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A framework for mining fuzzy association rules from composite items (2009)
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A novel framework is described for mining fuzzy Association Rules (ARs) relating the properties of composite attributes, i.e. attributes or items that each feature a number of values derived from a common schema. To apply fuzzy Association Rule Minin... Read More about A framework for mining fuzzy association rules from composite items.

Room temperature operation of subwavelength metallo-dielectric lasers (2009)
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Lasing is demonstrated in optically pumped InGaAsP-SiO2-aluminum structures, where both the resonator and the optical mode are subwavelength in all three dimensions. In the smallest case, a 550nm diameter InGaAsP disk exhibits lasing at 1390nm.

Women in Manchester’s Edwardian parks 1900 – 1935 (2009)
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This paper examines women’s use of public parks in Edwardian Manchester. It addresses both leisure and non-leisure activities. Like many cities at this time, Manchester City Council was investing in municipal public parks, the high point of which was... Read More about Women in Manchester’s Edwardian parks 1900 – 1935.

New approaches to the development of telecommunications infrastructures in Europe? The evolution of European Union policy for next generation networks (2009)
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In May 2009, the European Commission released a draft consultation document on the application of state aid rules to broadband network deployment, leaving open the possibility of significant state aid intervention. However, this paper argues that th... Read More about New approaches to the development of telecommunications infrastructures in Europe? The evolution of European Union policy for next generation networks.

Objective quality measurement of audio using multiband dynamic range analysis (2009)
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Ever since the very first recordings were made, people have strived to improve the recording and playback process to a point of ‘complete transparency’. However, in music production, it’s certainly the case that sound-engineers and producers employ t... Read More about Objective quality measurement of audio using multiband dynamic range analysis.

Characterisation of the directionality of reflections in small room acoustics (2009)
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This paper investigates the extraction and analysis of temporal and spatial distribution of early sound decay. A method based on B-format signals is adapted for small rooms. It can map the spatial and temporal distribution of sound energy and its di... Read More about Characterisation of the directionality of reflections in small room acoustics.

A positive soundscape evaluation system (2009)
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Current policy on environmental sound is largely based on noise control. There is considerable interest in exploiting the soundscape concept to provide a more sophisticated way of managing our acoustic environment. For this to happen, a tool for asse... Read More about A positive soundscape evaluation system.

Italian politics and education policy (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Paper prepared for delivery at the Virtual Italian Academy conference, ‘Principi per un sistema universitario meritocratico’ University of Manchester, 21 September 2009.

Multilateralism, the EU and the evolving global governance of the internet (2009)
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Whilst the global governance architecture for the Internet has evolved at pace in the last ten years the EU’s role and influence in its formation and development has been relatively understudied. This paper contributes to closing this gap in the lite... Read More about Multilateralism, the EU and the evolving global governance of the internet.

Integrating BIM and GIS for large-scale facilities asset management: a critical review (2009)
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Widely-dispersed assets such as buildings, equipment, roads and bridges present local governments as well as big organizations with a number of asset management challenges. Recently financial sustainability and competitiveness have put more pressures... Read More about Integrating BIM and GIS for large-scale facilities asset management: a critical review.

Room temperature lasing from subwavelength metal-insulator-semiconductor structures (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We report pulsed room temperature lasing from optically pumped subwavelength metal-insulator-semiconductor structures. The lasers consist of InGaAsP gain disks embedded in a SiO 2 /aluminum bi-layer. Lasing at 1520 nm from a 730 nm gain core is demon... Read More about Room temperature lasing from subwavelength metal-insulator-semiconductor structures.

The positive soundscape project : a synthesis of results from many disciplines (2009)
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This paper takes an overall view of ongoing findings from the Positive Soundscape Project, a large inter-disciplinary soundscapes study which is nearing completion. Qualitative fieldwork (soundwalks and focus groups) and lab-based listening tests hav... Read More about The positive soundscape project : a synthesis of results from many disciplines.

Urban intersections – Panel discussion and presentations of interactive urban installations in contested virtual spaces (2009)
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This panel discussion and its presentations will focus of the work and theoretical debates around the public presentation of the panellist’s artworks in the proposed interactive facade projection on the Belfast Waterfront building.

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"Proposal" An artists board game (2009)
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In 2008 I created an artists board game Proposal. The first official playing of the game was in front of an invited audience and was billed as a performance piece at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. Proposal visually references influ... Read More about "Proposal" An artists board game.

Effects of walkway inclusion in pressure platform assessment (2009)
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An international research agenda for urban green (2009)
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Forget the magic circle (or towards a sociology of video games) (2009)
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There have been several sociologists who have written, sometimes quite extensively and informatively, on video games, and more commonly many within video games studies have tapped into wider sociological literatures. However, more generally, the will... Read More about Forget the magic circle (or towards a sociology of video games).

Regeneration decision-making: Some early ‘opportunities’ and decisions for SURegen (2009)
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The multi-disciplinary EPSRC funded SURegen project is developing a digital decision support aid that will capture good practice in sustainable urban regeneration for use by practitioners for real time decision-making, training and education purposes... Read More about Regeneration decision-making: Some early ‘opportunities’ and decisions for SURegen.

Towards implementation of building information modelling in the construction industry (2009)
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The construction industry has been facing a paradigm shift to (i) increase; productivity, efficiency, infrastructure value, quality and sustainability, (ii) reduce; lifecycle costs, lead times and duplications. It is advocated that most of them can b... Read More about Towards implementation of building information modelling in the construction industry.

Calibration of visual angle car following model based on real site traffic data (2009)
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Traffic simulation models have increasingly been used due to low cost, time saving and ability to examine possible solutions for traffic-related problems without interrupting the real life traffic conditions during testing alternative scenarios. Rec... Read More about Calibration of visual angle car following model based on real site traffic data.