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Trust, SME Internationalisation and Networks: A study of three Nigerian cultural blocs (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Omeihe, K. (2019, August). Trust, SME Internationalisation and Networks: A study of three Nigerian cultural blocs. Presented at Centre for African Research on Enterprise and Economic Development (CAREED) Conference, Paisley, UK

Presented at Centre for African Research on Enterprise and Economic Development (CAREED) Conference, Paisley, on 29-30 Aug 2019.

Trust and SME internationalisation Networks in West Africa: Insights from Nigeria and Ghana (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Omeihe, K., & Amoako, I. (2019, August). Trust and SME internationalisation Networks in West Africa: Insights from Nigeria and Ghana. Presented at Proceedings of the 2019 Conference Academy of International Business Africa Conference, Accra, Ghana

Based on a qualitative study, this paper aims to develop an understanding of the role of trust in SME internationalisation in West Africa. To date most of the literature on trust and SME internationalisation reveals a paucity of studies on how trust... Read More about Trust and SME internationalisation Networks in West Africa: Insights from Nigeria and Ghana.

Trust and West African Exporting SME Networks (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khan, M. S., Omeihe, K. O., Amoako, I. O., & Gustafsson, V. (2019, November). Trust and West African Exporting SME Networks. Presented at Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE): SPACE – Exploring New Frontiers and Entrepreneurial Places, Newcastle

Topic: Trust and West African SME Networks Applicability to the conference theme: From our viewpoint, the goal of this paper is to expose the notion that very little is known about trust and SME networks from a West African perspective. With this in... Read More about Trust and West African Exporting SME Networks.

Transitioning points of view: Participating in a Faculty Learning Community at Edinburgh Napier University (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ennis, L. (2019, July). Transitioning points of view: Participating in a Faculty Learning Community at Edinburgh Napier University. Presented at Improving University Teaching, Mülheim an der Rhur, Germany

Faculty Learning Communities (FLC) are formal, time-bound and selective communities that encourage collaborative enhancement of teaching and learning. Based on the model developed by Milton D. Cox (2004), the first FLC at Edinburgh Napier University... Read More about Transitioning points of view: Participating in a Faculty Learning Community at Edinburgh Napier University.

Trust And Distrust In Nigerian Supply Chain Relationships (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Omeihe, K. O., Gustafsson, V., Amoako, I. O., & Khan, M. S. (2019, September). Trust And Distrust In Nigerian Supply Chain Relationships. Presented at British Academy of Management Conference, Birmingham, uk

Purpose- To date, most of the literature on trust and distrust reveal a paucity of studies about Nigerian Supply chain relationships. Specifically, this paper attempts to address this gap by examining how trust is developed and repaired in supply cha... Read More about Trust And Distrust In Nigerian Supply Chain Relationships.

Artificial Intelligence and Interface Design for Everyday Products (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
O'Dowd, A., & Carvalhais, M. (2019, November). Artificial Intelligence and Interface Design for Everyday Products. Presented at DIGICOM 3rd International Conference on Digital Design & Communication, Barcelos, Portugal

Imbedding artificial intelligence into designed technologies is not new, yet recently there has been a rapid increase in the number of domestic products that claim to be “smart”. The reasons for this are varied but a major contributing factor is the... Read More about Artificial Intelligence and Interface Design for Everyday Products.

Improvisation: Autonomy, Heteronomy and Wilful Naïveté (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lambert, I. (2019, September). Improvisation: Autonomy, Heteronomy and Wilful Naïveté. Presented at EKSIG 2019: Knowing Together – experiential knowledge and collaboration, Estonia Academy of Arts, Tallin, Estonia

This paper discusses theoretical perspectives on improvisation as a powerful generator of new knowledge in practice-based research and its enhancement through wilful naïveté. The paper discusses a wilfully naïve approach to making with reference to I... Read More about Improvisation: Autonomy, Heteronomy and Wilful Naïveté.

The forward facing flaneur: a fresh look at information seeking for the beer festival attendee (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robertson, M., & Adams, A. (2019, July). The forward facing flaneur: a fresh look at information seeking for the beer festival attendee. Paper presented at Leisure Studies Association (LSA) 2019, Abertay University, Dundee

Dӧrk, Carpendale and Williamson (2011) review the Flaneur (Baudelaire, 1863) in contemporary settings, positing the information flanuer as representing a new way of thinking about information seeking. We adapt and extend this and consider the future... Read More about The forward facing flaneur: a fresh look at information seeking for the beer festival attendee.

Business Events - the application of design and transforming access (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robertson, M., & McLachie, J. (2019, May). Business Events - the application of design and transforming access. Paper presented at Atlas Business Tourism 2019 Special Interest Group Conference, Porvoo, Finland

This work introduces and critically reviews the changing notion of social responsibility in the behaviour and actions of Business Event provision and its management. In particular, the work focuses on the development of inclusive practice in Business... Read More about Business Events - the application of design and transforming access.

The effects of syllable and utterance position on tongue shape and gestural magnitude in /l/ and /r (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lawson, E., Leplatre, G., Stuart-Smith, J., & Scobbie, J. M. (2019, August). The effects of syllable and utterance position on tongue shape and gestural magnitude in /l/ and /r. Presented at 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia

This paper is an ultrasound-based articulatory study of the impact of syllable-position and utterance position on tongue shape and tongue-gesture magnitude in liquid consonants in American, Irish and Scottish English. Mixed effects modelling was used... Read More about The effects of syllable and utterance position on tongue shape and gestural magnitude in /l/ and /r.

External Refractive Index Sensitivity Enhancement of a Long Period Grating by Graphene Oxide Overlay (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dissanayake, K., Ghosh, S., Binetti, L., Rente, B., Alwis, L., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. (2019, July). External Refractive Index Sensitivity Enhancement of a Long Period Grating by Graphene Oxide Overlay. Presented at Latin Americal Workshop on Optical Fiber Sensors (LAWOFS2019), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

In this paper, an external refractive index sensor is presented based on a graphene oxide coated long period grating and based on creating a stable graphene oxide coating on the fibre surface using a drop casting technique. The wavelength shift sensi... Read More about External Refractive Index Sensitivity Enhancement of a Long Period Grating by Graphene Oxide Overlay.

The Applicability of Commercial Supply Chain Models in Humanitarian Supply Chain Thinking (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Duddy, D. G., Weaver, M., & Stantchev, D. (2019, September). The Applicability of Commercial Supply Chain Models in Humanitarian Supply Chain Thinking. Presented at Logistics Research Network Annual Conference 2019, Northampton

This research argues that there are a number of potential pitfalls when using traditional commercial supply chain models for humanitarian supply chain issues and it examines the extent to which existing humanitarian supply chain thinking is based on... Read More about The Applicability of Commercial Supply Chain Models in Humanitarian Supply Chain Thinking.

Dyslipidaemia and altered hepatic function in males - consequences of androgen excess in fetal life (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Siemienowicz, K., Filis, P., Shaw, S., Douglas, A., Thomas, J., Howie, F., Fowler, P., Duncan, C., & Rae, M. (2019, May). Dyslipidaemia and altered hepatic function in males - consequences of androgen excess in fetal life. Presented at 21st European Congress of Endocrinology, Lyon, France

Introduction: Adult male offspring of women with PCOS have increased dyslipidaemia, characterised by elevated triglycerides (TG), increased total and LDL-cholesterol (LDL-C), and hyperinsulinaemia. As altered intrauterine endocrine environments can ‘... Read More about Dyslipidaemia and altered hepatic function in males - consequences of androgen excess in fetal life.

Photo-Realistic Facial Details Synthesis from Single Image (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chen, A., Chen, Z., Zhang, G., Zhang, Z., Mitchell, K., & Yu, J. (2019, October). Photo-Realistic Facial Details Synthesis from Single Image. Presented at 2019 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Seoul, Korea

We present a single-image 3D face synthesis technique that can handle challenging facial expressions while recovering fine geometric details. Our technique employs expression analysis for proxy face geometry generation and combines supervised and uns... Read More about Photo-Realistic Facial Details Synthesis from Single Image.

Hands-on or hands off: How useful is Newsday as a teaching tool (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kocic, A. (2016, June). Hands-on or hands off: How useful is Newsday as a teaching tool. Presented at Association for Journalism Education Conference, London, UK

Journalism is now a graduate occupation and apparently it is extremely difficult to enter the industry without a degree. Training no longer occurs systematically on the job. Instead, the industry increasingly relies upon higher education to provide i... Read More about Hands-on or hands off: How useful is Newsday as a teaching tool.

Using a longitudinal focus group methodology to measure the value and impact of public libraries (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Appleton, L., Duff, A. S., Hall, H., & Raeside, R. (2017, July). Using a longitudinal focus group methodology to measure the value and impact of public libraries. Presented at 12th International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries

Introduction
There is a general acceptance that public libraries contribute to ‘community’, and at least have the potential to have a very positive impact on civil society. (Varheim, 2007). This ‘impact’ is longitudinal, or ongoing, in that library... Read More about Using a longitudinal focus group methodology to measure the value and impact of public libraries.

Enhancing User Privacy in IoT: Integration of GDPR and Blockchain (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barati, M., & Rana, O. (2019, December). Enhancing User Privacy in IoT: Integration of GDPR and Blockchain. Presented at First International Conference, BlockSys 2019, Guangzhou, China

The development of Internet of Things (IoT) industries has raised significant questions in terms of accountability of smart devices and user privacy. The advent of European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in such industries enabled users to... Read More about Enhancing User Privacy in IoT: Integration of GDPR and Blockchain.

Thermal comfort in different classroom types in higher educational buildings (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jowkar, M., Rijal, H. B., & Brusey, J. (2019, April). Thermal comfort in different classroom types in higher educational buildings. Presented at Comfort At The Extremes (CATE) Conference, 2019, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Thermal comfort in learning environments influences the students’ attention, concentration and learning productivity. Due to the impact of the thermal environment on students’ thermal comfort and consequently their productivity in line with the impac... Read More about Thermal comfort in different classroom types in higher educational buildings.

Enhancing Mobile Strategy Consultancy using a Conceptual Cognitive Model of Mobile Moments (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Foerster, N., Tan, H., & Greiner, C. (2019, October). Enhancing Mobile Strategy Consultancy using a Conceptual Cognitive Model of Mobile Moments. Presented at 2019 IEEE 10th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON), Vancouver, BC, Canada

Identifying mobile business interactions and optimizing associated usecases by understanding their human cognitive drivers is key for future mobile strategies across mobile workforces. An illustrative motivation is to find out the individual triggers... Read More about Enhancing Mobile Strategy Consultancy using a Conceptual Cognitive Model of Mobile Moments.

The local provision of restorative justice in Scotland: an exploratory empirical study (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maglione, G., Buchan, J., & Robertson, L. (2019, December). The local provision of restorative justice in Scotland: an exploratory empirical study. Paper presented at Scotland Restorative Justice Forum - Research Network Seminar, Edinburgh

Maglione, G., Buchan, J., & Robertson, L. (2019, December). The local provision of restorative justice in Scotland: an exploratory empirical study. Paper presented at Scotland Restorative Justice Forum - Research Network Seminar, Edinburgh.