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Violent Female Offending: An Exploration of Repeat and One-Time Offending (2012)
Journal Article
Mahoney, A. L., & Karatzias, T. (2012). Violent Female Offending: An Exploration of Repeat and One-Time Offending. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, 11(3), 191-202. https://doi.org/10.1080/14999013.2012.723664

There has been an increased focus on understanding the factors that may be predictive of violent recidivism among female offenders. Previous research has indicated that repeat and one-time violent female offenders have very different profiles. All fe... Read More about Violent Female Offending: An Exploration of Repeat and One-Time Offending.

Environmental security and tourism (2012)
Book Chapter
Hannam, K. (2012). Environmental security and tourism. In A. Holden, & D. Fennell (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Tourism and the Environment. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203121108.ch47

he concept of security has been rather undertheorised in tourism studies despite recent attempts to do so. For example, in the introduction to their edited text, Tourism, Security and Safety, Pizam and Mansfeld (2006) attempt to develop a threefold t... Read More about Environmental security and tourism.

Leadership in Compassionate Care: Executive Summary- Enhancing patient care by promoting compassionate practice. (2012)
Report
Adamson, E., Cook, F., Crowther, C., Dewar, B., Donaldson, J. H., Gloag, A., Gray, M., Gentleman, M., Hornett, M., Horsburgh, D., Kalorkoti, J., King, L., Macdonald, A., McIntosh, I., Morrow, B., Pullin, S., Ross, J., Smith, S., Taylor, S., Tierney-Moore, H., …Waugh, A. (2012). Leadership in Compassionate Care: Executive Summary- Enhancing patient care by promoting compassionate practice. Edinburgh, Scotland: NHS Lothian/Edinburgh Napier University

The Leadership in Compassionate Care Programme (LCCP) commenced in 2007 as a three year programme of work. Initial funding was received from a private benefactor and the two organisations involved in the programme (NHS Lothian and Edinburgh Napier Un... Read More about Leadership in Compassionate Care: Executive Summary- Enhancing patient care by promoting compassionate practice..

Leadership in compassionate care: Conference Handbook. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Adamson, E., Dewar, B., Donaldson, J. H., Gentleman, M., Gray, M., Horsburgh, D., King, L., Kalorkoti, J., McArthur, J., Maclean, M., McCrossan, G., McIntosh, I., Ross, J., Pullin, S., Sloan, S., Smith, F. C., Smith, S., Tocher, R., & Waugh, A. (2012, June). Leadership in compassionate care: Conference Handbook

The objectives of this conference are to:
•Develop a creative forum that stimulates dialogue and learning about compassionate caring in the complex multidisciplinary world of health, social care and healthcare education.
•Learn about novel and cr... Read More about Leadership in compassionate care: Conference Handbook..

Housing options and solutions for young people in 2020 (2012)
Report
Clapham, D., Mackie, P., Orford, S., Buckley, K., Thomas, I., Atherton, I., & McAnullty, U. (2012). Housing options and solutions for young people in 2020. Edinburgh, Scotland: Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Recent economic, social and political change has resulted in a lot of uncertainty regarding the housing options for young people in the UK. This report aims to inform the development of housing policy and practice by identifying the key challenges li... Read More about Housing options and solutions for young people in 2020.

Poetry and symmetry as organizing forces in music (2012)
Thesis
Eccles, J. Poetry and symmetry as organizing forces in music. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/5676

Aspects of poetry and symmetry are taken to represent the tension within the compositional process between spontaneous impulses and intuitive insights on the one hand, and more consciously imposed structure and organization on the other. These forces... Read More about Poetry and symmetry as organizing forces in music.

Pregnant women with red cell antibodies: Handheld Record of Care 2012. (2012)
Report
Harkness, M. (2012). Pregnant women with red cell antibodies: Handheld Record of Care 2012. NHS Scotland: Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service

Pregnant women with red cell antibodies: Handheld Record of Care 2012. Documentation. Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, Edinburgh.

Why throw the negs out with the bath water? (2012)
Journal Article
Macdonald, I. (2012). Why throw the negs out with the bath water?. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 31, 191-214. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1476-8070.2012.01735.x

Today’s digital age holds so much promise it is easy to dismiss the previous technologies and processes that provided yesterday’s creative opportunities. Photography has been revolutionised by digital capture and transmission in the last decade. This... Read More about Why throw the negs out with the bath water?.

A likeness of absence: photography and the contemporary visual culture of death in Athens (2012)
Thesis
Xenou, A. S. A likeness of absence: photography and the contemporary visual culture of death in Athens. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/5423

Using my family experience as an auto-ethnographic case, I consider how photography creates postmemory and counter-memory and how it has come to adopt the position it currently holds in funereal rituals in Athens. My historical examination begins fro... Read More about A likeness of absence: photography and the contemporary visual culture of death in Athens.

The Scottish Mathematics Support Network (2012)
Journal Article
Ahmed, S., & Durkacz, K. (2012). The Scottish Mathematics Support Network. MSOR Connections, 12(2), 42-44. https://doi.org/10.11120/msor.2012.12020042

The preliminary meeting of the Scottish Mathematics Support Network was held at the University of St Andrews on 18 July 2008. The aim of the meeting was to initialise a support network for people working in Scottish Universities and Colleges who were... Read More about The Scottish Mathematics Support Network.

A two‐pass model study of the CAPM: evidence from the UK stock market (2012)
Journal Article
Hwang, T., Gao, S., & Owen, H. (2012). A two‐pass model study of the CAPM: evidence from the UK stock market. Studies in economics and finance, 29(2), 89-104. https://doi.org/10.1108/10867371211229118

Purpose – There has been considerable debate on the linear relationship between systematic risk and return. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether security return can be explained by systematic risk.

Design/methodology/approach – Thi... Read More about A two‐pass model study of the CAPM: evidence from the UK stock market.

Higher Education Institution branding as a component of country branding in Ghana: Renaming Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (2012)
Journal Article
Williams Jr, R., Osei, C., & Omar, M. (2012). Higher Education Institution branding as a component of country branding in Ghana: Renaming Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 22(1), 71-81. https://doi.org/10.1080/08841241.2012.705795

As Higher Education Institutions (HEI) become more marketized and increasingly promotionalized, brand building gains in intensity and names become increasingly important. This conceptual paper plans to explore the application of the Renaming Process... Read More about Higher Education Institution branding as a component of country branding in Ghana: Renaming Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

Assessment of health related quality of life (HRQoL) in irritable bowel syndrome (2012)
Journal Article
Smith, G. D. (2012). Assessment of health related quality of life (HRQoL) in irritable bowel syndrome. Gastrointestinal Nursing, 10(5), 31-35. https://doi.org/10.12968/gasn.2012.10.5.31

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is one of the most common gastrointestinal disorders, classically involving symptoms of abdominal pain, distension and altered bowel function. However, the aetiology and natural history of this complex and often unpred... Read More about Assessment of health related quality of life (HRQoL) in irritable bowel syndrome.

Turning Miscommunication Events into Opportunities for Developing Interactional Competence (2012)
Journal Article
Victoria, M. (2012). Turning Miscommunication Events into Opportunities for Developing Interactional Competence. Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 38(1), 143-163

Many studies have explored the difficulties faced by foreign language learners when they begin the learning journey from survival to advanced level. Most of these investigations, however, tend to focus on what makes the road to fluency strewn with ob... Read More about Turning Miscommunication Events into Opportunities for Developing Interactional Competence.

Diagnosis of rotor asymmetries in wound rotor induction generators operating under varying load conditions via the Wigner-Ville Distribution (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Climente-Alarcon, V., Riera-Guasp, M., Antonino-Daviu, J., Roger-Folch, J., & Vedreno-Santos, F. (2012, June). Diagnosis of rotor asymmetries in wound rotor induction generators operating under varying load conditions via the Wigner-Ville Distribution. Presented at International Symposium on Power Electronics Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion

Fault diagnosis in wind generators is drawing
increasing attention among the scientific community and
maintenance companies, due to the crucial contribution of
this renewable power source in the electric power
generation map. These machines usual... Read More about Diagnosis of rotor asymmetries in wound rotor induction generators operating under varying load conditions via the Wigner-Ville Distribution.

Triangle-Area-Based Multivariate Correlation Analysis for Effective Denial-of-Service Attack Detection (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tan, Z., Jamdagni, A., He, X., Nanda, P., & Liu, R. P. (2012, June). Triangle-Area-Based Multivariate Correlation Analysis for Effective Denial-of-Service Attack Detection. Presented at 2012 IEEE 11th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications

Cloud computing plays an important role in current converged networks. It brings convenience of accessing services and information to users regardless of location and time. However, there are some critical security issues residing in cloud computing,... Read More about Triangle-Area-Based Multivariate Correlation Analysis for Effective Denial-of-Service Attack Detection.