All Outputs (129)

A door into the dark: doing justice to history in the courts of the European Union. (2008)
Working Paper
LYONS, C. 2008. A door into the dark: doing justice to history in the courts of the European Union. European University Institute working papers, LAW 2008/11. San Domenico di Fiesole: European University Institute [online]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/8308

The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg has been issuing judgments since 1954. It is beyond doubt that this body has, in these judgments, influenced the nature of European integration, indeed the nature of Europe itself, in a far reaching manner.... Read More about A door into the dark: doing justice to history in the courts of the European Union..

Proceedings of the 2008 Oxford University Computing Laboratory student conference. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
FAILY, S. and ŽIVNÝ, S. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2008 Oxford University Computing Laboratory student conference, October 2008, Oxford, UK. Oxford: Oxford University Computing Laboratory [online]. Available from: https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/files/1328/RR-08-10.pdf

This conference serves two purposes. First, the event is a useful pedagogical exercise for all participants, from the conference committee and referees, to the presenters and the audience. For some presenters, the conference may be the first time the... Read More about Proceedings of the 2008 Oxford University Computing Laboratory student conference..

Towards requirements engineering practice for professional end user developers: a case study. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
FAILY, S. 2008. Towards requirements engineering practice for professional end user developers: a case study. In Proceedings of the 2008 Requirements engineering education and training conference (REET 2008), 8 September 2008, Barcelona, Spain. Washington, D.C.: IEEE Computer Society [online], pages 38-44. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/REET.2008.8

End-user development has received a lot of attention in the research community. Despite the importance of requirements engineering in the software development life-cycle, comparatively little exists in the way of prescriptive advice or case studies o... Read More about Towards requirements engineering practice for professional end user developers: a case study..

Spuilzie today. (2008)
Journal Article
ANDERSON, C. 2008. Spuilzie today. Scots law times [online], 2008(38), pages 257-260. Available from: http://westlaw.co.uk

Assesses the legal doctrine of spuilzie, focusing on the Outer House ruling in Calor Gas Ltd v Express Fuels (Scotland) Ltd on whether a gas distributor had breached a dealership agreement with a gas supplier in failing to give proper notice when ter... Read More about Spuilzie today..

Investigation of exopolysaccharide production by lactic acid bacteria. (2008)
Thesis
JONES, R.A. 2008. Investigation of exopolysaccharide production by lactic acid bacteria. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

This thesis is an investigation into the production of exopolysaccharides (EPS) produced by strains of Lactobacillus delbrueckii ssp. bulgaricus and Lactococcus lactis ssp. cremoris. These are used in the dairy industry for the production of yoghurt... Read More about Investigation of exopolysaccharide production by lactic acid bacteria..

Automatically acquiring structured case representations: the SMART way. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
ASIIMWE, S., CRAW, S., WIRATUNGA, N. and TAYLOR, B. 2008. Automatically acquiring structured case representations: the SMART way. In Ellis, R., Allen, T. and Petridis, M. (eds.) Applications and innovations in intelligent systems XV: application proceedings of the 27th Annual international conference of the British Computer Society's Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (SGAI) (AI-2007): innovative techniques and applications of artificial intelligence, 10-12 December 2007, Cambridge, UK. London: Springer [online], pages 45-58. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-086-5_4

Acquiring case representations from textual sources remains an interesting challenge for CBR research. Approaches based on methods in information retrieval require large amounts of data and typically result in knowledge-poor representations. The cost... Read More about Automatically acquiring structured case representations: the SMART way..

The use of the Internet by political parties and candidates in the 2007 Scottish Parliament election. (2008)
Journal Article
MARCELLA, R., BAXTER, G. and CHEAH, S. 2008. The use of the Internet by political parties and candidates in the 2007 Scottish Parliament election. Libri [online], 58(4), pages 294-305. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1515/libr.2008.029

This paper reports the results of a study which investigated the use of the Internet by political parties and individual candidates as part of their campaigns for election to the Scottish Parliament in 2007. This was a comparative, follow-up study to... Read More about The use of the Internet by political parties and candidates in the 2007 Scottish Parliament election..

Re-writing the Danish American dream? (2008)
Journal Article
SMITH, R. and NEERGAARD, H. 2008. Re-writing the Danish American dream? An enquiry into Danish enterprise culture and Danish attitudes toward entrepreneurship. Bridge: journal of the Danish American Heritage Society, 31(1), pages 41-64.

This research story which to us reads like a fairytale is the second-part of an exploration into Danish Enterprise Culture. It tells an oft forgotten tale, a Danish Success Story which we hope will one day be held even dearer by self-deprecating Dane... Read More about Re-writing the Danish American dream?.

Electronic theses and dissertations: promoting 'hidden' research. (2008)
Journal Article
COPELAND, S. 2008. Electronic theses and dissertations: promoting 'hidden' research. Policy futures in education [online], 6(1), pages 87-96. Available from: https://doi.org/10.2304/pfie.2008.6.1.87

Since the mid 1990s an increasing number of higher education institutions and organisations have been encouraging the production and submission of theses and dissertations in electronic format. Where access to electronic theses and dissertations is a... Read More about Electronic theses and dissertations: promoting 'hidden' research..

A grand day out: empathic approaches to design. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
MALINS, J. and MCDONAGH, D. 2008. A grand day out: empathic approaches to design. In Clarke, A., Evatt, M., Hogarth, P., Lloveras, J. and Pons, L. (eds.) Proceedings of the 10th International conference on engineering and product design eduction (E&PDE 2008): new perspectives in design education, 4-5 September 2008, Barcelona, Spain. Glasgow: Design Society [online], volume 1, pages 198-203. Available from: https://www.designsociety.org/publication/28067/A+Grand+Day+Out%3A+Empathic+Approaches+to+Design

Design education is facing some interesting and challenging times. Students need to be equipped with all the necessary designing skills, whilst being effective interdisciplinary team players and sensitive design researchers. There has been increasing... Read More about A grand day out: empathic approaches to design..

Designing creativity tools to support business innovation. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
MALINS, J. and GRANT, E. 2010. Designing creativity tools to support business innovation. In Proceedings of the 1st DESIRE Network conference on creativity and innovation in design (DESIRE'10), 16-17 August 2010, Aarhus, Denmark. Lancaster: DESIRE Network [online], pages 181-188. Available from: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1854995

There are a wide range of approaches and organizations, which have the common aim of supporting SMEŸs to deliver new products and services. This paper examines the various approaches which have been taken and in particular describes the work of The C... Read More about Designing creativity tools to support business innovation..

The effective evidence-based high school librarian: a journey to decision. (2008)
Thesis
TURRIFF, A. 2008. The effective evidence-based high school librarian: a journey to decision. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

This thesis aims to establish how high school librarians in Scotland and America can become effective evidence-based decision-makers. Initial data collection consisted of written questionnaires to elicit background data from librarians on the extent... Read More about The effective evidence-based high school librarian: a journey to decision..

Conceptions of effective information use and learning in a tele-health organization: a phenomenographic study of information literacy and knowledge management at work. (2008)
Thesis
TOLEDANO O'FARRILL, R. 2008. Conceptions of effective information use and learning in a tele-health organization: a phenomenographic study of information literacy and knowledge management at work. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

This research study investigates the concept of workplace information literacy (IL) theoretically and empirically, focusing on the connections between information literacy and knowledge management (KM). This dissertation examines the relevance and ap... Read More about Conceptions of effective information use and learning in a tele-health organization: a phenomenographic study of information literacy and knowledge management at work..

A novel metadata based meta-search engine. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
ZHU, J., SONG, D., EISENSTADT, M. and BARLADEANU, C. 2008. A novel metadata based meta-search engine. In Cordeiro, J., Shishkov, B., Ranchordas, A. and Helfert, M. (eds.) Proceedings of the 3rd International conference on software and data technologies (ICSOFT 2008), 5-8 July 2008, Porto, Portugal. Setúbal: Science and Technology Publications [online], volume 3, pages 312-315. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5220/0001896403120315

We present a novel meta-search engine called DYNIQX for metadata based cross search in order to study the effect of metadata in collection fusion. DYNIQX exploits the availability of metadata in academic search services such as PubMed and Google Scho... Read More about A novel metadata based meta-search engine..

Comparing dissimilarity measures for content-based image retrieval. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
LIU, H., SONG, D., RUGER, S., HU, R. and UREN, V. 2008. Comparing dissimilarity measures for content-based image retrieval. In Li, H., Liu, T., Ma, W.-Y., Sakai, T., Wong, K.-F. and Zhou, G. (eds.) Information retrieval technology: revised selected papers from the proceedings of the 4th Asia information retrieval symposium (AIRS 2008), 15-18 January 2008, Harbin, China. Lecture notes in computer science, 4993. Berlin: Springer [online], pages 44-50. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68636-1_5

Dissimilarity measurement plays a crucial role in content-based image retrieval, where data objects and queries are represented as vectors in high-dimensional content feature spaces. Given the large number of dissimilarity measures that exist in many... Read More about Comparing dissimilarity measures for content-based image retrieval..

Robust query-specific pseudo feedback document selection for query expansion. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
HUANG, Q., SONG, D. and RUGER, S. 2008. Robust query-specific pseudo feedback document selection for query expansion. In Macdonald, C., Ounis, I., Plachouras, V., Ruthven I. and White, R.W. (eds.) Advances in information retrieval: proceedings of the 30th European conference on information retrieval (IR) research (ECIR 2008), 30 March - 3 April 2008, Glasgow, UK. Lecture notes in computer science, 4956. Berlin: Springer [online], pages 547-554. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78646-7_54

In document retrieval using pseudo relevance feedback, after initial ranking, a fixed number of top-ranked documents are selected as feedback to build a new expansion query model. However, very little attention has been paid to an intuitive but criti... Read More about Robust query-specific pseudo feedback document selection for query expansion..

Facilitating query decomposition in query language modeling by association rule mining using multiple sliding windows. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
SONG, D., HUANG, Q., RUGER, S. and BRUZA, P. 2008. Facilitating query decomposition in query language modeling by association rule mining using multiple sliding windows. In Macdonald, C., Ounis, I., Plachouras, V., Ruthven I. and White, R.W. (eds.) Advances in information retrieval: proceedings of the 30th European conference on information retrieval (IR) research (ECIR 2008), 30 March - 3 April 2008, Glasgow, UK. Lecture notes in computer science, 4956. Berlin: Springer [online], pages 334-345. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78646-7_31

This paper presents a novel framework to further advance the recent trend of using query decomposition and high-order term relationships in query language modeling, which takes into account terms implicitly associated with different subsets of query... Read More about Facilitating query decomposition in query language modeling by association rule mining using multiple sliding windows..

Privacy through security: policy and practice in a small-medium enterprise. (2008)
Book Chapter
ALLISON, I. and STRANGWICK, C., 2008. Privacy through security: policy and practice in a small-medium enterprise. In Subramanian, R. (ed.) Computer security, privacy, and politics: current issues, challenges, and solutions. Hershey, PA: IGI Global [online], chapter 8, pages 157-179. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-804-8.ch008

The chapter discusses how one small business planned for, and implemented, the security of its data in a new enterprise-wide system. The companys data was perceived as sensitive, and any breach of privacy as commercially critical. From this perspecti... Read More about Privacy through security: policy and practice in a small-medium enterprise..

Power and wind power: exploring experiences of renewable energy planning processes in Scotland. (2008)
Thesis
AITKEN, M. 2008. Power and wind power: exploring experiences of renewable energy planning processes in Scotland. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

Energy use and production have become highly salient within both national and international policy. This reflects an international recognition of the need to cut emissions in order to mitigate the threats of climate change. Within the UK there is sig... Read More about Power and wind power: exploring experiences of renewable energy planning processes in Scotland..

The Prayer Factory: spirituality at work, and the paradoxes of performativity, monoculturalism and dissent. (2008)
Report
TOURISH, D. and TOURISH, N., 2008. The Prayer Factory: spirituality at work, and the paradoxes of performativity, monoculturalism and dissent. Aberdeen: The Robert Gordon University.

Recent years have witnessed a significant growth of academic and practitioner interest in spirituality within the workplace, and in particular in spirituality management and leadership development. This paper argues that the literature in the area is... Read More about The Prayer Factory: spirituality at work, and the paradoxes of performativity, monoculturalism and dissent..