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Creating a sense of place with a deliberately constrained virtual environment (2013)
Journal Article
Turner, P., Turner, S., & Burrows, L. (2013). Creating a sense of place with a deliberately constrained virtual environment. International Journal of Cognitive Performance Support, 1, 54-68. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCPS.2013.053554

This study took as its starting point the premise that a high degree of realism is not a necessary condition for the creation of a ‘sense of place’ in mediated experiences such as those presented through virtual reality. A sense of place is the sense... Read More about Creating a sense of place with a deliberately constrained virtual environment.

A multidimensional sketching interface for corpus-based concatenative synthesis. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Tsiros, A. (2013). A multidimensional sketching interface for corpus-based concatenative synthesis. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display 2013

This paper presents Morpheme, a multidimensional interface that allows real-time control of concatenative synthesis through the act of sketching on a digital canvas. Morpheme extracts textural, spatial and volumetric features from a sketch developed... Read More about A multidimensional sketching interface for corpus-based concatenative synthesis..

Exploring the influence of country-of-origin information to Generation Ys' perception towards international fashion brands. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Tjandra, N. C., Osei, C., Ensor, J., & Omar, M. (2013). Exploring the influence of country-of-origin information to Generation Ys' perception towards international fashion brands.

The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore whether and how country-of-origin information influences the perception of Generation Ys from twenty one countries towards international fashion brands. With approximately 1.38 billion Generation Ys... Read More about Exploring the influence of country-of-origin information to Generation Ys' perception towards international fashion brands..

Runway logic: "Y" generation Y prefer fashion brand over country-of-origin. (2013)
Journal Article
Tjandra, N. C., Omar, M., Williams, J., & Ensor, J. (2013). Runway logic: "Y" generation Y prefer fashion brand over country-of-origin. Transnational Marketing Journal, 1, 75-92

With approximately 1.38 billion, Generation Y are currently in the job market or about to enter the job market, they are increasingly taking over the spending power of the previous generation, the Baby Boomers. The purpose of this qualitative stud... Read More about Runway logic: "Y" generation Y prefer fashion brand over country-of-origin..

Human traces in urban places. (2013)
Journal Article
Titley, W., MacDonald, J., & Strickfaden, M. (2013). Human traces in urban places. International Journal of Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design, 6, 19-31

Over the last two centuries many major cities have undergone large-scale modernisation that has led to the growing sense of homogenisation associated with such locales across the globe. The fractal logic that is at the heart of so many urban settings... Read More about Human traces in urban places..

Pianola - visualization of multivariate time-series security event data. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Thomson, A., Graham, M., & Kennedy, J. (2013). Pianola - visualization of multivariate time-series security event data. In Proceedings of IV2013 (123-131). https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2013.15

Monitoring log files for network intrusions is unwieldy. To build a mental model of the log, an analyst is required to recognise continuous timelines and attack patterns from a dataset that is essentially limited to an ordered list of events. Informa... Read More about Pianola - visualization of multivariate time-series security event data..

Energy co-operatives in the UK: current and future prospects. (2013)
Journal Article
Tham, Y. W., & Muneer, T. (2013). Energy co-operatives in the UK: current and future prospects. International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies, 8, 43-51. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijlct/ctr048

The UK is implementing different types of policies to encourage the use of renewable energy for electricity generation. Currently, the UK is falling behind other European countries in this respect.Hence, co-operatives play an important role in helpin... Read More about Energy co-operatives in the UK: current and future prospects..

Review of Facebook Democracy. The Architecture of Disclosure and the Threat to Public Life by J.Marichal (2013)
Journal Article
Taylor-Smith, E. (2013). Review of Facebook Democracy. The Architecture of Disclosure and the Threat to Public Life by J.Marichal. Information Polity, 18, 367-370. https://doi.org/10.3233/IP-130318

Jose Marichal’s investigation into Facebook, as a setting for democracy and potential influence on the public sphere, identifies something special about Facebook that both makes it popular and unique, even among social networking sites. This enables... Read More about Review of Facebook Democracy. The Architecture of Disclosure and the Threat to Public Life by J.Marichal.

Review of 'Innovations in Participatory Politics' by B. Loader and D. Mercea, eds. (2013)
Journal Article
Taylor-Smith, E. (2013). Review of 'Innovations in Participatory Politics' by B. Loader and D. Mercea, eds. Information Polity, 18, 93-96. https://doi.org/10.3233/IP-130298

Brian Loader and Dan Mercea rally a group of political/social/media scientists to shed light on social media and democracy. Is social media supporting transformations of democratic power or merely inspiring the latest round of cyber-utopian hype? Cur... Read More about Review of 'Innovations in Participatory Politics' by B. Loader and D. Mercea, eds..

Weaker control of the electrical properties of cerebellar granule cells by tonically active GABAA receptors in the Ts65Dn mouse model of Down's syndrome. (2013)
Journal Article
Szemes, M., Davies, R. L., Garden, C. L. P., & Usowicz, M. M. (2013). Weaker control of the electrical properties of cerebellar granule cells by tonically active GABAA receptors in the Ts65Dn mouse model of Down's syndrome. Molecular Brain, 6, 33

BACKGROUND Down's syndrome (DS) is caused by triplication of all or part of human chromosome 21 and is characterized by a decrease in the overall size of the brain. One of the brain regions most affected is the cerebellum, in which the number of g... Read More about Weaker control of the electrical properties of cerebellar granule cells by tonically active GABAA receptors in the Ts65Dn mouse model of Down's syndrome..

'No barriers to medication at school' - the administration of medicines and health care procedures in schools: the views of parents and carers. (2013)
Report
Stone, K., & Doyle, S. (2013). 'No barriers to medication at school' - the administration of medicines and health care procedures in schools: the views of parents and carers. WithScotland

The key aim of this study was to find out the views of parents and carers of children and young people who need medication at school. It looks in particular on the impact current practice has on school and family life.

‘New Technologies and Child Protection': Conference report. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Stone, K. (2013). ‘New Technologies and Child Protection': Conference report

The New Technologies Conference was held at The Scottish Police College, on Friday 1st March 2013 bringing together a group of practitioners, academics and other professionals from across the public and voluntary sectors to explore the issue of new t... Read More about ‘New Technologies and Child Protection': Conference report..

How do we prepare children and young people to use the internet safely? (Workshop title) (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Stone, K. (2013). How do we prepare children and young people to use the internet safely? (Workshop title)

This interactive session touched on the issues of rights, risks and responsibilities and the need for children and young people to be supported to view the internet through a “critical lens”. Dr Stone also introduced the WithScotland internet safety... Read More about How do we prepare children and young people to use the internet safely? (Workshop title).

Spiritual care as person centred care: a thematic analysis of interventions. (2013)
Journal Article
Snowden, A., Telfer, I., Kelly, E., Bunniss, S., & Mowat, H. (2013). Spiritual care as person centred care: a thematic analysis of interventions. Scottish Journal of Healthcare Chaplaincy, 16, 23

What we know already. The Lothian PROM has shown us that chaplaincy benefitted all in this sample not just the faithful, religious or spiritual. However, this deduction arose from statistical analysis of tick box responses in the previous paper. Whil... Read More about Spiritual care as person centred care: a thematic analysis of interventions..

I was able to talk about what was on my mind: the operationalisation of person centred care. (2013)
Journal Article
Snowden, A., Telfer, I., Kelly, E., Bunniss, S., & Mowat, H. (2013). I was able to talk about what was on my mind: the operationalisation of person centred care. Scottish Journal of Healthcare Chaplaincy, 16, 13-22

What we know already Specialist spiritual care can be broken down into discrete items within a questionnaire when grounded in the theory developed in the previous paper. However, in order to test whether this project is meaningful the resultant Loth... Read More about I was able to talk about what was on my mind: the operationalisation of person centred care..

Validation of the NHS Scotland Employee Engagement Index. (2013)
Report
Snowden, A. & MacArthur, E. (2012). Validation of the NHS Scotland Employee Engagement Index. Edinburgh, Scotland: NHS SCotland

Using a novel combination of Rasch and factor analysis showed the index to a) measure the latent trait of employee engagement and b) be constructed from the four factors underpinning its theoretical development. This work led to the tool being adopte... Read More about Validation of the NHS Scotland Employee Engagement Index..