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Institutionalised ADR and access to justice: the changing faces of the Nigerian judicial system. (2014)
Journal Article
FATUROTI, B. 2014. Institutionalised ADR and access to justice: the changing faces of the Nigerian judicial system. Journal of comparative law in Africa, 1(1), pages 66-89.

Many legal jurisdictions have come to the realisation of how judicial bureaucracies and rigidity have left many disputants disenchanted about the entire justice system. This article examines the responses of State Governments in Nigeria to the proble... Read More about Institutionalised ADR and access to justice: the changing faces of the Nigerian judicial system..

Significance of effective lubrication in mitigating system failures: a wind turbine gearbox case study. (2014)
Journal Article
SINHA, Y., STEEL, J.A., ANDRAWUS, J.A. and GIBSON, K. 2014. Significance of effective lubrication in mitigating system failures: a wind turbine gearbox case study. Wind engineering [online], 38(4), pages 441-449. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1260/0309-524x.38.4.441

The effectiveness of lubrication in machines mainly depends on the physical and chemical properties of lubricating oil, like quantity, level of suspended particles, effect of external load/shear forces, temperature amongst others. Periodic inspection... Read More about Significance of effective lubrication in mitigating system failures: a wind turbine gearbox case study..

Thermo-mechanical performance of poly(lactic acid)/flax fibre-reinforced biocomposites. (2014)
Journal Article
NASSIOPOULOS, E. and NJUGUNA, J. 2015. Thermo-mechanical performance of poly(lactic acid)/flax fibre-reinforced biocomposites. Materials and design [online], 66(Part B), pages 473-485. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2014.07.051

In this study, the thermo-mechanical performance of flax fibre reinforced poly lactic acid (PLA) biocomposites was investigated for the potential use in load bearing application such as body-in-white and body structures in the automotive sector. Focu... Read More about Thermo-mechanical performance of poly(lactic acid)/flax fibre-reinforced biocomposites..

The employability agenda and beyond: what are universities for? (2014)
Report
OLIVIER, S. 2014. The employability agenda and beyond: what are universities for? London: Leadership Foundation for Higher Education. Hosted on Advance HE [online]. Available from: https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/knowledge-hub/employability-agenda-and-beyond-what-are-universities

In this paper, presented as a provocation for university leaders, I intend to stimulate thought and debate. As such, it is not necessarily a paper typical in the groves of Academe, evaluating and referencing contrasting preceding papers. While I draw... Read More about The employability agenda and beyond: what are universities for?.

Attitudes of nurses and student nurses towards working with older people and to gerontological nursing as a career in Germany, Scotland, Slovenia, Sweden, Japan and the United States. (2014)
Journal Article
KYDD, A., ENGSTRÖM, G., TOUHY, T.A., NEWMAN, D., SKELA-SAVIČ, B., HVALIČ-TOUZERY, S., ZURC, J., GALATSCH, M., ITO, M. and FAGERBERG, I. 2014. Attitudes of nurses and student nurses towards working with older people and to gerontological nursing as a career in Germany, Scotland, Slovenia, Sweden, Japan and the United States. International journal of nursing education, 6(2), pages 177-185.

The aim of this study was to describe attitudes towards caring for older people among nurses and student nurses in six participating countries. Working with older people has historically had a negative profile and, with a global rise in the numbers o... Read More about Attitudes of nurses and student nurses towards working with older people and to gerontological nursing as a career in Germany, Scotland, Slovenia, Sweden, Japan and the United States..

Social transport collaborative solutions: developing a social/community transport infrastructure for change funded projects and associated activity around reshaping care for older people (RCOP). (2014)
Report
GRAY, D., COOPER, K. and GRINNALL, A. 2014. Social transport collaborative solutions: developing a social/community transport infrastructure for change funded projects and associated activity around reshaping care for older people (RCOP). Unpublished internal document. Aberdeen: Aberdeen Council of Voluntary Organisations (ACVO)/Institute for Management, Governance & Society (IMaGeS), Robert Gordon University.

Transport services for health and social care are fragmented and there is a lack of leadership, ownership and monitoring of the services provided. The Scottish Government, Regional Transport Partnerships, councils, NHS boards and the ambulance servic... Read More about Social transport collaborative solutions: developing a social/community transport infrastructure for change funded projects and associated activity around reshaping care for older people (RCOP)..

How product owner teams scale agile methods to large distributed enterprises. (2014)
Journal Article
BASS, J.M. 2015. How product owner teams scale agile methods to large distributed enterprises. Empirical software engineering [online], 20(6), pages 1525-1557. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-014-9322-z

Software development teams in large scale offshore enterprise development programmes are often under intense pressure to deliver high quality software within challenging time contraints. Project failures can attract adverse publicity and damage corpo... Read More about How product owner teams scale agile methods to large distributed enterprises..

Computational aspects of cellular intelligence and their role in artificial intelligence. (2014)
Thesis
GERRARD, C.E. 2014. Computational aspects of cellular intelligence and their role in artificial intelligence. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

The work presented in this thesis is concerned with an exploration of the computational aspects of the primitive intelligence associated with single-celled organisms. The main aim is to explore this Cellular Intelligence and its role within Artificia... Read More about Computational aspects of cellular intelligence and their role in artificial intelligence..

An empirical investigation of the regulatory governance practice of Nigeria's downstream petroleum sector. (2014)
Thesis
TIJJANI, G.M. 2014. An empirical investigation of the regulatory governance practice of Nigeria's downstream petroleum sector. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

This thesis contributes to the research literature by reporting the results of an investigation that explores whether regulatory governance practices in Nigerias downstream petroleum sector are fit for purpose. The rationale for the study originated... Read More about An empirical investigation of the regulatory governance practice of Nigeria's downstream petroleum sector..

Does the world draw? (2014)
Presentation / Conference
RAVETZ, A. and DOUGLAS, A. 2014. Does the world draw? Workshop facilitated during the 13th European Association of Social Anthropologists biennial conference of collaboration intemacy and revolution (EASA 2014): innovation and continuity in an interconnected world, 31st July-3rd August 2014, Tallinn, Estonia.

Drawing can be explained in at least two ways: exemplifying trace, an inherent capacity or collection of characteristics in an individual (Nancy 2013) e.g. Rembrandt's drawing versus Van Gogh's drawing, the drawing of a particular thing in the world... Read More about Does the world draw?.

The impact of the cessation of blogs within the UK police blogosphere. (2014)
Journal Article
PEDERSEN, S., BURNETT, S., SMITH, R. and GRINNALL, A. 2014. The impact of the cessation of blogs within the UK police blogosphere. New technology, work and employment [online], 29(2), pages 160-176. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12028

This article investigates the concept of influence within a group of police work-bloggers. During the period studied (2007-2013), three influential police bloggers, well-known within the small and tightly knit UK police blogosphere, abruptly ended th... Read More about The impact of the cessation of blogs within the UK police blogosphere..

Oil price shocks and Nigerian economic growth. (2014)
Journal Article
ALLEY, I., ASEKOMEH, A., MOBOLAJI, H. and ADENIRAN, Y.A. 2014. Oil price shocks and Nigerian economic growth. European scientific journal [online], 10(19), pages 375-391. Available from: https://doi.org/10.19044/esj.2014.v10n19p%2525p

This study employs the general methods of moment (GMM) to examine the impact of oil price shocks on the Nigerian economy, using data from 1981 to 2012. After appropriate robustness checks, the study finds out that oil price shocks insignificantly ret... Read More about Oil price shocks and Nigerian economic growth..

An improved Vickers indentation fracture toughness model to assess the quality of thermally sprayed coatings. (2014)
Journal Article
FAISAL, N.H., AHMED, R., PRATHURU, A.K., SPENCE, S., HOSSAIN, M. and STEEL, J.A. 2014. An improved Vickers indentation fracture toughness model to assess the quality of thermally sprayed coatings. Engineering fracture mechanics [online], 128, pages 189-204. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfracmech.2014.07.015

This study presents an improved approach to the quality assessment of thermally sprayed coatings. Measurements were carried out on five different coatings. Since it is the overall extent of surface cracking during Vickers indentation that is indicati... Read More about An improved Vickers indentation fracture toughness model to assess the quality of thermally sprayed coatings..

Build-to-last: strength to weight 3D printed objects. (2014)
Journal Article
LU, L., SHARF, A., ZHAO, H., WEI, Y., FAN., Q., CHEN, X., SAVOYE, Y., TU, C., COHEN-OR, D. and CHEN, B. 2014. Build-to-last: strength to weight 3D printed objects. ACM transactions on graphics [online], 33(4), article No. 97. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2601097.2601168

The emergence of low-cost 3D printers steers the investigation of new geometric problems that control the quality of the fabricated object. In this paper, we present a method to reduce the material cost and weight of a given object while providing a... Read More about Build-to-last: strength to weight 3D printed objects..

Dynamic pricing policies for interdependent perishable products or services using reinforcement learning. (2014)
Journal Article
RANA, R. and OLIVEIRA, F.S. 2015. Dynamic pricing policies for interdependent perishable products or services using reinforcement learning. Expert systems with applications [online], 42(1), pages 426-436. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2014.07.007

Many businesses offer multiple products or services that are interdependent, in which the demand for one is often affected by the prices of others. This article considers a revenue management problem of multiple interdependent products, in which dyna... Read More about Dynamic pricing policies for interdependent perishable products or services using reinforcement learning..

A construction project manager's competency profile: the role of emotional-cognitive abilities. (2014)
Presentation / Conference
LAWANI, A. 2014. A construction project manager's competency profile: the role of emotional-cognitive abilities. Presented at the 2014 Project Management Institute research and education conference doctoral colloquium, 26 July 2014, Portland, Oregon, USA.

The importance of stakeholder management has been emphasised in project management literature as it directly impacts project performance. Construction project management consists of a collective term referred to as project participants: client/owner,... Read More about A construction project manager's competency profile: the role of emotional-cognitive abilities..

Dealing with construction cost overruns using data mining. (2014)
Journal Article
AHIAGA-DAGBUI, D.D. and SMITH, S.D., 2014. Dealing with construction cost overruns using data mining. Construction management and economics [online], 32(7-8), pages 682-694. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2014.933854

One of the main aims of any construction client is to procure a project within the limits of a predefined budget. However, most construction projects routinely overrun their cost estimates. Existing theories on construction cost overrun suggest a num... Read More about Dealing with construction cost overruns using data mining..

Entrepreneurship and mutuality: social capital in processes and practices. (2014)
Journal Article
MCKEEVER, E., ANDERSON, A. and JACK, S. 2014. Entrepreneurship and mutuality: social capital in processes and practices. Entrepreneurship and regional development [online], 26(5-6), pages 453-477. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2014.939536

Social capital, which offers the broader theoretical construct to which networks and networking relate, is now recognized as an important influence in entrepreneurship. Broadly understood as resources embedded in networks and accessed through social... Read More about Entrepreneurship and mutuality: social capital in processes and practices..