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Classification of schizophrenia. Part 2: the nonsense of mental health illness. (2009)
Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2009). Classification of schizophrenia. Part 2: the nonsense of mental health illness. British Journal of Nursing (1), 18, 1228-1232. doi:10.12968/bjon.2009.18.20.45113

The classification of schizophrenia is currently under review in a coordinated worldwide consultation for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM V) and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD 11) – the standard manua... Read More about Classification of schizophrenia. Part 2: the nonsense of mental health illness..

Care Planning With Older Adults. (2009)
Book Chapter
Snowden, A. (2008). Care Planning With Older Adults. In The Care and Wellbeing of Older People A Textbook for Health Care StudentsReflect Press

Fragments of place : revealing sense of place through shared phone images. (2009)
Digital Artefact
Smyth, M., & Helgason, I. (2009). Fragments of place : revealing sense of place through shared phone images

Is an interactive new media art installation that explores how the sharing of images, normally hidden on mobile phones, can reveal more about people's sense of place and this ultimately shared experience. Traditional views on sense of place, as exemp... Read More about Fragments of place : revealing sense of place through shared phone images..

Development of new standards for sound insulation for new housing in Scotland. (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Smith, S., MacKenzie, R., & Wood, J. B. (2009). Development of new standards for sound insulation for new housing in Scotland.

During the last 20 years minor amendments have been made to the technical design details for the Scottish Technical Standards for new build attached homes, under Section 5: Noise (formerly Part H). In 2007-08 a major research project was undertaken b... Read More about Development of new standards for sound insulation for new housing in Scotland..

A preliminary study to investigate the physical activity, sedentary behaviour and energy balance in the grazing horse; potential opportunities to manage weight. (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Smith, D., & Hollands, T. (2008). A preliminary study to investigate the physical activity, sedentary behaviour and energy balance in the grazing horse; potential opportunities to manage weight

Review of Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley (ed.) Hollywood in the Neighborhood: Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing and Paul S. Moore Now Playing: Early Moviegoing and the Regulation of Fun (2009)
Journal Article
Sellors, C. P. (2009). Review of Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley (ed.) Hollywood in the Neighborhood: Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing and Paul S. Moore Now Playing: Early Moviegoing and the Regulation of Fun. Screen, 50, 266-270. https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjp009

What's the Point of Film School, or, What did Beaconsfield Film Studios ever do for the Scottish film industry? (2009)
Book Chapter
Scott, A. J. (2009). What's the Point of Film School, or, What did Beaconsfield Film Studios ever do for the Scottish film industry?. In J. Murray, F. Farley, & R. Stoneman (Eds.), Scottish Cinema Now (206-221). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

This is an essay which examines the role of the UK National Film and TV School, Beaconsfield, in nurturing Scottish film-makers in the period 1970-2005. It looks back at the history of the National Film and Television School and identifies Scots who... Read More about What's the Point of Film School, or, What did Beaconsfield Film Studios ever do for the Scottish film industry?.

From "Dry Volumes of Facts and Figures" to stories of "Flesh and Blood": the prison naratives of Frederick William Robinson (2009)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2008). From "Dry Volumes of Facts and Figures" to stories of "Flesh and Blood": the prison naratives of Frederick William Robinson. In J. Alber, & F. Lauterbach (Eds.), Stones of Law-Bricks of Shame: narrating imprisonment in the Victorian age, 191-212. Toronto University Press

First field record of mangrove crab Ucides cordatus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Ucididae) recruits co-inhabiting burrows of conspecific crabs (2009)
Journal Article
Schmidt, A. J., & Diele, K. (2009). First field record of mangrove crab Ucides cordatus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Ucididae) recruits co-inhabiting burrows of conspecific crabs. Zoologia, 26, 792-794. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1984-46702009000400026

Recruits of the mangrove crab Ucides cordatus (Linnaeus, 1763), rarely encountered in the field were found co-inhabiting burrows of larger male and female conspecifics in the mangrove forest. They were located in the sediment of the inner walls and b... Read More about First field record of mangrove crab Ucides cordatus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Ucididae) recruits co-inhabiting burrows of conspecific crabs.

Real world driving cycle for motorcycles in Edinburgh (2009)
Journal Article
Saleh, W., Kumar, R., Kirby, H., & Kumar, P. (2009). Real world driving cycle for motorcycles in Edinburgh. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 14, 326-333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2009.03.003

Knowledge of the driving cycle is an important requirement in the evaluation of exhaust emissions. Data were collected from trips performed on five routes between the home addresses in the surrounding areas and place of work at Napier University in E... Read More about Real world driving cycle for motorcycles in Edinburgh.

Messenger in The Barn: networking in a learning environment (2009)
Journal Article
Rutter, M. (2009). Messenger in The Barn: networking in a learning environment. ALT-J : Association for Learning Technology journal, 17, 33-47. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687760802649863

This case study describes the use of a synchronous communication application (MSN Messenger) in a large academic computing environment. It draws on data from interviews, questionnaires and student marks to examine the link between use of the applicat... Read More about Messenger in The Barn: networking in a learning environment.

Stroke research questions - a nursing perspective (2009)
Journal Article
Rowat, A. M., Lawrence, M., Horsburgh, D., Legg, L., & Smith, L. N. (2009). Stroke research questions - a nursing perspective. British Journal of Nursing, 18, 100-104

Background: stroke is a national research priority. However, in the literature there is still minimal systematic investigation of stroke nursing – especially practice. The aim of this study was to explore stroke nurses’ research priorities through a... Read More about Stroke research questions - a nursing perspective.

Instruction, Feedback and Biometrics: The User Interface for Fingerprint Authentication Systems (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Riley, C., Johnson, G., McCracken, H., & Al-Saffar, A. (2009). Instruction, Feedback and Biometrics: The User Interface for Fingerprint Authentication Systems. In Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2009 (293-305). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03658-3_35

Biometric authentication is the process of establishing an individual’s identity through measurable characteristics of their behaviour, anatomy or physiology. Biometric technologies, such as fingerprint systems, are increasingly being used in a diver... Read More about Instruction, Feedback and Biometrics: The User Interface for Fingerprint Authentication Systems.

Culture & biometrics: regional differences in the perception of biometric authentication technologies (2009)
Journal Article
Riley, C. W., Buckner, K., Johnson, G., & Benyon, D. (2009). Culture & biometrics: regional differences in the perception of biometric authentication technologies. AI & society, 24, 295-306. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-009-0218-1

Previous research has identified user concerns about biometric authentication technology, but most of this research has been conducted in European contexts. There is a lack of research that has investigated attitudes towards biometric technology in o... Read More about Culture & biometrics: regional differences in the perception of biometric authentication technologies.

The Dynamism of partner selection criteria in franchising (2009)
Journal Article
Rahatullah, M. K., & Raeside, R. (2009). The Dynamism of partner selection criteria in franchising. SAM Advanced Management Journal, 74, 36-47

The article presents a quantitative study of franchise firms in Great Britain on the selection process of potential franchisee, and its impact with the size, age, and type of business. The franchisor would be least attracted to the expertise and comp... Read More about The Dynamism of partner selection criteria in franchising.

Social network analysis to study social capital and development (2009)
Journal Article
Raeside, R., & Gayen, K. (2009). Social network analysis to study social capital and development. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Annual Review, 3, 75-88

It is widely recognised that individuals with high social capital are important in either promoting or acting as inhibitors to the diffusion of knowledge and information. It is through ties to these individuals that others receive knowledge and hence... Read More about Social network analysis to study social capital and development.

Modelling the effect of social affinity between nations on their development (2009)
Journal Article
Raeside, R. (2009). Modelling the effect of social affinity between nations on their development. International journal of pure and applied mathematics : IJPAM, 50, 251-258

Nations have developed at different rates and this differential development is manifested on the wellbeing of their populations. The reasons for different rates of development can not fully be explained by different initial economic states, political... Read More about Modelling the effect of social affinity between nations on their development.

Revisiting the potentialities of a mechanical thesaurus. (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Priss, U., & Old, L. J. (2009). Revisiting the potentialities of a mechanical thesaurus. In R. Ferre (Ed.), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis, ICFCA (284-298). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01815-2_21

This paper revisits the lattice-based thesaurus models which Margaret Masterman used for machine translation in the 1950’s and 60’s. Masterman’s notions are mapped onto modern, Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) terminology and three of her thesaurus algo... Read More about Revisiting the potentialities of a mechanical thesaurus..

Relation algebra operations on formal contexts (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Priss, U. (2009). Relation algebra operations on formal contexts. In S. Rudolph, F. Dau, & S. O. Kutznetsov (Eds.), Conceptual Structures: Leveraging Semantic Technologies (257-269). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03079-6_20

This paper discusses the use of relation algebra operations on formal contexts. These operations are a generalisation of some of the context operations that are described in the standard FCA textbook (Ganter & Wille, 1999). This paper extends previou... Read More about Relation algebra operations on formal contexts.

The FcaFlint software for relation algebra operations on FCA contexts. (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Priss, U. (2009). The FcaFlint software for relation algebra operations on FCA contexts. In Conceptual Structures Tool Interoperability Workshop (13-23)

FcaFlint is a tool that implements context operations for FCA formal contexts. It is part of the FcaStone package. This paper provides an introduction to Relation Algebra operations as used by FcaFlint and discusses the commandline interface and i... Read More about The FcaFlint software for relation algebra operations on FCA contexts..