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What are the European legal duties to conserve biodiversity in university campuses? (2015)
Book Chapter
Tzoulas, K., James, P., Price, E., & Wheater, P. (2015). What are the European legal duties to conserve biodiversity in university campuses?. In W. Leal Filho, U. Azeiteiro, S. Caeiro, & F. Alves (Eds.), Integrating Sustainability Thinking in Science and Engineering Curricula: Innovative Approaches, Methods and Tools Series (413-424). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09474-8_30

Biodiversity is a key element of sustainable development in university campuses. However, integrating biodiversity in campuses requires strategic planning, beyond minimum compliance with protected species and habitats legislation. This leads to the q... Read More about What are the European legal duties to conserve biodiversity in university campuses?.

Do on-farm natural, restored, managed and constructed wetlands mitigate agricultural pollution in Great Britain and Ireland? (2015)
Report
Newman, J., Acreman, M., Palmer-Felgate, E., Verhoeven, J., Scholz, M., & Maltby, E. (2015). Do on-farm natural, restored, managed and constructed wetlands mitigate agricultural pollution in Great Britain and Ireland?

Wetlands in agricultural landscapes offer a number of benefits to the landscape function in which they are set, reducing nutrient runoff, providing additional habitat mosaics and offering various ecosystem services. They require careful planning and... Read More about Do on-farm natural, restored, managed and constructed wetlands mitigate agricultural pollution in Great Britain and Ireland?.

Lessons on the research-practice relationship : from critique to co-production in Greater Manchester (2015)
Book Chapter
Perry, B., & May, T. (2015). Lessons on the research-practice relationship : from critique to co-production in Greater Manchester. In M. Polk (Ed.), Co-Producing Knowledge for Sustainable Cities: Joining Forces for Change. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315748030

At the current time, many issues and problems within sustainable urban development are managed within traditional disciplinary and organizational structures. However, problems such as, climate change, resource constraints, poverty and social tensions... Read More about Lessons on the research-practice relationship : from critique to co-production in Greater Manchester.

Telling wildlife’s story: the role of soundscape on film (2015)
Book Chapter
James, P. (2015). Telling wildlife’s story: the role of soundscape on film. In A. Calanchi (Ed.), Il Suono Percepito, Il Suono Raccontato (151-170). Galaad Edizioni

The essence of a wildlife documentary film is to tell a story with which the intended audience can connect. Through the images the viewer is led into the intimate lives of animals and plants, or into the natural history of specific locations. While... Read More about Telling wildlife’s story: the role of soundscape on film.

First report of identification of livestock-associated MRSA ST9 in retail meat in England (2015)
Journal Article
Dhup, V., Kearns, A., Pichon, B., & Foster, H. (2015). First report of identification of livestock-associated MRSA ST9 in retail meat in England. Epidemiology and Infection, 43(13), 2989-2992. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268815000126

Sixty percent of all meat consumed in the UK is imported from European countries where there have been increasing reports of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) identified in food-producing animals, but rarely from such animals in the... Read More about First report of identification of livestock-associated MRSA ST9 in retail meat in England.

Post-encystment/established immunity in cystic echinococcosis : is it really that simple? (2015)
Journal Article
Rogan, M., Bodell, A., & Craig, P. (2015). Post-encystment/established immunity in cystic echinococcosis : is it really that simple?. Parasite Immunology, 37(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1111/pim.12149

In 1982, Rickard & Williams stated that immunity to larval taeniid cestodes could be divided into two different phases: the establishment phase, operating against oncospheres, and the established phase, operating against established metacestodes in t... Read More about Post-encystment/established immunity in cystic echinococcosis : is it really that simple?.

Development of students’ commercial awareness within the curriculum of professionally accredited courses : A case study of property courses (2015)
Journal Article
Poon, J., & Brownlow, M. (2015). Development of students’ commercial awareness within the curriculum of professionally accredited courses : A case study of property courses. Education and Training, 57(4), 405-428. https://doi.org/10.1108/ET-12-2013-0145

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the development of students’ commercial awareness within the curriculum of professional accredited courses. The targeted area of study is the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) accredited... Read More about Development of students’ commercial awareness within the curriculum of professionally accredited courses : A case study of property courses.

Effective compact agreements : Improving public housing estates’ delivery and post-construction management in Nigeria (2015)
Journal Article
Ihuah, P., & Obi, L. (2015). Effective compact agreements : Improving public housing estates’ delivery and post-construction management in Nigeria. Journal of research in business and management, 3(5), 17-27

Practicing effective compact agreement building among the relevant stakeholders’ in the public
housing sector is becoming necessary and indispensable to progress public housing estates development and the
post-construction management. Irrespective... Read More about Effective compact agreements : Improving public housing estates’ delivery and post-construction management in Nigeria.

Urban ecology : An introduction (2015)
Book
Douglas, I., & James, P. (2015). Urban ecology : An introduction. Routledge

Urban Ecology: An Introduction seeks to open the reader’s mind and eyes to the way in which nature permeates everyday urban living, and how it has to be understood, cared for, and managed in order to make our towns and cities healthier places to visi... Read More about Urban ecology : An introduction.

Current challenges in volatile organic compounds analysis as potential biomarkers of cancer (2015)
Journal Article
Schmidt, K., & Podmore, I. (2015). Current challenges in volatile organic compounds analysis as potential biomarkers of cancer. Journal of Biomarkers (Online), 2015(981458), https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/981458

An early diagnosis and appropriate treatment are crucial in reducing mortality among people suffering from cancer. There is a lack of characteristic early clinical symptoms in most forms of cancer, which highlights the importance of investigating new... Read More about Current challenges in volatile organic compounds analysis as potential biomarkers of cancer.

Influence of pipe length and flow rate on nano-particle deposition in laminar circular pipe flows (2015)
Journal Article
Talebizadeh, P., Babaie, M., Kenny, E., Rahimzadeh, H., Inthavong, K., Ahmadi, G., & Brown, R. (2015). Influence of pipe length and flow rate on nano-particle deposition in laminar circular pipe flows. International Journal of Energy and Environment, 6(4), 357-366

The Lagrangian particle tracking provides an effective method for simulating the deposition of nano-particles as well as micro-particles as it accounts for the particle inertia effect as well as the Brownian excitation. However, using the Lagrangian... Read More about Influence of pipe length and flow rate on nano-particle deposition in laminar circular pipe flows.

Application of distributed lighting control architecture in dementia-friendly smart homes (2015)
Journal Article
Zaeim, A., Nefti-Meziani, S., & Atyabi, A. (2015). Application of distributed lighting control architecture in dementia-friendly smart homes. International Journal of Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence, 4(8), https://doi.org/10.14569/IJARAI.2015.040806

Dementia is a growing problem in societies with aging populations, not only for patients, but also for family members and for the society in terms of the associated costs of providing health care. Helping patients to maintain a degree of independence... Read More about Application of distributed lighting control architecture in dementia-friendly smart homes.

Assessing sustainability of employee suggestion schemes : Cases from the United Arab Emirates (2015)
Journal Article
Lasrado, F., Arif, M., & Rizvi, A. (2015). Assessing sustainability of employee suggestion schemes : Cases from the United Arab Emirates. International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 23(3), 425-455. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOA-04-2014-0754

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to propose a sustainability assessment model and to discuss the implications for organizational learning. Paper presents a sustainability excellence model comprising of three stages and discuss the good practices... Read More about Assessing sustainability of employee suggestion schemes : Cases from the United Arab Emirates.

Use of screencasting to facilitate engineering course delivery (2015)
Journal Article
Hampson, P. (2015). Use of screencasting to facilitate engineering course delivery. International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education, 43(3), 191-206. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306419015603877

The use of technology to enhance learning opportunities is increasing and interventions such as screencasting can have benefits in providing the student with a flexible learning resource. Within this study, a screencast tutorial was produced for engi... Read More about Use of screencasting to facilitate engineering course delivery.

Understanding knowledge sharing in the Jordanian construction industry (2015)
Journal Article
Arif, M., Mohammed, A., & Gupta, A. (2015). Understanding knowledge sharing in the Jordanian construction industry. Construction innovation (London. Online), 15(3), 333-354. https://doi.org/10.1108/CI-03-2014-0018

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a model to understand and facilitate more
knowledge sharing (KS) among construction companies in Jordan. Sixteen cultural variables that affect
KS were identified through self-administered questionn... Read More about Understanding knowledge sharing in the Jordanian construction industry.

The determinants for sustainability of an employee suggestion system (2015)
Journal Article
Lasrado, F., Arif, M., & Rizvi, A. (2015). The determinants for sustainability of an employee suggestion system. International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, 32(2), 182-210. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJQRM-02-2013-0035

Purpose
– Although the corporations widely use the suggestion schemes to elicit the creative ideas of their employee, sustaining a suggestion scheme is still a challenge. Employee suggestion schemes have been studied from many perspectives to illust... Read More about The determinants for sustainability of an employee suggestion system.

Introducing and analysis of the Windows 8 event log for forensic purposes (2015)
Book Chapter
Talebi, J., Dehghantanha, A., & Ramlan, M. (2015). Introducing and analysis of the Windows 8 event log for forensic purposes. In Computational Forensics (145-162). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20125-2_13

All operating systems are employing some sort of logging mechanism to track and note users activities and Microsoft Windows is not an exception. Log Analysis is one of the important parts of Windows forensics process. The Windows event log system int... Read More about Introducing and analysis of the Windows 8 event log for forensic purposes.

Molecular dynamics simulation of radiation damage cascades in diamond (2015)
Dataset
Marks, N., Buchan, J., Robinson, M., Christie, H., Ross, D., & Roach, D. (2015). Molecular dynamics simulation of radiation damage cascades in diamond. [Dataset]

Radiation damage cascades in diamond are studied by molecular dynamics simulations employing the Environment Dependent Interaction Potential for carbon. Primary knock-on atom (PKA) energies up to 2.5 keV are considered and a uniformly distributed set... Read More about Molecular dynamics simulation of radiation damage cascades in diamond.