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An online collaborative tool for sustainable design. (2005)
Conference Proceeding
BENNADJI, A., AHRIZ, H. and BELAKEHAL, A. 2005. An online collaborative tool for sustainable design. In Imbabi, M.S. and Mitchell, C.P. (eds.) Renewable energy, technology, innovation and the environment: proceedings of the 2005 Regional meeting of the World Renewable Energy Congress (WREC 2005): innovation in Europe, 22-27 May 2005, Aberdeen, UK. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

One of the most important aspects a design team needs to consider fairly early on is that of energy saving, cost, thermal comfort and the effect on the environment in terms of CO2 emissions. This paper presents an online collaborative tool that allow... Read More about An online collaborative tool for sustainable design..

The impact of new technology on the communication of parliamentary information. (2005)
Journal Article
MARCELLA, R., BAXTER, G. and MOORE, N. 2005. The impact of new technology on the communication of parliamentary information. Journal of nonprofit and public sector marketing [online], 14(1-2), pages 185-203. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1300/J054v14n01_11

This article discusses the results of an exploratory study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, which investigated the impact of technology on the communication of parliamentary information to the general public in the United Kingdom.... Read More about The impact of new technology on the communication of parliamentary information..

Evolutionary algorithms for real-time artificial neural network training. (2005)
Conference Proceeding
JAGADEESAN, A., MAXWELL, G. and MACLEOD, C. 2005. Evolutionary algorithms for real-time artificial neural network training. In Duch, W., Kacprzyk, J., Oja, E. and Zadrozy, S (eds.) Artificial neural networks: formal models and their applications, part 2; proceedings of the 15th International on artificial neural networks (ICAAN 2005), 11-15 September 2005, Warsaw, Poland. Lecture notes in computer science, 3697. Berlin: Springer, pages 73-78. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11550907_12

This paper reports on experiments investigating the use of Evolutionary Algorithms to train Artificial Neural Networks in real time. A simulated legged mobile robot was used as a test bed in the experiments. Since the algorithm is designed to be used... Read More about Evolutionary algorithms for real-time artificial neural network training..

Training neural networks using Taguchi methods: overcoming interaction problems. (2005)
Conference Proceeding
VISWANATHAN, A., MACLEOD, C., MAXWELL, G. and KALIDINDI, S. 2005. Training neural networks using Taguchi methods: overcoming interaction problems. In Duch, W., Kacprzyk, J., Oja, E. and Zadrozy, S (eds.) Artificial neural networks: formal models and their applications, part 2; proceedings of the 15th International on artificial neural networks (ICAAN 2005), 11-15 September 2005, Warsaw, Poland. Lecture notes in computer science, 3697. Berlin: Springer, pages 103-108. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11550907_17

Taguchi Methods (and other orthogonal arrays) may be used to train small Artificial Neural Networks very quickly in a variety of tasks. These include, importantly, Control Systems. Previous experimental work has shown that they could be successfully... Read More about Training neural networks using Taguchi methods: overcoming interaction problems..

The progress of family health nursing in remote and rural Scotland. (2005)
Journal Article
MACDUFF, C. 2005. The progress of family health nursing in remote and rural Scotland. British journal of community nursing [online], 10(12), pages 558-562. Available from: https://doi.org/10.12968/bjcn.2005.10.12.20150

Since 2001 the World Health Organization Europe's family health nurse (FHN) role has been developing in remote and rural areas of Scotland. In 2003, an independent evaluation identified a need for facilitation of the FHN role and family-health orient... Read More about The progress of family health nursing in remote and rural Scotland..

The development and application of statistical sampling regime to map out hydrocarbons in sediments. (2005)
Thesis
AHMED, A.S. 2005. The development and application of statistical sampling regime to map out hydrocarbons in sediments. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

This thesis investigates and develops a stratified random sampling design for sediments in an offshore oil field environment. The sampling area was partitioned equally into sixteen zones. Stratification was based on the near-field and far-field areas... Read More about The development and application of statistical sampling regime to map out hydrocarbons in sediments..

Charismatic leadership and corporate cultism at Enron: the elimination of dissent, the promotion of conformity and organisational collapse. (2005)
Journal Article
TOURISH, D. and VATCHA, N. 2005. Charismatic leadership and corporate cultism at Enron: the elimination of dissent, the promotion of conformity and organisational collapse. Leadership [online], 1(4), pages 455-480. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/1742715005057671

Enron stands out as one of the most spectacular failures in business history. Thus far, most attention has been focused on its accountancy practices. This article, by contrast, explores its internal culture and the leadership practices of its top peo... Read More about Charismatic leadership and corporate cultism at Enron: the elimination of dissent, the promotion of conformity and organisational collapse..

Studying actions in context: a qualitative shadowing method for organizational research, Qualitative research [online], 5(4), pages 455-473. (2005)
Journal Article
MCDONALD, S., 2005. Studying actions in context: a qualitative shadowing method for organizational research, Qualitative research [online], 5(4), pages 455-473. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794105056923

Shadowing is a qualitative research technique that has seldom been used and rarely been discussed critically in the social science literature. This paper has pulled together all of the studies using shadowing as a research method and through reviewin... Read More about Studying actions in context: a qualitative shadowing method for organizational research, Qualitative research [online], 5(4), pages 455-473..

An ecology of practice in the everyday: leaving the (social) ground of (artistic) intervention more fertile. (2005)
Presentation / Conference
DOUGLAS, A. and FREMANTLE, C. 2005. An ecology of practice in the everyday: leaving the (social) ground of (artistic) intervention more fertile. Presented at Sensuous knowledge 2 (SK2): aesthetic practice and aesthetic insight, November 2005, Bergen, Norway.

This paper reviews the projects that fed into the On the Edge research programme between 2001-2004. Jane Jacobs’ The Nature of Economies (2000) offers an account of economies, based on the way energy operates and is transformed in ecosystems. The aut... Read More about An ecology of practice in the everyday: leaving the (social) ground of (artistic) intervention more fertile..

The photocatalytic destruction of the cyanotoxin, nodularin using Ti02. (2005)
Journal Article
LIU, I., LAWTON, L.A., BAHNEMANN, D.W. and ROBERTSON, P.K.J. 2005. The photocatalytic destruction of the cyanotoxin, nodularin using Ti02. Applied catalysis B: environmental [online], 60(3-4), pages 245-252. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2005.03.006

Titanium dioxide (TiO2) photocatalysis has been used to initiate the destruction of nodularin, a natural hepatotoxin produced by cyanobacteria. The destruction process was monitored using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis which has als... Read More about The photocatalytic destruction of the cyanotoxin, nodularin using Ti02..

Using orthogonal arrays to train artificial neural networks. (2005)
Thesis
VISWANATHAN, A. 2005. Using orthogonal arrays to train artificial neural networks. Robert Gordon University, MPhil thesis.

The thesis outlines the use of Orthogonal Arrays for the training of Artificial Neural Networks. Such arrays are popularly used in system optimisation and are known as Taguchi Methods. The chief advantage of the method is that the network can learn q... Read More about Using orthogonal arrays to train artificial neural networks..

Query expansion using term relationships in language models for information retrieval. (2005)
Conference Proceeding
BAI, J., SONG, D., BRUZA, P., NIE, J.-Y. and CAO, G. 2005. Query expansion using term relationships in language models for information retrieval. In Proceedings of the 14th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) international conference on information and knowledge management (CIKM'05), 31 October - 5 November 2005, Bremen, Germany. New York: ACM [online], pages 688-695. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/1099554.1099725

Language Modeling (LM) has been successfully applied to Information Retrieval (IR). However, most of the existing LM approaches only rely on term occurrences in documents, queries and document collections. In traditional unigram based models, terms (... Read More about Query expansion using term relationships in language models for information retrieval..

Critical upward communication: ten commandments for improving strategy and decision making. (2005)
Journal Article
TOURISH, D. 2005. Critical upward communication: ten commandments for improving strategy and decision making. Long range planning [online], 38(5), pages 485-503. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2005.05.001

Critical upward communication improves decision making in organisations. Without it, senior management teams become out of touch with the mood of their people, and underestimate or miss emerging problems in their marketplace. They are more likely to... Read More about Critical upward communication: ten commandments for improving strategy and decision making..

Information interchange. (2005)
Book Chapter
MARCELLA, R. and BAXTER, G. 2005. Information interchange. In Fisher, K.E., Erdelez, S. and McKechnie, L.E.F. (eds.) Theories of information behavior. Medford, NJ: Information Today, pages 204-209.

This book chapter presents the authors' theory of Information Interchange. The theory draws upon the authors' earlier research on government and parliamentary information service provision, and on citizens' information behaviour, at the regional, UK... Read More about Information interchange..

Empowering women's self-care: a participatory approach to prevent HIV/AIDS for women and children in Northeast Thailand. (2005)
Thesis
DONKAEWBUA, S. 2005. Empowering women's self-care: a participatory approach to prevent HIV/AIDS for women and children in Northeast Thailand. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

Across Thailand there has been a general reduction in the incidence rate of HIV infection in all but one special population group: married women and their offspring whilst the incidence rate is relatively low (1.2%) it has remained steady for a numbe... Read More about Empowering women's self-care: a participatory approach to prevent HIV/AIDS for women and children in Northeast Thailand..

Evaluating GraysNet: an online PDP tool for use in an art and design context. (2005)
Journal Article
MALINS, J. and McKILLOP, C. 2005. Evaluating GraysNet: an online PDP tool for use in an art and design context. Art, design and communication in higher education [online], 4(1), pages 31-48. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1386/adch.4.1.31/1

Personal development planning (PDP) is a phrase that encompasses a number of activities including reflecting on learning, recording of achievement and career planning. Embedding these activities is a goal widely shared across HE, but strategies for a... Read More about Evaluating GraysNet: an online PDP tool for use in an art and design context..

A comparison of the effectiveness of TiO2 photocatalysis and UVA photolysis for the destruction of three pathogenic micro-organisms. (2005)
Journal Article
ROBERTSON, J.M.C., ROBERTSON, P.K.J. and LAWTON, L.A. 2005. A comparison of the effectiveness of TiO2 photocatalysis and UVA photolysis for the destruction of three pathogenic micro-organisms. Journal of photochemistry and photobiology A: chemistry [online], 175(1), pages 51-56. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotochem.2005.04.033

TiO2 photocatalysis has demonstrated efficacy as a treatment process for water contaminated with chemical pollutants. When exposed to UVA light TiO2 also demonstrates an effective bactericidal activity. The mechanism of this process has been reported... Read More about A comparison of the effectiveness of TiO2 photocatalysis and UVA photolysis for the destruction of three pathogenic micro-organisms..

Statistical optimisation and tuning of GA factors. (2005)
Conference Proceeding
PETROVSKI, A., BROWNLEE, A. and MCCALL, J. 2005. Statistical optimisation and tuning of GA factors. In Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE congress on evolutionary computation (CEC 2005), 2-5 September 2005, Edinburgh, UK. New York: IEEE [online], volume 1, article number 1554759, pages 758-764. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2005.1554759

This paper presents a practical methodology of improving the efficiency of Genetic Algorithms through tuning the factors significantly affecting GA performance. This methodology is based on the methods of statistical inference and has been successful... Read More about Statistical optimisation and tuning of GA factors..

Incorporating a metropolis method in a distribution estimation using Markov random field algorithm. (2005)
Conference Proceeding
SHAKYA, S.K., MCCALL, J.A.W. and BROWN, D.F. 2005. Incorporating a metropolis method in a distribution estimation using Markov random field algorithm. In Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE congress on evolutionary computation (CEC 2005), 2-5 September 2005, Edinburgh, UK. New York: IEEE [online], volume 3, article number 1555017, pages 2576-2583. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2005.1555017

Markov Random Field (MRF) modelling techniques have been recently proposed as a novel approach to probabilistic modelling for Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs)[34, 4]. An EDA using this technique, presented in [34], was called Distribution... Read More about Incorporating a metropolis method in a distribution estimation using Markov random field algorithm..