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Linking sustainable urban drainage systems (SuDS) and ecosystem services: New connections in urban ecology (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Mak, C., James, P., & Scholz, M. (2012, December). Linking sustainable urban drainage systems (SuDS) and ecosystem services: New connections in urban ecology. Presented at British Ecological Society Annual Meeting (18-20 December 2012), University of Birmingham

The relationship between Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) and ecosystem services has not been articulated clearly, leading to misinformed and inadequate SuDS designs. A new conceptual model, informed by literature review, sets out the relationshi... Read More about Linking sustainable urban drainage systems (SuDS) and ecosystem services: New connections in urban ecology.

A multi-armed bandit approach to cost-sensitive decision tree learning (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Lomax, S., Vadera, S., & Saraee, M. (2012, December). A multi-armed bandit approach to cost-sensitive decision tree learning. Presented at 2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, Brussels, Belgium

Several authors have studied the problem of inducing decision trees that aim to minimize costs of misclassification and take account of costs of tests. The approaches adopted vary from modifying the information theoretic attribute selection measure u... Read More about A multi-armed bandit approach to cost-sensitive decision tree learning.

Continuous flow single cell electroporation in an ultrafast laser inscribed optofluidic device (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Martinez Maestro, L., Choudhury, D., Ramsay, W., Paterson, L., Jaque, D., & Kar, A. K. (2012, December). Continuous flow single cell electroporation in an ultrafast laser inscribed optofluidic device. Presented at International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, Chennai, India

Ultrafast laser inscription has been used to fabricate a selectively etched optofluidic device incorporating a near-infrared waveguide to enable continuous flow single cell electroporation for the generation of intracellular spatio-thermal maps using... Read More about Continuous flow single cell electroporation in an ultrafast laser inscribed optofluidic device.

Residence time investigation in a co-axial dielectric barrier discharge reactor (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Babaie, M., Talebizadeh, P., Saha, S., Rahimzadeh, H., Zare, F., & Brown, R. (2012, November). Residence time investigation in a co-axial dielectric barrier discharge reactor. Presented at 4th International Conference on Computational Methods, Crowne Plaza, Gold Coast, Australia

The residence time distribution (RTD) is a crucial parameter when treating engine exhaust emissions with a Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) reactor. In this paper, the residence time of such a reactor is investigated using a finite element based so... Read More about Residence time investigation in a co-axial dielectric barrier discharge reactor.

Localisation of elevated virtual sources in higher order ambisonic sound fields (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Power, P., Davies, W., Hirst, J., & Dunn, C. (2012, November). Localisation of elevated virtual sources in higher order ambisonic sound fields. Presented at Reproduced Sound, Brighton

Ambisonics allows the reproduction of 3D sound-fields. Higher-order Ambisonics provides improved resolution, and the promise of enhanced localisation at the expense of higher channel counts, and increased broadcast bandwidth, and storage requirements... Read More about Localisation of elevated virtual sources in higher order ambisonic sound fields.

Creative Cities (2012)
Presentation / Conference
May, T. (2012, November). Creative Cities. Presented at A Conversational Presentation with Michael Joroff, MediaCityUK, Salford Quays

Thermal comfort and outdoor spaces : the cultural perception (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Kenawy, I., & Elkadi, H. (2012, November). Thermal comfort and outdoor spaces : the cultural perception. Presented at 28th International Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) Conference : Towards an Environmentally Responsible Architecture, Lima, Peru

The GM LIP Story (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Perry, B. (2012, November). The GM LIP Story. Presented at Sustainable Stories Exhibition, ESRC Festival of Social Science,, Cube, Manchester,

TEALS (tool for evaluation of academic library spaces) project : Evaluating physical library spaces (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Horn, A., Abbassi, N., Elkadi, H., & Owen, S. (2012, October). TEALS (tool for evaluation of academic library spaces) project : Evaluating physical library spaces. Presented at Library Assessment Conference : Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment, Charlottesville, Virginia

The aim of the TEALS (Tool for Evaluation of Academic Library Spaces) project was to establish a setting for the evaluation of academic library spaces. The outcomes of such evaluation were anticipated to provide insights into the impacts of library... Read More about TEALS (tool for evaluation of academic library spaces) project : Evaluating physical library spaces.

Optimised strategy by utilising BIM and set-based design : reinforced concrete slabs (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Bavafa, M., Kiviniemi, A., & Weekes, L. (2012, October). Optimised strategy by utilising BIM and set-based design : reinforced concrete slabs. Presented at Conseil International du Bâtiment (CIB) W078 2012 : 29th International Conference, Beirut, Lebanon

Considering the significant amount of material wasted in the construction industry there should be a business case for companies to pay more attention to reducing waste, which would also have a major impact on the environmental issues of the projec... Read More about Optimised strategy by utilising BIM and set-based design : reinforced concrete slabs.

Why doesn't operations management research deliver? (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Koskela, L., & Rooke, J. (2012, September). Why doesn't operations management research deliver?. Poster presented at EPSRC Manufacturing the Future Conference 2012, Loughborough

The web site of EPSRC states: “Manufacturing operations management research is a key component for successful portfolio in Manufacturing Research; however, this area needs attention to ensure that it is delivering.” Indeed, problems regarding industr... Read More about Why doesn't operations management research deliver?.

Application of simulation and modelling in managing unplanned healthcare demand (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Lengu, D., Kobbacy, K., Sapountzis, S., & Kagioglou, M. (2012, September). Application of simulation and modelling in managing unplanned healthcare demand. Presented at 5th Annual HaCIRIC International Conference, ‘Transforming Healthcare Infrastructures and services in the age of austerity, Cardiff

Patients who attend Accident and Emergency (A & E) departments with problems that could be dealt with by their general practitioners (GPs) use time and resources of the department that could be otherwise used for patients with more appropriate need... Read More about Application of simulation and modelling in managing unplanned healthcare demand.

Measurement of ground-to-building frequency response functions for assessment of human exposure to vibration from railway vibration (2012)
Presentation / Conference
from railway vibration. Presented at International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering 2012, Leuven, Belgium

The University of Salford has derived exposure-response relationships for vibration caused by railway construction and operation in residential environments. The exposure assessment methodology for almost 1000 case studies has its key factor in the m... Read More about Measurement of ground-to-building frequency response functions for assessment of human exposure to vibration from railway vibration.

Evaluation of LibSVM and mutual information matching classifiers for multi-domain sentiment analysis (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Sun, F., Belatreche, A., Coleman, S., McGinnity, T., & Li, Y. (2012, September). Evaluation of LibSVM and mutual information matching classifiers for multi-domain sentiment analysis. Presented at The 23rd Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Dublin, Ireland

This paper addresses the new application of two classifier algorithms, namely LibSVM (ν-SVM) and Mutual Information Matching (MIM), to single and multi-domain sentiment analysis. The aim is to improve the performance of sentiment classification accur... Read More about Evaluation of LibSVM and mutual information matching classifiers for multi-domain sentiment analysis.

An integrated model of sound localisation in rooms (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Sheaffer, J., & Fazenda, B. (2012, September). An integrated model of sound localisation in rooms. Presented at Acoustics and Audio 2012, Ben Gurion University

Human perception of sound localisation in enclosed spaces has been studied extensively from physiological as well as psychological perspectives. As it is not feasible to conduct some experiments in-situ, researchers have employed alternative methodol... Read More about An integrated model of sound localisation in rooms.