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Diversity training in organisations: an introduction (2010)
Journal Article
McGuire, D., & Bagher, M. (2010). Diversity training in organisations: an introduction. Journal of European industrial training, 34(6), 493-505. https://doi.org/10.1108/03090591011061185

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on diversity training and examine the effect of power, privilege and politics on diversity in organisations.Design/methodology/approach – This is a conceptual paper examining the argume... Read More about Diversity training in organisations: an introduction.

Taxi Demand Modeling to Ensure Appropriate Taxi Supply: Do Both Open Access and Model Based Restrictions Fail? (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cooper, J. M., & Faber, W. (2010, August). Taxi Demand Modeling to Ensure Appropriate Taxi Supply: Do Both Open Access and Model Based Restrictions Fail?. Presented at Traffic and Transportation Studies 2010

As a transport mode, the taxi is often given scant attention. The mode is consistent, in appearance and function, and has followed the same patterns of licensing, rather than mainstream transport, from its origin as the first licensed public transpor... Read More about Taxi Demand Modeling to Ensure Appropriate Taxi Supply: Do Both Open Access and Model Based Restrictions Fail?.

Split Second Motion Blur (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ritchie, M., Modern, G., & Mitchell, K. (2010). Split Second Motion Blur. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 Talks (17:1-17:1). https://doi.org/10.1145/1837026.1837048

Motion blur is key to delivering a sense of speed in interactive video game rendering. Further, simulating accurate camera optical exposure properties and reduction of temporal aliasing brings us closer to high quality real-time rendering productions... Read More about Split Second Motion Blur.

Identity, contestability and ethics of unified virtualisation of society. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wigan, M. (2010). Identity, contestability and ethics of unified virtualisation of society. In 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS) (399-405). https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAS.2010.5514616

Virtualisation (the replacement of physical representation by bits) in society is placing great pressures on individuals and society. The progressive loss of legal multiple identities raises major ethical and practical implications, and is being acce... Read More about Identity, contestability and ethics of unified virtualisation of society..

A new model for semantic photograph description combining basic levels and user-assigned descriptors (2010)
Journal Article
Lee, H., & Neal, D. (2010). A new model for semantic photograph description combining basic levels and user-assigned descriptors. Journal of Information Science, 36(5), 547-565. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551510374930

Few studies have been conducted to identify users’ desired semantic levels of image access when describing, searching, and retrieving photographs online. The basic level, or the level of abstraction most commonly used to describe an item, is a cognit... Read More about A new model for semantic photograph description combining basic levels and user-assigned descriptors.

Development of a prototype clinical decision support tool for osteoporosis disease management: A qualitative study of focus groups (2010)
Journal Article
Kastner, M., Li, J., Lottridge, D., Marquez, C., Newton, D., & Straus, S. E. (2010). Development of a prototype clinical decision support tool for osteoporosis disease management: A qualitative study of focus groups. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 10, Article 40. https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-10-40

Background
Osteoporosis affects over 200 million people worldwide, and represents a significant cost burden. Although guidelines are available for best practice in osteoporosis, evidence indicates that patients are not receiving appropriate diagnost... Read More about Development of a prototype clinical decision support tool for osteoporosis disease management: A qualitative study of focus groups.

Time-dependent Hyperstar algorithm for robust vehicle navigation in time-dependent stochastic road networks. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bell, M. G. H., Trozzi, V., Hosseinloo, S. H., Gentile, G., & Fonzone, A. (2010, July). Time-dependent Hyperstar algorithm for robust vehicle navigation in time-dependent stochastic road networks. Paper presented at 4th International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability

The vehicle navigation problem studied in Bell (2009) is revisited and a time-dependent reverse Hyperstar algorithm is presented. This minimises the expected time of arrival at the destination, and all intermediate nodes, where expectation is based o... Read More about Time-dependent Hyperstar algorithm for robust vehicle navigation in time-dependent stochastic road networks..

Expression of the repulsive SLIT/ROBO pathway in the human endometrium and Fallopian tube (2010)
Journal Article
Duncan, W. C., McDonald, S. E., Dickinson, R. E., Shaw, J. L. V., Lourenco, P. C., Wheelhouse, N., …Horne, A. W. (2010). Expression of the repulsive SLIT/ROBO pathway in the human endometrium and Fallopian tube. Molecular Human Reproduction, 16, 950-959. https://doi.org/10.1093/molehr/gaq055

We investigated whether the repulsive SLIT/ROBO pathway is expressed in the endometrium and is negatively regulated during implantation. We also examined whether deficient expression in the Fallopian tube (FT) may predispose to ectopic pregnancy (EP)... Read More about Expression of the repulsive SLIT/ROBO pathway in the human endometrium and Fallopian tube.

A model of endocannabinoid 2-AG-mediated depolarization-induced suppression of inhibition (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fox, D., & Andras, P. (2010). A model of endocannabinoid 2-AG-mediated depolarization-induced suppression of inhibition. BMC Neuroscience, 11, Article P189 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-11-S1-P189

Depolarization-induced suppression of inhibition (DSI) is known to be mediated by the endocannabinoid 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG). It's calcium-dependent production and subsequent retrograde diffusion from postsynaptic pyramidal cells to presynapti... Read More about A model of endocannabinoid 2-AG-mediated depolarization-induced suppression of inhibition.

Experimental study of the influence of collector height on the steady state performance of a passive solar air heater (2010)
Journal Article
Ryan, D., & Burek, S. (2010). Experimental study of the influence of collector height on the steady state performance of a passive solar air heater. Solar Energy, 84(9), 1676-1684. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2010.05.018

Passive solar air heaters, such as solar chimneys and Trombe Walls, rely on solar-induced buoyancy-driven (natural) convection to produce the flow of air. Although buoyancy-driven convection is well understood for a single vertical plate, buoyancy-dr... Read More about Experimental study of the influence of collector height on the steady state performance of a passive solar air heater.

Festival management innovation and failure (2010)
Journal Article
Carlsen, J., Andersson, T. D., Ali‐Knight, J., Jaeger, K., & Taylor, R. (2010). Festival management innovation and failure. International Journal of Event and Festival Management, 1(2), 120-131. https://doi.org/10.1108/17852951011056900

Purpose – The paper seeks to examine the concepts, types and implications of festival innovation and failure.

Design/methodology/approach – A review of extant literature is undertaken and examples of innovation and failure in three festivals are... Read More about Festival management innovation and failure.

Sustainable urban transport in Central America - a future without the car? (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schreffler, E., Umana, N. U., Garcia Moreno, P. S., Mattsson, C., Rye, T., & Carreno, M. (2010, July). Sustainable urban transport in Central America - a future without the car?. Paper presented at World Association of Transportation Research (WCTR)

Is it conceivable to contemplate a future without the car as the center of an urban transportation system? Can emerging economies grow without concomitant growth in car usage? San Pedro Sula, Honduras, is one city at a critical decision point about t... Read More about Sustainable urban transport in Central America - a future without the car?.

Objective and subjective assessments of normal walking pace, in comparison with that recommended for moderate intensity physical activity (2010)
Journal Article
Taylor, K. L., Fitzsimons, C., & Mutrie, N. (2010). Objective and subjective assessments of normal walking pace, in comparison with that recommended for moderate intensity physical activity. International Journal of Exercise Science, 3(3),

Despite its common application and widely reported health benefits, walking, in relation to pace and intensity, is under-researched. Few studies have addressed whether people normally walk at a pace that meets the public health recommendations for mo... Read More about Objective and subjective assessments of normal walking pace, in comparison with that recommended for moderate intensity physical activity.

On the Scatterers' Mobility and Second Order Statistics of Narrowband Fixed Outdoor Wireless Channels (2010)
Journal Article
Karadimas, P., Vagenas, E. D., & Kotsopoulos, S. A. (2010). On the Scatterers' Mobility and Second Order Statistics of Narrowband Fixed Outdoor Wireless Channels. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 9(7), 2119-2124. https://doi.org/10.1109/twc.2010.07.080874

In this paper, we study the temporal behavior of narrowband fixed outdoor wireless channels by modeling the impact of scatterers' mobility on the second order statistics of such channels. We show that the Nakagami-m, gamma, Weibull and lognormal prob... Read More about On the Scatterers' Mobility and Second Order Statistics of Narrowband Fixed Outdoor Wireless Channels.

Cancer diagnosis: An opportune time to help patients and their families stop smoking? (2010)
Journal Article
Ozakinci, G., Wells, M., Williams, B., Munro, A., & Donnelly, P. (2010). Cancer diagnosis: An opportune time to help patients and their families stop smoking?. Public Health, 124(8), 479-482. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2010.04.006

Tobacco use is the most preventable cause of cancer, ill health and premature death in developed countries. Although the decrease in smoking prevalence among adults over the last few decades has been responsible for improvements in cancer mortality r... Read More about Cancer diagnosis: An opportune time to help patients and their families stop smoking?.

The impact of reduced public services spending on vulnerable groups - review of UK and international evidence. (2010)
Report
McQuaid, R. W., Egdell, V., & Hollywood, E. (2010). The impact of reduced public services spending on vulnerable groups - review of UK and international evidence

This evidence review was commissioned by the Scottish Government and undertaken by the Employment Research Institute, Edinburgh Napier University.

The overall aim is to review and summarise UK and international evidence on the impact of reduced s... Read More about The impact of reduced public services spending on vulnerable groups - review of UK and international evidence..