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ICT enabled participatory urban planning and policy development: The UrbanAPI project (2014)
Journal Article

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to present the effectiveness of participatory information and communication technology (ICT) tools for urban planning, in particular, supporting bottom-up decision-making in urban management and governance. Design/me... Read More about ICT enabled participatory urban planning and policy development: The UrbanAPI project.

Book Review: Foucault, power and education (2014)
Journal Article

Insights of experimental studies on the load carrying capacity of masonry under eccentric loading (2014)
Journal Article

Prediction of the load carrying capacity of masonry under combined axial load and flexure is a key priority for the assessment of masonry arches, pillars, vaults and walls. Despite the wealth of experimental data on the behaviour of masonry structure... Read More about Insights of experimental studies on the load carrying capacity of masonry under eccentric loading.

The transformation of employment regulation in Greece: Towards a dysfunctional liberal market economy? (2014)
Journal Article

Failure analysis and avoidance for elastomeric diaphragms at high temperatures and pressures (2014)
Thesis

Elastomeric diaphragms are used in the Smart Stabilizer/Weatherford rotary steerable systems (RSS) used in directional drilling down hole. The diaphragms need to operate correctly for the RSS to function effectively. The diaphragm separates the mecha... Read More about Failure analysis and avoidance for elastomeric diaphragms at high temperatures and pressures.

Investigating key antecedents of customer satisfaction in B2B information service firms (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Service sector has grown significantly over the years and now is one of the major contributors of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of most of the developed and developing economies. Within the service sector, information economy has grown significant... Read More about Investigating key antecedents of customer satisfaction in B2B information service firms.

(Non) Graphic images of violence (2014)
Journal Article

This article is a studio conversation between researchers Dr Paul Laidler and Dr Cecilia Mandrile and artist Andrew Super.

Integrating rapid 3D data collection techniques to support BIM design decision making (2014)
Journal Article

In recent years, there have been rapid developments in techniques available to capture three dimensional data with regards to the existing built environment. Such technologies support the collection of both large scale landscape and streetscape data,... Read More about Integrating rapid 3D data collection techniques to support BIM design decision making.

Non-existence of local solutions of semilinear heat equations of Osgood type in bounded domains (2014)
Journal Article

We establish a local non-existence result for the equation ut-δu=f(u) with Dirichlet boundary conditions on a smooth bounded domain Ω⊂Rn and initial data in Lq(Ω) when the source term f is non-decreasing and limsups→∞s-γf(s)=∞ for some exponent γ>q(1... Read More about Non-existence of local solutions of semilinear heat equations of Osgood type in bounded domains.

The role of flood memory in the impact of repeat flooding on mental health (2014)
Book Chapter

A highly important but under researched impact of flood events is the long term psychological effect of the distress and trauma caused by damage and losses associated with repeated flooding of communities. As a part of the recovery process responders... Read More about The role of flood memory in the impact of repeat flooding on mental health.

Impact of the envelope geometry on cooling demand in very airtight UK dwellings under current and future weather projections (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2014 The Author. The Passivhaus strategy employs super insulation to reduce the heat transfer through the building envelope. It has been argued that super insulated homes are vulnerable to summer overheating risks, even in the current climate. The... Read More about Impact of the envelope geometry on cooling demand in very airtight UK dwellings under current and future weather projections.

The international federation for emergency medicine framework for quality and safety in the emergency department (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2014, BMJ Publishing Group. All rights reserved. All emergency departments (EDs) have an obligation to deliver care that is demonstrably safe and of the highest possible quality. Emergency medicine is a unique and rapidly developing specialty, whic... Read More about The international federation for emergency medicine framework for quality and safety in the emergency department.

Do you want to be a Health Psychologist? A survey of Further Education students' knowledge of and interest in health psychology as a future career (2014)
Journal Article

A distributed consensus algorithm for decision making in service-oriented internet of things (2014)
Journal Article

In a service-oriented Internet of things (IoT) deployment, it is difficult to make consensus decisions for services at different IoT edge nodes where available information might be insufficient or overloaded. Existing statistical methods attempt to r... Read More about A distributed consensus algorithm for decision making in service-oriented internet of things.

The scarlet letter: A critical review (2014)
Journal Article

© Bloomsbury 2014. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s nineteenth-century romance The Scarlet Letter centers on the simple transgression of adultery and its social consequences. Hawthorne’s narrative and storytelling skill, however, are far from simple; the author... Read More about The scarlet letter: A critical review.

Adrenomedullin and Glucocorticoids interaction at the glial/endothelial interface: two sides of the same regulatory coin? (2014)
Journal Article

Adrenomedullin is a vasodilatatory peptide, important during the inflammation process and also able to regulate blood-brain barrier function. Adrenomedullin and its receptors have been shown to be glucocorticoid-dependent in many cell types, includin... Read More about Adrenomedullin and Glucocorticoids interaction at the glial/endothelial interface: two sides of the same regulatory coin?.

Precarious pedagogies? The impact of casual and zero-hour contracts in Higher Education (2014)
Journal Article

Precarious work is associated with and characterizes the effects of neoliberal policy—the transference of economic risk onto workers, the erosion of workers’ rights, the flexibilization and casualization of work contracts, self-responsibility, fina... Read More about Precarious pedagogies? The impact of casual and zero-hour contracts in Higher Education.

Travelers’ Day-to-Day Route Choice Behavior with Real-Time Information in a Congested Risky Network (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Nonrecurring disruptions to traffic systems caused by incidents or adverse conditions can result in uncertain travel times. Real-time information allows travelers to adapt to actual traffic conditions. In a beha... Read More about Travelers’ Day-to-Day Route Choice Behavior with Real-Time Information in a Congested Risky Network.

Pediatric Emergency Research in the UK and Ireland (PERUKI): Developing a collaborative for multicentre research (2014)
Journal Article

Design, analysis and implementation of real-time harmonics elimination: A generalised approach (2014)
Journal Article

© The Institution of Engineering and Technology 2014. It is not a secret that the problem of harmonics and switching frequency can have a dreadful impact on switching power converters. To counter this problem, a variety of methods have been developed... Read More about Design, analysis and implementation of real-time harmonics elimination: A generalised approach.