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Motivations for police blogging and how fear of being 'outed' can force a blogger to cease. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
PEDERSEN, S., BURNETT, S., SMITH, R. and NEILL, A. 2013. Motivations for police blogging and how fear of being 'outed' can force a blogger to cease. Selected papers of internet research [online], 13: selected papers from the 13th Association of Internet Researchers conference (IR 13.0), 18-21 October 2012, Salford, UK, article number 8219. Available from: https://spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.php/spir/article/view/8219

There is an expanding literature on the police use of storytelling, but very little has been written in a policing context in relation to the contemporary practice of blogging. Consequentially, this paper reports on an ongoing research project into t... Read More about Motivations for police blogging and how fear of being 'outed' can force a blogger to cease..

Future textile visions: smart textiles for health and wellness. (2012)
Report
MALINS, J., STEED, J., FAIRBURN, S., ROBERTSON, S., MCINTYRE, L., CRUICKSHANK, L. and SCOTT, K., 2012. Future textile visions: smart textiles for health and wellness. Aberdeen: Robert Gordon University.

A report prepared for the Scottish Government on behalf of the Scottish Academy of Fashion, which examines the potential of new textiles solutions for health applications. Following a Sandpit event hosted by the Scottish Academy of Fashion on 13th an... Read More about Future textile visions: smart textiles for health and wellness..

Assessing the significance of ethnicity on VLCD induced weight loss and outcomes at 1 year follow up. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ROLLAND, C., MULHOLLAND, Y., HALLAM, C., LULA, S., DYSON, L. and BROOM, I. 2012. Assessing the significance of ethnicity on VLCD induced weight loss and outcomes at 1 year follow up. Obesity facts [online], 5(Supplement 1), page 94. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1159/000178128

Introduction: Few studies have examined the relationship between ethnicity and longer-term outcomes following a very-low-calorie diet (VLCD).

A comparison of weight loss outcomes in Black and Caucasian women following a very-low calorie diet (VLCD). (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ROLLAND, C., MULHOLLAND, Y., HALLAM, C., LULA, S., DYSON, L. and BROOM, I. 2012. A comparison of weight loss outcomes in Black and Caucasian women following a very-low calorie diet (VLCD). Obesity facts [online], 5(Supplement 1), page 94. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1159/000178128

Introduction: Few studies have examined the significance of ethnicity on weight loss responses and overall health benefits following a VLCD.

Public engagement and participation in sustainable transport issues. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
LAING, R., TAIT, E. and GRAY, D. 2012. Public engagement and participation in sustainable transport issues. In Kashiwagi, D. and Sullivan, K. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2012 Construction, building and real estate research conference of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS COBRA 2012), 11-13 September 2012, Las Vegas, USA. London: RICS [online]. Available from: http://archive.northsearegion.eu/files/repository/20130812123945_COBRA.pdf

Currently, emissions from transport represent a quarter of Scotland's total. While the Scottish Government has identified a number of transport policies, which would contribute to Scotland's ability to meet its targets, action to significantly reduce... Read More about Public engagement and participation in sustainable transport issues..

A conceptual framework for the evaluation of fuel-cell energy systems in the UK built environment. (2012)
Journal Article
ABDEL-WAHAB, M. and ALI, D. 2013. A conceptual framework for the evaluation of fuel-cell energy systems in the UK built environment. International journal of green energy [online], 10(2), pages 137-150. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/15435075.2011.642089

Energy-efficient buildings can reduce human impact on the environment. Energy efficiency is not only concerned with generating more energy using fewer resources, nor reducing energy usage, but also it is about harnessing natural resources, such as wi... Read More about A conceptual framework for the evaluation of fuel-cell energy systems in the UK built environment..

Numerical simulations of effects of faults in a vertical axis wind turbine’s performance. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
SHAHZAD, A., ASIM, T., PARK, K.-S., PRADHAN, S. and MISHRA, R. 2012. Numerical simulations of effects of faults in a vertical axis wind turbine's performance. Proceedings of 2nd international workshop and congress eMaintenance 2012 (eMaintenance 2012): trends in technologies and methodologies challenges, possibilities and applications, 12-14 December 2012, Luleå, Sweden. Luleå: Luleå University of Technology, pages 113-117. Hosted on pdfcoffee.com [online]. Available from: https://pdfcoffee.com/qdownload/proceedings-emaintenance-pdf-free.html

Renewable sources of energy are being developed globally to overcome the present excessive dependence on fossil fuels. Wind energy is one of the important sources of renewable energy. Considerable amount of research is being carried out on the innova... Read More about Numerical simulations of effects of faults in a vertical axis wind turbine’s performance..

Computational fluid dynamics based performance optimisation of vertical axis marine current turbines. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
PARK, K.-S., ASIM, T., MISHRA, R., SHAHZAD, A. and MIRANGWANDA, G. 2012. Computational fluid dynamics based performance optimisation of vertical axis marine current turbines. Proceedings of 2nd international workshop and congress eMaintenance 2012 (eMaintenance 2012): trends in technologies and methodologies challenges, possibilities and applications, 12-14 December 2012, Luleå, Sweden. Luleå: Luleå University of Technology, pages 119-124. Hosted on pdfcoffee.com [online]. Available from: https://pdfcoffee.com/qdownload/proceedings-emaintenance-pdf-free.html

Rapid decrease in the fossil fuels in the last couple of decades has stirred the researchers to find alternative sources for the production of power. Wind and tidal energies are the two most promising alternatives to the fossil fuels. While most of t... Read More about Computational fluid dynamics based performance optimisation of vertical axis marine current turbines..

Designs on democracy: architecture and design in Scotland post devolution. (2012)
Book
MACDONALD, S. 2012. Designs on democracy: architecture and design in Scotland post devolution. Alresford: Zero Books.

Central to Scotlands creative economy is Creative Scotland, the national agency, which sits within the broader context of creative and cultural provision. For the first time a corporate plan has been produced that includes working across the span of... Read More about Designs on democracy: architecture and design in Scotland post devolution..

A comparative analysis of the trouble time for conventional and casing drilling wells: a case study on the Lobo trend. (2012)
Journal Article
MOHAMMED, A., ABOLLE-OKOYEAGU, I. and OKEKE, C.J. 2012. A comparative analysis of the trouble time for conventional and casing drilling wells: a case study on the Lobo trend. International journal of science and technology [online], 1(11), pages 584-588. Available from: https://tinyurl.com/ijst-1-11-584

Conventional drilling methods have caused the petroleum and gas industry huge operational and financial challenges. The cost of purchasing, inspecting, handling and transporting the drill string are some of the major challenges. The tripping in-and-o... Read More about A comparative analysis of the trouble time for conventional and casing drilling wells: a case study on the Lobo trend..

An artificially-intelligent biomeasurement system for total hip arthroplasty patient rehabilitation. (2012)
Thesis
LAW, E.J. 2012. An artificially-intelligent biomeasurement system for total hip arthroplasty patient rehabilitation. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

This study concerned the development and validation of a hardware and software biomeasurement system, which was designed to be used by physiotherapists, general practitioners and other healthcare professionals. The purpose of the system is to detect... Read More about An artificially-intelligent biomeasurement system for total hip arthroplasty patient rehabilitation..

An empirical investigation of the relationship between corporate governance and firm performance: evidence from Ghana. (2012)
Thesis
OWUSU, A. 2012. An empirical investigation of the relationship between corporate governance and firm performance: evidence from Ghana. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

This thesis investigates the relationship between corporate governance and firm performance prompted by the Ghanaian Code introduced in 2003. Using a sample of the Ghanaian listed firms from 2000-2009 and the directors of these same firms, the thesis... Read More about An empirical investigation of the relationship between corporate governance and firm performance: evidence from Ghana..

Adaptive dynamic control of quadrupedal robotic gaits with artificial reaction networks. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
GERRARD, C.E., MCCALL, J., COGHILL, G.M. and MACLEOD, C. 2012. Adaptive dynamic control of quadrupedal robotic gaits with artificial reaction networks. In Huang, T., Zeng, Z., Li, C. and Leung, C.S. (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International conference on neural information processing (ICONIP 2012), 12-15 November 2012, Doha, Qatar. Lecture notes in computer science, 7663. Berlin: Springer [online], part I, pages 280-287. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34475-6_34

The Artificial Reaction Network (ARN) is a bio-inspired connectionist paradigm based on the emerging field of Cellular Intelligence. It has properties in common with both AI and Systems Biology techniques including Artificial Neural Networks, Petri N... Read More about Adaptive dynamic control of quadrupedal robotic gaits with artificial reaction networks..

Engaging with the Scottish Government's agenda on health and social care. (2012)
Journal Article
SMITH, S. and BUCHANAN, G. 2012. Engaging with the Scottish Government's agenda on health and social care. InterAction: the journal of solution focus in organisations [online], 4(2), pages 26-34. Available from: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/sfct/inter/2012/00000004/00000002/art00003

Outside of SF circles, SF remains relatively unknown. The Scottish Solution Focused Network (SSFN) is an organisation of SF practitioners established to support and promote SF practice in Scotland. In this paper, the authors discuss their recent thin... Read More about Engaging with the Scottish Government's agenda on health and social care..

It's making us look disgusting…and it makes me feel like a mink…it makes me feel depressed!: using photovoice to help ‘see’ and understand the perspectives of disadvantaged young people about the neighbourhood determinants of their mental well-being. (2012)
Journal Article
WATSON, M. and DOUGLAS, F. 2012. It's making us look disgusting…and it makes me feel like a mink…it makes me feel depressed!: using photovoice to help ‘see’ and understand the perspectives of disadvantaged young people about the neighbourhood determinants of their mental well-being. International journal of health promotion and education [online], 50(6), pages 278-295. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2012.723379

There is growing recognition that poor adolescent mental well-being is a serious global health issue. Research exploring adult mental well-being issues has shown positive and negative associations with environmental factors such as quality of the nei... Read More about It's making us look disgusting…and it makes me feel like a mink…it makes me feel depressed!: using photovoice to help ‘see’ and understand the perspectives of disadvantaged young people about the neighbourhood determinants of their mental well-being..

Investigation of species transport in a gas diffusion layer of a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell through two-phase modelling. (2012)
Journal Article
HOSSAIN, M., ISLAM, S.Z., and POLLARD, P. 2013. Investigation of species transport in a gas diffusion layer of a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell through two-phase modelling. Renewable energy [online], 51, pages 404-418. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2012.10.008

A two-phase polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell model has been developed to investigate transport of species in a gas diffusion layer taking into account effects of liquid water saturation. A set of governing equations for mass, momentum, species... Read More about Investigation of species transport in a gas diffusion layer of a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell through two-phase modelling..

Improving bag-of-visual-words model with spatial-temporal correlation for video retrieval. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
WANG, L., SONG, D. and ELYAN, E. 2012. Improving bag-of-visual-words model with spatial-temporal correlation for video retrieval. In Proceedings of the 21st Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) international conference on information and knowledge management (CIKM'12), 29 October - 2 November 2012, Maui, USA. New York: ACM [online], pages 1303-1312. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2396761.2398433

Most of the state-of-art approaches to Query-by-Example (QBE) video retrieval are based on the Bag-of-visual-Words (BovW) representation of visual content. It, however, ignores the spatial-temporal information, which is important for similarity measu... Read More about Improving bag-of-visual-words model with spatial-temporal correlation for video retrieval..

Relational leadership in global multistakeholder groups. (2012)
Thesis
YAGHFOURI, Y. 2012. Relational leadership in global multistakeholder groups. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

This doctoral thesis explores relational leadership in global multistakeholder groups. As a complete participant observer, I used grounded theory to investigate relational processes through which leadership is constructed, sustained and deconstructed... Read More about Relational leadership in global multistakeholder groups..

The Tunisian textile industry: local responses to internationalisation. (2012)
Journal Article
ANDERSON, A.R., EL HARBI, S.E. and BRAHEM, M. 2012. The Tunisian textile industry: local responses to internationalisation. European journal of international management [online], 6(5), pages 525-541. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1504/EJIM.2012.049640

The continuing internationalisation of the textile industry has reduced the labour cost advantages of Tunisian clothing firms. These firms have a precarious position in the international value chain, often as subcontractors and only rarely contributi... Read More about The Tunisian textile industry: local responses to internationalisation..

The entrepreneurial process and the role of gender: a comparative study of entrepreneurs in the business services and technology sectors in Scotland. (2012)
Thesis
KEARNEY, G. 2012. The entrepreneurial process and the role of gender: a comparative study of entrepreneurs in the business services and technology sectors in Scotland. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

The comparatively low levels of entrepreneurship in Scotland and in particular, low rates of female entrepreneurship are well documented and have been the focus of numerous government policies. In addition, there are specific issues regarding female... Read More about The entrepreneurial process and the role of gender: a comparative study of entrepreneurs in the business services and technology sectors in Scotland..