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The marine biology of law and human health (2015)
Journal Article
Appleby, T., Kinsey, S., Wheeler, B., & Cunningham, E. (2016). The marine biology of law and human health. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK, 96(1), 19-27. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315415000909

© Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2015. This review uses a multidisciplinary approach to investigate legal issues concerning the oceans and human health. It firstly seeks to define the boundaries of oceans and human health researc... Read More about The marine biology of law and human health.

A typology of urban design theories and its application to the shared body of knowledge (2015)
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Foroughmand Araabi, H. (2016). A typology of urban design theories and its application to the shared body of knowledge. URBAN DESIGN International, 21(1), 11-24. https://doi.org/10.1057/udi.2015.6

© 2016 Macmillan Publishers Ltd. This article consists of two parts. The first part suggests a typology for urban design theories in order to provide a new way of understanding the nature and function of the, seemingly opposing, debates existing in t... Read More about A typology of urban design theories and its application to the shared body of knowledge.

The comparison study between UK daylighting simulation-Malaysia daylighting simulations due to overcast sky conditions (2015)
Journal Article
Ali, S. R., Mahdjoubi, L., & Azmat, K. (2015). The comparison study between UK daylighting simulation-Malaysia daylighting simulations due to overcast sky conditions

Due to the growing demand for building energy simulation in buildings, lot of work has been done in research since last 50 years but still a huge area needs to be covered. The current state of research, which is moving towards building energy simulat... Read More about The comparison study between UK daylighting simulation-Malaysia daylighting simulations due to overcast sky conditions.

International interpretations of the garden city ideal: Lessons for placemaking (2015)
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Devereux, M. (2015). International interpretations of the garden city ideal: Lessons for placemaking. Urban Design -New Series-, 134, 32-34

The Garden City Idea, first promoted by Ebenezer Howard in the UK during the early part of twentieth century, quickly spread around the world. In so doing, though, it became transformed to suit local circumstances and often became a very different ph... Read More about International interpretations of the garden city ideal: Lessons for placemaking.

Impact of Job Stressors and Stress on the Safety Behavior and Accidents of Construction Workers (2015)
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Leung, M. Y., Liang, Q., & Olomolaiye, P. (2016). Impact of Job Stressors and Stress on the Safety Behavior and Accidents of Construction Workers. Journal of Management in Engineering, 32(1), https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29ME.1943-5479.0000373

© 2015 American Society of Civil Engineers. Construction workers (CWs) are usually exposed to various job-related hazards while working on construction sites, especially when there is a lack of appropriate equipment, working without support, or being... Read More about Impact of Job Stressors and Stress on the Safety Behavior and Accidents of Construction Workers.

Inequality and ecosystem services: The value and social distribution of Niger Delta wetland services (2015)
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Adekola, O., Mitchell, G., & Grainger, A. (2015). Inequality and ecosystem services: The value and social distribution of Niger Delta wetland services. Ecosystem Services, 12, 42-54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2015.01.005

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. The Niger Delta wetlands are of international importance for their biodiversity, and support a large human population. The value and distribution of wetland ecosystem service benefits and costs across the three main stakeholder s... Read More about Inequality and ecosystem services: The value and social distribution of Niger Delta wetland services.

Studying effects of preshearing on hand layup (2015)
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Ward, C., Elkington, M., Carwyn, W., Chatzimichali, A., & Potter, K. (2015). Studying effects of preshearing on hand layup. Advanced Manufacturing: Polymer and Composites Science, 1(2), 80-93. https://doi.org/10.1179/2055035914Y.0000000007

© 2015, © 2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. Advanced composites are used extensively in many high performance applications. As they are taken up in a wider range of applications, the volume of demand is pushing manufacturing method... Read More about Studying effects of preshearing on hand layup.

Assessing the direction of climate interactions by means of complex networks and information theoretic tools (2015)
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Deza, J. I., Barreiro, M., & Masoller, C. (2015). Assessing the direction of climate interactions by means of complex networks and information theoretic tools. Chaos, 25(3), https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4914101

© 2015 AIP Publishing LLC. An estimate of the net direction of climate interactions in different geographical regions is made by constructing a directed climate network from a regular latitude-longitude grid of nodes, using a directionality index (DI... Read More about Assessing the direction of climate interactions by means of complex networks and information theoretic tools.

Market-based valuation multiples: Evidence from agribusiness sector (2015)
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Goh, C. F., Rasli, A., Dziekoński, K., & Rehman, S. U. (2015). Market-based valuation multiples: Evidence from agribusiness sector

This paper investigates the choice of multiples in valuing the plantation firms in Malaysia from 2003 to 2009. The plantation industry is a homogenous business model that produces commodity products thus rendering excellent empirical settings to reve... Read More about Market-based valuation multiples: Evidence from agribusiness sector.

The effect of appraiser rotation : Dutch institutional investors’ experience (2015)
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van der Werf, Y., & Huibers, F. (2015). The effect of appraiser rotation : Dutch institutional investors’ experience

Institutional investors experience a large valuation gap when they change appraiser on their investment properties compared to months or quarters when there is no change of appraiser. We find that appraiser rotation leads to a significant effec... Read More about The effect of appraiser rotation : Dutch institutional investors’ experience.

Cooling the UK housing stock post-2050s (2015)
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Gupta, R., Gregg, M., & Williams, K. (2015). Cooling the UK housing stock post-2050s. Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, 36(2), 196-220. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143624414566242

© The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers 2015 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav. This paper investigates the risk of projected post-2050s overheating in existing, retrofitted and new-build dwellings in... Read More about Cooling the UK housing stock post-2050s.

Reducing floodwater ingress rates through an exterior masonry wall of a domestic building: A pilot investigation (2015)
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Beddoes, D. W., & Booth, C. A. (2015). Reducing floodwater ingress rates through an exterior masonry wall of a domestic building: A pilot investigation. Structural Survey, 33(3), 196-209. https://doi.org/10.1108/SS-01-2013-0003

© 2015, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – Experimental field test apparatus has been used to determine the inter-variability and intra-variability floodwater ingress rates of the masonry wall of a domestic building, before and after prepara... Read More about Reducing floodwater ingress rates through an exterior masonry wall of a domestic building: A pilot investigation.

Homeowners' perceptions of property-level flood risk adaptation (PLFRA) measures: The case of the summer 2007 flood event in England (2015)
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Joseph, R., Proverbs, D., & Lamond, J. (2015). Homeowners' perceptions of property-level flood risk adaptation (PLFRA) measures: The case of the summer 2007 flood event in England. International Journal of Safety and Security Engineering, 5(3), 251-265. https://doi.org/10.2495/SAFE-V5-N3-251-265

© 2015 WIT Press. Flood events have far-reaching consequences, not only in economic or financial terms but also in social and health-related impacts. There is a growing body of research that suggests that property-level flood risk adaptation (PLFRA)... Read More about Homeowners' perceptions of property-level flood risk adaptation (PLFRA) measures: The case of the summer 2007 flood event in England.

Grass-root preparedness against potential flood risk among residential and commercial property holders (2015)
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Bhattacharya-Mis, N., Joseph, R., Proverbs, D., & Lamond, J. (2015). Grass-root preparedness against potential flood risk among residential and commercial property holders. International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, 6(1), 44-56. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJDRBE-08-2014-0059

© Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – This study aims to investigate the level of preparedness among property owners who had experienced flood damage to their properties in two cities in England following the summer floods of 2007. Flooding c... Read More about Grass-root preparedness against potential flood risk among residential and commercial property holders.

Mapping community knowledge of vulnerability of value: A case study in the UK (2015)
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Bhattacharya-Mis, N., & Lamond, J. (2015). Mapping community knowledge of vulnerability of value: A case study in the UK. International Journal of Safety and Security Engineering, 5(3), 266-279. https://doi.org/10.2495/SAFE-V5-N3-266-279

© 2015 WIT Press. Commercial property value can be vulnerable to risk exposure, economic effects of risk on property and perception of usefulness of the property in the market. The processes of decision making in risk reduction can generate different... Read More about Mapping community knowledge of vulnerability of value: A case study in the UK.

'In-between': Architectural drawing as interdisciplinary spatial discourse (2015)
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Carless, T., & Troiani, I. (2015). 'In-between': Architectural drawing as interdisciplinary spatial discourse. Journal of Architecture, 20(2), 268-292. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2015.1027720

© 2015 RIBA Enterprises. This essay discusses the role of non-normative architectural representational practices in architectural design-based research. From a reading of Michel Foucault's concept of discursive formations, it sets out an inter-discip... Read More about 'In-between': Architectural drawing as interdisciplinary spatial discourse.

Summer thermal comfort and self-shading geometries in Passivhaus dwellings: A pilot study using future UK climates (2015)
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Lavafpour, Y., & Sharples, S. (2015). Summer thermal comfort and self-shading geometries in Passivhaus dwellings: A pilot study using future UK climates. Buildings, 5(3), 964-984. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings5030964

© 2015 by the authors. This study uses numerical thermal simulation to investigate the potential use of building geometry to eliminate or reduce current and future thermal discomfort overheating risk in UK Passivhaus dwellings. The study focused on t... Read More about Summer thermal comfort and self-shading geometries in Passivhaus dwellings: A pilot study using future UK climates.