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Nodal network and CFD simulation of airflow and heat transfer in double skin facades with blinds (2008)
Journal Article
Hanby, V., Cook, M., Infield, D., Ji, Y., Loveday, D., & Mei, L. (2008). Nodal network and CFD simulation of airflow and heat transfer in double skin facades with blinds. Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, 29(1), 45-59. https://doi.org/10.1177/01436244080290010401

The paper describes a modelling study of heat transfer and buoyancy-driven airflow in double skin facades consisting of a glass outer layer, a control device (venetian blind) and a double-glazed inner skin. The modelling study was based on two approa... Read More about Nodal network and CFD simulation of airflow and heat transfer in double skin facades with blinds.

Performance of T-shape barriers with top surface covered with absorptive quadratic residue diffusers (2008)
Journal Article
Monazzam, M., & Lam, Y. (2008). Performance of T-shape barriers with top surface covered with absorptive quadratic residue diffusers. Applied Acoustics, 69(2), 93-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2006.10.006

A previous paper [Applied Acoustics 66 (2005) 709–730] has shown that adding a quadratic residue diffuser (QRD) to the top of a T-shape barrier can provide better barrier performance than an equivalent purely absorptive barrier. In here, we extend th... Read More about Performance of T-shape barriers with top surface covered with absorptive quadratic residue diffusers.

Neutron diffraction studies of magnetostrictive Fe–Ga alloy ribbons (2008)
Journal Article
Zhao, X., Mellors, N., Kilcoyne, S., Lord, D., Lupu, N., Horia, C., & Henry, P. (2008). Neutron diffraction studies of magnetostrictive Fe–Ga alloy ribbons. Journal of Applied Physics, 103(07B32), https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2837244

Melt-spun Fe–Ga ribbons were prepared and some ribbons were annealed at 1000 °C for 1 h then slowly cooled to room temperature. X-ray diffraction patterns revealed no evidence of texture and only bcc phase in the as-quenched ribbons. However, high-... Read More about Neutron diffraction studies of magnetostrictive Fe–Ga alloy ribbons.

Das Neue Bauen für den Neuen Menschen. Zur Wandlung und Wirkung des Menschenbildes in der Architektur der 1920er Jahre in Deutschland. (2008)
Book
Poppelreuter, T. (2008). Das Neue Bauen für den Neuen Menschen. Zur Wandlung und Wirkung des Menschenbildes in der Architektur der 1920er Jahre in Deutschland. Hildesheim and New York: Olms Verlag

Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts entwickeln sich in vielen Bereichen der Kultur und der Gesellschaft Reformbestrebungen aller Art. Die damit verbundene Aufbruchstimmung, die sich nach dem Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs und dem Beginn der Weimarer Republik... Read More about Das Neue Bauen für den Neuen Menschen. Zur Wandlung und Wirkung des Menschenbildes in der Architektur der 1920er Jahre in Deutschland..

Physics-based virtual environment for training core skills in vascular interventional radiological procedures (2008)
Journal Article
John, N., Luboz, V., Bello, F., Hughes, C., Vidal, F., Lim, I., …Gould, D. (2008). Physics-based virtual environment for training core skills in vascular interventional radiological procedures

Recent years have seen a significant increase in the use of Interventional Radiology (IR) as an alternative to open surgery. A large number of IR procedures commence with needle puncture of a vessel to insert guidewires and catheters: these clinical... Read More about Physics-based virtual environment for training core skills in vascular interventional radiological procedures.

The economic relationships between cities (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Hildreth, P., & Lucci, P. (2008, January). The economic relationships between cities. Presented at Moving Forward: The Northern Way Research and Policy Event, Manchester, UK

Noise generation in ventilation systems by the (2008)
Journal Article
Waddington, D., Oldham, D., & Oldham, D. (2008). Noise generation in ventilation systems by the. Building Acoustics, 15(1), 49-71. https://doi.org/10.1260/135101008784050214

Earlier work on devising generalised noise prediction techniques for ventilation system elements based upon simple bend configurations has been extended to the study of the noise generated by branch take-offs. These configurations are more complex th... Read More about Noise generation in ventilation systems by the.

Some UK experience of gauging progress on introducing sustainable building practices in the construction sector (2008)
Book Chapter
Cooper, I., Crowhurst, D., Platt, S., & Woodall, R. (2008). Some UK experience of gauging progress on introducing sustainable building practices in the construction sector. In J. Yang, P. Brandon, & A. Sidwell (Eds.), Smart and sustainable built environments (289-299). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470759493.ch26

This chapter contains sections titled: Summary, Sustainability and continuous improvement in UK construction, How was MaSC developed, What is MaSC, Benchmarking current progress on sustainability in UK construction, The performance o... Read More about Some UK experience of gauging progress on introducing sustainable building practices in the construction sector.

Knowledge processing, codification and reuse model for communities of practice (2008)
Journal Article
Mihindu, S., Fernando, T., & Khosrowshahi, F. (2008). Knowledge processing, codification and reuse model for communities of practice. Ubiquitous Computing and Communication journal, 3, 44-53

Knowledge Management (KM) has been a widely received area for research and development for many decades. However combining the full Knowledge Management Cycle; knowledge capture, development, sharing and utilisation within the same infrastructure has... Read More about Knowledge processing, codification and reuse model for communities of practice.

Effect of O6-methylguanine on the stability of G-quadruplex DNA (2008)
Journal Article
Mekmaysy, C., Petraccome, L., Garbett, N., Ragazzon, P., Gray, R., Trent, J., & Chaires, J. (2008). Effect of O6-methylguanine on the stability of G-quadruplex DNA. Abstracts of papers / American Chemical Society, 130(21), 6710-6711. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja801976h

The effects of substitution of O6-methylguanine on the structure and stability of a human telomere quadruplex was studied by circular dichroism, thermal denaturation, analytical ultracentrifugation, and molecular dynamics simulations. The results sho... Read More about Effect of O6-methylguanine on the stability of G-quadruplex DNA.

Old industrial regions, technology and innovation : tensions of obduracy and transformation (2008)
Journal Article
Hodson, M. (2008). Old industrial regions, technology and innovation : tensions of obduracy and transformation. Environment and Planning A, 40(5), 1057. https://doi.org/10.1068/a39103

Work on regions and technologically informed innovation has often focused on high-tech regions as exemplars of apparent success in economic development. This paper, by contrast, focuses on understanding how regions transform themselves in respect of... Read More about Old industrial regions, technology and innovation : tensions of obduracy and transformation.

The management of academic workloads: full report on findings (2008)
Report
Barrett, L., & Barrett, P. (2008). The management of academic workloads: full report on findings

The pressures on UK higher education (from explicit competition and growth in student numbers, to severe regulatory demands) are greater than ever, and have resulted in a steady increase in measures taken by universities to actively manage their... Read More about The management of academic workloads: full report on findings.

Generating natural language specifications from UML class diagrams (2008)
Journal Article
Meziane, F., Athanasakis, N., & Ananiadou, S. (2008). Generating natural language specifications from UML class diagrams. Requirements Engineering, 13(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00766-007-0054-0

Early phases of software development are known to be problematic, difficult to manage and errors occurring during these phases are expensive to correct. Many systems have been developed to aid the transition from informal Natural Language requirement... Read More about Generating natural language specifications from UML class diagrams.

Semantic resources integration and interoperability in the construction domain (2008)
Book Chapter
Barresi, S., Rezgui, Y., Lima, C., & Meziane, F. (2008). Semantic resources integration and interoperability in the construction domain. In Y. Manolopoulos, J. Filipe, P. Constantopoulos, & J. Cordeiro (Eds.), Enterprise Information Systems (336-347). Berlin Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77581-2

Semantic resources, such as ontologies and taxonomies, are used in various domains to facilitate information exchange between people and software applications. However, in many cases, accessing a single semantic resource is no longer adequate. Conseq... Read More about Semantic resources integration and interoperability in the construction domain.

A decision support system for trust formalisation (2008)
Book Chapter
Meziane, F., & Nefti-Meziani, S. (2008). A decision support system for trust formalisation. In V. Sugumaran (Ed.), Distributed artificial intelligence, agent technology and collaborative applications (47-64). New York, USA: IGI Global

L-modified ILP evaluation functions for positive-only biological grammar learning (2008)
Book Chapter
Mamer, T., Bryant, C., & McCall, J. (2008). L-modified ILP evaluation functions for positive-only biological grammar learning. In F. Zelezny, & N. Lavrac (Eds.), Inductive logic programming (176-191). Berlin / Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85928-4_16

We identify a shortcoming of a standard positive-only clause evaluation function within the context of learning biological grammars. To overcome this shortcoming we propose L-modification, a modification to this evaluation function such that the leng... Read More about L-modified ILP evaluation functions for positive-only biological grammar learning.

A novel platform for context maintenance and discovery in a ubiquitous environment (2008)
Book Chapter
Liu, Q., & Linge, N. (2008). A novel platform for context maintenance and discovery in a ubiquitous environment. In M. Guo, Z. Wang, F. Tang, & C. Xu (Eds.), IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, 2008. EUC '08 (565-570). Los Alamitos, California, USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/EUC.2008.100

Context maintenance and discovery, which aim to represent, manage and share context information, have been discussed since context-awareness was presented in the 1990s. These become more challenging when being applied to a ubiquitous environment wher... Read More about A novel platform for context maintenance and discovery in a ubiquitous environment.

The participation of Black and minority ethnic graduates in science, engineering and technology occupations in the Northwest of England (2008)
Book Chapter
Booth, K., Takruri-Rizk, H., Welamedage, L., & Mansi, K. (2008). The participation of Black and minority ethnic graduates in science, engineering and technology occupations in the Northwest of England. In E. O'Doherty (Ed.), The Fourth Education in a Changing Environment Conference Book 2007 (331-352). Santa Rosa, California, USA: Informing Science Press

Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) have been at the heart of government policy priorities for many decades because of its contribution to the economy and exploitation of the science base is key to improving productivity and growing the market... Read More about The participation of Black and minority ethnic graduates in science, engineering and technology occupations in the Northwest of England.

Methodology for demand-supply selection of commercial off-the-shelf software-based systems: contextual approach of leading contractors in Portugal (2008)
Thesis
Barreiro Lima, J. Methodology for demand-supply selection of commercial off-the-shelf software-based systems: contextual approach of leading contractors in Portugal. (Thesis). University of Salford, UK

This research study aims to contribute to the discussion around Information Systems, more precisely on Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software Based Systems, as a Business Process and as a Supply-Chain enabler tool, within the construction industry... Read More about Methodology for demand-supply selection of commercial off-the-shelf software-based systems: contextual approach of leading contractors in Portugal.