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‘New Technologies and Child Protection': Conference report. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stone, K. (2013, March). ‘New Technologies and Child Protection': Conference report. Presented at New Technologies and Child Protection

The New Technologies Conference was held at The Scottish Police College, on Friday 1st March 2013 bringing together a group of practitioners, academics and other professionals from across the public and voluntary sectors to explore the issue of new t... Read More about ‘New Technologies and Child Protection': Conference report..

How do we prepare children and young people to use the internet safely? (Workshop title) (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stone, K. (2013, March). How do we prepare children and young people to use the internet safely? (Workshop title). Presented at New Technologies and Child Protection

This interactive session touched on the issues of rights, risks and responsibilities and the need for children and young people to be supported to view the internet through a “critical lens”. Dr Stone also introduced the WithScotland internet safety... Read More about How do we prepare children and young people to use the internet safely? (Workshop title).

Spiritual care as person centred care: a thematic analysis of interventions. (2013)
Journal Article
Snowden, A., Telfer, I., Kelly, E., Bunniss, S., & Mowat, H. (2013). Spiritual care as person centred care: a thematic analysis of interventions. Scottish Journal of Healthcare Chaplaincy, 16, 23

What we know already. The Lothian PROM has shown us that chaplaincy benefitted all in this sample not just the faithful, religious or spiritual. However, this deduction arose from statistical analysis of tick box responses in the previous paper. Whil... Read More about Spiritual care as person centred care: a thematic analysis of interventions..

I was able to talk about what was on my mind: the operationalisation of person centred care. (2013)
Journal Article
Snowden, A., Telfer, I., Kelly, E., Bunniss, S., & Mowat, H. (2013). I was able to talk about what was on my mind: the operationalisation of person centred care. Scottish Journal of Healthcare Chaplaincy, 16, 13-22

What we know already
Specialist spiritual care can be broken down into discrete items within a questionnaire when grounded in the theory developed in the previous paper. However, in order to test whether this project is meaningful the resultant Loth... Read More about I was able to talk about what was on my mind: the operationalisation of person centred care..

Validation of the NHS Scotland Employee Engagement Index. (2013)
Report
Snowden, A., & MacArthur, E. (2013). Validation of the NHS Scotland Employee Engagement Index. Edinburgh, Scotland: NHS SCotland

Using a novel combination of Rasch and factor analysis showed the index to a) measure the latent trait of employee engagement and b) be constructed from the four factors underpinning its theoretical development. This work led to the tool being adopte... Read More about Validation of the NHS Scotland Employee Engagement Index..

A strategic review of the offsite construction sector in Scotland. (2013)
Report
Smith, S., Hairstans, R., Macdonald, R., & Sanna, F. (2013). A strategic review of the offsite construction sector in Scotland. Edinburgh, Scotland: Scottish Government

The offsite construction sector covers a wide spectrum of companies and supply chains across Scotland. This study primarily involved a review of the offsite construction sector for homes and buildings. The following key points have been extracted for... Read More about A strategic review of the offsite construction sector in Scotland..

Practical Donkey and Mule Nutrition (2013)
Book Chapter
Smith, D., & Burden, F. (2013). Practical Donkey and Mule Nutrition. In R. J. Geor, M. Coenen, & P. Harris (Eds.), Equine Applied and Clinical Nutrition: Health, Welfare and Performance (106-140). Saunders

Driving cycle pattern for cars in medium sized city of India. (2013)
Book Chapter
Sinha, S., & Kumar, R. (2013). Driving cycle pattern for cars in medium sized city of India. In A. Fujiwara (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (224). Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies

The regulatory modified Indian driving cycle has uniform acceleration and
deceleration pattern and uniform speed as it is adopted from European driving cycle. In
medium sized city of Patna in India, the driving pattern changes substantially especia... Read More about Driving cycle pattern for cars in medium sized city of India..

Learning to solve bin packing problems with an immune inspired hyper-heuristic. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sim, K., Hart, E., & Paechter, B. (2013, September). Learning to solve bin packing problems with an immune inspired hyper-heuristic

Motivated by the natural immune system's ability to defend the body by generating and maintaining a repertoire of antibodies that collectively cover the potential pathogen space, we describe an artificial system that discovers and maintains a reperto... Read More about Learning to solve bin packing problems with an immune inspired hyper-heuristic..

An exploration of the interpretation and application of the use of due regard in pre-registration nursing programmes. (2013)
Report
Scott, J. A., Pollock, C., Conlon, M. M. M., & Pollard, M. (2013). An exploration of the interpretation and application of the use of due regard in pre-registration nursing programmes. Edinburgh, Scotland: Nurse Education Scotland

Due Regard relates to ensuring NMC-approved processes are in place to enable students to achieve the required standards of proficiency for safe and effective practice, defining crucial details such as the appropriate clinical backgrounds, experience... Read More about An exploration of the interpretation and application of the use of due regard in pre-registration nursing programmes..

An exploration of the interpretation and application of the Due Regard Principle in Practice learning. (2013)
Report
Scott, J. A., Pollock, C., Conlon, M. M. M., & Miller, L. (2013). An exploration of the interpretation and application of the Due Regard Principle in Practice learning. Scotland: NHS Scotland

This is the second stage of a project on ‘Due Regard’. Project one explored and investigated Due
Regard in practice in Scotland. Project two (this project) evaluated a pilot of the effectiveness and
validity of a practice learning environment Equiv... Read More about An exploration of the interpretation and application of the Due Regard Principle in Practice learning..

Review of article-Cristina Hanganu-Bresch’s and Carol Berkenkotter’s “Narrative Survival: Personal and Institutional Accounts of Asylum Confinement. (2013)
Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2013). Review of article-Cristina Hanganu-Bresch’s and Carol Berkenkotter’s “Narrative Survival: Personal and Institutional Accounts of Asylum Confinement. Journal of Literature and Science, 6(1), 82-83. https://doi.org/10.12929/jls.06.1.08

No abstract available.

Item is a review of the following journal article - Cristina Hanganu-Bresch and Carol Berkenkotter, “Narrative Survival: Personal and Institutional Accounts of Asylum Confinement.” Literature and Medicine 30.1 (2012): 12-41... Read More about Review of article-Cristina Hanganu-Bresch’s and Carol Berkenkotter’s “Narrative Survival: Personal and Institutional Accounts of Asylum Confinement..

The use of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for improving quality of life for inflammatory bowel disease patients: study protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial with embedded process evaluation (2013)
Journal Article
Schoultz, M., Atherton, I., Hubbard, G., & Watson, A. J. M. (2013). The use of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for improving quality of life for inflammatory bowel disease patients: study protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial with embedded process evaluation. Trials, 14(1), 431. https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-14-431

Background

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic condition with an unpredictable disease course. Rates of anxiety and depression among IBD patients in relapse (active disease symptoms) as well as in remission are higher than in the genera... Read More about The use of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for improving quality of life for inflammatory bowel disease patients: study protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial with embedded process evaluation.

Sobre a definição da zona de apicum e a sua importância ecológica para populações de caranguejo-uca, Ucides cordatus (Linnaeus, 1763). (Linnaeus, 1763). Translated title “Definition of the Apicum-zone and its ecological importance for populations of the mangrove crab Ucides cordatus (Linnaeus, 1763)”. (2013)
Journal Article
Schmidt, A. J., Bemvenuti, C. E., & Diele, K. (2013). Translated title “Definition of the Apicum-zone and its ecological importance for populations of the mangrove crab Ucides cordatus (Linnaeus, 1763)”. Boletim técnico-científico do CEPENE / Ministério do Meio Ambiente, Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis, Centro de Pesquisa e Gestão de Recursos Pesqueiros do Litoral Nordeste, 19, 9-25

This paper contributes to the ongoing discussion regarding the unfortunate recent changes to the protected area status of Brazilian mangrove ecosystems - thus published in Portuguese and in a Brazilian journal freely available to the wider public and... Read More about Sobre a definição da zona de apicum e a sua importância ecológica para populações de caranguejo-uca, Ucides cordatus (Linnaeus, 1763). (Linnaeus, 1763). Translated title “Definition of the Apicum-zone and its ecological importance for populations of the mangrove crab Ucides cordatus (Linnaeus, 1763)”..

TDM and sustainability: international experiences. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Saleh, W., Kumar, R., Ziolkowski, R., & Ostrowski, K. (2013, December). TDM and sustainability: international experiences. Paper presented at 6th International Symposium on Travel Demand Management

Some Remarks on the Homotopy-Analysis Method and Series Solutions to the Blasius Equation (2013)
Journal Article
Robin, W. (2013). Some Remarks on the Homotopy-Analysis Method and Series Solutions to the Blasius Equation. International Mathematical Forum, 8, 1205-1213. https://doi.org/10.12988/imf.2013.3478

We present an new angle on the introduction of the homotopy-analysis method of Liao [6]. The homotopy-analysis method is then applied to produce a series solution of the Blasius problem in two different ways and comparison made with the work of Wang... Read More about Some Remarks on the Homotopy-Analysis Method and Series Solutions to the Blasius Equation.