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The relationship between research and teaching in built environment undergraduate education (2008)
Book Chapter
Wood, G. (2008). The relationship between research and teaching in built environment undergraduate education. In R. Haigh, & D. Amaratunga (Eds.), Building resilience, CIB W89 international conference on building education and research, in conjunction with CIB, W113, CIB TG53, CIB TG63, CIB TG67, CIB TG68, and CIB TG69 (364-375). Salford, UK: University of Salford

The research-teaching nexus debate is a complex and often contentious one which has received a good deal of attention in the UK in recent years. Based on an international survey of built environment academics and practitioners this study explores the... Read More about The relationship between research and teaching in built environment undergraduate education.

The Constitutional Referendum of June 2006 : end of the "Grande Riforma" but not of reform itself' (2008)
Book Chapter
Bull, M. (2008). The Constitutional Referendum of June 2006 : end of the "Grande Riforma" but not of reform itself'. In J. Briquet, & A. Mastropaolo (Eds.), Italian politics : the center-left's poisoned victory (99-118). New York: Berghahn

This chapter analyses the constitutional referendum of June 2006 in Italy, analysing the campaign, evaluating the results and assessing the impact on Italian politics.

Interoperable knowledge: achievements and future challenges (2008)
Book Chapter
Barresi, S., & Rezgui, Y. (2008). Interoperable knowledge: achievements and future challenges. In P. Brandon, & T. Kocatürk (Eds.), Virtual futures for design, construction and procurement. USA: Wiley Blackwell Publishing

Christmas and war (2008)
Book Chapter
Agius, C. (2008). Christmas and war. In S. Whiteley (Ed.), Christmas, Ideology and Popular Culture (137-148). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Virtualisation of disaster recovery centres (2008)
Book Chapter
Mihindu, S., & Khosrowshahi, F. (2008). Virtualisation of disaster recovery centres. In R. Haigh, & R. Amaratunga (Eds.), Building Resilience, CIB W89 International Conference on Building Education and Research (1979-1987). Salford, UK: University of Salford

Governments, NGOs and International organisations must work together and contribute towards strategic disaster recovery planning process of countries. Emergency management plans should be in place and tested fully well ahead of any adverse situations... Read More about Virtualisation of disaster recovery centres.

Some UK experience of gauging progress on introducing sustainable building practices in the construction sector (2008)
Book Chapter
Cooper, I., Crowhurst, D., Platt, S., & Woodall, R. (2008). Some UK experience of gauging progress on introducing sustainable building practices in the construction sector. In J. Yang, P. Brandon, & A. Sidwell (Eds.), Smart and sustainable built environments (289-299). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470759493.ch26

This chapter contains sections titled: Summary, Sustainability and continuous improvement in UK construction, How was MaSC developed, What is MaSC, Benchmarking current progress on sustainability in UK construction, The performance o... Read More about Some UK experience of gauging progress on introducing sustainable building practices in the construction sector.

Semantic resources integration and interoperability in the construction domain (2008)
Book Chapter
Barresi, S., Rezgui, Y., Lima, C., & Meziane, F. (2008). Semantic resources integration and interoperability in the construction domain. In Y. Manolopoulos, J. Filipe, P. Constantopoulos, & J. Cordeiro (Eds.), Enterprise Information Systems (336-347). Berlin Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77581-2

Semantic resources, such as ontologies and taxonomies, are used in various domains to facilitate information exchange between people and software applications. However, in many cases, accessing a single semantic resource is no longer adequate. Conseq... Read More about Semantic resources integration and interoperability in the construction domain.

A decision support system for trust formalisation (2008)
Book Chapter
Meziane, F., & Nefti-Meziani, S. (2008). A decision support system for trust formalisation. In V. Sugumaran (Ed.), Distributed artificial intelligence, agent technology and collaborative applications (47-64). New York, USA: IGI Global

L-modified ILP evaluation functions for positive-only biological grammar learning (2008)
Book Chapter
Mamer, T., Bryant, C., & McCall, J. (2008). L-modified ILP evaluation functions for positive-only biological grammar learning. In F. Zelezny, & N. Lavrac (Eds.), Inductive logic programming (176-191). Berlin / Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85928-4_16

We identify a shortcoming of a standard positive-only clause evaluation function within the context of learning biological grammars. To overcome this shortcoming we propose L-modification, a modification to this evaluation function such that the leng... Read More about L-modified ILP evaluation functions for positive-only biological grammar learning.

A novel platform for context maintenance and discovery in a ubiquitous environment (2008)
Book Chapter
Liu, Q., & Linge, N. (2008). A novel platform for context maintenance and discovery in a ubiquitous environment. In M. Guo, Z. Wang, F. Tang, & C. Xu (Eds.), IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, 2008. EUC '08 (565-570). Los Alamitos, California, USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/EUC.2008.100

Context maintenance and discovery, which aim to represent, manage and share context information, have been discussed since context-awareness was presented in the 1990s. These become more challenging when being applied to a ubiquitous environment wher... Read More about A novel platform for context maintenance and discovery in a ubiquitous environment.

The participation of Black and minority ethnic graduates in science, engineering and technology occupations in the Northwest of England (2008)
Book Chapter
Booth, K., Takruri-Rizk, H., Welamedage, L., & Mansi, K. (2008). The participation of Black and minority ethnic graduates in science, engineering and technology occupations in the Northwest of England. In E. O'Doherty (Ed.), The Fourth Education in a Changing Environment Conference Book 2007 (331-352). Santa Rosa, California, USA: Informing Science Press

Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) have been at the heart of government policy priorities for many decades because of its contribution to the economy and exploitation of the science base is key to improving productivity and growing the market... Read More about The participation of Black and minority ethnic graduates in science, engineering and technology occupations in the Northwest of England.

Concept of sustainable development in regions (2008)
Book Chapter
Rembielak-Vitchev, G., & Rutkowska, M. (2008). Concept of sustainable development in regions. In Hradecké Ekonomické Dny 2009 (Hradec Economic Day 2008) (127-131). Hradec Králové, Czech Republic: Univerzita Hradec Králové

Consumption, Coca-colonisation, cultural resistance--and Santa Claus (2008)
Book Chapter
Mckay, G. (2008). Consumption, Coca-colonisation, cultural resistance--and Santa Claus. In S. Whiteley (Ed.), Christmas, Ideology and Popular Culture (50-70). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

In what ways has the iconography and practice of Christmas been shaped, understood and consumed as an American experience? This chapter explores explains and questions the ideological valence of Christmas in part as an American socio-economic and cul... Read More about Consumption, Coca-colonisation, cultural resistance--and Santa Claus.

Delay time modelling (2008)
Book Chapter
Wang, W. (2008). Delay time modelling. In K. Kobbacy, & D. Murthey (Eds.), Complex system maintenance handbook (345-372). Springer

Condition-based maintenance modelling (2008)
Book Chapter
Wang, W. (2008). Condition-based maintenance modelling. In K. Kobbacy, & D. Murthy (Eds.), Complex system maintenance handbook (111-132). Springer