All Outputs (306)

Visitor influence on the behavior of captive greater rheas (Rhea americana, Rheidae Aves) (2012)
Journal Article
de Azevedo, C., Lima, M., da Silva, V., Young, R., & Rodrigues, M. (2012). Visitor influence on the behavior of captive greater rheas (Rhea americana, Rheidae Aves). Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 15(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/10888705.2012.624895

Visitors can affect and reduce the welfare of nonhuman animals. The Belo Horizonte Zoo, Brazil, had a group of greater rheas intended for reintroduction to the wild. Because this group received public visitation, evaluating its effect on the birds' b... Read More about Visitor influence on the behavior of captive greater rheas (Rhea americana, Rheidae Aves).

Apportioning liability in construction delay claims : an evaluation of contemporary practices in the U.A.E. and a proposal for improvements (2012)
Thesis
Perera, N. Apportioning liability in construction delay claims : an evaluation of contemporary practices in the U.A.E. and a proposal for improvements. (Thesis). University of Salford

Various theories, concepts and methodologies exist for apportioning liabilities in construction delay claims. Yet, there is no much consensus among the practitioners towards them. Often, the implementation of these theories, concepts and methodolog... Read More about Apportioning liability in construction delay claims : an evaluation of contemporary practices in the U.A.E. and a proposal for improvements.

Metabolomic analyses show that electron donor and acceptor ratios control anaerobic electron transfer pathways in Shewanella oneidensis (2012)
Journal Article
Wang, H., Correa, E., Dunn, W., Winder, C., Goodacre, R., & Lloyd, J. (2013). Metabolomic analyses show that electron donor and acceptor ratios control anaerobic electron transfer pathways in Shewanella oneidensis. Metabolomics, 9(3), 642-656. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11306-012-0488-3

This study investigated the physiological impact of changing electron donor–acceptor ratios on electron transfer pathways in the metabolically flexible subsurface bacterium Shewanella oneidensis, using batch and chemostat cultures, with an azo dye (r... Read More about Metabolomic analyses show that electron donor and acceptor ratios control anaerobic electron transfer pathways in Shewanella oneidensis.

Parallel processing for real-time 3D reconstruction from video streams (2012)
Journal Article
Duckworth, T., & Roberts, D. (2014). Parallel processing for real-time 3D reconstruction from video streams. Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, 9(3), 427-445. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11554-012-0306-1

Our ultimate aim was to achieve commodity telepresence systems capable of communicating both what someone looks like and what, within the technology joined space, they are looking at. Towards this we have implemented a previously distributed approach... Read More about Parallel processing for real-time 3D reconstruction from video streams.

Linking sustainable urban drainage systems (SuDS) and ecosystem services: New connections in urban ecology (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Mak, C., James, P., & Scholz, M. (2012, December). Linking sustainable urban drainage systems (SuDS) and ecosystem services: New connections in urban ecology. Presented at British Ecological Society Annual Meeting (18-20 December 2012), University of Birmingham

The relationship between Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) and ecosystem services has not been articulated clearly, leading to misinformed and inadequate SuDS designs. A new conceptual model, informed by literature review, sets out the relationshi... Read More about Linking sustainable urban drainage systems (SuDS) and ecosystem services: New connections in urban ecology.

Effect of road narrowing on junction capacity using microsimulation (2012)
Journal Article
Yousif, S., Alterawi, M., & Henson, R. (2013). Effect of road narrowing on junction capacity using microsimulation. Journal of Transportation Engineering, 139(6), 574-584. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29TE.1943-5436.0000534

Traffic-calming measures have been widely used in urban areas, aiming sometimes to reduce vehicle flow rates but primarily to reduce speed and, hence, the number and severity of traffic accidents. The one-way priority working road narrowing (throttle... Read More about Effect of road narrowing on junction capacity using microsimulation.

Identification of coupling parameters between shear strength behaviour of compacted soils and chemical's effects with an evolutionary-based data mining technique (2012)
Journal Article
Cuisinier, O., Javadi, A. A., Ahangar-Asr, A., & Masrouri, F. (2013). Identification of coupling parameters between shear strength behaviour of compacted soils and chemical's effects with an evolutionary-based data mining technique. Computers and Geotechnics, 48, 107-116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2012.10.005

When subjected to a very high-pH, most of the soil minerals undergo physico-chemical transformation. This could induce strong modifications of the shear strength behaviour of the soil. This issue is of high interest in the framework of the design of... Read More about Identification of coupling parameters between shear strength behaviour of compacted soils and chemical's effects with an evolutionary-based data mining technique.

Preface to the workshop on cost sensitive data mining (2012)
Book Chapter
Vadera, S., Saraee, M., & Lomax, S. (2012). Preface to the workshop on cost sensitive data mining. In J. Vreeken, C. Ling, M. Zaki, A. Siebes, J. Yu, B. Goethals, …X. Wu (Eds.), The 12th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining : Workshops. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDMW.2012.148

Much of the early work on data mining concentrated on developing algorithms that focused on classification accuracy. A more challenging and practical problem is to devise algorithms that learn rules or associations that optimize income and take bette... Read More about Preface to the workshop on cost sensitive data mining.

A multi-armed bandit approach to cost-sensitive decision tree learning (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Lomax, S., Vadera, S., & Saraee, M. (2012, December). A multi-armed bandit approach to cost-sensitive decision tree learning. Presented at 2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, Brussels, Belgium

Several authors have studied the problem of inducing decision trees that aim to minimize costs of misclassification and take account of costs of tests. The approaches adopted vary from modifying the information theoretic attribute selection measure u... Read More about A multi-armed bandit approach to cost-sensitive decision tree learning.

Continuous flow single cell electroporation in an ultrafast laser inscribed optofluidic device (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Martinez Maestro, L., Choudhury, D., Ramsay, W., Paterson, L., Jaque, D., & Kar, A. K. (2012, December). Continuous flow single cell electroporation in an ultrafast laser inscribed optofluidic device. Presented at International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, Chennai, India

Ultrafast laser inscription has been used to fabricate a selectively etched optofluidic device incorporating a near-infrared waveguide to enable continuous flow single cell electroporation for the generation of intracellular spatio-thermal maps using... Read More about Continuous flow single cell electroporation in an ultrafast laser inscribed optofluidic device.

Drivers’ lane utilization for UK motorways (2012)
Journal Article
Yousif, S., Al-Obaedi, J., & Henson, R. (2013). Drivers’ lane utilization for UK motorways. Journal of Transportation Engineering, 139(5), 441-447. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29TE.1943-5436.0000531

Lane utilization represents how the rate of traffic flow is distributed among the available number of lanes in a given section. This utilization or split is affected by several factors including traffic flow rates as well as the presence and amount o... Read More about Drivers’ lane utilization for UK motorways.

Optimization of parameters for the quantitative surface-enhanced raman scattering detection of mephedrone using a fractional factorial design and a portable raman spectrometer (2012)
Journal Article
Mabbott, S., Correa, E., Cowcher, D., Allwood, J., & Goodacre, R. (2013). Optimization of parameters for the quantitative surface-enhanced raman scattering detection of mephedrone using a fractional factorial design and a portable raman spectrometer. Analytical Chemistry, 85(2), 923-931. https://doi.org/10.1021/ac302542r

A new optimization strategy for the SERS detection of mephedrone using a portable Raman system has been developed. A fractional factorial design was employed, and the number of statistically significant experiments (288) was greatly reduced from the... Read More about Optimization of parameters for the quantitative surface-enhanced raman scattering detection of mephedrone using a fractional factorial design and a portable raman spectrometer.

Reshaping urban infrastructure: Material flow analysis and transitions analysis in an urban context (2012)
Journal Article
Hodson, M., Marvin, S., Robinson, B., & Swilling, M. (2012). Reshaping urban infrastructure: Material flow analysis and transitions analysis in an urban context. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 16(6), 789-800. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1530-9290.2012.00559.x

Urban policy makers and researchers consistently recognize the challenge of more effectively reshaping the linkages between cities, urban infrastructure, ecosystem services, and natural resources. The aim of this article is to consider the potential... Read More about Reshaping urban infrastructure: Material flow analysis and transitions analysis in an urban context.

The development of high performance SnO2:F as TCOs for thin film silicon solar cells (2012)
Journal Article
Yates, H., Evans, P., Sheel, D., Nicolay, S., Ding, L., & Ballif, C. (2012). The development of high performance SnO2:F as TCOs for thin film silicon solar cells. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2012.10.040

High performance transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) have significance for optimising photovoltaic (PV) performance. The efficiency of the resulting solar cells is dependent particularly on achieving high light scattering, low resistivity and low... Read More about The development of high performance SnO2:F as TCOs for thin film silicon solar cells.

An context-aware management and control mechanism in a mobile ad-hoc environment (2012)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Linge, N., Wang, J., Ji, S., & Ma, T. (2012). An context-aware management and control mechanism in a mobile ad-hoc environment. International journal of grid and distributed computing (Print. 2008), 5(4), 21-32

Complete integration and interaction of network objects can be achieved in a mobile adhoc environment. Yet, the dynamic nature of free movement and interaction among these objects also brings challenges on information representation, processing and c... Read More about An context-aware management and control mechanism in a mobile ad-hoc environment.

Residence time investigation in a co-axial dielectric barrier discharge reactor (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Babaie, M., Talebizadeh, P., Saha, S., Rahimzadeh, H., Zare, F., & Brown, R. (2012, November). Residence time investigation in a co-axial dielectric barrier discharge reactor. Presented at 4th International Conference on Computational Methods, Crowne Plaza, Gold Coast, Australia

The residence time distribution (RTD) is a crucial parameter when treating engine exhaust emissions with a Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) reactor. In this paper, the residence time of such a reactor is investigated using a finite element based so... Read More about Residence time investigation in a co-axial dielectric barrier discharge reactor.

Using environmental enrichment to reduce the expression of abnormal behaviours in Greater rhea Rhea americana at Belo Horizonte Zoo (2012)
Journal Article
de Azevedo, C., Lima, M., Cipreste, C., Young, R., & Rodrigues, M. (2013). Using environmental enrichment to reduce the expression of abnormal behaviours in Greater rhea Rhea americana at Belo Horizonte Zoo. International Zoo Yearbook, 47(1), 163-170. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-1090.2012.00195.x

Animals kept by zoos may express abnormal behaviours that are indicators of poor welfare. Environmental enrichment is a technique of providing items to animals that stimulate the expression of normal behaviours. The aim of this study was to evaluate... Read More about Using environmental enrichment to reduce the expression of abnormal behaviours in Greater rhea Rhea americana at Belo Horizonte Zoo.

Using environmental enrichment to reduce the expression of abnormal behaviours in Greater rheaRhea americanaat Belo Horizonte Zoo: Short Report: Belo Horizonte Zoo: Greater Rhea: Environmental Enrichment & Behavioural Changes (2012)
Journal Article
de Azevedo, C. S., Lima, M. F. F., Cipreste, C. F., Young, R. J., & Rodrigues, M. (2013). Using environmental enrichment to reduce the expression of abnormal behaviours in Greater rheaRhea americanaat Belo Horizonte Zoo: Short Report: Belo Horizonte Zoo: Greater Rhea: Environmental Enrichment & Behavioural Changes. International Zoo Yearbook, 47(1), 163-170. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-1090.2012.00195.x

Animals kept by zoos may express abnormal behaviours that are indicators of poor welfare. Environmental enrichment is a technique of providing items to animals that stimulate the expression of normal behaviours. The aim of this study was to evaluate... Read More about Using environmental enrichment to reduce the expression of abnormal behaviours in Greater rheaRhea americanaat Belo Horizonte Zoo: Short Report: Belo Horizonte Zoo: Greater Rhea: Environmental Enrichment & Behavioural Changes.

Red mud as a carbon sink : variability, affecting factors and environmental significance (2012)
Journal Article
Si, C., Ma, Y., & Lin, C. (2012). Red mud as a carbon sink : variability, affecting factors and environmental significance. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 245, 54-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2012.11.024

The capacity of red mud to sequester CO2 varied markedly due to differences in bauxite type, processing and disposal methods. Calcium carbonates were the dominant mineral phases responsible for the carbon sequestration in the investigated red mud t... Read More about Red mud as a carbon sink : variability, affecting factors and environmental significance.

The fabrication and analysis of the magnetic and crystallographic properties of Fe-rich (Fe x Ga 1-x) Galfenol alloys (2012)
Thesis
Quinn, C. The fabrication and analysis of the magnetic and crystallographic properties of Fe-rich (Fe x Ga 1-x) Galfenol alloys. (Thesis). University of Salford

Understanding the fundamental physics and properties of smart materials is a very important area of research for nano and micro mechanical systems especially in the applications of sensing and actuation, such as SONAR. This thesis is focused on the... Read More about The fabrication and analysis of the magnetic and crystallographic properties of Fe-rich (Fe x Ga 1-x) Galfenol alloys.