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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.

Eye gaze in virtual environments: evaluating the need and initial work on implementation (2009)
Journal Article
Murray, N., Roberts, D., Steed, A., Sharkey, P., Dickerson, P., Rae, J., & Wolff, R. (2009). Eye gaze in virtual environments: evaluating the need and initial work on implementation. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 21(11), 1437-1449. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.1396

For efficient collaboration between participants, eye gaze is seen as being critical for interaction. Video conferencing either does not attempt to support eye gaze (e.g. AcessGrid) or only approximates it in round table conditions (e.g. life size... Read More about Eye gaze in virtual environments: evaluating the need and initial work on implementation.

A road-map to personalized context-aware services delivery in construction (2009)
Journal Article
Aziz, Z., Anumba, C., & Peña-mora, F. (2009). A road-map to personalized context-aware services delivery in construction. Journal of Information Technology in Construction, 14, 461-472

Existing mobile IT applications in the construction industry are constrained by their reliance on static methods of information delivery, which are often not appropriate to meet changing work demand resulting from dynamic project conditions. This pap... Read More about A road-map to personalized context-aware services delivery in construction.

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.

Frequency of human T regulatory cells in peripheral blood is significantly reduced by cryopreservation (2009)
Journal Article
Elkord, E. (2009). Frequency of human T regulatory cells in peripheral blood is significantly reduced by cryopreservation. Journal of Immunological Methods, 347(1-2), 87-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jim.2009.06.001

Cryopreservation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) is essential for many clinical and research assays. Some studies reported consistent changes in PBMC phenotype following cryopreservation. We hypothesized that PBMC freezing may have a neg... Read More about Frequency of human T regulatory cells in peripheral blood is significantly reduced by cryopreservation.

Skill competency development strategies by a contractor (2009)
Journal Article
Oyegoke, A., McDermott, P., Aouad, G., & Cleary, M. (2009). Skill competency development strategies by a contractor. Proceedings of the ICE - Management, Procurement and Law, 162(3), 121-130. https://doi.org/10.1680/mpal.2009.162.3.121

Construction skills are one of the vital aspects of construction work which is growing in importance due to skill gaps and skill shortages during different economic cycles. The aim of this study was to investigate competence development strategies by... Read More about Skill competency development strategies by a contractor.

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.

The effect of ambient pressure on laser-induced silicon plasma temperature, density and morphology (2009)
Journal Article
silicon plasma temperature, density and morphology. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 42, https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/42/16/165202

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy of silicon was performed using a nanosecond pulsed frequency doubled Nd :YAG (532 nm) laser. The temporal evolution of the laser ablation plumes was characterized under a range of low pressures. Electron densiti... Read More about The effect of ambient pressure on laser-induced silicon plasma temperature, density and morphology.

Anisotropic lattice changes in femtosecond laser inscribed Nd3+:MgO:LiNbO3 optical waveguides (2009)
Journal Article
Nd3+:MgO:LiNbO3 optical waveguides. Journal of Applied Physics, 106(1), https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3168432

We report on the fabrication and microspectroscopy imaging of femtosecond laser written double-filament based Nd3+ :MgO:LiNbO3 optical waveguides. The waveguiding high refractive-index regions are identified by blueshifts of the Nd3+ ion fluorescen... Read More about Anisotropic lattice changes in femtosecond laser inscribed Nd3+:MgO:LiNbO3 optical waveguides.

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.

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.