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Case Study: Primary Healthcare Clinical Placements during Nursing and Midwifery Education in Lesotho (2015)
Journal Article
Christensen, A., Phafoli, S., Butler, J., Nyangu, I., Skolnik, L., & Stender, S. (2015). Case Study: Primary Healthcare Clinical Placements during Nursing and Midwifery Education in Lesotho. World Health and Population, 16(2), 46-53. https://doi.org/10.12

In Lesotho, primary healthcare is the main access point for health services. While nurses and midwives provide most of the care at this level, assessments of the clinical education programs have highlighted gaps in primary healthcare experiences for... Read More about Case Study: Primary Healthcare Clinical Placements during Nursing and Midwifery Education in Lesotho.

An improved method to predict the position of maximum power point during partial shading for PV arrays (2015)
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Ahmed, J., & Salam, Z. (2015). An improved method to predict the position of maximum power point during partial shading for PV arrays. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 11(6), 1378-1387. https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2015.2489579

For a photovoltaic (PV) system, it is widely assumed that the peaks of a partially shaded P-V curve are located at the multiples of 0.8V oc , where V oc is the open-circuit voltage of the PV module. However, this assumption - known as the of 0.8V oc... Read More about An improved method to predict the position of maximum power point during partial shading for PV arrays.

Partial shading in building integrated PV system: Causes, effects and mitigating techniques (2015)
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Salam, Z., Ramli, Z., Ahmed, J., & Amjad, M. (2015). Partial shading in building integrated PV system: Causes, effects and mitigating techniques. International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems, 6(4), 712-722. https://doi.org/10.11591/ijpeds.

This paper is aimed to provide a holistic understanding on the issues related to partial shading: its causes, the theoretical and physical reasons behind it, its implications on the BIPV system. Furthermore the possible mitigation techniques using t... Read More about Partial shading in building integrated PV system: Causes, effects and mitigating techniques.

Replication-based cost scheduling strategy for fault tolerance in distributed knowledge management systems (2015)
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Bamgboye, O. O., Folorunso, O., Akinwale, A. T., & Adebayo, G. A. (2015). Replication-based cost scheduling strategy for fault tolerance in distributed knowledge management systems. Journal of Natural Sciences Engineering and Technology, 14(1), https://do

Distributed Knowledge Management Systems (DKMS) often depends on the Semantic Web Peer-to-Peer (SW-P2P) model. The reason for this is based on its support for autonomy of knowledge node, ease of accessibility and scalability. The susceptibility to fa... Read More about Replication-based cost scheduling strategy for fault tolerance in distributed knowledge management systems.

Big Data: Big Challenges to Privacy and Data Protection (2015)
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Bakar Munir, A., Hajar Mohd Yasin, S., & Muhammad-Sukki, F. (2015). Big Data: Big Challenges to Privacy and Data Protection. International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering, 9(1),

This paper seeks to analyse the benefits of big data and more importantly the challenges it pose to the subject of privacy and data protection. First, the nature of big data will be briefly deliberated before presenting the potential of big data in t... Read More about Big Data: Big Challenges to Privacy and Data Protection.

Advances in designing product-service systems (2015)
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Vasantha, G. V. A., Roy, R., & Corney, J. R. (2015). Advances in designing product-service systems. Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, 95, 429-448

Product-Service Systems (PSS) have emerged as a class of hybrid business models that have evolved particular relevance to enterprises operating in a resource-efficient, circular economy (environments that places an emphasis on sustainable, collaborat... Read More about Advances in designing product-service systems.

The nomination committee and firm performance: an empirical investigation of UK financial institutions during the pre/post financial crisis (2015)
Journal Article
Agyemang-Mintah, P. (2015). The nomination committee and firm performance: an empirical investigation of UK financial institutions during the pre/post financial crisis. Corporate Board: Role, Duties and Composition, 11(3), 176-190. https://doi.org/10.224

This study looks at the relationship between nomination committee (NC) and the financial performance of firms among United Kingdom (UK) financial institutions. The result indicates a positive and statistically significant association between the NC o... Read More about The nomination committee and firm performance: an empirical investigation of UK financial institutions during the pre/post financial crisis.

Impact of 5g telematics (2015)
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Thuemmler, C., Jell, T., Nunna, S., & Jumelle, A. K. L. (2015). Impact of 5g telematics. Asian Hospital & Healthcare Management,

New technologies such as wearable wireless medical devices are transforming the way healthcare is delivered. As these devices become more powerful and numerous, the daunting challenge is whether the existing communications infrastructure can meet the... Read More about Impact of 5g telematics.

"We Don't See Things as They Are, We See Things as We Are": Questioning the "Outsider" in Polish Migration Research (2015)
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Botterill, K. (2015). "We Don't See Things as They Are, We See Things as We Are": Questioning the "Outsider" in Polish Migration Research. Forum: Qualitative Social Research / Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, 16(2),

This article offers a reflexive account of conducting research on Polish migration to Scotland from the perspective of the "outsider." The contribution argues for a revision to the insider/outsider dichotomy viewing it as inadequately nuanced in rela... Read More about "We Don't See Things as They Are, We See Things as We Are": Questioning the "Outsider" in Polish Migration Research.

The Engineering Peer Tutors. (2015)
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Durkacz, K., Balfour, A., Spittal, D., Rogoz, M., & Csek, L. (2015). The Engineering Peer Tutors. Edinburgh Napier University Teaching Fellows Journal, Spring, 21

A preliminary study of barriers to bank financing of ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs in the UK. (2015)
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Zhang, J. (2015). A preliminary study of barriers to bank financing of ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs in the UK. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 3, 105-110. https://doi.org/10.4236/jss.2015.37018

Ethnic minority entrepreneurship has been a growing research interest, however, little has been known about financial barriers to start up and run a business venture from the perspectives of UK ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs. The aim of this study is... Read More about A preliminary study of barriers to bank financing of ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs in the UK..

An approach to synergistic and dynamic service evolution in clouds. (2015)
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Wang, Z., & Cheng, G. (2015). An approach to synergistic and dynamic service evolution in clouds. International Journal of Cloud Computing, 4, 177. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCC.2015.069275

The proposed research will focus on developing a novel approach on software service evolution in computing clouds. The approach will support dynamic evolution of the software service in clouds via a set of discovered evolution patterns. An initial su... Read More about An approach to synergistic and dynamic service evolution in clouds..

“I know exactly what I'm going into”: recommendations for pre-nursing experience from an evaluation of a pre-nursing scholarship in rural Scotland. (2015)
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Smith, A., Beattie, M., & Kyle, R. G. (2015). “I know exactly what I'm going into”: recommendations for pre-nursing experience from an evaluation of a pre-nursing scholarship in rural Scotland. Nursing Open, 2(3), 105-118. https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.23

Aim To develop a model of pre-nursing experience from evaluation of a pre-nursing scholarship for school pupils in Scotland. Design Action research study. Methods School pupils (n = 42) completed questionnaire surveys and participated in anecd... Read More about “I know exactly what I'm going into”: recommendations for pre-nursing experience from an evaluation of a pre-nursing scholarship in rural Scotland..

Decision principles for routing strategies: games against nature and demons. (2015)
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Schmoecker, J., & Fonzone, A. (2015). Decision principles for routing strategies: games against nature and demons. Asian transport studies, 3(4), 362-377. https://doi.org/10.11175/eastsats.3.362

In this paper we firstly review general decision principles under uncertainty and apply them to route choice decisions. Risk-averse behaviour leads to the description of route choice a game. The difference between games against demons and nature are... Read More about Decision principles for routing strategies: games against nature and demons..

Enteral tube feeding for dysphagic stroke patients (2015)
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Rowat, A. M. (2015). Enteral tube feeding for dysphagic stroke patients. British Journal of Nursing, 24(3), 138-145. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2015.24.3.138

Enteral feeding tubes, a nasogastric tube (NGT) or percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG), are commonly used to provide nutrition, hydration and essential medications to stroke patients who cannot swallow. Early tube feeding is associated with imp... Read More about Enteral tube feeding for dysphagic stroke patients.

Some new uniform approximate analytical representations of the Blasius function. (2015)
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Robin, W. (2015). Some new uniform approximate analytical representations of the Blasius function. Global Journal of Mathematics, 2, 150-155

New uniform approximations of the Blasius velocity profile and Blasius function are developed from existing rational approximations of the Blasius velocity profile and of the Blasius function itself. Essentially, the existing rational approximations... Read More about Some new uniform approximate analytical representations of the Blasius function..