All Outputs (31)

The disempowerment of empowerment: How stakeholding clogs up rural decision-making (2009)
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In the context of a growth in both participatory democracy and responsible participation, rural decision-making in England has become increasingly complex over the past 30 years, fuelled by national polices relating to regionalism, citizenship and re... Read More about The disempowerment of empowerment: How stakeholding clogs up rural decision-making.

An investigation of the aerodynamic admittances and aerodynamic weighting functions of trains (2009)
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Increasing train speeds combined with the predicted reduction in the weight of new trains ensure that the effect of crosswinds on train stability is of continued interest to the rail industry. Changes in the approaching wind velocity can in turn lead... Read More about An investigation of the aerodynamic admittances and aerodynamic weighting functions of trains.

Measuring retinal vessel tortuosity in 10-year-old children: Validation of the computer-assisted image analysis of the retina (caiar) program (2009)
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PURPOSE: To examine the agreement of a novel computer pro- gram measuring retinal vessel tortuosity with subjective assess-he morphologic characteristics of vessels of the retina have been associated with cardiovascular and coronary diseasement of to... Read More about Measuring retinal vessel tortuosity in 10-year-old children: Validation of the computer-assisted image analysis of the retina (caiar) program.

Discovering patterns of behavior in a smart home (2009)
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Rural planning in England: A critique of current policy (2009)
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The article briefly explores the enduring primacy of agricultural planning over land use planning in rural areas in England since the Second World War. From this contextual Overview, The paper critically evaluates in some detail a number of embedded... Read More about Rural planning in England: A critique of current policy.

Numerical and experimental investigation for stability lobes prediction in thin wall machining (2009)
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A Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Fourier transform approach to obtain frequency response function (FRF) is presented in this paper. The aim in this paper is to eliminate the need for the classical impact experimental approach used in extracting st... Read More about Numerical and experimental investigation for stability lobes prediction in thin wall machining.

Resilience to flooding: Lessons from international comparison (2009)
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Urban resilience is a key focus of current approaches to flood management. The notion of resilience encompasses pre-disaster planning and warning systems, emergency handling procedures and post-disaster reconstruction. Both human and physical systems... Read More about Resilience to flooding: Lessons from international comparison.

Tensions and contradictions left and right: The predictable disappointments of planning under New Labour in historical perspective (2009)
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This article situates the disappointments of New Labour's record over environmental planning within the longer historical perspective of British post-Second World War social democracy and planning. It makes two main claims. First, that New Labour ide... Read More about Tensions and contradictions left and right: The predictable disappointments of planning under New Labour in historical perspective.

Guest Editorial: Introducing automation and engineering for ambient intelligence (2009)
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Engineless unmanned aerial vehicle propulsion by dynamic soaring (2009)
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Accessibility of flood risk insurance in the UK: Confusion, competition and complacency (2009)
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Flood risk insurance can be an effective tool in assisting the restoration of damaged property after a flood event and sustaining communities through difficult times. It can also form part of a wider flood risk management strategy. In the light of re... Read More about Accessibility of flood risk insurance in the UK: Confusion, competition and complacency.

Change in appearance of textures with randomisation of Fourier phase (2009)
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It is known that humans can discriminate visual textures on the basis of differences in statistics higher than the second order. However, these results have been obtained using artificial textures made up of geometric elements, and the effects of man... Read More about Change in appearance of textures with randomisation of Fourier phase.

A review of ant algorithms (2009)
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Ant algorithms are optimisation algorithms inspired by the foraging behaviour of real ants in the wild. Introduced in the early 1990s, ant algorithms aim at finding approximate solutions to optimisation problems through the use of artificial ants and... Read More about A review of ant algorithms.

Competencies required by project managers for housing construction in Ghana: Implications for CPD agenda (2009)
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to delineate "senior managers'" perception of the competencies required by project managers (PMs) in Ghana for mass house building projects (MHBPs) and to discuss the implication of the findings for professional... Read More about Competencies required by project managers for housing construction in Ghana: Implications for CPD agenda.

Changing travel behaviour: lessons from 'behavioural economics' (2009)
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Road pricing and other fiscal means of influencing travel decisions have lost favour, but study of travellers' economic decisions suggests a new way of changing -or 'nudging'- behaviour. This paper is by Dr Erel Avineri.

The contribution of organic farming to rural development: An exploration of the socio-economic linkages of organic and non-organic farms in England (2009)
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Organic farming has experienced considerable growth in recent years. Proponents of organic farming point to the environmental and nutritional benefits of organic systems, although these are contested by some. More recently, it has been argued that or... Read More about The contribution of organic farming to rural development: An exploration of the socio-economic linkages of organic and non-organic farms in England.

For whom? - The governance of organic food and farming in the UK (2009)
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The challenge of organic agriculture - that it might provide new forms of participation around food - has been hard to encapsulate in the conventional circuits of democracy. One answer to this 'offer' has been for consumers to purchase organic items... Read More about For whom? - The governance of organic food and farming in the UK.

Legibility and aesthetics in urban design (2009)
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This paper presents a philosophical analysis of two central concepts and 'principles' of urban design, namely, 'legibility' and 'aesthetics', and then an argument about their respective importance for urban design. After a summary of Kevin Lynch's se... Read More about Legibility and aesthetics in urban design.

Localizations in cellular automata with mutualistic excitation rules (2009)
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Every cell of two-dimensional cellular automaton with eight-cell neighborhood takes three states: resting, excited and refractory, and updates excited to refractory and refractory to resting states unconditionally. A resting cell excites depending on... Read More about Localizations in cellular automata with mutualistic excitation rules.

Numerical simulation of heat transfer in rectangular microchannel (2009)
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Numerical simulation of heat transfer in a high aspect ratio rectangular microchannel with heat sinks has been conducted, similar to an experimental study. Three channel heights measuring 0.3 mm, 0.6mmand 1mmare considered and the Reynolds number var... Read More about Numerical simulation of heat transfer in rectangular microchannel.