All Outputs (227)

Planning For Claims: An Ethnography of Industry Culture (2004)
Journal Article
Rooke, J., Seymour, D., & Fellows, R. (2004). Planning For Claims: An Ethnography of Industry Culture. Construction Management and Economics, 22(6), 655-662. https://doi.org/10.1080/014461904200026324

Claims by contractors for additional payments have been identified by commentators as a major source of difficulty in the industry. Ethnographic research with industry members reveals some key features of planning practices that underlie such events.... Read More about Planning For Claims: An Ethnography of Industry Culture.

The practice of construction management : people and business performance (2004)
Book
Fryer, B., Egbu, C., Ellis, R., & Gorse, C. (2004). The practice of construction management : people and business performance. Wiley-Blackwell

This book offers construction managers and students a readable account of management ideas and practices, concentrating particularly on the human side of construction management. It pulls together what has been learned both from management practice a... Read More about The practice of construction management : people and business performance.

Working contexts and methodological improvisation (2004)
Presentation / Conference
May, T. (2004, July). Working contexts and methodological improvisation. Presented at ESRC Research Methods Festival, Oxford

Innovation in engineering education (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Laws, E. (2004, June). Innovation in engineering education. Presented at International Conference on Engineering Education and Research (ICEER): 'Progress Through Partnership', University of Ostrava, Czechoslovakia

Determining the locations visited by GPS users: a clustering approach (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Saraee, M., Yamaner, S., Dai, M., & Long, D. (2004, June). Determining the locations visited by GPS users: a clustering approach. Presented at CISST 2004, Las Vegas, USA

The aim of our research is to use the GPS log captured over 2 days from a PDA and try to extract locations the user have visited. For this research, we have logged GPS data over two days when the user was moving at least 2 miles per hour. To achieve... Read More about Determining the locations visited by GPS users: a clustering approach.

Medical data mining: case of cervical cancer screening (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Saraee, M., & Ritchings, T. (2004, June). Medical data mining: case of cervical cancer screening. Presented at METMBS 04, Las Vegas, USA

SVM categorizer: a generic categorization tool using support vector machines (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Kapoutsis, E., Theodoulidis, B., & Saraee, M. (2004, June). SVM categorizer: a generic categorization tool using support vector machines. Presented at IC-AI 2004, Las Vegas, USA

Supervised text categorisation is a significant tool considering the vast amount of structured, unstruc-tured, or semi-structured texts that are available from internal or external enterprise resources. The goal of supervised text categorisation is t... Read More about SVM categorizer: a generic categorization tool using support vector machines.

Data mining application : case of road traffic accidents in the UK West Midlands area 2000 (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Saraee, M., Kerry, J., Lloyd, M., & Markey, C. (2004, June). Data mining application : case of road traffic accidents in the UK West Midlands area 2000. Presented at IC-AI, Las Vegas, USA

We are aiming to use data mining techniques in the analysis of data recorded about road traffic accidents in the UK West Midlands Area in the year 2000. This data will then hopefully provide drivers with guidelines relating to what measures can be t... Read More about Data mining application : case of road traffic accidents in the UK West Midlands area 2000.

One scan is enough: Optimising association rules mining (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Saraee, M., & Al-Mejrab, M. (2004, June). One scan is enough: Optimising association rules mining. Presented at The 2004 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering, June 21-24, 2004, Las Vegas, USA

Data mining is as a new area of research has taken its place as one of the most important techniques in the decision making process. Mining association rules is one of simple yet powerful technique in the data mining process The problem of mining ass... Read More about One scan is enough: Optimising association rules mining.

Bearing capacity of rock over mined cavities in Nottingham. (2004)
Journal Article
Waltham, A., & Swift, G. (2004). Bearing capacity of rock over mined cavities in Nottingham. Engineering Geology, 75(1), 15-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2004.04.006

A significant geohazard is created in Nottingham, UK, by hundreds of man-made caves cut in the weak sandstone beneath the city centre. Stability of the caves has been assessed by a single full-scale loading test, by numerical modelling with FLAC and... Read More about Bearing capacity of rock over mined cavities in Nottingham..

Hydraulics, water quality and vegetation characteristics of groundwater-fed open ditches (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Scholz, M. (2004, June). Hydraulics, water quality and vegetation characteristics of groundwater-fed open ditches. Poster presented at 2004 Meeting of Academy-Funded Research, London, UK

A field trial on the influence of range-dependent meteorology on outdoor sound propagation (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Lam, Y., & Waddington, D. (2004, June). A field trial on the influence of range-dependent meteorology on outdoor sound propagation. Presented at 11th International Symposium on Long Range Sound Propagation, Fairlee, VT, USA

This paper reports on the findings of a field trial programme to investigate the effect of range-dependent meteorology on sound propagation in the atmosphere. Comparisons are made with predictions derived from a PE model utilising the range-dependent... Read More about A field trial on the influence of range-dependent meteorology on outdoor sound propagation.

Evaluating the precision of a transverse excitation atmospheric based CO2 Doppler lidar system with in situ sensors (2004)
Journal Article
Bozier, K., Pearson, G., Collier, C., & Davies, F. (2004). Evaluating the precision of a transverse excitation atmospheric based CO2 Doppler lidar system with in situ sensors. Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, 6(6), 608-616. https://doi.org/10.1088/1464-4258/6/6/017

A ground based, mobile, scanning Doppler lidar system used for atmospheric boundary layer research is described. The system is designed to operate safely in urban areas and has an eye safe wavelength of 10.6 µm, a range capability of up to 9 km (depe... Read More about Evaluating the precision of a transverse excitation atmospheric based CO2 Doppler lidar system with in situ sensors.

A study of event traffic during the shared manipulation of objects within a collaborative virtual environment (2004)
Journal Article
Otto, O., Wolff, R., & Roberts, D. (2004). A study of event traffic during the shared manipulation of objects within a collaborative virtual environment. https://doi.org/10.1162/1054746041422280

Event management must balance consistency and responsiveness above the requirements of shared object interaction within a Collaborative Virtual Environment (CVE) system. An understanding of the event traffic during collaborative tasks helps in the d... Read More about A study of event traffic during the shared manipulation of objects within a collaborative virtual environment.

Theory and applications of the multiwavelets for compression of boundary integral operators (2004)
Thesis
Nixon, S. Theory and applications of the multiwavelets for compression of boundary integral operators. (Thesis). University of Salford, UK

In general the numerical solution of boundary integral equations leads to full coefficient matrices. The discrete system can be solved in O(N2) operations by iterative solvers of the Conjugate Gradient type. Therefore, we are interested in fast met... Read More about Theory and applications of the multiwavelets for compression of boundary integral operators.

Postgraduate perspectives of distance e-learning : a qualitative case study of online distance learning in occupational safety and health (2004)
Thesis
Williams, H. Postgraduate perspectives of distance e-learning : a qualitative case study of online distance learning in occupational safety and health. (Thesis). University of Salford, UK

The use of the Internet as a medium for education has grown exponentially since the mid-1990s. Institutions of higher education are increasingly offering online access to distance education programmes, especially at postgraduate level. Some see e-... Read More about Postgraduate perspectives of distance e-learning : a qualitative case study of online distance learning in occupational safety and health.

Emerging niches and H2 futures : perspectives from the work of the UK sustainable hydrogen energy consortium (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Eames, M., McDowell, W., Hodson, M., & Marvin, S. (2004, June). Emerging niches and H2 futures : perspectives from the work of the UK sustainable hydrogen energy consortium. Presented at Hydrogen in Europe: Towards a consistent Policy Framework for Sustainable Energy and Mobility, Bruges, Belgium

Towards a model of stimulants and obstacles to individual creativity in construction (2004)
Thesis
Dickinson, M. Towards a model of stimulants and obstacles to individual creativity in construction. (Dissertation). University of Salford

One issue that might account for successful innovation in construction is the work environment for creative thinking and idea generation. This dissertation aims to identify potential stimulants and obstacles in the construction work environment tha... Read More about Towards a model of stimulants and obstacles to individual creativity in construction.

Strategic healthcare facilities management : a longitudinal case study in a private hospital group in the UK (2004)
Thesis
Weicht, K. Strategic healthcare facilities management : a longitudinal case study in a private hospital group in the UK. (Dissertation). University of Salford

Dramatic change takes place within the technological, social, political, regulatory, competitive, and economic context of health care delivery. For this reason, strategic management is gaining an important role. Healthcare managers have to underst... Read More about Strategic healthcare facilities management : a longitudinal case study in a private hospital group in the UK.

Applying animal learning theory: Training captive animals to comply with veterinary and husbandry procedures (2004)
Journal Article
Young, R., & Cipreste, C. (2004). Applying animal learning theory: Training captive animals to comply with veterinary and husbandry procedures. Animal Welfare Journal, 13(2), 225-232. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0962728600026968

Animals within zoo environments are learning continuously: they learn signals that predict when food is going to arrive or that the presence of a certain person means that something unpleasant may happen. They may learn to control their environment a... Read More about Applying animal learning theory: Training captive animals to comply with veterinary and husbandry procedures.