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Silver Nanoparticles: A Microbial Perspective (2011)
Book Chapter
Sweet, M., & Singleton, I. (2011). Silver Nanoparticles: A Microbial Perspective. . Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-387044-5.00005-4

Abstract Silver nanoparticles (NPs) are used for a wide range of commercial reasons to restrict microbial growth. The increasing use of silver {NPs} in modern materials ensures they will find their way into environmental systems. The mode of action w... Read More about Silver Nanoparticles: A Microbial Perspective.

Rapid Internationalization and Sustained Competitive Advantage in US and UK Life Science International New Ventures: A Resource Based View (2011)
Book Chapter
Warner, K. S. R., & Carrick, J. (2011). Rapid Internationalization and Sustained Competitive Advantage in US and UK Life Science International New Ventures: A Resource Based View. In International Entrepreneurship in the Life Sciences (175-193). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781849808200.0001

This chapter uses the resource based view (RBV) to study rapid internationalisation and sustained competitive advantage of life science international new ventures (INVs). Applying Hitt et al (2005) RBV framework, we research life science INVs tangibl... Read More about Rapid Internationalization and Sustained Competitive Advantage in US and UK Life Science International New Ventures: A Resource Based View.

In a class of their own: the autodidact impulse and working class readers in twentieth century Scotland. (2011)
Book Chapter
Fleming, L., McCleery, A., & Finkelstein, D. (2011). In a class of their own: the autodidact impulse and working class readers in twentieth century Scotland. In The History of Reading, Volume 2, evidence from the British Isles , c1750-1950 (189-205). Palgrave Macmillan

In a class of their own: the autodidact impulse and working class readers in twentieth century Scotland.

Clients with mental health conditions: a challenge for career guidance practice. (2011)
Book Chapter
Robertson, P. (2011). Clients with mental health conditions: a challenge for career guidance practice. In B. A. Irving, & L. Barham (Eds.), Constructing the Future: Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice (131-146). Institute of Career Guidance

This article explores meeting the needs of clients with mental health conditions and seeks to establish this group as one of particular interest to career guidance practitioners. The issues are introduced in broad terms by looking at the incidence, s... Read More about Clients with mental health conditions: a challenge for career guidance practice..

Travel mode choice. (2011)
Book Chapter
Stradling, S. G. (2011). Travel mode choice. In B. E. Porter (Ed.), Handbook of Traffic Psychology. Academic Press

Organization of information (2011)
Book Chapter
Hjørland, B., Neal, D., Šauperl, A., & Bawden, D. (2011). Organization of information. In C. H. Davis, & D. Shaw (Eds.), Introduction to information science and technology (43-62). Information Today

Digging Deeper: Reflecting on the Development and Teaching of Investigative Journalism in a University Setting in the United Kingdom (2011)
Book Chapter
O'Neill, E. (2011). Digging Deeper: Reflecting on the Development and Teaching of Investigative Journalism in a University Setting in the United Kingdom. In Investigative Journalism: Dead or Alive? (291-307). abramis

This chapter examined the status of investigative journalism in the UK, including work being done in the independent and online sectors.

The entrepreneur in economic theory. (2011)
Book Chapter
McQuaid, R. W. (2011). The entrepreneur in economic theory. In S. Desai, P. Nijkamp, & R. R. Stough (Eds.), New Directions in Regional Economic Development: the role of entrepreneurship research, practice and policyEdward Elgar Publishing

‘East is West and West is East’: Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Quest for Ultimate Cosmopolitanism (2011)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2011). ‘East is West and West is East’: Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Quest for Ultimate Cosmopolitanism. In M. Gardiner, G. Macdonald, & N. O'Gallagher (Eds.), Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature: Comparative Texts and Critical Perspectives (136-146). Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748637744.003.0010

This chapter addresses Lewis Grassic Gibbon's quest to shatter the colonial conception of East and West and return to an age of cosmopolitanism. His idealistic model of a cosmopolitan future is deeply informed by his reading of the past as adapted fr... Read More about ‘East is West and West is East’: Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Quest for Ultimate Cosmopolitanism.

MacDiarmid, communism and the poetry of commitment (2011)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2011). MacDiarmid, communism and the poetry of commitment. In S. Lyall, & M. P. McCulloch (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid (68-81). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Nursing the patient with Cancer. (2011)
Book Chapter
Cruickshank, S., & Campbell, K. (2011). Nursing the patient with Cancer. In C. Brooker, M. Nicol, & M. Alexander (Eds.), Alexander's Nursing Practice, 789-823. Elsevier

Resource Management and Service Deployment in Grids (2011)
Book Chapter
Chrysoulas, C., & Sklavos, N. (2011). Resource Management and Service Deployment in Grids. In N. P. Preve (Ed.), Grid Computing: Towards a Global Interconnected Infrastructure (123-143). London: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-676-4_5

Semantic grid refers to an approach to grid computing in which information, computing resources, and services are described in standard ways that can be processed by computer. This makes it easier for resources to be discovered and joined up automati... Read More about Resource Management and Service Deployment in Grids.

Young novice drivers and the development of somatic markers for risk on the road. (2011)
Book Chapter
Kinnear, N. A. D., & Stradling, S. G. (2011). Young novice drivers and the development of somatic markers for risk on the road. In D. A. Hennessy (Ed.), Traffic Psychology: An International Perspective (69-85). Nova Science Publishers

The novice driver problem is a worldwide trend that, in the UK, involves one in five newly licensed drivers being crash involved in their first year of driving (Maycock and Forsyth, 1997). Research suggests that both age and inexperience are major fa... Read More about Young novice drivers and the development of somatic markers for risk on the road..

Talent development environments (2011)
Book Chapter
Martindale, R., & Mortimer, P. (2011). Talent development environments. In Performance Psychology (65-84). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-443-06734-1.00005-5

This chapter presents the theory and practice of the management/leadership/education balance which characterises effective Talent Development Environments (TDEs). It locks to the preceding chapters, and to later chapters on skill acquisition. Also it... Read More about Talent development environments.

Using peerwise in a large first year biology class. (2011)
Book Chapter
Tierney, A. (2011). Using peerwise in a large first year biology class. In Self- and Peer-assessment: Guidance on Practice in the Biosciences (Teaching Bioscience Enhancing Learning). (2nd). Leeds: Centre for Bioscience, Higher Education Academy

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