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Enhancing the quality and consistency of undergraduate dissertation assessment: A case study
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Pathirage, C., Haigh, R., Amaratunga, R., & Baldry, D. Enhancing the quality and consistency of undergraduate dissertation assessment: A case study. Quality Assurance in Education, 15(3), 271-286. https://doi.org/10.1108/09684880710773165

Purpose – This paper sets out to examine methods that can be used to enhance the quality and consistency of dissertation assessment. Design/methodology/approach – The paper includes a review of literature on quality, consistency and criteria of di... Read More about Enhancing the quality and consistency of undergraduate dissertation assessment: A case study.

Knowledge model for post-disaster management
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Kaklauskas, A., Amaratunga, R., & Haigh, R. Knowledge model for post-disaster management. International Journal of Strategic Property Management, 13(2), 117-128

The main aim of this research is to help post-disaster managers to find most rational solutions by using advanced knowledge and developed Model. Post-disaster management is shared, purposeful activities based upon the development of common understand... Read More about Knowledge model for post-disaster management.

Assessment of facilities management performance in higher education properties
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Amaratunga, R., & Baldry, D. Assessment of facilities management performance in higher education properties. Facilities, 18(7/8), 293-301. https://doi.org/10.1108/02632770010340681

In the general facilities management literature, it is assumed that there is a causal link between facilities management practices and performance. The role of facilities management in facilitating organisational performance, and thereby in providin... Read More about Assessment of facilities management performance in higher education properties.

Traffic operations at on-street parking facilities
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Yousif, S., & Purnawan. Traffic operations at on-street parking facilities. Proceedings of the ICE - Transport, 157(3), 189-194. https://doi.org/10.1680/tran.2004.157.3.189

This study reports on the findings based on observations from sites with parallel and angle parking layouts. The main parameters under consideration were the manoeuvre time for parking or unparking and the gap acceptance to merge into the traffic... Read More about Traffic operations at on-street parking facilities.

Managing disaster risks through quality infrastructure and vice versa : post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction practices
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Palliyaguru, R., & Amaratunga, R. Managing disaster risks through quality infrastructure and vice versa : post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction practices. Structural survey, 26(5), 426-434. https://doi.org/10.1108/02630800810922766

Purpose – Reality suggests that the whole world is currently facing an unprecedented scale of natural disasters. Sri Lanka fell into this category after being one of the hardest hit countries of tsunami 2004. Irrespective of the major losses that tsu... Read More about Managing disaster risks through quality infrastructure and vice versa : post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction practices.

Local landscape character assessment: an evaluation of community-led schemes in Cheshire
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James, P., & Gittins, J. Local landscape character assessment: an evaluation of community-led schemes in Cheshire. Landscape Research, 32(4), 423-442. https://doi.org/10.1080/01426390701449794

Planning, especially with the increasing prominence given to community involvement, is a key vehicle for delivering sustainable development. Between 2003 and 2005 two community groups in Cheshire wrote parish landscape character assessments. The comp... Read More about Local landscape character assessment: an evaluation of community-led schemes in Cheshire.

SODAR measurements of wing vortex strength and position
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Bradley, S., Mursch-Radlgruber, E., & von Hünerbein, S. SODAR measurements of wing vortex strength and position. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 24(2), 141-155. https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH2037.1

A method is developed for robust real-time visualisation of aircraft vortex spatial and temporal development based on measurement data from a line array of SODARs. The method relies on using a potential-flow vortex model, with spatial averaging accor... Read More about SODAR measurements of wing vortex strength and position.

A systematic algorithm for obtaining SODAR wind profiles
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Bradley, S., & von Hünerbein, S. A systematic algorithm for obtaining SODAR wind profiles. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 85(1-3), 77-84. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00703-003-0035-x

Current methods of obtaining wind profiles from SODARs generally employ ad hoc strategies for Doppler spectrum peak selection, profile smoothing, and consistency checks. This paper addresses the problem of systematically obtaining vertical profiles o... Read More about A systematic algorithm for obtaining SODAR wind profiles.

Communities of practice in construction case study organisations : questions and insights
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Ruikar, K., Koskela, L., & Sexton, M. Communities of practice in construction case study organisations : questions and insights. Construction innovation (London. Online), 9(4), 434-448. https://doi.org/10.1108/14714170910995967

Purpose – At the heart of knowledge management (KM) are the people – an organisation’s important knowledge asset. Although this is widely acknowledged, businesses seldom understand this axiom in terms of the communities through which individuals deve... Read More about Communities of practice in construction case study organisations : questions and insights.

Landscape composition and spatial prediction of alveolar echinococcosis in Southern Ningxia, China
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Pleydell, D., Yang, Y., Danson, F., Raoul, F., Craig, P., McManus, D., …Giraudoux, P. Landscape composition and spatial prediction of alveolar echinococcosis in Southern Ningxia, China. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2(9),

Background: Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) presents a serious public health challenge within China. Mass screening ultrasound surveys can detect pre-symptomatic AE, but targeting areas identified from hospital records is inefficient regarding AE. Predi... Read More about Landscape composition and spatial prediction of alveolar echinococcosis in Southern Ningxia, China.

Extraction of vegetation biophysical parameters by inversion of the PROSPECT + SAIL models on sugar beet canopy reflectance data. Application to TM and AVIRIS sensors
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Jacquemoud, S., Baret, F., Andrieu, B., Danson, F., & et, A. Extraction of vegetation biophysical parameters by inversion of the PROSPECT + SAIL models on sugar beet canopy reflectance data. Application to TM and AVIRIS sensors. Remote Sensing of Environment, 52(3), 163-172. https://doi.org/10.1016/0034-4257%2895%2900018-V

The PROSPECT leaf optical properties and SAIL canopy reflectance models were coupled and inverted using a set of 96 AVIRIS (Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer) equivalent spectra gathered in afield experiment on sugar beet plots expressin... Read More about Extraction of vegetation biophysical parameters by inversion of the PROSPECT + SAIL models on sugar beet canopy reflectance data. Application to TM and AVIRIS sensors.

High-spectral resolution data for determining leaf water content
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Danson, F., Steven, M., Malthus, T., & et, A. High-spectral resolution data for determining leaf water content. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 13(3), 461-470. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431169208904049

Laboratory measurements of the spectral reflectance of leaves from a variety of species were made over the 400-2500 nm range using a spectroradiomctcr. The relation between spectral reflectance and leaf water content was investigated and the effect o... Read More about High-spectral resolution data for determining leaf water content.

Use of a radiative transfer model to simulate the postfire spectral response to burn severity
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Chuvieco, E., Riano, D., Danson, F., & Martin, P. Use of a radiative transfer model to simulate the postfire spectral response to burn severity. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111(G4),

Burn severity is related to fire intensity and fire duration and provides a quantitative measure related to fire impact and biomass consumption. Traditional field-based methods to estimate burn severity are time consuming, labor intensive, and normal... Read More about Use of a radiative transfer model to simulate the postfire spectral response to burn severity.

Identification of 13 polymorphic microsatellite loci in the zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata (Passeridae, Aves)
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(Passeridae, Aves). Molecular ecology notes (Print), 5, 298-301. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-8286.2005.00907.x

Polymorphic microsatellite loci were identified in order to determine paternity in a captive population of the zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata . Primer sets from 93 published passerine microsatellite sequences were tested for cross-species ampli... Read More about Identification of 13 polymorphic microsatellite loci in the zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata (Passeridae, Aves).

Anthropomorphic feedback in user interfaces: the effect of personality traits, context and Grice’s Maxims on effectiveness and preferences
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Murano, P., & O’Brian Holt, P. Anthropomorphic feedback in user interfaces: the effect of personality traits, context and Grice’s Maxims on effectiveness and preferences. International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction, 3(4), 52-64

Experimental work on anthropomorphic feedback in user interfaces has shown inconsistent results and researchers offer differing opinions as to the potential usefulness of this style of user interaction. A review of the literature shows that experimen... Read More about Anthropomorphic feedback in user interfaces: the effect of personality traits, context and Grice’s Maxims on effectiveness and preferences.

Fuzzy clustering with volume prototypes and adaptive cluster merging
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Kaymak, U., & Setnes, M. Fuzzy clustering with volume prototypes and adaptive cluster merging. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 10(6), 705-712. https://doi.org/10.1109/TFUZZ.2002.805901

Two extensions to the objective function-based fuzzy clustering are proposed. First, the (point) prototypes are extended to hypervolumes, whose size can be fixed or can be determined automatically from the data being clustered. It is shown that clus... Read More about Fuzzy clustering with volume prototypes and adaptive cluster merging.

Nanoscale hydroxyl radical generation from multiphoton ionization of tryptophan
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Bisby, R., Crisostomo, A., Botchway, S., & Parker, A. Nanoscale hydroxyl radical generation from multiphoton ionization of tryptophan. Photochemistry and Photobiology, 85(1), 353-357. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-1097.2008.00447.x

Exposure of solutions containing both tryptophan and hydrogen peroxide to a pulsed (~180 fs) laser beam at 750 nm induces luminescence characteristic of 5 hydroxytryptophan. The results indicate that 3-photon excitation of tryptophan results in photo... Read More about Nanoscale hydroxyl radical generation from multiphoton ionization of tryptophan.