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How Was Your Day? evaluating a conversational companion (2012)
Journal Article
Benyon, D., Gambäck, B., Hansen, P., Mival, O., & Webb, N. (2012). How Was Your Day? evaluating a conversational companion. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 4, 299-311. https://doi.org/10.1109/T-AFFC.2013.15

The “How Was Your Day” (HWYD) Companion is an embodied conversational agent that can discuss work-related issues, entering free-form dialogues that lack any clearly defined tasks and goals. The development of this type of Companion technology require... Read More about How Was Your Day? evaluating a conversational companion.

Time-dependent Hyperstar algorithm for robust vehicle navigation. (2012)
Journal Article
Bell, M. G. H., Trozzi, V., Hosseinloo, S. H., Gentile, G., & Fonzone, A. (2012). Time-dependent Hyperstar algorithm for robust vehicle navigation. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 46, 790-800. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2012.02.002

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..

The cost of dominance: suppressing subordinate reproduction affects the reproductive success of dominant female banded mongooses. (2012)
Journal Article
Bell, M. B. V., Nichols, H. J., Gilchrist, J., Cant, M. A., & Hodge, S. J. (2012). The cost of dominance: suppressing subordinate reproduction affects the reproductive success of dominant female banded mongooses. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279, 619-624. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.1093

Social species show considerable variation in the extent to which dominant females suppress subordinate reproduction. Much of this variation may be influenced by the cost of active suppression to dominants, who may be selected to balance the need to... Read More about The cost of dominance: suppressing subordinate reproduction affects the reproductive success of dominant female banded mongooses..

Compassion or speed, which is a more accurate indicator of healthcare quality in the emergency department from the patients’ perspective (2012)
Journal Article
Beattie, M., Atherton, I., McLennan, B., & Lauder, W. (2012). Compassion or speed, which is a more accurate indicator of healthcare quality in the emergency department from the patients’ perspective. International journal of person centered medicine, 2, 647-655

Rationale, aims and objectives: Devising indicators to measure quality of care is challenging in Emergency Departments (ED). It is difficult to measure aspects of quality which are less amenable to measurement; hence waiting time has often been reli... Read More about Compassion or speed, which is a more accurate indicator of healthcare quality in the emergency department from the patients’ perspective.

The relative influence of leading questions and negative feedback on response change on the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale (2): implications for forensic interviewing (2012)
Journal Article
Baxter, J., Charles, K. E., Martin, M., & McGroarty, A. (2012). The relative influence of leading questions and negative feedback on response change on the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale (2): implications for forensic interviewing. Psychology, Crime and Law, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2011.631538

The ‘Shift’ or response change measure of the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scales (GSS 1 and 2) is assumed primarily to indicate acceptance of the negative feedback component of the GSS procedure. Using an adapted version of the question set that bears... Read More about The relative influence of leading questions and negative feedback on response change on the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale (2): implications for forensic interviewing.

Measuring Concordance in Clinical Practice (2012)
Journal Article
Barron, D. T., & Snowden, A. (2012). Measuring Concordance in Clinical Practice. British Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 1, 88-94. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjmh.2012.1.2.88

This article describes the construction of a tool to measure concordance in clinical practice. The second of two parts, it details the strategic background underpinning concordance and expands the rationale as this relates to the construction of indi... Read More about Measuring Concordance in Clinical Practice.

Differences in self-assessed health by socioeconomic group amongst people with and without a history of cancer: an analysis using representative data from Scotland (2012)
Journal Article
Atherton, I., Evans, J., Dibben, C. J. L., Woods, L. M., & Hubbard, G. (2012). Differences in self-assessed health by socioeconomic group amongst people with and without a history of cancer: an analysis using representative data from Scotland. Journal of Cancer Survivorship, 6, 458-467. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11764-012-0226-x

Introduction

This paper considers socioeconomic inequalities in self-assessed health amongst people with and without a history of cancer using representative data from Scotland.

Methods

A cross-sectional analysis using the Scottish Health Su... Read More about Differences in self-assessed health by socioeconomic group amongst people with and without a history of cancer: an analysis using representative data from Scotland.

Narrative disclosure of corporate social responsibility in Islamic financial institutions (2012)
Journal Article
Aribi, Z. A., & Gao, S. S. (2012). Narrative disclosure of corporate social responsibility in Islamic financial institutions. Managerial Auditing Journal, 27, 199-222. https://doi.org/10.1108/02686901211189862

Purpose – This study aims to examine the influence of Islam on corporate social responsibility (CSR)
and corporate social responsibility disclosure (CSRD) in Islamic financial institutions (IFIs) with a
focus on an analysis of narrative reporting.... Read More about Narrative disclosure of corporate social responsibility in Islamic financial institutions.

The same as you? 200-2012 health outcomes evaluation report. (2012)
Report
Allan, L., Brown, J., Brown, M. & Stevenson, T. (2011). The same as you? 200-2012 health outcomes evaluation report. Edinburgh, Scotland: Scottish Government

The same as you? (SAY) (Scottish Executive, 2000) was launched by the
Scottish Executive in May 2000 and reviewed the services then available to
people with learning disabilities and people on the autism spectrum. It said
that people with learning... Read More about The same as you? 200-2012 health outcomes evaluation report..

Entrepreneurship training to promote start-ups and innovation in Bahrain (2012)
Journal Article
Al-Dairi, A., McQuaid, R. W., & Adams, J. (2012). Entrepreneurship training to promote start-ups and innovation in Bahrain. International journal of innovation and knowledge management in Middle East and North Africa, 1, 179-210

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate training and education support for entrepreneurship in Bahrain, using the case study of the Entrepreneurship Development Programme (EDP). Design/methodology/approach: The paper uses interviews, sec... Read More about Entrepreneurship training to promote start-ups and innovation in Bahrain.

A privacy preserving application acquisition protocol. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Akram, R. N., Markantonakis, K., & Mayes, K. (2012, June). A privacy preserving application acquisition protocol

In the smart card industry, the application acquisition process involves the card issuers and application providers. During this process, the respective card issuer reveals the identity of the smart card user to the individual application providers.... Read More about A privacy preserving application acquisition protocol..

Pseudorandom number generation in smart cards: an Implementation, performance and randomness analysis. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Akram, R. N., Markantonakis, K., & Mayes, K. (2012, May). Pseudorandom number generation in smart cards: an Implementation, performance and randomness analysis

Smart cards rely on pseudorandom number generators to provide uniqueness and freshness in their cryptographic services i.e. encryption and digital signatures. Their implementations are kept proprietary by smart card manufacturers in order to remain c... Read More about Pseudorandom number generation in smart cards: an Implementation, performance and randomness analysis..

Coopetitive architecture to support a dynamic and scalable NFC based mobile services architecture. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Akram, R. N., Markantonakis, K., & Mayes, K. (2012, October). Coopetitive architecture to support a dynamic and scalable NFC based mobile services architecture

Near Field Communication (NFC) has reinvigorated the multi-application smart card initiative. The NFC trials are relying on an extension of Issuer Centric Smart Card Model (ICOM) referred as Trusted Service Manager (TSM) architecture, which may creat... Read More about Coopetitive architecture to support a dynamic and scalable NFC based mobile services architecture..

Ideas that work: mobilizing Australian workers using a discourse of rights. (2012)
Journal Article
Ainsworth, S., Cutcher, L., & Thomas, R. (2012). Ideas that work: mobilizing Australian workers using a discourse of rights. International Journal of Human Resource Management, https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2012.666259

In this paper we focus on a potential mechanism for revitalizing unions’ influence as broader political actors: their use of familiar and appealing discourses to frame political campaigns. Through a discursive analysis of campaign texts, we show how... Read More about Ideas that work: mobilizing Australian workers using a discourse of rights..

The Scottish Mathematics Support Network (2012)
Journal Article
Ahmed, S., & Durkacz, K. (2012). The Scottish Mathematics Support Network. MSOR Connections, 12, 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.

Leadership in compassionate care programme: final report. (2012)
Report
Adamson, E., Dewar, B., Donaldson, J. H., Gentleman, M., Gray, M., Horsburgh, D., …Waugh, A. (2012). Leadership in compassionate care programme: final report. Edinburgh, Scotland: NHS Lothian/ Edinburgh Napier University

The Leadership in Compassionate Care programme is a collaborative venture between Edinburgh Napier University and NHS Lothian and is supported by a generous benefactor. The aim of the 3 year project is to ensure that compassionate nursing practice is... Read More about Leadership in compassionate care programme: final report..

Narratives of Travel and Tourism. (2012)
Book
(2012). J. Tivers, & T. Rakić (Eds.), Narratives of Travel and Tourism. Ashgate Publishing

Travel and tourism 'stories' have been told and recorded within every culture, in every period of oral and written history, and across the breadth of the fact/fiction continuum. Taking two broad themes as its starting point - travellers and their nar... Read More about Narratives of Travel and Tourism..

Maritime Logistics: A Complete Guide to Effective Shipping and Port Management. (2012)
Book
(2012). D. Song, & P. Panayides (Eds.), Maritime Logistics: A Complete Guide to Effective Shipping and Port Management. Kogan Page

Maritime Logistics examines the development, knowledge and practices taking place in logistics and supply chain within the shipping and port industry. It includes guidance on shipping lines, containers, tankers and ports

Differential effect of transient global ischaemia on the levels of GABA(A) receptor subunit mRNAs in young and older rats. (2012)
Journal Article
Montori, S., Dos Anjos, S., Poole, A. V., Regueiro-Purrinos, M. M., Llorente, I. L., Darlison, M. G., …Martínez-Villayandre, B. (2012). Differential effect of transient global ischaemia on the levels of GABA(A) receptor subunit mRNAs in young and older rats. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology, 38, 710-722. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2990.2012.01254.x

Aims: This study has investigated how global brain ischaemia/reperfusion (I/R) modifies levels of mRNAs encoding GABA(A) receptor alpha1, beta2 and gamma2 subunits and glutamic acid decarboxylase 65 (GAD65) in an age- and structure-dependent manner.... Read More about Differential effect of transient global ischaemia on the levels of GABA(A) receptor subunit mRNAs in young and older rats..