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UK office buildings archetypal model as methodological approach in development of regression models for predicting building energy consumption from heating and cooling demands

Korolija, Ivan; Marjanovic-Halburd, Ljiljana; Zhang, Yi; Hanby, V. I. (Victor Ian), 1942- (Article)

An archetypal simulation model of office building representing variability in UK office building stock by parameterising built form, construction elements, occupancy/usage and operational/control strategy has been developed ...

Ultra-short Gate Length FETs for Millimetre-wave ICs

Wilkinson, C.; Oxley, C. H. (Other)

Ultra-thin flexible screen printed rechargeable polymer battery for wearable electronic applications

Tehrani, Zari; Korochkina, Tatyana; Govindarajan, S.; Thomas, D.J.; O'Mahony, J.; Kettle, J; Claypole, T.C.; Gethin, D.T. (Article)

This research has demonstrated how an ultra-thin rechargeable battery technology has been fabricated using screen printing technology. The screen printing process enabled the sequential deposition of current collector, ...

Uncertainties and sensitivity analysis in building energy simulation using macroparameters

Calleja Rodriguez, G.; Carrillo Andrés, A.; Domínguez Muñoz, F.; Zhang, Y. (Article)

Uncertainty and Hope: Community therapeutics for the Anthropocene

Mitchell, Andrew (Article)

This technical paper briefly explores collaborative systemic therapy for its potential contribution to helping community-based sustainability initiatives enhance the generation of social spaces within which changes in how ...

Understanding energy behaviours and transitions through the lens of a smart grid Agent Based Model

Snape, J. Richard; Irvine, K. N.; Rynikiewicz, Christophe (Conference)

Investigating the dynamics of consumption is crucial for understanding the wider socio-technical transitions needed to achieve carbon reduction goals in the energy sector. Such insight is particularly necessary when ...

Understanding microbial ecology can help improve biogas production in AD

Villa, R.; Ferguson, Robert M.W.; Coulon, Frederic (Article)

454-Pyrosequencing and lipid fingerprinting were used to link anaerobic digestion (AD) process parameters (pH, alkalinity, volatile fatty acids (VFAs), biogas production and methane content) with the reactor microbial ...

Understanding Resource Flows in a Factory Environment – a Graphical Approach

Oates, M. R.; Wright, A. J.; Greenough, R. M.; Shao, L. (Conference)

Understanding the drivers of sanitation behaviour in riverine communities of Niger Delta, Nigeria: the case of Odi and Kaiama communities

Sample, E. D.; Evans, B. E.; Camargo-Valero, M. A.; Wright, Nigel; Leton, T. G. (Article)

Understanding Urban Green Space as a Health Resource: A Qualitative Comparison of Visit Motivation and Derived Effects among Park Users in Sheffield, UK

Irvine, K. N.; Warber, S. L.; Devine-Wright, Patrick; Gaston, K. J. (Article)

With increasing interest in the use of urban green space to promote human health, there is a need to understand the extent to which park users conceptualize these places as a resource for health and well-being. This study ...

Understanding why fat, oil and grease (FOG) bioremediation can be unsuccessful

Gurd, C.; Villa, R.; Jefferson, B. (Article)

Commercial kitchen wastewaters are typically strong organic and fat-rich effluents, often identified as major contributors to fatberg formation and associated blockages in sewers. Experimental trials were done using synthetic ...

Unequal error protection using fountain codes with applications to video communication.

Ahmad, Shakeel; Hamzaoui, Raouf; Al-Akaidi, Marwan, 1959- (Article)

Application-layer forward error correction (FEC) is used in many multimedia communication systems to address the problem of packet loss in lossy packet networks. One powerful form of application-layer FEC is unequal ...

Unequal error protection using LT codes and block duplication.

Ahmad, Shakeel; Hamzaoui, Raouf; Al-Akaidi, Marwan, 1959- (Conference)

Luby Transform (LT) codes are powerful packet erasure codes with low encoding and decoding complexity. We provide a simple method to improve the bit error rate performance of LT codes. Moreover, we exploit our method ...

Unintended consequences of sustainable architecture: Evaluating overheating risks in new dwellings

Toledo, Linda; Cropper, Paul; Wright, A. J. (Conference)

Governmental strategies to reduce heating demand from dwellings have led to a range of problems relating to ventilation and occupant comfort. In fact, growing evidence of uncomfortably warm homes has been appearing in UK ...

Uniting the University around the UN SDGs - a UK case study. Submitted to the Global Master’s in Development Practice Secretariat in response to a call for evidence on Education and the Sustainable Development Goals. Vancouver: University of British Columbia.

Charlton, Mark; Frank, Regina; Reeves, Andrew (Other)

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) across the globe are increasingly engaging with the United Nations’ 2030 agenda expressed through the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that were agreed in September 2015. During ...