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Financial Capability: Evidence Review - Report of the Scottish Government Social Inclusion Division (2010)
Report
McQuaid, R. W., & Egdell, V. (2010). Financial Capability: Evidence Review - Report of the Scottish Government Social Inclusion Division

This report provides a brief overview of current evidence on financial capability as it relates to disadvantage in Scotland.

The contribution of shipping to green logistics. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cullinane, K. (2010, April). The contribution of shipping to green logistics. Paper presented at The Vision and Roadmap for R&D Priorities in Maritime Environment, Technology, Business, Policy and Security

Port devolution, reasons, approaches and Implications. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ghashat, H., & Cullinane, K. (2010, April). Port devolution, reasons, approaches and Implications. Paper presented at First International Symposium on marine ports investment and coastal defense

The potential contribution of International shipping to the alleviation of transport emissions. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cullinane, K. (2010, April). The potential contribution of International shipping to the alleviation of transport emissions. Paper presented at The Distinguished Lecture Series, Centre for Maritime Economics & Logistics, Erasmus University

Achieving access to work, improved social inclusion and reducing rural access costs. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cooper, U., Nelson, J. D., Wright, S., & Cooper, J. A. (2010, April). Achieving access to work, improved social inclusion and reducing rural access costs. Paper presented at Scottish Transport Applications and Research (STAR) Conference

The paper considers the contribution that focused Demand Responsive Transport (DRT) may make to the delivery of improved access to work in rural Scottish locations. Whilst access to employment is treated as a generic issue in policy-related discussio... Read More about Achieving access to work, improved social inclusion and reducing rural access costs..

“Half-Masonry, Half Pain”: death and nation in Mervyn Peake’s poetry of Second-World-War London. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wasson, S. (2010, April). “Half-Masonry, Half Pain”: death and nation in Mervyn Peake’s poetry of Second-World-War London. Paper presented at Urban Gothic: Haunted Cities, Spectral Traces Conference

The Twilight Saga and the pleasures of spectatorship: the broken body and the shining body. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wasson, S., & Artt, S. (2010, April). The Twilight Saga and the pleasures of spectatorship: the broken body and the shining body. Paper presented at Open Graves, Open Minds: Vampires and the Undead in Modern Culture

Development of a new manufacturing method of electrodes for solid oxide fuel cells (2010)
Thesis
Waugh, W. Development of a new manufacturing method of electrodes for solid oxide fuel cells. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3750

It is well established that anodes for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) can be manufactured by processes involving final sintering. This research investigated a novel alternative method which relies on the electroless co-deposition of yttria-stabilised... Read More about Development of a new manufacturing method of electrodes for solid oxide fuel cells.

Small Wideband Antenna For GSM And WLAN Applications (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hraga, H., See, C., Abd-Alhameed, R., Zhou, D., Adnan, S., Elfergani, I., & Excell, P. (2010). Small Wideband Antenna For GSM And WLAN Applications.

In this paper, a small printed antenna for mobile handset and WLAN applications is presented and discussed. The proposed antenna is a printed crescent shape monopole which is mounted on top of a defected ground plane. A 50 ohms microstrip line is use... Read More about Small Wideband Antenna For GSM And WLAN Applications.

Design of Dual-Band Quadrifilar Spiral Antennas For Satellite-Mobile Handsets (2010)
Journal Article
Zhou, D., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., See, C. H., & Excell, P. S. (2010). Design of Dual-Band Quadrifilar Spiral Antennas For Satellite-Mobile Handsets. Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 52(4), 987-990. https://doi.org/10.1002/mop.25090

A novel quadrifilar spiral antenna is proposed for use in personal communications mobile terminals exploiting the “big low earth orbit” (big‐LEO) satellite system (uplink 1.61–1.63 GHz; downlink 2.48–2.5 GHz). Feeding of the antenna from the outer pe... Read More about Design of Dual-Band Quadrifilar Spiral Antennas For Satellite-Mobile Handsets.

Potentially optimal paths and route choice in networks with arc delays. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fonzone, A., Schmoecker, J., & Bell, M. G. H. (2010, April). Potentially optimal paths and route choice in networks with arc delays. Paper presented at 5th IMA International conference on Mathematics in Transport

The shortest path problem has been widely studied in graph theory and its solutions have been largely used in the transport field, both in assignment and vehicle navigation applications. Solutions have been proposed under different assumptions concer... Read More about Potentially optimal paths and route choice in networks with arc delays..

The role of niche tourism products in destination development (2010)
Thesis
Ali-Knight, J. The role of niche tourism products in destination development. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/5376

Niche tourism refers to how a specific tourism product can be tailored to meet the needs of a particular audience/market segment. Locations with specific niche products are able to establish and position themselves, as niche tourism destinations. Nic... Read More about The role of niche tourism products in destination development.

Optimising network flows by low-revenue tolling under the principles of dynamic user equilibrium. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stewart, K., & Ge, Y. (2010, April). Optimising network flows by low-revenue tolling under the principles of dynamic user equilibrium. Paper presented at 5th IMA International conference on Mathematics in Transport

Schedule-based hyperpath approaches to transit assignment: the impact of imperfect information. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rochau, N., Bell, M. G. H., Noeckel, K., & Fonzone, A. (2010, April). Schedule-based hyperpath approaches to transit assignment: the impact of imperfect information. Paper presented at 5th IMA Conference on Mathematics in Transport

In a schedule-based capacitated transit network we analyze optimal passenger strategies, where a strategy is a ranked set of services at each interchange in the transit network. The passenger is assumed to take the first ranked service unless this is... Read More about Schedule-based hyperpath approaches to transit assignment: the impact of imperfect information..

A critical assessment of the technical education and training programme in Libya for the national oil industry (2010)
Thesis
Yuseif, I. A critical assessment of the technical education and training programme in Libya for the national oil industry. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4283

The development of competent technicians for the oil and gas industries is vital for a sustainable economy in Libya. One of the major factors that brought about modernisation in the country is the export of oil and gas. This has allowed Libya to emba... Read More about A critical assessment of the technical education and training programme in Libya for the national oil industry.

Graduate skills and the university Armed Service unit experience. (2010)
Report
Williams, A., Egdell, V., & Woodward, R. (2010). Graduate skills and the university Armed Service unit experience

This report is about the university armed service unit experience and the development of graduate-level skills amongst participants. Drawing on data collected from the Northumbrian Universities’ Officer Training Corps, Royal Naval Unit and Air Squa... Read More about Graduate skills and the university Armed Service unit experience..

Light-induced effects of a fluorescent voltage-sensitive dye on neuronal activity in the crab stomatogastric ganglion (2010)
Journal Article
Stein, W., & Andras, P. (2010). Light-induced effects of a fluorescent voltage-sensitive dye on neuronal activity in the crab stomatogastric ganglion. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 188(2), 290-294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2010.03.003

Optical imaging being one of the cutting-edge methods for the investigation of neural activity, it is very important to understand the mechanisms of how dye molecules work and the range of side effects that they may induce. In particular, it is very... Read More about Light-induced effects of a fluorescent voltage-sensitive dye on neuronal activity in the crab stomatogastric ganglion.

The efficiency analysis of container port production using DEA panel data approaches (2010)
Journal Article
Cullinane, K., & Wang, T. (2010). The efficiency analysis of container port production using DEA panel data approaches. OR Spectrum, 32(3), 717-738. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00291-010-0202-7

Applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to container port production have been largely restricted to standard DEA models using cross-sectional data. The efficiency results derived may be biased; for instance, as the result of random effects o... Read More about The efficiency analysis of container port production using DEA panel data approaches.

The development and analysis of conductive nonwoven carbon fibre veils for electromagnetic shielding applications (2010)
Thesis
Austin, A. N. The development and analysis of conductive nonwoven carbon fibre veils for electromagnetic shielding applications. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3751

Electromagnetic interference (EMI) is a growing problem in the modern world and as the number of devices and their operating frequencies increase so do the issues associated with EMI. The aim of this study is to understand and quantify the main para... Read More about The development and analysis of conductive nonwoven carbon fibre veils for electromagnetic shielding applications.

Maritime networks, services structure and maritime trade. (2010)
Journal Article
Márquez-Ramos, L., Martínez-Zarzoso, I., Pérez, E., & Wilmsmeier, G. (2011). Maritime networks, services structure and maritime trade. Networks and Spatial Economics, 11, 555-576. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11067-010-9128-5

This paper aims at investigating the relationship between maritime trade and maritime transport costs at sectoral level. The costs and its effect on international trade will be estimated using highly disaggregated data of shipments from five Spanish... Read More about Maritime networks, services structure and maritime trade..