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Interactive management control via analytic hierarchy process (AHP) (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pecchia, L., Melillo, P., Marzano, A., Delfino, R., Vanzanella, C., Viggiani, V., & Triassi, M. (2013, June). Interactive management control via analytic hierarchy process (AHP). Presented at 7th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management, and Control, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Management control in public university hospitals is a challenging task because of continuous changes due to external pressures (e.g. economic pressures, stakeholder focuses and scientific progress) and internal complexities (top management turnover,... Read More about Interactive management control via analytic hierarchy process (AHP).

New Perspectives on Audience Activity: 'Prosumption' and Media Activism as Audience Practices (2013)
Book Chapter
O’Neill, B., Gallego, J. I., & Zeller, F. (2013). New Perspectives on Audience Activity: 'Prosumption' and Media Activism as Audience Practices. In N. Carpentier, K. C. Schroeder, & L. Hallett (Eds.), Audience Transformations: Shifting Audience Positions in Late Modernity (157-171). Routledge

Until relatively recently, the subject of social relationships, constituted in and through audience practices, has been a minor part of audience research studies. This chapter explores how social relationships and forms of audience agency change and... Read More about New Perspectives on Audience Activity: 'Prosumption' and Media Activism as Audience Practices.

My kulturBOT 1.0 (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zeller, F., & Harris Smith, D. (2013, July). My kulturBOT 1.0. Presented at Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2013), London

My kulturBOT 1.0 is a robotic art critic that attends exhibitions and produces tweets and captioned images for social media. kulturBOT indiscriminately takes pictures of the artworks, as well as the venue and the exhibition visitors. It integrates ra... Read More about My kulturBOT 1.0.

A learner perspective on barriers to e-learning (2013)
Journal Article
Becker, K., Newton, C., & Sawang, S. (2013). A learner perspective on barriers to e-learning. Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 53(2), 211-233

This study aims to identify and categorize barriers to e-learning adoption and the relative impact of those barriers on learners. It contributes to the understanding of learner perceptions of barriers, the different types of barriers and their relati... Read More about A learner perspective on barriers to e-learning.

Corporate disclosure quality in Malaysia (2013)
Journal Article
Abdullah, M., & Minhat, M. (2013). Corporate disclosure quality in Malaysia. International Journal of Education and Research, 1,

The objective of this study is to examine the quality of corporate disclosure in the annual reports of
Malaysian public listed companies. It reviewed the reports published by the Malaysian Institute of
Accountants from 2006-2012 on the common findi... Read More about Corporate disclosure quality in Malaysia.

'"The Difference Between Us": Conrad, Ford, Wells and the English Novel' (2013)
Journal Article
Dryden, L. (2013). '"The Difference Between Us": Conrad, Ford, Wells and the English Novel'. Studies in the Novel, 45, 214-33

The focus of this paper is H. G. Wells’s brief friendship with Joseph Conrad in the closing years of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. It was a friendship that would end in resentment, estrangement, and much disagreement ov... Read More about '"The Difference Between Us": Conrad, Ford, Wells and the English Novel'.

The Local Governance of Social Cohesion in EuropeINTERNATIONAL COMPARISON - LOCALISE programme WP4 Comparative report (2013)
Report
Fuertes, V., & McQuaid, R. W. (2013). The Local Governance of Social Cohesion in EuropeINTERNATIONAL COMPARISON - LOCALISE programme WP4 Comparative report. Edinburgh, Scotland: European Commission

Local Worlds of Social Cohesion - The Local Dimension of Integrated Social and Employment Policy, LOCALISE for short, is a Seventh Framework collaborative research project funded by the European Commission (localise-research.eu for details).

The... Read More about The Local Governance of Social Cohesion in EuropeINTERNATIONAL COMPARISON - LOCALISE programme WP4 Comparative report.

Moving to manage: A mixed methods study of later life relocation into supported housing (2013)
Thesis
Kelly, C. N. Moving to manage: A mixed methods study of later life relocation into supported housing. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6449

This study describes relocation experiences of older people moving to supported housing in Scotland focusing on the nature of support. Using mixed methods, Phase one involved a Scottish cross-sectional survey of all people aged 65 and over moving int... Read More about Moving to manage: A mixed methods study of later life relocation into supported housing.

Thermochromic dyes and sunlight activating systems - An alternative means to induce colour change. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ledendal, M., Christie, R. M., & Vettese-Forster, S. (2013, July). Thermochromic dyes and sunlight activating systems - An alternative means to induce colour change. Presented at AIC Colour 2013 ’Bringing Colour to Life’ Congress,

The general purpose of this work is to investigate the potential of a mobile phone to capture soil colour images and process them, returning the corresponding Munsell colour coordi- nates from the digital RGB captured images, and also estimate the tr... Read More about Thermochromic dyes and sunlight activating systems - An alternative means to induce colour change..

Customer retention through the equal incorporation of continuous improvement(CI), culture and customer service (2013)
Thesis
McCrory, B. Customer retention through the equal incorporation of continuous improvement(CI), culture and customer service. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6439

Customer retention has long been considered an important element in achieving competitive advantage for business organisations. The increasingly turbulent economic environment has brought this again to the fore for many organisations.
Through the de... Read More about Customer retention through the equal incorporation of continuous improvement(CI), culture and customer service.

Process Costing: Part Two (2013)
Journal Article
Steven, G. (2013). Process Costing: Part Two. Financial Management -London-, 50-51

Biomass derived ionic liquids: synthesis from natural organic acids, characterization, toxicity, biodegradation and use as solvents for catalytic hydrogenation processes (2013)
Journal Article
Ferlin, N., Courty, M., Gatard, S., Spulak, M., Quilty, B., Beadham, I., Ghavre, M., Haiß, A., Kümmerer, K., Gathergood, N., & Bouquillon, S. (2013). Biomass derived ionic liquids: synthesis from natural organic acids, characterization, toxicity, biodegradation and use as solvents for catalytic hydrogenation processes. Tetrahedron, 69(30), 6150-6161. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.tet.2013.05.054

Ionic liquids with natural organic derived anions (l-lactate, l-tartrate, malonate, succinate, l-malate, pyruvate, d-glucuronate, d-galacturonate) were easily prepared from tetrabutylammonium hydroxide and an excess of the corresponding acid with goo... Read More about Biomass derived ionic liquids: synthesis from natural organic acids, characterization, toxicity, biodegradation and use as solvents for catalytic hydrogenation processes.

Evolution Feature Oriented Model Driven Product Line Engineering Approach for Synergistic and Dynamic Service Evolution in Clouds: Pattern Data Structure (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, Z., & Chalmers, K. (2013, July). Evolution Feature Oriented Model Driven Product Line Engineering Approach for Synergistic and Dynamic Service Evolution in Clouds: Pattern Data Structure. Presented at 2013 Seventh International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems

Evolution pattern will be defined as an Xml
Schema document, the generation of pattern aspect is
the process of generating xml instance from its related
Xml Schema definition document. The process can be
iterative until all the evolution requirem... Read More about Evolution Feature Oriented Model Driven Product Line Engineering Approach for Synergistic and Dynamic Service Evolution in Clouds: Pattern Data Structure.

Perspectives of person-centred care (2013)
Journal Article
Steenbergen, E. E., van der Steen, R.-M., Smith, S., Bright, C., & Kaaijk, M. M. (2013). Perspectives of person-centred care. Nursing Standard, 27(48), 35-41. https://doi.org/10.7748/ns2013.07.27.48.35.e7799

Aim
To ascertain and compare the perspectives of students and lecturers at Edinburgh Napier University and Hanze University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands, regarding person-centred care.

Method
Data were collected using face-to-face, str... Read More about Perspectives of person-centred care.

Inflammatory bowel disease in older people (2013)
Journal Article
Smith, G. D. (2013). Inflammatory bowel disease in older people. Gastrointestinal Nursing, 11(6), 31-35. https://doi.org/10.12968/gasn.2013.11.6.31

The physiological process of ageing can lead to a number of health challenges, including a deterioration of gastrointestinal functions and increase in digestive disorders. Therefore, although the occurrence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is qui... Read More about Inflammatory bowel disease in older people.

Optical fibre-based sensor technology for humidity and moisture measurement: Review of recent progress (2013)
Journal Article
Alwis, L., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. (2013). Optical fibre-based sensor technology for humidity and moisture measurement: Review of recent progress. Measurement : journal of the International Measurement Confederation, 46(10), 4052-4074. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2013.07.030

Humidity and moisture sensing is becoming increasingly important in industry and through a wide spectrum of applications and a review of research activity in the field across a range of technologies was presented previously by some of the authors. Re... Read More about Optical fibre-based sensor technology for humidity and moisture measurement: Review of recent progress.

Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Iron Homeostasis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (2013)
Journal Article
Martínez-Pastor, M., De Llanos, R., Romero, A., & Puig, S. (2013). Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Iron Homeostasis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 14(8), 15785-15809. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms140815785

Iron is an essential micronutrient for all eukaryotic organisms because it participates as a redox cofactor in a wide variety of biological processes. Recent studies in Saccharomyces cerevisiae have shown that in response to iron deficiency, an RNA-b... Read More about Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Iron Homeostasis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.