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The grounds of Tolkien, unmappable, unbookable (2018)
Journal Article
Kendall, J. (2018). The grounds of Tolkien, unmappable, unbookable. Writing in Practice: the journal of creative writing research, 4,

As Tolkien himself asserted, his creative writing processes were fundamentally linguistic. They were driven by his private invented languages, by the names in those languages, and by linguistic aesthetics. To a great extent, the purpose of his creati... Read More about The grounds of Tolkien, unmappable, unbookable.

Urban development and governance in Nigeria : challenges, opportunities and policy direction (2018)
Journal Article
Gyau, K. (2018). Urban development and governance in Nigeria : challenges, opportunities and policy direction. International Development Planning Review, 40(1), 27-49. https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2018.1

Volumes of literature discourse illuminate several weaknesses of Nigeria’s urban planning and governance system particularly in the face of rapid urbanisation, and rising levels of urban poverty and informality. However, these literature discourses o... Read More about Urban development and governance in Nigeria : challenges, opportunities and policy direction.

Surgery for malignant pleural mesothelioma : an international guidelines review (2018)
Journal Article
Ricciardi, S., Cardillo, G., Zirafa, C., Carleo, F., Facciolo, F., Fontanini, G., …Melfi, F. (2018). Surgery for malignant pleural mesothelioma : an international guidelines review. Journal of thoracic disease, 10(Supp.2), S285-S292. https://doi.org/10.21037/jtd.2017.10.16

Currently there is no universally accepted surgical therapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM). The goal of surgery in this dismal disease is a macroscopic complete resection (MCR) and there are two types of intervention with a curative intent.... Read More about Surgery for malignant pleural mesothelioma : an international guidelines review.

Surveying practice involvement in providing vocational skills training for undergraduate building surveyors : the ICZ way (2018)
Journal Article
building surveyors : the ICZ way. Journal of Building Survey, Appraisal and Valuation, 7(1), 85-92

The paper starts from a documented premise of there being a critical shortage of skilled building surveyors. It also uses a researched premise that all stakeholders to building surveying education favour the incorporation of vocational skills tra... Read More about Surveying practice involvement in providing vocational skills training for undergraduate building surveyors : the ICZ way.

A new processing approach for reducing computational complexity in cloud-RAN mobile networks (2018)
Journal Article
Mahmood, A., Al-Yasiri, A., & Alani, O. (2018). A new processing approach for reducing computational complexity in cloud-RAN mobile networks. IEEE Access, 6, 6927-6946. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2782763

Cloud computing is considered as one of the key drivers for the next generation of mobile networks (e.g. 5G). This is combined with the dramatic expansion in mobile networks, involving millions (or even billions) of subscribers with a greater numbe... Read More about A new processing approach for reducing computational complexity in cloud-RAN mobile networks.

Integrating sustainability within architectural education in Cairo (2018)
Journal Article
El-Feki, S., & Kenawy, I. (2018). Integrating sustainability within architectural education in Cairo. Proceeding of Science and Technology, 1(1), https://doi.org/10.21625/resourceedings.v1i1.183

Architectural education has great potential to move the entire industry towards sustainability within buildings and cities. Having the fundamental knowledge to apply the sustainable strategies can help in solving different environmental challenges be... Read More about Integrating sustainability within architectural education in Cairo.

Guest editors' introduction (2018)
Journal Article
Qin, Y., An, M., & Jia, L. (2018). Guest editors' introduction. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, 28(04), 427-429. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218194018020023

The Cyber-Physical System (CPS) of Railways is an intelligent integration system of information acquisition, data fusion, state identification, knowledge inference, system optimization and control. CPS presents a higher combination and coordination b... Read More about Guest editors' introduction.

Recent applications of mineral magnetic methods in sediment pollution studies: a review (2018)
Journal Article
Zhang, W., Dong, C., Hutchinson, S., Ge, C., Wang, F., & Feng, H. (2018). Recent applications of mineral magnetic methods in sediment pollution studies: a review. Current Pollution Reports, 4(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40726-018-0075-y

This paper reviews recent progress in applying mineral magnetic methods in sediment pollution studies. Such applicationsinclude its use as a dating marker, as a proxy for heavy metal concentrations and to trace metal pollutant dispersal. The mineralm... Read More about Recent applications of mineral magnetic methods in sediment pollution studies: a review.

Cold War Nostalgia in The Game (2018)
Journal Article
Barnett, N. (2018). Cold War Nostalgia in The Game. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 15(3), 436-452. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2018.0431

This article explores how nostalgia for both the Cold War and the 1970s became a key feature of the BBC drama The Game (2014). It argues that the serial situated the Cold War as a more stable era in international relations in which the enemy played b... Read More about Cold War Nostalgia in The Game.

Comparing the bacterial communities of wild and captive golden mantella frogs: Implications for amphibian conservation (2018)
Journal Article
Passos, L., Garcia, G., & Young, R. (2018). Comparing the bacterial communities of wild and captive golden mantella frogs: Implications for amphibian conservation. PLoS ONE, 13(10), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205652

Bacterial communities are frequently found in symbiotic associations with most animal species. The characteristically moist amphibian skin provides a good environment for the growth of some species of bacteria; among these a few can act as a first li... Read More about Comparing the bacterial communities of wild and captive golden mantella frogs: Implications for amphibian conservation.

Comparison of performance of simplified RANS formulations for velocity distributions against full 3D RANS model (2018)
Journal Article
Alawadi, W., & Prasad, T. (2018). Comparison of performance of simplified RANS formulations for velocity distributions against full 3D RANS model. International journal of hydraulic engineering (Online), 7(2), 33-42. https://doi.org/10.5923/j.ijhe.20180702.03

Several analytical models of velocity distribution for turbulent uniform open channel flows were lately developed by analysis and simplification of the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations (RANS). These simplified RANS-based models, which are ca... Read More about Comparison of performance of simplified RANS formulations for velocity distributions against full 3D RANS model.

The global adoption of Industralised Building System (IBS) : lessons learned (2018)
Journal Article
Nawi, M., Lee, A., Pozin, M., Kamar, K., & Harun, A. (2018). The global adoption of Industralised Building System (IBS) : lessons learned. Journal of Social Sciences Research, SI(6), 1272-1278. https://doi.org/10.32861/jssr.spi6.1272.1278

Industrialised Building Systems (IBS) is typically used interchangeably with other terms such as prefabrication, offsite manufacturing, offsite construction, and modern method of construction (MMC), industrialised building and industrialised construc... Read More about The global adoption of Industralised Building System (IBS) : lessons learned.

An interdisciplinary project using recycled glass as an aesthetically pleasing architectural material (2018)
Journal Article
Oseng-Rees, T., Standen, I., & Ferriz-Papi, J. (2018). An interdisciplinary project using recycled glass as an aesthetically pleasing architectural material. Making futures, 5,

This paper is exploring how a waste material, in this case recycled glass, can be up-cycled and used as an aesthetically pleasing architectural material. The project has been undertaken as an interdisciplinary project between staff and students a... Read More about An interdisciplinary project using recycled glass as an aesthetically pleasing architectural material.