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‘Rip That Book up, I've Changed’: Unveiling the Experiences of Women Living with and Surviving Enduring Mental Illness (2010)
Journal Article
McKay, E. A. (2010). ‘Rip That Book up, I've Changed’: Unveiling the Experiences of Women Living with and Surviving Enduring Mental Illness. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 73(3), 96-105. https://doi.org/10.4276/030802210x12682330090370

The lives of women with an enduring mental illness have been little researched within occupational therapy. This study explored the experiences of five women living with enduring mental illness in their communities. The women were interviewed over a... Read More about ‘Rip That Book up, I've Changed’: Unveiling the Experiences of Women Living with and Surviving Enduring Mental Illness.

Tradeoffs between latency, complexity and load balancing with multicast algorithms (2010)
Journal Article
Al-Dubai, A., Ould-Khaoua, M., & Mackenzie, L. (2010). Tradeoffs between latency, complexity and load balancing with multicast algorithms. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 59, 159-173. https://doi.org/10.1109/TC.2009.104

The increasing number of collective communication-based services with a mass interest and the parallel increasing demand for service quality are paving the way toward end-to-end QoS guarantees. Although many multicast algorithms in interconnection ne... Read More about Tradeoffs between latency, complexity and load balancing with multicast algorithms.

Literature review exploring issues of service user and carer involvement in the assessment of students’ practice. (2010)
Report
Gray, M., & Donaldson, J. H. (2010). Literature review exploring issues of service user and carer involvement in the assessment of students’ practice. Edinburgh, Scotland: Nurse Education Scotland

Executive Summary
This literature review focuses on exploring issues of service users and carer involvement in the assessment of students‟ practice. Recommendations are made to inform the development of a National Approach to Practice Assessment for... Read More about Literature review exploring issues of service user and carer involvement in the assessment of students’ practice..

Three-dimensional analysis of intracycle velocity fluctuations in frontcrawl swimming. (2010)
Journal Article
Psycharakis, S., Naemi, R., Connaboy, C., McCabe, C., & Sanders, R. (2010). Three-dimensional analysis of intracycle velocity fluctuations in frontcrawl swimming. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, 20, 128-135. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0838.2009.00891.x

The purpose of this study was to determine accurately the
magnitude and changes of intra-cycle velocity fluctuation
(Vfluc), maximum (Vmax) and minimum velocity (Vmin) of
the center of mass during a maximum 200m frontcrawl swim,
and to examine wh... Read More about Three-dimensional analysis of intracycle velocity fluctuations in frontcrawl swimming..

Edinburgh's Engineering Experience. (2010)
Journal Article
Taylor, M. D. (2010). Edinburgh's Engineering Experience. Civil Scotland, 13,

Article published in Civils Scotland (Institution of Civil Engineers publication) concerning school outreach activity to encourage young people to consider studying civil engineering and becoming a professional civil engineer.

Estimation of hourly averaged solar irradiation: evaluation of models. (2010)
Journal Article
Tham, Y. W., Muneer, T., & Davison, B. (2010). Estimation of hourly averaged solar irradiation: evaluation of models. Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, 31, 9-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143624409350547

Hourly solar radiation data are required in many building services applications. These are also reported in the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers Guides A & J. Data from 16 locations in the UK were used to evaluate the so called Li... Read More about Estimation of hourly averaged solar irradiation: evaluation of models..

Novel information sharing architecture between the Police and their community partners. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Uthmani, O., Buchanan, W. J., & Lawson, A. (2010, February). Novel information sharing architecture between the Police and their community partners. Presented at Scottish Networking Event 2010

The exchange of information between the police and community partners forms a central aspect of effective community service provision. In the context of policing, a robust and timely communications mechanism is required between police agencies and co... Read More about Novel information sharing architecture between the Police and their community partners..

CANDEL: Product Line Based Dynamic Context Management for Pervasive Applications (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jaroucheh, Z., Liu, X., & Smith, S. (2010, February). CANDEL: Product Line Based Dynamic Context Management for Pervasive Applications. Presented at 2010 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems

In a pervasive environment, it is essential for computing applications to be context-aware. However, one of the major challenges is the establishment of a generic and dynamic context model. Many different approaches to modeling the context exist, but... Read More about CANDEL: Product Line Based Dynamic Context Management for Pervasive Applications.

MRI suites and residual design risk from static magnetic field (2010)
Journal Article
Price, T., Wamuziri, S., & Gupta, N. (2010). MRI suites and residual design risk from static magnetic field. Proceedings of the ICE - Management, Procurement and Law, 163(1), 7-15. https://doi.org/10.1680/mpal.2010.163.1.7

Since the inception of the UK Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994 through to the 2007 Construction (Design and Management) Regulations a duty has been imposed upon the client of premises where a notifiable project has been carried... Read More about MRI suites and residual design risk from static magnetic field.

Clinical judgement in violence risk assessment (2010)
Journal Article
Murray, J., & Thomson, M. E. (2010). Clinical judgement in violence risk assessment. Europe's journal of psychology, 6(1), 128-149. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v6i1.175

The present article discusses the three main approaches to violence risk assessment, clinical judgement, actuarial assessment, and structured clinical judgement, informing the reader of the comparative benefits and short-comings of these methods of v... Read More about Clinical judgement in violence risk assessment.

Miniatures for Horn Trio. (2010)
Other
Burton, K. (2010). Miniatures for Horn Trio. [PDF score]. Plymouth, UK

This three movement work was first performed by members of the Research Ensemble at the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival, 26 February 2010.

Material from the first movement reappears in the second and third in various guises. The second... Read More about Miniatures for Horn Trio..

Selfish strategies and honest signalling: reproductive conflicts in ant queen associations (2010)
Journal Article
Holman, L., Dreier, S., & d'Ettorre, P. (2010). Selfish strategies and honest signalling: reproductive conflicts in ant queen associations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277(1690), 2007-2015. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.2311

Social insects offer unique opportunities to test predictions regarding the evolution of cooperation, life histories and communication. Colony founding by groups of unrelated queens, some of which are later killed, may select for selfish reproductive... Read More about Selfish strategies and honest signalling: reproductive conflicts in ant queen associations.

The Role of Human Resource Management in the Sustainable Workplace (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bratton, A. (2010, February). The Role of Human Resource Management in the Sustainable Workplace. Paper presented at Resilient Communities Dialogue: Strategies for a Sustainable Local Economy, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada

Effect of laminate configuration and feed rate on cutting performance when drilling holes in carbon fibre reinforced plastic composites (2010)
Journal Article
Shyha, I., Soo, S. L., Aspinwall, D., & Bradley, S. (2010). Effect of laminate configuration and feed rate on cutting performance when drilling holes in carbon fibre reinforced plastic composites. Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 210(8), 1023-1034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2010.02.011

Composites use in the aerospace industry is expanding, in particular carbon fibre reinforced plastics (CFRP) for structural components. Machinability can however be problematic especially when drilling, due to CFRP's inherent anisotropy/in-homogeneit... Read More about Effect of laminate configuration and feed rate on cutting performance when drilling holes in carbon fibre reinforced plastic composites.

Editorial: Advances in complex control systems theory and applications (2010)
Journal Article
Hussain, A., Wang, H., & Nobakhti, A. (2010). Editorial: Advances in complex control systems theory and applications. IET Control Theory and Applications, 4(2), 173-175. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-cta.2010.9006

Complex and large scale systems and networks have evolved in many fields: from communication data networks, banking, financial systems, bio-engineering and robotics to, amongst others, industrial control systems. In control engineering, the main driv... Read More about Editorial: Advances in complex control systems theory and applications.

Valid Facial Cues to Cooperation and Trust: Male Facial Width and Trustworthiness (2010)
Journal Article
Stirrat, M., & Perrett, D. (2010). Valid Facial Cues to Cooperation and Trust: Male Facial Width and Trustworthiness. Psychological Science, 21(3), 349-354. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797610362647

Decisions about whom to trust are biased by stable facial traits such as attractiveness, similarity to kin, and perceived trustworthiness. Research addressing the validity of facial trustworthiness or its basis in facial features is scarce, and the r... Read More about Valid Facial Cues to Cooperation and Trust: Male Facial Width and Trustworthiness.

Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Way of Coping Checklist‐Revised (WCCL‐R) in the Asian Context (2010)
Journal Article
Sawang, S., Oei, T. P., Goh, Y. W., Mansoer, W., Markhum, E., & Ranawake, D. (2010). Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Way of Coping Checklist‐Revised (WCCL‐R) in the Asian Context. Applied Psychology, 59(2), 202-219. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1464-0597.2009.00378.x

Industrial employment growth has been one of the most dynamic areas of expansion in Asia; however, current trends in industrialised working environments have resulted in greater employee stress. Despite research showing that cultural values affect th... Read More about Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Way of Coping Checklist‐Revised (WCCL‐R) in the Asian Context.

The best of the best from IAME 2009 (2010)
Journal Article
Strandenes, S. P., Cullinane, K., Strandenes, S., & Wilmsmeier, G. (2010). The best of the best from IAME 2009. Maritime Economics and Logistics, 12(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1057/mel.2009.16

Item is guest editorial.

Special issue of Maritime Economics & Logistics with papers selected from the 2009 Annual Conference of the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME), Copenhagen June 2009

The water vapour sorption properties of Sitka spruce determined using a dynamic vapour sorption apparatus (2010)
Journal Article
Hill, C. A. S., Norton, A. J., & Newman, G. (2010). The water vapour sorption properties of Sitka spruce determined using a dynamic vapour sorption apparatus. Wood science and technology, 44(3), 497-514. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00226-010-0305-y

The water vapour sorption properties of Sitka spruce (Picea abies)
have been investigated over a range of temperatures (14.2–43.8C) using a
dynamic vapour sorption apparatus. The sorption kinetics behaviour was evaluated
using the parallel expone... Read More about The water vapour sorption properties of Sitka spruce determined using a dynamic vapour sorption apparatus.