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Portsmouth's Grand Challenges: a conversation between the O.R. community (2016)
Newspaper / Magazine
Weaver, M., & Medhurst, J. (2016). Portsmouth's Grand Challenges: a conversation between the O.R. community. Birmingham, UK

Addressing ‘Grand Challenges’ is very much in the history and tradition of Operational Research (O.R.), in the past saving millions of lives and protecting Britain, ultimately helping to liberate Europe.

Symbolic, Experiential and Functional Consumptions of Heritage Tourism Destinations: The Case of Angkor World Heritage Site, Cambodia: Heritage Destination Consumption (2016)
Journal Article
Chen, C.-F., Phou, S., & Leask, A. (2016). Symbolic, Experiential and Functional Consumptions of Heritage Tourism Destinations: The Case of Angkor World Heritage Site, Cambodia: Heritage Destination Consumption. International Journal of Tourism Research, 18(6), 602-611. https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.2077

This study empirically investigates the effects of three destination consumptions (namely symbolic, experiential and functional) on tourists’ destination attachment and satisfaction, and further on destination loyalty at a heritage tourism destinatio... Read More about Symbolic, Experiential and Functional Consumptions of Heritage Tourism Destinations: The Case of Angkor World Heritage Site, Cambodia: Heritage Destination Consumption.

Measurement and evaluation - Industry Voice. (2016)
Book Chapter
Robertson, M. (2016). Measurement and evaluation - Industry Voice. In Sport Facility and Event Management (270-271). Jones & Bartlett Learning

Evaluation is - and has been - vital in furthering the knowledge of the event manager, with findings sometimes affecting immediate plans (i.e., those occurring within 2 year) and sometimes affecting midrange plan (i.e, those occurring within 3 to 5 y... Read More about Measurement and evaluation - Industry Voice..

Therapeutic safe holding with children and young people in hospital (2016)
Journal Article
Kennedy, R., & Binns, F. (2016). Therapeutic safe holding with children and young people in hospital. Nursing Children and Young People, 28(4), 28-32. https://doi.org/10.7748/ncyp.28.4.28.s22

This article demonstrates how a strategy to improve patient safety and the patient experience in hospital health care was implemented in a large tertiary children’s hospital. A children and young people’s therapeutic safe holding policy and training... Read More about Therapeutic safe holding with children and young people in hospital.

Regenerating Govan Through Film: screening & discussion at Pearce Instute, Govan during Radical Film Festival, 2016. (2016)
Exhibition / Performance
Macleod, K. Regenerating Govan Through Film: screening & discussion at Pearce Instute, Govan during Radical Film Festival, 2016. Exhibited at Govan, Glasgow. 2 May 2016 - 2 May 2016

Regenerating Govan Through Film: screening at Pearce Institute of films I have produced with Plantation Productions. This event was part of the 2016 Radical Film Network Festival.

Plantation Productions have been making films with, by and about t... Read More about Regenerating Govan Through Film: screening & discussion at Pearce Instute, Govan during Radical Film Festival, 2016..

Developing whole-life cost models for retrofit options in office buildings (2016)
Thesis
Tokede, O. O. Developing whole-life cost models for retrofit options in office buildings. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/463388

Office retrofit building projects have become a subject of increased attention among building researchers in the United Kingdom, and in many economically advanced nations. Existing whole-life costing models have however, not proven to be robust enoug... Read More about Developing whole-life cost models for retrofit options in office buildings.

Determinants of port centrality in maritime container transportation (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, Y., & Cullinane, K. (2015, August). Determinants of port centrality in maritime container transportation. Presented at International Conference on Global Integration of Economies and Connectivity Development, Taipei, Taiwan

This paper adapts Freeman’s measures of degree, closeness and betweenness centrality and applies them to assessing: port centrality in relation to direct connectivity; accessibility to all ports in the network (direct and indirect routes) and; as an... Read More about Determinants of port centrality in maritime container transportation.

A Knowledge Flow Model to Capture Unstructured Product Development Processes: A Knowledge Flow Model (2016)
Journal Article
Vasantha, G. V. A., Chakrabarti, A., & Corney, J. (2016). A Knowledge Flow Model to Capture Unstructured Product Development Processes: A Knowledge Flow Model. Knowledge and Process Management, 23(2), 91-109. https://doi.org/10.1002/kpm.1501

Product knowledge emerges from day‐to‐day, ubiquitous interactions executed by engineers. Types of interaction and their associated influence on knowledge activities are often not perceptible, and therefore not captured in current industrial practice... Read More about A Knowledge Flow Model to Capture Unstructured Product Development Processes: A Knowledge Flow Model.

biotic: Calculation of Freshwater Biotic Indices. R package version 0.1.2 (2016)
Digital Artefact
Briers, R. (2016). biotic: Calculation of Freshwater Biotic Indices. R package version 0.1.2. [digital]. https://github.com/robbriers/biotic

The biotic package calculates a range of commonly used UK freshwater invertebrate biotic indices, based on family level identification. Indices that can be calculated are BMWP (and associated N-Taxa and ASPT), Whalley revised BWMP, habitat-specific... Read More about biotic: Calculation of Freshwater Biotic Indices. R package version 0.1.2.

Distant Voices (2016)
Other
Dempster, K. (2016). Distant Voices. [Musical Score]. Edinburgh, UK

Distant Voices - A unique multi-disciplinary performance, in which live musicians in Edinburgh connect, via video-link technology, with dancers on stage in Liverpool and Florida. This telematic creative research project explored the efficacy of VisiM... Read More about Distant Voices.

Hybrid Tree-rule Firewall for High Speed Data Transmission (2016)
Journal Article
Chomsiri, T., He, X., Nanda, P., & Tan, Z. (2016). Hybrid Tree-rule Firewall for High Speed Data Transmission. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 1-1. https://doi.org/10.1109/tcc.2016.2554548

Traditional firewalls employ listed rules in both configuration and process phases to regulate network traffic. However, configuring a firewall with listed rules may create rule conflicts, and slows down the firewall. To overcome this problem, we hav... Read More about Hybrid Tree-rule Firewall for High Speed Data Transmission.

Understanding The Benefits Of Responsible Business Practices (2016)
Newspaper / Magazine
Weaver, M. (2016). Understanding The Benefits Of Responsible Business Practices. Edinburgh

No Abstract available.

Featured in Business Comment, Inspiring Responsible Business, April/May Edition, Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce magazine.

Changes of bat species composition over altitudinal gradients on northern and southern aspects of the Soutpansberg mountain range, South Africa. (2016)
Journal Article
Weier, S. M., Linden, V. M., Gaigher, I., White, P. J., & Taylor, P. J. (2017). Changes of bat species composition over altitudinal gradients on northern and southern aspects of the Soutpansberg mountain range, South Africa. Mammalia, 81(1), https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2015-0055

In order to gain insight into the pattern of bat species composition over altitude and the environmental variables driving the observed pattern, we compared data from moist southern and drier northern aspects of the Soutpansberg range in northern Sou... Read More about Changes of bat species composition over altitudinal gradients on northern and southern aspects of the Soutpansberg mountain range, South Africa..

Events, Visitor Attractions and The Event Attraction Continuum (2016)
Book Chapter
Weidenfeld, A., & Leask, A. (2016). Events, Visitor Attractions and The Event Attraction Continuum. In A. Weidenfeld, R. Butler, & A. M. Williams (Eds.), Visitor Attractions and Events: Locations and Linkages. Taylor & Francis

No abstract available.

A life cycle framework for governance of Intermodal terminals; planning, operations and strategic management. (2016)
Book Chapter
Monios, J., & Bergqvist, R. (2016). A life cycle framework for governance of Intermodal terminals; planning, operations and strategic management. In T. Kramberger, V. Potočan, V. Ipavec, & A. Chin (Eds.), Strategic Sustainable Logistics and Transportation Planning Strategies (24-45). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0001-8.ch002

This chapter establishes a framework for the governance of intermodal terminals throughout their life cycle, based on the product life cycle. The framework covers the initial planning by the public sector, the public/private split in funding and owne... Read More about A life cycle framework for governance of Intermodal terminals; planning, operations and strategic management..

Logistical challenges facing Scottish importers and exporters (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Monios, J. (2016, March). Logistical challenges facing Scottish importers and exporters. Presented at Developing Scotland’s International Seaports: Securing Economic Growth

Presentation delivered at the Developing Scotland’s International Seaports: Securing Economic Growth Conference, 2016.

Destination dynamics in Russia - tourism development and public-private partnership in four non-metropolitan destinations (2016)
Report
Halkier, H., Muller, D., Anastasiadou, C., Kiriyanova, L., Goncharova, N., Kagan, F., Kolupanova, I., Dunets, A., Yumatov, Surtseva, A., Gizey, Y., Yakimova, N., Benson, A., Brathwaite, T., & Mair, M. (2016). Destination dynamics in Russia - tourism development and public-private partnership in four non-metropolitan destinations. Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark: Tourism and Lifelong Learning (TOULL) project