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Drivers and Barriers to Energy Efficiency Management for Sustainable Development: Organizational Drivers and Barriers for Energy Efficiency (2014)
Journal Article
Lee, K. (2015). Drivers and Barriers to Energy Efficiency Management for Sustainable Development: Organizational Drivers and Barriers for Energy Efficiency. Sustainable Development, 23(1), 16-25. https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.1567

An increasing number of industries are seeking to use energy more efficiently due to market pressure, public awareness of environmental sustainability, and rising energy costs and volatility. Energy efficiency is potentially one of the most important... Read More about Drivers and Barriers to Energy Efficiency Management for Sustainable Development: Organizational Drivers and Barriers for Energy Efficiency.

Tourism Mobilities (2014)
Book Chapter
Hannam, K. (2016). Tourism Mobilities. In A. A. Lew, C. Michael Hall, & A. M. Williams (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism, (78-87). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118474648.ch6

Tourism mobilities emphasize the complex interrelationships involved in the movement of people as well as material and nonmaterial things at different scales. This chapter outlines some key aspects of research into tourism mobilities in terms of firs... Read More about Tourism Mobilities.

Globalization, Green Management and Climate Change in the Asia-Pacific Economy (2014)
Journal Article
Lee, K. (2014). Globalization, Green Management and Climate Change in the Asia-Pacific Economy. Journal of Asia-Pacific Business, 15(2), 101-104. https://doi.org/10.1080/10599231.2014.904180

This introductory article provides a multidisciplinary and international lens through which to view green management and climate change in the global and the Asia-Pacific context. As background, this article uses international movements in sustainabl... Read More about Globalization, Green Management and Climate Change in the Asia-Pacific Economy.

Globalization and Carbon Constrained Global Economy: A Fad or a Trend? (2014)
Journal Article
Lee, K., & Min, B. (2014). Globalization and Carbon Constrained Global Economy: A Fad or a Trend?. Journal of Asia-Pacific Business, 15(2), 105-121. https://doi.org/10.1080/10599231.2014.904181

The authors analyze how globalization affects carbon emission reductions in the context of sustainable development using panel data for 255 countries during 1980 to 2011. First, estimation results illustrate that globalization is a positive factor to... Read More about Globalization and Carbon Constrained Global Economy: A Fad or a Trend?.

Novel Biologically Inspired Approaches to Extracting Online Information from Temporal Data (2014)
Journal Article
Malik, Z. K., Hussain, A., & Wu, J. (2014). Novel Biologically Inspired Approaches to Extracting Online Information from Temporal Data. Cognitive Computation, 6(3), 595-607. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-014-9257-0

In this paper, we aim to develop novel learning approaches for extracting invariant features from time series. Specifically, we implement an existing method of solving the generalized eigenproblem and use this to firstly implement the biologically in... Read More about Novel Biologically Inspired Approaches to Extracting Online Information from Temporal Data.

Efficacy of physical activity interventions in post-natal populations: systematic review, meta-analysis and content coding of behaviour change techniques (2014)
Journal Article
Gilinsky, A. S., Dale, H., Robinson, C., Hughes, A. R., McInnes, R., & Lavallee, D. (2015). Efficacy of physical activity interventions in post-natal populations: systematic review, meta-analysis and content coding of behaviour change techniques. Health Psychology Review, 9(2), 244-263. https://doi.org/10.1080/17437199.2014.899059

This systematic review and meta-analysis reports the efficacy of post-natal physical activity change interventions with content coding of behaviour change techniques (BCTs). Electronic databases (MEDLINE, CINAHL and PsychINFO) were searched for inter... Read More about Efficacy of physical activity interventions in post-natal populations: systematic review, meta-analysis and content coding of behaviour change techniques.

How Well Do Computational Features Perceptually Rank Textures? A Comparative Evaluation (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dong, X., Methven, T. S., & Chantler, M. J. (2014, April). How Well Do Computational Features Perceptually Rank Textures? A Comparative Evaluation. Presented at ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Inspired by studies [4, 23, 40] which compared rankings obtained by search engines and human observers, in this paper we compare texture rankings derived by 51 sets of computational features against perceptual texture rankings obtained from a free-gr... Read More about How Well Do Computational Features Perceptually Rank Textures? A Comparative Evaluation.

Classifying physical strategies in tangible tasks: a video-coding framework for epistemic actions (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Esteves, A., Bakker, S., Antle, A. N., May, A., Warren, J., & Oakley, I. (2014, April). Classifying physical strategies in tangible tasks: a video-coding framework for epistemic actions. Presented at 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI EA '14, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Tangible interaction is a compelling interface paradigm that elegantly merges the fluency of physical manipulation with the flexibility of digital content. However, it is currently challenging to understand the real benefits and advantages of tangibl... Read More about Classifying physical strategies in tangible tasks: a video-coding framework for epistemic actions.

An epidemiological study of injury and illness in the British Skeleton Squad 2009 -2013 (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Palmer-Green, D., Thomas, H., Danny, H., Chris, P., Kay, R., Rod, J., & Glenn, H. (2014, April). An epidemiological study of injury and illness in the British Skeleton Squad 2009 -2013. Poster presented at IOC International Conference on Prevention of Injury and Illness in Sport

Background Injury and illness prevention can have not only athlete health benefits but also potential positive performance gains in elite sport. Valid injury/illness surveillance data is needed in the first step towards prevention. Objective Prov... Read More about An epidemiological study of injury and illness in the British Skeleton Squad 2009 -2013.

Epidemiological study of injury and illness in Great Britain short-track speed skating (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Palmer-Green, D., Brownlow, M., Hopkins, J., Eley, J., Jaques, R., & Hunter, G. (2014, April). Epidemiological study of injury and illness in Great Britain short-track speed skating. Poster presented at IOC International Conference on prevention of injury and illness in sport

Background Prevention of injury and illness in elite sport can have not only athlete health benefits but also potential positive performance gains. As the first step towards prevention, valid injury/illness surveillance data is needed. Objective P... Read More about Epidemiological study of injury and illness in Great Britain short-track speed skating.

Epidemiological study of injury in British cycling: 2011-2013 (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Palmer-Green, D., Burt, P., Jaques, R., & Hunter, G. (2014, April). Epidemiological study of injury in British cycling: 2011-2013. Poster presented at IOC International conference on prevention of injury and illness in Sport

Background Prevention of injury in elite sport can have not only athlete health benefits but also potential positive performance gains. As the first step towards prevention, valid injury surveillance data is needed. Objective Provide injury epidem... Read More about Epidemiological study of injury in British cycling: 2011-2013.

Feasibility and cost-effectiveness of stroke prevention through community screening for atrial fibrillation using iPhone ECG in pharmacies: The SEARCH-AF study (2014)
Journal Article
Lowres, N., Neubeck, L., Salkeld, G., Krass, I., McLachlan, A. J., Redfern, J., …Freedman, S. B. (2014). Feasibility and cost-effectiveness of stroke prevention through community screening for atrial fibrillation using iPhone ECG in pharmacies: The SEARCH-AF study. Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 111(6), 1167-1176. https://doi.org/10.1160/th14-03-0231

Atrial fibrillation (AF) causes a third of all strokes, but often goes undetected before stroke. Identification of unknown AF in the community and subsequent anti-thrombotic treatment could reduce stroke burden. We investigated community screening fo... Read More about Feasibility and cost-effectiveness of stroke prevention through community screening for atrial fibrillation using iPhone ECG in pharmacies: The SEARCH-AF study.

Scottish Independence, 'YES' or 'NO' From the 'NO' Side Scotland is Better Together with the United Kingdom (2014)
Journal Article
Jaworski, P. M. (2014). Scottish Independence, 'YES' or 'NO' From the 'NO' Side Scotland is Better Together with the United Kingdom. Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Diplomatist,

PERSPECTIVE If the people of Scotland favour independence, the split will create high level of uncertainty, and this component of risk will be extremely difficult to deal with On September 18, in the national referendum on independence people residin... Read More about Scottish Independence, 'YES' or 'NO' From the 'NO' Side Scotland is Better Together with the United Kingdom.

After the downturn: where now for travel plans in Scotland? (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Llewellyn, R., Tricker, R., & Paton, D. (2014, April). After the downturn: where now for travel plans in Scotland?. Paper presented at 10th Annual Scottish Transport Research and Applications Conference

A Travel Plan is a travel demand management tool which has the potential to alter the means of travel to or from any destination or origin of movement to modes of transport other than the private car. The last major review of the use of Travel Plans... Read More about After the downturn: where now for travel plans in Scotland?.

Embedding programming skills to support the student journey in networking, security and digital forensics. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lawson, A., & Macfarlane, R. (2014, April). Embedding programming skills to support the student journey in networking, security and digital forensics. Paper presented at HEA STEM Annual Learning and Teaching Conference 2014: Enhancing the STEM Student Journey

The development of programming skills by Networking graduates, and Security and Digital Forensics graduates is highly sought after by employers, both in industry, and in academia for staffing research and knowledge exchange projects. Placements offer... Read More about Embedding programming skills to support the student journey in networking, security and digital forensics..

Effect of type of lead vehicle on following headway behaviour in mixed traffic (2014)
Journal Article
Kumar, R., Parida, P., & Saleh, W. (2014). Effect of type of lead vehicle on following headway behaviour in mixed traffic. World journal of science, technology and sustainable development, 11(1), 28-43. https://doi.org/10.1108/wjstsd-08-2013-0036

Purpose – There is gap in literature on understanding of the issues of following headway behaviour of the driver and a lack of sufficient data in different traffic conditions. The purpose of this paper is to find the effects of type of lead vehicle o... Read More about Effect of type of lead vehicle on following headway behaviour in mixed traffic.

“Moodle Flashcard Application: A Development for Reference Guidance”. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Campbell, K., Jamie, A., Bruce, I., & Blair, J. (2014, April). “Moodle Flashcard Application: A Development for Reference Guidance”. Presented at Moodlemoot 2014, Edinburgh

Edinburgh Napier University used to provide ‘referencing guidance’ through a PDF format but the student population felt this did not promote active learning. A student group in consultation with staff believed this could be improved and simplified fo... Read More about “Moodle Flashcard Application: A Development for Reference Guidance”..

Discrete Logarithms within Computer and Network Security. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, W. J. (2014, April). Discrete Logarithms within Computer and Network Security. Presented at Napier 400 - Numerical Algorithms and Intelligent Software Symposium

As we move into an Information Age, the requirement for computer security increases by the day, only in terms of privacy, but also in terms of proving identity and in verifying the integrity of data. Unfortunately many of the most widely used public... Read More about Discrete Logarithms within Computer and Network Security..

An integrated fuzzy QFD and fuzzy goal programming approach for global facility location-allocation problem (2014)
Journal Article
Jamalnia, A., Mahdiraji, H. A., Sadeghi, M. R., Hajiagha, S. H. R., & Feili, A. (2014). An integrated fuzzy QFD and fuzzy goal programming approach for global facility location-allocation problem. International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making, 13(2), 263-290. https://doi.org/10.1142/s0219622014500400

Companies pursuing extension of their activities and new companies in establishment phase are using various concepts and techniques to consider location decision, because location greatly affects both fixed and variable costs and on the overall profi... Read More about An integrated fuzzy QFD and fuzzy goal programming approach for global facility location-allocation problem.