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Researchers and research careers crossing borders : onwards and upwards? (2014)
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Coey, C. (2014, May). Researchers and research careers crossing borders : onwards and upwards?. Presented at University of Liverpool Graduate School Early Career Workshop, University of Liverpool

This paper discusses the internationalisation of researchers, the movement of careers across international boundaries and what it means for future research careers. It aims to inform early career researchers about the possibilities, obstacels and pit... Read More about Researchers and research careers crossing borders : onwards and upwards?.

Hardware-based agent modelling : Event-Driven Reactive Architecture (EDRA) (2014)
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Gerlein, E., McGinnity, T., Belatreche, A., Coleman, S., & Li, Y. (2014, May). Hardware-based agent modelling : Event-Driven Reactive Architecture (EDRA). Presented at 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems, Paris

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have been recognised as a promising solution to address complex problems in many areas. However such systems are extremely hungry in terms of computational resources. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) offer great perfor... Read More about Hardware-based agent modelling : Event-Driven Reactive Architecture (EDRA).

Improving the technological capacity of the local contractors through e-business technology transfer - the case of the local ghanaian contractors (2014)
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Adzroe, E., & Ingirige, B. (2014, May). Improving the technological capacity of the local contractors through e-business technology transfer - the case of the local ghanaian contractors. Presented at CIB W55/65/89/92/96/102/117 & TG72/81/83 International Conference on Construction in a Changing World Heritance Kandalama, Sri Lanka, 4th-7th May 2014, Sri Lanka

Technology transfer (TT) within construction has emerged as an important business activity across many developing countries across the globe including Ghana. For several years TT from developed countries has been viewed as a key element in addressin... Read More about Improving the technological capacity of the local contractors through e-business technology transfer - the case of the local ghanaian contractors.

E-business use in the Ghanaian construction industry: The drivers (2014)
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Adzroe, E., & Ingirige, B. (2014, May). E-business use in the Ghanaian construction industry: The drivers. Presented at CIB W55/65/89/92/96/102/117 & TG72/81/83 International Conference on Construction in a Changing World Heritance, Kandalama, Sri Lanka, 4th-7th May 2014, Sri Lanka

This paper reports on a questionnaire survey undertaken to evaluate e-Business use in the Ghanaian construction industry. The views of construction professionals and local construction firms in Ghana were consulted in this questionnaire survey. Add... Read More about E-business use in the Ghanaian construction industry: The drivers.

Knowledge transfer partnership : implementation of target value design in the UK construction industry (2014)
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Kaushik, A., Keraminiyage, K., Koskela, L., Tzortzopoulos Fazenda, P., & Hope, G. (2014, May). Knowledge transfer partnership : implementation of target value design in the UK construction industry. Presented at CIB- International Conference on Construction in Changing World, Heritance Kandalama, Sri Lanka

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) are unique research programmes designed to bring innovation by joint effort of academia and industry to provide innovation in technology, process and management for the UK Industry. This paper describes an underg... Read More about Knowledge transfer partnership : implementation of target value design in the UK construction industry.

The influence of organisational culture on sharing knowledge in small information communication technology firms in Libya (2014)
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Allali, B., Keraminiyage, K., & Kulatunga, U. (2014, May). The influence of organisational culture on sharing knowledge in small information communication technology firms in Libya. Presented at CIB 2014 International Conference on Construction in a Changing World, Sri Lanka

Knowledge is seen as a crucial factor behind sustainable advantage and success for Information Communication Technology (ICT) business organizations. Consequently, sharing knowledge (SK) has been considered as a main element of success, which is clos... Read More about The influence of organisational culture on sharing knowledge in small information communication technology firms in Libya.

The relationship between corporate social responsibility and company competitiveness from the perspective of the construction industry (2014)
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Ulutas, D., Giritli, H., & McDermott, P. (2014, May). The relationship between corporate social responsibility and company competitiveness from the perspective of the construction industry. Presented at CIB International Conference 2014: W55/65/89/92/96/102/117 & TG72/74/81/83 Construction in a Changing World, Sri Lanka

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has evolved to an important agenda for many industries and its scope has been widened from the responsible business to strategic decisions. The increasing importance of CSR affects business relations because orga... Read More about The relationship between corporate social responsibility and company competitiveness from the perspective of the construction industry.

A systems approach to assessing organisational viability – an oil and gas project based organisation case study (2014)
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Awuzie, B., & McDermott, P. (2014, May). A systems approach to assessing organisational viability – an oil and gas project based organisation case study. Presented at CIB International Conference 2014: W55/65/89/92/96/102/117 & TG72/74/81/83 Construction in a Changing World, Sri Lanka

Extant literature highlights the increasing inability of Project-Based Organisations (PBOs) to meet infrastructure client’s expectations, particularly as it concerns the delivery of socio-economic outcomes during the delivery process. Viability is de... Read More about A systems approach to assessing organisational viability – an oil and gas project based organisation case study.

The narratives of ‘troubled families’- a troubling context (2014)
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Shannon, M. (2014, May). The narratives of ‘troubled families’- a troubling context. Presented at Troubling Narratives, University of Huddersfield

The discourse around families perceived to have complex needs has developed at a policy level, very much reinforced by media representations. The notion of the troubled family has recently been generated as a result of Coalition Government policy-thi... Read More about The narratives of ‘troubled families’- a troubling context.

Audio information mining pragmatic review, outlook and a universal open architecture (2014)
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Duncan, P., Mohammed, D., & Li, F. (2014, April). Audio information mining pragmatic review, outlook and a universal open architecture. Presented at Audio Engineering Society 136th Convention, Berlin

There is an immense amount of audio data available currently whose content is unspecified and the problem of classification and generation of metadata poses a significant and challenging research problem. We present a review of past and current work... Read More about Audio information mining pragmatic review, outlook and a universal open architecture.

A new biologically plausible supervised learning method for spiking neurons (2014)
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Taherkhani, A., Belatreche, A., Li, Y., & Maguire, L. (2014, April). A new biologically plausible supervised learning method for spiking neurons. Presented at 22st European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN) Computational Intelligence And Machine Learning, Bruges, Belgium

STDP is believed to play an important role in learning and memory. Additionally, experimental evidence shows that a few strong neural inputs can drive a neuron response and subsequently affect the learning of other inputs. Furthermore, recent studies... Read More about A new biologically plausible supervised learning method for spiking neurons.

What they photograph in Worktown : participatory photography and Saturday afternoons in Bolton (2014)
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Edge, C. (2014, April). What they photograph in Worktown : participatory photography and Saturday afternoons in Bolton. Presented at Recording Leisure Lives 2014, University of Bolton

In 1937 Humphrey Spender photographed leisure in Bolton for Mass Observation’s Worktown study. MO recruited local people as participant observers but community involvement was fairly limited and the project has been subsequently characterised as a po... Read More about What they photograph in Worktown : participatory photography and Saturday afternoons in Bolton.

Professional doctorate research methodologies: new possibilities from beyond the social sciences (2014)
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Chynoweth, P. (2014, April). Professional doctorate research methodologies: new possibilities from beyond the social sciences. Presented at 4th International Conference on Professional Doctorates, Cardiff, UK

The methodological approaches used by professional doctorate students often mirror those used by full-time academics within their fields of study. Costley & Armsby (2007) found that these are often dominated by a narrow range of social science approa... Read More about Professional doctorate research methodologies: new possibilities from beyond the social sciences.

Soap based thermal insulation: A sustainable alternative to petroleum (2014)
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Read, L., & Arayici, Y. (2014, April). Soap based thermal insulation: A sustainable alternative to petroleum. Presented at International Postgraduate Research Conference, Salford, UK

The thermal insulation market is dominated by petroleum insulations. A gap has been identified for the manufacture of “green” insulations. These insulations must perform to the same levels of heat transfer resistance as their petroleum based counte... Read More about Soap based thermal insulation: A sustainable alternative to petroleum.

Railway vehicle optimisation to using the concept of design for control (2014)
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Ward, C., Mei, T., Hubbard, P. D., & Mirzapour, M. (2014, April). Railway vehicle optimisation to using the concept of design for control. Presented at The Second International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance ,, Ajaccio

Design for control is an axiom extensively used in the aerospace and automotive industries that has proven highly beneficial both in terms of performance benefits but also in reducing unit costs and reducing maintenance burdens. To date, in the railw... Read More about Railway vehicle optimisation to using the concept of design for control.

Applications of p53 interactome analysis to personalised drug discovery (2014)
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Hussain, M., Stutchbury, B., Tian, K., Atalay, R., Schwartz, J., & Krstic-Demonacos, M. (2014, April). Applications of p53 interactome analysis to personalised drug discovery. Presented at Conference: International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (IWBBIO 2014), Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

The stress responsive transcription factor p53 is a powerful tumor suppressor implicated in over 50 % of all human cancers. The complexity and nonlinear dynamics of p53 network coupled with extensive literature is challenging. Sys-tems biology method... Read More about Applications of p53 interactome analysis to personalised drug discovery.