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Nitrogen transformations and mass balance in an integrated constructed wetland treating domestic wastewater (2014)
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Dzakpasu, M., Scholz, M., McCarthy, V., & Jordan, S. (2014). Nitrogen transformations and mass balance in an integrated constructed wetland treating domestic wastewater. Water Science and Technology, 70(9), 1496-1502. https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2014.402

Nitrogen (N) transformations and removal in integrated constructed wetlands (ICWs) are often high, but the contributions of various pathways, including nitrification/denitrification, assimilation by plants and sediment storage, remain unclear. This... Read More about Nitrogen transformations and mass balance in an integrated constructed wetland treating domestic wastewater.

Ab initio study of structural and electronic properties of partially reduced graphene oxide (2014)
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Lundie, M., Tomic, S., & Sljivancanin, Z. (2014). Ab initio study of structural and electronic properties of partially reduced graphene oxide. Physica Scripta, 2014(T162), 014019. https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-8949/2014/T162/014019

Controlled reduction of graphene oxide (GO) is a promising method to tune the electronic band gap of this two-dimensional material in the energy range of the visible light spectrum. By means of ab initio calculations, based on density functional theo... Read More about Ab initio study of structural and electronic properties of partially reduced graphene oxide.

Bacteriological effects of dentifrices with and without active ingredients of natural origin (2014)
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Ledder, R., Latimer, J., Humphreys, G., Sreenivasan, P., & McBain, A. (2014). Bacteriological effects of dentifrices with and without active ingredients of natural origin. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 80(20), 6490-6498. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02315-14

Compounds of natural origin are increasingly used as adjuncts to oral hygiene. We have adopted four distinct approaches to assess the antibacterial activity of dentifrices containing natural active ingredients against oral bacteria in several test sy... Read More about Bacteriological effects of dentifrices with and without active ingredients of natural origin.

UK construction companies’ strategies in the face of business cycles (2014)
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Ruddock, L., Kheir, A., & Ruddock, S. (2014). UK construction companies’ strategies in the face of business cycles. International Journal of Strategic Property Management, 18(3), 225-237. https://doi.org/10.3846/1648715X.2014.927400

Firms in the construction industry have always had to deal with the challenges of the economic cycle and develop strategies to deal with the resulting fluctuations in their business environment. In the context of the 2008–2011 double-dip recession in... Read More about UK construction companies’ strategies in the face of business cycles.

Exercising for food : bringing the laboratory closer to nature (2014)
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Fonseca, I., Passos, R., Araujo, F., Lima, M., Lacerada, D., Pires, W., …Rodrigues, L. (2014). Exercising for food : bringing the laboratory closer to nature. Journal of Experimental Biology, 217, 3274-3281. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.108191

Traditionally, exercise physiology experiments have borne little resemblance to how animals express physical activity in the wild. In this experiment, 15 adult male rats were divided into three equalsized groups: exercise contingent (CON), non-exe... Read More about Exercising for food : bringing the laboratory closer to nature.

The binomial-neighbour instance-based learner on a multiclass performance measure scheme (2014)
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Theodoridis, T., & Hu, H. (2015). The binomial-neighbour instance-based learner on a multiclass performance measure scheme. Soft Computing, 19(10), 2973-2981. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-014-1461-z

This paper presents a novel instance-based learning methodology the Binomial-Neighbour (B-N) algorithm. Unlike to other k-Nearest Neighbour algorithms, B-N employs binomial search through vectors of statistical features and distance primitives. The b... Read More about The binomial-neighbour instance-based learner on a multiclass performance measure scheme.

A review of critical project management success factors (CPMSF) for sustainable social housing in Nigeria (2014)
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Ihuah, P., Kakulu, I., & Eaton, D. (2014). A review of critical project management success factors (CPMSF) for sustainable social housing in Nigeria. International Journal for Sustainable Built Environment, 3(1), 62-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsbe.2014.08.001

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to investigate and establish the Critical Project Management Success Factors (CPMSF) for the sustainable social (public) housing estates’ delivery/provision in Nigeria. The current housing estate deficit faced in... Read More about A review of critical project management success factors (CPMSF) for sustainable social housing in Nigeria.

Where to nest? Ecological determinants of chimpanzee nest abundance and distribution at the habitat and tree species scale (2014)
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Carvalho, J., Meyer, C. F., Vicente, L., & Marques, T. (2015). Where to nest? Ecological determinants of chimpanzee nest abundance and distribution at the habitat and tree species scale. American Journal of Primatology, 77(2), 186-199. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.22321

Conversion of forests to anthropogenic land‐uses increasingly subjects chimpanzee populations to habitat changes and concomitant alterations in the plant resources available to them for nesting and feeding. Based on nest count surveys conducted dur... Read More about Where to nest? Ecological determinants of chimpanzee nest abundance and distribution at the habitat and tree species scale.

MRAR : mining multi-relation association rules (2014)
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Ramezani, R., Saraee, M., & Nematbakhsh, M. (2014). MRAR : mining multi-relation association rules. Journal of computing and security (Online), 1(2), 133-158

In this paper, we introduce a new class of association rules (ARs) named “Multi-Relation Association Rules” which in contrast to primitive ARs (that are usually extracted from multi-relational databases), each rule item consists of one entity and... Read More about MRAR : mining multi-relation association rules.

A combined model for improving estimation of atmospheric boundary layer height (2014)
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Bachtiar, V., Davies, F., & Danson, F. (2014). A combined model for improving estimation of atmospheric boundary layer height. Atmospheric Environment, 98, 461-473. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2014.09.028

Atmospheric boundary layer height is one of the most important parameters in atmospheric dispersion modelling because it has a large effect on predicted air quality. Comparisons between Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling System, version 4 (ADMS 4) and... Read More about A combined model for improving estimation of atmospheric boundary layer height.

A fuzzy method for discovering cost-effective actions from data (2014)
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Kalanat, N., Shamsinejadbabaki, P., & Saraee, M. (2014). A fuzzy method for discovering cost-effective actions from data. Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, 28(2), 757-765. https://doi.org/10.3233/IFS-141357

Data mining techniques are often confined to the delivery of frequent patterns and stop short of suggesting how to act on these patterns for business decision-making. They require human experts to post-process the discovered patterns manually. Theref... Read More about A fuzzy method for discovering cost-effective actions from data.

Lateral load bearing capacity modelling of piles in cohesive soils in undrained conditions; an intelligent evolutionary approach (2014)
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Ahangar Asr, A., Javadi, A., Johari, A., & Chen, Y. (2014). Lateral load bearing capacity modelling of piles in cohesive soils in undrained conditions; an intelligent evolutionary approach. Applied Soft Computing, 24, 822-828. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2014.07.027

The complex behaviour of fine-grained materials in relation with structural elements has received noticeable attention from geotechnical engineers and designers in recent decades. In this research work an evolutionary approach is presented to create... Read More about Lateral load bearing capacity modelling of piles in cohesive soils in undrained conditions; an intelligent evolutionary approach.

Self-built ecovillage in L’Aquila (Italy) : community resilience as a grassroots response to an environmental shock (2014)
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Fois, F., & Forino, G. (2014). Self-built ecovillage in L’Aquila (Italy) : community resilience as a grassroots response to an environmental shock. Disasters, 38(4), 719-739. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12080

The paper applies the community resilience approach to the post‐disaster case of Pescomaggiore, an Italian village affected by the L'Aquila earthquake in 2009. A group of residents refused to accept the housing recovery solutions proposed by the gove... Read More about Self-built ecovillage in L’Aquila (Italy) : community resilience as a grassroots response to an environmental shock.

Perception and automatic detection of wind-induced microphone noise (2014)
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Jackson, I., Kendrick, P., Cox, T., Fazenda, B., & Li, F. (2014). Perception and automatic detection of wind-induced microphone noise. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 136(3), 1176-1186. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4892772

Wind can induce noise on microphones, causing problems for users of hearing aids and for those making recordings outdoors. Perceptual tests in the laboratory and via the Internet were carried out to understand what features of wind noise are importan... Read More about Perception and automatic detection of wind-induced microphone noise.

Potential-based methodology for active sound control in three dimensional settings (2014)
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Lim, H., Utyuzhnikov, S., Lam, Y., & Kelly, L. (2014). Potential-based methodology for active sound control in three dimensional settings. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 136(3), 1101-1111. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4892934

This paper extends a potential-based approach to active noise shielding with preservation of wanted sound in three-dimensional settings. The approach, which was described in a previous publication [Lim et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 129(2), 717–725 (201... Read More about Potential-based methodology for active sound control in three dimensional settings.

An energy interpretation of the Kirchhoff-Helmholtz boundary integral equation and its application to Sound Field synthesis (2014)
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Hargreaves, J., & Lam, Y. (2014). An energy interpretation of the Kirchhoff-Helmholtz boundary integral equation and its application to Sound Field synthesis. Acta acustica united with Acustica, 100(5), 912-920. https://doi.org/10.3813/AAA.918770

Most spatial audio reproduction systems have the constraint that all loudspeakers must be equidistant from the listener, a property which is difficult to achieve in real rooms. In traditional Ambisonics this arises because the spherical harmonic func... Read More about An energy interpretation of the Kirchhoff-Helmholtz boundary integral equation and its application to Sound Field synthesis.

Rapid animal welfare assessment : an archaeological approach (2014)
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Schork, I., & Young, R. (2014). Rapid animal welfare assessment : an archaeological approach. Biology Letters, 10, 20140390. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2014.0390

The welfare of an individual depends on its capacity to overcome suboptimal conditions in its environment; otherwise, its physical and psychological health becomes compromised. A situation that clearly indicates lack of control of the environment... Read More about Rapid animal welfare assessment : an archaeological approach.

Evaluation of vulnerability factors for cyclones : the case of Patuakhali, Bangladesh (2014)
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Kulatunga, U., Wedawatta, G., Amaratunga, D., & Haigh, R. (2014). Evaluation of vulnerability factors for cyclones : the case of Patuakhali, Bangladesh. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 9(Sep), 204-211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2014.05.011

Tropical cyclones are considered as the most severe natural disasters in Bangladesh; they cause extensive damage, create losses in the country’s economy, and affect social settings. The impact of natural disasters has been further intensified due to... Read More about Evaluation of vulnerability factors for cyclones : the case of Patuakhali, Bangladesh.

Validating Rationales in Green Supply Chain Management: A SEM Analysis of Technological Policies for Indian Automotive Industry (2014)
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Khan, M., Haleem, A., & Arif, M. (2014). Validating Rationales in Green Supply Chain Management: A SEM Analysis of Technological Policies for Indian Automotive Industry. ITSEC international journal of engineering sciences, 1(1), 13-18

Switched Reluctance Motor (SRM) is attracting more and more researcher due to its rugged and robust construction and applications in industrial environments. SRM are most widely used in contrast to induction machines, brushless dc motors, or othe... Read More about Validating Rationales in Green Supply Chain Management: A SEM Analysis of Technological Policies for Indian Automotive Industry.

Application of Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) in estimating importance of Open Source Software (OSS) user acceptance factors (2014)
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Akre, V., Arif, M., & Rizvi, A. (2014). Application of Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) in estimating importance of Open Source Software (OSS) user acceptance factors. AIMS International journal of management, 8(3), 233-249

Open Source Software (OSS) is a phenomenon that has caused turbulence in the smooth sail of the Software Development Bandwagon. The OSS movement was initiated by special interest groups of hackers and developers who perceived the closed source tra... Read More about Application of Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) in estimating importance of Open Source Software (OSS) user acceptance factors.