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A Lightweight Approach for Airborne Wind Turbine Drivetrains (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jaen Sola, P., Mcdonald, A. S., & Oterkus, E. (2015, November). A Lightweight Approach for Airborne Wind Turbine Drivetrains. Presented at European Wind Energy Association, EWEA 2015

Buoyant airborne wind turbines are devices capable of harnessing stronger winds at higher altitudes and with their automated and rapidly deployable system they are suited to niche applications such as emergency power generation. Although much of the... Read More about A Lightweight Approach for Airborne Wind Turbine Drivetrains.

Integrate Sustainable Standards In Interior Design Curriculum (Interior Design Department - Jubail University College - Case Study) (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Obead Ahmed, R. (2015, November). Integrate Sustainable Standards In Interior Design Curriculum (Interior Design Department - Jubail University College - Case Study). Presented at The IRES 16th International Conference, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Humanity faces many challenges in this era. One of these challenges is the ability of people to satisfy their needs
for living without consuming the resources for the coming generation. Through sustainability, societies can reduce their use of
reso... Read More about Integrate Sustainable Standards In Interior Design Curriculum (Interior Design Department - Jubail University College - Case Study).

Significant risk factors associated with facilities management (FM) outsourcing: A study on Nigeria’s public hospitals (2015)
Journal Article
Ikediashi, D. I., & Ogunlana, S. O. (2015). Significant risk factors associated with facilities management (FM) outsourcing: A study on Nigeria’s public hospitals. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 22(6), 771-796. https://doi.org/10.1108/ecam-03-2014-0046

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to extend the body of knowledge on healthcare facilities management (FM) by investigating the risks associated with outsourcing of FM services in hospitals.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper relied on two... Read More about Significant risk factors associated with facilities management (FM) outsourcing: A study on Nigeria’s public hospitals.

Intelligence Management opportunities for SMEs (2015)
Journal Article
Ojiako, U., Chipulu, M., Karatas-Ozkan, M., Siao, M., & Maguire, S. (2015). Intelligence Management opportunities for SMEs. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 22(4), 698-715. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSBED-02-2012-0030

Purpose
Unfortunately, the majority of studies examining business intelligence (BI) have focused on its exploitation in large firms. Often studies appear to assume that smaller firms have limited interest or capabilities in intelligence. The purpose... Read More about Intelligence Management opportunities for SMEs.

Carpet unrolling for character control on uneven terrain (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Miller, M., Holden, D., Al-Ashqar, R., Dubach, C., Mitchell, K., & Komura, T. (2015, November). Carpet unrolling for character control on uneven terrain. Presented at MIG '15 Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion in Games

We propose a type of relationship descriptor based on carpet unrolling that computes the joint positions of a character based on the sum of relative vectors originating from a local coordinate system embedded on the surface of a carpet. Given a terra... Read More about Carpet unrolling for character control on uneven terrain.

Urban regeneration in the digital era: how to develop smart city strategies in large European cities (2015)
Journal Article
Mora, L., & Bolici, R. (2015). Urban regeneration in the digital era: how to develop smart city strategies in large European cities. Techne. Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, 5(2), 110-119

The study documented in this paper has been carried out in order to
acquire new knowledge concerning the development processes of smart city strategies. This aim has been achieved through the analysis of the initiatives proposed by the municipal ad... Read More about Urban regeneration in the digital era: how to develop smart city strategies in large European cities.

Is Local TV in Scotland different? (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Scott, A. J. (2015, November). Is Local TV in Scotland different?. Paper presented at Nations and Regions Conference: Challenging Media Landscapes, Salford, UK

Supporting the meeting journey: understanding and designing collaborative device ecologies (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ammeloot, A. (2015, November). Supporting the meeting journey: understanding and designing collaborative device ecologies. Presented at 2015 International Conference on Interactive Tabletops & Surfaces

The combination of personal and mobile technologies (Bring Your Own Device) with technology-augmented spaces designed for collaboration offers new design challenges for the HCI community. This paper is a summary of a doctoral work-in-progress aiming... Read More about Supporting the meeting journey: understanding and designing collaborative device ecologies.

Fall of Humans: Interactive tabletop games and transmedia storytelling. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dionisio, M., Gujaran, A., Pinto, M., & Esteves, A. (2015, November). Fall of Humans: Interactive tabletop games and transmedia storytelling. Presented at ITS '15 Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Interactive Tabletops & Surfaces

This paper illustrates how transmedia storytelling can help introduce players to interactive tabletop games. To do so, we developed Fall of Humans (FoH), an experience that takes place over two games: Meat factory, a physical card game where players... Read More about Fall of Humans: Interactive tabletop games and transmedia storytelling..

The Sydney playground project- levelling the playing field: a cluster trial of a primary school-based intervention aiming to promote manageable risk-taking in children with disability (2015)
Journal Article
Bundy, A. C., Wyver, S., Beetham, K. S., Ragen, J., Naughton, G., Tranter, P., Norman, R., Villeneuve, M., Spencer, G., Honey, A., Simpson, J., Baur, L., & Sterman, J. (2015). The Sydney playground project- levelling the playing field: a cluster trial of a primary school-based intervention aiming to promote manageable risk-taking in children with disability. BMC Public Health, 15(1), Article 1125 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2452-4

Background
Providing children and adults with opportunities to engage in manageable risk taking may be a stepping stone toward closing the gap in life conditions currently experienced by young people with disabilities. We aim to demonstrate the effe... Read More about The Sydney playground project- levelling the playing field: a cluster trial of a primary school-based intervention aiming to promote manageable risk-taking in children with disability.

Ensuring standards of clinical care provided by veterinary nurses through regulation, registration and accredited training. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, D., Dougherty, K., & Yates, K. (2015). Ensuring standards of clinical care provided by veterinary nurses through regulation, registration and accredited training.

The gestation of veterinary nursing as a recognised and self-regulated profession in the United Kingdom can be best described as long and difficult. Caught between the twin expectations and anxieties of the well-established professions of nursing an... Read More about Ensuring standards of clinical care provided by veterinary nurses through regulation, registration and accredited training..

Regulations relating to Registered Veterinary Nurses in the United Kingdom. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, D., & Copper, B. (2015). Regulations relating to Registered Veterinary Nurses in the United Kingdom.

Veterinary nursing is now a well recognise professional route in the UK. There is considerable capacity within the industry to increase the number of veterinary nurses employed. As the veterinary care sector of the economy continues to expand the r... Read More about Regulations relating to Registered Veterinary Nurses in the United Kingdom..

Veterinary Nurse training in the UK (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cooper, B., & Smith, D. (2015). Veterinary Nurse training in the UK.

Veterinary Nursing in the UK is still a relatively young profession. Whilst it is known that there were animal nurses in existence in the late 1800’s the role and title ‘Veterinary Nurse’ has only been fully
recognised since 1984. Opportunities to t... Read More about Veterinary Nurse training in the UK.

Disharmony in European Film Copyright (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sellors, C. P. (2015, November). Disharmony in European Film Copyright. Paper presented at European Cinemas, Intercultural Meetings: Aesthetics, Politics, Industry, History, University of Copenhagen

British cinema sits in European cinema as comfortably as the UK sits in Europe. Although geographically European, the UK shares the common law with Commonwealth countries and the U.S. Continental Europe uses civil law. Both copyright law (common law)... Read More about Disharmony in European Film Copyright.

Soziale Medien in der empirischen Forschung (2015)
Book Chapter
Zeller, F. (2015). Soziale Medien in der empirischen Forschung. In J. Schmidt, & M. Taddicken (Eds.), Handbuch Soziale Medien (1-19). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-03895-3_21-1

Der Beitrag bietet einen Überblick zu sozialen Medien in der empirischen Forschung mit einem methodologischen und instrumentellen Fokus. Es werden die unterschiedlichen Methoden diskutiert, welche aus der Onlineforschung übernommen werden können sowi... Read More about Soziale Medien in der empirischen Forschung.

As We May Think about Film History (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sellors, C. P. (2015, November). As We May Think about Film History. Paper presented at Turning the Page Conference, Ghent University

Digitised archives of newspapers and movie magazines solve access problems to a vast range of microfilm and print resources, many unavailable except in remote archives. They also enable text searching, hyperlinking, and data mining, processes well su... Read More about As We May Think about Film History.

How Visuo-Spatial Mental Imagery Develops: Image Generation and Maintenance (2015)
Journal Article
Wimmer, M. C., Maras, K. L., Robinson, E. J., Doherty, M. J., & Pugeault, N. (2015). How Visuo-Spatial Mental Imagery Develops: Image Generation and Maintenance. PLOS ONE, 10, e0142566--e0142566. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0142566

Two experiments examined the nature of visuo-spatial mental imagery generation and maintenance in 4-, 6-, 8-, 10-year old children and adults (N = 211). The key questions were how image generation and maintenance develop (Experiment 1) and how accura... Read More about How Visuo-Spatial Mental Imagery Develops: Image Generation and Maintenance.

Evidence of perceived psychosocial stress as a risk factor for stroke in adults: a meta-analysis (2015)
Journal Article
Booth, J., Connelly, L., Lawrence, M., Chalmers, C., Joice, S., Becker, C., & Dougall, N. (2015). Evidence of perceived psychosocial stress as a risk factor for stroke in adults: a meta-analysis. BMC Neurology, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12883-015-0456-4

Background
Several studies suggest that perceived psychosocial stress is associated with increased risk of stroke; however results are inconsistent with regard to definitions and measurement of perceived stress, features of individual study design,... Read More about Evidence of perceived psychosocial stress as a risk factor for stroke in adults: a meta-analysis.