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Design and sustainable development what is the contribution that design can make? A case study of the Welsh woollen industry (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Thomas, A. (2008, July). Design and sustainable development what is the contribution that design can make? A case study of the Welsh woollen industry. Presented at Design Research Society Conference, Sheffield, UK

This paper reports on ongoing research examining the contribution that design can make to sustainable development, that is … development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their ow... Read More about Design and sustainable development what is the contribution that design can make? A case study of the Welsh woollen industry.

Hybrid ventilation for low energy building design in south China (2008)
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China. Presented at The First International Conference on Building Energy and Environment, Dalian, China

Buildings and their related activities are responsible for a large portion of the energy consumed in China. It is therefore worthwhile to improve the energy efficiency of buildings. This paper describes a low energy building design in Hangzhou, south... Read More about Hybrid ventilation for low energy building design in south China.

SURF: Interpretation, role and potential (2008)
Presentation / Conference
May, T., & Marvin, S. (2008, July). SURF: Interpretation, role and potential. Presented at MISTRA Programme Bid at the Organisation of Local Authorities, Gothenburg, Sweden

Improvement of association-based gene mapping accuracy by selecting high rank features (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Mahoor, Z., Saraee, M., & Jazi, M. (2008, July). Improvement of association-based gene mapping accuracy by selecting high rank features. Presented at The 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-08), Orlando, FL, USA

The policing of racist violence – a way forward for Northern Ireland (2008)
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Patel, T. (2008, July). The policing of racist violence – a way forward for Northern Ireland. Presented at British-Irish Section of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control - Capital, Culture, Power: Criminalisation and Resistance, Liverpool, England

Given the increase in the reporting of racist incidents in Northern Ireland involving attacks against members of its black minority ethnic population, this paper focuses on the degree to which these racist incidents are successfully policed by the Po... Read More about The policing of racist violence – a way forward for Northern Ireland.

Transracial adoption: conceptualising a multi-racialised identity (2008)
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Patel, T. (2008, July). Transracial adoption: conceptualising a multi-racialised identity. Poster presented at Identities in Transition Conference, Sheffield

The Development Of A Module To Equip Students With Real World Problem Solving Skills (2008)
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Kelly, A., Wilson, J., & Hiley, A. (2008, July). The Development Of A Module To Equip Students With Real World Problem Solving Skills. Paper presented at International Conference on Innovation, Good Practice and Research in Engineering Education, Loughborough

Today's global society generates 'wicked' problems - problems that are messy, intricate, untidy and difficult. Engineers are constantly faced with such problems. A creative approach to problem-identification and problem-solving is required for effect... Read More about The Development Of A Module To Equip Students With Real World Problem Solving Skills.

Community as commodity (2008)
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Kreps, D., & Pearson, E. (2008, July). Community as commodity. Presented at IFIP WG 9.5 International Working Conference on Virtuality and Society: Massive Virtual Communities, Leuphana University, Luneburg, Germany

Despite utopian claims that the internet generally and Social Networking Sites (SNS) (including multi-user virtual environments, or MUVE) in particular herald a challenge to the dominance of capitalist ideologies in technological societies, there is... Read More about Community as commodity.

Investigation on FIPA agent communication mechanism based on web service (2008)
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Lu, G., Lu, J., Yao, S., & Yip, Y. (2008, July). Investigation on FIPA agent communication mechanism based on web service. Presented at 2008 International Conference on Internet Computing, ICOMP 2008, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Mobile agent based data fusion for wireless sensor networks with a XML framework (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Lu, G., Lu, J., & Yip, Y. (2008, July). Mobile agent based data fusion for wireless sensor networks with a XML framework. Presented at 2008 International Conference on Internet Computing, ICOMP 2008, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Customer satisfaction fuzzy cognitive map in banking industry (2008)
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Reza Nasserzadeh, S., Hamed Jafarzadeh, M., Mansouri, T., & Sohrabi, B. (2008, June). Customer satisfaction fuzzy cognitive map in banking industry. Presented at 10th IBIMA Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Customer satisfaction is one of the key factors in modern marketing and customers' behavior analysis. Banking industry is one of the numerous services in which the customer satisfaction has had an ever increasing importance in the corresponding resea... Read More about Customer satisfaction fuzzy cognitive map in banking industry.

Internet and mobile technologies for a public role in noise surveying (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Mydlarz, C., Drumm, I., & Cox, T. (2008, June). Internet and mobile technologies for a public role in noise surveying. Poster presented at Paris ASA Conference, Paris, France

The traditional method of noise surveying is to use trained professionals to go to a specific site to measure and assess noise levels using dedicated and expensive equipment. This project aims to enfranchise the public by providing them with the oppo... Read More about Internet and mobile technologies for a public role in noise surveying.

The methodological development of a Benefits Realisation Management Process (BRMP) in the case of Manchester, Salford and Trafford (MaST) Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Harris, K., Sapountzis, S., & Kagioglou, M. (2008, June). The methodological development of a Benefits Realisation Management Process (BRMP) in the case of Manchester, Salford and Trafford (MaST) Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT). Presented at Built and Human Environment, Prague, Czech Republic

In recent years the UK government has made huge capital investment into the public sector in particular healthcare. One such initiative occurred in 2001 in the form of LIFT (Local Improvement Finance Trust) for primary care settings through a Public... Read More about The methodological development of a Benefits Realisation Management Process (BRMP) in the case of Manchester, Salford and Trafford (MaST) Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT).

Review of the EU’s electronic communications regulatory framework – the significance of a possible electronic communications markets authority (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Simpson, S. (2008, June). Review of the EU’s electronic communications regulatory framework – the significance of a possible electronic communications markets authority. Presented at 17th Biennial International Telecommunications Society Conference, Montreal, Canada

A surface representation approach for novelty detection (2008)
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Li, Y. (2008, June). A surface representation approach for novelty detection. Presented at Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Information and Automation, Zhangjiajie, China

There has been a pronounced increase in novelty detection research in recent years due to the driving force from applications such as monitoring of safety-critical systems and detection of novel objects in image sequences. This paper presents a novel... Read More about A surface representation approach for novelty detection.

Effectiveness and preferences of anthropomorphic user interface feedback in a PC building context and cognitive load (2008)
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Murano, P., Ede, C., & Holt, P. (2008, June). Effectiveness and preferences of anthropomorphic user interface feedback in a PC building context and cognitive load. Presented at 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Spain, Barcelona

This paper describes an experiment and its results concerning research that has been going on for a number of years in the area of anthropomorphic user interface feedback. The main aims of the research have been to examine the effectiveness and use... Read More about Effectiveness and preferences of anthropomorphic user interface feedback in a PC building context and cognitive load.

Urban ecological security and the political economy of knowledge (2008)
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Hodson, M., & May, T. (2008, June). Urban ecological security and the political economy of knowledge. Presented at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia

The future of the university (2008)
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May, T. (2008, June). The future of the university. Presented at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia

Bruno Maag is into type (2008)
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Rooney, J. (2008, June). Bruno Maag is into type. Presented at "Bruno Maag is into type", CUBE Gallery Manchester

Presentation on typography and analysis of letterforms by Bruno Maag from type design company Dalton Maag.

My Facebook profile: Copy, resemblance, or simulacrum? (2008)
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Kreps, D. (2008, June). My Facebook profile: Copy, resemblance, or simulacrum?. Presented at 16th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

This paper offers a theoretical reading of the phenomenon and experience of the social networking site, Facebook, through an exploration of how loyally a Facebook profile can represent the essence of an individual, and whether such Platonic notions o... Read More about My Facebook profile: Copy, resemblance, or simulacrum?.