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Supporting workplace information needs of people with dementia (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pennington, D. (2016, October). Supporting workplace information needs of people with dementia. Presented at ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark

Dementia, a broad term for a range of brain diseases that are generally characterised by memory loss, aphasia, decreased social inhibition, and other symptoms, has no cure and is not a normal part of ageing. It is, however, an international epidemic.... Read More about Supporting workplace information needs of people with dementia.

Using an Outdoor Learning Space to Teach Sustainability and Material Processes in HE Product Design (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Firth, R., Stoltenberg, E., & Jennings, T. (2015, November). Using an Outdoor Learning Space to Teach Sustainability and Material Processes in HE Product Design. Presented at iJADE Conference: Sustainability in Creative Arts Education, Glasgow, UK

The world is facing environmental changes that are increasingly affecting how we think about manufacturing, the consumption of products and use of resources. Within the HE product design community, thinking and designing sustainability’ has evolved t... Read More about Using an Outdoor Learning Space to Teach Sustainability and Material Processes in HE Product Design.

Evaluating the cost of disruption in office retrofit building projects (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tokede, O., Gupta, N., & Wamuziri, S. (2016). Evaluating the cost of disruption in office retrofit building projects. In Proceedings of 10th ICEC World Congress & Council Meeting (1086-1098)

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the cost of disruption in office retrofit building projects. This work adopts a positivist approach and evaluates the cost of disruption based on the estimated level of disruptiveness of retrofit technolog... Read More about Evaluating the cost of disruption in office retrofit building projects.

A novel human-computer interface creating a framework for the cognitive ergonomics of ECG interpretation (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cairns, A., Bond, R. R., Finlay, D., Breen, C., Guldenring, D., Gaffney, R., Henn, P., Gallagher, A., & Peace, A. (2016, October). A novel human-computer interface creating a framework for the cognitive ergonomics of ECG interpretation. Poster presented at Irish Human Computer Interaction Conference, Cork

Predominantly the 12-lead Electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation process remains a paper based approach. However, the ECG in this format creates a significant cognitive workload for an interpreter due its complexity and the plethora of knowledge that... Read More about A novel human-computer interface creating a framework for the cognitive ergonomics of ECG interpretation.

The chemical effect of filtered visible light on light-sensitive dyes (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Quye, A., Han, J., & Innes, M. (2016, October). The chemical effect of filtered visible light on light-sensitive dyes. Poster presented at Dyes in History and Archaeology 35 (DHA35)

Despite best efforts to remove damaging UV and short wavelength light from museum displays, dyes on historical textiles can still fade or change colour if visible light causes chromophoric compounds to form or degrade. For known light-sensitive dyes,... Read More about The chemical effect of filtered visible light on light-sensitive dyes.

Management of indwelling urethral catheters in community settings (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kydd, A., MacKay, W., MacIntosh, T., McIver, V., & O'Kane, C. (2016, October). Management of indwelling urethral catheters in community settings. Paper presented at 5th European Nursing Congress, Rotterdam

Introduction: This paper presents part of a larger study which examined callout patterns of people with catheters in the community, explored stakeholder experiences and developed a shared training resource to address identified problems. The study wa... Read More about Management of indwelling urethral catheters in community settings.

Defining the oldest old (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kydd, A., Fleming, A., Paoletti, I., & Hvalic Touzery, S. (2016, October). Defining the oldest old. Paper presented at 5th European Nursing Congress, Rotterdam

Background: It is an incontrovertible fact that the world has an increasing number of people who are classed as the ‘oldest old’ and sometimes referred to as the ‘fourth age’. This group of people are usually identified as those aged 85 and over. The... Read More about Defining the oldest old.

Understanding the compatibility of UK resource for dowel laminated timber construction (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Plowas, W., Hairstans, R., Bell, T., & Bros Williamson, J. (2016). Understanding the compatibility of UK resource for dowel laminated timber construction.

Dowel Laminated Timber (DLT also know as Brettstapel) is a technique of constructing large-scale solid timber panels for use as structural or non-structural elements. The technique utilizes smaller sawn timber sections mechanically fixed together wit... Read More about Understanding the compatibility of UK resource for dowel laminated timber construction.

The fragmentation of production and the competitiveness of nations in the automotive sector–A network approach (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, M., Gorgoni, S., & Cronin, B. (2016, September). The fragmentation of production and the competitiveness of nations in the automotive sector–A network approach. Paper presented at 5th Annual CIRANO-Sam M. Walton College of Business Workshop on Networks in Trade and Finance, Fayetteville, Arkansas

In recent decades the organisation of production has changed, with production and manufacturing activities no longer taking place in a single location, with lower transportation and communication costs leading to production activities geographically... Read More about The fragmentation of production and the competitiveness of nations in the automotive sector–A network approach.

Measuring perceived clutter in concept diagrams (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hou, T., Chapman, P., & Oliver, I. (2016). Measuring perceived clutter in concept diagrams. In 2016 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing. https://doi.org/10.1109/vlhcc.2016.7739661

Clutter in a diagram can be broadly defined as how visually complex the diagram is. It may be that different users perceive clutter in different ways, however. Moreover, it has been shown that, for certain types of diagrams and tasks, an increase in... Read More about Measuring perceived clutter in concept diagrams.

A comparison between Volumetric Timber Manufacturing Strategies in the UK and mainland Europe (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Duncheva, M., & Bradley, F. F. (2016, September). A comparison between Volumetric Timber Manufacturing Strategies in the UK and mainland Europe. Paper presented at Modular and Offsite Construction Summit (MOC)

The construction sector in the UK is currently being challenged by an urgent need to produce housing. This requirement is within a context of increasingly stringent greenhouse gas emission legislation and tough goals to reduce build time by 50% and... Read More about A comparison between Volumetric Timber Manufacturing Strategies in the UK and mainland Europe.

It’s all Greek to me: Stakeholder Perspectives on Scotland’s Reformed Tourism Structures (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Anastasiadou, C. (2016, September). It’s all Greek to me: Stakeholder Perspectives on Scotland’s Reformed Tourism Structures. Paper presented at 25th Nordic Tourism Symposium

Processes of territorialisation, devolution and rescaling within Europe are creating spatially redefined destinations that are giving rise to novel and distinctive tourism structures (Coles et al., 2014), which are operating in environments of constr... Read More about It’s all Greek to me: Stakeholder Perspectives on Scotland’s Reformed Tourism Structures.

"It's just the abuse that needs to stop": Social worker decision making regarding sibling living and contact arrangements in cases involving sibling sexual behaviour (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yates, P. (2016, September). "It's just the abuse that needs to stop": Social worker decision making regarding sibling living and contact arrangements in cases involving sibling sexual behaviour. Paper presented at NOTA Annual Conference

Somewhere between a third and a half of sexual abuse perpetrated by children and young people involves siblings as victims (Hackett et al., 1998; Ryan 2010). Sibling sexual abuse often requires very difficult decisions to be made regarding whether or... Read More about "It's just the abuse that needs to stop": Social worker decision making regarding sibling living and contact arrangements in cases involving sibling sexual behaviour.

Matching and mismatch: understanding employer expectations of work placement applicants (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, C., & Smith, S. (2016, September). Matching and mismatch: understanding employer expectations of work placement applicants. Paper presented at ACEN

The success and sustainability of work-integrated learning (WIL) is an abiding concern for universities, as institutions seek to mainstream WIL within academic programmes. A supply of placement opportunities, and students successfully being appointe... Read More about Matching and mismatch: understanding employer expectations of work placement applicants.

An Agent-Based Approach for Modelling Peer to Peer Networks (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alharbi, H., & Hussain, A. (2016). An Agent-Based Approach for Modelling Peer to Peer Networks. In 2015 17th UKSim-AMSS International Conference on Modelling and Simulation (UKSim) (532-537). https://doi.org/10.1109/UKSim.2015.47

A promising modelling and simulation tool is Agent-based Modelling (ABM) that has proved to be an effective and powerful tool across a wide range of fields. However, its exploitation within the Peer to Peer (P2P) paradigm has only recently attracted... Read More about An Agent-Based Approach for Modelling Peer to Peer Networks.

Development of in vitro strategies to predict in vivo toxicity of engineered nanoparticles to the male reproductive system. (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Malone, E., Ross, B., Rae, M., Bouwmeester, H., Gosens, I., Cassee, F., Werner, E., Ślązak, M., & Hutchison, G. (2016, September). Development of in vitro strategies to predict in vivo toxicity of engineered nanoparticles to the male reproductive system. Poster presented at 11th International Particle Toxicology Conference

The introduction of engineered nanomaterials (ENM) to new materials and products requires informed risk assessment. The altered physico-chemical properties of ENM mean traditional assays to evaluate toxicity must be modified or validated to ensure... Read More about Development of in vitro strategies to predict in vivo toxicity of engineered nanoparticles to the male reproductive system..

Whole Image Synthesis Using a Deep Encoder-Decoder Network (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sevetlidis, V., Giuffrida, M. V., & Tsaftaris, S. A. (2016, October). Whole Image Synthesis Using a Deep Encoder-Decoder Network. Presented at SASHIMI Workshop - MICCAI, Athens, Greece

The synthesis of medical images is an intensity transformation of a given modality in a way that represents an acquisition with a different modality (in the context of MRI this represents the synthesis of images originating from different MR sequence... Read More about Whole Image Synthesis Using a Deep Encoder-Decoder Network.

Microwave devices for controlling surface waves (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
La Spada, L., & Hao, Y. (2016). Microwave devices for controlling surface waves. In 2016 URSI International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory (EMTS). https://doi.org/10.1109/ursi-emts.2016.7571397

In the last few years, great interest grown up in the control and manipulation of electromagnetic surface wave. The aim of this paper is to present a novel approach to design new devices able to manipulate them. To validate the proposed design, two s... Read More about Microwave devices for controlling surface waves.