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Comprehension in the informed-consent process. (2001)
Journal Article
OLIVIER, S. and OLIVIER, A. 2001. Comprehension in the informed-consent process. Sportscience [online], 5(3), article ID 0103/so. Available from: https://www.sportsci.org/jour/0103/so.htm

Using a generic consent form is desirable in the informed-consent process, but such forms may not give potential subjects an adequate understanding of a project. Attention to several aspects of design and content of the form will assist comprehension... Read More about Comprehension in the informed-consent process..

Engineering assessment of building design option at sketch design stage 'Energysave'. (2001)
Conference Proceeding
BENNADJI, A., BOUCHLAGHEM, N.M., LOVEDAY, D.L., HOLMES, M., MITCHELL, K.T. and VAN ZYL, R. 2001. Engineering assessment of building design option at sketch design stage. In Ruttkay Pereira, F.O. (ed.) Renewable energy for a sustainable development of the built environment: proceedings of the 18th International conference on passive and low energy architecture 2001 (PLEA 2001), 7-9 November 2001, Florianópolis, Brazil. Florianópolis: PLEA International, pages 931-937.

During the early design stages of a building, different options are assessed using simple tools, that contain a large number of assumptions the very nature of which can bias choice or possibly lead to an inappropriate solution. Many designers are of... Read More about Engineering assessment of building design option at sketch design stage 'Energysave'..

Sunlight in the traditional dwellings of Algeria. (2001)
Conference Proceeding
BELAKEHAL, A., TABET AOUL, K. and BENNADJI, A. 2001. Sunlight in the traditional dwellings of Algeria. In Ünver, R., Öztürk, L.D. and Yener, A.K. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2001 International lighting congress, 12-14 September 2001, Istanbul, Turkey. Istanbul: Turkish National Committee on Illumination (ATMK), volume 1, pages 118-125.

This paper aims to study the impact of sunlight and daylight on the dwelling's design in Algeria. The approach used for this purpose is the theory of structuration. In this work, the home is considered as the behavioural setting and five case studies... Read More about Sunlight in the traditional dwellings of Algeria..

Impact of school library services on achievement and learning: Critical literature review of the impact of school library services on achievement and learning to inform the work of the DfES Task Group set up to implement actions contained in the Governmen (2001)
Report
WILLIAMS, D., WAVELL, C. and COLES, L. 2001. Impact of school library services on achievement and learning: Critical literature review of the impact of school library services on achievement and learning to inform the work of the DfES Task Group set up to implement actions contained in the Government's response to 'Empowering the Learning Community'. Aberdeen: Robert Gordon University.

This critical literature review examines research linking educational attainment and school library use at secondary level. The study was funded by Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries to inform the work of the DfES Task Group se... Read More about Impact of school library services on achievement and learning: Critical literature review of the impact of school library services on achievement and learning to inform the work of the DfES Task Group set up to implement actions contained in the Governmen.

Periphery? What periphery? Marketing to a state of mind. (2001)
Journal Article
ANDERSON, A.R., JACK, S.L. and MCAULEY, S. 2001. Periphery? What periphery? Marketing to a state of mind. Irish marketing review [online], 14(1), pages 26-34. Available from: https://doi.org/10.21427/D7DN1V

Businesses, especially small business, which are located in the periphery are traditionally viewed as being disadvantaged. The condition of peripherality is viewed as creating disadvantage in terms of limited customer base, distance from markets and... Read More about Periphery? What periphery? Marketing to a state of mind..

Libraries in major universities in Lebanon. (2001)
Journal Article
AL-KHATIB, S. and JOHNSON, I.M. 2001. Libraries in major universities in Lebanon. Libri [online], 51(4), pages 209-224. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1515/LIBR.2001.209

This paper puts the contemporary situation of some Lebanese university libraries in a broader context. It introduces the country, and outlines its higher education system, library science education, professional association, and publishing activity.... Read More about Libraries in major universities in Lebanon..

Social power and the Hohfeldian jural relation. (2001)
Journal Article
ROSS, H. 2001. Social power and the Hohfeldian jural relation. Nottingham law journal [online], 10, pages 47-63. Available from: http://www.ntu.ac.uk/nls/document_uploads/notnghmlj0010.pdf

Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld is one of the great unsung heroes of twentieth century legal theory. His eponymous "analysis" - an eight-term relational configuration of legal concepts - represents one of the most perceptive and revealing contributions to the... Read More about Social power and the Hohfeldian jural relation..

Using evolutionary artificial neural networks to design hierarchical animat nervous systems. (2001)
Thesis
MCMINN, D. 2001. Using evolutionary artificial neural networks to design hierarchical animat nervous systems. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

The research presented in this thesis examines the area of control systems for robots or animats (animal-like robots). Existing systems have problems in that they require a great deal of manual design or are limited to performing jobs of a single typ... Read More about Using evolutionary artificial neural networks to design hierarchical animat nervous systems..

Evolution and devolved action: towards the evolution of systems. (2001)
Report
MACLEOD, C., MCMINN, D., REDDIPOGU, A. B., CAPANNI, N. F. and MAXWELL, G. M. 2001. Evolution and devolved action: towards the evolution of systems. In: Appendix B of MCMINN, D. Using evolutionary artificial neural networks to design hierarchical animat nervous systems, Ph. D. thesis. Aberdeen : Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

The Artificial Neural Networks group at the Robert Gordon University has, over the last six years, built up considerable knowledge and practical experience in Evolutionary Artificial Neural Networks. This experience started with the PhD project by C... Read More about Evolution and devolved action: towards the evolution of systems..

A step toward reusable model fragments. (2001)
Conference Proceeding
AHRIZ, H. and TOMASENA, M. 2001. A step toward reusable model fragments. In Proceedings of the 2001 International conference on computational intelligence for modeling control and automation (CIMCA 2001), 9-11 July 2001, Las Vegas, USA. New York: IEEE, pages 559-566.

In this paper we describe a system to elaborate models which are suitable for model based reasoning. A set of model fragments selected from a library will be put together to build a model candidate. The system relies on the bond graph notation, which... Read More about A step toward reusable model fragments..

The demand for undergraduate course provision in information and library studies. (2001)
Journal Article
MARCELLA, R. and BAXTER, G. 2001. The demand for undergraduate course provision in information and library studies. Education for information [online], 19(4), pages 277-297. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3233/EFI-2001-19402

This paper describes two exercises designed to investigate the factors affecting the demand for under-graduate educational provision in information and library studies (ILS). The first was a survey of former and current students of the School of Info... Read More about The demand for undergraduate course provision in information and library studies..

The glamour. (2001)
Physical Artefact
TATHAM, J. and O'SULLIVAN, T. 2001. The glamour. [Lighting installation].

The Glamour was commissioned for the 2nd Berlin Biennale, held on 20 April - 20 June 2001. It was a continuation of The Glamour project that was first initiated in 2000 at the Transmission Gallery, Glasgow. It is composed of a set of devices - mirror... Read More about The glamour..

HK. [Exhibition] (2001)
Exhibition / Performance
HK. Exhibition held on 23 November 2001 - 20 January 2002, Tramway, Glasgow.

HK was a solo exhibition commissioned by Tramway, Glasgow. The central component of the exhibition was the words HEROIN KILLS presented as six-metre high sculptural forms. This word-sculpture was situated within both the context of Glasgow, as a city... Read More about HK. [Exhibition].

Information and library studies on a virtual campus. (2001)
Journal Article
MARCELLA, R. and BAXTER, G. 2001. Information and library studies on a virtual campus. New library world [online], 102(10), pages 362-371. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000006065

Provides a critical overview of the introduction of the Postgraduate Diploma/Master of Science course in Information and Library Studies, in online distance learning mode, by the School of Information and Media at the Robert Gordon University in Aber... Read More about Information and library studies on a virtual campus..

Agent-based simulation: an application to the new electricity trading arrangements of England and Wales. (2001)
Journal Article
BUNN, D.W. and OLIVEIRA, F.S. 2001. Agent-based simulation: an application to the new electricity trading arrangements of England and Wales. IEEE transactions on evolutionary computation [online], 5(5), pages 493-503. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/4235.956713

This paper presents a large-scale application of multiagent evolutionary modeling to the proposed new electricity trading arrangements (NETA) in the U.K. This is a detailed plant-by-plant model with an active specification of the demand side of the m... Read More about Agent-based simulation: an application to the new electricity trading arrangements of England and Wales..

The case for nationality based jurisdiction. (2001)
Journal Article
ARNELL, P. 2001. The case for nationality based jurisdiction. International and comparative law quarterly [online], 50(4), pages 955-962. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/iclq/50.4.955

Various recent developments within and without the United Kingdom have strengthened the arguments in favour of the adoption of general nationality based criminal jurisdiction. These arise from problems in the application of territorial jurisdiction,... Read More about The case for nationality based jurisdiction..

Inchoate crimes: incitement, conspiracy and attempts in Scottish criminal law. (2001)
Book
CHRISTIE, S. 2001. Inchoate crimes: incitement, conspiracy and attempts in Scottish criminal law. Edinburgh: W. Green.

The question of whether it is suitable to inflict punishment, and if so, to what degree, arises in all areas of legal inquiry, and beyond them, most notably in religion, philosophy and social science. Punishment is generally defined as a painful or u... Read More about Inchoate crimes: incitement, conspiracy and attempts in Scottish criminal law..

Application of aboutness to functional benchmarking in information retrieval. (2001)
Journal Article
WONG, K.-F., SONG, D., BRUZA, P. and CHENG, C.-H. 2001. Application of aboutness to functional benchmarking in information retrieval. ACM transactions on information systems, 19(4), pages 337-370. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/502795.502796

Experimental approaches are widely employed to benchmark the performance of an information retrieval (IR) system. Measurements in terms of recall and precision are computed as performance indicators. Although they are good at assessing the retrieval... Read More about Application of aboutness to functional benchmarking in information retrieval..

Business strategies for entrepreneurial small firms. (2001)
Journal Article
ANDERSON, A.R. and ATKINS, M.H. 2001. Business strategies for entrepreneurial small firms. Strategic change [online], 10(6), pages 311-324. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.554

This paper addresses the issue of the nature of business strategies in entrepreneurial small firms. It examines a number of existing models of strategic planning and suggests that they cannot adequately cope with environmental uncertainty. Developing... Read More about Business strategies for entrepreneurial small firms..

Discovering information flow using a high dimensional conceptual space. (2001)
Conference Proceeding
SONG, D. and BRUZA, P. 2001. Discovering information flow using a high dimensional conceptual space. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual international Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR) conference on research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR'01), 9-13 September 2001, Louisiana, USA. New York: ACM [online], pages 327-333. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/383952.384017

This paper presents an informational inference mechanism realized via the use of a high dimensional conceptual space. More specifically, we claim to have operationalized important aspects of Gärdenforss recent three-level cognitive model. The connec... Read More about Discovering information flow using a high dimensional conceptual space..