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Optimized solar water heater for Scottish weather conditions (2007)
Thesis
Junaidi, H. Optimized solar water heater for Scottish weather conditions. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3799

The ICSSWH (Integrated Collector Storage Solar Water Heater), apart from being the oldest is also the most economical means of solar water heating. The effect of modifications in the collector geometry has frequently appeared in the literature, and o... Read More about Optimized solar water heater for Scottish weather conditions.

Comparison of human and machine recognition of everyday human actions (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jones, T., Lawson, S., Benyon, D., & Armitage, A. (2007). Comparison of human and machine recognition of everyday human actions. In Digital Human Modeling (120-129). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73321-8_14

The research presented here makes a contribution to the understanding of the recognition of biological motion by comparing human recognition of a set of everyday gestures and motions with machine interpretation of the same dataset. Our reasoning is t... Read More about Comparison of human and machine recognition of everyday human actions.

Educational migration – students leaving a region to study elsewhere: the link to religion in Northern Ireland (2007)
Book Chapter
Hollywood, E., & McQuaid, R. W. (2007). Educational migration – students leaving a region to study elsewhere: the link to religion in Northern Ireland. In C. Larsen, W. Mathejczyk, J. Kipper, & A. Schmid (Eds.), Monitoring of Regional Labour Markets in European States (17-22). Rainer Hampp Verlag

This paper reviews data sources concerning the key patterns and drivers of educational migration and non-return in Northern Ireland (NI). In particular it considers the sources of data that can be used to analyse the migration of university undergra... Read More about Educational migration – students leaving a region to study elsewhere: the link to religion in Northern Ireland.

Demographic and Labour Market Change: The Dynamics of Older Workers in the Scottish Labour Market (2007)
Journal Article
Hollywood, E., Brown, R., Danson, M., & McQuaid, R. W. (2007). Demographic and Labour Market Change: The Dynamics of Older Workers in the Scottish Labour Market. Scottish Geographical Journal, 123(4), 242-256. https://doi.org/10.1080/14702540802189677

This paper presents a review of ageing in the Scottish labour market. Scotland's population structure has been ageing for some decades leading to an ageing of the working population, at a rate ahead of many countries in Europe. Low levels of fertilit... Read More about Demographic and Labour Market Change: The Dynamics of Older Workers in the Scottish Labour Market.

Immunological inspiration for building a new generation of autonomic systems. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hart, E., Davoudani, D., & McEwan, C. (2007). Immunological inspiration for building a new generation of autonomic systems. In Autonomics '07 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Autonomic computing and communication systems

Autonomic computing systems of the future will be required to exhibit a number of properties which cannot be engineered using current technologies and algorithms. The most direct inspiration for building such systems is nature, where for example the... Read More about Immunological inspiration for building a new generation of autonomic systems..

Understanding social enterprise and its financing: a case study of the child-care sector in Scotland. (2007)
Journal Article
Hare, P. G., Jones, D. W., & Blackledge, G. (2007). Understanding social enterprise and its financing: a case study of the child-care sector in Scotland. Social enterprise journal, 3, https://doi.org/10.1108/17508610780000726

Purpose – To investigate the application of the social enterprise model to the childcare sector in Scotland and develop a practical model for analysing such social enterprises. Design/methodology/approach – A review of the literature of ideas on... Read More about Understanding social enterprise and its financing: a case study of the child-care sector in Scotland..

Sustainable landfill: the role of fail-safe engineering for landfill aftercare. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hall, D. H., McDougall, J., Drury, D., Blakey, N., Braithwaite, P., & Rosevear, A. (2007). Sustainable landfill: the role of fail-safe engineering for landfill aftercare.

The route to sustainable landfill while adhering to the Landfill Directive requires that ultimately, the waste site will reach equilibrium status. Chemical equilibrium is part of the requirements, but hydraulic equilibrium must also play a role. The... Read More about Sustainable landfill: the role of fail-safe engineering for landfill aftercare..

Sustainable timber frame diaphragm development. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hairstans, R., Dodyk, R., & Kermani, A. (2007). Sustainable timber frame diaphragm development.

The EU Directive on Energy Performance of Buildings has the aim of promoting energy performance within the EU and will have a direct impact on current timber frame construction in the UK. As a result of the directive, changes to Part L of the Buil... Read More about Sustainable timber frame diaphragm development..