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Life cycle assessment of aluminium-clad timber windows. (2002)
Thesis
Asif, M. Life cycle assessment of aluminium-clad timber windows. (Thesis). Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/2505

Over the last century a temperature rise of 0.6 C m global climate and the affiliated greenhouse effects have inflicted enormous impacts in the form of natural catastrophes, economical losses, health problems and seasonal disorder. If human activitie... Read More about Life cycle assessment of aluminium-clad timber windows..

Human Rights and Scots Law. (2002)
Book
Ashton, C., & Finch, V. (2001). Human Rights and Scots Law. W Green

Human Rights and Scots Law is a straightforward account of the legal protection of human rights in Scotland. The book concentrates on those areas where substantive or procedural rules are different from the rest of the UK. With explanation of the rel... Read More about Human Rights and Scots Law..

Towards a scalable broadcast in wormhole-switched mesh networks (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Dubai, A. Y., Ould-Khaoua, M., & Mackenzie, L. M. (2002). Towards a scalable broadcast in wormhole-switched mesh networks. In Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (840-844). https://doi.org/10.1145/508791.508955

Broadcast algorithms for wormhole--switched meshes have been widely reported in the literature. However, most of these algorithms handle broadcast in a sequential manner and do not scale well with the network size. As a consequence, many parallel ap... Read More about Towards a scalable broadcast in wormhole-switched mesh networks.

Finding coordinated atrial activity during ventricular fibrillation using wavelet decomposition. (2002)
Journal Article
Addison, P., Watson, J. N., Clegg, G. R., Steen, P. A., & Robertson, C. E. (2002). Finding coordinated atrial activity during ventricular fibrillation using wavelet decomposition. IEEE engineering in medicine & biology magazine the quarterly magazine of the Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society, 21, 58-65. https://doi.org/10.1109/51.993194

Until recently, the ECG recorded during ventricular fibrillation was thought to represent disorganized and unstructured electrical activity of the heart. Using a new signal analysis technique based on wavelet decomposition, we have begun to reveal pr... Read More about Finding coordinated atrial activity during ventricular fibrillation using wavelet decomposition..

Load transfer mechanism in punched metal plate timber connections. (2002)
Thesis
Abdulrahman, N. A. H. Load transfer mechanism in punched metal plate timber connections. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6193

The load capacity of the punched metal plate timber joints is established, in general, by empirical means as a result of destructive testing in accordance with relevant national standards. The basis of tests is tensile or compressive loading applied... Read More about Load transfer mechanism in punched metal plate timber connections..

Acquisition, efficiency and scale economies: An analysis of the British bus industry (2002)
Journal Article
Cowie, J. (2002). Acquisition, efficiency and scale economies: An analysis of the British bus industry. Transport Reviews, 22(2), 147-157. https://doi.org/10.1080/014416400110076267

The British Bus industry has undergone considerable transformation since privatization. Five major operators have emerged to dominate the market, a position almost exclusively attained through acquisition. This paper reviews the economies of scale ar... Read More about Acquisition, efficiency and scale economies: An analysis of the British bus industry.

Delivering public services through digital television. (2002)
Journal Article
Smith, C., & Webster, W. (2002). Delivering public services through digital television. Public Money and Management, 22(4), 25-32. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9302.00326

Digital television (DTV) is central to the future electronic delivery of public services in the UK. Central government has been actively promoting the use of DTV in the public sector, for example in policy statements and by funding pilot schemes to b... Read More about Delivering public services through digital television..

News Cultures and New Social Movements: radical journalism and the mainstream media (2002)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2002). News Cultures and New Social Movements: radical journalism and the mainstream media. Journalism Studies, 3(4), 491-505. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670022000019209

Radical media can be viewed as an extremely democratic form of communication, where people normally denied access to the mainstream media are able to speak on issues that concern them. Radical media are especially important for new social movements,... Read More about News Cultures and New Social Movements: radical journalism and the mainstream media.

Daylighting performance of tubular solar light pipes: measurement, modelling and validation. (2002)
Thesis
Zhang, X. Daylighting performance of tubular solar light pipes: measurement, modelling and validation. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3602

The innovation of natural daylighting light pipe took place more than twenty years ago. Since then its daylighting performance has been reported in a number of studies. To date, however, no mathematical method that includes the effect of straight-r... Read More about Daylighting performance of tubular solar light pipes: measurement, modelling and validation..

The congruence of quality values in higher education. (2002)
Thesis
Telford, A. R. The congruence of quality values in higher education. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4279

Higher education and more specifically University education is being called to account more and more. It follows therefore that the Universities must present information on the quality of service which they provide as perceived by their customers a... Read More about The congruence of quality values in higher education..

Video telephony for the deaf: analysis and development of an optimised video compression product. (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Muir, L. J., & Richardson, I. E. G. (2002, December). Video telephony for the deaf: analysis and development of an optimised video compression product. Presented at Tenth ACM international conference on Multimedia

The multimedia capability of video telephony and video conferencing systems has many applications and benefits. This paper describes research and development that aims to optimise video compression systems for a specific application - personal commun... Read More about Video telephony for the deaf: analysis and development of an optimised video compression product..

Embedding context of use in CVE design. (2002)
Journal Article
Turner, S., & Turner, P. (2002). Embedding context of use in CVE design. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 11(6), 665-676. https://doi.org/10.1162/105474602321050767

A consideration of eventual context of use is crucially important for the success of virtual environments destined for real-world organizations, yet it is frequently absent from accounts of the design of such applications. We describe how contextual... Read More about Embedding context of use in CVE design..

The PROWQM physical–biological model with benthic–pelagic coupling applied to the northern North Sea (2002)
Journal Article
Lee, J., Tett, P., Jones, K., Jones, S., Lutyen, P., Smith, C., & Wild-Allen, K. (2002). The PROWQM physical–biological model with benthic–pelagic coupling applied to the northern North Sea. Journal of Sea Research, 48(4), 287-331. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1385-1101%2802%2900182-X

PROWQM, a 1-D depth resolving model which couples physical and microbiological processes in the water column with sedimentation/resuspension and benthic mineralisation processes, has been used to simulate seasonal changes of chlorophyll, nutrients an... Read More about The PROWQM physical–biological model with benthic–pelagic coupling applied to the northern North Sea.

Size constraints in a real food web: predator, parasite and prey body-size relationships (2002)
Journal Article
Leaper, R., & Huxham, M. (2002). Size constraints in a real food web: predator, parasite and prey body-size relationships. Oikos, 99(3), 443-456. https://doi.org/10.1034/j.1600-0706.2002.10888.x

In the absence of well-resolved food webs that include both information on predators and parasites, body-size has been proposed as the biological mechanism underlying the assumption of a trophic hierarchy in the cascade model and its variants. We sho... Read More about Size constraints in a real food web: predator, parasite and prey body-size relationships.

A randomized controlled crossover study of manual lymphatic drainage therapy in women with breast cancer-related lymphoedema (2002)
Journal Article
Williams, A. F., Vadgama, A., Franks, P. J., & Mortimer, P. S. (2002). A randomized controlled crossover study of manual lymphatic drainage therapy in women with breast cancer-related lymphoedema. European Journal of Cancer Care, 11(4), 254-261. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2354.2002.00312.x

This paper describes a randomized controlled crossover study examining the effects of manual lymphatic drainage (MLD) in 31 women with breast cancer-related lymphoedema. MLD is a type of massage used in combination with skin care, support/compression... Read More about A randomized controlled crossover study of manual lymphatic drainage therapy in women with breast cancer-related lymphoedema.

Combined Petri net modelling and AI based heuristic hybrid search for flexible manufacturing systems—part 1. Petri net modelling and heuristic search (2002)
Journal Article
Yu, H., Reyes, A., Cang, S., & Lloyd, S. (2003). Combined Petri net modelling and AI based heuristic hybrid search for flexible manufacturing systems—part 1. Petri net modelling and heuristic search. Computers and Industrial Engineering, 44(4), 527-543. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0360-8352%2802%2900212-7

This two-part paper presents modelling and scheduling approaches for flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) using Petri nets (PNs) and artificial intelligence (AI) based heuristic search methods. In part I, the description of FMS formulation that will... Read More about Combined Petri net modelling and AI based heuristic hybrid search for flexible manufacturing systems—part 1. Petri net modelling and heuristic search.

Evidence of Al-Cr interactions affecting Cr-leaching from waste incineration ashes (2002)
Journal Article
Cai, Z., Chen, D., Lundtorp, K., & Christensen, T. H. (2003). Evidence of Al-Cr interactions affecting Cr-leaching from waste incineration ashes. Waste Management, 23(1), 89-95. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0956-053X%2802%2900113-7

Leaching tests on flue gas ashes from waste incineration showed low leaching of Cr from ashes that under moist anaerobic conditions also produced hydrogen gas. In some cases, also the redox levels (aerobic/anaerobic conditions) during the leaching te... Read More about Evidence of Al-Cr interactions affecting Cr-leaching from waste incineration ashes.

Normalisation of gait data in children (2002)
Journal Article
Stansfield, B., Hillman, S., Hazlewood, M., Lawson, A., Mann, A., Loudon, I., & Robb, J. (2003). Normalisation of gait data in children. Gait and Posture, 17(1), 81-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0966-6362%2802%2900062-0

The comparative effect of semi-dimensional (SD) and non-dimensional (ND) normalisation on the results of a longitudinal study of gait in 5–12-year old children was investigated. The use of both height and leg length in the normalisation was examined.... Read More about Normalisation of gait data in children.