All Outputs (67)

Enhancing local air quality management in Wales to maximise public health awareness, integration, collaboration and impact (2018)
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Air pollution is a significant public health concern. The UK Local Air Quality Management (LAQM) regime mandates collaborative action to reduce air pollution to protect health. Despite having this aim, LAQM is disconnected from broader public health... Read More about Enhancing local air quality management in Wales to maximise public health awareness, integration, collaboration and impact.

Local experiences of neighbourhood planning (2017)
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The Coalition Government introduced the Localism Act 2011 as part of a wider reformation of the planning system. The Act introduced a range of measures including neighbourhood plans, which were designed to empower local people by enabling them to cre... Read More about Local experiences of neighbourhood planning.

An investigation into common challenges of 3D scene understanding in visual surveillance (2017)
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Nowadays, video surveillance systems are ubiquitous. Most installations simply consist of CCTV cameras connected to a central control room and rely on human operators to interpret what they see on the screen in order to, for example, detect a crime (... Read More about An investigation into common challenges of 3D scene understanding in visual surveillance.

Offline and real time noise reduction in speech signals using the discrete wavelet packet decomposition (2017)
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This thesis describes the development of an offline and real time wavelet based speech enhancement system to process speech corrupted with various amounts of white Gaussian noise and other different noise types.

Experimental and analytical investigations of brick masonry under compressive fatigue loading (2017)
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About 40% of bridges in European transport network are masonry arch bridges (most built over 100 years ago) and are being subjected to increasing loading regimes. Assessment of the long-term fatigue capacity of masonry bridges is necessary to ensure... Read More about Experimental and analytical investigations of brick masonry under compressive fatigue loading.

A web-based Decision Support System (DSS) to assist SMEs to broker risks and rewards for BIM adoption (2017)
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Building Information Modelling (BIM) usage in the UK’s construction industry has recorded a significant increase over the last few years. However, available evidence suggests that BIM adoption amongst larger construction firms and innovators seems be... Read More about A web-based Decision Support System (DSS) to assist SMEs to broker risks and rewards for BIM adoption.

Participatory water governance in Nigeria: Towards the development of an effective legal framework for rural communities (2017)
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Nigeria’s legal framework for supporting the supply of potable water has not proven to be effective. This is primarily due to the non-participation of a broad spectrum of stakeholders, particularly rural community members. A contextualised policy re-... Read More about Participatory water governance in Nigeria: Towards the development of an effective legal framework for rural communities.

Scientific workflow execution reproducibility using cloud-aware provenance (2016)
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Scientific experiments and projects such as CMS and neuGRIDforYou (N4U) are annually producing data of the order of Peta-Bytes. They adopt scientific workflows to analyse this large amount of data in order to extract meaningful information. These wor... Read More about Scientific workflow execution reproducibility using cloud-aware provenance.

Walking and cycling interactions on shared-use paths (2016)
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Central to this research are the interactions that take place between cyclists and pedestrians on shared-use paths and the impact of these on journey experiences. This research proposes that as active travel is promoted and as walking and cycling tar... Read More about Walking and cycling interactions on shared-use paths.

Waste and wastewater clean-up using microbial fuel cells (2016)
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A sustainable energy portfolio should include a range of carbon-neutral and renewable energy technologies. Amongst the renewable energy technologies, MFCs can offer a solution for both sustainable energy and clean water demands. In order to take the... Read More about Waste and wastewater clean-up using microbial fuel cells.

From albatross to long range UAV flight by dynamic soaring (2016)
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In the domain of UAVs, endurance and range are key utility factors. However, small-sized UAVs are faced with serious limitations regarding energy storage options. A way to address this challenge is to seek for energy from the surrounding environment.... Read More about From albatross to long range UAV flight by dynamic soaring.

Autonomous model building using vision and manipulation (2016)
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It is often the case that robotic systems require models, in order to successfully control themselves, and to interact with the world. Models take many forms and include kinematic models to plan motions, dynamics models to understand the interaction... Read More about Autonomous model building using vision and manipulation.

Semantic derivation of enterprise information architecture from riva-based business process architecture (2016)
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Contemporary Enterprise Information Architecture (EIA) design practice in the industry still suffers from issues that hamper the investment in the EIA design. First and foremost of these issues is the shortcoming of EIA design research to bridge the... Read More about Semantic derivation of enterprise information architecture from riva-based business process architecture.

Bringing 'smarter choices' into multi-modal modeling (2015)
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Robot mediated communication: Enhancing tele-presence using an avatar (2015)
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In the past few years there has been a lot of development in the field of tele-presence. These developments have caused tele-presence technologies to become easily accessible and also for the experience to be enhanced. Since tele-presence is not only... Read More about Robot mediated communication: Enhancing tele-presence using an avatar.

Owner-occupier motivations for energy efficiency refurbishment (2015)
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Fisheries law in action: An exploration of legal pathways to a better managed marine environment (2015)
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This narrative addresses the issue of fisheries law, a specialist area combining aspects of international law, EU law, legislation from the UK and the devolved administrations and the common law. The research appraised and analysed marine fishing ri... Read More about Fisheries law in action: An exploration of legal pathways to a better managed marine environment.

GQ-BPAOntoSOA: A goal- and object- based semantic framework for deriving software services from an organisation’s goals and riva business process architecture (2015)
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Understanding a business organisation is a primary activity that is required for deriving service-oriented systems that assist in carrying out the business activities of an organisation. Business IT alignment is one of the hot topics that concerns wi... Read More about GQ-BPAOntoSOA: A goal- and object- based semantic framework for deriving software services from an organisation’s goals and riva business process architecture.

The affordances of virtual world technologies to empower the visualisation of complex theory concepts in computer science: Enhancing success and experience in higher education (2015)
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Abstract: This research targeted complex abstract concepts in Computer Science and focused on bringing about the visualisation of such concepts using virtual world technologies. The research proposed the use of virtual world elements to support th... Read More about The affordances of virtual world technologies to empower the visualisation of complex theory concepts in computer science: Enhancing success and experience in higher education.

Social practice theory and sustainable mobility: An analysis of the English local transport planning as a system of provision (2014)
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The UK Government is committed to reducing Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions by 80% from 1990 levels by 2050. Reducing emissions from motorised transport and changing travel behaviour of people wishing to travel are two possible means of achieving this.... Read More about Social practice theory and sustainable mobility: An analysis of the English local transport planning as a system of provision.