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Mentoring and perpetuating the entrepreneurial spirit within family business by telling contingent stories. (2009)
Journal Article
SMITH, R. 2009. Mentoring and perpetuating the entrepreneurial spirit within family business by telling contingent stories. New England journal of entrepreneurship [online], 12(2), pages 27-40. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/NEJE-12-02-2009-B003

Family businesses do not perpetuate themselves. Entrepreneurs must nurture and propagate the values that led to the creation of the very thing most precious to them”their business. This of course depends on stability. Nor do these cherished values pr... Read More about Mentoring and perpetuating the entrepreneurial spirit within family business by telling contingent stories..

Thinking through craft. (2009)
Journal Article
PEACH, A. 2009. Thinking through craft. Journal of design history [online], 22(1), pages 82-84. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epn044

This is a book review by Andrea Peach on Adamson's Thinking through craft.

French and British corporate political strategies in the case of the European Merger Control Regime: national or European? (2009)
Thesis
AUBRY, N.O. 2009. French and British corporate political strategies in the case of the European Merger Control Regime: national or European? Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

Has the construction of a European level playing field in terms of policy solutions in the merger control field led to a de facto standardisation of European corporate modes of representation? This study challenges scholars who have predicted the dev... Read More about French and British corporate political strategies in the case of the European Merger Control Regime: national or European?.

Looking back at Scottish travellers as nomadic entrepreneurs? (2009)
Journal Article
SMITH, R. 2009. Looking back at Scottish travellers as nomadic entrepreneurs? International journal of business and globalisation [online], 3(3), pages 237-255. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBG.2009.023497

This qualitative paper adopts a historical approach and reports on desk research conducted by the author using a mixture of internet based research backed up by a critical reading of published writings on the travelling people of Scotland. This blend... Read More about Looking back at Scottish travellers as nomadic entrepreneurs?.

The discourse of corporate cosmopolitanism. (2009)
Journal Article
HALSALL, R. 2009. The discourse of corporate cosmopolitanism. British journal of management [online], 20(Supplement 1), pages S136-S148. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8551.2008.00637.x

This paper examines how the ideal of cosmopolitan identity is represented in selected popular global management texts. It is argued that the corporate cosmopolitan ideal of a flexible identity draws interdiscursively on two main discourses. First, th... Read More about The discourse of corporate cosmopolitanism..

An evaluation of the process and initial impact of disseminating a nursing e-thesis. (2009)
Journal Article
MACDUFF, C. 2009. An evaluation of the process and initial impact of disseminating a nursing e-thesis. Journal of advanced nursing [online], 65(5), pages 1010-1018. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2648.2008.04937.x

Aim. This paper is a report of a study conducted to evaluate product, process and outcome aspects of the dissemination of a nursing PhD thesis via an open-access electronic institutional repository. Background. Despite the growth of university instit... Read More about An evaluation of the process and initial impact of disseminating a nursing e-thesis..

Structured analysis methodology for reverse engineering of spare parts. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ELDESSOUKY, H., EL-KILANY, K. and RASHED, O. 2009. Structured analysis methodology for reverse engineering of spare parts. Presented at the 9th Production engineering, design, and control conference 2009 (PEDAC'2009), 10-12 February 2009, Alexandria, Egypt.

In today's intensely competitive global market, product enterprises are constantly seeking new ways to shorten products development time and meeting all customer expectations. In general, enterprise developing products had invested in Computer Aided... Read More about Structured analysis methodology for reverse engineering of spare parts..

Freedom of speech and the limits of UK criminal legislation. (2009)
Journal Article
EZEANI, E.C. 2009. Freedom of speech and the limits of UK criminal legislation. Journal of comparative law (Islamic University in Uganda), 3, pages 135-172.

This article draws attention to the fact that while the application of criminal law may serve to punish racially aggravated offences where they can be proved, such legislation in themselves do little to address the causes or, to limit the occurrence... Read More about Freedom of speech and the limits of UK criminal legislation..

Minds for robots. (2009)
Newspaper / Magazine
MACLEOD, C. and MAXWELL, G. M. 2009. Minds for robots. Electronics world, 115, pages 16-19.

In the 1950s and 60s, popular culture was entranced by robots. There was Robby in Forbidden Planet, Gort in The day the Earth stood still and many others. This fascination has continued to the present day, only the names have changed, now we have Com... Read More about Minds for robots..

Representation and learning schemes for sentiment analysis. (2009)
Thesis
MUKRAS, R. 2009. Representation and learning schemes for sentiment analysis. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

This thesis identifies four novel techniques of improving the performance of sentiment analysis of text systems. Thes include feature extraction and selection, enrichment of the document representation and exploitation of the ordinal structure of rat... Read More about Representation and learning schemes for sentiment analysis..

Early catastrophic acetabular failure in Furlong total hip replacements. (2009)
Journal Article
KNOX, D., HAMILTON, S.W., WARDLAW, D. and GIBSON, P.H. 2009. Early catastrophic acetabular failure in Furlong total hip replacements. Journal of orthopaedics and traumatology [online], 10(1), pages 39-42. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10195-008-0045-z

The use of uncemented hip arthroplasty prostheses with ceramic articulations are popular, especially in the young, because of a perceived reduction in wear. We highlight a complication of ceramic on polyethylene articulating couples not previously de... Read More about Early catastrophic acetabular failure in Furlong total hip replacements..

The value relevance of disclosure: evidence from the emerging capital market of Egypt. (2009)
Journal Article
HASSAN, O.A.G., ROMILLY, P., GIORGIONI, G. and POWER, D. 2009. The value relevance of disclosure: evidence from the emerging capital market of Egypt. International journal of accounting [online], 44(1), pages 79-102. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intacc.2008.12.005

This study examines the value of voluntary and mandatory disclosure in a market that applies International Accounting Standards (IAS) with limited penalties for non compliance. The lack of enforcement creates an element of choice in the level of mand... Read More about The value relevance of disclosure: evidence from the emerging capital market of Egypt..

Patient positioning and braces for pain relief and spinal stability in metastatic cord compression in adults. (2009)
Other
COX, M.K., GRANT, R., KENNEDY, C. and KILBRIDE, L. 2009. Patient positioning and braces for pain relief and spinal stability in metastatic cord compression in adults. [Protocol]. Cochrane database of systematic reviews [online], 2009(1), article number CD007609. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD007609

The purpose of this review is to investigate the correct positions for patients with MSCC and examine the effects of spinal bracing to relieve pain or vertebral collapse under physiological load, or both, in patients with MSCC.

The application of visual environmental economics in the study of public preference and urban greenspace. (2009)
Journal Article
LAING, R., DAVIES, A.-M., MILLER, D., CONNIFF, A., SCOTT, S. and MORRICE, J. 2009. The application of visual environmental economics in the study of public preference and urban greenspace. Environment and planning B: urban analytics and city science [online], 36(2), pages 355-375. Available from: https://doi.org/10.106/b33140

Urban greenspace has consistently been argued to be of great importance to the wellbeing, health, and daily lives of residents and users. This paper reports results from a study which combined the visualisation of public greenspace with environmental... Read More about The application of visual environmental economics in the study of public preference and urban greenspace..

The Cadbury code reforms and corporate performance. (2009)
Journal Article
MCKNIGHT, P.J., MILONAS, N.T., TRAVLOS, N.G. and WEIR, C. 2009. The Cadbury code reforms and corporate performance. IUP journal of corporate governance [online], January 2009, article ID IJCG20901. Available from: http://www.iupindia.in/109/IJCG_Cadbury_Code_Reforms_22.html2009

This paper investigates the impact of adopting the Cadbury Committee's Code of Best Practices on the corporate performance of UK firms. The findings show improved corporate performance by companies which adopted the Code. Regarding the specific recom... Read More about The Cadbury code reforms and corporate performance..