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An ethnographic exploration of the influences around participation in breast screening for women with learning disabilities (2012)
Thesis
Willis, D. An ethnographic exploration of the influences around participation in breast screening for women with learning disabilities. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/5543

Background Greater longevity means that many more women with learning disabilities (LD) are becoming eligible to participate in the NHS Breast Cancer Screening Programme (NHSBCSP). The NHSBCSP is used to detect early signs of breast cancer and is... Read More about An ethnographic exploration of the influences around participation in breast screening for women with learning disabilities.

Correlating service touch‐point preferences with engagement parameters (2012)
Journal Article
Ojiako, U., Chipulu, M., & Graesser, A. (2012). Correlating service touch‐point preferences with engagement parameters. Industrial Management and Data Systems, 112(5), 766-785. https://doi.org/10.1108/02635571211232334

Purpose This paper aims to contribute to extant research which emphasises the need for service suppliers to be able to leverage firm‐customer relationships through an understanding of the correlation between service touch‐points and engagement param... Read More about Correlating service touch‐point preferences with engagement parameters.

Energy Performance Assessment of Virtualization Technologies Using Small Environmental Monitoring Sensors (2012)
Journal Article
Liu, L., Masfary, O., & Antonopoulos, N. (2012). Energy Performance Assessment of Virtualization Technologies Using Small Environmental Monitoring Sensors. Sensors, 12(5), 6610-6628. https://doi.org/10.3390/s120506610

The increasing trends of electrical consumption within data centres are a growing concern for business owners as they are quickly becoming a large fraction of the total cost of ownership. Ultra small sensors could be deployed within a data centre to... Read More about Energy Performance Assessment of Virtualization Technologies Using Small Environmental Monitoring Sensors.

Self-management in cardiac patients after coronary angioplasty: A mixed methods study (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dawkes, S. (2012, May). Self-management in cardiac patients after coronary angioplasty: A mixed methods study. Poster presented at Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Post Graduate Research Conference, Edinburgh

Conditions required for spinning continuous fibres from cellulose nano-fibrils (2012)
Thesis
Hernandez, Z. Conditions required for spinning continuous fibres from cellulose nano-fibrils. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/5286

The thesis describes a programme of work to develop a novel cellulose based fibre. The most important innovative step in this work lies in the manufacture of the fibre from a chiral nematic suspension of plant based cellulose nano-fibrils. In the cou... Read More about Conditions required for spinning continuous fibres from cellulose nano-fibrils.

Beyond Risk: Social Sciences and Sustainability (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bratton, A. (2012, May). Beyond Risk: Social Sciences and Sustainability. Paper presented at Scottish Doctoral Colloquium in Business and Management, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

Cloud4Health. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, W. J., Fan, L., Ekonomou, E., & Lo, O. (2012, May). Cloud4Health. Paper presented at Symposium on the Future of e-Health

The cloud4health platform focuses on creating a next generation infrastructure which aims to integrate assisted living with primary and secondary health care, in order to reduce patient risks. This presentation outlines how it integrates assisted liv... Read More about Cloud4Health..

Towards a new health and social care information sharing architecture. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, W. J. (2012, May). Towards a new health and social care information sharing architecture

This presentation outlines the integration of the safi.re information sharing architecture.

The influence of inter-particle friction and the intermediate stress ratio on soil response under generalised stress conditions (2012)
Journal Article
Barreto, D., & O'Sullivan, C. (2012). The influence of inter-particle friction and the intermediate stress ratio on soil response under generalised stress conditions. Granular Matter, 14(4), 505-521. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10035-012-0354-z

Previous research studies have used either physical experiments or discrete element method (DEM) simulations to explore, independently, the influence of the coefficient of inter-particle friction (μ) and the intermediate stress ratio (b) on the behav... Read More about The influence of inter-particle friction and the intermediate stress ratio on soil response under generalised stress conditions.

Addressing the delivery of better care through development of a new dynamic professional forum. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Egan, S., & Waugh, A. (2012, May). Addressing the delivery of better care through development of a new dynamic professional forum. Poster presented at Delivering Better Care: NHS Lothian BEst Practice Conference

Miniaturized Tapered Slot Antenna With Signal Rejection in 5–6-GHz Band Using a Balun (2012)
Journal Article
Zhu, F., Gao, S. S., Ho, A. T. S., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., See, C. H., Li, J., & Xu, J. (2012). Miniaturized Tapered Slot Antenna With Signal Rejection in 5–6-GHz Band Using a Balun. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 11, 507-510. https://doi.org/10.1109/lawp.2012.2199276

A miniaturized elliptically tapered slot antenna fed by a novel balun is proposed for directional ultrawideband (UWB) applications. The feeding configuration consists of a stepped mi-crostrip line and a folded slotline connected with a circular slot.... Read More about Miniaturized Tapered Slot Antenna With Signal Rejection in 5–6-GHz Band Using a Balun.

The SUMO Pathway Promotes Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Proneural Factor Activity via a Direct Effect on the Zn Finger Protein Senseless (2012)
Journal Article
Chen, A., Powell, L. M., Huang, Y. C., Wang, P. Y., Kemp, S. E., & Jarman, A. P. (2012). The SUMO Pathway Promotes Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Proneural Factor Activity via a Direct Effect on the Zn Finger Protein Senseless. Molecular and Cellular Biology, 32(14), 2849-2860. https://doi.org/10.1128/mcb.06595-11

During development, proneural transcription factors of the basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) family are required to commit cells to a neural fate. In Drosophila neurogenesis, a key mechanism promoting sense organ precursor (SOP) fate is the synergy betw... Read More about The SUMO Pathway Promotes Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Proneural Factor Activity via a Direct Effect on the Zn Finger Protein Senseless.

Context-aware service utilisation in the clouds and energy conservation (2012)
Journal Article
Kiani, S. L., Anjum, A., Antonopoulos, N., & Knappmeyer, M. (2014). Context-aware service utilisation in the clouds and energy conservation. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 5(1), 111-131. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-012-0131-1

Ubiquitous computing environments are characterised by smart, interconnected artefacts embedded in our physical world that provide useful services to human inhabitants unobtrusively. Mobile devices are becoming the primary tools for human interaction... Read More about Context-aware service utilisation in the clouds and energy conservation.

An Aesthetic for Deliberating Online: Thinking Through “Universal Pragmatics” and “Dialogism” with Reference to Wikipedia (2012)
Journal Article
Cimini, N., & Burr, J. (2012). An Aesthetic for Deliberating Online: Thinking Through “Universal Pragmatics” and “Dialogism” with Reference to Wikipedia. Information Society, 28(3), 151-160. https://doi.org/10.1080/01972243.2012.669448

In this article we examine contributions to Wikipedia through the prism of two divergent critical theorists: Jürgen Habermas and Mikhail Bakhtin. We show that, in slightly dissimilar ways, these theorists came to consider an “aesthetic for democracy”... Read More about An Aesthetic for Deliberating Online: Thinking Through “Universal Pragmatics” and “Dialogism” with Reference to Wikipedia.

Comparison of the macrophage cell line NR8383 with primary lung macrophages (2012)
Journal Article
Wessels, A., Daly, P., Somers, G., Stone, V., Hutchison, G., & Hassall, D. (2012). Comparison of the macrophage cell line NR8383 with primary lung macrophages. Toxicology Letters, 211, S108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.toxlet.2012.03.403

A midwives guide to Turner Syndrome (2012)
Journal Article
Hollins Martin, C. J., & Smythe, A. (2012). A midwives guide to Turner Syndrome. British Journal of Midwifery, 20, 540-543

Turner syndrome (TS) is a cross-cultural genetic disorder that affects around 1 in 2500 women and is predominately associated with short stature and infertility. Classic TS occurs when one sex chromosome is missing (written as 45,X). In mosaic TS, th... Read More about A midwives guide to Turner Syndrome.

'The ‘lucky’ LME: the mediation of globalizing effects on employment relations in the Australian auto assembly and retail banking industries' (2012)
Journal Article
Cutcher, L., Kirsch, A., & Lansbury, R. (2012). 'The ‘lucky’ LME: the mediation of globalizing effects on employment relations in the Australian auto assembly and retail banking industries'. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 23, 1999-2015. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192/2012.668342

In liberal market economies such as Australia, we generally expect that global pressures will lead to an increasingly deregulated employment relations system reliant on market mechanisms. However, case study evidence from the Australian auto and b... Read More about 'The ‘lucky’ LME: the mediation of globalizing effects on employment relations in the Australian auto assembly and retail banking industries'.

A new semantic service discovery in service oriented architecture (SOA) (2012)
Journal Article
Esfandyari, A., & Barati, M. (2012). A new semantic service discovery in service oriented architecture (SOA). International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Information Security (IJCIIS), 3(5), 33-40

Development of a method for the detection of GHB and other drugs using a handheld Raman Spectroscopy device (2012)
Thesis
O'Connor, L. Development of a method for the detection of GHB and other drugs using a handheld Raman Spectroscopy device. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/5260

The main piece of legislation which addresses illicit drugs in the UK is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. The Act was designed to prevent the use of drugs which are 'capable of having harmful effects sufficient to constitute a social problem'. The Roa... Read More about Development of a method for the detection of GHB and other drugs using a handheld Raman Spectroscopy device.

TV drama: Doctors Series 14 Episode 24: Fragile Strength (2012)
Other
Bishop, D. (2012). TV drama: Doctors Series 14 Episode 24: Fragile Strength

Desperate to help her patient confront a debilitating illness, Elaine discovers that the cause might be very close to home. Heston and Godfrey have one last chance to go over their case before the trial, and Martin has a proposal for Julia.