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Working with Experts with Experience: Charting Co-production and Co-design in the Development of HCI-Based Design (2020)
Book Chapter
Niedderer, K., Harrison, D., Gosling, J., Craven, M., Blackler, A., Losada, R., & Cid, T. (2020). Working with Experts with Experience: Charting Co-production and Co-design in the Development of HCI-Based Design. In R. Brankaert, & G. Kenning (Eds.), HCI and Design in the Context of Dementia (303-320). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32835-1_19

This chapter outlines the co-design process for ‘Let’s meet up!’, a hybrid electronic system, which combines traditional board games and digital features, created to facilitate and maintain social engagement for people living with dementia. It allows... Read More about Working with Experts with Experience: Charting Co-production and Co-design in the Development of HCI-Based Design.

Working with Experts with Experience: Charting Co-production and Co-design in the Development of HCI-Based Design (2020)
Book Chapter
Niedderer, K., Harrison, D., Gosling, J., Craven, M., Blackler, A., Losada, R., & Cid, T. (2020). Working with Experts with Experience: Charting Co-production and Co-design in the Development of HCI-Based Design. In R. Brankaert, & G. Kenning (Eds.), HCI and Design in the Context of Dementia (303-320). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32835-1

This chapter outlines the co-design process for ‘Let’s meet up!’, a hybrid electronic system, which combines traditional board games and digital features, created to facilitate and maintain social engagement for people living with dementia. It allows... Read More about Working with Experts with Experience: Charting Co-production and Co-design in the Development of HCI-Based Design.

3D-printed millimetre-wave antennas with spray-coated metalization (2020)
Book Chapter
Alkaraki, S., Kelly, J., & Yue Gao. (2020). 3D-printed millimetre-wave antennas with spray-coated metalization. In Q. H. Abbasi, S. Fizzah Jilani, A. Alomainy, & M. Ali Imran (Eds.), Antennas and Propagation for 5G and Beyond (67-99). Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). https://doi.org/10.1049/pbte093e_ch4

This chapter is concerned with corrugated plate antennas. The corrugated plate antennas, presented here, consist of a resonant slot formed within a metallic plate. The resonant slot is surrounded by a rectangular cavity and corrugations. Subwavelengt... Read More about 3D-printed millimetre-wave antennas with spray-coated metalization.

Exploring User Expectations of Brain-Training and Coaching Technologies for Cognitive Health (2020)
Book Chapter
Harrington, K., Craven, M. P., Wilson, M. L., & Landowska, A. (2020). Exploring User Expectations of Brain-Training and Coaching Technologies for Cognitive Health. . Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49065-2_4

User-centred evaluation of brain-training and coaching applications is discussed, with a focus on dementia. A brief outline of outcomes measures used for cognitive training is presented. The design of a set of four patient and public involvement work... Read More about Exploring User Expectations of Brain-Training and Coaching Technologies for Cognitive Health.

Pavement life cycle management: Towards a sustainability assessment framework in Europe (2020)
Book Chapter
Jiménez del Barco Carrión, A., Parry, T., Keijzer, E., Kalman, B., Mantalovas, K., Butt, A. A., …Lo Presti, D. (2020). Pavement life cycle management: Towards a sustainability assessment framework in Europe. In Pavement, Roadway, and Bridge Life Cycle Assessment 2020: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Pavement. Roadway, and Bridge Life Cycle Assessment 2020 (LCA 2020, Sacramento, CA, 3-6 June 2020) (142-152). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003092278-15

Pavement Life Cycle Management is a 2-year international project aiming at supporting European National Road Authorities (NRAs) to introduce sustainability in their practices by providing training on Life Cycle techniques and a user-... Read More about Pavement life cycle management: Towards a sustainability assessment framework in Europe.

Greenways and Sustainable Urban Mobility Systems (2020)
Book Chapter
Zawawi, A. A., Porter, N., & Ives, C. D. (2020). Greenways and Sustainable Urban Mobility Systems. In R. M. Doheim, A. A. Farag, & E. Kamel (Eds.), Humanizing cities through car-free city development and transformation (32-71). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3507-3.ch002

This chapter describes how greenways can be a constituent of sustainable urban mobility (SUM) systems that reduce automobile dependence while simultaneously having positive environmental and social co-benefits. It begins by providing a brief backgrou... Read More about Greenways and Sustainable Urban Mobility Systems.

Migrant urbanism in gulf citie: S a reality without vision? (2020)
Book Chapter
Wiedmann, F. (2020). Migrant urbanism in gulf citie: S a reality without vision?. In M. Kamrava (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Persian Gulf Politics (99-111). London: Routledge

To a large extent recent urbanization in the Gulf region has been shaped by the distinctive roles of local governance and extensive international migration. New models of governance, such as urban entrepreneurialism and various forms of public-privat... Read More about Migrant urbanism in gulf citie: S a reality without vision?.

Support Vector Regression for Multi-objective Parameter Estimation of Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Systems (2020)
Book Chapter
Ahmadieh Khanesar, M., & Branson, D. (2020). Support Vector Regression for Multi-objective Parameter Estimation of Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Systems. In Soft Computing for Problem Solving 2019: Proceedings of SocProS 2019, Volume 1 (97-108). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3290-0_8

© 2020, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. This paper presents a support vector regression-based multi-objective parameter estimation method for interval type-2 fuzzy systems, which deals with prediction interval rather than its crisp output value. S... Read More about Support Vector Regression for Multi-objective Parameter Estimation of Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Systems.

Invention and fundamentals of the FFC Cambridge Process (2020)
Book Chapter
Chen, G. Z., & Fray, D. J. (2020). Invention and fundamentals of the FFC Cambridge Process. In Extractive Metallurgy of Titanium: Conventional and Recent Advances in Extraction and Production of Titanium Metal (227-286). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-817200-1.00011-9

© 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. The original patent of the Fray-Farthing-Chen (FFC) Cambridge process was published in 1999, whilst the past 2decades have witnessed significant progresses in many aspects, including commercialisation and lab... Read More about Invention and fundamentals of the FFC Cambridge Process.

Thermomechanically-Consistent Phase-Field Modeling of Thin Film Flows (2020)
Book Chapter
Zee, K. G. D., Zee, K. G. V. D., Miles, C., van der Zee, K. G., Hubbard, M. E., & MacKenzie, R. (2020). Thermomechanically-Consistent Phase-Field Modeling of Thin Film Flows. In H. van Brummelen, A. Corsini, S. Perotto, & G. Rozza (Eds.), Numerical methods for flows: FEF 2017 selected contributions (121-129). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30705-9_11

© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020. We use phase-field techniques coupled with a Coleman–Noll type procedure to derive a family of thermomechanically consistent models for predicting the evolution of a non-volatile thin liquid film on a flat subst... Read More about Thermomechanically-Consistent Phase-Field Modeling of Thin Film Flows.

Developing an Economic Estimation System for Vertical Farms (2019)
Book Chapter
Shao, Y., Heath, T., & Zhu, Y. (2019). Developing an Economic Estimation System for Vertical Farms. In I. R. Management Association (Ed.), Urban Agriculture and Food Systems: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice (484-510). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8063-8.ch025

The concept of vertical farming is nearly twenty years old, however, there are only a few experimental prototypes despite its many advantages compared to conventional agriculture. Significantly, financial uncertainty has been identified as the larges... Read More about Developing an Economic Estimation System for Vertical Farms.

Mapping Lefebvre’s theory on the production of space to an integrated approach for sustainable urbanism (2019)
Book Chapter
Wiedmann, F., & Salama, A. (2019). Mapping Lefebvre’s theory on the production of space to an integrated approach for sustainable urbanism. In M. Leary-Owhin, & J. McCarthy (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre, The City and Urban Society (346-354). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315266589-36

The established gates to global markets have led to a clear divide between the economic opportunities in urban areas and the emerging struggles in rural areas. The subsequent migration has fuelled the fast growth of urbanisation rates in the developi... Read More about Mapping Lefebvre’s theory on the production of space to an integrated approach for sustainable urbanism.

Mindful places: the psychology and design of healing environments (2019)
Book Chapter
Porter, N. (2019). Mindful places: the psychology and design of healing environments. In The Places of Mind Practice: From Mind to Environment [????? ?: ???? ???? ] (39-66). Iksan, South Korea: Knowledge Community

How does the external physical environment interact with the internal environment of the mind, and our mind-body experience? In this paper, I will explore how the spaces and places of our increasingly urbanised world affect human well-being, drawing... Read More about Mindful places: the psychology and design of healing environments.

Fight club – whether to make architecture or blow it up! (2019)
Book Chapter
Jarman, D. (2019). Fight club – whether to make architecture or blow it up!. In I. Troiani, & H. Campbell (Eds.), Architecture Filmmaking. Intellect

Dik Jarman has nearly thirty years of experience in the profession of architecture as well in stop motion animation winning multiple international awards in both endeavours. In this Chapter he describes the lessons that each profession had to offer i... Read More about Fight club – whether to make architecture or blow it up!.

Chapter 7: Integrating Remediation and Resource Recovery of Industrial Alkaline Wastes: Case Studies of Steel and Alumina Industry Residues (2019)
Book Chapter
Gomes, H. I., Rogerson, M., Courtney, R., & Mayes, W. M. (2020). Chapter 7: Integrating Remediation and Resource Recovery of Industrial Alkaline Wastes: Case Studies of Steel and Alumina Industry Residues. In Resource Recovery from Wastes: Towards a Circular Economy (168-191). Royal Society of Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1039/9781788016353-00168

© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2020. With an estimated annual production of two billion tonnes globally, alkaline industrial wastes can be considered both major global waste streams, and materials that offer significant options for potential resour... Read More about Chapter 7: Integrating Remediation and Resource Recovery of Industrial Alkaline Wastes: Case Studies of Steel and Alumina Industry Residues.

Masonry mechanical properties (2019)
Book Chapter
Ghiassi, B., Vermelfoort, A., & Lourenço, P. (2019). Masonry mechanical properties. In Numerical Modeling of Masonry and Historical Structures: From Theory to Application (239-261). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-08-102439-3.00007-5

Different approaches can be followed for numerical modeling of masonry and historical structures. Depending on the modeling strategy and level of complexity involved, a set of input parameters related to linear and nonlinear properties of units and m... Read More about Masonry mechanical properties.

Macromodeling approach for pushover analysis of textile-reinforced mortar-strengthened masonry (2019)
Book Chapter
Oliveira, D. V., Ghiassi, B., Reza Allahvirdizadeh, Wang, X., Mininno, G., & Silva, R. A. (2019). Macromodeling approach for pushover analysis of textile-reinforced mortar-strengthened masonry. In Numerical Modeling of Masonry and Historical Structures: From Theory to Application (745-778). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102439-3.00021-X

The strengthening of masonry structures using composite-based solutions has received significant research attention in recent years due to their proved considerable influence on enhancing structural characteristics, for example, stiffness and strengt... Read More about Macromodeling approach for pushover analysis of textile-reinforced mortar-strengthened masonry.

Advanced finite element modeling of textile-reinforced mortar strengthened masonry (2019)
Book Chapter
Bertolesi, E., Milani, G., & Ghiassi, B. (2019). Advanced finite element modeling of textile-reinforced mortar strengthened masonry. In Numerical Modeling of Masonry and Historical Structures:From Theory to Application (713-743). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102439-3.00020-8

Fabric-reinforced cementitious matrix (FRCM) strengthening is an innovative technology for effective reduction of seismic vulnerability of existing masonry and historical structures. At present, numerical modeling strategies for evaluation of the in-... Read More about Advanced finite element modeling of textile-reinforced mortar strengthened masonry.

Pushover analysis of fiber-reinforced polymer-strengthened masonry (2019)
Book Chapter
Ghiassi, B., Oliveira, D., Grande, E., & Lignola, G. (2019). Pushover analysis of fiber-reinforced polymer-strengthened masonry. In Numerical Modeling of Masonry and Historical Structures: From Theory to Application (629-657). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-08-102439-3.00017-8

This chapter presents an overview of modeling techniques commonly used for pushover analysis fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP)-strengthened masonry components. This technique, consisting of a static nonlinear analysis generally performed by monotonicall... Read More about Pushover analysis of fiber-reinforced polymer-strengthened masonry.