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Undervaluation, private information, agency costs and the decision to go private. (2005)
Journal Article
WEIR, C., LAING, D. and WRIGHT, M. 2005. Undervaluation, private information, agency costs and the decision to go private. Applied financial economics [online], 15(13), pages 947-961. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/09603100500278221

There is widespread anecdotal evidence that poor stock market performance is an important reason for taking a company private. The results support the perceived undervaluation hypothesis. The finding also applies to management buy-outs, which indicat... Read More about Undervaluation, private information, agency costs and the decision to go private..

The impact on libraries and archives in Iraq of war and looting in 2003: a preliminary assessment of the damage and subsequent reconstruction efforts. (2005)
Journal Article
JOHNSON, I.M. 2005. The impact on libraries and archives in Iraq of war and looting in 2003: a preliminary assessment of the damage and subsequent reconstruction efforts. International information and library review [online], 37(3), pages 209-271. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iilr.2005.07.005

The early reports that appeared during and immediately after the 2003 war and subsequent civil disorder in Iraq provoked public and professional concern about the impact on libraries and archives services. However, many of the early reports were late... Read More about The impact on libraries and archives in Iraq of war and looting in 2003: a preliminary assessment of the damage and subsequent reconstruction efforts..

Design, innovation and case-based reasoning. (2005)
Journal Article
GOEL, A. and CRAW, S. 2005. Design, innovation and case-based reasoning. Knowledge engineering review [online], 20(3), pages 271-276. Available from:https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888906000609

The design task is especially appropriate for applying, integrating, exploring and pushing the boundaries of case-based reasoning. In this paper, we briefly review the challenges that design poses for case-based reasoning and survey research on case-... Read More about Design, innovation and case-based reasoning..

Retrieval, reuse, revision and retention in case-based reasoning. (2005)
Journal Article
DE MANTARAS, R.L., MCSHERRY, D., BRIDGE, D., LEAKE, D., SMYTH, B., CRAW, S., FALTINGS, B., MAHER, M.L., COX, M.T., FORBUS, K., KEANE, M., AAMODT, A. and WATSON, I. 2005. Retrieval, reuse, revision and retention in case-based reasoning. Knowledge engineering review [online], 20(3), pages 215-240. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888906000646

Case-based reasoning (CBR) is an approach to problem solving that emphasizes the role of prior experience during future problem solving (i.e., new problems are solved by reusing and if necessary adapting the solutions to similar problems that were so... Read More about Retrieval, reuse, revision and retention in case-based reasoning..

Electronic theses: the turning point. (2005)
Journal Article
COPELAND, S., PENMAN, A. and MILNE, R., 2005. Electronic theses: the turning point. Program: electronic library and information systems [online], 39 (3), pages 185-197. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/00330330510610546

Purpose: To describe the key findings of the UK JISC-funded Electronic Theses project that was led by The Robert Gordon University, as well as the results of associated projects that formed part of the JISC-funded “FAIR” programme, and the way in whi... Read More about Electronic theses: the turning point..

The education of undergraduate product designers in the principles and practice of sustainable design. (2005)
Thesis
CULL, K.A. 2005. The education of undergraduate product designers in the principles and practice of sustainable design. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-1694921

There is a growing recognition that product designers have a responsibility to ensure that their designs are intrinsically sustainable and do not add to the growing pressures on the environment. Developing sustainable products requires designers to b... Read More about The education of undergraduate product designers in the principles and practice of sustainable design..

Grounding the theory of virtue. (2005)
Thesis
CROCKETT, C. 2005. Grounding the theory of virtue. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

Business plays a powerful role in contemporary society, but this increasing role has been accompanied by a growing concern regarding the social and moral impact of enterprising endeavour. One of the greatest challenges of our time is the need to chan... Read More about Grounding the theory of virtue..

Occurrence of toxigenic cyanobacterial blooms in freshwaters of Sri Lanka. (2005)
Journal Article
JAYATISSA, L.P., SILVA, E.I.L., MCELHINEY, J. and LAWTON, L.A. 2006. Occurrence of toxigenic cyanobacterial blooms in freshwaters in Sri Lanka. Systematic and applied microbiology [online], 29(2), pages 156-164. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2005.07.007

A previous pioneering study of freshwater bodies in Sri Lanka revealed the presence of toxic cyanobacteria in three out of four water bodies tested. It was therefore important to perform a more detailed investigation into the presence of cyanobacteri... Read More about Occurrence of toxigenic cyanobacterial blooms in freshwaters of Sri Lanka..

EU interest representation or US-style lobbying? (2005)
Book Chapter
GREENWOOD, J. and YOUNG, A.R. 2005. EU interest representation or US-style lobbying? In Jabko, N. and Parsons, C. (eds.) With US or against US? European trends in American perspective. The state of the European Union, 7. Oxford: Oxford University Press [online], chapter 12. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/0199283958.003.0012

While the number of interest groups competing for influence at the European level has exploded, the EU policy process is usually described as strikingly apolitical. The initial surge in interest group participation was principally a consequence of th... Read More about EU interest representation or US-style lobbying?.

Escaping local optima with penalties in distributed iterative improvement search. (2005)
Presentation / Conference
BASHARU, M., ARANA, I. and AHRIZ, H. 2005. Escaping local optima with penalties in distributed iterative improvement search. Presented at the 6th International workshop on distributed constraint reasoning (DCR 2005), part of the 19th International joint conference on artificial intelligence (IJCAI-05), 30 July - 5 August 2005, Edinburgh, UK.

The advantages offered by iterative improvement search make it a popular technique for solving problems in centralised settings. However, the key challenge with this approach is finding effective strategies for dealing with local optima. Such strateg... Read More about Escaping local optima with penalties in distributed iterative improvement search..

Perception of sign language and its application to visual communications for deaf people. (2005)
Journal Article
MUIR, L.J. and RICHARDSON, I.E.G. 2005. Perception of sign language and its application to visual communications for deaf people. Journal of deaf studies and deaf education [online], 10(4), pages 390-401. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/deafed/eni037

Video communication systems for deaf people are limited in terms of quality and performance. Analysis of visual attention mechanisms for sign language may enable optimization of video coding systems for deaf users. Eye-movement tracking experiments w... Read More about Perception of sign language and its application to visual communications for deaf people..

Incentive effects, monitoring mechanisms and the market for corporate control: an analysis of the factors affecting public to private transactions in the UK. (2005)
Journal Article
WEIR, C., LAING, D. and WRIGHT, M. 2005. Incentive effects, monitoring mechanisms and the market for corporate control: an analysis of the factors affecting public to private transactions in the UK. Journal of business finance and accounting [online], 32(5-6), pages 909-943. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0306-686X.2005.00617.x

This paper investigates the factors that influence the decision to change the status of a publicly quoted company to that of a private company. We find that firms that go private are more likely to have higher CEO ownership and higher institutional o... Read More about Incentive effects, monitoring mechanisms and the market for corporate control: an analysis of the factors affecting public to private transactions in the UK..

The role of family members in entrepreneurial networks: beyond the boundaries of the family firm. (2005)
Journal Article
ANDERSON, A.R., JACK, S.L. and DRAKOPOULOU-DODD, S. 2005. The role of family members in entrepreneurial networks: beyond the boundaries of the family firm. Family business review [online], 18(2), pages 135-154. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-6248.2005.00037.x

Research has traditionally concentrated on formal kin involvement in the family business. This study investigates if, to what extent, and how entrepreneurs capitalized on resources embedded in the family, but beyond the formal traditionally defined b... Read More about The role of family members in entrepreneurial networks: beyond the boundaries of the family firm..

The inter-American system of human rights and refugee protection: post 11 September 2001. (2005)
Journal Article
STUART, A. 2005. The inter-American system of human rights and refugee protection: post 11 September 2001. Refugee survey quarterly [online], 24(2), pages 67-82. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdi027

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (Commission) is right to declare that refugees and asylum seekers are amongst the most vulnerable to human rights violations in the development and execution of counter-terrorist measures. States have not... Read More about The inter-American system of human rights and refugee protection: post 11 September 2001..

Policy conformance in the corporate blog space. (2005)
Conference Proceeding
MCARTHUR, R., BRUZA, P.D. and SONG, D. 2005. Policy conformance in the corporate blog space. In Kagal, L., Finin, T. and Hendler, J. (eds.) Proceedings of the Policy management for the web workshop, part of the 14th International world wide web conference (WWW2005), 10-14 May 2005, Chiba, Japan. Baltimore: University of Maryland [online], pages 21-28. Available from: https://www.csee.umbc.edu/conference/pm4w/papers/mcarthur13.pdf

This paper describes part of a solution to the interpretation of human-readable policy documents into semi-automatic conformance checking. Using a socio-cognitively motivated representation of shared knowledge, and applying appropriate inference mech... Read More about Policy conformance in the corporate blog space..

The engineering dimension of nD modelling: performance assessment at conceptual design stage. (2005)
Journal Article
BOUCHLAGHEM, N.B., HOLMES, M., LOVEDAY, D. and BENNADJI, A. 2005. The engineering dimension of nD modelling: performance assessment at conceptual design stage. Journal of information technology in construction [online], 10, pages 17-25. Available from: https://itcon.org/paper/2005/3

Whilst naturally ventilated buildings are currently considered to be the ideal solution to low energy design there remain a large proportion of buildings for which air conditioning offers the only practical solution. The project presented in this pap... Read More about The engineering dimension of nD modelling: performance assessment at conceptual design stage..

Alternative strategies for security labelling/encoding of paper and plastic products. (2005)
Thesis
OFFICER, S.J. 2005. Alternative strategies for security labelling/encoding of paper and plastic products. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

A literature and patent review of current optical security techniques has been carried out and identified a need in the market for an improved optical security label to rival molecular fluorescent dyes. The label proposed was a rare earth (RE) doped... Read More about Alternative strategies for security labelling/encoding of paper and plastic products..

Pride and glory: Aberdeen Public Library during the Second World War. (2005)
Journal Article
NOLAN, M.E. and REID, P.H. 2005. Pride and glory: Aberdeen Public Library during the Second World War. Library history [online], 21(1), pages 9-27. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1179/002423005x19121

Between 1939 and 1945 Britain's public libraries often struggled to balance wartime shortages in materials and staff with an increased readership, while also being expected to contribute actively services and skills to the war effort. Government docu... Read More about Pride and glory: Aberdeen Public Library during the Second World War..

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity: using a case study to identify critical success factors contributing to the initiation of international collaborative projects. (2005)
Journal Article
JOHNSON, I.M. 2005. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity: using a case study to identify critical success factors contributing to the initiation of international collaborative projects. Education for information [online], 23(1-2), pages 9-42. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3233/EFI-2005-231-202

This paper identifies factors that contribute to the successful initiation of international collaborative projects intended to support the development of education for librarianship and information sciences. It discusses the widespread failure to ana... Read More about In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity: using a case study to identify critical success factors contributing to the initiation of international collaborative projects..