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Evaluating assessment strategies through collaborative evidence‐based practice: can one tool fit all? (2008)
Journal Article
McDowell, L., Smailes, J., Sambell, K., Sambell, A., & Wakelin, D. (2008). Evaluating assessment strategies through collaborative evidence‐based practice: can one tool fit all?. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 45(2), 143-153. https://doi.org/10.1080/14703290801950310

This paper reports on a collaborative project to improve assessment undertaken by a cross discipline group of university lecturers (Business, Engineering and Psychology) using action research methodology. First-stage analysis was based on results fro... Read More about Evaluating assessment strategies through collaborative evidence‐based practice: can one tool fit all?.

The midwifery curriculum: introducing obstetric emergency simulation (2008)
Journal Article
Norris, G. (2008). The midwifery curriculum: introducing obstetric emergency simulation. British Journal of Midwifery, 16(4), 232-235. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjom.2008.16.4.29047

Employing high fidelity simulations of obstetric emergencies for student midwives has great teaching and learning potential. Simulations can provide student midwives with a learning experience that facilitates knowledge application to midwifery prac... Read More about The midwifery curriculum: introducing obstetric emergency simulation.

The Psychological Contract in Call Centres: An Employee Perspective (2008)
Journal Article
Cross, C., Barry, G., & Garavan, T. N. (2008). The Psychological Contract in Call Centres: An Employee Perspective. Journal of Industrial Relations, 50(2), 229-242. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022185607087899

The call centre industry is a relatively recent phenomenon, which has changed the face of the service sector (Frenkel et al., 1998). For a comparatively new contender it has created a large share of internal human resource problems. Common issues of... Read More about The Psychological Contract in Call Centres: An Employee Perspective.

A new data, document and geospatial repository: knowledge base and project support for a major international railway project. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wigan, M., Kukla, R., Benjamins, M., & Grashoff, P. (2008, April). A new data, document and geospatial repository: knowledge base and project support for a major international railway project. Poster presented at Third International Conference on Open Repositories

The simplicity of the basic design has proved to be robust to the changing and varied needs of different ?clients?, but the complexity of the intellectual property issues engendered by the mix of commercial, open source and hand rolled software has p... Read More about A new data, document and geospatial repository: knowledge base and project support for a major international railway project..

Are student nurses safe transfusion practitioners? (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Donaldson, J. H., Pirie, L., & Smith, F. C. (2008, April). Are student nurses safe transfusion practitioners?. Presented at 1st International Congress Croation Nurses Society of Anaesthesia, Reanimation, Intensive Care and Transfusion

Student nurses' knowledge retention of safe transfusion practice following a standardised teaching and learning program, and a short simulated exercise is ascertained. It is suggested that the approach is reliable in ensuring a safe knowledge base in... Read More about Are student nurses safe transfusion practitioners?.

Going green: Decisional factors in small hospitality operations (2008)
Journal Article
Tzschentke, N. A., Kirk, D., & Lynch, P. A. (2008). Going green: Decisional factors in small hospitality operations. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 27(1), 126-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2007.07.010

This paper reports on research into the factors that influence the adoption of environmental measures in small hospitality firms. The
research found that the decision to become environmentally involved had been a value-driven journey, influenced pri... Read More about Going green: Decisional factors in small hospitality operations.

An analysis of motorcyclist injury severity by various crash configurations at T-junctions in the United Kingdom (2008)
Thesis
Pai, C. An analysis of motorcyclist injury severity by various crash configurations at T-junctions in the United Kingdom. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6200

Motorcyclists that have no protective structures while motorcycling as other occupants of automobiles do can be particularly vulnerable to accident injuries (i.e., motorcycles are not as crashworthy as automobiles). Motorcyclists' susceptibility to a... Read More about An analysis of motorcyclist injury severity by various crash configurations at T-junctions in the United Kingdom.

Engaging photorealistic VR: An aesthetic process of interaction. (2008)
Thesis
Carroll, F. Engaging photorealistic VR: An aesthetic process of interaction. (Thesis). Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/2393

This thesis investigates the potential of aesthetics in the design of Human-Computer Interactions (HCI). In particular, it aims to provide a means by which aesthetics can be applied in photorealistic virtual reality (VR) to create ‘engaging’ experien... Read More about Engaging photorealistic VR: An aesthetic process of interaction..

Do people grow on trees? Guidance for employers in the Scottish forest and timber industries. (2008)
Report
Bond, S., Thomson, E., MacPherson, S., & Ridley-Ellis, D. (2008). Do people grow on trees? Guidance for employers in the Scottish forest and timber industries

The final report for the Forest Industries Recruitment and Retention (FIRRS) project.

Forests and their products are hugely important to the economic and environmental sustainability of Scotland’s economy and influence many aspects of Scottish soc... Read More about Do people grow on trees? Guidance for employers in the Scottish forest and timber industries..

Ahead of their time? Barriers to action in green tourism firms (2008)
Journal Article
Tzschentke, N., Kirk, D., & Lynch, P. (2008). Ahead of their time? Barriers to action in green tourism firms. Service Industries Journal, 28(2), 167-178. https://doi.org/10.1080/02642060701842175

This paper presents findings from a qualitative research investigation into tourism firms and the environment. It focuses on the factors preventing a sample of small environmentally accredited businesses from undertaking further action. Attitudinal,... Read More about Ahead of their time? Barriers to action in green tourism firms.

Automated responsive web services evolution through generative aspect-oriented component adaptation (2008)
Journal Article
Liu, X., Feng, Y., & Kerridge, J. (2008). Automated responsive web services evolution through generative aspect-oriented component adaptation. International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 31(1/2), 83-93. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCAT.2008.017721

When building service oriented systems, it is often the case that existing web services do not perfectly match user requirements in target systems. To achieve smooth integration and high reusability of web services, mechanisms to support automated ev... Read More about Automated responsive web services evolution through generative aspect-oriented component adaptation.

'Doing' in secure settings. (2008)
Book Chapter
Hunter, E., & McKay, E. A. (2008). 'Doing' in secure settings. In K. H. Lim, G. Richards, & C. Craik (Eds.), Advancing Occupational Therapy in Mental Health Practice, 79-88

What have we been ‘doing’? A historical review of occupational therapy. (2008)
Book Chapter
McKay, E. A. (2008). What have we been ‘doing’? A historical review of occupational therapy. In C. Craik, K. H. Lim, & G. Richards (Eds.), Advancing Occupational Therapy in Mental Health Practice, 3-16

This chapter will consider the growth of occupational therapy and its unique relationship with the early development of psychiatry. It will briefly examine the parallel historical development of psychiatry and occupational therapy. It will also demon... Read More about What have we been ‘doing’? A historical review of occupational therapy..

Effect of 6-iron club properties on thorax and pelvis rotation at key events of the golf swing (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Betzler, N., Brown, S., Wallace, E. S., Otto, S. R., & Shan, G. (2008, March). Effect of 6-iron club properties on thorax and pelvis rotation at key events of the golf swing. Presented at World Scientific Congress of Golf V

Various previous studies analysed trunk alignment at key events of the golf swing, but in most cases players swung only one type of golf club or clubs from different categories (for example a driver and a 5-iron). However, a better understanding of h... Read More about Effect of 6-iron club properties on thorax and pelvis rotation at key events of the golf swing.

A Generalized Modified Suzuki Model with Sectored and Inhomogeneous Diffuse Scattering Component (2008)
Journal Article
Karadimas, P., & Kotsopoulos, S. A. (2008). A Generalized Modified Suzuki Model with Sectored and Inhomogeneous Diffuse Scattering Component. Wireless Personal Communications, 47(4), 449-469. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-008-9493-2

This paper presents a mixture stochastic process by multiplying a Weibull process with a lognormal one. The first one models the possible scattering non-uniformities of the channel, whereas the second accounts for the slow term variations of the loca... Read More about A Generalized Modified Suzuki Model with Sectored and Inhomogeneous Diffuse Scattering Component.