Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (141)

An Appraisal of Facilities Management Practice in Nigeria: A Perceptual Survey (2012)
Journal Article
Ikediashi, D. I., Ogunlana, S. O., & Awodele, A. (2012). An Appraisal of Facilities Management Practice in Nigeria: A Perceptual Survey. International Journal of Applied Environmental Sciences, 7(3), 259-271

Facilities management has transformed over the years from what was traditionally perceived to be mere facilities maintenance to a profession that integrates the management of an organization's buildings and infrastructure in order to create an enviro... Read More about An Appraisal of Facilities Management Practice in Nigeria: A Perceptual Survey.

An Evaluation of Personnel Training Policies of Construction Companies in Nigeria (2012)
Journal Article
Ikediashi, D. I., Ogunlana, S. O., Awodele, O. A., & Okwuashi, O. (2012). An Evaluation of Personnel Training Policies of Construction Companies in Nigeria. Journal of Human Ecology, 40(3), 229-238. https://doi.org/10.31901/24566608.2012/40.03.04

Construction companies are the engines that propel the construction sector of any nation's economy, and are therefore expected to vigorously train their workforce to effectively match this responsibility. This study investigates the personnel trainin... Read More about An Evaluation of Personnel Training Policies of Construction Companies in Nigeria.

Key Performance Indicators of Design and Build Projects in Nigeria (2012)
Journal Article
Ikediashi, D. I., Mendie, A., Achuenu, E., & Oladokun, M. G. (2012). Key Performance Indicators of Design and Build Projects in Nigeria. Journal of Human Ecology, 37(1), 37-46. https://doi.org/10.31901/24566608.2012/37.01.06

The Nigerian Construction Industry has witnessed the evolution of many procurement systems including Design-Build, mainly due to perceived failures of the one-way traditional Design approach. The study, therefore, aims to develop a set of key perform... Read More about Key Performance Indicators of Design and Build Projects in Nigeria.

Multi-band weakly ground-coupled balanced antenna design for portable devices (2012)
Journal Article
Zhou, D., Abd-Alhameed, R., Alhaddad, A., See, C. H., Noras, J., Excell, P., & Gao, S. (2012). Multi-band weakly ground-coupled balanced antenna design for portable devices. IET Science Measurement and Technology, 6(4), 306-310. https://doi.org/10.1049/ie

A balanced antenna for wireless portable devices applications with multiple band operational performance is investigated and discussed. The designed antenna is weakly ground-couple, although can be considered as an energy-efficient radiator. The ante... Read More about Multi-band weakly ground-coupled balanced antenna design for portable devices.

Design and Analysis of Planar Ultra-Wideband Antenna with Dual Band-Notched Function (2012)
Journal Article
Zhu, F., Gao, S., Ho, A. T. S., See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Li, J., & Xu, J. (2012). Design and Analysis of Planar Ultra-Wideband Antenna with Dual Band-Notched Function. Progress In Electromagnetics Research, 127, 523-536

A novel planar ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna with dual band-notched characteristics is proposed. The antenna is fabricated on a printed circuit board (PCB), having a circular monopole and arc-shaped parasitic strips on one side and a ground plane with... Read More about Design and Analysis of Planar Ultra-Wideband Antenna with Dual Band-Notched Function.

Massive tenting at the Ryder Cup (2012)
Journal Article
Hussain, A. (2012). Massive tenting at the Ryder Cup. InTents, 19,

Long before the U.S. and European teams could begin their match play for the 2012 Ryder Cup, the course had to be prepared with temporary environments that could accommodate players and fans. The popular, biennial golf event—held in 2012 at Medinah C... Read More about Massive tenting at the Ryder Cup.

Servitization in laser job shops : interviews with laser job shops and machine providers (2012)
Journal Article
Vasantha, G., Hussain, R., Roy, R., Williams, S., & Lockett, H. (2012). Servitization in laser job shops : interviews with laser job shops and machine providers. The Laser User Magazine, 65,

Manufacturers often outsource laser cutting to laser job shops which will cut components to fairly tight deadlines and budgets. However, the concept of laser cutting as a way to improve manufacturing output is no longer novel; it has now been 'commod... Read More about Servitization in laser job shops : interviews with laser job shops and machine providers.

A new analytical model for multi-hop cognitive radio networks (2012)
Journal Article
Wu, Y., Min, G., & Al-Dubai, A. (2012). A new analytical model for multi-hop cognitive radio networks. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 11, 1643-1648. https://doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2012.030812.111106

The cognitive radio (CR) is an emerging technique for increasing the utilisation of communication resources by allowing the unlicensed users to employ the under-utilised spectrum. In this paper, a new analytical performance model is developed to eval... Read More about A new analytical model for multi-hop cognitive radio networks.

Contestability, democracy and trust in the anti-terror age (2012)
Journal Article
Wigan, M. (2012). Contestability, democracy and trust in the anti-terror age. IEEE technology & society magazine, 31, 26-32. https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2012.2185730

Checks and balances in government are always difficult to resolve, and as both societal and governmental complexity have increased, the degree to which expertise and policy reside within government has declined. The rise of evidence-based approaches... Read More about Contestability, democracy and trust in the anti-terror age.

Novel tracking of rogue network packets using danger theory approach (2012)
Journal Article
Uwagbole, S., Buchanan, W. J., & Fan, L. (2012). Novel tracking of rogue network packets using danger theory approach. Proceedings of the ... international conference on information warfare and security, 277-286

Recently there has been heightened, continuous, and intrusive activity by remotely located rogue hacking groups, such as Anonymous and Lulzsec. These groups often aim to disrupt computer networks and gain access to private confidential data. A typica... Read More about Novel tracking of rogue network packets using danger theory approach.

Enlightened trial and error (2012)
Journal Article
Turner, P., Turner, S., & Flint, T. (2012). Enlightened trial and error. Interaction Design and Architecture(s) IxDetA, 13/14, 64-83

Human-computer interaction as a rationalistic, engineering discipline has been taught successfully for more than 25 years. The established narrative is one of designing usable systems for users, some of whom have been described as “naïve”, safely ins... Read More about Enlightened trial and error.

E-Health: chances and challenges of distributed, service oriented architectures (2012)
Journal Article
Thuemmler, C., Fan, L., Buchanan, W. J., Lo, O., Ekonomou, E., & Khedim, A. S. (2012). E-Health: chances and challenges of distributed, service oriented architectures. Journal of cyber security and mobility, 37,

Societies are undergoing unprecedented demographic and socio-economical changes on a pace that has never been experienced before. Health care models are in transition to remain affordable for governments and individuals. Mobile technology and cloud c... Read More about E-Health: chances and challenges of distributed, service oriented architectures.

On the Rodrigues’ Formula Approach to Operator Factorization (2012)
Journal Article
Robin, W. (2012). On the Rodrigues’ Formula Approach to Operator Factorization. International Mathematical Forum, 7(45-48), 2333-2351

In this paper, we derive general formulae that reproduce well-known instances of recurrence relations for the classical orthogonal polynomials as special cases. These recurrence relations are derived, using only elementary mathematics, directly from... Read More about On the Rodrigues’ Formula Approach to Operator Factorization.

Guest Editorial (2012)
Journal Article
Ridley-Ellis, D. (2012). Guest Editorial. ICF news, Spring,

A comparison of techniques for name matching (2012)
Journal Article
Peng, T., Li, L., & Kennedy, J. (2012). A comparison of techniques for name matching. GSTF journal on computing, 2,

Information explosion is a problem for everyone nowadays. It is a great challenge to all kinds of businesses to maintain high quality of data in their information applications, such as data integration, text and web mining, information retrieval, sea... Read More about A comparison of techniques for name matching.

Seals like it hot: Changes in surface temperature of harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) from late pregnancy to moult (2012)
Journal Article
Paterson, W., Sparling, C. E., Thompson, D., Pomeroy, P. P., Currie, J., & McCafferty, D. J. (2012). Seals like it hot: Changes in surface temperature of harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) from late pregnancy to moult. Journal of Thermal Biology, 37, 454-461. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2012.03.004

The annual moult in harbour seals(Phoca vitulina L.) follows a few weeks after the end of lactation and is characterised by a progressive loss and regrowth of hair which is apparent over a 4–6 week period. It is thought that during the moult harbour... Read More about Seals like it hot: Changes in surface temperature of harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) from late pregnancy to moult.

VIPER: a visualisation tool for exploring inheritance inconsistencies in genotyped pedigrees (2012)
Journal Article
Paterson, T., Graham, M., Kennedy, J., & Law, A. (2012). VIPER: a visualisation tool for exploring inheritance inconsistencies in genotyped pedigrees. BMC Bioinformatics, 13/8, https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-13-S8-S5

Pedigree genotype datasets are used for analysing genetic inheritance and to map genetic markers and traits. Such datasets consist of hundreds of related animals genotyped for thousands of genetic markers and invariably contain multiple errors in bot... Read More about VIPER: a visualisation tool for exploring inheritance inconsistencies in genotyped pedigrees.

A ferrocene nucleic acid oligomer as an organometallic structural mimic of DNA (2012)
Journal Article
Nguyen, H. V., Zhao, Z., Sallustrau, A., Horswell, S. L., Male, L., Mulas, A., & Tucker, J. H. R. (2012). A ferrocene nucleic acid oligomer as an organometallic structural mimic of DNA. Chemical Communications, 48, 12165. https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC36428J

The design, synthesis and electrochemical behaviour of an oligomer consisting of linked thymine-functionalised ferrocene units are reported, which, as a so-called form of ferrocene nucleic acid (FcNA), acts as a structural mimic of DNA.