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Health and safety risks in the design and construction of magnetic shielding for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) suites (2012)
Thesis
Price, T. R. Health and safety risks in the design and construction of magnetic shielding for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) suites. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/5032

Once energised, and even when the equipment is not imaging, magnets used in magnetic resonance imaging will produce a static magnetic field that extends in three dimensions around the magnet. This static magnetic field is invisible; it is impossible... Read More about Health and safety risks in the design and construction of magnetic shielding for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) suites.

From classical psychodynamics to evidence synthesis: the motif of repression and a contemporary understanding of a key mediatory mechanism in psychosis (2012)
Journal Article
Fleming, M. P., & Martin, C. R. (2012). From classical psychodynamics to evidence synthesis: the motif of repression and a contemporary understanding of a key mediatory mechanism in psychosis. Current psychiatry reports, 14(3), 252-258. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-012-0260-4

The stress vulnerability model has proven to be a politically important model for two reasons. It has provided the framework that defines a temporal and dynamic process whereby a person’s uniquely determined biopsychosocial vulnerability to schizophr... Read More about From classical psychodynamics to evidence synthesis: the motif of repression and a contemporary understanding of a key mediatory mechanism in psychosis.

The Opportunities and Challenges of the Changing Public Services Landscape for the Third Sector in Scotland: A Longitudinal Study: Year Two Report (2012)
Report
Osborne, S. P., Bond, S., Dutton, M., & Honore, E. (2012). The Opportunities and Challenges of the Changing Public Services Landscape for the Third Sector in Scotland: A Longitudinal Study: Year Two Report. Edinburgh: Scottish Government

The report provides findings from the second year of a three year qualitative longitudinal study on the third sector in Scotland.

The "Coven of the Articulate": orality and community in Anne Rice's vampire fiction (2012)
Journal Article
Wasson, S. (2012). The "Coven of the Articulate": orality and community in Anne Rice's vampire fiction. Journal of Popular Culture, 45(1), 197-213. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5931.2011.00919.x

Anne Rice's twelve vampire “autobiographies” continue to be hugely influential for vampire fiction and other artifacts of popular culture. This article explores two tropes which structure and enable the vampire communities throughout the twelve text... Read More about The "Coven of the Articulate": orality and community in Anne Rice's vampire fiction.

Assessing TCE Source Bioremediation by Geostatistical Analysis of a Flux Fence (2012)
Journal Article
Cai, Z., Wilson, R. D., & Lerner, D. N. (2012). Assessing TCE Source Bioremediation by Geostatistical Analysis of a Flux Fence. Groundwater, 50(6), 908-917. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-6584.2012.00916.x

Mass discharge across transect planes is increasingly used as a metric for performance assessment of in situ groundwater remediation systems. Mass discharge estimates using concentrations measured in multilevel transects are often made by assuming a... Read More about Assessing TCE Source Bioremediation by Geostatistical Analysis of a Flux Fence.

Case Study: moving towards an e-health platform to store NHS patient Information in the cloud. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, W. J., Fan, L., Ekonomou, E., Lo, O., & Thuemmler, C. (2012, February). Case Study: moving towards an e-health platform to store NHS patient Information in the cloud. Paper presented at Cloud Computing in the Public Sector: The Way Forward

Case Study: Moving Towards an e-health Platform to Store NHS Patient Information in the Cloud The NHS pilot scheme to store patient information in the Cloud How can the health sector can gain greater value from its infrastructure by moving services i... Read More about Case Study: moving towards an e-health platform to store NHS patient Information in the cloud..

Designing tangible interaction for embodied facilitation (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Esteves, A. (2012). Designing tangible interaction for embodied facilitation. . https://doi.org/10.1145/2148131.2148231

Designing and evaluating tangible interaction is a challenging ad-hoc process. This paper argues that if the field of tangible interaction is to continue to develop, it will need to adopt design methodologies and guidelines that reflect its unique fe... Read More about Designing tangible interaction for embodied facilitation.

'Acute concerns': Is the mental health workforce equipped and supported to meet complex needs? (2012)
Journal Article
Hughes, E., Brown, Y., & Tummey, R. (2012). 'Acute concerns': Is the mental health workforce equipped and supported to meet complex needs?. Advances in dual diagnosis, 5(1), 15-22. https://doi.org/10.1108/17570971211225136

Purpose The focus of this paper is to consider the findings of a survey, which aims to identify the types of training that acute mental health staff could access, in relation to workforce development and substance misuse issues in acute mental healt... Read More about 'Acute concerns': Is the mental health workforce equipped and supported to meet complex needs?.

Involvement of Parachlamydia in bovine abortions in Scotland (2012)
Journal Article
Howie, F., Gidlow, J., Greub, G., Wheelhouse, N., Dagleish, M., & Longbottom, D. (2012). Involvement of Parachlamydia in bovine abortions in Scotland. Veterinary Journal, 193(2), 586-588. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tvjl.2012.01.008

Bovine abortion represents a major animal welfare issue and a cause of substantial economic loss yet the rate of successful diagnosis remains low. Chlamydia-related organisms including Parachlamydia have recently emerged as putative cattle abortifaci... Read More about Involvement of Parachlamydia in bovine abortions in Scotland.

Online video in clinical skills education of oral medication administration for undergraduate student nurses: A mixed methods, prospective cohort study (2012)
Journal Article
Holland, A., Smith, F. C., McCrossan, G., Adamson, E., Watt, S., & Penny, K. I. (2013). Online video in clinical skills education of oral medication administration for undergraduate student nurses: A mixed methods, prospective cohort study. Nurse Education Today, 33(6), 663-670. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2012.01.006

Background Improvements in the safety of the prescribing, dispensing and administration of medicines are identified as a priority across international healthcare systems. It is therefore essential that higher education institutions play their part i... Read More about Online video in clinical skills education of oral medication administration for undergraduate student nurses: A mixed methods, prospective cohort study.

Clinical and physical signs for identification of impending and current water-loss dehydration in older people (2012)
Other
Chassagne, P., Olde Rikkert, M. G., Hunter, P. R., Hooper, L., Attreed, N. J., Campbell, W. W., …Hunter, P. R. (2012). Clinical and physical signs for identification of impending and current water-loss dehydration in older people

This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: .To determine the diagnostic accuracy of state, minimally invasive clinical and physical signs (or sets of signs) to be used as screening tests for detecting... Read More about Clinical and physical signs for identification of impending and current water-loss dehydration in older people.

Adaptive psychometric scaling for video quality assessment (2012)
Journal Article
Menkovski, V., & Liotta, A. (2012). Adaptive psychometric scaling for video quality assessment. Signal Processing: Image Communication, 27(8), 788-799. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.image.2012.01.004

Video quality estimation is crucial for the efficient management of video delivery services. Particularly with the advances in screen technology and content delivery networks, getting an accurate estimation of the video quality as it is actually perc... Read More about Adaptive psychometric scaling for video quality assessment.

Routing metrics for wireless mesh networks: a survey (2012)
Book Chapter
Zhao, L., & Al-Dubai, A. (2012). Routing metrics for wireless mesh networks: a survey. In Recent Advances in Computer Science and Information Engineering (311-316). (127). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25769-8_45

Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) is a key emerging technology to construct next generation wireless multi-hop network. It combines the advantages of both mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) and traditional fixed network, attracting significant industrial and ac... Read More about Routing metrics for wireless mesh networks: a survey.

Homeokinetic Reinforcement Learning (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, S. C., & Herrmann, J. M. (2012). Homeokinetic Reinforcement Learning. In F. Schwenker, & E. Trentin (Eds.), Partially Supervised Learning. PSL 2011 (82-91). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28258-4_9

In order to find a control policy for an autonomous robot by reinforcement learning, the utility of a behaviour can be revealed locally through a modulation of the motor command by probing actions. For robots with many degrees of freedom, this type o... Read More about Homeokinetic Reinforcement Learning.

Advanced inventory planning and forecasting solutions: a case study of the UKTLCS Chinook maintenance programme (2012)
Journal Article
Downing, M., Chipulu, M., Kaparis, D., & Ojiako, U. (2014). Advanced inventory planning and forecasting solutions: a case study of the UKTLCS Chinook maintenance programme. Production Planning and Control, 25(1), 73-90. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2012.658451

This article which advances on earlier published work by the authors, evaluates the forecasting performance of the inventory planning and forecasting support system used by Boeing's United Kingdom Through Life Customer Support to manage inventory for... Read More about Advanced inventory planning and forecasting solutions: a case study of the UKTLCS Chinook maintenance programme.

‘Sarah Lucas and the photographic gaze’. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2012, February). ‘Sarah Lucas and the photographic gaze’. Presented at Stills Gallery, Theory of the Image, Stills Gallery

Wind resource assessment: statistical and computational fluid-dynamic analysis (2012)
Thesis
Irshad, W. Wind resource assessment: statistical and computational fluid-dynamic analysis. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/5329

Wind is an important source of renewable energy and is widely available, despite the changing condition. In recent years a growing number of manufacturers have produced small wind turbines suitable for utilisation by individual householders or small... Read More about Wind resource assessment: statistical and computational fluid-dynamic analysis.