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Organizational leadership role in the delivery of sustainable construction projects in UK (2015)
Journal Article
Opoku, A., Cruickshank, H., & Ahmed, V. (2015). Organizational leadership role in the delivery of sustainable construction projects in UK. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 5(2), 154-169. https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-12-2013-0074

Purpose

– Sustainable construction project delivery should be supported by committed and inspirational leadership, with a clear understanding of the sustainability challenge. Construction organizations need intra-organizational leadership that pro... Read More about Organizational leadership role in the delivery of sustainable construction projects in UK.

Implementation barriers of mobile environmental system for environmental surveillance on construction sites (2015)
Journal Article
Harun, A., & Bichard, E. (2015). Implementation barriers of mobile environmental system for environmental surveillance on construction sites. International journal of innovative research in science engineering and technology (Print), 4(5), 3139-3146. https://doi.org/10.15680/IJIRSET.2015.0405092

The use of Mobile Environmental Information System (MEIS) which integrates the use of mobile web,
devices and wireless sensor networks has the potential to enhance environmental information management and
communication processes among users and pla... Read More about Implementation barriers of mobile environmental system for environmental surveillance on construction sites.

Re-using knowledge and leveraging technology to reduce project design and construction costs, in Design Economics for the Built Environment (2015)
Book Chapter
Robinson, H., & Udeaja, C. (2015). Re-using knowledge and leveraging technology to reduce project design and construction costs, in Design Economics for the Built Environment. In H. Robinson, B. Symonds, B. Gilbertson, & B. Ilozor (Eds.), Design economics for the built environment : impact of sustainability on project evaluation. Wiley Blackwell

Educating tomorrow design and construction economists (2015)
Book Chapter
Udeaja, C., Ekundayo, D., Zhou, L., Pearson, J., & Perera, S. (2015). Educating tomorrow design and construction economists. In H. Robinson, B. Symonds, B. Gilbertson, & B. Ilozor (Eds.), Design economics for the built environment :impact of sustainability on project evaluation. Wiley Blackwell

On the feasibility of attribute-based encryption on smartphone devices (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Ambrosin, M., Conti, M., & Dargahi, T. (2015, May). On the feasibility of attribute-based encryption on smartphone devices. Presented at 2015 Workshop on IoT challenges in Mobile and Industrial Systems (IoT-Sys'15), Florence, Italy

Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) is a powerful cryptographic tool that allows fine-grained access control over data. Due to its features, ABE has been adopted in several applications, such as encrypted storage or access control systems. Recently, res... Read More about On the feasibility of attribute-based encryption on smartphone devices.

A practical model for ensemble estimation of QoS and QoE in VoIP services via fuzzy inference systems and fuzzy evidence theory (2015)
Journal Article
Mansouri, T., Nabavi, A., Ravasan, A., & Ahangarbahan, H. (2016). A practical model for ensemble estimation of QoS and QoE in VoIP services via fuzzy inference systems and fuzzy evidence theory. Telecommunication Systems, 61(4), 861-873. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-015-0041-6

Nowadays, there is an increasing number of Voices over IP (VoIP) services offered in telecommunication networks with specific quality requirements. Such requirements impact upon both the objective quality of service (QoS) of the end-to end connection... Read More about A practical model for ensemble estimation of QoS and QoE in VoIP services via fuzzy inference systems and fuzzy evidence theory.

Last millennium hydro-climate variability in Central–Eastern Europe (Northern Carpathians, Romania) (2015)
Journal Article
Feurdean, A., Galka, M., Kuske, E., Tantau, I., Lamentowicz, M., Florescu, G., …Hickler, T. (2015). Last millennium hydro-climate variability in Central–Eastern Europe (Northern Carpathians, Romania). Holocene, 25(7), 1179-1192. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615580197

Proxy-based reconstructions of climate variability over the last millennium provide important insights for understanding current climate change within a long-term context. Past hydrological changes are particularly difficult to reconstruct, yet rainf... Read More about Last millennium hydro-climate variability in Central–Eastern Europe (Northern Carpathians, Romania).

Acoustical properties of air-saturated porous material with periodically distributed dead-end pores (2015)
Journal Article
with periodically distributed dead-end pores. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 137(4), 1772-1782. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4916712

A theoretical and numerical study of the sound propagation in air-saturated porous media with
straight main pores bearing lateral cavities (dead-ends) is presented. The lateral cavities are located
at “nodes” periodically spaced along each main por... Read More about Acoustical properties of air-saturated porous material with periodically distributed dead-end pores.

Intrasexual competition and throat color evolution in female three-spined sticklebacks (2015)
Journal Article
Yong, L., Woodall, B. E., Pierotti, M. E., & McKinnon, J. S. (2015). Intrasexual competition and throat color evolution in female three-spined sticklebacks. Behavioral Ecology, 26(4), 1030–1038. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arv037

Interest in the evolution of female ornaments has been growing but explaining their presence remains a challenge for many animal taxa. Although female ornaments may be sexually selected via male choice, they can also function in female–female competi... Read More about Intrasexual competition and throat color evolution in female three-spined sticklebacks.

Imaging of dynamic magnetic fields with spin-polarized neutron beams (2015)
Journal Article
Tremsin, A., Kardjilov, N., Strobl, M., Manke, I., Dawson, M., McPhate, J., …Feller, W. (2015). Imaging of dynamic magnetic fields with spin-polarized neutron beams. New Journal of Physics, 17(4), 043047. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/17/4/043047

Precession of neutron spin in a magnetic field can be used for mapping of a magnetic field distribution, as demonstrated previously for static magnetic fields at neutron beamline facilities. The fringing in the observed neutron images depends on both... Read More about Imaging of dynamic magnetic fields with spin-polarized neutron beams.

Metabolic Profiling of Geobacter sulfurreducens during Industrial Bioprocess Scale-Up (2015)
Journal Article
Muhamadali, H., Xu, Y., Ellis, D., Allwood, J., Rattray, N., Correa, E., …Löffler, F. (2015). Metabolic Profiling of Geobacter sulfurreducens during Industrial Bioprocess Scale-Up. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 81(10), 3288-3298. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00294-15

During the industrial scale-up of bioprocesses it is important to establish that the biological system has not changed significantly when moving from small laboratory-scale shake flasks or culturing bottles to an industrially relevant production leve... Read More about Metabolic Profiling of Geobacter sulfurreducens during Industrial Bioprocess Scale-Up.

Performance evaluation of non-thermal plasma on particulate matter, ozone and CO2 correlation for diesel exhaust emission reduction (2015)
Journal Article
Babaie, M., Davari, P., Talebizadeh, P., Zare, F., Rahimzadeh, H., Ristovski, Z., & Brown, R. (2015). Performance evaluation of non-thermal plasma on particulate matter, ozone and CO2 correlation for diesel exhaust emission reduction. Chemical Engineering Journal, 276, 240-248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2015.04.086

This study is seeking to investigate the effect of non-thermal plasma technology in the abatement of particulate matter (PM) from the actual diesel exhaust. Ozone (O3) strongly promotes PM oxidation, the main product of which is carbon dioxide (CO2).... Read More about Performance evaluation of non-thermal plasma on particulate matter, ozone and CO2 correlation for diesel exhaust emission reduction.

Real estate student satisfaction in Australia : what matters most? (2015)
Journal Article
Poon, J., & Brownlow, M. (2015). Real estate student satisfaction in Australia : what matters most?. Property Management, 33(2), 100-132. https://doi.org/10.1108/PM-05-2014-0023

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the relative importance of the factors that influence the overall satisfaction of real estate students and also examine the extent to which demographic backgrounds affect this. Furthermore, this paper... Read More about Real estate student satisfaction in Australia : what matters most?.

Affective response to amplitude modulated wind turbine noise (2015)
Presentation / Conference
von Hünerbein, S., & Piper, B. (2015, April). Affective response to amplitude modulated wind turbine noise. Presented at Wind Turbine Noise 2015, Glasgow

Residents living adjacent to wind farms are exposed to a combination of turbine noise and background noise with all its environmental and local constituents. As the amplitude modulation character in turbine sounds is thought to specifically contribut... Read More about Affective response to amplitude modulated wind turbine noise.

An invasive mammal (the gray squirrel, sciurus carolinensis) commonly hosts diverse and atypical genotypes of the zoonotic pathogen borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato (2015)
Journal Article
Millins, C., Magierecka, A., Gilbert, L., Edoff, A., Brereton, A., Kilbride, E., …Biek, R. (2015). An invasive mammal (the gray squirrel, sciurus carolinensis) commonly hosts diverse and atypical genotypes of the zoonotic pathogen borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 81(13), 4236-4245. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00109-15

Invasive vertebrate species can act as hosts for endemic pathogens and may alter pathogen community composition and dynamics.
For the zoonotic pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, the agent of Lyme borreliosis, recent work shows invasive rodent... Read More about An invasive mammal (the gray squirrel, sciurus carolinensis) commonly hosts diverse and atypical genotypes of the zoonotic pathogen borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato.

Crustaceans of extreme environments (2015)
Book Chapter
Benvenuto, C., Knott, B., & Weeks, S. (2015). Crustaceans of extreme environments. In M. Thiel, & L. Watling (Eds.), Lifestyles and Feeding Biology (379-417). Oxford University Press

Crustaceans are a remarkably diverse group of organisms, which have colonized and occupied a broad variety of niches. Many crustacean species are found in extreme environments, inhospitable to the majority of animal taxa, including Antarctic lakes,... Read More about Crustaceans of extreme environments.

Life cycle costing : evaluating its use in UK practice (2015)
Journal Article
Higham, A., Fortune, C., & James, H. (2015). Life cycle costing : evaluating its use in UK practice. Structural survey, 33(1), 73-87. https://doi.org/10.1108/SS-06-2014-0026

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to establish the extent to which life cycle costing is used as an early stage project evaluation tool by practitioners in the UK construction industry. The use of this evaluation tool has long been advocated by acad... Read More about Life cycle costing : evaluating its use in UK practice.

Detailed directivity measurements of aerodynamic sound sources (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Elliott, A., Meggitt, J., & Moorhouse, A. (2015, April). Detailed directivity measurements of aerodynamic sound sources. Presented at Noise and Vibration - Emerging Technologies, Dubrovnik, Croatia

The sound radiated by a vibrating surface can be modelled using combinations of elementary sources but for aerodynamic noise sources it less clear how to do so. It is proposed here that the arrangement and number of ideal sources required to represen... Read More about Detailed directivity measurements of aerodynamic sound sources.

Mars image segmentation with most relevant features among wavelet and color features (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Rashno, A., Saraee, M., & Sadri, S. (2015, April). Mars image segmentation with most relevant features among wavelet and color features. Presented at AI & Robotics (IRANOPEN), 2015

Mars rover is a robot which explores the Mars surface, is equipped to front-line Panoramic Camera (Pancam). Automatic processing and segmentation of images taken by Pancam is one of the most important and most significant tasks of Mars rover since th... Read More about Mars image segmentation with most relevant features among wavelet and color features.

Applying case study approach and triangulation methods of data collection in the ICT context in Libya (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Allali, B., & Kulatunga, U. (2015, April). Applying case study approach and triangulation methods of data collection in the ICT context in Libya. Presented at Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) Doctoral workshop, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland

In the last few decades concepts such as organizational culture (OC) and knowledge sharing (KS) have been
conceived as being interrelated phenomena where each one influences the other. In the current business and
technology literature, there is a... Read More about Applying case study approach and triangulation methods of data collection in the ICT context in Libya.