When assistance is not given: disaffiliative responses to therapeutic community clients’ implicit requests by Marco Pino

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Evidence given to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee. Treating Students Fairly: The Economics of Post-School Education. Concerns about the reduction in graduate entry-le... by Ian Herbert

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Early encounters with the Nuffield approach to design and technology by N.P. Givens

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Conceptual phase best practices by Mohammad Razali bin Abdul Kadir

“…The industry-wide survey and complementary case studies formed the basis of recommendations for conceptual phase tasks and associated best practices achieving enhanced site productivity. …”
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Developing a strong research-base by E.W.L. Norman

“…Reference is made to three new publications targeted at supporting this agenda and, in particular, Designerly Activity and Higher Degrees, which was based on a seminar series given by Professor L Bruce Archer.…”
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The CREST project accident data base by Philippe Lesire, Rachel Grant, Thomas Hummel

“…A general description of the data base of 405 documented accident cases in which 628 restrained children are involved is given as well as specific features of the reality of the restraint of children in cars, for example: age and size, CRS type, place, and a discussion on misuse and inappropriate use. …”
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Computational investigations of base drag for squareback automotive geometries by Sophie Luckhurst

“…For squareback geometries, a popular vehicle shape, base pressure drag contributes a large proportion of the overall drag and therefore a robust computational method was developed to characterise wake structures, for chosen simplified models, and their influence on base pressure drag. …”
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Total Quality Management: in search of best practices for the client's representatives by Lenin Jawahar-Nesan, Andrew Price, Mohammad Razali bin Abdul Kadir, M.A.H. Mohammed

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An application of a rule-based system towards resolving exception events of business processes within a small Virtual Organization by Bishnu P. Das, A. Shah, Jennifer Harding, Claire Palmer, Rahul Swarnkar, Robert I.M. Young, K. Popplewell

“…To investigate these aspects, the paper briefly explores the role of events within the context of “Collaboration Moderator Services” which aim to increase awareness between collaborative partners during the workflow of a business scenario and then suggests a possible remedy through the use of a rule-based system. …”
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Delivering best value in highways major maintenance schemes: case study by Mary Ansell, Michael Holmes, Rees J.E. Evans, Christine L. Pasquire, Andrew Price

“…This research aims to establish the effectiveness of the CMF in achieving this aim. It aims to define best value as it is understood collectively by the participants in the framework, and evaluate the performance measurement used in terms of its relevance and suitability to deliver the best value. …”
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Lean enough: Institutional logics of best practice and managerial satisficing in American manufacturing by Matt Vidal

“…Satisficing—settling for good enough based on a given aspiration level—is critical to bottomup (feedback-driven) information processing. …”
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Energy management system for DC microgrids considering battery degradation by Fulong Li, Claudio Cañizares, Zhengyu Lin

“…The simulation results show that the proposed EMS, which accounts for BES degradation costs, is an effective tool that avoids frequent battery charging and discharging, while maintaining the required dc bus voltage.…”
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Evolving rules-based control by Plamen Angelov, Richard Buswell, Jonathan Wright, Dennis Loveday

“…These data has been used to train in a non-iterative way the eR model representing the fuzzy controller, which aim is to control the plant at a given set point. The indirect adaptive control approach has been used in combination with the newly introduced on-line identification technique based on unsupervised learning of antecedent and consequent parts separately. …”
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Empirical prediction of the measurement scale and base Level ‘Guess factor’ for advanced computer-based assessments by Don Mackenzie, David O'Hare

“…In our experience, insufficient consideration is often given to the way in which the questions in computer-based assessments are scored. …”
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Defluoridation technology based on activated alumina by G. Karthikeyan, S. Meenakshi, B.V. Apparao

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LEDs based characterisation of photovoltaic devices by Martin Bliss, Foteini Plyta, Tom Betts, Ralph Gottschalg

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An IT-based approach to managing the construction brief by Yacine Rezgui, Dino Bouchlaghem, Simon Austin

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Is computer-based assessment good for students? by Chris Ricketts, Sally Wilks

“…One of the benefits of computer-based assessment is that, if used for formative assessment, it can improve student performance in summative assessments (Charman & Elmes 1998; Sly & Rennie, 1999). …”
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Laser based tracking and spin measurement by Jouni A. Ronkainen

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An Economic evaluation of inputs and outputs in policing: problems in efficiency and measurement by Leigh M. Drake, Richard Simper

“…The new Labour government has recently instigated an initiative to establish whether English and Welsh police forces should be ranked into groups based on an efficiency measure. The estimation techniques proposed in the Public Service Productivity Panel (2000) report in order to rank the efficiency of forces are Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). …”
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Vision-based monitoring of site safety compliance based on worker re-identification and personal protective equipment classification by Jack CP Cheng, Peter Kok-Yiu Wong, Han Luo, Mingzhu Wang, Pak Him Leung

“…Hence, identifying unsafe behaviors among workers is crucial for enhancing site safety, such as tracking their on-site movement and personal protective equipment (PPE). Vision-based video processing has been actively used to automatically recognize workers and their behaviors on construction sites. …”
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Development of a weight-based topological map-matching algorithm and an integrity method for location-based ITS services by Nagendra R. Velaga

“…Errors associated with a spatial road map are given special attention. Two knowledge-based fuzzy inference systems are employed to measure the integrity scale, which provides the level of confidence in map-matching results. …”
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Morphological and volumetrical feature-based designer's intents by Marcelo da Silva Hounsell, Keith Case

“…This paper presents an interpretation of Designer's Intents for the Feature-based Modelling (FBM) context and emphasis will be given to the Morphological Functional and Volumetrical Geometrical DI’s which express the basic behaviour of a DbF system. …”
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A narrative based model of differentiating rioters by Dominic Willmott, Maria Ioannou

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Field-based physiological testing of wheelchair athletes by Vicky Goosey-Tolfrey, Christof Leicht

“…The volume of literature on field-based physiological testing of wheelchair sports, such as basketball, rugby and tennis, is considerably smaller when compared with that available for individuals and team athletes in able-bodied (AB) sports. …”
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Climate-based daylight modelling and its discontents by John Mardaljevic

“…In 2013 the UK Education Funding Agency (EFA) made climate-based daylight modelling (CBDM) a mandatory requirement for the evaluation of designs submitted for the Priority Schools Building Programme (PSBP). …”
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Bridge monitoring system based on vibration measurements by Costas Papadimitriou, Evangelos Ntotsios, Konstantinos Christodoulou, Spyros Karamanos, Panagiotis Panetsos, Christos Karakostas, Vasilios Lekidis

“…This work outlines the main algorithms involved in a proposed bridge monitoring system based on ambient and earthquake vibration measurements. …”
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Component based performance simulation of HVAC systems by Michael A.P. Murray

“…The structure of the simulation program developed is given and the application of the component based simulation procedure to several systems is described. …”
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Conductive behaviour of carbon nanotube based composites by Xinxin Sun

“…A proper interpretation was given based on the linear circuit theory. It was also found that the critical frequency can also be affected by the size of CNT cluster. …”
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Airport car parking strategy : lessons from the non-airport sector by Ian Straker

“…Despite September 11th 2001, many international airports are operating close to capacity, a problem that is likely to become more acute given the projected long-term growth in air traffic. …”
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The contingent roles of R&D–sales versus R&D–marketing cooperation in new-product development of business-to-business firms by Christian Homburg, Sascha Alavi, Thomas Rajab, Jan Wieseke

“…This investigation explores the effectiveness of R & D–marketing cooperation as compared to R & D–sales cooperation for new-product development under different market and organizational circumstances in business-to-business settings. Using a cross-industry dyadic data set of 230 industrial firms, we show that the effects of R & D–marketing and R & D–sales cooperation on new-product advantage vary significantly, depending on the velocity of the market environment, company strategy, and R & D characteristics. …”
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Entropy-based formulation of thermodynamics in arbitrary quantum evolution by S Alipour, AT Rezakhani, A Chenu, A del Campo, Tapio Ala-Nissila

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A task based 'design for all' support tool by Russell Marshall, Keith Case, Ruth Oliver, Diane Gyi, J. Mark Porter

“…These methods involve the development of a simplified process for computer based task analysis and a means of determining the percentage accommodated by any given design. …”
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A task based 'design for all' support tool by Russell Marshall, Keith Case, Ruth Oliver, Diane Gyi, J. Mark Porter

“…These methods involve the development of a simplified process for computer based task analysis and a means of determining the percentage accommodated by any given design. …”
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User interfaces for microcomputer-based neonatal monitoring systems by Paul R. Cartmell

“…From 1980 a Loughborough University, St George's Hospital and All Saints' Hospital research group developed a microcomputer-based neonatal monitoring system. During the course of their research it was apparent that most of its users could be characterized as "naive" computer users. …”
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Community based management for sustainable water supply in Malawi by Swithern Matamula

“…Much as coverage of safe water is estimated at 72% in Malawi, nearly 30% are not functional at any given time. Community based management (CBM) approach is the answer to achieve sustained beneficial outcomes. …”
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Automatic lane merge based on model predictive control by Zhaolun Li, Jingjing Jiang, Wen-Hua Chen

“…This paper proposes an integrated path planning and trajectory tracking algorithm based on Model Predictive Control to achieve automatic lane merge in a mixed traffic environment with traditional vehicles (controlled purely by human drivers), semi-autonomous vehicles and fully autonomous vehicles. …”
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Super Storm Desmond: a process-based assessment by Tom Matthews, Conor Murphy, Gerard McCarthy, Ciaran Broderick, Robert Wilby

“…Here, we adopt a process-based approach to investigate the potency of Desmond, and explore the extent to which climate change may have been a contributory factor. …”
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Group-based atrous convolution stereo matching network by Qijie Zou, Jing Yu, Hui Fang, Jing Qin, Jie Zhang, Shengkai Liu

“…To address this problem, we propose Group-based Atrous Convolution Spatial Pyramid Pooling (GASPP) to robustly segment objects at multiple scales with affordable computing resources. …”
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Fault tree based approach for system fault diagnostics by J.D. Andrews, Lisa Jackson

“…The primary research has shown the applicability of using a fault tree based approach for system diagnosis. Both coherent fault trees (considering failure events only) and non-coherent fault trees(considering failure and functioning events) have been used to evaluate deviations for an example system. …”
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Transport planning guidelines for vulnerable road user safety in emerging economies by Claire Quigley, Ruth Sims, Julian Hill, Antonino Tripodi, Luca Persia, Hugo Pietrantonio, Mahendra Kharat

“…•An assessment of the feasibility and implications for safety of applying European practice to Emerging Economies is also given. Keywords Transport planning; European best practice; Vulnerable Road User Safety; Emerging Economies; India; Brazil…”
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On blow-ups of projective spaces at points on a rational normal curve by Luis Santana-Sanchez

“…This formula highlights how the dimension can be completely described by the presence of some special cycles in the base locus of the linear system. In this regard, we establish the multiplicity of containment of every special cycle in the base locus and see how it affects the dimensionality.…”
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A knowledge-based system approach for recognition of machining features by A.K.W. Chan, Keith Case

“…This paper describes a knowledge-based system approach for recognition of machining features. …”
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Case study: evaluating the use of an electronic messaging system in business. by Tom Jackson, Ray Dawson, Darren Wilson

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Disturbance observer based control for nonlinear MAGLEV suspension system by Jun Yang, Argyrios C. Zolotas, Wen-Hua Chen, Konstantinos Michail, Shihua Li

“…A new disturbance compensation control method based on the estimate of DOB is proposed to solve the disturbance attenuation problem. …”
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A knowledge-based process planning system for machine shops by Abdul R. Wan, Keith Case, S. Rajesham

“…Expert knowledge on the machining process is stored in a knowledge base in the form of rules and using the part description method and databases, the system is capable of generating a useful process plan data for machining of the parts. …”
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Online optimisation-based backstepping control design with application to quadrotor by Hao Lu, Cunjia Liu, Matthew Coombes, Lei Guo, Wen-Hua Chen

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