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SURF Urban knowledge arenas (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Marvin, S., & May, T. (2009, August). SURF Urban knowledge arenas. Presented at European Urban Infralab, Berlin

Life Cycle Costing applications in sustainable building (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Hartungi, R., & Pye, C. (2009, August). Life Cycle Costing applications in sustainable building. Presented at Theorizing Sustainable Architecture: Sustainable Building Design (SBD09), Edge Hill University

Life Cycle Costing (LCC) which is defined ISO 15686-5:2005 is used to assess the sustainable and renewable technology used in building. The results indicate that the premium cost of sustainable/renewable technology in building is surprisingly lower... Read More about Life Cycle Costing applications in sustainable building.

Web search personalization: A fuzzy adaptive approach (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Norouzzadeh, M., Bagheri, A., & Saraee, M. (2009, August). Web search personalization: A fuzzy adaptive approach. Presented at 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, 2009. ICCSIT 2009, Beijing, China,

Today the growing rate of Web data has become so large and this is the reason for turning search engines into the major decision support systems for the Internet. In this paper, a novel and simple approach is proposed to improve Web search. The appro... Read More about Web search personalization: A fuzzy adaptive approach.

Noise source localisation in a car environment (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Fazenda, B., Gu, F., Ball, A., & Guan, L. (2009, August). Noise source localisation in a car environment. Presented at 8th International Conference on Damage Assessment of Structures, Beijing

Spurious noise (rattles, squeaks, etc) in the interior of car cabinets can be annoying, distractive and indicative of potential performance problems. Fault finding these problems can be difficult since the fault is intermittent and may not necessaril... Read More about Noise source localisation in a car environment.

DOA estimation in car for abnormal sound localisation (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Guan, L., Gu, F., Fazenda, B., Ball, A., Yichun, Y., & Pengxiao, T. (2009, August). DOA estimation in car for abnormal sound localisation. Presented at 8th International Conference on Damage Assessment of Structures, Beijing

Spurious noise in car cabinet can be not only annoying bust also indicative of some potential faults. A small square microphone array with 4 sensors was adopted in this paper to localize the sound source in car for fault diagnosis. A new voice activ... Read More about DOA estimation in car for abnormal sound localisation.

Currnent and likely future performance of advanced natural ventilation (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Ji, Y., & Lomas, K. (2009, July). Currnent and likely future performance of advanced natural ventilation. Presented at Eleventh International IBPSA Conference, Glasgow, Scotland

Advanced natural ventilation (ANV), often characterised by the use of dedicated ventilation stacks, shafts and other architecture features such as atria, light wells, has gained popularity for natural ventilation design in recent decades. In this res... Read More about Currnent and likely future performance of advanced natural ventilation.

Human environmental heat transfer simulation with CFD – the advances and challenges (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Zhang, Y., Novieto, D., & Ji, Y. (2009, July). Human environmental heat transfer simulation with CFD – the advances and challenges. Presented at Eleventh International IBPSA Conference, Glasgow, Scotland

The modelling and prediction of human thermoregulatory responses and comfort have gone a long way during the past decades. Sophisticated and detailed human models, i.e. the active multi-nodal thermal models with physiological regulatory responses, ha... Read More about Human environmental heat transfer simulation with CFD – the advances and challenges.

A system to support the identification and extraction of information related to privacy policies in electronic commerce websites (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Meziane, F., Kasiran, M., & Prince, P. (2009, July). A system to support the identification and extraction of information related to privacy policies in electronic commerce websites. Presented at The Fourth European Conference on Intelligent Management systems in Operations, Salford, UK

Privacy has been identified by many studies as the main problem why customers are not completing their online transactions. They fear to provide sensitive information such as personal and financial details. It is not surprising that most websites now... Read More about A system to support the identification and extraction of information related to privacy policies in electronic commerce websites.

Application of self-organizing map to model a machining process (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Saraee, M., Moosavi, S., & Rezapoor, S. (2009, July). Application of self-organizing map to model a machining process. Presented at The 4th European Conference on Intelligent Management Systems in Operations, Salford, UK

Computation of multi-element aerofoil, high-lift aerodynamics at transonic flow conditions using transport equation turbulence models (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Johnston, L. (2009, July). Computation of multi-element aerofoil, high-lift aerodynamics at transonic flow conditions using transport equation turbulence models. Presented at 3rd European Conference for AeroSpace Sciences, Versailles, France

An unstructured-grid, Navier-Stokes flow solver is used to compute the transonic flow development over the SKF 1.1 supercritical aerofoil section, in clean configuration and equipped with either a trailing-edge flap or a leading-edge slat. A full dif... Read More about Computation of multi-element aerofoil, high-lift aerodynamics at transonic flow conditions using transport equation turbulence models.

Online learning communities and social software: a mentoring approach to 21st century skills (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Keegan, H., & Mendes Da Costa, C. (2009, July). Online learning communities and social software: a mentoring approach to 21st century skills. Presented at EDULEARN 2009, Barcelona, Spain

The rise of social software, often termed Web 2.0, has resulted in heightened awareness of the opportunities for creative and innovative approaches to learning that are afforded by network technologies. 21st century learning demands new pedagogies, w... Read More about Online learning communities and social software: a mentoring approach to 21st century skills.

Impact of post disaster waste management towards disaster risk reduction (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Karunasena, G., Amaratunga, R., & Haigh, R. (2009, July). Impact of post disaster waste management towards disaster risk reduction. Presented at National Symposium on Promoting Knowledge Transfer to Strengthen Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adoption, Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Urban ecological security : a new paradigm? (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Hodson, M., & Marvin, S. (2009, June). Urban ecological security : a new paradigm?. Presented at International Conference on Human Ecology, Manchester

Computational requirements of the virtual patient (2009)
Presentation / Conference
John, N., Hughes, C., Pop, S., Vidal, F., & Buckley, O. (2009, June). Computational requirements of the virtual patient. Presented at 1st International Conference on Mathematical and Computational Biomedical Engineering, Swansea, UK

Medical visualization in a hospital can be used to aid training, diagnosis, and pre- and intra-operative planning. In such an application, a virtual representation of a patient is needed that is interactive, can be viewed in three dimensions (3D), an... Read More about Computational requirements of the virtual patient.

Particle methods for a virtual patient (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Buckley, O., Hughes, C., John, N., & Pop, S. (2009, June). Particle methods for a virtual patient. Presented at 1st International Conference on Mathematical and Computational Biomedical Engineering, Swansea, UK

The particle systems approach is a well known technique in computer graphics for modelling fuzzy objects such as fire and clouds. The algorithm has also been applied to different biomedical applications and this paper presents two such methods: a cha... Read More about Particle methods for a virtual patient.

Effective monitoring and process control in semi-conductor manufacturing using feature selection (2009)
Presentation / Conference
McCann, M., Li, Y., Maguire, L., & Johnston, A. (2009, June). Effective monitoring and process control in semi-conductor manufacturing using feature selection. Presented at 6th International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Machinery Failure Prevention Technologies 2009, Dublin, Ireland

In semi conductor manufacturing the wafer fabrication process is under constant surveillance via the stringent monitoring of measurements and signals collected from metrology steps and machine sensors. However, not all of this data is equally valuabl... Read More about Effective monitoring and process control in semi-conductor manufacturing using feature selection.

An international research agenda for urban green (2009)
Presentation / Conference
James, P., Tzoulas, K., Adams, M., Barber, A., Box, J., Breuste, J., …Thompson, C. (2009, June). An international research agenda for urban green. Poster presented at International Symposium on Urban Wildlife, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

Urban ecological security : a new paradigm? (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Hodson, M., & Marvin, S. (2009, June). Urban ecological security : a new paradigm?. Presented at The Biopolitics Resilience Second Workshop, Claus Moser Research Centre, University of Keele