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The Slow Death of Formal Learning: A Polemic (2010)
Journal Article
McGuire, D., & Gubbins, C. (2010). The Slow Death of Formal Learning: A Polemic. Human Resource Development Review, 9(3), 249-265. https://doi.org/10.1177/1534484310371444

Over recent years, approaches to education and training have become more informal, situated, outcome focused and experiential. Within this context, formal learning now plays a greatly diminished role, being supplanted by activity-based and technologi... Read More about The Slow Death of Formal Learning: A Polemic.

Positive Effects of Vegetation: Urban Heat Island (UHI) and Green Roofs (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Susca, T., Gaffin, S. R., & Dell'Osso, G. R. (2010, June). Positive Effects of Vegetation: Urban Heat Island (UHI) and Green Roofs. Presented at Urban Environmental Pollution 2010. Overcoming Obstacles to Sustainability and Quality of Life

This paper attempts to evaluate the positive effects of vegetation with a multi-scale approach: an urban and a building scale. Monitoring the urban heat island in four areas of New York City, we have found an average of 2 °C difference of temperature... Read More about Positive Effects of Vegetation: Urban Heat Island (UHI) and Green Roofs.

The development of a hybrid racking panel - appraisal of methods for strength and stiffness calculation. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Leitch, K., & Hairstans, R. (2010). The development of a hybrid racking panel - appraisal of methods for strength and stiffness calculation. In 11th World Conference on Timber Engineering 2010

Throughout the U.K, Timber Platform Frame is increasingly being utilized in the high volume, low cost housing market. Here, the client’s desire for fully detached housing often leads to narrow properties with openings concentrated in the shorter wall... Read More about The development of a hybrid racking panel - appraisal of methods for strength and stiffness calculation..

Structural performance of external timber cladding. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crawford, D., Hairstans, R., & Davies, I. (2010). Structural performance of external timber cladding. In 11th World Conference on Timber Engineering 2010 (WCTE 2010) (2354-2358)

Although timber cladding has been used for centuries, the current design guidance for timber cladding has received very little research attention with regards to structural performance. Due to the growing demand in several countries for medium rise t... Read More about Structural performance of external timber cladding..

Designing Unesco Culture: Internationalism and the Global Imagination (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K. (2010, June). Designing Unesco Culture: Internationalism and the Global Imagination. Paper presented at 8th Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference (Association of Cultural Studies), Hong Kong

Amidst the rise of sensory rather than creative discourses that seek to categorise and re-evaluate cultural encounters with and within the city, it is timely to explore how frameworks produce ideals of authenticity, and how these ideals are bound up... Read More about Designing Unesco Culture: Internationalism and the Global Imagination.

The development of entrepreneurial culture - a Polish case (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Osowska, R. (2010, June). The development of entrepreneurial culture - a Polish case. Paper presented at The 2nd International Workshop on Entrepreneurship, Culture, Finance and Economic Development, Cartagena, Spain

Abstract not available.

Using E-portfolio as a Reflective Assessment Tool (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gordon, P. (2010, June). Using E-portfolio as a Reflective Assessment Tool. Presented at Enhancing Learning through Assessment, Higher Education Academy, Robert Gordon University

Individualised Support for Learning through e -Portfolios (ISLE) is a collaborative project which is funded and managed on behalf of the Scottish Funding Council (SFC). The philosophy behind this project is to transform the experience of students thr... Read More about Using E-portfolio as a Reflective Assessment Tool.

The Impact of a Faculty Learning Community on the Academic Identity of a Group of University Teachers (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tierney, A. (2010, June). The Impact of a Faculty Learning Community on the Academic Identity of a Group of University Teachers. Paper presented at Academic Identities for the 21st Century, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

In 2006, a Faculty Learning Community (FLC) was set up at the University of Glasgow (Bell et al, 2006). Using the Miami model proposed by Cox (2004), the purpose of the FLC was two-fold; to bring together a group of University Teachers (UT), a new ac... Read More about The Impact of a Faculty Learning Community on the Academic Identity of a Group of University Teachers.

Inflammatory tendencies and overproduction of IL-17 in the colon of young NOD mice are counteracted with diet change (2010)
Journal Article
Alam, C., Valkonen, S., Palagani, V., Jalava, J., Eerola, E., & Hänninen, A. (2010). Inflammatory tendencies and overproduction of IL-17 in the colon of young NOD mice are counteracted with diet change. Diabetes, 59(9), 2237—2246. https://doi.org/10.2337/db10-0147

Objective
Dietary factors influence diabetes development in the NOD mouse. Diet affects the composition of microbiota in the distal intestine, which may subsequently influence intestinal immune homeostasis. However, the specific effects of antidiabe... Read More about Inflammatory tendencies and overproduction of IL-17 in the colon of young NOD mice are counteracted with diet change.

From anxiety to empowerment: a Learning Community of University Teachers (2010)
Journal Article
MacKenzie, J., Bell, S., Bohan, J., Brown, A., Burke, J., Cogdell, B., Jamieson, S., McAdam, J., McKerlie, R., Morrow, L., Paschke, B., Rea, P., & Tierney, A. (2010). From anxiety to empowerment: a Learning Community of University Teachers. Teaching in Higher Education, 15(3), 273-284. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562511003740825

Increasing numbers of ‘teaching-only’ staff are being appointed in higher education institutions in the UK. At one research-intensive university, a new category of academic staff was recently introduced: University Teachers, who are required to engag... Read More about From anxiety to empowerment: a Learning Community of University Teachers.

Made In Future - A Vision Of Things To Come, House of Lords London (2010)
Exhibition / Performance
Taylor, S. Made In Future - A Vision Of Things To Come, House of Lords London. Exhibited at London. 11 June 2010 - 11 June 2010. (Unpublished)

A Follow on showcase and reception at the House of Lords for the Made In Future UK event in Milan by the Materials KTN as part of a structural materials and the creative industries launch by Materials UK in 2010.

Invitation by the Materials KTN, T... Read More about Made In Future - A Vision Of Things To Come, House of Lords London.

The role of heritage tourism in the Shetland Islands (2010)
Journal Article
Leask, A., & Rihova, I. (2010). The role of heritage tourism in the Shetland Islands. International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, 4(2), 118-129. https://doi.org/10.1108/17506181011045190

Purpose – This paper aims to determine the role of heritage tourism in Shetland Island destination development and how this links to tourism public policy in island communities.
Design/methodology/approach – The study is conducted in the Shetland I... Read More about The role of heritage tourism in the Shetland Islands.

Examining Financial Service Performance through Quality Management Lens’. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kumar, M., & MacKerron, G. (2010, June). Examining Financial Service Performance through Quality Management Lens’. Paper presented at 2nd World P&OM Conference and 17th International EurOMA Conference on Managing Operations in Service Economies

Application of quality initiatives like Lean and Six Sigma is relatively new in UK
financial services (FS), and its application is receiving increasing importance in the
current climate of economic meltdown. This paper analyzes the quality manageme... Read More about Examining Financial Service Performance through Quality Management Lens’..

Evidence of Chlamydophila abortus vaccine strain 1B as a possible cause of ovine enzootic abortion (2010)
Journal Article
Wheelhouse, N., Aitchison, K., Laroucau, K., Thomson, J., & Longbottom, D. (2010). Evidence of Chlamydophila abortus vaccine strain 1B as a possible cause of ovine enzootic abortion. Vaccine, 28(35), 5657-5663. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2010.04.114

Chlamydophila abortus, the agent of ovine enzootic abortion (OEA), is a major cause of lamb mortality worldwide. Disease can be controlled through the use of vaccines based on the 1B temperature-sensitive mutant strain of C. abortus. This study inves... Read More about Evidence of Chlamydophila abortus vaccine strain 1B as a possible cause of ovine enzootic abortion.

Promoting the priorities of practitioner research engagement (2010)
Journal Article
Hall, H. (2010). Promoting the priorities of practitioner research engagement. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 42(2), 83-88. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000610363978

One of the aims of the Library and Information Science Research Coalition is to promote library and information science practitioner research. Successfully meeting this aim should result in greater use of the existing knowledge base and the creation... Read More about Promoting the priorities of practitioner research engagement.