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Developing secure, unified, multi-device, and multi-domain platforms: a case study from the webinos project. (2014)
Book Chapter
ATZENI, A., LYLE, J. and FAILY, S. 2014. Developing secure, unified, multi-device, and multi-domain platforms: a case study from the webinos project. In Ruiz-Martinez, A., Marin-Lopez, R. and Pereniguez-Garcia, F. (eds.) Architectures and protocols for secure information technology infrastructures. Hershey: IGI Global [online], chapter 12, pages 310-333. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4514-1.ch012

The need for integrated cross-platform systems is growing. Such systems can enrich the user experience, but also lead to greater security and privacy concerns than the sum of their existing components. To provide practical insights and suggest viable... Read More about Developing secure, unified, multi-device, and multi-domain platforms: a case study from the webinos project..

Large-scale tourism development: an investigation into the likely impacts of the proposed Trump Golf Scotland development. (2014)
Book Chapter
NASH, R., MARTIN, A. and RUXTON, L. 2014. Large-scale tourism development: an investigation into the likely impacts of the proposed Trump Golf Scotland development. In Nelson, W.D. (ed.) Advances in business and management. New York: Nova Science Publishers [online], volume 6, pages 119-137. Available from: http://www.novapublishers.org/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=47089

The large-scale development by Trump Golf Scotland will potentially thrust the North East of Scotland into worldwide fame as a golf destination. This research adopted a qualitative approach involving a focus group and interviews. The focus group comp... Read More about Large-scale tourism development: an investigation into the likely impacts of the proposed Trump Golf Scotland development..

Interest groups and patterns of lobbying in Brussels. (2014)
Book Chapter
GREENWOOD, J. 2014. Interest groups and patterns of lobbying in Brussels. In Magone, J.M. (ed.) Routledge handbook of European politics. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 43, pages 793-806. Available from: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-European-Politics-1st-Edition/Magone/p/book/9780415626750

Political institutions in democratically orientated political systems interact with interest organisations to enhance the legitimacy of their policies, whether through greater acceptance of them (inputs) or to enhance efficiencies (outputs). The rem... Read More about Interest groups and patterns of lobbying in Brussels..

Working together. (2014)
Book Chapter
FREMANTLE, C. 2014. Working together. In Monoian, E., Ferry, R. and Land Art Generator Initiative (eds.) New energies: Land Art Generator Initiative, Copenhagen. London: Prestel [online], pages 2-5. Available from: https://landartgenerator.org/newsevents/?p=1216

The Land Art Generator Initiative asks artists and designers to work with renewable energy engineers to develop place-making proposals. Proposals to the Open Competitions are required to deliver mid-scale energy generation in the form of public art.... Read More about Working together..

The protection of possession in Scots law. (2014)
Book Chapter
ANDERSON, C. 2014. The protection of possession in Scots law. In Descheemaeker, E. (ed.) The consequences of possession. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press [online], pages 111-140. Available from: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-consequences-of-possession.html

This paper is concerned with how possession is protected in Scots law. Most of the paper is concerned with one possessory remedy in particular, the so-called possessory judgment. To see how this fits into the law of possession more generally, we shal... Read More about The protection of possession in Scots law..

Researching rural enterprise. (2014)
Book Chapter
MCELWEE, G. and SMITH, R. 2014. Researching rural enterprise. In Fayolle, A. (ed.) Handbook of research on entrepreneurship: what we know and what we need to know. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar [online], chapter 14, pages 307-334. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857936929.00022

This chapter is concerned with the topic of researching rural enterprise. As a subset of the literature of entrepreneurship, rural entrepreneurship and in particular rural enterprise is an emerging area of study. Bryant (1989) makes an important poin... Read More about Researching rural enterprise..

Evaluating the implications of attack and security patterns with premortems. (2014)
Book Chapter
FAILY, S., PARKIN, S. and LYLE, J. 2014. Evaluating the implications of attack and security patterns with premortems. In Blackwell, C. and Zhu, H. (eds.) Cyberpatterns: unifying design patterns with security and attack patterns. Cham: Springer [online], chapter 16, pages 199-209. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04447-7_16

Security patterns are a useful way of describing, packaging and applying security knowledge which might otherwise be unavailable. However, because patterns represent partial knowledge of a problem and solution space, there is little certainty that ad... Read More about Evaluating the implications of attack and security patterns with premortems..

Armchair auditing and the great town hall transparency swindle. (2014)
Book Chapter
MORRISON, J. 2014. Armchair auditing and the great town hall transparency swindle. In Charles, A. The end of journalism 2.0: industry, technology and politics. Oxford: Peter Lang [online], pages 153-170. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0563-0

Britain's coalition government has preached an awful lot about local trans- parency. Within weeks of the Conservatives entering their uneasy alliance with the Liberal Democrats in May 2010, the new administration's Pooterish Communities Secretary, Er... Read More about Armchair auditing and the great town hall transparency swindle..

Photocatalytic splitting of water. (2014)
Book Chapter
SKILLEN, N., MCCULLAGH, C. and ADAMS, M. 2015. Photocatalytic splitting of water. In Bahnemann, D. and Robertson, P.K.J. (eds.) Environmental Photochemistry Part III. The handbook of environmental chemistry, 35. Berlin: Springer [online], pages 45-86. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2014_261

The use of photocatalysis for the photosplitting of water to generate hydrogen and oxygen has gained interest as a method for the conversion and storage of solar energy. The application of photocatalysis through catalyst engineering, mechanistic stud... Read More about Photocatalytic splitting of water..

Robert Gordon University and the University of Aberdeen. (2014)
Book Chapter
DIACK, L. and JOSEPH, S. 2014. Robert Gordon University and the University of Aberdeen. In Barr, H., Helme, M., and D'Avray, L. (eds.) Review of interprofessional education in the United Kingdom. Fareham: CAIPE, pages 105-115.

The development of Interprofessional Education (IPE) in Aberdeen during the last 20 years has had a distinctive Scottish focus as the health and social care agenda in north of the border has become increasingly different from that in England. Since 1... Read More about Robert Gordon University and the University of Aberdeen..

The European Commission's relations with interest organisations: master of the information universe. (2014)
Book Chapter
GREENWOOD, J. 2014. The European Commission's relations with interest organisations: master of the information universe. In Blom, T. and Vanhoonacker, S. (eds.) The Politics of Information: the case of the European Union. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan [online], pages 111-126. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137325419_8

The relationships between European institutions and interest organizations differ from those of comparable administrations in the extent of reliance upon them for both output and input legitimacy. The European Commission’s roles on policy formulation... Read More about The European Commission's relations with interest organisations: master of the information universe..

Developing skills in solution-focused interactions. (2014)
Book Chapter
SMITH, S. 2014. Developing skills in solution-focused interactions. In Reading, S. and Webster, B. (eds.) Achieving competencies for nursing practice: a handbook for student nurses. Maidenhead: Open University Press, chapter 5, pages 67-79.

This chapter discusses solution-focused interactions, a specific approach to communication which is based on 'solution-building' (as opposed to 'problem-solving'), which you can utilize across all fields of nuring and implement within your clinical p... Read More about Developing skills in solution-focused interactions..

Inequality and deliberative democracy. (2014)
Book Chapter
MCLAVERTY, P. 2014. Inequality and deliberative democracy. In Elstub, S. and McLaverty, P. (eds.) Deliberative democracy: issues and cases. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press [online], chapter 2, pages 34-49. Available from: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-deliberative-democracy.html

Deliberative Democracy is the darling of democratic theory and political theory more generally, and generates international interest. In this book a number of leading democratic theorists address the key issues that surround the theory and practice o... Read More about Inequality and deliberative democracy..