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The relationship between research and teaching in built environment undergraduate education (2008)
Book Chapter
Wood, G. (2008). The relationship between research and teaching in built environment undergraduate education. In R. Haigh, & D. Amaratunga (Eds.), Building resilience, CIB W89 international conference on building education and research, in conjunction with CIB, W113, CIB TG53, CIB TG63, CIB TG67, CIB TG68, and CIB TG69 (364-375). Salford, UK: University of Salford

The research-teaching nexus debate is a complex and often contentious one which has received a good deal of attention in the UK in recent years. Based on an international survey of built environment academics and practitioners this study explores the... Read More about The relationship between research and teaching in built environment undergraduate education.

Interoperable knowledge: achievements and future challenges (2008)
Book Chapter
Barresi, S., & Rezgui, Y. (2008). Interoperable knowledge: achievements and future challenges. In P. Brandon, & T. Kocatürk (Eds.), Virtual futures for design, construction and procurement. USA: Wiley Blackwell Publishing

Virtualisation of disaster recovery centres (2008)
Book Chapter
Mihindu, S., & Khosrowshahi, F. (2008). Virtualisation of disaster recovery centres. In R. Haigh, & R. Amaratunga (Eds.), Building Resilience, CIB W89 International Conference on Building Education and Research (1979-1987). Salford, UK: University of Salford

Governments, NGOs and International organisations must work together and contribute towards strategic disaster recovery planning process of countries. Emergency management plans should be in place and tested fully well ahead of any adverse situations... Read More about Virtualisation of disaster recovery centres.

Some UK experience of gauging progress on introducing sustainable building practices in the construction sector (2008)
Book Chapter
Cooper, I., Crowhurst, D., Platt, S., & Woodall, R. (2008). Some UK experience of gauging progress on introducing sustainable building practices in the construction sector. In J. Yang, P. Brandon, & A. Sidwell (Eds.), Smart and sustainable built environments (289-299). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470759493.ch26

This chapter contains sections titled: Summary, Sustainability and continuous improvement in UK construction, How was MaSC developed, What is MaSC, Benchmarking current progress on sustainability in UK construction, The performance o... Read More about Some UK experience of gauging progress on introducing sustainable building practices in the construction sector.

Imagined worlds, future cultures (2008)
Book Chapter
Wheeler, S., & Keegan, H. (2008). Imagined worlds, future cultures. In W. Steve (Ed.), Connected minds, emerging cultures: Cybercultures in online learning (261-276). Charlotte, NC, USA: Information Age Publishing

A new linear appearance-based method in face recognition (2008)
Book Chapter
Hajiarbabi, M., Askari, J., Sadri, S., & Saraee, M. (2008). A new linear appearance-based method in face recognition. In Advances in Communication Systems and Electrical Engineering (579-587). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74938-9_39

Human identification recognition has attracted scientists for many years. During these years, and due to increases in terrorism, the need for such systems has increased much more. The most important biometric systems that have been used during these... Read More about A new linear appearance-based method in face recognition.

Case o citta? Abitare e amministrare il patrimonio architettonico. La “guida agli interventi sul Patrimonio” della Citta’ di Ivrea [Homes or city? Living and managing the built heritage. Guidelines for building regeneration on the Ivrea Heritage] (2008)
Book Chapter
Balbo, R. (2008). Case o citta? Abitare e amministrare il patrimonio architettonico. La “guida agli interventi sul Patrimonio” della Citta’ di Ivrea [Homes or city? Living and managing the built heritage. Guidelines for building regeneration on the Ivrea Heritage]. In C. Devoti (Ed.), La citta’ e le regole. Torino: Celid

Novel therapeutic strategies by regulatory T cells in allergy (2008)
Book Chapter
Elkord, E. (2008). Novel therapeutic strategies by regulatory T cells in allergy. In K. Blaser (Ed.), T Cell Regulation in Allergy, Asthma and Atopic Skin Diseases (150-157). Chemical Immunology and Allergy: Karger. https://doi.org/10.1159/000154999

Natural CD4+CD25+FoxP3+ regulatory T cells (Treg) actively suppress physiological and pathological responses, therefore playing a critical role in controlling peripheral tolerance to self antigens and maintaining immune homeostasis. In normal individ... Read More about Novel therapeutic strategies by regulatory T cells in allergy.

Postscript: a manifesto for a progressive networked urbanism (2008)
Book Chapter
Graham, S., & Marvin, S. (2008). Postscript: a manifesto for a progressive networked urbanism. In J. Hilier, & P. Healey (Eds.), Contemporary movements in planning theory: critical essays in planning theory. Aldershot: Ashgate

Planning Theory has a history of common debates about ideas and practices and is rooted in a critical concern for the 'improvement' of human and environmental well-being, particularly as pursued through interventions which seek to shape environmental... Read More about Postscript: a manifesto for a progressive networked urbanism.

Academic knowledge and urban development: theory, policy and practice (2008)
Book Chapter
Perry, B. (2008). Academic knowledge and urban development: theory, policy and practice. In T. Yigitcanlar (Ed.), Knowledge-based urban development: planning and applications in the information era (21-41). IGI Global

Covers theoretical, thematic, and country-specific issues of knowledge cities to underline the growing importance of KBUD all around the world

The participation of Black and minority ethnic graduates in science, engineering and technology occupations in the Northwest of England (2008)
Book Chapter
Booth, K., Takruri-Rizk, H., Welamedage, L., & Mansi, K. (2008). The participation of Black and minority ethnic graduates in science, engineering and technology occupations in the Northwest of England. In E. O'Doherty (Ed.), The Fourth Education in a Changing Environment Conference Book 2007 (331-352). Santa Rosa, California, USA: Informing Science Press

Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) have been at the heart of government policy priorities for many decades because of its contribution to the economy and exploitation of the science base is key to improving productivity and growing the market... Read More about The participation of Black and minority ethnic graduates in science, engineering and technology occupations in the Northwest of England.

A novel platform for context maintenance and discovery in a ubiquitous environment (2008)
Book Chapter
Liu, Q., & Linge, N. (2008). A novel platform for context maintenance and discovery in a ubiquitous environment. In M. Guo, Z. Wang, F. Tang, & C. Xu (Eds.), IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, 2008. EUC '08 (565-570). Los Alamitos, California, USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/EUC.2008.100

Context maintenance and discovery, which aim to represent, manage and share context information, have been discussed since context-awareness was presented in the 1990s. These become more challenging when being applied to a ubiquitous environment wher... Read More about A novel platform for context maintenance and discovery in a ubiquitous environment.

L-modified ILP evaluation functions for positive-only biological grammar learning (2008)
Book Chapter
Mamer, T., Bryant, C., & McCall, J. (2008). L-modified ILP evaluation functions for positive-only biological grammar learning. In F. Zelezny, & N. Lavrac (Eds.), Inductive logic programming (176-191). Berlin / Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85928-4_16

We identify a shortcoming of a standard positive-only clause evaluation function within the context of learning biological grammars. To overcome this shortcoming we propose L-modification, a modification to this evaluation function such that the leng... Read More about L-modified ILP evaluation functions for positive-only biological grammar learning.