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Call centres and incapacity benefit claimants in the North West of England: a study from the Greater Manchester area. (2008)
Journal Article
Cabras, I. (2008). Call centres and incapacity benefit claimants in the North West of England: a study from the Greater Manchester area. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 29, 249-273. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X07088543

During the last decade, several initiatives have been undertaken by the British government in an attempt to reduce the number of incapacity benefit claimants. The principal objective is to encourage long-term economically inactive people to enter int... Read More about Call centres and incapacity benefit claimants in the North West of England: a study from the Greater Manchester area..

Social network analysis as a tool to evaluate the effectiveness of EC funded networks of excellence: the case of DEMO-net (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buckner, K., & Cruickshank, P. (2008, January). Social network analysis as a tool to evaluate the effectiveness of EC funded networks of excellence: the case of DEMO-net

The European Commission, through its framework programme aims to stimulate the development of sustained collaborative research networks across Europe. Social network analysis (SNA) has previously been used to evaluate collaboration between projects a... Read More about Social network analysis as a tool to evaluate the effectiveness of EC funded networks of excellence: the case of DEMO-net.

Students as consultants - adding value to the small and medium enterprise. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brodie, J., Douglas, T., & Laing, S. (2008). Students as consultants - adding value to the small and medium enterprise.

The purpose of this paper is to document and critically examine an innovative undergraduate student consultancy module taught at the Centre for Entrepreneurship at Napier University, Edinburgh. The paper discusses how this module is delivered to stud... Read More about Students as consultants - adding value to the small and medium enterprise..

Landscaping personification technologies: from interactions to relationships (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benyon, D., & Mival, O. (2008, April). Landscaping personification technologies: from interactions to relationships. Presented at Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual CHI conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '08

Personification technologies are technologies that encourage people to anthropomorphize. These technologies try to get people to form relationships with them rather than simply interact with them. They may do this through having behaviours that encou... Read More about Landscaping personification technologies: from interactions to relationships.

Attacker-defender models and road network vulnerability (2008)
Journal Article
Bell, M. G. H., Kanturska, U., Schmocker, J. D., & Fonzone, A. (2008). Attacker-defender models and road network vulnerability. Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 366, 1893-1906. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2008.0019

The reliability of road networks depends directly on their vulnerability to disruptive incidents, ranging in severity from minor disruptions to terrorist attacks. This paper presents a game theoretic approach to the analysis of road network vulnerabi... Read More about Attacker-defender models and road network vulnerability.

Underground Press. (2008)
Book Chapter
Atton, C. (2008). Underground Press. In W. Donsbach (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Communication (5215-5216). Wiley-Blackwell

The “underground press” typically refers to those → Newspapers and → magazines produced by the counterculture that emerged in the mid-1960s and continued until the early 1970s. The counterculture was concerned with establishing an alternative society... Read More about Underground Press..

Citizen journalism. (2008)
Book Chapter
Atton, C. (2008). Citizen journalism. In W. Donsbach (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Communication (487-490). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1111/b.9781405131995.2008.x

Citizen journalism refers to journalism produced not by professionals but by those outside mainstream media organizations. Citizen journalists typically have little or no training or professional qualifications, but write and report as citizens, memb... Read More about Citizen journalism..

Bringing theory into practice: locating staff research in the undergraduate classroom. (2008)
Book Chapter
Atton, C. (2008). Bringing theory into practice: locating staff research in the undergraduate classroom. In L. Whistlecroft (Ed.), Creative Graduates: Learning and Research in the Creative Arts (49-52). PALATINE

This case study comes from the final year undergraduate course, Alternative and Radical Media, which is taught on BA (Hons) Journalism; BA (Hons) Cultural and Media Studies; BA (Hons) Publishing Media. When this module first began in 2002, it was, to... Read More about Bringing theory into practice: locating staff research in the undergraduate classroom..

Solar water heating: domestic and Industrial applications. (2008)
Book Chapter
Asif, M., & Muneer, T. (2008). Solar water heating: domestic and Industrial applications. In Encyclopedia of Energy Engineering and Technology. Taylor & Francis

Solar water heating is one of the most successful applications of solar thermal technologies. It provides environmentally clean energy and has enormous potential within domestic and industrial sectors. Solar water heaters are categorized into three m... Read More about Solar water heating: domestic and Industrial applications..

Solar Thermal Technologies. (2008)
Book Chapter
Asif, M., & Muneer, T. (2008). Solar Thermal Technologies. In Encyclopedia of Energy Engineering and Technology. Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.1081/E-EEE-120042348

Solar thermal technologies are amongst the most diverse and effective renewable energy technologies. They range from low-temperature (200°C) and sophisticated ones like solar air conditioning and solar thermal power generation. Solar thermal technolo... Read More about Solar Thermal Technologies..

Optimization of MPRM functions using tabular techniques and genetic algorithms. (2008)
Journal Article
Al-Jassani, B. A., Urquhart, N. B., & Almaini, A. E. A. (2008). Optimization of MPRM functions using tabular techniques and genetic algorithms. The Mediterranean journal of electronics and communications, 4, 115-125

This paper presents new techniques and algorithms to compute and optimize Mixed Polarity Reed Muller logic functions (MPRM) using Tabular techniques and Genetic Algorithms (GA). The first algorithm is used for bidirectional conversion between Fixed P... Read More about Optimization of MPRM functions using tabular techniques and genetic algorithms..

Towards QoS aware collective communications: from theory to practice: design & analysis of highly parallel multicast & broadcast algorithms. (2008)
Book
Al-Dubai, A. (2008). Towards QoS aware collective communications: from theory to practice: design & analysis of highly parallel multicast & broadcast algorithms. German Publishing House, VDM Verlag

Inter-processor communication in interconnectionnetworks can create bottlenecks for scalable parallelimplementations of computationally intensiveapplications. Multicast and broadcast are generallythe most fundamental communication operationsrequired... Read More about Towards QoS aware collective communications: from theory to practice: design & analysis of highly parallel multicast & broadcast algorithms..

Developing management of privatisation: an empirical study on the barriers hindering implementation of the programme in Saudi Arabia and a proposed efficient model (2008)
Thesis
Al-Buridi, A. M. Developing management of privatisation: an empirical study on the barriers hindering implementation of the programme in Saudi Arabia and a proposed efficient model. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3806

In 1997 the Saudi Government took a forward step to implement privatisation and to promote the process and its implementation in different public enterprises. They issued various resolutions and decisions for implementing and managing the programme b... Read More about Developing management of privatisation: an empirical study on the barriers hindering implementation of the programme in Saudi Arabia and a proposed efficient model.

Generative aspect-oriented component adaptation (2008)
Journal Article
Feng, Y., Liu, X., Liu, X., Feng, Y., & Kerridge, J. (2008). Generative aspect-oriented component adaptation. IET Software, 2(2), 149. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-sen%3A20070049

As a solution to eliminating component mismatches, a generative aspect- oriented approach to component adaptation is presented. The approach enjoys high level of automation and capability of deep level adaptation, which is achieved in an aspect-orien... Read More about Generative aspect-oriented component adaptation.

Moisture adsorption isotherms of Acacia Mangium and Endospermum Malaccense using dynamic vapour sorption. (2008)
Journal Article
Zaihan, J., Hill, C. A. S., Curling, S., Hashim, W. S., & Hamdan, H. (2008). sorption. Journal of tropical forest science, 21, 277-285

Moisture adsorption isotherms of Acacia mangium and sesenduk using dynamic vapour sorption. Two Malaysian hardwoods, namely, acacia (Acacia mangium) and sesenduk (Endospermum malaccense) were studied to determine their moisture sorption behaviour usi... Read More about Moisture adsorption isotherms of Acacia Mangium and Endospermum Malaccense using dynamic vapour sorption..