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Audio content feature selection and classification : a random forests and decision tree approach (2015)
Presentation / Conference
AI-Maathidi, M., & Li, F. (2015, December). Audio content feature selection and classification : a random forests and decision tree approach. Presented at IEEE International Conference on Progress in Informatics and Computing (PIC), Nanjing, China

Content information can be extracted from soundtracks of multimedia files. A good audio classifier as a preprocessor is crucial in such applications. Efforts have been made to develop effective and efficient audio content classifiers in which feat... Read More about Audio content feature selection and classification : a random forests and decision tree approach.

Sentiment classification in the financial domain using SVM and multi-objective optimisation (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Sun, F., Belatreche, A., Coleman, S., Mcginnity, T., & Li, Y. (2015, December). Sentiment classification in the financial domain using SVM and multi-objective optimisation. Presented at 2015 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, Cape Town, South Africa

Online financial textual information containing a large amount of investor sentiment is growing rapidly and an effective solution to automate the sentiment classification of such large amounts of text would be extremely beneficial. A novel approach t... Read More about Sentiment classification in the financial domain using SVM and multi-objective optimisation.

Social capital, brand and football : tales from the digital field - extended abstract for : UKAIS & British Academy of Management E-business and E-government SIG (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Fenton, A. (2015, December). Social capital, brand and football : tales from the digital field - extended abstract for : UKAIS & British Academy of Management E-business and E-government SIG. Presented at UKAIS & British Academy of Management E-business and E-government SIG, Newcastle University

This research focuses on a new era for Salford City Football Club (SCFC). SCFC currently sit in the 8th tier of English football and have been taken over by ex-Manchester United players the ‘class of ‘92’. The new era heralds an unusual case of a no... Read More about Social capital, brand and football : tales from the digital field - extended abstract for : UKAIS & British Academy of Management E-business and E-government SIG.

Strategic change in the delivery of infrastructure (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Potts, M., McDermott, P., & Stephenson, A. (2015, November). Strategic change in the delivery of infrastructure. Presented at Going north for sustainability: Leveraging knowledge and innovation for sustainable construction and development, London, South Bank University

This paper discusses a socio technical systems approach to the strategic delivery of infrastructure in the regulated UK water sector as part of a participatory focused research project. Part of an ongoing PhD programme, this paper highlights the valu... Read More about Strategic change in the delivery of infrastructure.

Life cycle costing in construction projects : professional quantity surveyors’ perspective (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Chiurugwi, T., Udeaja, C., Babatunde, S., & Ekundayo, D. (2015, November). Life cycle costing in construction projects : professional quantity surveyors’ perspective. Presented at CIB Going North for Sustainability Conference, London, UK

Studies on life-cycle costing (LCC) in private finance initiatives (PFI)/public-private partnership (PPP) projects abound, particularly in the UK. But, there is a limited empirical study on the factors influencing the usage of LCC outside PFI/PPP co... Read More about Life cycle costing in construction projects : professional quantity surveyors’ perspective.

More great women : re-imagining a pageant of great women for the present day (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Neylon, C. (2015, November). More great women : re-imagining a pageant of great women for the present day. Presented at Sibeal, Limerick, Ireland

Due to the historical, and continued, invisibility of women in ‘typically’ male positions and careers, today’s girls and young women are offered few visible female role models to aspire to and this may have a strong impact on their choice of careers... Read More about More great women : re-imagining a pageant of great women for the present day.

Sampling Salford : ‘musical quotation’ and the female voice (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Scott, J. (2015, November). Sampling Salford : ‘musical quotation’ and the female voice. Presented at Women in Sound/Women on Sound symposium, Lancaster University

This presentation arises from an on-going project, exploring the activation of popular music from Salford, through a series of live intermedial events. Live intermedial practice involves the real time mixing of sound, image, object and text and can m... Read More about Sampling Salford : ‘musical quotation’ and the female voice.

Implementing BIM to streamline a Design, Manufacture and Fitting Workflow – A Case Study on a Fit-out SME in the UK. (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Machado, M., Underwood, J., & Fleming, A. (2015, November). Implementing BIM to streamline a Design, Manufacture and Fitting Workflow – A Case Study on a Fit-out SME in the UK. Presented at CITA BIM Gathering 2015, Dublin

Following the launch of the Government Construction Strategy in 2011, the UK construction sector has witnessed a significant increase in the awareness and adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM). As recognised by the strategy, there are syne... Read More about Implementing BIM to streamline a Design, Manufacture and Fitting Workflow – A Case Study on a Fit-out SME in the UK..

Design Science: Choosing an appropriate methodology for research in BIM. (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Kehily, D., & Underwood, J. (2015, November). Design Science: Choosing an appropriate methodology for research in BIM. Presented at CITA BIM Gathering 2015, Dublin

This paper discusses Building Information Modelling (BIM) in relation to proposing design science as a methodology for BIM research. The paper firstly outlines how BIM is changing construction work practices to a more collaborative and integrated set... Read More about Design Science: Choosing an appropriate methodology for research in BIM..

Applying lean principles to higher education via a collaborative delivery approach (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Comiskey, D., Fleming, A., McLernon, T., & Harty, J. (2015, November). Applying lean principles to higher education via a collaborative delivery approach. Presented at CITA BIM Gathering Conference, Dublin, Ireland

Despite a momentum shift in professional practice towards BIM ways of working and a collaborative approach to project delivery, collaborative working practices amongst built environment students are still far from common practice within Higher Educat... Read More about Applying lean principles to higher education via a collaborative delivery approach.

Matching student skills to SME requirements : the university as facilitator (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Procter, C., Mullin, P., & Swain, L. (2015, November). Matching student skills to SME requirements : the university as facilitator. Presented at Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE), Glasgow

This paper reports on the UNITE with Business project, funded by the European Union Regional Development Fund (ERDF) between 2010 and 2015, whose objective was to support Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in order to boost the regional econom... Read More about Matching student skills to SME requirements : the university as facilitator.

Construction education requirements for achieving level 2 and 3 BIM (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Pye, C., Adedotun, O., Pour Rahimian, F., & Goulding, J. (2015, November). Construction education requirements for achieving level 2 and 3 BIM. Presented at ARCOM Doctoral Workshop on Construction Education in the New Digital Age, Birmingham City University, Birmingham

The Architecture Engineering Construction (AEC) Industry is well noted for its fragmented nature, leading to several flaws in communication and information processing, which have led to a proliferation of adversarial relationships amongst project p... Read More about Construction education requirements for achieving level 2 and 3 BIM.

101 mixes : a statistical analysis of mix-variation in a dataset of multi-track music mixes (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Wilson, A., & Fazenda, B. (2015, October). 101 mixes : a statistical analysis of mix-variation in a dataset of multi-track music mixes. Presented at 139th International Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, New York City, New York, USA

The act of mix-engineering is a complex combination of creative and technical processes; analysis is often performed by studying the techniques of a few expert practitioners, qualitatively. We propose to study the actions of a large group of mix-engi... Read More about 101 mixes : a statistical analysis of mix-variation in a dataset of multi-track music mixes.

Application of object-based audio for automated mixing of live football broadcast (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Oldfield, R., Shirley, B., & Satongar, D. (2015, October). Application of object-based audio for automated mixing of live football broadcast. Presented at 139th AES Convention, New York, USA

The challenge of creating a live sound mix for a sports event such as a football/soccer match cannot be underestimated. The mixing engineer needs to constantly raise and lower the levels of the faders corresponding to the pitch-side microphones that... Read More about Application of object-based audio for automated mixing of live football broadcast.

Online news videos : the UX of subtitle position (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Crabb, M., Jones, R., Armstrong, M., & Hughes, C. (2015, October). Online news videos : the UX of subtitle position. Presented at 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility, Lisbon, Portugal

Millions of people rely on subtitles when watching video content. The current change in media viewing behaviour involving computers has resulted in a large proportion of people turning to online sources as opposed to regular television for news infor... Read More about Online news videos : the UX of subtitle position.

The STarT Back Tool : Physiotherapist experience and perceptions of its clinical utility (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Woods, E., & Gaskell, L. (2015, October). The STarT Back Tool : Physiotherapist experience and perceptions of its clinical utility. Poster presented at Physiotherapy UK 2015, Liverpool, UK

The study highlighted the importance of a robust training prior to and during the implementation of the SBT and a stratified approach to care within physiotherapy departments.

The Alpine-themed song (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Wise, T. (2015, October). The Alpine-themed song. Presented at The European Salon : Nineteenth Century Salonmusik, Maynooth, Ireland

My paper discusses a staple of the salon, the Alpine-themed song, which emerged in the early nineteenth century. Typically based on picturesque lyric imagery and Ländler rhythms, this barely remembered repertoire was dismissed as trivial music by pro... Read More about The Alpine-themed song.

MonSLAR : a middleware for monitoring SLA for RESTFUL services in cloud computing (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Shammari, S., & Al-Yasiri, A. (2015, October). MonSLAR : a middleware for monitoring SLA for RESTFUL services in cloud computing. Presented at IEEE 9th International Symposium on the Maintenance and Evolution of Service-Oriented and Cloud-Based Environments (MESOCA), 2015, Bremen, Germany

Measuring the quality of cloud computing provision from the client's point of view is important in order to ensure that the service conforms to the level specified in the service level agreement (SLA). With a view to avoid SLA violation, the main par... Read More about MonSLAR : a middleware for monitoring SLA for RESTFUL services in cloud computing.

A multi polynomial CRC circuit for LTE-Advanced communication standard (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Al-doori, Q., & Alani, O. (2015, September). A multi polynomial CRC circuit for LTE-Advanced communication standard. Presented at Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Conference (CEEC), Colchester

Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) uses four different kinds of Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) to verify the integrity of the transmitted data, which implies using four circuits for each CRC in the transceiver system. In this paper, a novel algorith... Read More about A multi polynomial CRC circuit for LTE-Advanced communication standard.