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The nature and processes of internationalisation at a French Grand Ecole de Management. (2013)
Thesis
BRYANT, M. 2013. The nature and processes of internationalisation at a French Grand Ecole de Management. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

Globalisation has changed the higher education landscape dramatically in the past 20 years, especially for business schools. Accordingly, universities have had to adopt different internationalisation strategies in order to cope with this shifting con... Read More about The nature and processes of internationalisation at a French Grand Ecole de Management..

A biomechanical investigation of contemporary powerlifting training practices and their potential application to athletic development. (2013)
Thesis
SWINTON, P.A. 2013. A biomechanical investigation of contemporary powerlifting training practices and their potential application to athletic development. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

The contemporary training practices of powerlifters are presently being adopted by athletes from a variety of sports, seeking to improve their performance. The aims of this PhD were to: 1) identify the contemporary training practices of powerlifters;... Read More about A biomechanical investigation of contemporary powerlifting training practices and their potential application to athletic development..

Perceptions and reflections of mothers' working lives: narratives from women on their second, or subsequent, maternity leave. (2013)
Thesis
MCDOUGALL, B.H. 2013. Perceptions and reflections of mothers' working lives: narratives from women on their second, or subsequent, maternity leave. Robert Gordon University, MPhil thesis.

A longitudinal study addressed the question: what can women's stories tell us about their working lives? Of specific interest was the importance of maternity leave to career which is treated by academics and organisations alike - as a period of absen... Read More about Perceptions and reflections of mothers' working lives: narratives from women on their second, or subsequent, maternity leave..

A theoretical and empirical investigation into the design and implementation of an appropriate tax regime: an evaluation of Nigeria's petroleum taxation arrangements. (2013)
Thesis
KYARI, A.K. 2013. A theoretical and empirical investigation into the design and implementation of an appropriate tax regime: an evaluation of Nigeria's petroleum taxation arrangements. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

This thesis provides a structure for understanding the various issues in the design and implementation of a petroleum tax system. Its main objective is to examine whether the Nigerian petroleum tax system is appropriately designed to achieve the bene... Read More about A theoretical and empirical investigation into the design and implementation of an appropriate tax regime: an evaluation of Nigeria's petroleum taxation arrangements..

Socio-economic costs of bereavement in Scotland: main study report. (2013)
Report
BIRRELL, J., CORDEN, A., MACDUFF, C., NEWSOM, C., PETRIE, D., SCHUT, H., SKÅR, S., STEPHEN, A., TSENG, F.-M., WANG, S. and WILSON, S. 2013. Socio-economic costs of bereavement in Scotland: main study report. [Aberdeen: Robert Gordon University]

The Socio-Economic Costs of Bereavement in Scotland (SECOB) research study was funded by the Scottish Government Health Directorates in late 2010 as part of ongoing work to inform national policy on bereavement and bereavement care practice. The proj... Read More about Socio-economic costs of bereavement in Scotland: main study report..

The role of 3D technology in enhancing the visitor experience in the 21st century. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
PRITCHARD, D. 2013. The role of 3D technology in enhancing the visitor experience in the 21st century. Presented at the Seminar on tourism at world heritage sites: challenges and opportunities, co-located with the 55th Meeting of the UNWTO Commission for Europe, 26 March 2013, Çeşme, Turkey.

This presentation provided a demonstration of a new computer graphics platform that uses multiple high-definition photographs of a specific place to construct a very accurate, three-dimension digital model.

Extending the web to support personal network services. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
LYLE, J., NILSSON, C., ISBERG, A. and FAILY, S. 2013. Extending the web to support personal network services. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM symposium on applied computing (SAC 2013), 18-22 March 2013, Coimbra, Portugal. New York: ACM [online], volume 1, pages 711-716. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2480362.2480499

Web browsers are able to access resources hosted anywhere in the world, yet content and features on personal devices remain largely inaccessible. Because of routing, addressing and security issues, web applications are unable to use local sensors, ca... Read More about Extending the web to support personal network services..

Smart grid operation while integrating photovoltaic through green hydrogen technology. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
GAZEY, R., ALI, A. and AKLIL, D. 2013. Smart grid operation while integrating photovoltaic through green hydrogen technology. Presented at the 2nd TAMUQ (Texas A and M University at Qatar) annual research and industry forum 2013, 4-5 March 2013, Doha, Qatar.

Environmental pressures coupled with high fossil fuel prices have led to the rapid penetration of electricity generation from Renewable Energy Sources (RES). Because of the rapid RES penetration, the stability of grid energy infrastructures are now b... Read More about Smart grid operation while integrating photovoltaic through green hydrogen technology..

How green is children's television? (2013)
Journal Article
OATES, C. J., MCDONALD, S., BLADES, M. and LAING, A. 2013. How green is children's television? Social business [online], 3(1), pages 37-45. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1362/204440813X13645551140991

Purpose To meet stated waste reduction goals, the UK government via Defra (Department for environment, farming and rural affairs) is attempting to reduce household mainstream waste. One approach is to encourage children in environmentally-friendly be... Read More about How green is children's television?.

Integrative physiology: the integumentary system. [Case study] (2013)
Report
MCFADYEN, M.C.E. and WATSON, E. 2013. Integrative physiology: the integumentary system. [Case study]. Snapshots@RGU, February 2013. Aberdeen: Robert Gordon University.

This case study discusses the development of a three-dimensional e-Learning software package, designed to help teach students on a first-year "Integrative Physiology" module about the skin and integumentary system.

Entrepreneurship activities in rural Tanzania: understanding women's micro businesses. (2013)
Thesis
SSENDI, L.B. 2013. Entrepreneurship activities in rural Tanzania: understanding women's micro businesses. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

In rural Tanzania women play a crucially important role in social and economic production. However, the constraints of poverty, combined with poor infrastructure and minimal resources, limit entrepreneurial possibilities. Nonetheless, poor rural fema... Read More about Entrepreneurship activities in rural Tanzania: understanding women's micro businesses..

Goin' Holyrood? (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BAXTER, G., MARCELLA, R., CHAPMAN, D. and FRASER, A. 2013. Goin' Holyrood? A study of voters' online information behaviour when using parties' and candidates' websites during the 2011 Scottish Parliament election campaign. Procedia: social and behavioral sciences [online], 73: proceedings of the 2nd International conference on integrated information (IC-ININFO 2012), 30 August - 3 September 2012, Budapest, Hungary, pages 209-216. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.02.043

This paper reports the results of a study of voters' online behaviour conducted during the 2011 Scottish Parliamentary election campaign. Here, 64 citizens of Aberdeen, North-east Scotland, were observed and questioned while they searched for, browse... Read More about Goin' Holyrood?.

Dynamic agent prioritisation with penalties in distributed local search. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
SAMBO-MAGAJI, A., ARANA, I. and AHRIZ, H. 2013. Dynamic agent prioritisation with penalties in distributed local search. In Filipe, J. and Fred, A. (eds.) Proceedings of the 5th International conference on agents and artificial intelligence (ICAART 2013), 15-18 February 2013, Barcelona, Spain. Setúbal: Science and Technology Publications [online], volume 1, pages 276-281. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5220/0004259202760281

Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems (DisCSPs) solving techniques solve problems which are distributed over a number of agents.The distribution of the problem is required due to privacy, security or cost issues and, therefore centralised prob... Read More about Dynamic agent prioritisation with penalties in distributed local search..

Racial formations: South Africa. (2013)
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MUELLER-HIRTH, N. 2013. Racial formations: South Africa. In Mason, P.L. (ed.) Encyclopedia of race and racism. Second edition. Andover: Cengage, volume 3.

South Africa became a democratic, non-racial state in 1994. The first democratic elections were preceded by fifty years of legislated racial domination. Apartheid (separateness in Afrikaans) involved racial segregation in every aspect of social and p... Read More about Racial formations: South Africa..

Socio-sexuality and episodic memory function in women: further evidence of an adaptive "mating mode". (2013)
Journal Article
SMITH, D.S., JONES, B.C. and ALLAN, K. 2013. Socio-sexuality and episodic memory function in women: further evidence of an adaptive "mating mode". Memory and cognition [online], 41(6), pages 850-861. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-013-0301-1

The functionalist memory perspective predicts that information of adaptive value may trigger specific processing modes. It was recently demonstrated that women's memory is sensitive to cues of male sexual dimorphism (i.e., masculinity) that convey in... Read More about Socio-sexuality and episodic memory function in women: further evidence of an adaptive "mating mode"..

The rise of illicit rural enterprise within the farming industry: a viewpoint. (2013)
Journal Article
SMITH, R., LAING, A. and MCELWEE, G. 2013. The rise of illicit rural enterprise within the farming industry: a viewpoint. International journal of agricultural management [online], 2(4), pages 185-188. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5836/ijam/2013-04-01

In this viewpoint article we seek to make the farming community aware of the increasing presence of organised criminals and crime within the farming community. In the past decade there has been a discernible rise in the level of organized criminality... Read More about The rise of illicit rural enterprise within the farming industry: a viewpoint..

North-east third sector survey 2012. (2013)
Report
ATOROUGH, P. 2013. North-east third sector survey 2012. Aberdeen: Aberdeen & Grampian Chamber of Commerce.

The aim of this survey is to highlight the importance of the Third Sector and deliver a general overview of the services provided including social and health care, social enterprise and trading. Our conclusion is that Third Sector organisations in Ab... Read More about North-east third sector survey 2012..

Approximating true relevance model in relevance feedback. (2013)
Thesis
ZHANG, P. 2013. Approximating true relevance model in relevance feedback. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

Relevance is an essential concept in information retrieval (IR) and relevance estimation is a fundamental IR task. It involves not only document relevance estimation, but also estimation of user's information need. Relevance-based language model aims... Read More about Approximating true relevance model in relevance feedback..