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When institutions collide: the digitization and transformation of public services. (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, C. F., & Webster, W. (2006, September). When institutions collide: the digitization and transformation of public services. Paper presented at XXth meeting of the Permanent Study Group on E-Government (Information and Communications Technologies in Public Administration), European Group of Public Administration Annual Conference

Determinants of quality in a long-lived colonial species (2006)
Journal Article
Lewis, S., Wanless, S., Elston, D. A., Schultz, M. D., Mackley, E., Du Toit, M., Underhill, J. G., & Harris, M. P. (2006). Determinants of quality in a long-lived colonial species. Journal of Animal Ecology, 75(6), 1304-1312. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2006.01152.x

1. In many animal populations a small proportion of individuals produce the majority of surviving offspring, but the underlying mechanisms are unclear. Behaviour may be an important determinant of variation in fitness: 'high-quality' individuals may... Read More about Determinants of quality in a long-lived colonial species.

Technology and Global Integration (CD including doctoral papers) (2006)
Book
Bennett, D., Clegg, B., Greasley, A., Albores, P., Binder, M., & Weaver, M. (Eds.). (2006). Technology and Global Integration (CD including doctoral papers). https://doi.org/10.13140/2.1.4848.4649

In July 1995 Aston Business School had the privilege of organising and hosting the First European Conference of the International Association for Management of Technology (IAMOT). At the time it was the first IAMOT conference to be held outside North... Read More about Technology and Global Integration (CD including doctoral papers).

Leadership and Management in UK Local Government: A Role for Elected Mayors? (2006)
Journal Article
Fenwick, J., Elcock, H., & McMillan, J. (2006). Leadership and Management in UK Local Government: A Role for Elected Mayors?. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 72(3), 431-447. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020852306068026

The paper assesses the impact of the elected executive mayor on leadership and management in UK local government. After exploring the new executive arrangements introduced by the Local Government Act 2000, the three themes of governing, governance an... Read More about Leadership and Management in UK Local Government: A Role for Elected Mayors?.

Competent Practice? An Evaluation (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brooks Young, P. (2006, September). Competent Practice? An Evaluation. Poster presented at Scottish Clinical Skills Network 6th Annual Conference

The economic costs of health service treatments for asbestos-related mesothelioma deaths. (2006)
Journal Article
Watterson, A., Gorman, T., Malcolm, C., Robinson, M., & Beck, M. (2006). The economic costs of health service treatments for asbestos-related mesothelioma deaths. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1076(1), 871-881. https://doi.org/10.1196/annals.1371.042

This article explores the complex and neglected picture of occupational and environmental disease healthcare costs specifically relating to asbestos. Diagnosed mesothelioma cases in Scotland in one calendar year were used to investigate the subject i... Read More about The economic costs of health service treatments for asbestos-related mesothelioma deaths..

Factors influencing primary school children's knowledge of wildlife (2006)
Journal Article
Huxham, M., Welsh, A., Berry, A., & Templeton, S. (2006). Factors influencing primary school children's knowledge of wildlife. Journal of Biological Education, 41(1), 9-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/00219266.2006.9656050

We examined the wildlife knowledge of primary (aged 4-12) schoolchildren. In particular, we examined the effects of children’s age and gender, and the taxonomy and origin (indigenous versus exotic) of wildlife, on the degree of knowledge about differ... Read More about Factors influencing primary school children's knowledge of wildlife.

Within these walls. (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, S. (2006, September). Within these walls. Paper presented at UK Noise Association

A randomised-controlled trial in England of a postnatal midwifery intervention on breast-feeding duration. (2006)
Journal Article
Wallace, L. M., Dunn, O. M., Alder, E. M., Inch, S., Hills, R. K., & Law, S. M. (2006). A randomised-controlled trial in England of a postnatal midwifery intervention on breast-feeding duration. Midwifery, 22(3), 262-273. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2005.06.004

Objective to determine whether postnatal ‘hands off’ care by midwives on positioning and attachment of the newborn baby improves breast-feeding duration. Design mothers were randomised at the first postnatal feed to receive either care by a midw... Read More about A randomised-controlled trial in England of a postnatal midwifery intervention on breast-feeding duration..

Tauchnitz and Albatross: “a community of interests” in English-language paperback publishing 1934-1951. (2006)
Journal Article
McCleery, A. (2006). Tauchnitz and Albatross: “a community of interests” in English-language paperback publishing 1934-1951. Library, 7, 297-316. https://doi.org/10.1093/library/7.3.297

This article draws on a variety of archival sources to re-examine the relationship between Tauchnitz Editions and the Albatross Press from 1934 to 1951. In particular, it attempts to revise the account of that relationship given in the bibliography o... Read More about Tauchnitz and Albatross: “a community of interests” in English-language paperback publishing 1934-1951..

Modelling the effects of road pricing (2006)
Thesis
Stewart, K. Modelling the effects of road pricing. (Thesis). Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2254692

The classical road tolling problem is to toll network links such that under the principles of Wardropian User Equilibrium (UE) assignment, a System Optimising (SO) flow pattern is obtained. Such toll sets are however non-unique and further optimisati... Read More about Modelling the effects of road pricing.

Data mining a new pilot agriculture extension data warehouse (2006)
Journal Article
Abdullah, A., & Hussain, A. (2006). Data mining a new pilot agriculture extension data warehouse. Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, 38(3), 229-248

Pakistan is the world’s fifth largest cotton producer. To monitor cotton growth, different government departments and agencies in Pakistan have been recording pest scouting, agriculture and metrological data for decades. Coarse estimates of just the... Read More about Data mining a new pilot agriculture extension data warehouse.

The perceived influence of centralising operations in chain hotels (2006)
Journal Article
Espino-Rodríguez, T. F., & Taylor, J. S. (2006). The perceived influence of centralising operations in chain hotels. Tourism and Hospitality Research, 6(4), 251-266. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.thr.6050022

This paper makes an exploratory study of the centralisation of operations in hotels that belong to a chain and are located in a tourist destination. Although hotels are increasingly using a strategy of operations centralisation, little research has a... Read More about The perceived influence of centralising operations in chain hotels.

Metaheuristics for university course timetabling. (2006)
Thesis
Lewis, R. M. R. Metaheuristics for university course timetabling. (Thesis). Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/2392

The work presented in this thesis concerns the problem of timetabling at universities – particularly course-timetabling, and examines the various ways in which metaheuristic techniques might be applied to these sorts of problems. Using a popular benc... Read More about Metaheuristics for university course timetabling..

Far-right media on the internet: culture, discourse and power (2006)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (2006). Far-right media on the internet: culture, discourse and power. New Media and Society, 8(4), 573-587. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444806065653

This study examines the discourse of the British National Party’s (BNP) website. It explores the site as a form of alternative media, focusing on how it involves members and supporters in its discursive construction of racism. It finds that the disco... Read More about Far-right media on the internet: culture, discourse and power.

On balancing network traffic in path-based multicast communication (2006)
Journal Article
Al-Dubai, A., Ould-Khaoua, M., & Mackenzie, L. (2006). On balancing network traffic in path-based multicast communication. Future Generation Computer Systems, 22(7), 805-811. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2006.02.009

This paper presents a new multicast path-based algorithm, referred to here as the Qualified Groups (QG for short), which can achieve a high degree of parallelism and low communication latency over a wide range of traffic loads in the mesh. The QG al... Read More about On balancing network traffic in path-based multicast communication.