All Outputs (124)

Waste metal for improving concrete performance and utilisation as an alternative of reinforcement bar (2015)
Journal Article
Qureshi, T., & Ahmed, M. (2015). Waste metal for improving concrete performance and utilisation as an alternative of reinforcement bar. Other Education, 5(2), 97-103

Waste material disposal is considered as a difficult issue to adopt in current world. Waste metal, which has been recognised as a major problem in the environment and resource deficiency, could have important implications in the concrete construction... Read More about Waste metal for improving concrete performance and utilisation as an alternative of reinforcement bar.

“Iftar” in Mcdonald’s’: The everyday encroachment of Cairo’s subaltern cosmopolitans (2015)
Book Chapter
Pettit, H. (2015). “Iftar” in Mcdonald’s’: The everyday encroachment of Cairo’s subaltern cosmopolitans. In F. A. Gerges (Ed.), Contentious Politics in the Middle East: Popular Resistance and Marginalized Activism beyond the Arab Uprisings (523-546). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137530868_22

On July 12, 2013, two days into the holy month of Ramadan, I received an invitation to break the fast with Kareem and Islam, two 19-year-old middle-class Egyptians living near downtown Cairo. With both about to commence public university courses, the... Read More about “Iftar” in Mcdonald’s’: The everyday encroachment of Cairo’s subaltern cosmopolitans.

Encapsulated mineral precursors for self-healing cement based composites (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Kanellopoulos, A., Qureshi, T., & Al-Tabbaa, A. (2015). Encapsulated mineral precursors for self-healing cement based composites. In 5th International Conference on Self-Healing Materials, Durham, North Carolina

Influence of expansive minerals on the self-healing of cement paste and mortar systems (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Qureshi, T., & Al-Tabbaa, A. (2015). Influence of expansive minerals on the self-healing of cement paste and mortar systems. In Fifth International Conference of Self-healing Materials, Durham, NC (U.S.A.)

Expansive minerals have great prospects for improving the self-healing capacity of concrete. Once a crack start propagating, an embedded unhydrated expansive mineral could hydrate and expand hence bridging and healing the cracks. This study investiga... Read More about Influence of expansive minerals on the self-healing of cement paste and mortar systems.

Ice jam flood hazard assessment and mapping of the Peace River at the Town of Peace River (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Lindenschmidt, K., Das, A., Rokaya, P., Chun, K., & Chu, T. (2015). Ice jam flood hazard assessment and mapping of the Peace River at the Town of Peace River. In 18th Workshop on the Hydraulics of Ice Covered Rivers (18-21)

Efforts are underway in Canada to develop, update and extend flood risk assessments and mapping for river sections prone to flooding. However, most of these previous works are limited to the open-water case. Very little has been done to include flood... Read More about Ice jam flood hazard assessment and mapping of the Peace River at the Town of Peace River.

A deuterium-based labeling technique for the investigation of rooting depths, water uptake dynamics and unsaturated zone water transport in semiarid environments (2015)
Journal Article
Beyer, M., Koeniger, P., Gaj, M., Hamutoko, J. T., Wanke, H., & Himmelsbach, T. (2016). A deuterium-based labeling technique for the investigation of rooting depths, water uptake dynamics and unsaturated zone water transport in semiarid environments. Journal of Hydrology, 533, 627-643. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.12.037

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. Non- or minimum-invasive methods for the quantification of rooting depths of plants are rare, in particular in (semi-)arid regions; yet, this information is crucial for the parameterization of SVAT (Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Tra... Read More about A deuterium-based labeling technique for the investigation of rooting depths, water uptake dynamics and unsaturated zone water transport in semiarid environments.

Can the capitalist economic system deliver environmental justice? (2015)
Journal Article
Bell, K. (2015). Can the capitalist economic system deliver environmental justice?. Environmental Research Letters, 10(12), https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/12/125017

© 2015 IOP Publishing Ltd. Can a healthy environment for all social groups be delivered through capitalism via market mechanisms? Or is it the capitalist system, itself, that has been at the root of the environmental and social crises we now face? Th... Read More about Can the capitalist economic system deliver environmental justice?.

The politics of redeployment: Malleable technologies and the localisation of anticipatory calculation (2015)
Book Chapter
O'Grady, N. (2015). The politics of redeployment: Malleable technologies and the localisation of anticipatory calculation. In L. Amoore, & V. Piotukh (Eds.), Algorithmic Life: Calculative Devices in an Age of Big Data (104-121). London: Routledge

This book chapter is a contribution to the book Algorithmic Life: Calculative Devices in an Age of Big Data. The chapter examines processes through which commercially available credit checking software has been acquired and customized by the UK Fire... Read More about The politics of redeployment: Malleable technologies and the localisation of anticipatory calculation.

Postsecular planning? The idea of municipal spirituality (2015)
Journal Article
McClymont, K. (2015). Postsecular planning? The idea of municipal spirituality. Planning Theory and Practice, 16(4), 535-554. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2015.1083116

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. In the contemporary political context, religion is rarely out of the news, usually postulated as a regressive force, battling against modern liberal Western values. However, in everyday life, and specifically with regard to... Read More about Postsecular planning? The idea of municipal spirituality.

Retrofit in Greater Manchester and Cardiff: Governing to transform or to ungovern? (2015)
Book Chapter
De Laurentis, C., Hodson, M., Marvin, S., & Thompson, M. (2015). Retrofit in Greater Manchester and Cardiff: Governing to transform or to ungovern?. In Retrofitting Cities: Priorities, Governance and Experimentation (18). London: Routledge

This chapter focuses the manner in which changing UK policies and priorities touch down and are reconstituted in two UK city-regions: Greater Manchester and Cardiff city-region and it is structured as follows. First, it briefly considers how national... Read More about Retrofit in Greater Manchester and Cardiff: Governing to transform or to ungovern?.

Centrifuge modelling of an instrumented free-fall sphere for measurement of undrained strength in fine-grained soils (2015)
Journal Article
Morton, J., O'Loughlin, C., & White, D. (2016). Centrifuge modelling of an instrumented free-fall sphere for measurement of undrained strength in fine-grained soils. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 53(6), 918-929. https://doi.org/10.1139/cgj-2015-0242

This paper describes centrifuge tests in which a model free-fall sphere was allowed to free fall in water before dynamically embedding within reconstituted samples of kaolin clay and two offshore natural clays. Instrumentation within the sphere measu... Read More about Centrifuge modelling of an instrumented free-fall sphere for measurement of undrained strength in fine-grained soils.

The converging world: The social and environmental impact of convergence (2015)
Report
Everard, M. (2015). The converging world: The social and environmental impact of convergence

This 96-page report undertakes an ecosystem service analysis of SROI (social report on investment from linked investment in renewable energy and forest restoration in Tamil Nadu, India, as a strategic approach to low-carbon development in an internat... Read More about The converging world: The social and environmental impact of convergence.

Community-based groundwater and ecosystem restoration in semi-arid north Rajasthan (1): Socio-economic progress and lessons for groundwater-dependentareas (2015)
Journal Article
Everard, M. (2015). Community-based groundwater and ecosystem restoration in semi-arid north Rajasthan (1): Socio-economic progress and lessons for groundwater-dependentareas. Ecosystem Services, 16, 125-135

Groundwater is a vital resource in arid and semi-arid regions, increasingly relied upon for year-round access, though lack of both study and regulation contribute to unsustainable pressures potentially contributing to a negative spiral of ecological,... Read More about Community-based groundwater and ecosystem restoration in semi-arid north Rajasthan (1): Socio-economic progress and lessons for groundwater-dependentareas.

Defining tafoni: Re-examining terminological ambiguity for cavernous rock decay phenomena (2015)
Journal Article
Paradise, T. R., Allen, C. D., Groom, K. M., Mol, L., & Hall, K. (2015). Defining tafoni: Re-examining terminological ambiguity for cavernous rock decay phenomena. Progress in Physical Geography, 39(6), 775-793. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309133315605037

© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. Cavernous rock decay processes represent a global phenomenon, ubiquitous to all environments, with the viewable-in-landscape form usually being the final descriptor (e.g. “alveoli”), sometimes alluding to the specific de... Read More about Defining tafoni: Re-examining terminological ambiguity for cavernous rock decay phenomena.

Air quality, cars and health in Bristol (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Williams, B. (2015, November). Air quality, cars and health in Bristol. Presented at The Sixth Annual "A" Level Geography Lecture Afternoon, Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, Bath, UK

Innate immune response of the pig laryngeal mucosa to endotracheal intubation (2015)
Journal Article
Hughes, O. R., Ayling, S. M., & Birchall, M. A. (2016). Innate immune response of the pig laryngeal mucosa to endotracheal intubation. Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 154(1), 138-143. https://doi.org/10.1177/0194599815617125

Objective The aim of this study was to measure the effects of endotracheal intubation on innate immune response within the pig laryngeal mucosa. Study Design Prospective controlled basic science study. Setting The animal experiments and analyses were... Read More about Innate immune response of the pig laryngeal mucosa to endotracheal intubation.

UWE response to the Defra Air Quality Plan consultation (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Williams, B. (2015, November). UWE response to the Defra Air Quality Plan consultation. Presented at IAQM AGM: Where now for LAQM?, 8 Fitzroy Street, London, UK

Urban energy and transport: Public transport (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Clayton, W. (2015, November). Urban energy and transport: Public transport. Presented at UWE Green Capital Seminar Series, University of the West of England

Presentation as a part of the UWE Green Capital Seminar Series.

Rebirthing the landscape (2015)
Journal Article
Everard, M. (2015). Rebirthing the landscape

An account of the community-based groundwater recharge activities of the NGO Tarun Bharat Sangh in semi-arid north Rajasthan

Dynamic water quality modelling and uncertainty analysis of phytoplankton and nutrient cycles for the upper South Saskatchewan River (2015)
Journal Article
Akomeah, E., Chun, K. P., & Lindenschmidt, K. E. (2015). Dynamic water quality modelling and uncertainty analysis of phytoplankton and nutrient cycles for the upper South Saskatchewan River. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 22(22), 18239-18251. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-015-4970-0

The surface water quality of the upper South Saskatchewan River was modelled using Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program (WASP) 7.52. Model calibration and validation were based on samples taken from four long-term water quality stations during t... Read More about Dynamic water quality modelling and uncertainty analysis of phytoplankton and nutrient cycles for the upper South Saskatchewan River.