All Outputs (1547)

Identifying and measuring capabilities for career development in NEET young people (2017)
Journal Article
Robertson, P. J. (2017). Identifying and measuring capabilities for career development in NEET young people. Recherches sociologique et anthropologique/ Sociological and anthropological research, 47(2), 83-99

Amartya Sen's Capability Approach offers great potential as a conceptual framework for promoting social justice and well-being through economic and educational engagement. Yet the capability approach presents researchers with formidable difficulties,... Read More about Identifying and measuring capabilities for career development in NEET young people.

Guideline for the treatment and planning of services for complex post-traumatic stress disorder in adults (2017)
Report
McFetridge, M., Hauenstein Swan, A., Heke, S., Karatzias, T., Greenberg, N., Kitchiner, N., & Morley, R. (2017). Guideline for the treatment and planning of services for complex post-traumatic stress disorder in adults. Scotland: UK Psychological Trauma Society (UKPTS)

No abstract available.

An examination of the physical and temporal parameters of post-physical printmaking practice: exploring new modes of collaboration, distribution and consumption resulting from digital processes and networked participation. (2017)
Thesis
Thompson, P. An examination of the physical and temporal parameters of post-physical printmaking practice: exploring new modes of collaboration, distribution and consumption resulting from digital processes and networked participation. (Thesis). Robert Gordon University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/683309

This research was initiated by questions raised from the researcher’s professional activities in fine art printmaking and examines, through contextualised artistic practice and critical enquiry, redefinitions in the physical and temporal parameters o... Read More about An examination of the physical and temporal parameters of post-physical printmaking practice: exploring new modes of collaboration, distribution and consumption resulting from digital processes and networked participation..

The relationship between the Big 5 personality traits and eyewitness recognition (2017)
Journal Article
Curley, L., MacLean, R., & Murray, J. (2017). The relationship between the Big 5 personality traits and eyewitness recognition. Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis, 13(2), 57-72

The aim of the current research was to identify which, if any, personality traits are related to recognition in an eyewitness task. A correlational design was used with the co-variables being personality traits and correct (false) recognition. Eight... Read More about The relationship between the Big 5 personality traits and eyewitness recognition.

Encountering Misrecognition: Being Mistaken for Being Muslim (2017)
Journal Article
Hopkins, P., Botterill, K., Sanghera, G., & Arshad, R. (2017). Encountering Misrecognition: Being Mistaken for Being Muslim. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 107(4), 934-948. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2016.1270192

Exploring both debates about misrecognition and explorations of encounters, this paper focuses upon the experiences of ethnic and religious minority young people who are mistaken for being Muslim in Scotland. We explore experiences of encountering mi... Read More about Encountering Misrecognition: Being Mistaken for Being Muslim.

Simultaneous Bayesian Clustering and Feature Selection Through Student’s ${t}$ Mixtures Model (2017)
Journal Article
Sun, J., Zhou, A., Keates, S., & Liao, S. (2018). Simultaneous Bayesian Clustering and Feature Selection Through Student’s ${t}$ Mixtures Model. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 29(4), 1187-1199. https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2016.2619061

In this paper, we proposed a generative model for feature selection under the unsupervised learning context. The model assumes that data are independently and identically sampled from a finite mixture of Student?s t distributions, which can reduce th... Read More about Simultaneous Bayesian Clustering and Feature Selection Through Student’s ${t}$ Mixtures Model.

Care homes: The developing ideology of a homelike place to live (2017)
Journal Article
Fleming, A., Kydd, A., & Stewart, S. (2017). Care homes: The developing ideology of a homelike place to live. Maturitas, 99, 92-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2017.02.013

This paper reports on part of a doctoral study which explored stakeholder perceptions of the importance of a homelike environment in a care home and which factors contributed to this. The changes in institutional care for older people have evolved fr... Read More about Care homes: The developing ideology of a homelike place to live.

Roof Gardens Application in Hot, Humid Climate (Jubail Industrial City Case Study) (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Obead, R. (2017). Roof Gardens Application in Hot, Humid Climate (Jubail Industrial City Case Study).

Roof gardens have a significant role on environmental, economic, and social factors, including the reduction of carbon dioxide and increase the amounts of oxygen in the atmosphere, decrease the pollution and air-cooling, these benefits are important... Read More about Roof Gardens Application in Hot, Humid Climate (Jubail Industrial City Case Study).

Interactional Differences and Effects Between Collocated and Distributed Design (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G. A., Ramesh, H. P., Sugavanam, C. M., Chakrabarti, A., Corney, J., & Wodehouse, A. (2017, January). Interactional Differences and Effects Between Collocated and Distributed Design. Presented at International Conference on Research into Design ICoRD 2017: Research into Design for Communities, Guwahati, India

Interactions (i.e. modes of operations through which product development knowledge is generated and externalized in the design process) play a vital role in knowledge processes of product development. Intentional or unintentional changes in interacti... Read More about Interactional Differences and Effects Between Collocated and Distributed Design.

Shared Decision-Making Regarding Place of Birth–Mission Impossible or Mission Accomplished? (2017)
Journal Article
Fontein-Kuipers, Y., Banda, A., Hassink, E. O., & Ruiter, D. D. (2017). Shared Decision-Making Regarding Place of Birth–Mission Impossible or Mission Accomplished?. Women's Health, 3(2), 36-44. https://doi.org/10.17140/whoj-3-120

Aim: To explore Dutch pregnant women’s experiences of shared-decision making about place of birth to better understand this process for midwifery care purposes.

Design: Qualitative exploratory study with a constant comparison/grounded theory desig... Read More about Shared Decision-Making Regarding Place of Birth–Mission Impossible or Mission Accomplished?.

‘At the Germany Door’: Germany and the EU as ‘Gated Community’ in the Plays of Emine Sevgi Özdamar (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wilkinson, J. (2017, February). ‘At the Germany Door’: Germany and the EU as ‘Gated Community’ in the Plays of Emine Sevgi Özdamar. Paper presented at Unsettling Communities: Minor, Minority and Small Literatures in Europe, Institute for Modern Languages Research, London, UK

Lung cancer detection using Local Energy-based Shape Histogram (LESH) feature extraction and cognitive machine learning techniques (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wajid, S., Hussain, A., Huang, K., & Boulila, W. (2017). Lung cancer detection using Local Energy-based Shape Histogram (LESH) feature extraction and cognitive machine learning techniques. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCI-CC.2016.7862060

The novel application of Local Energy-based Shape Histogram (LESH) feature extraction technique was recently proposed for breast cancer diagnosis using mammogram images [22]. This paper extends our original work to apply the LESH technique to detect... Read More about Lung cancer detection using Local Energy-based Shape Histogram (LESH) feature extraction and cognitive machine learning techniques.

An Active Microwave Sensor for Near Field Imaging (2017)
Journal Article
Mirza, A. F., See, C. H., Danjuma, I. M., Asif, R., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Noras, J. M., …Excell, P. S. (2017). An Active Microwave Sensor for Near Field Imaging. IEEE Sensors Journal, 17(9), 2749-2757. https://doi.org/10.1109/jsen.2017.2673961

Near field imaging using microwaves in medical applications is of great current interest for its capability and accuracy in identifying features of interest, in comparison with other known screening tools. This paper documents microwave imaging exper... Read More about An Active Microwave Sensor for Near Field Imaging.

Recruitment of inflammatory monocytes after liver transplantation and correlation with clinical outcome (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robertson, F., Male, V., Wright, G., Fuller, B., & Davidson, B. (2017, February). Recruitment of inflammatory monocytes after liver transplantation and correlation with clinical outcome

Background
Ischaemia reperfusion injury is a key cause of mortality and graft loss after liver transplantation. After tissue injury, monocytes are rapidly mobilised and recruited to injured tissue by monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1). Eleva... Read More about Recruitment of inflammatory monocytes after liver transplantation and correlation with clinical outcome.

Exploring the experiences of patients attending day hospitals in the rural Scotland: capturing the patient's voice (2017)
Journal Article
Adamson, E., Pow, J., Houston, F., & Redpath, P. (2017). Exploring the experiences of patients attending day hospitals in the rural Scotland: capturing the patient's voice. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 26(19-20), 3044-3055. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.13651

Aims and objectives
To understand the meaning of person-centred compassionate care for people attending day hospitals in rural Scotland.
Background
Increasing numbers of older people are living with chronic conditions and require support to live a... Read More about Exploring the experiences of patients attending day hospitals in the rural Scotland: capturing the patient's voice.

Print media representations of UK Accident and Emergency treatment targets: Winter 2014-2015 (2017)
Journal Article
Grant, A., & Hoyle, L. (2017). Print media representations of UK Accident and Emergency treatment targets: Winter 2014-2015. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 26(23-24), 4425-4435. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.13772

Aims and Objectives: to undertake an analysis of UK national daily newspaper coverage of accident and emergency treatment targets, in order to understand if the media could be seen to be creating a scandal.
Background: Emergency Department treatment... Read More about Print media representations of UK Accident and Emergency treatment targets: Winter 2014-2015.

Ego depletion in visual perception: Ego-depleted viewers experience less ambiguous figure reversal. (2017)
Journal Article
Wimmer, M. C., Stirk, S., & Hancock, P. J. B. (2017). Ego depletion in visual perception: Ego-depleted viewers experience less ambiguous figure reversal. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 24, 1620-1626. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-017-1247-2

This study examined the effects of ego depletion on ambiguous figure perception. Adults (N = 315) received an ego depletion task and were subsequently tested on their inhibitory control abilities that were indexed by the Stroop task (Experiment 1) an... Read More about Ego depletion in visual perception: Ego-depleted viewers experience less ambiguous figure reversal..

Using computer, mobile and wearable technology interventions to change sedentary behaviours: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stephenson, A., Murphy, M., McDonough, S., Nugent, C., & Mair, J. (2017, February). Using computer, mobile and wearable technology interventions to change sedentary behaviours: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Presented at 3rd UCL Centre for Behaviour Change Digital Health Conference 2017: Harnessing digital technology for behaviour change, London, UK

Rationale: High levels of sedentary behavior (SB) are strongly associated with several negative health consequences (1). Technologies such as mobile applications (apps), wearable activity monitors, prompting software, texts, emails and websites are b... Read More about Using computer, mobile and wearable technology interventions to change sedentary behaviours: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Acoustic Hanger (2017)
Patent
Su, S., Smith, S., & McAndrew, S. (2017). Acoustic Hanger. GB 2493005. UK Patent Office

This patent stemmed from research undertaken to investigate the reduction of sound transmission through lightweight floors in apartments. Lightweight floors have commonly been associated with low frequency resonance issues partly due to the lack of i... Read More about Acoustic Hanger.

Assessing the role of intertidal seagrasses as coastal carbon sinks in Scotland (2017)
Thesis
Potouroglou, M. Assessing the role of intertidal seagrasses as coastal carbon sinks in Scotland. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/975386

Seagrasses are marine foundation species that form ecologically important habitats in coastal areas around the world. They provide a range of ecosystem services, including coastal protection and the recently recognised large contribution to global ca... Read More about Assessing the role of intertidal seagrasses as coastal carbon sinks in Scotland.