• Enzymatic coloration and finishing of wool with laccase and polyethylenimine 

  Yuan, Mengli ; Wang, Qiang ; Shen, Jinsong ; Smith, Edward ; Bai, Rubing ; Fan, Xuerong (Article)

  Enzymes have been widely used in the textile wet processing. The precise reaction specificity of an enzyme has been utilised for specific or targeted textile finishing without causing undesirable fibre damage. Laccases are ...
• Optimising Residential Courtyard in Terms of Social and Environmental Performance for Ghadames Housing, Libya 

  Alabid, Jamal ; Taki, A. H. (Other)

  Vernacular architecture comes from a wealth of knowledge and experience of humans who were able to adjust to the surroundings and adapt to even extreme climate conditions. In fact many old traditional settlements may fail ...
• Passive Design Strategies for Energy Efficient Housing in Nigeria 

  Abbakyari, Maryam ; Taki, A. H. (Conference)

  The varying manifestations of climate change are greatly impacting our lives and livelihoods principally due to the activities of industries that pollute the atmosphere and use up non-renewable resources to fuel our growth ...
• Where have all the ideas gone? An anatomy of sketch inhibition among student designers 

  Thurlow, Lisa ; Ford, Peter B. (Conference)

  The reluctance of student designers to engage in sketching during the early stages of their processes is an increasing phenomenon, observed on a continual basis within higher education, and one with marked effects on design ...
• NPD, Design and Management for SME's 

  Ford, Peter B. ; Terris, David (Conference)

  It is generally acknowledged that small and medium sized enterprises (SME’s) contribute significantly to a country’s economic performance. It is also generally acknowledged that it can be problematic to provide effective, ...
• A Place for Ingenuity: re-imagining the life of James Watt in a esquence of poems 

  Bell, Kathleen (Article)

  This short essay gives an account of my current work writing a long sequence of poems centred on the life and times of the engineer, scientist and businessman James Watt. Material from Birmingham’s extensive Boulton & ...
• The Rugby World in the Professional Era 

  Tony Collins & John Nauright (editors) ; Collins, Tony ; Nauright, John (Book)

  An edited book in which the authors look at the history and culture of rugby union around the world since 1995, the year the sport turned professional.
• The Oval World: a global history of rugby 

  Collins, Tony (Book)

  The first academic global history of the origins and development of rugby football
• Simulation of Traditional and Contemporary Dwellings in Ghadames, Libya 

  Alabid, Jamal ; Taki, A. H. ; Painter, B. (Conference)

  A rise in temperature over summer in hot countries, such as Libya, may lead to thermal discomfort and profligate use of energy sources as a result of mitigation efforts. Buildings account for almost 45% of global energy ...
• Producing design objects from regular polyhedra: A Pratical approach 

  Polimeni, Beniamino (Conference)

  In the last few years, digital modeling techniques have played a major role in Architecture and design, influencing, at the same time, the creative process and the way the objects are fabricated. This revolution has ...
• Libya’s Vernacular of Berber Taddart 

  Polimeni, Beniamino (Book chapter)
• Notes sur le paysage culturel et l’architecture vernaculaire du djebel Nafûsa 

  Polimeni, Beniamino (Article)

  This study describes the vernacular architecture and cultural landscape of Lybian Dj̲abal Nafūsa: the central portion of a horseshoe of mountains, about 600 meters high, which extends from the Maṭmāṭah region near Gabes ...
• ‘Wide margins’: Finding Performance in the Border and Borders in Performance 

  Warden, Claire (Article)
• On the Border of Participation: Spectatorship and the ‘Interactive Rituals’ of Guillermo Gómez-Peña and La Pocha Nostra 

  Jordan, Kelly (Article)

  As the popularity of audience participation in contemporary perform- ance continues to rise, this article examines the extraordinary form of spectator- ship found in the work of Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s performance group ...
• Show Me Your Garden And I Shall Tell You What You Are 

  de Cruz, Gemma (Other)
• :Xenotopia 

  Clarke, Louise (Other)
• The Place of Time 

  Breslin, Jo ; Foster, Christopher ; Leach, Martin (Other)

  ‘The Place of Time’ uses choreography, writing, composition and improvisation to weave a performance around movement, sound and text. It reveals the interdependence of each source and their points of departure. Jo Breslin ...
• History and Sport Studies: some methodological reflections on undergraduate teaching 

  Polley, Martin (Book chapter)

  A critical personal overview of the processes involved in teaching history on sports studies courses.
• Evaluation of Suitability of Rapid Prototyping Techniques for Use by Children 

  Madani, R. ; Moroz, Adam ; Baines, E. ; Makled, B. (Article)

  Technology that facilitates rapid prototyping and rapid manufacturing has become increasingly available to the ordinary user in the home, the office, or at school. These rapid prototyping technologies should make it possible ...
• Knitting and the Olympic Games: clothing, competition, culture and commerce 

  Polley, Martin (Article)

  A critical survey of some of the ways in which knitting has inter-acted with the Olympic Games and its predecessors.

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