All Outputs (406)

Measuring the impact of knowledge sharing on the planning permission process in Malaysian local authorities (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Mohamed, O., & Egbu, C. (2010, September). Measuring the impact of knowledge sharing on the planning permission process in Malaysian local authorities. Presented at 26th Annual ARCOM Conference,, Leeds, UK,

organizations like local authorities, the ability to effectively share knowledge across organizations can lead to improved service delivery and the achievement of best practices. Hence, the degree to which an organization effectively applies knowle... Read More about Measuring the impact of knowledge sharing on the planning permission process in Malaysian local authorities.

Knowledge retention in construction in the UAE (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Arif, M., Egbu, C., & Toma, T. (2010, September). Knowledge retention in construction in the UAE. Presented at 26th Annual ARCOM Conference, Leeds, UK,

With employees leaving construction organizations for all sorts of reasons, it is imperative that organizations look at ways to retain their knowledge. This paper presents a four step process in order to ensure knowledge retention. The four steps inc... Read More about Knowledge retention in construction in the UAE.

Selection criteria frameword for choosing industrialized building systems for housing projects (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Abdullah, M., & Egbu, C. (2010, September). Selection criteria frameword for choosing industrialized building systems for housing projects. Presented at 26th Annual ARCOM Conference, Leeds, UK,

An Industrialized Building System (IBS) has been accepted as an innovation strategy to assist in overcoming key problems in the Malaysian housing sector. The manufacturers and producers of IBS have claimed that their systems have a multitude of advan... Read More about Selection criteria frameword for choosing industrialized building systems for housing projects.

A literature review of the role of project management in post-disaster reconstruction (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Hidayat, B., & Egbu, C. (2010, September). A literature review of the role of project management in post-disaster reconstruction. Presented at 26th Annual ARCOM Conference, Leeds, UK,

The number of natural disasters has increased sharply in the past few decades, threatening human lives, and the built environment. Recent disaster management paradigms have, arguably, shifted from disaster relief to disaster preparedness, hazard miti... Read More about A literature review of the role of project management in post-disaster reconstruction.

High pressure overlapping flat sprays nozzles (2010)
Presentation / Conference
El Kamkhi, M., Nasr, G., Burby, M., & Nourian, A. (2010, September). High pressure overlapping flat sprays nozzles. Presented at ILASS - Europe 2010 23rd Annual Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, Brno, Czech Republic

Descaling of oil and gas well pipes has proved to be a major problem to oil and gas companies, as scale formation significantly reduces well productivity and costs the industry millions of pounds a year. Current scale removal methods involve the us... Read More about High pressure overlapping flat sprays nozzles.

Radial analysis of fine sprays using Phase Doppler Anemometry (PDA) (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Stewart, J., Nasr, G., Burby, M., & Nourian, A. (2010, September). Radial analysis of fine sprays using Phase Doppler Anemometry (PDA). Presented at ILASS - Europe 2010 23rd Annual Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, Brno, Czech Republic

A mobile fine spray unit, utilising a Spill Return Atomiser (SRA) has been developed for the purpose of decontamination within healthcare environments. The unit must be able to spray uniformly onto any given surface, providing ‘mist like’ coverage.... Read More about Radial analysis of fine sprays using Phase Doppler Anemometry (PDA).

The Rock Triangle, Bury: The Archaeology of an Industrial Suburb (2010)
Book
Miller, I., & Gregory, R. (2010). The Rock Triangle, Bury: The Archaeology of an Industrial Suburb. Oxford Archaeology Ltd

The interaction of lean and building information modeling in construction (2010)
Journal Article
construction. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 136(9), 968-980. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29CO.1943-7862.0000203

Lean construction and Building Information Modeling are quite different initiatives, but both are having profound impacts on the construction industry. A rigorous analysis of the myriad specific interactions between them indicates that a synergy exis... Read More about The interaction of lean and building information modeling in construction.

Activity awareness as an enabler for communication and network building in construction design teams (2010)
Journal Article
Boddy, S., Rezgui, Y., Cooper, G., & Wetherill, M. (2010). Activity awareness as an enabler for communication and network building in construction design teams. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 24(5), 430-440. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29CP.1943-5487.0000046

The paper reports on ongoing research into the facilitation of communication in distributed design teams of the type typically encountered in the construction sector. Ideas around social aspects in such design teams are discussed followed by our prev... Read More about Activity awareness as an enabler for communication and network building in construction design teams.

Brave new technological world (2010)
Journal Article
Nevell, M. (2010). Brave new technological world

This article explains how 3D visualisation techniques can help make archaeology more mainstream and beneficial to communities and industry

Helmholtz solitons in optical materials with a dual power-law refractive index (2010)
Journal Article
Christian, J., McDonald, G., & Chamorro-Posada, P. (2010). Helmholtz solitons in optical materials with a dual power-law refractive index. Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics and Materials, 19(3), 389-405. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218863510005340

A nonlinear Helmholtz equation is proposed for modelling scalar optical beams in uniform planar waveguides whose refractive index exhibits a purely-focusing dual powerlaw dependence on the electric field amplitude. Two families of exact analytical s... Read More about Helmholtz solitons in optical materials with a dual power-law refractive index.

Diffusive benefits of cylinders in front of a Schroeder diffuser (2010)
Journal Article
Pogson, M., Whittaker, D., Gehring, G., Cox, T., Hughes, R., & Angus, J. (2010). Diffusive benefits of cylinders in front of a Schroeder diffuser. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 128(3), 1149-1154. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3463817

A numerical investigation is performed into the diffusive effects of cylinders positioned in front of a Schroeder diffuser. A regular line of cylinders is shown to offer notable improvements to diffusion from a periodic Schroeder device, provided lat... Read More about Diffusive benefits of cylinders in front of a Schroeder diffuser.

Estimation of changes in the volume of ice making up Gornergletscher since the little ice age maximum (2010)
Thesis
Balounová, L. Estimation of changes in the volume of ice making up Gornergletscher since the little ice age maximum. (Dissertation). University of Salford

Few estimates of glacier volume and changes in mass over the past 150 years are available for the Swiss Alps. This thesis aims to estimate changes in the mass of ice making up Gornergletscher since the Little Ice Age maximum extent (LIAM) in 1860... Read More about Estimation of changes in the volume of ice making up Gornergletscher since the little ice age maximum.

Relationship between road and railway noise annoyance and overall indoor sound exposure (2010)
Journal Article
Torija Martinez, A., Ruiz, D., De Coensel, B., Botteldooren, D., Berglund, B., & Ramos-Ridao, A. (2011). Relationship between road and railway noise annoyance and overall indoor sound exposure. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 16(1), 15-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2010.07.012

Using data from a realistic experiment conducted using recorded traffic sounds, the relationship between indicators of magnitude, spectrum, and temporal evolution of the sonic environment and the reported annoyance are analyzed. The exposure is cha... Read More about Relationship between road and railway noise annoyance and overall indoor sound exposure.

The PAGE (Page Analysis and Ground-Truth Elements) format framework (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Pletschacher, S., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2010). The PAGE (Page Analysis and Ground-Truth Elements) format framework. In 2010 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPR.2010.72

There is a plethora of established and proposed document representation formats but none that can adequately support individual stages within an entire sequence of document image analysis methods (from document image enhancement to layout analysis to... Read More about The PAGE (Page Analysis and Ground-Truth Elements) format framework.

Phagocytosis of biocompatible gold nanoparticles (2010)
Journal Article
Krpeticc, Z., Porta, F., Caneva, E., Dal Santo, V., & Scarì, G. (2010). Phagocytosis of biocompatible gold nanoparticles. Langmuir, 26(18), 14799-14805. https://doi.org/10.1021/la102758f

We report the evidence for the cellular uptake of gold nanoparticles via the phagocytosis mechanism in murine macrophage cells strongly supported by TEM and optical microscopy. Nanoparticles were prepared using several biocompatible molecules of choi... Read More about Phagocytosis of biocompatible gold nanoparticles.

Spectroscopy of bismuth-doped lead–aluminum–germanate glass and yttrium–aluminum–silicate glass (2010)
Journal Article
yttrium–aluminum–silicate glass. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 356(44-49), 2302-2309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2010.03.043

In this work we make a comparison between the spectroscopy of bismuth-doped lead–aluminum– germanate (Bi:PAG) glass and bismuth-doped yttrium–aluminum–silicate (Bi:YAS) glass. We report the variation in Bi absorption, emission and lifetime as the P... Read More about Spectroscopy of bismuth-doped lead–aluminum–germanate glass and yttrium–aluminum–silicate glass.

Properties of CuInSe2 and Mo thin films produced by pulsed d.c magnetron sputtering for solar cell fabrication (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Karthikeyan, S., Hill, A., Cowpe, J., & Pilkington, R. (2010, August). Properties of CuInSe2 and Mo thin films produced by pulsed d.c magnetron sputtering for solar cell fabrication. Poster presented at Photon 10, Southampton

Copper indium diselenide (CIS) is one of the most promising semiconducting thin film materials used in the solar cell industry. A typical CIS based solar cell comprises a Mo/CuInSe2/CdS/i-ZnO/ZnO heterojunction. This work describes the use of pulsed... Read More about Properties of CuInSe2 and Mo thin films produced by pulsed d.c magnetron sputtering for solar cell fabrication.

Black and grey soliton refraction at interfaces (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Sánchez-Curto, J., Chamorro-Posada, P., & McDonald, G. (2010, August). Black and grey soliton refraction at interfaces. Poster presented at National Photonics Conference, Photon 10, Southampton, UK

The behaviour of grey solitons incident on Kerr defocusing interfaces is studied within the framework of Helmholtz theory. We report that the refraction of grey solitons is governed by a generalized Snell's law whose validity extends to arbitrary ang... Read More about Black and grey soliton refraction at interfaces.

Novel cavity effects in ultra-broadband multiline Raman generation (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Rose, C., McDonald, G., & Christian, J. (2010, August). Novel cavity effects in ultra-broadband multiline Raman generation. Poster presented at National Photonics Conference, Photon 10, Southampton, UK

Broadband multiline frequency combs present a wealth of applications, ranging from meteorology, sensing and measurements to those potentially in the domain of attosecond science. We report here on detailed investigations of, what we believe is, a nov... Read More about Novel cavity effects in ultra-broadband multiline Raman generation.