All Outputs (1474)

The role of the nurse prescriber in optimising medicine adherence in the treatment of hepatitis C: A case study (2016)
Journal Article
Chalmers, L., & Paterson, R. (2016). The role of the nurse prescriber in optimising medicine adherence in the treatment of hepatitis C: A case study. Nurse Prescribing, 14(3), 148-153. https://doi.org/10.12968/npre.2016.14.3.148

In 2006, the Hepatitis C Action Plan for Scotland highlighted the need to improve successful treatment outcomes for people with the condition (Scottish
Government, 2006). The publication of the plan coincided with legislative changes extending nurse... Read More about The role of the nurse prescriber in optimising medicine adherence in the treatment of hepatitis C: A case study.

An evaluation of the Jacksonville developmental center closure (2016)
Report
Vasudevan, V., Lulinski, A., Heller, T., Owen, R., Rizzolo, M. K., Spassiani, N., Schmidt, A. J., & Friedman, C. (in press). An evaluation of the Jacksonville developmental center closure. The Illinois Department of Public Health

In January 2012, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn announced his rebalancing initiative in an effort to move away from institutionally-based services toward community-based supports for people with IDD. The goal was to close four State Operated Developmen... Read More about An evaluation of the Jacksonville developmental center closure.

Won’t bow: Don’t know how: Treme, New Orleans and American exceptionalism (2016)
Journal Article
Keeble, A. (2016). Won’t bow: Don’t know how: Treme, New Orleans and American exceptionalism. European Journal of American Culture, 35(1), 51-67. https://doi.org/10.1386/ejac.35.1.51_1

This article examines the depiction of exceptionalism in David Simon and Eric Overmeyer’s television series, Treme, and argues that the series uses its New Orleans microcosm to articulate wider points about American society. It begins with the unlike... Read More about Won’t bow: Don’t know how: Treme, New Orleans and American exceptionalism.

In search of inhospitable knowledge. (2016)
Journal Article
Skokic, V., Lynch, P., & Morrison, A. (2016). In search of inhospitable knowledge. Hospitality and Society, 6(1), 31-54. https://doi.org/10.1386/hosp.6.1.31_1

The aim of this article is to discuss the key issues which have had significant influence on a PhD research student journey from positivism to interpretivism and the subsequent impact on the research methodology adopted. This journey is illustrated t... Read More about In search of inhospitable knowledge..

Do Cochrane summaries help student midwives understand the findings of Cochrane systematic reviews: the BRIEF randomised trial. (2016)
Journal Article
Alderdice, F., McNeill, J., Lasserson, T., Beller, E., Carroll, M., Hundley, V., Sunderland, J., Devane, D., Noyes, J., Key, S., Norris, S., Wyn-Davies, J., & Clarke, M. (2016). Do Cochrane summaries help student midwives understand the findings of Cochrane systematic reviews: the BRIEF randomised trial. Systematic Reviews, 5, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-016-0214-8

Background

Abstracts and plain language summaries (PLS) are often the first, and sometimes the only, point of contact between readers and systematic reviews. It is important to identify how these summaries are used and to know the impact of differ... Read More about Do Cochrane summaries help student midwives understand the findings of Cochrane systematic reviews: the BRIEF randomised trial..

Figurational Dynamics: attributes within a knowledge transfer scenario. (2016)
Journal Article
Fascia, M. (2016). Figurational Dynamics: attributes within a knowledge transfer scenario. Journal of Strategy, Operations & Economics, 2(1), 1-10

In this short paper, we discuss a dialectic methodology surrounding the interpretation of knowledge transfer, and the conditional elements which can be seen to support the concept of a unity of knowledge. We discuss a differing standpoint to knowledg... Read More about Figurational Dynamics: attributes within a knowledge transfer scenario..

Bioremediation of Azo Dye Containing Textile Effluent using Adapted Bacterial Strains under Subsequent Microaerophilic-Aerobic Conditions (2016)
Journal Article
Rajendran, R., Sundaram, S., Prabhavathi, P., Sridevi, B., Kumar, S., & Santhanam, P. (2016). Bioremediation of Azo Dye Containing Textile Effluent using Adapted Bacterial Strains under Subsequent Microaerophilic-Aerobic Conditions. Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research, 75(2), 124-130

Textile effluents are causing a wholesome of trouble in our vicinity, which needs to be taken good care of before being discharged in to the natural surroundings. In our present study, we have isolated about 5 different bacterial strains from azo dye... Read More about Bioremediation of Azo Dye Containing Textile Effluent using Adapted Bacterial Strains under Subsequent Microaerophilic-Aerobic Conditions.

What Matter it Now if the Soil be Soaked? (2016)
Book Chapter
Freestone, P. M. (2016). What Matter it Now if the Soil be Soaked?. In S. La Marca, & P. Macintyre (Eds.), Where the Shoreline Used to be (167-183). Australia: Penguin

A short story set in and around a private school in a future water-shortage Melbourne, examining the environmentally exacerbated class and economic divisions through the eyes of a queer scholarship student from a rural farming background.

Economy class? Lived experiences and career trajectories of private-school English-language teachers in Australia (2016)
Book Chapter
Stanley, P. (2016). Economy class? Lived experiences and career trajectories of private-school English-language teachers in Australia. In P. Haworth, & C. Craig (Eds.), The career trajectories of English language teachers (185-199). Symposium Books. https://doi.org/10.15730/books.97

No abstract available.

A Multidimensional Sketching Interface for Visual Interaction with Corpus-Based Concatenative Sound Synthesis (2016)
Thesis
Tsiros, A. (2016). A Multidimensional Sketching Interface for Visual Interaction with Corpus-Based Concatenative Sound Synthesis. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/463438

The present research sought to investigate the correspondence between auditory and visual feature dimensions and to utilise this knowledge in order to inform the design of audio-visual mappings for visual control of sound synthesis. The first stage o... Read More about A Multidimensional Sketching Interface for Visual Interaction with Corpus-Based Concatenative Sound Synthesis.

Visualizing genetic transmission patterns in plant pedigrees. (2016)
Thesis
Shaw, P. D. (2016). Visualizing genetic transmission patterns in plant pedigrees. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/463271

Ensuring food security in a world with an increasing population and demand on natural resources is becoming ever more pertinent. Plant breeders are using an increasingly diverse range of data types such as phenotypic and genotypic data to identify pl... Read More about Visualizing genetic transmission patterns in plant pedigrees..

Marginalisation Vs. Emancipation: The (New) Woman Question in Dollie Radford’s diary and poetry (2016)
Thesis
Azhar, H. J. (2016). Marginalisation Vs. Emancipation: The (New) Woman Question in Dollie Radford’s diary and poetry. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/452895

This thesis sheds light on Dollie Radford as one of the talented women writers whose work is still insufficiently acknowledged by contemporary studies because of the lack of extant information about her life. LeeAnne Richardson, Ruth Livesey, and Emi... Read More about Marginalisation Vs. Emancipation: The (New) Woman Question in Dollie Radford’s diary and poetry.

Institutional structure and agency in the governance of spatial diversification of port system evolution in Latin America. (2016)
Journal Article
Wilmsmeier, G., & Monios, J. (2016). Institutional structure and agency in the governance of spatial diversification of port system evolution in Latin America. Journal of Transport Geography, 51, 294-307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2015.02.004

Port development is challenged not only by growing trade flows, but by institutional conditions that are more contextual, exhibiting aspects of both path dependence and contingency. This paper analyses the intersection of two clear trends in the evol... Read More about Institutional structure and agency in the governance of spatial diversification of port system evolution in Latin America..

Spain's energy outlook: A review of PV potential and energy export (2016)
Journal Article
Gago, E., Girard, A., Ordoñez, J., & Muneer, T. (2016). Spain's energy outlook: A review of PV potential and energy export. Renewable Energy, 86, 703-715. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2015.08.074

Spain must reduce its energy consumption by 23% and achieve 100% renewable energy in electricity generation by 2030. This paper presents the current energy scenario en Spain, and the outlooks for different renewable options, with special focus on pho... Read More about Spain's energy outlook: A review of PV potential and energy export.

Writing a CV for an Academic Post (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Muhammad Sukki, F. (2016, February). Writing a CV for an Academic Post. Presented at CV Workshop: Academic and Industrial Perspective, Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom

Well-Connected: Promoting Collaboration by Effective Networking (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robb, D. A., Methven, T. S., Padilla, S., & Chantler, M. J. (2016, February). Well-Connected: Promoting Collaboration by Effective Networking. Presented at 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, San Francisco, California, USA

We have developed a method and system that uses mutually agreed problem structuring and self-selection to bring together meeting attendees with complementary interests. The method builds upon previous tools which facilitate structuring and to these w... Read More about Well-Connected: Promoting Collaboration by Effective Networking.

Registration of nanomaterials and nano-enabled products: Solution in regulation and governance or new challenge (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Munir, A. B., Karim, M. E., Yasin, S. H. M., & Muhammad-Sukki, F. (2016, February). Registration of nanomaterials and nano-enabled products: Solution in regulation and governance or new challenge. Paper presented at 2016 International Seminar on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (NANOSciTech2016), Selangor, Malaysia

Regulation and governance of infinite number and diversified types of engineered nanomaterials has been a genuine challenge for the regulators around the world in recent times. Recent experience with the genetically modified food compelled the regula... Read More about Registration of nanomaterials and nano-enabled products: Solution in regulation and governance or new challenge.

New developments in osteoarthritis and cartilage biology (2016)
Journal Article
Poulet, B., & Staines, K. A. (2016). New developments in osteoarthritis and cartilage biology. Current Opinion in Pharmacology, 28, 8-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coph.2016.02.009

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative joint disease and the most common form of arthritis. Characterised by articular cartilage loss, subchondral bone thickening and osteophyte formation, the OA joint afflicts much pain and disability. Whilst OA has... Read More about New developments in osteoarthritis and cartilage biology.

A New Image Encryption Scheme Based on Dynamic S-Boxes and Chaotic Maps (2016)
Journal Article
Rehman, A. U., Khan, J. S., Ahmad, J., & Hwang, S. O. (2016). A New Image Encryption Scheme Based on Dynamic S-Boxes and Chaotic Maps. 3D research, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s13319-016-0084-9

Substitution box is a unique and nonlinear core component of block ciphers. A better designing technique of substitution box can boost up the quality of ciphertexts. In this paper, a new encryption method based on dynamic substitution boxes is propos... Read More about A New Image Encryption Scheme Based on Dynamic S-Boxes and Chaotic Maps.

Responsible Business Forum (2016)
Exhibition / Performance
Weaver, M. Responsible Business Forum. Performed at Craiglockhart. 25 February 2016 - 25 February 2016. (Unpublished)

Host the first of Scotland's Responsible Business Forum