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Balanced urban design process to create resilient and sustainable urban environments (2018)
Book Chapter
Dias, N., Amaratunga, D., Keraminiyage, K., & Haigh, R. (2018). Balanced urban design process to create resilient and sustainable urban environments. In P. Gardoni (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure (808-825). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315142074

Today, urban design plays a key role in the creation of sustainable urban environments in terms of the “triple bottom line,” that encompasses the three dimensions of life–economics; social and environmental sustainability. Even though urban design... Read More about Balanced urban design process to create resilient and sustainable urban environments.

Creative collaboration in citizen science and the evolution of ThinkCamps (2018)
Book Chapter
Gold, M., & Ochu, E. (2018). Creative collaboration in citizen science and the evolution of ThinkCamps. In S. Hecker, M. Haklay, A. Bowser, Z. Makuch, J. Vogel, & A. Bonn (Eds.), Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy (146-167). UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787352339

This chapter discusses how to harness the potential of creative collaboration through ThinkCamp events – an ‘unconference’ style event with an open and creative environment designed to foster co-creation, co-design and collaborative thinking at key p... Read More about Creative collaboration in citizen science and the evolution of ThinkCamps.

Nonlinear multiphysical laminar nanofluid bioconvection flows : models and computation (2018)
Book Chapter
Beg, O. (2018). Nonlinear multiphysical laminar nanofluid bioconvection flows : models and computation. In A. Sohail, & Z. Li (Eds.), Computational Approaches in Biomedical Nano-Engineering (113-145). Germany: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9783527344758.ch5

Bioconvection has been familiar to biological science for over a century. This phenomenon occurs due to average upwardly swimming micro-organisms which are a little denser than water in suspensions. The upper surface of the suspensions is destabilize... Read More about Nonlinear multiphysical laminar nanofluid bioconvection flows : models and computation.

Estimating embodied carbon emissions of buildings in developing countries : a case study from Sri Lanka (2018)
Book Chapter
Nawarathna, A., Alwan, Z., Fernando, N., & Gledson, B. (2018). Estimating embodied carbon emissions of buildings in developing countries : a case study from Sri Lanka. In L. Scott, & C. Gorse (Eds.), SEEDS 2018: 4th International SEEDS Conference 2018 Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (821-831). Dublin, Ireland: Dublin Institute of Technology

Even with the increasing attention on reduction of Embodied Carbon (EC) emissions in the global built environment sector, yet most of the developing countries focus only on reduction of Operational Carbon (OC) through improved operational energy per... Read More about Estimating embodied carbon emissions of buildings in developing countries : a case study from Sri Lanka.

Exploring guerilla gardening : gauging public views on the grassoots activity (2018)
Book Chapter
Hardman, M., Larkham, P., & Adams, D. (2018). Exploring guerilla gardening : gauging public views on the grassoots activity. In C. Tornaghi, & C. Certoma (Eds.), Urban Gardening as Politics (148-166). London, UK: Routledge/CRC Press (Taylor & Francis)

There is a noteworthy gap in recent research on the growing activity of guerrilla gardening. The purpose of this chapter is to provide a voice to those who dwell or work close to sites which have been colonized by guerrilla gardeners. It explores per... Read More about Exploring guerilla gardening : gauging public views on the grassoots activity.

Survival model with doubly interval-censored data and time-dependent covariates (2018)
Book Chapter
Kiani, K., & Arasan, J. (2018). Survival model with doubly interval-censored data and time-dependent covariates. In Lecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science. Newswood Limited

In this paper a survival model with doubly interval censored (DIC) data and time dependent covariate is discussed. DIC data usually arise in follow-up studies where the lifetime, T = W − V is the elapsed time between two related events, the first eve... Read More about Survival model with doubly interval-censored data and time-dependent covariates.

German-speaking refugee women architects before the Second World War (2018)
Book Chapter
Poppelreuter, T. (2018). German-speaking refugee women architects before the Second World War. In H. Seražin, E. Garda, & C. Franchini (Eds.), Women's Creativity since the Modern Movement (1918-2018) : Toward a New Perception and Reception (697-705). ZRC Publishing House

In Germany and Austria women began to enter the architectural profession in the late 19th century and by the late 1930s some women architects had found working opportunities. After Hitler seized power in Germany in 1933, discrimination and anti-Semit... Read More about German-speaking refugee women architects before the Second World War.

A fuzzy ANP based weighted RFM model for customer segmentation in auto insurance sector (2018)
Book Chapter
Ravasan, A., & Mansouri, T. (2018). A fuzzy ANP based weighted RFM model for customer segmentation in auto insurance sector. In Intelligent systems : concepts, methodologies, tools, and applications (1050-1067). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5643-5.ch044

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.

In search of lost purpose : the dream life of digital (2018)
Book Chapter
Ochu, E. (2018). In search of lost purpose : the dream life of digital. In C. Costa, & J. Condie (Eds.), Doing Research In and On the Digital : Research Methods across Fields of Inquiry (170-188). Routledge (Taylor & Francis)

Beyond making the findings discoverable and accessible to non-academics, how else might the cultural legacy of digital science projects be broadened when they are finished? How might the before and afterlives of these projects be experienced, by whom... Read More about In search of lost purpose : the dream life of digital.

A novel approach for establishing design criteria for refugees' shelters (2018)
Book Chapter
Abumaradan, R., & Trillo, C. (2018). A novel approach for establishing design criteria for refugees' shelters. In New Metropolitan Perspectives (422-432). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92099-3_48

There is currently growing interest amongst the international community of policy makers about finding solutions for accommodating refugees, who currently concentrate mainly in countries located in the MENA region such as Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Palestin... Read More about A novel approach for establishing design criteria for refugees' shelters.

An SME-driven approach to adopting measures of flood resilience : a UK-based perspective (2018)
Book Chapter
Ingirige, B., & Wedawatta, G. (2018). An SME-driven approach to adopting measures of flood resilience : a UK-based perspective. In S. Amir (Ed.), The Sociotechnical Constitution of Resilience : A New Perspective on Governing Risk and Disaster (245-264). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8509-3

This book considers the concept of resilience in a global society where coping with the consequence and long term impact of crisis and disaster challenges the capacity of communities to bounce back in the event of severe disruption. Catastrophic even... Read More about An SME-driven approach to adopting measures of flood resilience : a UK-based perspective.

Streamlining a design, manufacture, and fitting workflow within a UK fit-out SME : a BIM implementation case study (2018)
Book Chapter
Underwood, J., Shelbourn, M., Fleming, A., Heywood, J., & Roberts, I. (2018). Streamlining a design, manufacture, and fitting workflow within a UK fit-out SME : a BIM implementation case study. In B. Kumar (Ed.), Contemporary Strategies and Approaches in 3-D Information Modeling (242-266). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5625-1.ch010

A 30-month project is presented that is enabled through a knowledge transfer partnership government-funded initiative between the University of Salford and Links FF&E – a design, manufacture, and fit-out SME in the UK. The project is aiming to implem... Read More about Streamlining a design, manufacture, and fitting workflow within a UK fit-out SME : a BIM implementation case study.

Leveraging machine learning techniques for Windows ransomware network traffic detection (2018)
Book Chapter
Alhawi, O., Baldwin, J., & Dehghantanha, A. (2018). Leveraging machine learning techniques for Windows ransomware network traffic detection. In A. Dehghantanha, M. Conti, & T. Dargahi (Eds.), Cyber Threat Intelligence (93-106). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73951-9_5

Ransomware has become a significant global threat with the ransomware-as-a-service model enabling easy availability and deployment, and the potential for high revenues creating a viable criminal business model. Individuals, private companies or publi... Read More about Leveraging machine learning techniques for Windows ransomware network traffic detection.

Compatibility of offshore energy installations with marine protected areas (2018)
Book Chapter
Thurstan, R., Yates, K., & O'Leary, B. (2018). Compatibility of offshore energy installations with marine protected areas. In K. Yates, & C. Bradshaw (Eds.), Offshore Energy and Marine Spatial Planning (214-230). Routledge

Energy generation sites are increasingly being constructed in coastal and marine spaces and the rate of implementation is likely to increase in coming decades, due to a combination of increasing energy demand and international targets to reduce green... Read More about Compatibility of offshore energy installations with marine protected areas.

Meaningful stakeholder participation in marine spatial planning with offshore energy (2018)
Book Chapter
Yates, K. (2018). Meaningful stakeholder participation in marine spatial planning with offshore energy. In K. Yates, & C. Bradshaw (Eds.), Offshore Energy and Marine Spatial Planning (169-188). Routledge

Within an increasingly busy seascape, competition between different uses of marine resources is growing. Offshore-energy generation in particular is expanding rapidly, with implications for both existing users and nature conservation. Marine spatial... Read More about Meaningful stakeholder participation in marine spatial planning with offshore energy.

Fuzzy reasoning approach and fuzzy analytical hierarchy process for expert judgment capture and process in risk analysis (2018)
Book Chapter
An, M., & Chen, Y. (2018). Fuzzy reasoning approach and fuzzy analytical hierarchy process for expert judgment capture and process in risk analysis. In Q. Mahboob, & E. Zio (Eds.), Handbook of RAMS in Railway Systems: Theory and Practice (441-474). Boca Raton, USA: CRC PRess (Taylor & Francis)

Many risk assessment techniques currently used in the railway industry are comparatively mature tools, which have been developed on the basis of probabilistic risk analysis (PRA), for example, fault tree analysis, event tree analysis, Monte Carlo sim... Read More about Fuzzy reasoning approach and fuzzy analytical hierarchy process for expert judgment capture and process in risk analysis.

Multi-physical electro-magnetic propulsion fluid dynamics : mathematical modelling and computation (2018)
Book Chapter
Beg, O. (2018). Multi-physical electro-magnetic propulsion fluid dynamics : mathematical modelling and computation. In S. Sparks, & B. Willis (Eds.), Mathematical Modeling : Methods, Applications and Research (2-88). New York, USA: Nova Science Publishers, New York, USA

The long-standing interest in manned inter-planetary missions has motivated a re-think worldwide in developing better propulsion drives. Many hypothetical systems which did offer some promise in the 1970s and 1980s have been abandoned. A significant... Read More about Multi-physical electro-magnetic propulsion fluid dynamics : mathematical modelling and computation.

BCI for Music Making: Then, Now, and Next (2018)
Book Chapter
Williams, D. A., & Miranda, E. R. BCI for Music Making: Then, Now, and Next. In C. S. Nam, A. Nijholt, & F. Lotte (Eds.), . Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.1201/9781351231954

Brain–computer music interfacing (BCMI) is a growing field with a history of experimental applications derived from the cutting edge of BCI research as adapted to music making and performance. BCMI offers some unique possibilities over traditional mu... Read More about BCI for Music Making: Then, Now, and Next.