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digiCC workshop outcomes report (2015)
Report
Ryan, B., & Cruickshank, P. (2015). digiCC workshop outcomes report. Edinburgh Napier University: Edinburgh Napier University

A workshop on digital engagement by Community Councils (CCs) was hosted by Edinburgh Napier University on 30 January 2015 to which members from 35 CCs came. Facilitated sessions were held to establish common perceptions of problems and ways to addres... Read More about digiCC workshop outcomes report.

Training Activities and Injuries in English Youth Academy and Schools Rugby Union (2015)
Journal Article
Palmer-Green, D. S., Stokes, K. A., Fuller, C. W., England, M., Kemp, S. P., & Trewartha, G. (2015). Training Activities and Injuries in English Youth Academy and Schools Rugby Union. American Journal of Sports Medicine, 43(2), 475-481. https://doi.org/10.1177/0363546514560337

Background: all rugby training activities carry an injury risk, but in the training environment these injury risks should be more controllable than during matches. Purpose: to (1) describe the incidence, severity, anatomic location, and type of yout... Read More about Training Activities and Injuries in English Youth Academy and Schools Rugby Union.

Working with the disabled patient: Exploring student nurses views for curriculum development using a swot analysis (2015)
Journal Article
Willis, D., & Thurston, M. (2015). Working with the disabled patient: Exploring student nurses views for curriculum development using a swot analysis. Nurse Education Today, 35(2), 383-387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2014.10.013

Summary Background Increased longevity will mean an increase in people presenting with cognitive and physical disabilities, such as sight loss or dementia. The Patient Rights (Scotland) Act 2011 states that health care should be patient-focusse... Read More about Working with the disabled patient: Exploring student nurses views for curriculum development using a swot analysis.

Improving the experience of hip fracture care: A multidisciplinary collaborative approach to implementing evidence-based, person-centred practice (2015)
Journal Article
Christie, J., Macmillan, M., Currie, C., & Matthews-Smith, G. (2015). Improving the experience of hip fracture care: A multidisciplinary collaborative approach to implementing evidence-based, person-centred practice. International Journal of Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing, 19(1), 24-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijotn.2014.03.003

Background Hip fracture care is well supported by national guidelines and audit that provide evidence of safe interventions and an improved process. In the drive for organisational efficiency, complications have been reduced and length of stay sho... Read More about Improving the experience of hip fracture care: A multidisciplinary collaborative approach to implementing evidence-based, person-centred practice.

Cultural due diligence: an investigation into its significance in tertiary education mergers in Scotland (2015)
Thesis
Steen, C. J. Cultural due diligence: an investigation into its significance in tertiary education mergers in Scotland. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/8854

Mergers are a fact of life in the private sector and are increasingly becoming a factor in the public sector. Organisations seek to merge in order to survive or grow by accruing benefits of scale, better or cheaper access to resources or by overcomin... Read More about Cultural due diligence: an investigation into its significance in tertiary education mergers in Scotland.

How physicians decide: a regulatory compliance perspective from clinical research (2015)
Thesis
Smith, F. How physicians decide: a regulatory compliance perspective from clinical research. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/8852

The central aim of this thesis is to investigate how physicians, working for Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD), a clinical research organisation (CRO), make decisions for a new industry standard for good clinical practice in medical device tri... Read More about How physicians decide: a regulatory compliance perspective from clinical research.

Adverse life events and health: A population study in Hong Kong (2015)
Journal Article
Karatzias, T., Yan, E., & Jowett, S. (2015). Adverse life events and health: A population study in Hong Kong. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 78(2), 173-177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2014.11.024

Objective: Although the effects of adverse life events on mental health have been well documented in the literature, there has never been a population based study that investigated systematically the association between history of adverse life even... Read More about Adverse life events and health: A population study in Hong Kong.

Work–Life Balance in Home-Based Businesses: A UK Study (2015)
Journal Article
Kapasi, I., & Galloway, L. (2015). Work–Life Balance in Home-Based Businesses: A UK Study. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 16(1), 33-42. https://doi.org/10.5367/ijei.2015.0170

Home-based businesses are increasing in number throughout Western economies. One of the benefits of a home-based business is asserted to be improved work–life balance, yet there is little empirical evidence to support this assertion. Using a qualitat... Read More about Work–Life Balance in Home-Based Businesses: A UK Study.

The potential for 'green' fiscal policy measures to influence individuals' vehicle purchasing decisions in Scotland. (2015)
Thesis
Borthwick, S. The potential for 'green' fiscal policy measures to influence individuals' vehicle purchasing decisions in Scotland. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/8820

Climate change is recognised worldwide as a major concern, with serious repercussions. Observed temperature rises are increasingly being linked to human activity. Evidence indicates a strengthening vehicle-orientated society, with negative implicatio... Read More about The potential for 'green' fiscal policy measures to influence individuals' vehicle purchasing decisions in Scotland..

New efficient velocity-aware probabilistic route discovery schemes for high mobility Ad hoc networks (2015)
Journal Article
Bani Khalaf, M., Al-Dubai, A. Y., & Min, G. (2015). New efficient velocity-aware probabilistic route discovery schemes for high mobility Ad hoc networks. Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 81(1), 97-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcss.2014.06.014

Most existing route discovery schemes in MANETs are based on probabilistic models by which MANETs usually deploy broadcast mechanisms to discover routes between nodes. This is implemented by flooding the network with routing requests (RREQ) packets w... Read More about New efficient velocity-aware probabilistic route discovery schemes for high mobility Ad hoc networks.

Embodied inter subjective engagement in mother-infant tactile communication: a cross-cultural study of Japanese and Scottish mother-infant behaviors during infant pick-up (2015)
Journal Article
Negayama, K., Delafield-Butt, J. T., Momose, K., Ishijima, K., Kawahara, N., Lux, E. J., Murphy, A., & Kaliarntas, K. (2015). Embodied inter subjective engagement in mother-infant tactile communication: a cross-cultural study of Japanese and Scottish mother-infant behaviors during infant pick-up. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, Article 66. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00066

This study examines the early development of cultural differences in a simple, embodied, and intersubjective engagement between mothers putting down, picking up, and carrying their infants between Japan and Scotland. Eleven Japanese and ten Scottish... Read More about Embodied inter subjective engagement in mother-infant tactile communication: a cross-cultural study of Japanese and Scottish mother-infant behaviors during infant pick-up.

Improving the care of cancer patients: holistic needs assessment (2015)
Journal Article
Young, J., Cund, A., Renshaw, M., Quigley, A., & Snowden, A. (2015). Improving the care of cancer patients: holistic needs assessment. British Journal of Nursing, 24(Sup4), S17-S20. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2015.24.Sup4.S17

This discussion paper presents a review of holistic needs assessments (HNAs) in the care of patients with cancer. HNAs entail a structured review of patient needs as articulated by the patient. This discussion then leads to a care plan grounded in is... Read More about Improving the care of cancer patients: holistic needs assessment.

Moodle on the Move. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robertson, S. (2015, February). Moodle on the Move

Recent shifts in technology have seen some writers question the value of tablet computers as phones becomes bigger, more powerful and their battery life improves: (http://www.wired.com/2015/01/nobody-knows-ipad-good-anymore/ In trying to encour... Read More about Moodle on the Move..

Theorizing the cultural borderlands: Imag(in)ing "them" and "us" (2015)
Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (2015). Theorizing the cultural borderlands: Imag(in)ing "them" and "us". In J. Brown, & N. F. Johnson (Eds.), Children’s Images of Identity: Drawing the Self and the Other (1-13). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers

No abstract available.

Leadership in practice. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McInally, W. (2015, February). Leadership in practice

Widening access through transition from college to university (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Meharg, D., & Tizard, J. (2015). Widening access through transition from college to university. In Social Dimension in European Higher Education

Widening access through transition from College to University In Scotland, one strategy for increasing participation at university for people from deprived socio-economic areas is to provide academic pathways from vocational courses at college to uni... Read More about Widening access through transition from college to university.

Lenovo’s security debacle reveals blurred boundary between adware and malware (2015)
Newspaper / Magazine
Buchanan, W. J. (2015). Lenovo’s security debacle reveals blurred boundary between adware and malware

A widely disliked habit of PC vendors is their bundling of all manner of unwanted software into brand new computers – demo software, games, or part-functional trials. Faced with shrinking margins vendors have treated this as an alternative income str... Read More about Lenovo’s security debacle reveals blurred boundary between adware and malware.