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MRAR : mining multi-relation association rules (2014)
Journal Article
Ramezani, R., Saraee, M., & Nematbakhsh, M. (2014). MRAR : mining multi-relation association rules. Journal of computing and security (Online), 1(2), 133-158

In this paper, we introduce a new class of association rules (ARs) named “Multi-Relation Association Rules” which in contrast to primitive ARs (that are usually extracted from multi-relational databases), each rule item consists of one entity and... Read More about MRAR : mining multi-relation association rules.

Socio-technical transition of coal-CCGT in the UK electricity sector (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Hussaini, M., & Scholz, M. (2014, September). Socio-technical transition of coal-CCGT in the UK electricity sector. Presented at In Proceedings of he IAFOR North American Conference on Sustainability, Energy & the Environment, Providence Marriott Downtown, Providence, Rode Island, USA

A combined model for improving estimation of atmospheric boundary layer height (2014)
Journal Article
Bachtiar, V., Davies, F., & Danson, F. (2014). A combined model for improving estimation of atmospheric boundary layer height. Atmospheric Environment, 98, 461-473. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2014.09.028

Atmospheric boundary layer height is one of the most important parameters in atmospheric dispersion modelling because it has a large effect on predicted air quality. Comparisons between Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling System, version 4 (ADMS 4) and... Read More about A combined model for improving estimation of atmospheric boundary layer height.

A fuzzy method for discovering cost-effective actions from data (2014)
Journal Article
Kalanat, N., Shamsinejadbabaki, P., & Saraee, M. (2014). A fuzzy method for discovering cost-effective actions from data. Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, 28(2), 757-765. https://doi.org/10.3233/IFS-141357

Data mining techniques are often confined to the delivery of frequent patterns and stop short of suggesting how to act on these patterns for business decision-making. They require human experts to post-process the discovered patterns manually. Theref... Read More about A fuzzy method for discovering cost-effective actions from data.

Adaptive learning with covariate shift-detection for non-stationary environments (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Raza, H., Prasad, G., & Li, Y. (2014, September). Adaptive learning with covariate shift-detection for non-stationary environments. Presented at 14th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI2014), Bradford, England

Learning with dataset shift is a major challenge in non-stationary environments wherein the input data distribution may shift over time. Detecting the dataset shift point in the time-series data, where the distribution of time-series shifts its prope... Read More about Adaptive learning with covariate shift-detection for non-stationary environments.

Lateral load bearing capacity modelling of piles in cohesive soils in undrained conditions; an intelligent evolutionary approach (2014)
Journal Article
Ahangar Asr, A., Javadi, A., Johari, A., & Chen, Y. (2014). Lateral load bearing capacity modelling of piles in cohesive soils in undrained conditions; an intelligent evolutionary approach. Applied Soft Computing, 24, 822-828. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2014.07.027

The complex behaviour of fine-grained materials in relation with structural elements has received noticeable attention from geotechnical engineers and designers in recent decades. In this research work an evolutionary approach is presented to create... Read More about Lateral load bearing capacity modelling of piles in cohesive soils in undrained conditions; an intelligent evolutionary approach.

Analysis of the suitability of using the A-weighting filter for evaluating road traffic exposure (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Torija Martinez, A., Flindell, I., & Ruiz, D. (2014, September). Analysis of the suitability of using the A-weighting filter for evaluating road traffic exposure. Presented at 7th Forum Acusticum, FA 2014, Krakow, Poland

A-weighted sound pressure level is the most widely used descriptor for evaluating noise annoyance. However, strong criticism is associated with the dB(A) scale because it overcompensates for the hearing system’s reduced sensi... Read More about Analysis of the suitability of using the A-weighting filter for evaluating road traffic exposure.

Exploratory analysis of the factors involved in the perception of the quality of urban soundscapes (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Garcia-Checa, F., Perez-Martinez, G., Torija Martinez, A., & Ruiz, D. (2014, September). Exploratory analysis of the factors involved in the perception of the quality of urban soundscapes. Presented at 7th Forum Acusticum, FA 2014, Krakow, Poland

The identity of urban environments are largely determined by their history and current use, which should be closely related. Moreover, the particular sound of a specific urban site should be a distinct component of its image and identity, thanks to w... Read More about Exploratory analysis of the factors involved in the perception of the quality of urban soundscapes.

Self-built ecovillage in L’Aquila (Italy) : community resilience as a grassroots response to an environmental shock (2014)
Journal Article
Fois, F., & Forino, G. (2014). Self-built ecovillage in L’Aquila (Italy) : community resilience as a grassroots response to an environmental shock. Disasters, 38(4), 719-739. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12080

The paper applies the community resilience approach to the post‐disaster case of Pescomaggiore, an Italian village affected by the L'Aquila earthquake in 2009. A group of residents refused to accept the housing recovery solutions proposed by the gove... Read More about Self-built ecovillage in L’Aquila (Italy) : community resilience as a grassroots response to an environmental shock.

Perception and automatic detection of wind-induced microphone noise (2014)
Journal Article
Jackson, I., Kendrick, P., Cox, T., Fazenda, B., & Li, F. (2014). Perception and automatic detection of wind-induced microphone noise. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 136(3), 1176-1186. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4892772

Wind can induce noise on microphones, causing problems for users of hearing aids and for those making recordings outdoors. Perceptual tests in the laboratory and via the Internet were carried out to understand what features of wind noise are importan... Read More about Perception and automatic detection of wind-induced microphone noise.

Potential-based methodology for active sound control in three dimensional settings (2014)
Journal Article
Lim, H., Utyuzhnikov, S., Lam, Y., & Kelly, L. (2014). Potential-based methodology for active sound control in three dimensional settings. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 136(3), 1101-1111. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4892934

This paper extends a potential-based approach to active noise shielding with preservation of wanted sound in three-dimensional settings. The approach, which was described in a previous publication [Lim et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 129(2), 717–725 (201... Read More about Potential-based methodology for active sound control in three dimensional settings.

A guide to the industrial archaeology of cheshire (2014)
Book
Nevell, M., & George, D. (2014). A guide to the industrial archaeology of cheshire. Ironbridge: Association for Industrial Archaeology

This is a guide and overview of the surviving industrial archaeology remains within Cheshire, UK. It covers the years 1600 to 2000 and reviews 307 Industrial Period sites in six main sections: cornmills; textiles, silk; textiles cotton; minerals, che... Read More about A guide to the industrial archaeology of cheshire.

An energy interpretation of the Kirchhoff-Helmholtz boundary integral equation and its application to Sound Field synthesis (2014)
Journal Article
Hargreaves, J., & Lam, Y. (2014). An energy interpretation of the Kirchhoff-Helmholtz boundary integral equation and its application to Sound Field synthesis. Acta acustica united with Acustica, 100(5), 912-920. https://doi.org/10.3813/AAA.918770

Most spatial audio reproduction systems have the constraint that all loudspeakers must be equidistant from the listener, a property which is difficult to achieve in real rooms. In traditional Ambisonics this arises because the spherical harmonic func... Read More about An energy interpretation of the Kirchhoff-Helmholtz boundary integral equation and its application to Sound Field synthesis.

The use of in-situ ion-irradiation/TEM techniques to study radiation damage in SiC (2014)
Thesis
Pawley, C. The use of in-situ ion-irradiation/TEM techniques to study radiation damage in SiC. (Thesis). University of Salford

SiC is a material currently under consideration to be used in future generations of fission and fusion reactors where it will be subjected to high temperatures and significant fluxes of energetic neutrons. The work reported in this thesis aims to ans... Read More about The use of in-situ ion-irradiation/TEM techniques to study radiation damage in SiC.

Categorisation of distortion profiles in relation to audio quality (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Wilson, A., & Fazenda, B. (2014, September). Categorisation of distortion profiles in relation to audio quality. Presented at 17th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-14), Erlangen, Germany

Since digital audio is encoded as discrete samples of the audio waveform, much can be said about a recording by the statistical properties of these samples. In this paper, a dataset of CD audio samples is analysed; the probability mass function of ea... Read More about Categorisation of distortion profiles in relation to audio quality.

Many-body effects in CdSe/CdTe coloidal quantum dots (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Miloszewski, J., & Tomic, S. (2014, September). Many-body effects in CdSe/CdTe coloidal quantum dots. Presented at 14th International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices, Palma, Spain

We present a theoretical method for calculations of exciton and bi-exciton energies in type-II colloidal quantum dots. Our methodology is based on an 8-band k.p Hamiltonian of the zinc-blend structure, which incorporates the effects of spin-orbit... Read More about Many-body effects in CdSe/CdTe coloidal quantum dots.

Rapid animal welfare assessment : an archaeological approach (2014)
Journal Article
Schork, I., & Young, R. (2014). Rapid animal welfare assessment : an archaeological approach. Biology Letters, 10, 20140390. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2014.0390

The welfare of an individual depends on its capacity to overcome suboptimal conditions in its environment; otherwise, its physical and psychological health becomes compromised. A situation that clearly indicates lack of control of the environment... Read More about Rapid animal welfare assessment : an archaeological approach.

Non-intrusive user identity provisioning in the internet of things (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Karkhi, A., Al-Yasiri, A., & Jaseemuddin, M. (2014, September). Non-intrusive user identity provisioning in the internet of things. Presented at MobiWac '14 Proceedings of the 12th ACM international symposium on Mobility management and wireless access, Montreal, Canada

The Internet of Things (IoT) represents an evolutionary vision and a new era of such smart environments that encompass all identifiable things in a dynamic and interacting network of networks. Each user has wide interactions with a huge number of ent... Read More about Non-intrusive user identity provisioning in the internet of things.

A modification to general relativity by use of the notion of local expansion of space-time (2014)
Thesis
Hodgkinson, T. A modification to general relativity by use of the notion of local expansion of space-time. (Thesis). University of Salford

General Relativity (GR) is Einsteins' theory of gravity whereby the motions of bodies are explained due to their following geodesic paths (the shortest distance between two points) in a curved four dimensional space-time. The curvature being attri... Read More about A modification to general relativity by use of the notion of local expansion of space-time.

Evaluation of vulnerability factors for cyclones : the case of Patuakhali, Bangladesh (2014)
Journal Article
Kulatunga, U., Wedawatta, G., Amaratunga, D., & Haigh, R. (2014). Evaluation of vulnerability factors for cyclones : the case of Patuakhali, Bangladesh. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 9(Sep), 204-211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2014.05.011

Tropical cyclones are considered as the most severe natural disasters in Bangladesh; they cause extensive damage, create losses in the country’s economy, and affect social settings. The impact of natural disasters has been further intensified due to... Read More about Evaluation of vulnerability factors for cyclones : the case of Patuakhali, Bangladesh.