All Outputs (496)

Determinants of outsourcing decision for facilities management (FM) services provision (2014)
Journal Article
I. Ikediashi, D., O. Ogunlana, S., & Boateng, P. (2014). Determinants of outsourcing decision for facilities management (FM) services provision. Facilities, 32(9/10), 472-489. https://doi.org/10.1108/f-06-2012-0047

Purpose This paper aims to examine key determinants that influence the decision to outsource facilities management (FM) services. FM is said to be acquiring increasing popularity all over the globe, with several sourcing strategies springing up for... Read More about Determinants of outsourcing decision for facilities management (FM) services provision.

An investigation on policy direction and drivers for sustainable facilities management practice in Nigeria (2014)
Journal Article
Ikediashi, D. I., Ogunlana, S. O., & Ujene, A. O. (2014). An investigation on policy direction and drivers for sustainable facilities management practice in Nigeria. Journal of Facilities Management, 12(3), 303-322. https://doi.org/10.1108/jfm-02-2013-0013

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the state of sustainable facilities management (FM) practice in Nigeria particularly, as it relates to the sustainability policy and key drivers for sustainable FM practice among corporate organisa... Read More about An investigation on policy direction and drivers for sustainable facilities management practice in Nigeria.

Consumer Demand of Renewable Energy Services: Case Studies on Finland, Germany, Great Britain, USA and China (2014)
Report
Hast, A., McDermott, L., Syri, S., Järvelä, M., Huuskonen, M., Alimohammadisagvand, B., Cross, S., & Syrjämäki, E. (2014). Consumer Demand of Renewable Energy Services: Case Studies on Finland, Germany, Great Britain, USA and China. Helsinki: Aalto University

KULMA project investigated consumer demand of so-called green energy products in various countries to understand better the motivations and preferences of consumers and the societal prerequisites and barriers of renewable energy. In addition to Finla... Read More about Consumer Demand of Renewable Energy Services: Case Studies on Finland, Germany, Great Britain, USA and China.

Needing NoDI (normal democratic information)? The problem of information poverty in post-industrial society (2014)
Journal Article
Duff, A. S. (2015). Needing NoDI (normal democratic information)? The problem of information poverty in post-industrial society. Information, Communication and Society, 18(1), 63-77. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2014.934389

The paper addresses one of the main paradoxes of post-industrial society: information poverty. While digital divides of various types have been extensively theorized and researched, the actual condition of the information poor – those at the wrong en... Read More about Needing NoDI (normal democratic information)? The problem of information poverty in post-industrial society.

Multi-adaptive Natural Language Generation using Principal Component Regression (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gkatzia, D., Hastie, H., & Lemon, O. (2014). Multi-adaptive Natural Language Generation using Principal Component Regression. In Proceedings of the 8th International Natural Language Generation Conference (138-142)

We present FeedbackGen, a system that uses a multi-adaptive approach to Natural Language Generation. With the term 'multi-adaptive', we refer to a system that is able to adapt its content to different user groups simultaneously, in our case adapting... Read More about Multi-adaptive Natural Language Generation using Principal Component Regression.

Social Media and Risk (2014)
Journal Article
Haynes, D. (2014). Social Media and Risk. CILIP Update, 30-32

Abstract not available.

Developing a solar calculator system (2014)
Journal Article
Muhammad-Sukki, S., Khan, M. T. K. M. N., Zeki, A. M., Abubakar, A., & Muhammad-Sukki, F. (2014). Developing a solar calculator system. Advanced materials research, 980, 179-183. https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.980.179

There is a rapid increase in global warming over the years. This follows with continues campaign on reducing the energy consumption and protecting the earth against climate change. The Feed-In Tariff (FiT) program was introduced to encourage people t... Read More about Developing a solar calculator system.

Objective assessment of motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease using body-worn sensors (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fisher, J., Hammerla, N., Andras, P., Rochester, L., & Walker, R. (2014). Objective assessment of motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease using body-worn sensors. Movement Disorders, 29(S1), https://doi.org/10.1002/mds.25913

Objective: There is great need for an objective method of symptom assessment in Parkinson's disease (PD) to enable better treatment decisions and to assist evaluation of new therapies. In this work we present the use of wrist-worn accelerometers and... Read More about Objective assessment of motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease using body-worn sensors.

Solar Photovoltaic: Towards Greener Future (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Muhammad Sukki, F. (2014, June). Solar Photovoltaic: Towards Greener Future. Presented at Research Seminar, University of Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom

The PARLANCE mobile application for interactive search in English and Mandarin (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hastie, H., Aufaure, M., Alexopoulos, P., Bouchard, H., Breslin, C., Cuayáhuitl, H., Dethlefs, N., Gasic, M., Henderson, J., Lemon, O., et al., & Yu, Y. (2014, June). The PARLANCE mobile application for interactive search in English and Mandarin. Presented at 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Philadelphia, PA, US

We demonstrate a mobile application in English and Mandarin to test and evaluate components of the Parlance dialogue system for interactive search under real-world conditions.

Development of a Fatigue Analysis Tool to Predict Cable Flex Life (2014)
Thesis
McCorquodale, C. Development of a Fatigue Analysis Tool to Predict Cable Flex Life. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/7570

Fatigue failure by flexing is a common failure mode for cables in a high flex environment. As a result, the specialist cable supplier, Axon’ Cable LTD found a need for a flex life analysis tool to aid the design process of their products. The purpos... Read More about Development of a Fatigue Analysis Tool to Predict Cable Flex Life.

GEER/EERI/ATC Earthquake Reconnaissance, January 26th/February 2nd, 2014 Cephalonia, Greece Events. Version 1: June 6, 2014 (2014)
Report
Papazachos, C., Pavlides, S., Chatzipetros, A., Papathanassiou, G., Valkaniotis, S., Pitilakis, D., Karatzetzou, A., Pitilakis, K., Mouratidis, K., Sextos, A., Klimis, N., Psaroudakis, M., Assimaki, D., Parcharidis, I., Gazetas, G., Vintzilaiou, E., Psycharis, I., Mouzakis, H., Beriatos, T., Garini, E., …Rouchotas, L. (2014). GEER/EERI/ATC Earthquake Reconnaissance, January 26th/February 2nd, 2014 Cephalonia, Greece Events. Version 1: June 6, 2014. Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance Association

Educating the next generation of architects for interdisciplinary BIM environments. (2014)
Journal Article
Jaradat, S. (2014). Educating the next generation of architects for interdisciplinary BIM environments. Charrette: the journal of the Association of Architectural Educators (AAE), 1(1), 127-136

The design studio is central to architectural education; it evolved from a traditional apprenticeship of a designer within a master architect's studio. Much has been written about the pedagogy of the design studio; however changes in architectural pr... Read More about Educating the next generation of architects for interdisciplinary BIM environments..

A practical multi-sensor activity recognition system for home-based care (2014)
Journal Article
Chernbumroong, S., Cang, S., & Yu, H. (2014). A practical multi-sensor activity recognition system for home-based care. Decision Support Systems, 66, 61-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2014.06.005

To cope with the increasing number of aging population, a type of care which can help prevent or postpone entry into institutional care is preferable. Activity recognition can be used for home-based care in order to help elderly people to remain at h... Read More about A practical multi-sensor activity recognition system for home-based care.

Experimental and numerical flow investigation of Stirling engine regenerator (2014)
Journal Article
Costa, S., Tutar, M., Barreno, I., Esnaola, J., Barrutia, H., García, D., …Prieto, J. (2014). Experimental and numerical flow investigation of Stirling engine regenerator. Energy, 72, 800-812. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2014.06.002

This paper presents both preliminary experimental and numerical studies of pressure drop and heat transfer characteristics of Stirling engine regenerators. A test bench is designed and manufactured for testing different regenerators under oscillating... Read More about Experimental and numerical flow investigation of Stirling engine regenerator.

Using Cognitive Tunnels in a New Approach to Building Social Elevators in the Information Society (2014)
Journal Article
Kane, T. B. (2014). Using Cognitive Tunnels in a New Approach to Building Social Elevators in the Information Society. Informatica, 38, 263-271

We are on the verge of developing artificial intelligences that may dwarf the capabilities of human intelligence. How we will interact and thrive alongside such intelligence will be a pressing societal problem. This paper addresses the question of th... Read More about Using Cognitive Tunnels in a New Approach to Building Social Elevators in the Information Society.

A KM implementation as management innovation: the impact of an agent of change. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rasmussen, L., & Hall, H. (2014, June). A KM implementation as management innovation: the impact of an agent of change. Paper presented at Information: interactions and impact (i3) 2015

This paper presents findings from an extensive study of a Knowledge Management (KM) programme within a large distributed public sector organisation. Here we conceive KM as a ‘management innovation’ (Birkinshaw, Hamel & Mol, 2005; Mol & Birkinshaw, 20... Read More about A KM implementation as management innovation: the impact of an agent of change..

The FELIX Architecture for Testbed Federation (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pentikousis, K., Broadbent, M., Krzywania, R., Carrozzo, G., Vico-Oton, A., Kudoh, T., Fernandez, C., Takefusa, A., Puype, B., Tanaka, J., & Rothe, T. (2014, June). The FELIX Architecture for Testbed Federation. Poster presented at 2014 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC2014), Bologna, Italy

Network programmability emerges as a key ingredient of Future Internet testbeds, which are established through international collaborations across country boundaries throughout Europe and around the world. Software Defined Networking challenges long-... Read More about The FELIX Architecture for Testbed Federation.

MINLP Model for the Synthesis of Heat Exchanger Networks with Handling Pressure of Process Streams (2014)
Book Chapter
Onishi, V. C., Ravagnani, M. A., & Caballero, J. A. (2014). MINLP Model for the Synthesis of Heat Exchanger Networks with Handling Pressure of Process Streams. In 24th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (163-168). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-444-63456-6.50028-4

This paper introduces a new mathematical model for the simultaneous synthesis of heat exchanger networks (HENs), wherein the handling pressure of process streams is used to enhance the heat integration. The proposed approach combines generalized disj... Read More about MINLP Model for the Synthesis of Heat Exchanger Networks with Handling Pressure of Process Streams.

MINLP Optimization Algorithm for the Synthesis of Heat and Work Exchange Networks (2014)
Book Chapter
Onishi, V. C., Ravagnani, M. A., & Caballero, J. A. (2014). MINLP Optimization Algorithm for the Synthesis of Heat and Work Exchange Networks. In J. Jaromír Klemeš, P. Sabev Varbanov, & P. Yen Liew (Eds.), 24th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (115-120). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-444-63456-6.50020-x

This paper introduces a new optimization model for the simultaneous synthesis of heat and work exchange networks. The work integration is performed in the work exchange network (WEN), while the heat integration is carried out in the heat exchanger ne... Read More about MINLP Optimization Algorithm for the Synthesis of Heat and Work Exchange Networks.