the evaluation of research in the built environment (2012)
Book Chapter
built environment. In S. Pink, & D. Tutt (Eds.), Ethnographic Research in the Construction Industry (141-159). Abingdon: Routledge

The development of ethnographic work in construction management in recent years has been associated with a growing challenge to the dominant positivist paradigm within the subject area. Ethnography, with its emphasis on shared meaning and its cons... Read More about From interpretation to action; unique adequacy as a common standard for the evaluation of research in the built environment.

An investigation of the performance of informative samples preservation methods (2012)
Book Chapter
Xiong, J., & Li, Y. (2012). An investigation of the performance of informative samples preservation methods. In Z. Qian, L. Cao, W. Su, T. Wang, & H. Yang (Eds.), Recent Advances in Computer Science and Information Engineering (13-18). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25781-0_3

Instance-based learning algorithms make prediction/generalization based on the stored instances. Storing all instances of large data size applications causes huge memory requirements and slows program execution speed; it may make the prediction proce... Read More about An investigation of the performance of informative samples preservation methods.

Heavy metal free quantum dots and their applications (2012)
Book Chapter
Irshad, A., Yates, H., & Glarvey, P. (2012). Heavy metal free quantum dots and their applications. In Proceedings of the 3rd CSE Postgraduate Research Doctoral School Conference (14-16). University of Salford

In January 2011, a KTP project between Salford University and Nanoco Technologies was initiated to develop alternative, more efficient commercially viable routes to heavy metal-free quantum dots (QDs) allowing the exploitation of developing markets i... Read More about Heavy metal free quantum dots and their applications.