All Outputs (838)

Mental health nurse prescribing: a difficult pill to swallow? (2010)
Journal Article
Snowden, A., & Martin, C. R. (2010). Mental health nurse prescribing: a difficult pill to swallow?. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 17, 543-553. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2850.2010.01561.x

This paper develops an interpretation of the impact of mental health nurse prescribing in the UK. A constructivist-grounded theory methodology was applied to 13 semi-structured interviews with mental health clinicians and service users. The same inte... Read More about Mental health nurse prescribing: a difficult pill to swallow?.

The construction of competence in mental health nurse prescribing (2010)
Thesis
Snowden, A. The construction of competence in mental health nurse prescribing. (Thesis). University of the West of Scotland. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/9184

Medication. (2010)
Book Chapter
Snowden, A. (2009). Medication. In P. Barker (Ed.), Mental Health Ethics: the Human ContextRoutledge

Florence Nightingale. (2010)
Book Chapter
Snowden, A. (2009). Florence Nightingale. In A. Snowden, A. Donnell, & T. Duffy (Eds.), Pioneering Theories in Nursing, 3-10. Quay Books

Informing the design of the future urban landscape. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smyth, M., & Helgason, I. (2010). Informing the design of the future urban landscape. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (438-440). https://doi.org/10.1145/1858171.1858259

The urban spaces of the future will be saturated with both visible and hidden media that gather and transmit information. How we as physical beings connect with, interpret and shape this increase of data residing in our environment will be a signific... Read More about Informing the design of the future urban landscape..

Dialogues in Interaction Design: complexity, hybridity and the relationship between research and practice. (2010)
Journal Article
Smyth, M. (2010). Dialogues in Interaction Design: complexity, hybridity and the relationship between research and practice. Digital Creativity, 21, 233-237. https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2010.538066

A brief overview of the field of Interaction Design is provided in order to contextualise the Create10 conference. The conference was held at Edinburgh Napier University in June/July 2010 and attracted over 120 delegates. The papers that comprise thi... Read More about Dialogues in Interaction Design: complexity, hybridity and the relationship between research and practice..

Analysis of Information governance and patient data protection within primary health care (2010)
Journal Article
Smith, M., Buchanan, W. J., Thuemmler, C., Bell, D., & Hazelhoff Roelfzema, N. (2010). Analysis of Information governance and patient data protection within primary health care. International Journal for Quality in Health Care,

The introduction of Information Governance throughout the NHS in Great Britain from 2004 onwards, saw Pri-mary Care Medicine subject to a regulatory regime aligning current practice with codes, ethics, legislation and standa... Read More about Analysis of Information governance and patient data protection within primary health care.

Internationalising group project work for Civil Engineering students: International Project Week 2009. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, I., Taylor, M. D., de Klerk, P. J., & Camara, J. M. (2010). Internationalising group project work for Civil Engineering students: International Project Week 2009. In Proceedings of INTED2010 Conference (1893-1902)

Edinburgh Napier University hosted a huge gathering of European civil engineering students for one week in May 2009 for the International Project Week 2009 (IPW 2009). The week long event saw over 300 students and staff from 8 institutions across 7... Read More about Internationalising group project work for Civil Engineering students: International Project Week 2009..

Health-related quality of life and symptom classification in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (2010)
Journal Article
Smith, G. D., Steinke, D. T., Penny, K. I., Kinnear, M., & Penman, I. (2010). Health-related quality of life and symptom classification in patients with irritable bowel syndrome. Journal of Nursing and Healthcare of Chronic Illness, 2, 4-12. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-9824.2010.01044.x

Background.  Previous research has established that health-related quality of life can be adversely affected by irritable bowel syndrome IBS. Irritable bowel syndrome has been classified to subgroups by predominant bowel symptom: constipation, diarrh... Read More about Health-related quality of life and symptom classification in patients with irritable bowel syndrome.

Pre-registration adult nurses’ knowledge of safe transfusion practice: Results of a 12 month follow-up study (2010)
Journal Article
Smith, F. C., Donaldson, J. H., & Pirie, L. (2010). Pre-registration adult nurses’ knowledge of safe transfusion practice: Results of a 12 month follow-up study. Nurse Education in Practice, 10, 101-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2009.04.003

This research project ascertained student nurses’ knowledge retention of safe transfusion practice following a standardised teaching and learning programme (produced by the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, United Kingdom (UK)) within a Sc... Read More about Pre-registration adult nurses’ knowledge of safe transfusion practice: Results of a 12 month follow-up study.

'Big Brother' researchers to rein in horse obesity (2010)
Journal Article
Smith, D. (2010). 'Big Brother' researchers to rein in horse obesity. Inspiring Futures,

RESEARCHERS have adopted Big Brother tactics to tackle growing levels of obesity in Britain’s horse population. One in three horses, and over 80% of ponies, are currently believed to be in danger of fat-related health risks such as laminitis – the... Read More about 'Big Brother' researchers to rein in horse obesity.

Strategic management of local authority property in the UK: a case for positivism in island communities. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sloan, B., & Dennison, E. (2010). Strategic management of local authority property in the UK: a case for positivism in island communities.

Film Authorship: Auteurs and Other Myths (2010)
Book
Sellors, C. P. (2010). Film Authorship: Auteurs and Other Myths. Wallflower Press

Few topics in the study of film produce controversy like authorship. Critics, historians and theoreticians have debated the most important film authors, argued vociferously about the nature of film authorship, and even questioned whether films have a... Read More about Film Authorship: Auteurs and Other Myths.

Influence of topology and payload on CO2 optimised vehicle routing (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Scott, C., Urquhart, N. B., & Hart, E. (2010). Influence of topology and payload on CO2 optimised vehicle routing. In Applications of Evolutionary Computing (141-150). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12242-2_15

This paper investigates the influence of gradient and payload correction factors used within a CO2 emission model on the solutions to shortest path and travelling salesman problems when applied to freight delivery. Problem instances based on real li... Read More about Influence of topology and payload on CO2 optimised vehicle routing.

Some thoughts on peer review (2010)
Journal Article
Schwartz, C., Hernon, P., Burnett, G., Hall, H., Pomerantz, J., Savolainen, R., & Thelwall, M. (2010). Some thoughts on peer review. Library and Information Science Research, 32(1), 13-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2009.12.003

From time to time, we like to invite the members of our Board of Editors to comment on a matter of current interest, either related to publishing or to research in library and information science. This time we took the theme of peer review, the focus... Read More about Some thoughts on peer review.

Description of Trichotokara nothriae n. gen. et sp. (Apicomplexa, Lecudinidae) – An intestinal gregarine of Nothria conchylega (Polychaeta, Onuphidae) (2010)
Journal Article
Rueckert, S., & Leander, B. S. (2010). Description of Trichotokara nothriae n. gen. et sp. (Apicomplexa, Lecudinidae) – An intestinal gregarine of Nothria conchylega (Polychaeta, Onuphidae). Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 104, 172-179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jip.2010.03.005

The trophozoites of a novel gregarine apicomplexan, Trichotokara nothriae n. gen. et sp., were isolated and characterized from the intestines of the onuphid tubeworm Nothria conchylega (Polychaeta), collected at 20 m depth from the North-eastern Paci... Read More about Description of Trichotokara nothriae n. gen. et sp. (Apicomplexa, Lecudinidae) – An intestinal gregarine of Nothria conchylega (Polychaeta, Onuphidae).

Patent: A new addressing scheme for multicast IP with an extended scope field to include access rights. (2010)
Patent
Romdhani, I. (2010). Patent: A new addressing scheme for multicast IP with an extended scope field to include access rights

Symbiotic cognitive networks: a proposal. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rasheed, T., Hart, E., Falconer, R., & Bown, J. (2010, July). Symbiotic cognitive networks: a proposal. Presented at 9th International Conference Artificial Immune Systems ICARIS 2010

We describe the concept of a cognitive network and propose that ecosystems of co-existing networks which are globally energy efficient while providing the expected quality of service can be realised by exploiting two mechanisms which occur in biologi... Read More about Symbiotic cognitive networks: a proposal..

Social support mechanisms of the elderly: insights from the British Household panel survey (2010)
Journal Article
Raeside, R., Gayen, K., & Canduela, J. (2010). Social support mechanisms of the elderly: insights from the British Household panel survey. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Annual Review, 5, 163-178

Many European countries are facing a future of an ageing society. This has arisen from a prolonged period of low fertility. To provide support for the elderly reliance is often placed on support from younger relatives and from friends. To understand... Read More about Social support mechanisms of the elderly: insights from the British Household panel survey.

Body roll in swimming: a review (2010)
Journal Article
Psycharakis, S., & Sanders, R. (2010). Body roll in swimming: a review. Journal of Sports Sciences, 28, 219-236. https://doi.org/10.1080/02640410903508847

In this article, we present a critical review of the swimming literature on body roll, for the purposes of summarizing and highlighting existing knowledge, identifying the gaps and limitations, and stimulating further research. The main research find... Read More about Body roll in swimming: a review.