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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.

The research methodology for the development of a kaizen costing framework suitable for indigenous construction firms in Lagos, Nigeria (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Omotayo, T., & Kulatunga, U. (2015, April). The research methodology for the development of a kaizen costing framework suitable for indigenous construction firms in Lagos, Nigeria. Presented at Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) Doctoral workshop, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland

The need for a cost management paradigm shift in the construction industry is imperative because of the prevailing challenges of managing construction cost during construction. Small and medium scale construction firms in Nigeria are faced with the... Read More about The research methodology for the development of a kaizen costing framework suitable for indigenous construction firms in Lagos, Nigeria.

C:N ratio drives soil actinobacterial cellobiohydrolase gene diversity (2015)
Journal Article
De Menezes, A., Prendergast-Miller, M., Poonpatana, P., Farrell, M., Bissett, A., Macdonald, L., …Thrall, P. (2015). C:N ratio drives soil actinobacterial cellobiohydrolase gene diversity. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 8(9), 3016-3028. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00067-15

Cellulose accounts for approximately half of photosynthesis-fixed carbon; however, the ecology of its degradation in soil is still relatively poorly understood. The role of actinobacteria in cellulose degradation has not been extensively investigated... Read More about C:N ratio drives soil actinobacterial cellobiohydrolase gene diversity.

SugarSync forensic analysis (2015)
Journal Article
Shariatia, M., Dehghantanha, A., & Choo, K. (2015). SugarSync forensic analysis. Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 48(1), 95-117. https://doi.org/10.1080/00450618.2015.1021379

Cloud storage services are popular with both individuals and businesses as they offer cost-effective, large capacity storage and multi-functional services on a wide range of devices such as personal computers (PCs), Mac computers, and smart mobile de... Read More about SugarSync forensic analysis.

Automatic retrieval of closed captions for web clips from broadcast TV content (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Hughes, C., & Armstrong, M. (2015, April). Automatic retrieval of closed captions for web clips from broadcast TV content. Presented at 2015 NAB Broadcast Engineering Conference, Las Vegas, USA

As broadcasters’ web sites become more media rich it would be prohibitively expensive to manually caption all of the videos provided. However, many of these videos have been clipped from broadcast television and would have been captioned at the p... Read More about Automatic retrieval of closed captions for web clips from broadcast TV content.

Making the most of what we have: application of extrapolation approaches in radioecological wildlife transfer models (2015)
Journal Article
Beresford, N., Wood, M., Vives i Batlle, J., Yankovich, T., Bradshaw, C., & Willey, N. (2016). Making the most of what we have: application of extrapolation approaches in radioecological wildlife transfer models. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 151(Part 2), 373-386. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2015.03.022

We will never have data to populate all of the potential radioecological modelling parameters required for wildlife assessments. Therefore, we need robust extrapolation approaches which allow us to make best use of our available knowledge. This paper... Read More about Making the most of what we have: application of extrapolation approaches in radioecological wildlife transfer models.

Oxidized phosphatidylcholines suggest oxidative stress in patients with medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (2015)
Journal Article
Najdekr, L., Gardlo, A., Mádrová, L., Friedecký, D., Janečková, H., Correa, E., …Adam, T. (2015). Oxidized phosphatidylcholines suggest oxidative stress in patients with medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency. Talanta, 139, 62-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.talanta.2015.02.041

Inborn errors of metabolism encompass a large group of diseases caused by enzyme deficiencies and are therefore amenable to metabolomics investigations. Medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (MCADD) is a defect in β-oxidation of fatty acids,... Read More about Oxidized phosphatidylcholines suggest oxidative stress in patients with medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency.

Clean Audio for TV broadcast: an object-based approach for hearing impaired viewers (2015)
Journal Article
Shirley, B., & Oldfield, R. (2015). Clean Audio for TV broadcast: an object-based approach for hearing impaired viewers. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 63(4), 245-256. https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2015.0017

As the percentage of the population with hearing loss increases, broadcasters are receiving more complaints about the difficulty in understanding dialog in the presence of background sound and music. This article explores these issues, reviews previo... Read More about Clean Audio for TV broadcast: an object-based approach for hearing impaired viewers.

A fuzzy ANP based weighted RFM model for customer segmentation in auto insurance sector (2015)
Journal Article
Ravasan, A., & Mansouri, T. (2015). A fuzzy ANP based weighted RFM model for customer segmentation in auto insurance sector. International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector, 7(2), 5. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijisss.2015040105

Data mining has a tremendous contribution for researchers to extract the hidden knowledge and information which have been inherited in the raw data. This study has proposed a brand new and practical fuzzy analytic network process (FANP) based weighte... Read More about A fuzzy ANP based weighted RFM model for customer segmentation in auto insurance sector.

Hartley transform and the use of the Whitened Hartley spectrum as a tool for phase spectral processing (2015)
Journal Article
Paraskevas, I., Barbarosou, M., & Chilton, E. (2015). Hartley transform and the use of the Whitened Hartley spectrum as a tool for phase spectral processing. Journal of Engineering, 2015(3), 95-101. https://doi.org/10.1049/joe.2014.0350

The Hartley transform is a mathematical transformation which is closely related to the better known Fourier transform. The properties that differentiate the Hartley Transform from its Fourier counterpart are that the forward and the inverse transform... Read More about Hartley transform and the use of the Whitened Hartley spectrum as a tool for phase spectral processing.

Mapping protein binding sites on the biomolecular corona of nanoparticles (2015)
Journal Article
Kelly, P., Åberg, C., Polo, E., O'Connell, A., Cookman, J., Fallon, J., …Dawson, K. (2015). Mapping protein binding sites on the biomolecular corona of nanoparticles. Nature Nanotechnology, 10(5), 472-479. https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.47

Nanoparticles in a biological milieu are known to form a sufficiently long-lived and well-organized ‘corona’ of biomolecules to confer a biological identity to the particle. Because this nanoparticle–biomolecule complex interacts with cells and biolo... Read More about Mapping protein binding sites on the biomolecular corona of nanoparticles.