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A random forest approach for predicting the presence of Echinococcus multilocularis intermediate host Ochotona spp. presence in relation to landscape characteristics in western China (2014)
Journal Article
Marston, C., Danson, F., Armitage, R., Giradoux, P., Pleydell, D., Wang, Q., …Craig, P. (2014). A random forest approach for predicting the presence of Echinococcus multilocularis intermediate host Ochotona spp. presence in relation to landscape characteristics in western China. Applied Geography, 55, 176-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2014.09.001

Understanding distribution patterns of hosts implicated in the transmission of zoonotic disease remains a key goal of parasitology. Here, random forests are employed to model spatial patterns of the presence of the plateau pika (Ochotona spp.) smal... Read More about A random forest approach for predicting the presence of Echinococcus multilocularis intermediate host Ochotona spp. presence in relation to landscape characteristics in western China.

An assessment of land use sources of barriers and the community-based housing model in the UK (2014)
Journal Article
Oladotun, A., & Ahmed, V. (2014). An assessment of land use sources of barriers and the community-based housing model in the UK. International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, 7(4), 539 -558. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHMA-02-2013-0012

Purpose – The aim of this study is to define land use policy sources of barriers to community-based housing options in practice. Design/methodology/approach – The paper accentuated the need to tackle land use sources of barrier to Community La... Read More about An assessment of land use sources of barriers and the community-based housing model in the UK.

Environmental factors influencing the recruitment and catch of tropical Panulirus lobsters in southern Java, Indonesia (2014)
Journal Article
Milton, D., Satria, F., Proctor, C., Prasetyo, A., Utama, A., & Fauzi, M. (2014). Environmental factors influencing the recruitment and catch of tropical Panulirus lobsters in southern Java, Indonesia. Continental Shelf Research, 91, 247-255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2014.09.011

Tropical Panulirus lobster fisheries in many parts of the world are open-access and poorly-regulated. This is in part because tropical Panulirus lobsters have an extended pelagic larval phase (up to 9 months) and their larval settlement may take plac... Read More about Environmental factors influencing the recruitment and catch of tropical Panulirus lobsters in southern Java, Indonesia.

Comparing the export coefficient approach with the soil and water assessment tool to predict phosphorous pollution : the Kan Watershed case study (2014)
Journal Article
Delkash, M., Al-Faraj, F., & Scholz, M. (2014). Comparing the export coefficient approach with the soil and water assessment tool to predict phosphorous pollution : the Kan Watershed case study. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 225(10), 21-22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-014-2122-7

Water quality protection has become a key concern in water resources development and management. Uncontrolled nutrient input may challenge the quality of some water bodies. This study uses the relatively steep Kan watershed located in the north-west... Read More about Comparing the export coefficient approach with the soil and water assessment tool to predict phosphorous pollution : the Kan Watershed case study.

Permeable pavements and storm water management (2014)
Book Chapter
Scholz, M. (2014). Permeable pavements and storm water management. In K. Gopalakrishnan, W. Steyn, & J. Harvey (Eds.), Climate Change, Energy, Sustainability and Pavements (247-260). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44719-2_7

The purpose of this book chapter is to summarize the recent literature on permeable pavements and related systems, highlighting current trends in research and practice, and to recommend future areas of research and development. Note that permeable pa... Read More about Permeable pavements and storm water management.

Control of wheel motors for the provision of traction and steering of railway vehicles (2014)
Journal Article
Mei, T., Qu, K., & Li, H. (2014). Control of wheel motors for the provision of traction and steering of railway vehicles. IET Power Electronics, 7(9), 2279-2287. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-pel.2013.0882

This study presents the development of a control system for permanent magnet motors embedded in railway wheels for integrated traction and steering of rail vehicles. The overall control scheme and the control strategies for the provision of traction... Read More about Control of wheel motors for the provision of traction and steering of railway vehicles.

Groundborne vibrations caused by railway construction and operation in buildings : design, implementation and analysis of measurement for assessment of human exposure (2014)
Thesis
Sica, G. Groundborne vibrations caused by railway construction and operation in buildings : design, implementation and analysis of measurement for assessment of human exposure. (Thesis). University of Salford

Environmental issues surrounding railway operation and construction have become more prominent in recent years, increasing the need for administrators and researchers to understand how residents living around railways respond to the noise and vibrati... Read More about Groundborne vibrations caused by railway construction and operation in buildings : design, implementation and analysis of measurement for assessment of human exposure.

Low overhead monitor mechanism for fault-tolerant analysis of NoC (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Liu, J., Harkin, J., Li, Y., Maguire, L., & Linares-Barranco, A. (2014, September). Low overhead monitor mechanism for fault-tolerant analysis of NoC. Presented at Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 8th International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core Systems-on-Chip (MCSoC-14), Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan

Modern Networks-on-Chip (NoC) have the capability to tolerate and adapt to the faults and failures in the hardware. Monitoring and debugging is a real challenge due to the NoC system complexity and large scale size. A key requirement is an evaluation... Read More about Low overhead monitor mechanism for fault-tolerant analysis of NoC.

Longstanding complex regional pain syndrome is associated with activating autoantibodies against alpha-1a adrenoceptors (2014)
Journal Article
Dubuis, E., Thompson, V., Leite, M., Blaes, F., Maihöfner, C., Greensmith, D., …Goebel, A. (2014). Longstanding complex regional pain syndrome is associated with activating autoantibodies against alpha-1a adrenoceptors. PAIN, 155(11), 2408-2417. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pain.2014.09.022

Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a limb-confined posttraumatic pain syndrome with sympathetic features. The cause is unknown, but the results of a randomized crossover trial on low-dose intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIG) treatment point to a... Read More about Longstanding complex regional pain syndrome is associated with activating autoantibodies against alpha-1a adrenoceptors.

Nitrogen transformations and mass balance in an integrated constructed wetland treating domestic wastewater (2014)
Journal Article
Dzakpasu, M., Scholz, M., McCarthy, V., & Jordan, S. (2014). Nitrogen transformations and mass balance in an integrated constructed wetland treating domestic wastewater. Water Science and Technology, 70(9), 1496-1502. https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2014.402

Nitrogen (N) transformations and removal in integrated constructed wetlands (ICWs) are often high, but the contributions of various pathways, including nitrification/denitrification, assimilation by plants and sediment storage, remain unclear. This... Read More about Nitrogen transformations and mass balance in an integrated constructed wetland treating domestic wastewater.

Ab initio study of structural and electronic properties of partially reduced graphene oxide (2014)
Journal Article
Lundie, M., Tomic, S., & Sljivancanin, Z. (2014). Ab initio study of structural and electronic properties of partially reduced graphene oxide. Physica Scripta, 2014(T162), 014019. https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-8949/2014/T162/014019

Controlled reduction of graphene oxide (GO) is a promising method to tune the electronic band gap of this two-dimensional material in the energy range of the visible light spectrum. By means of ab initio calculations, based on density functional theo... Read More about Ab initio study of structural and electronic properties of partially reduced graphene oxide.

Bacteriological effects of dentifrices with and without active ingredients of natural origin (2014)
Journal Article
Ledder, R., Latimer, J., Humphreys, G., Sreenivasan, P., & McBain, A. (2014). Bacteriological effects of dentifrices with and without active ingredients of natural origin. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 80(20), 6490-6498. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02315-14

Compounds of natural origin are increasingly used as adjuncts to oral hygiene. We have adopted four distinct approaches to assess the antibacterial activity of dentifrices containing natural active ingredients against oral bacteria in several test sy... Read More about Bacteriological effects of dentifrices with and without active ingredients of natural origin.

UK construction companies’ strategies in the face of business cycles (2014)
Journal Article
Ruddock, L., Kheir, A., & Ruddock, S. (2014). UK construction companies’ strategies in the face of business cycles. International Journal of Strategic Property Management, 18(3), 225-237. https://doi.org/10.3846/1648715X.2014.927400

Firms in the construction industry have always had to deal with the challenges of the economic cycle and develop strategies to deal with the resulting fluctuations in their business environment. In the context of the 2008–2011 double-dip recession in... Read More about UK construction companies’ strategies in the face of business cycles.

Collaborative environment for energy-efficient buildings at an early design stage (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Bassanino, M., Fernando, T., Masior, J., Kadolsky, M., Scherer, R., Fouchal, F., …Klobut, K. (2014, September). Collaborative environment for energy-efficient buildings at an early design stage. Presented at 10th European Conference on Product and Process Modelling, Vienna, Austria

This paper provides an approach for creating a collaborative environment for energy efficient buildings highlighting the issues required to be addressed at an early design phase. The paper will discuss a design scenario for a new built and suggest sy... Read More about Collaborative environment for energy-efficient buildings at an early design stage.

A new methodology for designing energy efficient buildings in neighbourhoods (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Mäkeläinen, T., Klobut, K., Hannus, M., Sepponen, M., Fernando, T., Bassanino, M., …Firth, S. (2014, September). A new methodology for designing energy efficient buildings in neighbourhoods. Presented at 10th European Conference on Product and Process Modelling, Vienna, Austria

Within the frame of the recently launched EU project “Design4Energy” an attempt is being made to develop a design methodology that is able to create energy-efficient buildings within the context of their neighbourhoods. The work presented in this pap... Read More about A new methodology for designing energy efficient buildings in neighbourhoods.

Exercising for food : bringing the laboratory closer to nature (2014)
Journal Article
Fonseca, I., Passos, R., Araujo, F., Lima, M., Lacerada, D., Pires, W., …Rodrigues, L. (2014). Exercising for food : bringing the laboratory closer to nature. Journal of Experimental Biology, 217, 3274-3281. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.108191

Traditionally, exercise physiology experiments have borne little resemblance to how animals express physical activity in the wild. In this experiment, 15 adult male rats were divided into three equalsized groups: exercise contingent (CON), non-exe... Read More about Exercising for food : bringing the laboratory closer to nature.

The binomial-neighbour instance-based learner on a multiclass performance measure scheme (2014)
Journal Article
Theodoridis, T., & Hu, H. (2015). The binomial-neighbour instance-based learner on a multiclass performance measure scheme. Soft Computing, 19(10), 2973-2981. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-014-1461-z

This paper presents a novel instance-based learning methodology the Binomial-Neighbour (B-N) algorithm. Unlike to other k-Nearest Neighbour algorithms, B-N employs binomial search through vectors of statistical features and distance primitives. The b... Read More about The binomial-neighbour instance-based learner on a multiclass performance measure scheme.

A review of critical project management success factors (CPMSF) for sustainable social housing in Nigeria (2014)
Journal Article
Ihuah, P., Kakulu, I., & Eaton, D. (2014). A review of critical project management success factors (CPMSF) for sustainable social housing in Nigeria. International Journal for Sustainable Built Environment, 3(1), 62-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsbe.2014.08.001

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to investigate and establish the Critical Project Management Success Factors (CPMSF) for the sustainable social (public) housing estates’ delivery/provision in Nigeria. The current housing estate deficit faced in... Read More about A review of critical project management success factors (CPMSF) for sustainable social housing in Nigeria.

Single interfaces and coupled-waveguide arrays: off-axis nonparaxial analyses (2014)
Presentation / Conference
McCoy, E., Christian, J., McDonald, G., Sanchez-Curto, J., & Chamorro-Posada, P. (2014, September). Single interfaces and coupled-waveguide arrays: off-axis nonparaxial analyses. Presented at 5th European Optical Society Annual Meeting, Berlin, Germany

We report on our most recent results concerning arbitrary-angle spatial soliton refraction at the interface between dissimilar dielectrics, each of which comprises both X(3)and X(5) susceptibilities. Attention is also paid to the oblique injectio... Read More about Single interfaces and coupled-waveguide arrays: off-axis nonparaxial analyses.

Where to nest? Ecological determinants of chimpanzee nest abundance and distribution at the habitat and tree species scale (2014)
Journal Article
Carvalho, J., Meyer, C. F., Vicente, L., & Marques, T. (2015). Where to nest? Ecological determinants of chimpanzee nest abundance and distribution at the habitat and tree species scale. American Journal of Primatology, 77(2), 186-199. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.22321

Conversion of forests to anthropogenic land‐uses increasingly subjects chimpanzee populations to habitat changes and concomitant alterations in the plant resources available to them for nesting and feeding. Based on nest count surveys conducted dur... Read More about Where to nest? Ecological determinants of chimpanzee nest abundance and distribution at the habitat and tree species scale.