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Enhancing post-disaster reconstruction capacity through lifelong learning in higher education (2015)
Journal Article
Thayaparan, M., Siriwardena, M., Malalgoda, C., Amaratunga, R., Lill, I., & Kaklauskas, A. (2015). Enhancing post-disaster reconstruction capacity through lifelong learning in higher education. Disaster Prevention and Management, 24(3), 338-354. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-11-2014-0239

Purpose: Due to the complexities involved in disasters and due to the peculiar nature of post-disaster reconstruction, built environment professionals require continuous updating of their skills and knowledge to contribute effectively to disaster res... Read More about Enhancing post-disaster reconstruction capacity through lifelong learning in higher education.

Strategic change in the delivery of infrastructure (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Potts, M., McDermott, P., & Stephenson, A. (2015, November). Strategic change in the delivery of infrastructure. Presented at Going north for sustainability: Leveraging knowledge and innovation for sustainable construction and development, London, South Bank University

This paper discusses a socio technical systems approach to the strategic delivery of infrastructure in the regulated UK water sector as part of a participatory focused research project. Part of an ongoing PhD programme, this paper highlights the valu... Read More about Strategic change in the delivery of infrastructure.

Life cycle costing in construction projects : professional quantity surveyors’ perspective (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Chiurugwi, T., Udeaja, C., Babatunde, S., & Ekundayo, D. (2015, November). Life cycle costing in construction projects : professional quantity surveyors’ perspective. Presented at CIB Going North for Sustainability Conference, London, UK

Studies on life-cycle costing (LCC) in private finance initiatives (PFI)/public-private partnership (PPP) projects abound, particularly in the UK. But, there is a limited empirical study on the factors influencing the usage of LCC outside PFI/PPP co... Read More about Life cycle costing in construction projects : professional quantity surveyors’ perspective.

User participation in urban green commons : exploring the links between access, voluntarism, biodiversity and well being (2015)
Journal Article
Dennis, M., & James, P. (2016). User participation in urban green commons : exploring the links between access, voluntarism, biodiversity and well being. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 15, 22-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2015.11.009

Polycentric governance and stakeholder participation in natural resource management have potential benefits for both human and environmental well-being. Researchers and decision-makers have attempted to conceptualise the ecological, social and politi... Read More about User participation in urban green commons : exploring the links between access, voluntarism, biodiversity and well being.

Time-sensitive influence maximization in social networks (2015)
Journal Article
Mohammadi, A., Saraee, M., & Mirzaei, A. (2015). Time-sensitive influence maximization in social networks. Journal of Information Science, 41(6), 765-778. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551515602808

One of the fundamental issues in social networks is the influence maximization problem, where the goal is to identify a small subset of individuals such that they can trigger the largest number of members in the network. In real-world social networks... Read More about Time-sensitive influence maximization in social networks.

Designing strategies for epidemic control in a tree nursery : the case of ash dieback in the UK (2015)
Journal Article
Alonso-Chavez, V., Parnell, S., & Bosch, F. (2015). Designing strategies for epidemic control in a tree nursery : the case of ash dieback in the UK. Forests, 6(11), 4135-4145. https://doi.org/10.3390/f6114135

Ash dieback is a fungal disease (causal agent Hymenoscyphus fraxineus) infecting Common ash (Fraxinus excelsior) throughout temperate Europe. The disease was first discovered in the UK in 2012 in a nursery in Southern England, in plants which had bee... Read More about Designing strategies for epidemic control in a tree nursery : the case of ash dieback in the UK.

Bio-inspired hybrid framework for multi-view face detection (2015)
Book Chapter
McCarroll, N., Belatreche, A., Harkin, J., & Li, Y. (2015). Bio-inspired hybrid framework for multi-view face detection. In Neural Information Processing : 22nd International Conference, ICONIP 2015, November 9-12, 2015, Proceedings, Part IV (232-239). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26561-2_28

Reliable face detection in completely uncontrolled settings still remains a challenging task. This paper introduces a novel hybrid learning strategy that achieves robust in-plane and out-of-plane multi-view face detection through the enhanced impleme... Read More about Bio-inspired hybrid framework for multi-view face detection.

Diversity in a honey bee pathogen: first report of a third master variant of the Deformed Wing Virus quasispecies (2015)
Journal Article
Mordecai, G. J., Wilfert, L., Martin, S. J., Jones, I. M., & Schroeder, D. C. (2016). Diversity in a honey bee pathogen: first report of a third master variant of the Deformed Wing Virus quasispecies. ISME Journal, 10(5), 1264-1273. https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2015.178

Treatment of emerging RNA viruses is hampered by the high mutation and replication rates that enable these viruses to operate as a quasispecies. Declining honey bee populations have been attributed to the ectoparasitic mite Varroa destructor and its... Read More about Diversity in a honey bee pathogen: first report of a third master variant of the Deformed Wing Virus quasispecies.

Data standards can boost metabolomics research, and if there is a will, there is a way (2015)
Journal Article
Rocca-Serra, P., Salek, R., Arita, M., Correa, E., Dayalan, S., Gonzalez-Beltran, A., …Neumann, S. (2016). Data standards can boost metabolomics research, and if there is a will, there is a way. Metabolomics, 12(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11306-015-0879-3

Thousands of articles using metabolomics approaches are published every year. With the increasing amounts of data being produced, mere description of investigations as text in manuscripts is not sufficient to enable re-use anymore: the underlying dat... Read More about Data standards can boost metabolomics research, and if there is a will, there is a way.

Barriers to public private partnership projects in developing countries (2015)
Journal Article
Babatunde, S., Perera, S., Zhou, L., & Udeaja, C. (2015). Barriers to public private partnership projects in developing countries. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 22(6), 669-691. https://doi.org/10.1108/ECAM-12-2014-0159

Purpose – Top managers who possess outstanding leadership competence make significant
contributions toward achieving project success. The relationship between the top managers’ leadership
and infrastructure sustainability (IS), one of the most impo... Read More about Barriers to public private partnership projects in developing countries.

The Space Between Us : evaluating a multi-user affective brain-computer music interface (2015)
Journal Article
Eaton, J., Williams, D., & Miranda, E. (2015). The Space Between Us : evaluating a multi-user affective brain-computer music interface. Brain-Computer Interfaces, 2(2-3), 103-116. https://doi.org/10.1080/2326263x.2015.1101922

Music as a mechanism for neuro-feedback presents an interesting medium for artistic exploration, especially with regard to passive BCI control. Passive control in a brain-computer music interface (BCMI) provides a means for approximating mental state... Read More about The Space Between Us : evaluating a multi-user affective brain-computer music interface.

Implementing BIM to streamline a Design, Manufacture and Fitting Workflow – A Case Study on a Fit-out SME in the UK. (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Machado, M., Underwood, J., & Fleming, A. (2015, November). Implementing BIM to streamline a Design, Manufacture and Fitting Workflow – A Case Study on a Fit-out SME in the UK. Presented at CITA BIM Gathering 2015, Dublin

Following the launch of the Government Construction Strategy in 2011, the UK construction sector has witnessed a significant increase in the awareness and adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM). As recognised by the strategy, there are syne... Read More about Implementing BIM to streamline a Design, Manufacture and Fitting Workflow – A Case Study on a Fit-out SME in the UK..

Design Science: Choosing an appropriate methodology for research in BIM. (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Kehily, D., & Underwood, J. (2015, November). Design Science: Choosing an appropriate methodology for research in BIM. Presented at CITA BIM Gathering 2015, Dublin

This paper discusses Building Information Modelling (BIM) in relation to proposing design science as a methodology for BIM research. The paper firstly outlines how BIM is changing construction work practices to a more collaborative and integrated set... Read More about Design Science: Choosing an appropriate methodology for research in BIM..

Applying lean principles to higher education via a collaborative delivery approach (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Comiskey, D., Fleming, A., McLernon, T., & Harty, J. (2015, November). Applying lean principles to higher education via a collaborative delivery approach. Presented at CITA BIM Gathering Conference, Dublin, Ireland

Despite a momentum shift in professional practice towards BIM ways of working and a collaborative approach to project delivery, collaborative working practices amongst built environment students are still far from common practice within Higher Educat... Read More about Applying lean principles to higher education via a collaborative delivery approach.

Slip resistance of winter footwear on snow and ice measured using maximum achievable incline (2015)
Journal Article
Hsu, J., Shaw, R., Novak, A., Li, Y., Ormerod, M., Newton, R., …Fernie, G. (2016). Slip resistance of winter footwear on snow and ice measured using maximum achievable incline. Ergonomics, 59(5), 717-728. https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2015.1084051

Protective footwear is necessary for preventing injurious slips and falls in winter conditions. Valid methods for assessing footwear slip resistance on winter surfaces are needed in order to evaluate footwear and outsole designs. The purpose of this... Read More about Slip resistance of winter footwear on snow and ice measured using maximum achievable incline.

EDL : an extended delay learning based remote supervised method for spiking neurons (2015)
Book Chapter
Taherkhani, A., Belatreche, A., Li, Y., & Maguire, L. (2015). EDL : an extended delay learning based remote supervised method for spiking neurons. In Neural Information Processing : 22nd International Conference, ICONIP 2015, Istanbul, Turkey, November 9-12, 2015, Proceedings, Part II (190-197). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26535-3_22

This paper presents an Extended Delay Learning based Remote Supervised Method, called EDL, which extends the existing DL-ReSuMe learning method previously proposed by the authors for mapping spatio-temporal input spiking patterns into desired spike t... Read More about EDL : an extended delay learning based remote supervised method for spiking neurons.

The 1st international conference on advanced intelligent system and informatics (AISI2015), November 28-30, 2015, Beni Suef, Egypt (2015)
Book
Gaber, T., Hassanien, A., El-Bendary, N., & Dey, N. (2015). The 1st international conference on advanced intelligent system and informatics (AISI2015), November 28-30, 2015, Beni Suef, Egypt. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26690-9

The conference topics address different theoretical and practical aspects, and implementing solutions for intelligent systems and informatics disciplines including bioinformatics, computer science, medical informatics, biology, social studies, as wel... Read More about The 1st international conference on advanced intelligent system and informatics (AISI2015), November 28-30, 2015, Beni Suef, Egypt.

Experimental study of the performance related properties of asphalt concrete modified with hydrated lime (2015)
Journal Article
of asphalt concrete modified with hydrated lime. Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 28(5), 04015185-1. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29MT.1943-5533.0001474

The use of additives is one of the effective techniques adopted to improve pavement properties. Recently, hydrated lime has been categorized as a major additive in asphalt pavement because of its wide availability and relatively cheap cost. The main... Read More about Experimental study of the performance related properties of asphalt concrete modified with hydrated lime.

Biphasic decay of the Ca transient results from increased sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca leak (2015)
Journal Article
Sankaranarayanan, R., Li, Y., Greensmith, D., Eisner, D., & Venetucci, L. (2016). Biphasic decay of the Ca transient results from increased sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca leak. Journal of Physiology, 594(3), 611-623. https://doi.org/10.1113/JP271473

In heart failure, a reduction in Ca transient amplitude and contractile dysfunction can by caused by Ca leak through the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca channel (ryanodine receptor, RyR) and/or decreased activity of the SR Ca ATPase (SERCA). We have c... Read More about Biphasic decay of the Ca transient results from increased sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca leak.

The influence of headphones on the localization of external loudspeaker sources (2015)
Journal Article
Satongar, D., Pike, C., Lam, Y., & Tew, A. (2015). The influence of headphones on the localization of external loudspeaker sources. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 63(10), 799-810. https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2015.0072

When validating systems that use headphones to synthesize virtual sound sources, a direct
comparison between virtual and real sources is sometimes needed. This paper considers the
passive influence of headphones on the sound transmission and percep... Read More about The influence of headphones on the localization of external loudspeaker sources.