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Against all odds, from all-girls schools to all-boys workplaces : women's unsuspecting trajectory into the UK ICT sector (2010)
Book Chapter
Griffiths, M., & Richardson, H. (2010). Against all odds, from all-girls schools to all-boys workplaces : women's unsuspecting trajectory into the UK ICT sector. In S. Booth, S. Goodman, & G. Kirkup (Eds.), Gender Issues in Learning and Working with Information Technology (99-112). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-813-5

The trend of women being severely under-represented in the UK ICT sector persists. Girls continue, year in year out, to excel in academia whilst initiatives are put in place to challenge the gender employment gap in IT professions. As part of a large... Read More about Against all odds, from all-girls schools to all-boys workplaces : women's unsuspecting trajectory into the UK ICT sector.

The role of privately owned sports related green spaces in urban ecological frameworks (2009)
Book Chapter
James, P., & Gardner, E. (2009). The role of privately owned sports related green spaces in urban ecological frameworks. In P. Clark, M. Niemi, & J. Niemela (Eds.), Sport, recreation and green space in the European city (161-170). Helsinki: SKS Kirjat. https://doi.org/10.21435/sfh.16

An ecological framework seeks to maintain ecological processes in the wider landscape and to conserve ecosystems, habitats, species, genetic diversity, and landscapes of importance. As greater attention is paid to ecological frameworks and in part... Read More about The role of privately owned sports related green spaces in urban ecological frameworks.

Comparing the end to end latency of an immersive collaborative environment and a video conference (2009)
Book Chapter
Roberts, D., Duckworth, T., Moore, C., Wolff, R., & O'Hare, J. (2009). Comparing the end to end latency of an immersive collaborative environment and a video conference. In 2009 13th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/DS-RT.2009.43

Latency in a communication system can result in confusing a conversation through loss of causality as people exchange verbal and non-verbal nuances. This paper compares true end-to-end latencies across an immersive virtual environment and a video... Read More about Comparing the end to end latency of an immersive collaborative environment and a video conference.

Diversity in architecture : Glossary of sustainability (2009)
Book Chapter
Elkadi, H. (2009). Diversity in architecture : Glossary of sustainability. In S. Küchler, & S. Wallman (Eds.), Diversity management in practice : A cross-cultural & multi-disciplinary annotated bibliography addressing policy and well-being. Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press

Digital construction through BIM systems will drive the re-engineering of construction business practices (2009)
Book Chapter
Mihindu, S., & Arayici, Y. (2009). Digital construction through BIM systems will drive the re-engineering of construction business practices. In Visualisation: in built and rural environments (29-34). IEEE computer society

The construction industry has been facing a paradigm shift to (i) increase; productivity, efficiency, infrastructure value, quality and sustainability, (ii) reduce; lifecycle costs, lead times and duplications, via effective collaboration and communi... Read More about Digital construction through BIM systems will drive the re-engineering of construction business practices.

AI in software engineering : current developments and future prospects (2009)
Book Chapter
Meziane, F., & Vadera, S. (2009). AI in software engineering : current developments and future prospects. In F. Meziane, & S. Vadera (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence Applications for Improved Software Engineering Development: New Prospects (273-294). Hershey, New York, USA: IGI Global

Artificial intelligences techniques such as knowledge based systems, neural networks, fuzzy logic and data mining have been advocated by many researchers and developers as the way to improve many of the software development activities. As with many o... Read More about AI in software engineering : current developments and future prospects.

Preparing learners for a digital world (2009)
Book Chapter
Keegan, H. (2009). Preparing learners for a digital world. In R. Smith (Ed.), Effective practice in a digital age (32-33). JISC

Effective Practice in a Digital Age is designed for those in further and higher education whose focus is on designing and supporting learning: academic staff, lecturers, tutors and learning support staff, facilitators, learning technologists and staf... Read More about Preparing learners for a digital world.

Potential obstacles to use BIM in architectural design (2009)
Book Chapter
Kiviniemi, A., & Fischer, M. (2009). Potential obstacles to use BIM in architectural design. In G. Shen, P. Brandon, & A. Baldwin (Eds.), Collaborative Construction Information Management (36-54). London: Taylor and Francis

The Architectural, Engineering and Construction (AEC) practices are facing a radical change because of the emerging use of Building Information Models (BIM) instead of traditional CAD and 2D drafting. The change is starting to affect the work of arch... Read More about Potential obstacles to use BIM in architectural design.

A theoretical self-consistent field study of mixed interfacial biopolymer films (2009)
Book Chapter
Ettelaie, R., Akinshina, A., & Dickinson, E. (2009). A theoretical self-consistent field study of mixed interfacial biopolymer films. In Micro/Nanoencapsulation of Active Food Ingredients (46-66). ACS Publications. https://doi.org/10.1021/bk-2009-1007.ch003

The adsorption of a linear polyelectrolyte onto an existing layer of protein at an interface has been investigated. Calculations using a simple model, involving only the short range interactions, show that the polyelectrolyte forms a more extended di... Read More about A theoretical self-consistent field study of mixed interfacial biopolymer films.

Private finance initiative in use (2009)
Book Chapter
Chinyio, E., & Gameson, R. (2009). Private finance initiative in use. In A. Akintoye, & M. Beck (Eds.), Policy, finance and management for public-private partnerships (3-26). UK: Wiley-Blackwell

This chapter reviews the performance of the ‘Private Finance Initiative’ (PFI) in terms of service operation. Since its implementation in 1992, several PFI schemes have now gone into their operational phase, so an examination of the quality of servic... Read More about Private finance initiative in use.

A new and improved skin detection method using mixed color space (2009)
Book Chapter
Aznaveh, M., Mirzaei, H., Roshan, E., & Saraee, M. (2009). A new and improved skin detection method using mixed color space. In Human-Computer Systems Interaction (471-480). Berlin: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03202-8_37

In this paper a new and robust approach of skin detection is proposed. In the previous proposed system, we introduced a method for skin detection based on RGB vector space. An extended and modified approach based on a mixed color space is presented.... Read More about A new and improved skin detection method using mixed color space.

Il porto a mare [The sea port] (2009)
Book Chapter
Balbo, R., Grimaldi, P., La Vella, L., & Musso, B. (2009). Il porto a mare [The sea port]. In B. Musso, & R. Roscelli (Eds.), BRUCO: Bi-level Rail Underpass for Container Operations. Torino: Celid

Housing finance and mortgage markets in The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia (2009)
Book Chapter
Parsa, A., & Mulazadeh, M. A. (2009). Housing finance and mortgage markets in The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. In D. Ben-Shahar, C. K. Y. Leung, & S. E. Ong (Eds.), Mortgage Markets Worldwide (123-160). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444302301.ch6

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction, Housing finance, Housing mortgage in a socialist economy, The Czech Republic, Mortgage banking, Hungary, Housing finance system in Hungary, Loan guarantee measures, Poland, Financial institution... Read More about Housing finance and mortgage markets in The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.

IT Infrastructure for Supporting Multidisciplinary Urban Planning (2009)
Book Chapter
Fernando, T., Aouad, G., Fu, C., & Yao, J. (2009). IT Infrastructure for Supporting Multidisciplinary Urban Planning. In R. Cooper, G. Evans, & C. Boyko (Eds.), Designing Sustainable Cities (242-262). London: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Urban planning is a complex and multidisciplinary decision-making process which concerns with the complex management of change within the built and natural environment that aims to plan the urban environment in terms of its physical, social, legal, e... Read More about IT Infrastructure for Supporting Multidisciplinary Urban Planning.