All Outputs (269)

Gender and white-collar crime: examining representations of women in media? (2013)
Journal Article
GOTTSCHALK, P. and SMITH, R. 2015. Gender and white-collar crime: examining representations of women in media? Journal of gender studies [online], 24(3), pages 310-325. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2013.841571

Using documentary research methodology, we collected empirical data from three national Norwegian newspapers to examine the issue of gender and white-collar crime to examine representations of women in the media. Only 8 out of the 179 white-collar cr... Read More about Gender and white-collar crime: examining representations of women in media?.

Drawing and the score. (2013)
Book Chapter
DOUGLAS, A. 2013. Drawing and the score. In De Assis, P., Brooks, W. and Coessens, K. Sound and score: essays on sound, score and notation. Orpheus Institute series. Leuven: Leuven University Press [online], chapter 14, pages 206-217. Available from: https://lup.be/collections/series-orpheus-institute-series/products/100421

Traditionally a score in Western classical music has ensured the music’s presentation and replication to an audience. Drawings as blueprints in architecture/engineering ensure that designs are translated into real structures in ways that are more or... Read More about Drawing and the score..

Beyond the creative industries. (2013)
Journal Article
MACDONALD, S. 2013. Beyond the creative industries. International journal of education through art [online], 9(3), pages 293-309. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1386/eta.9.3.293_1

Although Creative Industries as engines of post-industrial economies have assumed an increasing global priority with implications for art education at all levels few studies exist. Nomenclature here is contested, especially when arts role appears fre... Read More about Beyond the creative industries..

Supporting the creative industries: the rationale for an exchange of thinking between the art and business schools. (2013)
Journal Article
KEARNEY, G. and HARRIS, P., 2013. Supporting the creative industries: the rationale for an exchange of thinking between the art and business schools. International journal of education through art [online], 9(3), pages 311-326. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1386/eta.9.3.311_1

Increasing interest in the concept of the Creative Industries with emphasis upon the industry aspect, presents questions as to how Art Schools can best prepare students. Indeed the industrial aspect encourages consideration of business and entreprene... Read More about Supporting the creative industries: the rationale for an exchange of thinking between the art and business schools..

What goes around comes around? Craft revival, the 1970s and today. (2013)
Journal Article
PEACH, A. 2013. What goes around comes around? Craft revival, the 1970s and today. Craft research [online], 4(2), pages 161-179. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1386/crre.4.2.161_1

This article critically reviews the concept of 'revival' in relation to making in contemporary culture. The 1970s are a period, which craft historians and theorists generally acknowledge as one of revival and reinvention of craft practice across Brit... Read More about What goes around comes around? Craft revival, the 1970s and today..

Seeing the light: using visual ethnography in family business settings. (2013)
Journal Article
SMITH, R. 2015. Seeing the light: using visual ethnography in family business settings. Family business review [online], 28(1), pages 76-82. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0894486513504585

The purpose of this research note is to illustrate the usefulness of the qualitative method of visual ethnography in producing new insights into family business research by investigating the 'lived narrative' of a family business in Scotland. The ove... Read More about Seeing the light: using visual ethnography in family business settings..

Regional precipitation scenarios using a spatial statistical downscaling approach for Klang watershed, Malaysia. (2013)
Journal Article
KABIRI, R., BAI V., R. and CHAN, A. 2013. Regional precipitation scenarios using a spatial statistical downscaling approach for Klang watershed, Malaysia. Journal of environmental research and development [online], 8(1), pages 126-134. Available from: https://tinyurl.com/jerad-8-1-126

"Climate change" describes the consequences that changes in climate have on the global environment. Rainfall gauge stations have been used in this study to run spatial statistical downscaling (SDSM). SDSM uses a multiregression method to link large-s... Read More about Regional precipitation scenarios using a spatial statistical downscaling approach for Klang watershed, Malaysia..

My cost runneth over: data mining to reduce construction cost overruns. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
AHIAGA-DAGBUI, D.D. and SMITH, S.D. 2013. My cost runneth over: data mining to reduce construction cost overruns. In Smith, S.D. and Ahiaga-Dagbui, D.D. (eds.) Proceedings of the 29th Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) annual conference, 2-4 September 2013, Reading, UK. Reading: ARCOM [online], pages 559-568. Available from: http://www.arcom.ac.uk/-docs/proceedings/ar2013-0559-0568_Ahiaga-Dagbui_Smith.pdf

Most construction projects overrun their budgets. Among the myriad of explanations giving for construction cost overruns is the lack of required information upon which to base accurate estimation. Much of the financial decisions made at the time of d... Read More about My cost runneth over: data mining to reduce construction cost overruns..

The information seeking behaviour of oil and gas industry workers in the context of health, safety and emergency response: a discussion of the value of models of information behaviour. (2013)
Journal Article
MARCELLA, R., PIRIE, T. and ROWLANDS, H. 2013. The information seeking behaviour of oil and gas industry workers in the context of health, safety and emergency response: a discussion of the value of models of information behaviour. Information research [online], 18(3), Article 583. Available from: http://www.informationr.net/ir/18-3/paper583.html

Introduction. We explore the application of models of information seeking behaviour to the findings of a study of the information needs of oil and gas workers in relation to health, safety and emergency response. Method. Primary data were collected t... Read More about The information seeking behaviour of oil and gas industry workers in the context of health, safety and emergency response: a discussion of the value of models of information behaviour..

Information seeking behaviour of parents of paediatric patients for clinical decision making: the central role of information literacy in a participatory setting. (2013)
Journal Article
KOSTAGIOLAS, P., MARTZOUKOU, K., GEORGANTZI, G. and NIAKAS, D. 2013. Information seeking behaviour of parents of paediatric patients for clinical decision making: the central role of information literacy in a participatory setting. Information research [online], 18(3). Available from: http://www.informationr.net/ir/18-3/paper590.html#.VWcF3zhMuUk

Introduction. This study investigated the information seeking behaviour and needs of parents of paediatric patients and their motives for seeking Internet-based information. Method. A questionnaire survey of 121 parents was conducted in a paediatric... Read More about Information seeking behaviour of parents of paediatric patients for clinical decision making: the central role of information literacy in a participatory setting..

Complementary and alternative medicines use during pregnancy: a systematic review of pregnant women and healthcare professional views and experiences. (2013)
Journal Article
PALLIVALAPILA, A.R., STEWART, D., SHETTY, A., PANDE, B. and MCLAY, J. S. 2013. Complementary and alternative medicines use during pregnancy: a systematic review of pregnant women and healthcare professional views and experiences. Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine [online], 2013, Article ID 205639. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/205639

Aims. To undertake a systematic review of the recent (2008-2013) primary literature, describing views and experiences of CAM use during pregnancy by women and healthcare professionals. Method. Medline, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Li... Read More about Complementary and alternative medicines use during pregnancy: a systematic review of pregnant women and healthcare professional views and experiences..

Transferable skills and the drug dependent: a journey through the city of Glasgow. (2013)
Journal Article
HACKETT, C. 2013. Transferable skills and the drug dependent: a journey through the city of Glasgow. International journal of social, political and community agendas in the arts [online], 7(3), pages 1-14. Available from: https://doi.org/10.18848/2326-9960/CGP/v07i03/36367

Voices narrate their views on skills, transferable skills, marginalisation and poverty in relation to society, opportunity and drug addiction. Narcotic addicts need to educate themselves on where to source and buy drugs and how to go about raising en... Read More about Transferable skills and the drug dependent: a journey through the city of Glasgow..

The impact on education for librarianship and information studies of the Bologna process and related European Commission programmes: and some outstanding issues in Europe and beyond. (2013)
Journal Article
JOHNSON, I.M. 2013. The impact on education for librarianship and information studies of the Bologna process and related European Commission programmes: and some outstanding issues in Europe and beyond. Education for information, 30(1-2), pages 63-92.

The Bologna Declaration of 1999 is the basis for continuing reforms in higher education intended to support international mobility in employment within the European Union. This paper describes the standardised structure and nomenclature for courses t... Read More about The impact on education for librarianship and information studies of the Bologna process and related European Commission programmes: and some outstanding issues in Europe and beyond..

Library development in Armenia: problems and progress since the dissolution of the USSR. (2013)
Journal Article
JOHNSON, I.M. 2013. Library development in Armenia: problems and progress since the dissolution of the USSR. International information and library review [online], 45(1-2), pages 50-62. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iilr.2013.08.003

The paper provides a situation report on the state of libraries and information services, publishing and bookselling in Armenia. It briefly describes their development, outlines the international development assistance that they have received during... Read More about Library development in Armenia: problems and progress since the dissolution of the USSR..

An investigation into the cognitive effects of instructional interface visualisations. (2013)
Thesis
AKINLOFA, O.R. 2013. An investigation into the cognitive effects of instructional interface visualisations. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

An investigation is conducted into the cognitive effects of using different computer based instructions media in acquisition of specific novel human skills. With recent rapid advances in computing and multimedia instructional delivery, several contem... Read More about An investigation into the cognitive effects of instructional interface visualisations..

Listening to alternative perspectives on rural crime and criminality: a report on the pilot study. (2013)
Preprint / Working Paper
SMITH, R. and LAING, A. 2013. Listening to alternative perspectives on rural crime and criminality: a report on the pilot study. SIPR Research Summary Number 15. Dundee: Scottish Institute for Policing Research, School of Social Sciences, University of Dundee.

This summary reports on the pilot phase of an ongoing study, funded by SIPR, into the changing nature of rural crime and what constitutes rural criminality. We set out to listen to alternative perspectives on rural crime and criminality and to speak... Read More about Listening to alternative perspectives on rural crime and criminality: a report on the pilot study..

Tackling the illicit commercial exploitation of children off campus: a case study. (2013)
Report
SMITH, R. and FRONDIGOUN, L. 2013. Tackling the illicit commercial exploitation of children off campus: a case study. SIPR Practice Notes Number 2. Dundee: Scottish Institute for Policing Research, School of Social and Environmental Sciences, University of Dundee.

The illicit exploitation of children and young persons for commercial gain by rogue shopkeepers and unscrupulous business proprietors is an important topic seldom considered by criminologists. In this case study we report on research with School Link... Read More about Tackling the illicit commercial exploitation of children off campus: a case study..

You have e-mail, what happens next? Tracking the eyes for genre. (2013)
Journal Article
CLARK, M., RUTHVEN, I., HOLT, P.O'B., SONG, D. and WATT, S. 2014. You have e-mail, what happens next? Tracking the eyes for genre. Information processing and management [online], 50(1), pages 175-198. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2013.08.005

This paper reports on an approach to the analysis of form (layout and formatting) during genre recognition recorded using eye tracking. The researchers focused on eight different types of e-mail, such as calls for papers, newsletters and spam, which... Read More about You have e-mail, what happens next? Tracking the eyes for genre..

Optimal design methodology for on-shore hydraulic pipelines transporting spherical capsules. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ASIM, T., MISHRA, R., PARIS, A. and ZALA, K. 2013. Optimal design methodology for on-shore hydraulic pipelines transporting spherical capsules. Procedia CIRP [online], 11: 2nd Through-life engineering services international conference 2013 (TESConf 2013), 5-6 November 2013, Cranfield, UK, pages 305-310. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2013.07.010

The third generation of pipelines comprises of the transportation of capsules that are hollow, water-borne containers, usually spherical or cylindrical in shape, filled with goods. These capsules are transported within pipelines along with the fluid,... Read More about Optimal design methodology for on-shore hydraulic pipelines transporting spherical capsules..

Computational fluid dynamics based optimal design of vertical axis marine current turbines. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ASIM, T., MISHRA, R., UBBI, K. and ZALA, K. 2013. Computational fluid dynamics based optimal design of vertical axis marine current turbines. Procedia CIRP [online], 11: proceedings of 2nd Through-life engineering services international conference 2013 (TESConf 2013), 5-6 November 2013, Cranfield, UK, pages 323-327. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2013.07.023

Marine turbines are being increasingly used to harness kinetic energy of water and convert it into other useful forms of energy. Widespread commercial acceptability of these machines depends upon their efficiency. This largely depends upon the geomet... Read More about Computational fluid dynamics based optimal design of vertical axis marine current turbines..