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Financial reporting with XBRL and its impact on the accounting profession (2015)
Thesis
Wang, Z. Financial reporting with XBRL and its impact on the accounting profession. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/9169

Since 2010, XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) has been widely adopted throughout the world. In 2013, both the HMRC (Inland Revenue) and Companies House in the UK accepted XBRL in the iXBRL (inline XBRL) format. Investors have had to face... Read More about Financial reporting with XBRL and its impact on the accounting profession.

Transforming Care After Treatment Programme Evaluation (2015)
Report
Cruickshank, S., Campbell, K., Smith, S., Holland, A., & Johnston, L. (2015). Transforming Care After Treatment Programme Evaluation. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh Napier University

Baseline Report January 2015

CEO stock-option compensation and the use of credit default swaps in relation to European bank risk (2015)
Thesis
Al-Own, B. CEO stock-option compensation and the use of credit default swaps in relation to European bank risk. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/8800

This thesis investigates two main aspects related to the use of credit default swaps (CDS) by European banks. The first area of investigation focuses on the relationship between the CEOs’ risk-taking incentives generated by stock option compensation... Read More about CEO stock-option compensation and the use of credit default swaps in relation to European bank risk.

A Biologically Inspired Vision-Based Approach for Detecting Multiple Moving Objects in Complex Outdoor Scenes (2015)
Journal Article
Tu, Z., Zheng, A., Yang, E., Luo, B., & Hussain, A. (2015). A Biologically Inspired Vision-Based Approach for Detecting Multiple Moving Objects in Complex Outdoor Scenes. Cognitive Computation, 7(5), 539-551. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-015-9318-z

In the human brain, independent components of optical flows from the medial superior temporal area are speculated for motion cognition. Inspired by this hypothesis, a novel approach combining independent component analysis (ICA) with principal compon... Read More about A Biologically Inspired Vision-Based Approach for Detecting Multiple Moving Objects in Complex Outdoor Scenes.

A localization toolkit for sentic net (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Xia, Y., Li, X., Cambria, E., & Hussain, A. (2014, December). A localization toolkit for sentic net. Presented at 2014 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshop, Shenzhen, China

SenticNet is a popular resource for concept-level sentiment analysis. Because SenticNet was created specifically for opinion mining in English language, however, its localization can be very laborious. In this work, a toolkit for creating non-English... Read More about A localization toolkit for sentic net.

Social capital and cultural adjustment of international assignees in NGOs: Do support networks really matter? (2015)
Journal Article
Claus, L., Maletz, S., Casoinic, D., & Pierson, K. (2015). Social capital and cultural adjustment of international assignees in NGOs: Do support networks really matter?. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 26(20), 2523-2542. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2014.1003083

International assignees face cultural adjustment challenges in their host countries in work and nonwork situations. At the same time, social capital theory suggests that individuals can access and mobilize resources from their social networks. We exp... Read More about Social capital and cultural adjustment of international assignees in NGOs: Do support networks really matter?.

Orientation Training and Job Satisfaction: A Sector and Gender Analysis (2015)
Journal Article
Tabvuma, V., Georgellis, Y., & Lange, T. (2015). Orientation Training and Job Satisfaction: A Sector and Gender Analysis. Human Resource Management, 54(2), 303-321. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.21650

Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), we investigate how various types of job training impact upon employees’ job satisfaction and its domains. We find that orientation training exerts a significant positive effect on newcomer ma... Read More about Orientation Training and Job Satisfaction: A Sector and Gender Analysis.

Sports injuries and illnesses in the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games (2015)
Journal Article
Soligard, T., Steffen, K., Palmer-Green, D., Aubry, M., Grant, M.-E., Meeuwisse, W., Mountjoy, M., Budgett, R., & Engebretsen, L. (2015). Sports injuries and illnesses in the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 49(7), 441-447. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2014-094538

Background: systematic surveillance of injuries and
illnesses is the foundation for developing preventive
measures in sport.
Aim: to analyse the injuries and illnesses that occurred
during the XXII Olympic Winter Games, held in Sochi in
2014.
M... Read More about Sports injuries and illnesses in the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games.

Inter-rater reliability of trunk muscle morphometric analysis (2015)
Journal Article
Valentin, S., Yeates, T. D., Licka, T., & Elliott, J. (2015). Inter-rater reliability of trunk muscle morphometric analysis. Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation, 28(1), 181-190. https://doi.org/10.3233/BMR-140552

BACKGROUND: Inter-rater reliability of generalised lumbar extensor muscle CSA has been identified, however, more detailed reliability metrics of individual trunk muscles are lacking.
OBJECTIVE: To report muscle volume and muscle fatty infiltrate (MF... Read More about Inter-rater reliability of trunk muscle morphometric analysis.

PD disease state assessment in naturalistic environments using deep learning (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hammerla, N. Y., Fisher, J., Andras, P., Rochester, L., Walker, R., & Plötz, T. (2015, January). PD disease state assessment in naturalistic environments using deep learning. Presented at Twenty-Ninth AAAI conference on artificial intelligence, Austin, Texas

Management of Parkinson's Disease (PD) could be improved significantly if reliable, objective information about fluctuations in disease severity can be obtained in ecologically valid surroundings such as the private home. Although automatic assessmen... Read More about PD disease state assessment in naturalistic environments using deep learning.

Chlamydia-related Organisms: Infection in Ruminants and Potential for Zoonotic transmission (2015)
Journal Article
Wheelhouse, N., & Longbottom, D. (2015). Chlamydia-related Organisms: Infection in Ruminants and Potential for Zoonotic transmission. Current Clinical Microbiology Reports, 2(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40588-014-0011-x

The chlamydiae are a diverse group of obligate intracellular Gram-negative bacteria that are known to infect a wide variety of host species and are responsible for a wide range of diseases in animals and man. Studies of human disease first provided e... Read More about Chlamydia-related Organisms: Infection in Ruminants and Potential for Zoonotic transmission.

Developmentally distinct gaze processing systems: Luminance versus geometric cues. (2015)
Journal Article
Doherty, M. J., McIntyre, A. H., & Langton, S. R. (2015). Developmentally distinct gaze processing systems: Luminance versus geometric cues. Cognition, 137, 72-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2015.01.001

Two experiments examined how the different cues to gaze direction contribute to children’s abilities to follow and make explicit judgements about gaze. In each study participants were shown blurred images of faces containing only luminance cues to ga... Read More about Developmentally distinct gaze processing systems: Luminance versus geometric cues..

The geographies of community history digital archives in rural Scotland (2015)
Journal Article
Beel, D., Wallace, C., Webster, G., & Nguyen, H. (2015). The geographies of community history digital archives in rural Scotland. Scottish Geographical Journal, 131(3-4), 201-211. https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2014.980839

The CURIOS (Cultural Repositories and Information Systems) project has been working with community heritage groups to co-produce sustainable solutions for the production of heritage archives in digital form. This process has produced an opportunity f... Read More about The geographies of community history digital archives in rural Scotland.

If Obama is talking about securing the net, it should be on everyone else’s lips too. (2015)
Newspaper / Magazine
Buchanan, W. J. (2015). If Obama is talking about securing the net, it should be on everyone else’s lips too

We have spent years promoting the need for change in our approach to internet infrastructure, forcing politicians to recognise it as a serious issue. So it’s great to see Barack Obama tackling the issue in his State of the Union address. You may agre... Read More about If Obama is talking about securing the net, it should be on everyone else’s lips too..