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Bolshie teenagers and boring books: pre and post Potter. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gray, A. (2009, October). Bolshie teenagers and boring books: pre and post Potter. Paper presented at 7th International Conference on the Book

A 1989 report provided both a snapshot of the contemporary role of reading in children’s lives and a basis upon which policies could be developed in order to encourage reading. The motivation for this work was both pragmatic and aspirational: a rever... Read More about Bolshie teenagers and boring books: pre and post Potter..

A Sense of place: the unique conjunction of past and present which resulted in Edinburgh cresting and winning the first Unesco City of Literature designation. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fannin, L. (2009, October). A Sense of place: the unique conjunction of past and present which resulted in Edinburgh cresting and winning the first Unesco City of Literature designation. Presented at 7th International Conference on the Book

A illustrious literary history is prized by Scotland’s Capital city, but just as important is the contemporary literary scene in which eminent, popular and scholarly authors reach out to a world audience and stand beside emerging writers, whose creat... Read More about A Sense of place: the unique conjunction of past and present which resulted in Edinburgh cresting and winning the first Unesco City of Literature designation..

A semester with the Sony eBook Reader. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Allan, D. (2009, October). A semester with the Sony eBook Reader. Paper presented at International Conference on the Book

The marketplace has seen the launch over the past two years of a plethora of products that can now handle digitised books on mobile devices. One of the most prominent of these has been the Sony e-book reader, principally because of its availability t... Read More about A semester with the Sony eBook Reader..

Refactoring data transforms in MaTSE for flexibility. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Craig, P., & Kennedy, J. (2009, October). Refactoring data transforms in MaTSE for flexibility

In early prototypes of the Microarray Time-series Explorer (MaTSE) data transforms were tightly coupled with visualisation components. While this allowed us to achieve our initial objective of developing the application to the level where we were ab... Read More about Refactoring data transforms in MaTSE for flexibility..

Re-architecting Visualizations to Java Swing. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Graham, M., & Kennedy, J. (2009, October). Re-architecting Visualizations to Java Swing. Paper presented at REVISE: Refactoring Visualization from Experience, VizWeek Workshop

A comparison of modern methods of bathroom construction: a project case study. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Taylor, M. D., Fisher, A., & Wamuziri, S. (2009). A comparison of modern methods of bathroom construction: a project case study.

Volumetric modules are often employed as an efficient and effective means of constructing highly serviced areas in buildings such as bathroom, kitchens and structures to house mechanical plant and equipment. Recent developments in structurally int... Read More about A comparison of modern methods of bathroom construction: a project case study..

A new hybrid agent-based modeling & simulation decision support system for breast cancer data analysis (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Siddiqa, A., Niazi, M., Mustafa, F., Bokhari, H., Hussain, A., Akram, N., Shaheen, S., Ahmed, F., & Iqbal, S. (2009, August). A new hybrid agent-based modeling & simulation decision support system for breast cancer data analysis. Presented at 2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies, Karachi, Pakistan

In this paper, we present a novel technique of building hybrid decision support systems which integrates traditional decision support systems with agent based models for use in breast cancer analysis for better prediction and recommendation. Our syst... Read More about A new hybrid agent-based modeling & simulation decision support system for breast cancer data analysis.

Irony: adapting Jane Austen's Northaner Abbey. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Artt, S. (2009, September). Irony: adapting Jane Austen's Northaner Abbey. Paper presented at 4th Annual Association of Adaptation Studies Conference, BFI, Southbank

Parents' and Pupils' Rights (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macfarlane, L. (2009, September). Parents' and Pupils' Rights. Paper presented at Education Law for Teachers: CLT conference

No abstract available.

Cochlear Implants and Improved Music Perception (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z. (2009, September). Cochlear Implants and Improved Music Perception. Presented at Cochlear Implants and Music Special Interest Group

No abstract available.

Equal-Spaced Rectangular Meander-line Antenna RFID Tag Design for UHF Band (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abd-Alhameed, R. A., Zhou, D., AlKhambashi, M., See, C. H., Abusitta, M., & Excell, P. S. (2009). Equal-Spaced Rectangular Meander-line Antenna RFID Tag Design for UHF Band.

Design and testing of an equal-spaced rectangular meander-line antenna (ESRMLA) for RFID tag applications in the European UHF band 865-868 MHz is presented. The tag antenna was modelled and analysed using two established electromagnetic simulator pac... Read More about Equal-Spaced Rectangular Meander-line Antenna RFID Tag Design for UHF Band.

Lifelong learning for Nurses in Scotland - Child and Adolescent Issues (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nicol, J. (2009, September). Lifelong learning for Nurses in Scotland - Child and Adolescent Issues. Presented at ICOLLE 2009 international Conference of Lifelong Learning, Brno, Czech Republic

Lifelong learning for Nurses in Scotland - Child and Adolescent Issues