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Stepping outside your comfort zone. (2015)
Journal Article
Atherton, I., & Kyle, R. (2015). Stepping outside your comfort zone. Nursing Standard, 29, 24-25. https://doi.org/10.7748/ns.29.21.24.s28

In the final article in this series on the social sciences, the authors explain how cultivating a spirit of enquiry enables nurses to travel beyond the limits of personal experience to have a better understanding of their patients and themselves. In... Read More about Stepping outside your comfort zone..

DIY networking as a facilitator for interdisciplinary research on the hybrid city. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Andriotis, P., Apostol, I., Gaved, M., Smyth, M., & Unteidig, A. (2015). DIY networking as a facilitator for interdisciplinary research on the hybrid city. In L. Theona, & D. Charitos (Eds.), Proceedings of Hybrid City 2015: Data to the People (65-72)

DIY networking is a technology with special characteristics compared to the public Internet, which holds a unique potential for empowering citizens to shape their hybrid urban space toward conviviality and collective awareness. It can also play the r... Read More about DIY networking as a facilitator for interdisciplinary research on the hybrid city..

Enhancing the tourist heritage experience through "In-Situ" customisable, 3D printed souvenirs. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Anastasiadou, C., Foster, S. V., & Calder, L. (2015). Enhancing the tourist heritage experience through "In-Situ" customisable, 3D printed souvenirs

This research set out to investigate whether technological innovations in design and the personalisation of tourist souvenirs through 3D printing, could offer opportunities to break away from stereotypically throwaway, low quality, mass manufacture... Read More about Enhancing the tourist heritage experience through "In-Situ" customisable, 3D printed souvenirs..

Innovation in assessment and feedback: Enhancing the student experience. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Adamson, E., & Webster, B. (2015). Innovation in assessment and feedback: Enhancing the student experience

Assessment is central to students learning and is a powerful driver in determining what students will do and how (Beaumont , O’Doherty and Shannon 2011).Feedback is known to be an important part of this and valued by students however the UK national... Read More about Innovation in assessment and feedback: Enhancing the student experience..

The Routledge companion to alternative and community media (2015)
Book
Atton, C. (Ed.). (2015). The Routledge companion to alternative and community media. Abingdon: Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media provides an authoritative and comprehensive examination of the diverse forms, practices and philosophies of alternative and community media across the world. The volume offers a multiplicity... Read More about The Routledge companion to alternative and community media.

Beats: Tapping Gestures for Smart Watches (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Oakley, I., Lee, D., Islam, M. R., & Esteves, A. (2015). Beats: Tapping Gestures for Smart Watches. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1237-1246). https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702226

Interacting with smartwatches poses new challenges. Although capable of displaying complex content, their extremely small screens poorly match many of the touchscreen interaction techniques dominant on larger mobile devices. Addressing this problem,... Read More about Beats: Tapping Gestures for Smart Watches.

The Practice of the Sino-foreign Cooperation in Running Schools of Engineering Disciplines (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, Z., Zhang, Y., & Smith, I. (2015). The Practice of the Sino-foreign Cooperation in Running Schools of Engineering Disciplines. . https://doi.org/10.2991/msmi-15.2015.3

Lying in a transformation period of economic development, economic prosperity, social progress and development in science and technology have to rely on strong competitiveness of a nation’s universities to a large degree. Internationalising education... Read More about The Practice of the Sino-foreign Cooperation in Running Schools of Engineering Disciplines.

A Competitive Analysis of Chinese Container Ports Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (2015)
Book Chapter
Song, D., & Yeo, G. (2015). A Competitive Analysis of Chinese Container Ports Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process. In H. Haralambides (Ed.), Port Management (339-359). London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137475770_16

Over 20% of the world's container traffic occurs from Asian ports. China's entry into the market has significantly stimulated this process. Since China adopted its liberalised economic policy in the 1970s, its economy has grown at an average rate of... Read More about A Competitive Analysis of Chinese Container Ports Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process.

A Novel Heuristic Generator for JSSP Using a Tree-Based Representation of Dispatching Rules (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sim, K., & Hart, E. (2015). A Novel Heuristic Generator for JSSP Using a Tree-Based Representation of Dispatching Rules. In GECCO Companion '15 Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2015 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation

A previously described hyper-heuristic framework named NELLI is adapted for the classic Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP) and used to find ensembles of reusable heuristics that cooperate to cover the heuristic search space. A new heuristic generato... Read More about A Novel Heuristic Generator for JSSP Using a Tree-Based Representation of Dispatching Rules.

Putting employer engagement at the heart of Higher Education degree programmes. Sharing Edinburgh Napier University’s experiences. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, D., & Hussian, M. (2015). Putting employer engagement at the heart of Higher Education degree programmes. Sharing Edinburgh Napier University’s experiences.

Edinburgh Napier University has 50 year history of working with regional employers to develop programmes of study which produce appropriately skilled and qualified graduates. Recently, through the nationally funded Graduate Employability Project sev... Read More about Putting employer engagement at the heart of Higher Education degree programmes. Sharing Edinburgh Napier University’s experiences..

The implementation of mini-enterprise business process management (2015)
Journal Article
Wang, L., Liu, W., & Wang, Z. (2015). The implementation of mini-enterprise business process management. International Journal of Innovative Business Strategies, 1(2), 26-31. https://doi.org/10.20533/ijibs.2046.3626.2015.0005

Obviously, it is important for the mini-enterprise to acknowledgement that how to win the customers and markets, because the products must be continuously evolved so as to satisfy the customer, otherwise it will be disused by the market, that is a ma... Read More about The implementation of mini-enterprise business process management.

Diabetes in People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Systematic Review of the Literature. (2015)
Journal Article
MacRae, S., Brown, M., Karatzias, T., Taggart, L., Truesdale-Kennedy, M., Walley, R., …Davies, M. (2015). Diabetes in People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Systematic Review of the Literature. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 47, 352-374. http

Objective To present an analysis of the evidence related to the prevalence of diabetes in people with intellectual disabilities (ID), their experiences of their condition and treatment and those of their carers. Materials and methods A syste... Read More about Diabetes in People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Systematic Review of the Literature..

Alcohol brief intervention in a university setting: a small-scale experimental study. (2015)
Journal Article
Dombrowski, S. U., McClatchey, K., & Boyce, M. (2017). Alcohol brief intervention in a university setting: a small-scale experimental study. Journal of Health Psychology, 22(7), 886-895. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105315617331

Alcohol misuse among university students is commonplace. This study aimed to assess whether Alcohol Brief Intervention would be effective in reducing hazardous alcohol consumption in students compared to an alcohol information leaflet. Participants... Read More about Alcohol brief intervention in a university setting: a small-scale experimental study..

Using the blended spaces framework to design heritage stories with schoolchildren. (2015)
Journal Article
O'Keefe, B., & Benyon, D. (2015). Using the blended spaces framework to design heritage stories with schoolchildren. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 6, 7-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2016.02.001

Blended spaces are spaces where a physical space is deliberately integrated in a close-knit way with a digital space. Blended spaces may take the form of a carefully designed meeting room, for example, that integrates collaborative media with the des... Read More about Using the blended spaces framework to design heritage stories with schoolchildren..

Does Size Matter? Evaluating Corporate Environmental Disclosure in the Australian Mining and Metal Industry: A Combined Approach of Quantity and Quality Measurement (2015)
Journal Article
Lee, K. (2017). Does Size Matter? Evaluating Corporate Environmental Disclosure in the Australian Mining and Metal Industry: A Combined Approach of Quantity and Quality Measurement. Business Strategy and the Environment, 26(2), 209-223. https://doi.org/10

There are an increasing number of companies in the mining and metals sector disclosing environmental sustainability information in their annual reports, sustainability reports and corporate internet web pages. However, there is ongoing debate about t... Read More about Does Size Matter? Evaluating Corporate Environmental Disclosure in the Australian Mining and Metal Industry: A Combined Approach of Quantity and Quality Measurement.

Influence of carbon nanotubes localization and transfer on electrical conductivity in PA66/(PS/PPE)/CNTs nanocomposites (2015)
Journal Article
Lee, C. J., Salehiyan, R., Ham, D. S., Cho, S. K., Lee, S., Kim, K. J., …Choi, W. J. (2016). Influence of carbon nanotubes localization and transfer on electrical conductivity in PA66/(PS/PPE)/CNTs nanocomposites. Polymer, 84, 198-208. https://doi.org/1

The localization and transfer of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in PA66/(PS/PPE)/CNTs nanocomposites were investigated using several methods including TEM/EDS techniques, surface energy and wetting coefficient calculations, electrical conductivity measureme... Read More about Influence of carbon nanotubes localization and transfer on electrical conductivity in PA66/(PS/PPE)/CNTs nanocomposites.

A fictitious domain/distributed Lagrange multiplier based fluid–structure interaction scheme with hierarchical B-Spline grids (2015)
Journal Article
Kadapa, C., Dettmer, W., & Perić, D. (2016). A fictitious domain/distributed Lagrange multiplier based fluid–structure interaction scheme with hierarchical B-Spline grids. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 301, 1-27. https://doi.or

We present a numerical scheme for fluid–structure interaction based on hierarchical B-Spline grids and fictitious domain/distributed Lagrange multipliers. The incompressible Navier–Stokes equations are solved over a Cartesian grid discretised with B-... Read More about A fictitious domain/distributed Lagrange multiplier based fluid–structure interaction scheme with hierarchical B-Spline grids.