All Outputs (504)

Evaluation of refurbishment strategies for Post-War office buildings (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Duran, Ö., Taylor, S. C., & Lomas, K. J. (2015). Evaluation of refurbishment strategies for Post-War office buildings.

Multiple combinations of energy saving refurbishment measures were applied to representative models of post-war office buildings using EnergyPlus. Based on energy consumption, thermal comfort and costs, a range of heating and cooling refurb... Read More about Evaluation of refurbishment strategies for Post-War office buildings.

The effect of farmers’ decisions on pest control with Bt crops : a billion dollar game of strategy (2015)
Journal Article
Milne, A., Bell, J., Hutchinson, W., van den bosch, F., Mitchell, P., Crowder, D., …Whitmore, A. (2015). The effect of farmers’ decisions on pest control with Bt crops : a billion dollar game of strategy. PLoS Computational Biology, 11(12), e1004483. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004483

A farmer’s decision on whether to control a pest is usually based on the perceived threat of the pest locally and the guidance of commercial advisors. Therefore farmers in a region are often influenced by similar circumstances, and this can create a... Read More about The effect of farmers’ decisions on pest control with Bt crops : a billion dollar game of strategy.

Analysis of the mitochondrial maxicircle of Trypanosoma lewisi, a neglected human pathogen (2015)
Journal Article
Lin, R., Lai, D., Zheng, L., Wu, J., Lukeš, J., Hide, G., & Lun, Z. (2015). Analysis of the mitochondrial maxicircle of Trypanosoma lewisi, a neglected human pathogen. Parasites and Vectors, 8(1), 665. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-1281-8

BACKGROUND The haemoflagellate Trypanosoma lewisi is a kinetoplastid parasite which, as it has been recently reported to cause human disease, deserves increased attention. Characteristic features of all kinetoplastid flagellates are a uniquely st... Read More about Analysis of the mitochondrial maxicircle of Trypanosoma lewisi, a neglected human pathogen.

Students’ perceptions of school acoustics and the impact of noise on teaching and learning in secondary schools : findings of a questionnaire survey (2015)
Journal Article
Connolly, D., Dockrell, J., Shield, B., Conetta, R., & Cox, T. (2015). Students’ perceptions of school acoustics and the impact of noise on teaching and learning in secondary schools : findings of a questionnaire survey. Energy Procedia, 78, 3114-3119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2015.11.766

This paper will present the design and findings of an online questionnaire survey of 11–16 year olds’ impressions of their school's acoustic environment, and of an experimental study into the effects of typical levels of classroom noise on adolescent... Read More about Students’ perceptions of school acoustics and the impact of noise on teaching and learning in secondary schools : findings of a questionnaire survey.

Two biometric approaches for cattle identification based on features and classifiers fusion (2015)
Journal Article
Tharwat, A., Gaber, T., & Hassanien, A. (2015). Two biometric approaches for cattle identification based on features and classifiers fusion. International journal of image mining (Online), 1(4), 342. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJIM.2015.073902

There is an increasing need for controlling safety policies of animals and efficient management of food production. One way to help achieve this need is the automatic animal identification/identification and traceability systems. In this paper, tw... Read More about Two biometric approaches for cattle identification based on features and classifiers fusion.

A Framework for Improving Knowledge Management Practices in Namibian Software Companies (2015)
Journal Article
Iyawa, G. (2015). A Framework for Improving Knowledge Management Practices in Namibian Software Companies. Journal of Information and Knowledge Management, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219649216500039

Software development (SD) companies employ, train and provide software developers with the platform to improve their skills. Unfortunately, these investments are lost when a software developer resigns from the company or is not physically available t... Read More about A Framework for Improving Knowledge Management Practices in Namibian Software Companies.

Sophorolipid biosurfactants: Possible uses as antibacterial and antibiofilm agent (2015)
Journal Article
De Rienzo MA, D., IM, B., B, D., J, W., & PJ, M. (2015). Sophorolipid biosurfactants: Possible uses as antibacterial and antibiofilm agent. New Biotechnology, 32(6), 720-726. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbt.2015.02.009

Biosurfactants are amphipathic, surface-active molecules of microbial origin which accumulate at interfaces reducing interfacial tension and leading to the formation of aggregated micellular structures in solution. Some biosurfactants have been repor... Read More about Sophorolipid biosurfactants: Possible uses as antibacterial and antibiofilm agent.

Sports (2015)
Book Chapter
Miah, A. (2015). Sports. In H. Have (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics (1-11). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_399-1

This chapter explores the relationship between bioethics and sport ethics, which changed dramatically in the early 2000 when the genetics era generated a series of new questions about the ends of sport and how they would interface more widely with a... Read More about Sports.

The role of competition in structuring primate communities under different productivity regimes in the Amazon (2015)
Journal Article
Kamilar, J., Rocha, J., Pinto, M., Boubli, J., & Grelle, C. (2015). The role of competition in structuring primate communities under different productivity regimes in the Amazon. PLoS ONE, 10(12), e0145699. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0145699

The factors responsible for the formation of Amazonian primate communities are not well understood. Here we investigated the influence of interspecific competition in the assembly of these communities, specifically whether they follow an assembly r... Read More about The role of competition in structuring primate communities under different productivity regimes in the Amazon.

Soft and stretchable sensor using biocompatible electrodes and liquid for medical applications (2015)
Journal Article
electrodes and liquid for medical applications. Soft Robotics, 2(4), 146-154. https://doi.org/10.1089/soro.2015.0011

This article introduces a soft and stretchable sensor composed of silicone rubber integrating a conductive liquidfilled channel with a biocompatible sodium chloride (NaCl) solution and novel stretchable gold sputtered electrodes to facilitate the b... Read More about Soft and stretchable sensor using biocompatible electrodes and liquid for medical applications.

The electronic structure of iridium oxide electrodes active in water splitting (2015)
Journal Article
Pfeifer, V., Jones, T., Velasco Vélez, J., Massué, C., Greiner, M., Arrigo, R., …Schlögl, R. (2015). The electronic structure of iridium oxide electrodes active in water splitting. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2016(18), 2292-2296. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5cp06997a

Iridium oxide based electrodes are among the most promising candidates for electrocatalyzing the oxygen evolution reaction, making it imperative to understand their chemical/electronic structure. However, the complexity of iridium oxide's electronic... Read More about The electronic structure of iridium oxide electrodes active in water splitting.

Audio content feature selection and classification : a random forests and decision tree approach (2015)
Presentation / Conference
AI-Maathidi, M., & Li, F. (2015, December). Audio content feature selection and classification : a random forests and decision tree approach. Presented at IEEE International Conference on Progress in Informatics and Computing (PIC), Nanjing, China

Content information can be extracted from soundtracks of multimedia files. A good audio classifier as a preprocessor is crucial in such applications. Efforts have been made to develop effective and efficient audio content classifiers in which feat... Read More about Audio content feature selection and classification : a random forests and decision tree approach.

The collaborative risk assessment environment in disaster management (2015)
Thesis
Alzahmi, M. (in press). The collaborative risk assessment environment in disaster management. (Thesis). University Of Salford

In the past century the occurrence of natural disasters and man-made disasters have steadily increased with a significant loss of life, damage caused to infrastructure and property, and destruction of the environment. There is much evidence that natu... Read More about The collaborative risk assessment environment in disaster management.

Fine-grained fault-tolerant adaptive routing for networks-on-chip (2015)
Book Chapter
Liu, J., Harkin, J., Maguire, L., Li, Y., Wan, L., & Luo, Y. (2015). Fine-grained fault-tolerant adaptive routing for networks-on-chip. In Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing : 15th International Conference, ICA3PP 2015, Zhangjiajie, China, November 18-20, 2015, Proceedings, Part IV (492-505). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27140-8_34

Due to the increase of physical defects in advanced manufacturing processes, Networks-on-Chip (NoC) system reliability is a critical challenge as faults often occur post manufacturing. Therefore it is important to add fault tolerance to the NoC syste... Read More about Fine-grained fault-tolerant adaptive routing for networks-on-chip.

Navigating the storm : IMPACT, eMOP, and Agile Steering Standards (2015)
Journal Article
Mandell, L., Neudecker, C., Antonacopoulos, A., Grumbach, E., Auvil, L., Christy, M., …Samuelson, T. (2015). Navigating the storm : IMPACT, eMOP, and Agile Steering Standards. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 32(1), 189-194. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqv062

This article discusses two major initiatives tasked with developing tools to im- prove optical character recognition (OCR) or the mechanical keying of texts that are digitally available only as page images. The two initiatives are the IMProving ACces... Read More about Navigating the storm : IMPACT, eMOP, and Agile Steering Standards.

Investigating SME resilience to flooding : the Braunton report (2015)
Book
Ingirige, B., & Russell, R. (2015). Investigating SME resilience to flooding : the Braunton report. Salford: University of Salford

The number of major floods in Europe has risen from one per year (between 1900 and 1974) to 15 a year (between 1993 and 2001). Many parts of the UK have faced extensive flooding in recent years, notably during the winter of 2013/14, and climate chang... Read More about Investigating SME resilience to flooding : the Braunton report.

Tremelimumab for the treatment of malignant mesothelioma (2015)
Journal Article
Guazzelli, A., Hussain, M., Krstic- Demonacos, M., & Mutti, L. (2015). Tremelimumab for the treatment of malignant mesothelioma. Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy, 15(12), 1819-1829. https://doi.org/10.1517/14712598.2015.1116515

Introduction: Tremelimumab demonstrated therapeutic activity in different malignancies, including malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM); however, continued research could improve the therapeutic index of this agent. Areas covered: This review descr... Read More about Tremelimumab for the treatment of malignant mesothelioma.

The acceleration dilemma : can English law accommodate constructive acceleration? (2015)
Journal Article
Whaley, A., McAdam, W., & Crowe, P. (2015). The acceleration dilemma : can English law accommodate constructive acceleration?. International Journal of Law in the Built Environment, 7(3), 248-267. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJLBE-11-2014-0034

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to explore the hypothesis that a contractor is entitled to payment for “constructive” acceleration implemented to avoid liquidated damages when denied a warranted time extension request by the employer or certifier... Read More about The acceleration dilemma : can English law accommodate constructive acceleration?.

Responses of tropical bats to habitat fragmentation, logging, and deforestation (2015)
Book Chapter
Meyer, C. F., Struebig, M., & Willig, M. (2016). Responses of tropical bats to habitat fragmentation, logging, and deforestation. In C. C. Voigt, & T. Kingston (Eds.), Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World (63-103). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25220-9_4

Land-use change is a key driver of the global biodiversity crisis and a particularly serious threat to tropical biodiversity. Throughout the tropics, the staggering pace of deforestation, logging, and conversion of forested habitat to other land uses... Read More about Responses of tropical bats to habitat fragmentation, logging, and deforestation.

Challenges and benefits in the design of coastal walking and cycling amenities : toward a more integrated coastal management approach (2015)
Journal Article
Farrel, M., Cooper, J., & Yates, K. (2015). Challenges and benefits in the design of coastal walking and cycling amenities : toward a more integrated coastal management approach. Coastal Management, 43(6), 628-650. https://doi.org/10.1080/08920753.2015.1086950

The planning and development of pedestrian and cycling amenities in coastal urban environments is a challenging process because a wide range of policies and considerations must be taken into account. Among these, the concepts of sustainability and mo... Read More about Challenges and benefits in the design of coastal walking and cycling amenities : toward a more integrated coastal management approach.