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Urban Road Traffic Pollution and Its Effect on Indoor Air Quality. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Currie, J., & Capper, G. (2009, June). Urban Road Traffic Pollution and Its Effect on Indoor Air Quality. Presented at 3rd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering , ICBBE 2009

Indoor and outdoor concentrations of various pollutants were measured in a naturally ventilated city centre office building in order to assess the effect upon indoor pollution levels of the closure of some streets in the city to road traffic. The rel... Read More about Urban Road Traffic Pollution and Its Effect on Indoor Air Quality..

External Examining: an Engineering Subject Centre guide. (2009)
Preprint / Working Paper
Cowan, J. External Examining: an Engineering Subject Centre guide

This handbook was prepared for external examiners and for use in training workshops for newly appointed external examiners.

Breaking the Rules: writing reflectively for yourself. (2009)
Book Chapter
Cowan, J. (2009). Breaking the Rules: writing reflectively for yourself. In N. L. Mertens (Ed.), Writing, Processes, Tools and Techniques (109-113). Nova Science Publishers

The rules which epitomise good writing may on occasions be broken, deliberately and with what the writers judge to be good purpose. This can well occur when students or staff set out to engage effectively with their personal and professional developm... Read More about Breaking the Rules: writing reflectively for yourself..

Dealing with affective needs in e-learning: Contrasting two cases in two cultures. (2009)
Book Chapter
Chiu, Y.-C. J., & Cowan, J. (2009). Dealing with affective needs in e-learning: Contrasting two cases in two cultures. In B. Olaniran (Ed.), Cases on Successful E-Learning Practices in the Developed and Developing World: Methods for the Global Information Economy (42-57). Hershey. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-942-7.ch004

This chapter presents and contrasts descriptions of two cases of online affective support provided to support students engaged in higher level learning tasks. The cases are set in different cultures, centre upon different intended learning outcomes,... Read More about Dealing with affective needs in e-learning: Contrasting two cases in two cultures..

Scotland's paper industry. (2009)
Book Chapter
Bromage, S., McCleery, A., & Finkelstein, D. (2009). Scotland's paper industry. In H. Williams (Ed.), 500 Years of printing in Scotland. Scottish Print Archival trust

Integration in the workplace: emerging employment practiceon age, sexual orientation and religion or belief. (2009)
Report
Bond, S., Hollywood, E., & Colgan, F. Integration in the workplace: emerging employment practiceon age, sexual orientation and religion or belief. Equality and Human Rights Commission

This report outlines findings from research carried out for the Equality and Human Rights Commission by the Employment Research Institute (ERI) at Edinburgh Napier University and the Comparative Organisation and Equality Research Centre (COERC) at Lo... Read More about Integration in the workplace: emerging employment practiceon age, sexual orientation and religion or belief..

Quantifying the Evolution of Soil Fabric Under Different Stress Paths (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barreto, D., O’Sullivan, C., & Zdravkovic, L. (2009, July). Quantifying the Evolution of Soil Fabric Under Different Stress Paths. Presented at AIP Conference Proceedings

It is well recognized that the macro-scale response of soils is anisotropic in terms of strength, stiffness, permeability, etc. The source of this anisotropy is thought to be an anisotropy of the material itself. This anisotropy can be quantified usi... Read More about Quantifying the Evolution of Soil Fabric Under Different Stress Paths.

Why Fanzines matter. (2009)
Book Chapter
Atton, C. (2009). Why Fanzines matter. In S. Franklin (Ed.), Setting the Standard: A Project for Improving Rangers (4-5). Gersnet

It is easy, perhaps too easy, to dismiss fanzines. Some consider them as the inconsequent ramblings of obsessive’s with too much time on their hands. Others feel that they are vehicles for wannabe journalists who cannot make it in the professional me... Read More about Why Fanzines matter..

Alternative and Citizen Journalism (2009)
Book Chapter
Atton, C. (2009). Alternative and Citizen Journalism. In K. Wahl-Jorgensen, & T. Hanitzsch (Eds.), The Handbook of Journalism Studies (265-278). Routledge

This chapter examines journalism that is produced not by professionals but by those outside mainstream media organizations. Amateur media producers typically have little or no training or professional qualifications as journalists; they write and rep... Read More about Alternative and Citizen Journalism.