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Runoff infiltration: A desktop case study (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Bastien, N., Arthur, S., Wallis, S., & Scholz, M. (2010, June). Runoff infiltration: A desktop case study. Presented at NOVATECH, 7th International Conference on Sustainable Techniques and Strategies in Urban Water Management, Lyon, France

The pocket podiatry guide : footwear and foot orthoses (2010)
Book
Williams, A., & Nester, C. (2010). I. Mathieson (Ed.), The pocket podiatry guide : footwear and foot orthoses. Oxford: Elsevier

Footwear and Foot Orthoses provides students and clinicians with a guide to the information they require to underpin their clinical decision making. Pocket Podiatry provides all the essential information for a modern Podiatric practice. Examination a... Read More about The pocket podiatry guide : footwear and foot orthoses.

New governance as political compromise in European telecommunications: the amended European Union electronic communications regulatory framework (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Simpson, S. (2010, June). New governance as political compromise in European telecommunications: the amended European Union electronic communications regulatory framework. Presented at International Telecommunications Society Conference, Tokyo

This paper explores the regulatory character of key parts of the latest incarnation of the EU telecommunications regulatory package, finalised at the end of 2009. Its core argument is that whilst the broad parameters of the modified Electronic Commun... Read More about New governance as political compromise in European telecommunications: the amended European Union electronic communications regulatory framework.

Improving communities through knowledge intensive regeneration - Mediacity Iconic Project : 2nd deliverable about vision for BIM&GIS integration for sustainable communities (2010)
Report
Arayici, Y., Ozturk, Z., Sharman, H., & Egbu, C. Improving communities through knowledge intensive regeneration - Mediacity Iconic Project : 2nd deliverable about vision for BIM&GIS integration for sustainable communities

This study is about to measure and project the impact of regeneration projects on the surrounding communities via the expansion of BIM with GIS from building scale to urban scale in order to be able to consider social sustainability indicators as wel... Read More about Improving communities through knowledge intensive regeneration - Mediacity Iconic Project : 2nd deliverable about vision for BIM&GIS integration for sustainable communities.

Recording the creative gesture (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Rooney, J. (2010, June). Recording the creative gesture. Presented at Art Promotes Science, Science Promotes Art, University of Salford

The project will posit a question of how to visualise the creative gesture of a city. Every city has its own creative story. The subject matter to be explored in this project will be curated from recordings of past and present narratives. Data will t... Read More about Recording the creative gesture.

Mining time series data : case of predicting consumption patterns in steel industry (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Fazel, A., Saraee, M., & Shamsinejad, P. (2010, June). Mining time series data : case of predicting consumption patterns in steel industry. Presented at The 2nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Mining, Chengdu, China

Analyzing and predicting with Time series is a method which used in different fields, including consumption pattern analyzing and predicting. In this paper, required amount of inventory items have been predicted with time series. At first, desired da... Read More about Mining time series data : case of predicting consumption patterns in steel industry.

Prediction performance improvement for highly imbalanced monitoring data (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Li, Y., Maguire, L., McCann, M., & Johnston, A. (2010, June). Prediction performance improvement for highly imbalanced monitoring data. Presented at 7th International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Machinery Failure Prevention Technologies 2010, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK

In engineering applications, we often face highly imbalanced data problems where majority of the data are from a condition and small minority are from others. Directly learning classifier on such problems would be prone to a biased classification per... Read More about Prediction performance improvement for highly imbalanced monitoring data.

Helmholtz pulse propagation & spatially-dispersive light (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Christian, J., Hodgkinson, T., McDonald, G., & Chamorro-Posada, P. (2010, June). Helmholtz pulse propagation & spatially-dispersive light. Presented at Nonlinear Photonics (NP), Karlsruhe, Germany

We present the first detailed account of modelling pulses in Helmholtz-type nonlinear systems with both temporal and spatial dispersion. Exact analytical solitons will be reported, and their stability examined through mathematical analysis and comput... Read More about Helmholtz pulse propagation & spatially-dispersive light.

Kaleidoscope lasers - Complexity in simple optical systems (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Christian, J., McDonald, G., & Huang, J. (2010, June). Kaleidoscope lasers - Complexity in simple optical systems. Presented at Nonlinear Photonics (NP), Karlsruhe, Germany

We present the first detailed account of modelling kaleidoscope laser modes where the equivalent Fresnel number Neq and magnification M may assume arbitrary values. The convergence toward circularity is also investigated through extensive numerical c... Read More about Kaleidoscope lasers - Complexity in simple optical systems.

Helmholtz dark solitons at nonlinear defocusing interfaces (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Sanchez Curto, J., Chamorro-Posada, P., & McDonald, G. (2010, June). Helmholtz dark solitons at nonlinear defocusing interfaces. Presented at Nonlinear Photonics (NP, Karlsruhe, Germany

Dark Kerr soliton refraction at planar boundaries is analysed and simulated for the first time. A universal law of Kerr spatial soliton refraction is derived. Strong parameter sensitivity of gray soliton refraction is also uncovered.

Quantum efficiency measurements on Nd-doped glasses for solar pumped lasers (2010)
Journal Article
Suzuki, T., Nasu, H., Hughes, M., Mizuno, S., Hasegawa, K., Ito, H., & Ohishi, Y. (2010). Quantum efficiency measurements on Nd-doped glasses for solar pumped lasers. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 356(44-49), 2344-2349. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2010.03.037

Nd-doped SiO2–B2O3–Na2O–Al2O3–CaO–ZrO2 glasses were prepared and optical properties such as absorption, lifetime and quantum efficiencies (QEs) of the emission were characterized. QE measurement system with natural sunlight as an excitation source wa... Read More about Quantum efficiency measurements on Nd-doped glasses for solar pumped lasers.

Making low carbon England (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Hodson, M., & Marvin, S. (2010, June). Making low carbon England. Presented at Architectural Association, London

Promoting green construction in India through industry - academia collaboration (2010)
Journal Article
Alshawi, M., Egbu, C., & Arif, M. (2010). Promoting green construction in India through industry - academia collaboration. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 136(3), 128-131. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29EI.1943-5541.0000019

Developing economies have seen a big jump in construction activities recently. In India, the shortage of 41 million housing units to accommodate the existing population has resulted in a flurry of construction activities (Tiwari 2001). Going green in... Read More about Promoting green construction in India through industry - academia collaboration.

Accessing Emergency Contraception; the role of friends in the adolescent experience (2010)
Journal Article
Fallon, D. (2010). Accessing Emergency Contraception; the role of friends in the adolescent experience. Sociology of Health and Illness, 32(5), 677-694. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2010.01237.x

This paper focuses on the findings of a qualitative study that explored adolescent experiences of accessing emergency hormonal contraception. It describes how anticipated judgements and associated feelings of embarrassment and shame were dealt with t... Read More about Accessing Emergency Contraception; the role of friends in the adolescent experience.

Offender perceptions of criminal opportunities in vulnerable residential areas: a case study in a U.K North West inner city (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Coulton, J., Jackson, W., Jeffery, R., & Patel, T. (2010, June). Offender perceptions of criminal opportunities in vulnerable residential areas: a case study in a U.K North West inner city. Presented at Stockholm Criminology Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden

This paper details an academic study, commissioned by police and local authority practitioners, and the challenges faced therein, within a vulnerable residential area of an inner city in the UK. This area was identified as a site for study because of... Read More about Offender perceptions of criminal opportunities in vulnerable residential areas: a case study in a U.K North West inner city.

Learning lessons from MacPherson? The police and racist incidents in Northern Ireland (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Patel, T. (2010, June). Learning lessons from MacPherson? The police and racist incidents in Northern Ireland. Presented at Stockholm Criminology Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden

Given the increase in the reporting of racist incidents in Northern Ireland involving attacks against members of its black and minority ethnic population, this paper focuses on the degree to which these racist incidents are successfully policed by th... Read More about Learning lessons from MacPherson? The police and racist incidents in Northern Ireland.

Estimation of critical occupancy values for UK motorways from traffic loop detectors (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Obaedi, J., & Yousif, S. (2010, June). Estimation of critical occupancy values for UK motorways from traffic loop detectors. Presented at Salford Postgraduate Annual Research Conference, The University of Salford, Salford, United Kingdom

Occupancy is the percent of time a traffic loop detector embedded in the road pavement is occupied by vehicles. This term is usually used as a substitution for the traffic density which is not feasible to obtain from detectors. One of the recent a... Read More about Estimation of critical occupancy values for UK motorways from traffic loop detectors.