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Designing a novel virtual collaborative environment to support collaboration in design review meetings (2013)
Journal Article
Fernando, T., Wu, K., & Bassanino, M. (2013). Designing a novel virtual collaborative environment to support collaboration in design review meetings. Journal of Information Technology in Construction, 18, 372-396

Project review meetings are part of the project management process and are organised to assess progress and resolve any design conflicts to avoid delays in construction. One of the key challenges during a project review meeting is to bring the stakeh... Read More about Designing a novel virtual collaborative environment to support collaboration in design review meetings.

Tweeting the Olympic Games (2013)
Book Chapter

From the introduction of television at the Berlin 1936 Olympic Games to its transformation into 3D broadcasting at London 2012, media innovation has always surrounded the Olympics (Miah & Garcia 2012). As such, the broader context of a debate about L... Read More about Tweeting the Olympic Games.

Comparisons of two effective medium approaches for predicting sound scattering by periodic arrays of elastic shells (2013)
Journal Article
sound scattering by periodic arrays of elastic shells. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 134(5), 3619-3630. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4824340

Two effective medium models are presented and used to predict complex reflection and transmission
coefficients of finite periodic arrays of resonant elastic shells as well as their effective density
and bulk modulus at low frequencies. Comparisons... Read More about Comparisons of two effective medium approaches for predicting sound scattering by periodic arrays of elastic shells.

Dog ownership, dog behaviour and transmission of Echinococcus spp. in the Alay Valley, southern Kyrgyzstan (2013)
Journal Article

Echinococcosis is a re-emerging zoonotic disease in Kyrgyzstan, and the incidence of human infection has increased substantially since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Domestic dogs are hosts of Echinococcus spp. and play an important role i... Read More about Dog ownership, dog behaviour and transmission of Echinococcus spp. in the Alay Valley, southern Kyrgyzstan.

Facilities management : The dynamics of excellence (third edition) (2013)
Book
Barrett, P., & Finch, E. (2013). Facilities management : The dynamics of excellence (third edition). Wiley-Blackwell

Facilities management continues to expand and develop in terms of the
volume and diversity of commercial activity, with a significant influence upon
organisational success and goal achievement. The two previous editions of
Facilities Management ha... Read More about Facilities management : The dynamics of excellence (third edition).

Prognosis of land title formalization in urban Ghana : the myth and reality of awareness and relevance (2013)
Journal Article
Gyau, K., & Hammond, F. (2013). Prognosis of land title formalization in urban Ghana : the myth and reality of awareness and relevance. African studies quarterly, 14(1 & 2), 55-75

While land title formalization is still useful in sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana like many other countries in the sub-region, continues to experience low rate of compliance with the legal title formalization requirement. This is in spite of over a century... Read More about Prognosis of land title formalization in urban Ghana : the myth and reality of awareness and relevance.

Causality-based cost-effective action mining (2013)
Journal Article
Shamsinejadbabki, P., Saraee, M., & Blockeel, H. (2013). Causality-based cost-effective action mining. Intelligent Data Analysis, 17(6), 1075-1091. https://doi.org/10.3233/IDA-130621

In many business contexts, the ultimate goal of knowledge discovery is not the knowledge itself, but putting it to use. Models or patterns found by data mining methods often require further post-processing to bring this about. For instance, in churn... Read More about Causality-based cost-effective action mining.

The deposition of low temperature sputtered In2O3 films using pulsed d.c. magnetron sputtering from a powder target (2013)
Journal Article
Karthikeyan, S., Hill, A., & Pilkington, R. (2014). The deposition of low temperature sputtered In2O3 films using pulsed d.c. magnetron sputtering from a powder target. Thin Solid Films, 550, 140-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2013.10.141

Transparent conductive oxide layers are widely used in various applications such as solar cells, touch screen displays, heatable glasses, etc. This present work describes the deposition of transparent and conducting In2O3 films from In2O3 powdered ta... Read More about The deposition of low temperature sputtered In2O3 films using pulsed d.c. magnetron sputtering from a powder target.

Energy performance and thermal comfort of courtyard/atrium dwellings in the Netherlands in the light of climate change (2013)
Journal Article
Taleghani, M., Tenpierik, M., & van den Dobbelsteen, A. (2014). Energy performance and thermal comfort of courtyard/atrium dwellings in the Netherlands in the light of climate change. Renewable Energy, 63(Mar 14), 486-497. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2013.09.028

With increased global concerns on climate change, the need for innovative spaces which can provide thermal comfort and energy efficiency is also increasing. This paper analyses the effects of transitional spaces on energy performance and indoor therm... Read More about Energy performance and thermal comfort of courtyard/atrium dwellings in the Netherlands in the light of climate change.

Conjugation of PEG and gold nanoparticles to increase the accessibility and valency of tethered RNA splicing enhancers (2013)
Journal Article
Perrett, A., Dickinson, R., Krpetic, Z., Brust, M., Lewis, H., Eperon, I., & Burley, G. (2013). Conjugation of PEG and gold nanoparticles to increase the accessibility and valency of tethered RNA splicing enhancers. Chemical Science, 4(1), 257-265. https://doi.org/10.1039/C2SC20937C

Since alternative splicing patterns are exhibited by most mammalian genes, the functional properties of a gene may be changed for therapeutic purposes by nudging splicing from one pattern to another. Splicing to a refractory exon can be enhanced usin... Read More about Conjugation of PEG and gold nanoparticles to increase the accessibility and valency of tethered RNA splicing enhancers.

The cost of land title formalisation in Ghana (2013)
Journal Article
Gyau, K., Hammond, F., & Lamond, J. (2013). The cost of land title formalisation in Ghana. Property Management, 31(5), 389-403. https://doi.org/10.1108/PM-01-2013-0004

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to assess cost of land title formalisation in Ghana from the standpoint of individual land/property owners with the view to suggesting a cost-effective means for title formalisation in the country.
Design/met... Read More about The cost of land title formalisation in Ghana.

Genetic structure of pike (Esox lucius) reveals a complex and previously unrecognized colonization history of Ireland (2013)
Journal Article
Pedreschi, D., Kelly-Quinn, M., Caffrey, J., O'Grady, M., & Mariani, S. (2014). Genetic structure of pike (Esox lucius) reveals a complex and previously unrecognized colonization history of Ireland. Journal of Biogeography, 41(3), 548-560. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12220

Aim: We investigated genetic variation of Irish pike populations and their relationship with European outgroups, in order to elucidate the origin of this species to the island, which is largely assumed to have occurred as a human-mediated introductio... Read More about Genetic structure of pike (Esox lucius) reveals a complex and previously unrecognized colonization history of Ireland.

Seasonal microbial community dynamics correlate with phytoplankton-derived polysaccharides in surface coastal waters (2013)
Journal Article
Taylor, J., Cottingham, S., Billinge, J., & Cunliffe, M. (2013). Seasonal microbial community dynamics correlate with phytoplankton-derived polysaccharides in surface coastal waters. ISME Journal, 8, 245-248. https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2013.178

Phytoplankton produce large amounts of polysaccharide gel material known as transparent exopolymer particles (TEP). We investigated the potential links between phytoplankton-derived TEP and microbial community structure in the sea surface microlayer... Read More about Seasonal microbial community dynamics correlate with phytoplankton-derived polysaccharides in surface coastal waters.

Water (H2O and D2O) dispersible NIR-to-NIR upconverting Yb3+/Tm3+ Doped MF2 (M = Ca, Sr) Colloids : influence of the host crystal (2013)
Journal Article

Tm3+/Yb3+ doped CaF2, SrF2, and cubic phase NaYF4 nanoparticles dispersed as colloids in water (H2O and D2O) or saline solutions have been directly prepared by a one-step hydrothermal technique, using citrate anions as capping agents, without the nee... Read More about Water (H2O and D2O) dispersible NIR-to-NIR upconverting Yb3+/Tm3+ Doped MF2 (M = Ca, Sr) Colloids : influence of the host crystal.

Anion sensing by solution- and surface-assembled osmium(II) bipyridyl rotaxanes (2013)
Journal Article
Lehr, J., Lang, T., Blackburn, O., Barendt, T., Faulkner, S., Davis, J., & Beer, P. (2013). Anion sensing by solution- and surface-assembled osmium(II) bipyridyl rotaxanes. Chemistry - A European Journal, 19(47), 15898-15906. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201302886

We report the preparation of [2]rotaxanes containing an electrochemically and optically active osmium(II) bipyridyl macrocyclic component mechanically bonded with cationic pyridinium axles. Such interlocked host systems are demonstrated to recognise... Read More about Anion sensing by solution- and surface-assembled osmium(II) bipyridyl rotaxanes.

A hidden Markov model with abnormal states for detecting stock price manipulation (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Cao, Y., Li, Y., Coleman, S., Belatreche, A., & McGinnity, T. (2013, October). A hidden Markov model with abnormal states for detecting stock price manipulation. Presented at Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Manchester

Price manipulation refers to the act of using illegal trading behaviour to manually change an equity price with the aim of making profits. With increasing volumes of trading, price manipulation can be extremely damaging to the proper functioning and... Read More about A hidden Markov model with abnormal states for detecting stock price manipulation.

Novelty detection using level set methods with adaptive boundaries (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Ding, X., Li, Y., Belatreche, A., & Maguire, L. (2013, October). Novelty detection using level set methods with adaptive boundaries. Presented at Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Manchester

This paper proposes a locally adaptive level set boundary description (LALSBD) method for novelty detection. The proposed method adjusts the non linear boundary directly in the input space and consists of a number of processes including level set fun... Read More about Novelty detection using level set methods with adaptive boundaries.

Dataset shift detection in non-stationary environments using EWMA charts (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Raza, H., Prasad, G., & Li, Y. (2013, October). Dataset shift detection in non-stationary environments using EWMA charts. Presented at Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Manchester

Dataset shift is a major challenge in the non-stationary environments wherein the input data distribution may change over time. Detecting the dataset shift point in the time-series data, where the distribution of time-series changes its properties, i... Read More about Dataset shift detection in non-stationary environments using EWMA charts.