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Using the organizational and narrative thread structures in an e-book to support comprehension. (2007)
Thesis
SUN, Y. 2007. Using the organizational and narrative thread structures in an e-book to support comprehension. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

Stories, themes, concepts and references are organized structurally and purposefully in most books. A person reading a book needs to understand themes and concepts within the context. Schanks Dynamic Memory theory suggested that building on existing... Read More about Using the organizational and narrative thread structures in an e-book to support comprehension..

Mumpsimus and the mything of the individualistic entrepreneur. (2007)
Journal Article
DRAKOPOULOU DODD, S. and ANDERSON, A.R. 2007. Mumpsimus and the mything of the individualistic entrepreneur. International small business journal: researching entrepreneurship [online], 25(4), pages 341-360. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0266242607078561

The purpose of this article is to explore the persistence, in the face of considerable evidence to the contrary, of the notion that entrepreneurship is a purely individualistic practice. It may be that taking account of the dynamics of social conditi... Read More about Mumpsimus and the mything of the individualistic entrepreneur..

Irrevocable commitments, going private and private equity. (2007)
Journal Article
WRIGHT, M., WEIR, C. and BURROWS, A. 2007. Irrevocable commitments, going private and private equity. European financial management [online], 13(4), pages 757-775. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-036X.2007.00382.x

This paper adds to growing interest in public to private buy-outs and mechanisms to ensure bid success. Using a unique, hand-collected dataset of 155 public to private buy-outs we provide one of the first examinations of the determinants of irrevocab... Read More about Irrevocable commitments, going private and private equity..

Do academic enquiry services scare students? (2007)
Journal Article
ROBINSON, C.M. and REID, P. 2007. Do academic enquiry services scare students? Reference services review [online], 35(3), pages 405-424. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/00907320710774283

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to clarify the ways in which students seek help in libraries, and their feelings about using library enquiry services. In this way, it should bring practical benefits to academic libraries seeking to design and... Read More about Do academic enquiry services scare students?.

The environmental impacts and developmental constraints of tidal current energy generation. (2007)
Thesis
DACRE, S.L. 2007. The environmental impacts and developmental constraints of tidal current energy generation. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

The thesis discusses the environmental impacts and developmental constraints of tidal current energy. Using an iterative approach and drawing upon a number of different methodologies the thesis attempts to evaluate the development potential of tidal... Read More about The environmental impacts and developmental constraints of tidal current energy generation..

Evaluation of the quality of individual quick frozen fish products. (2007)
Thesis
SEREMETI, M.M. 2007. Evaluation of the quality of individual quick frozen fish products. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

In the present study the effects of characteristic freezing times and storage time at -22°C on the quality of the adductor muscle of post-rigor scallops (Pecten maximus)and gilthead seabream fillets (Sparusa urata) were studied in regard to the inte... Read More about Evaluation of the quality of individual quick frozen fish products..

Passive sampling: partition coefficients for a silicone rubber reference phase. (2007)
Journal Article
YATES, K., DAVIES, I., WEBSTER, L., POLLARD, P., LAWTON, L. and MOFFAT, C. 2007. Passive sampling: partition coefficients for a silicone rubber reference phase. Journal of environmental monitoring [online], 9(10), pages 1116-1121. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1039/B706716J

Silicone rubber sheeting can be used as a passive sampling device for hydrophobic organic contaminants in the environment to determine the available concentrations in water and sediments. Reliable sampler-water partition coefficients are required to... Read More about Passive sampling: partition coefficients for a silicone rubber reference phase..

Dimensionality reduction for dimension-specific search. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HUANG, Z., SHEN, H., ZHOU, X., SONG, D. and RUGER, S. 2007. Dimensionality reduction for dimension-specific search. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual international Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR) conference on research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR'07), 23-27 July 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands. New York: ACM [online], pages 849-850. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/1277741.1277940

Dimensionality reduction plays an important role in efficient similarity search, which is often based on k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) queries over a high-dimensional feature space. In this paper, we introduce a novel type of k-NN query, namely condition... Read More about Dimensionality reduction for dimension-specific search..

Souvenirs and the commodification of Scottish national identity. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
PEACH, A. 2007. Souvenirs and the commodification of Scottish national identity. Presented at the 5th Annual international research conference of the Leeds Metropolitan University Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change: things that move: the material worlds of tourism and travel, 19-23 July 2007, Leeds, UK.

This paper will examine the commodification of Scottish craft to satisfy the demands of tourism, and ultimately the problematic outcome of the consumption of craft objects as souvenirs. Using as primary source material the magazine Craftwork: Scotlan... Read More about Souvenirs and the commodification of Scottish national identity..

The artist as leader: constructing a national network to support research into the creative competencies of the artist as cultural leader. (2007)
Report
DOUGLAS, A. 2007. The artist as leader: constructing a national network to support research into the creative competencies of the artist as cultural leader. In Arts and Humanities Research Council, Annual report and accounts, 2006-07. London: TSO [online], page 14. Available from: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/documents/project-reports-and-reviews/ahrc-annual-report-accounts/2006-07

This case study describes how the author is constructing a national network to support research to encourage and enable artists as future leaders.

An application of EDA and GA to dynamic pricing. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
SHAKYA, S., OLIVEIRA, F. and OWUSU, G. 2007. An application of EDA and GA to dynamic pricing. In Proceedings of the 9th Annual conference on genetic and evolutionary computation (GECCO '07), 7-11 July 2007, London, UK. New York: ACM [online], pages 585-592. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/1276958.1277078

E-commerce has transformed the way firms develop their pricing strategies, producing shift away from fixed pricing to dynamic pricing. In this paper, we use two different Estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs), a Genetic Algorithm (GA) and a Si... Read More about An application of EDA and GA to dynamic pricing..

Hello! to personality rights? (2007)
Journal Article
LAUTERBACH, T. 2007. Hello! to personality rights? Scottish law gazette, 75(3), pages 100-102.

The celebrity wedding of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones has occupied the English courts ever since it took place in New York in 2000. The latest decision relating to that event handed down by the House of Lords in May this year, appears to... Read More about Hello! to personality rights?.

Snippets of data at a glance: using RSS to deliver statistics. (2007)
Journal Article
CANNON, S. 2007. Snippets of data at a glance: using RSS to deliver statistics. IASSIST quarterly [online], 31(2), pages 20-23. Available from: https://doi.org/10.29173/iq761

For most researchers, more data are always better. The Federal Reserve Board, like other statistical institutions, has a longstanding tradition of publishing tables of data in statistical releases and has developed applications to aid users in downlo... Read More about Snippets of data at a glance: using RSS to deliver statistics..

Bioactivity of two Turkish endemic centaurea species, and their major constituents. (2007)
Journal Article
SHOEB, M., MACMANUS, S.M., JASPARS, M., KONG THOO LIN, P., NAHAR, L., CELIK, S. and SARKER, S.D. 2007. Bioactivity of two Turkish endemic centaurea species, and their major constituents. Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia/Brazilian journal of pharmacognosy [online], 17(2), pages 155-159. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0102-695X2007000200003

The antioxidant activity, general toxicity and cytotoxicity of the methanol extracts of Centaurea urvillei subs, armata and C. mucronifera have been assessed, respectively, by the DPPH assay, the brine shrimp lethality and the MTT cytotoxicity assays... Read More about Bioactivity of two Turkish endemic centaurea species, and their major constituents..

Enhancing service delivery for chronic low back pain: evidence for patient-centred physiotherapy and the objective measurement of outcome. (2007)
Thesis
COOPER, K. 2007. Enhancing service delivery for chronic low back pain: evidence for patient-centred physiotherapy and the objective measurement of outcome. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-1688439

This thesis incorporates two studies, whose combined aims were to inform and improve the physiotherapy management of chronic low back pain (CLBP) patients in primary care. A qualitative study explored patients' perceptions of physiotherapy for CLBP,... Read More about Enhancing service delivery for chronic low back pain: evidence for patient-centred physiotherapy and the objective measurement of outcome..

Away from end product or genre: a protocol as artistic language: evolving a critical framework for contemporary visual art practice in the public (or social) realm, 2000-2003. (2007)
Thesis
BOURNE, S. 2007. Away from end product or genre: a protocol as artistic language: evolving a critcal framework for contemporary visual art practice in the public (or social) realm, 2000-2003. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-1437838

For contemporary visual art to be visible and exist as art in peer networks it usually depends upon its transformation into objects. Can we define and test out an alternative visibility more adequate to a production that is 'an act of supplying'? I p... Read More about Away from end product or genre: a protocol as artistic language: evolving a critical framework for contemporary visual art practice in the public (or social) realm, 2000-2003..

The European Commission and the public governance of interest groups in the European Union: seeking a niche between accreditation and laissez-faire. (2007)
Journal Article
GREENWOOD, J. and HALPIN, D. 2007. The European Commission and the public governance of interest groups in the European Union: seeking a niche between accreditation and laissez-faire. Perspectives on European politics and society [online], 8(2), pages 189-210. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/15705850701322541

As interest groups participate in public policy, so demands arise for the regulation of their input. These vary between purposeful laissez-faire, and accreditation in return for norm observance, with attempts to find points between these often focusi... Read More about The European Commission and the public governance of interest groups in the European Union: seeking a niche between accreditation and laissez-faire..

An investigation into factors influencing the production and degradation of microcystins. (2007)
Thesis
GRAHAM, D.J.L. 2007. An investigation into factors influencing the production and degradation of microcystins. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

Microcystins (MCYST) potently inhibit protein phosphatases and these cyclic heptapeptides are powerful hepatotoxins. They are known to be secondary metabolites produced by several species of cyanobacteria. The release of these peptides into water sup... Read More about An investigation into factors influencing the production and degradation of microcystins..

Software process improvement as emergent change: a structurational analysis. (2007)
Journal Article
ALLISON, I. and MERALI, Y. 2007. Software process improvement as emergent change: a structurational analysis. Information and software technology [online], 49(6), pages 668-681. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2007.02.003

This paper presents a framework that draws on structuration theory and dialectical hermeneutics to explicate the dynamics of software process improvement (SPI) in a packaged software organisation. Adding to the growing body of qualitative research, t... Read More about Software process improvement as emergent change: a structurational analysis..