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The acoustics of Stonehenge (2013)
Journal Article
Fazenda, B. (2013). The acoustics of Stonehenge. Acoustics bulletin / Institute of Acoustics, 38(1), 32-37

This is an excerpt from a book chapter with the same title in the book Acoustics and Music of British Pre History. The article discusses the measurement and analysis of the acoustics of the pre-historic site Stonehenge based on models and measurement... Read More about The acoustics of Stonehenge.

Explaining contextual factors affecting e-commerce adoption progression in selected SMEs: Evidence from Botswana (2013)
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Shemi, A., & Procter, C. (2013). Explaining contextual factors affecting e-commerce adoption progression in selected SMEs: Evidence from Botswana. International Journal of Management Practice, 6(1), 94-109. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMP.2013.052319

This paper provides an interpretive account of contextual factors that affect the progression of e-commerce in six Small and Medium Enterprises(SMEs) in a developing country context of Botswana. The methodology followed multiple in-depth case studies... Read More about Explaining contextual factors affecting e-commerce adoption progression in selected SMEs: Evidence from Botswana.

Mapping the spatial and temporal progression of dental enamel biomineralization using synchrotron x-ray diffraction (2013)
Journal Article
Simmons, L., Montgomery, J., Beaumont, J., Davies, G. R., & Al-Jawad, M. (2013). Mapping the spatial and temporal progression of dental enamel biomineralization using synchrotron x-ray diffraction. Journal of Structural Biology, 58(11), 1726-1734. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archoralbio.2013.08.012

OBJECTIVE: The complex biological, physicochemical process of human dental enamel formation begins in utero and for most teeth takes several years to complete. Lost enamel tissue cannot regenerate, therefore a better understanding of the spatial and... Read More about Mapping the spatial and temporal progression of dental enamel biomineralization using synchrotron x-ray diffraction.

Dynamic collection scheduling using remote asset monitoring: A case study in the charity sector (2013)
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McLeod, F., Erdogan, G., Cherrett, T., Bektas, T., Davies, N., Speed, C., …Norgate, S. (2013). Dynamic collection scheduling using remote asset monitoring: A case study in the charity sector. Transportation Research Record, 2378(1), https://doi.org/10.3141/2378-07

In the waste collection sector, remote sensing technology is now coming onto the market, allowing waste and recycling receptacles to report their fill levels at regular intervals. This enables collection schedules to be dynamically optimised to bette... Read More about Dynamic collection scheduling using remote asset monitoring: A case study in the charity sector.

A thematic review and a policy-analysis agenda of electronic health records in the greek national health system (2013)
Journal Article
Emmanouilidou, M., & Burke, M. (2013). A thematic review and a policy-analysis agenda of electronic health records in the greek national health system. Health Policy, 109(1), 31-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2012.09.010

The increasing pressure to improve healthcare outcomes and reduce costs is driving the current agenda of governments at worldwide level and calls for a fundamental reform of the status quo of health systems. This is especially the case with the Greek... Read More about A thematic review and a policy-analysis agenda of electronic health records in the greek national health system.

Hot goods in happy hands: Occasional user accounts and motivations for buying stolen goods (2013)
Journal Article
Patel, T. (2013). Hot goods in happy hands: Occasional user accounts and motivations for buying stolen goods. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 23(4), 500-513. https://doi.org/10.1080/10911359.2013.773202

Using qualitative data collected from an empirical study that focused on theft-related activity in a U.K. high crime area, the motivations and purchase patterns of occasional buyers of stolen goods are considered. In doing so, it is argued that as an... Read More about Hot goods in happy hands: Occasional user accounts and motivations for buying stolen goods.

A multi-faceted approach to optimising a complex unplanned healthcare system (2013)
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Marshall-Ponting, A., Kobbacy, K., Sapountzis, S., & Kagioglou, M. (2013). A multi-faceted approach to optimising a complex unplanned healthcare system. International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, 15(2/3), 239-248. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJLSM.2013.053769

Unscheduled and urgent healthcare represents the largest area of activity and cost for the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). Like typical complex systems unplanned care has the features of interdependence and it has structures at different scales t... Read More about A multi-faceted approach to optimising a complex unplanned healthcare system.

Breastfeeding mothers' experiences: The ghost in the machine (2013)
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Regan, P., & Ball, E. (2013). Breastfeeding mothers' experiences: The ghost in the machine. Qualitative Health Research, 23(5), 679-688. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732313481641

We critically review qualitative research studies conducted from 2000 to 2012 exploring Western mothers’ breastfeeding experiences. We used the search criteria “breastfeeding,” “qualitative,” and “experiences” to retrieve 74 qualitative research stud... Read More about Breastfeeding mothers' experiences: The ghost in the machine.

DEHEMS: Creating a digital environment for large-scale energy management at homes (2013)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Cooper, G., Linge, N., Takruri, H., & Sowden, R. (2013). DEHEMS: Creating a digital environment for large-scale energy management at homes. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 59(1), 62-69

Located at the consumer-end of the Smart Grid, domestic energy monitoring and management systems aim to provide direct energy feedback whilst (or shortly after) consumption occurs, so as to persuade users to achieve energy saving and efficiency. Howe... Read More about DEHEMS: Creating a digital environment for large-scale energy management at homes.

Privacy and publicity according to facebook (2013)
Journal Article
Lin, Y. (2013). Privacy and publicity according to facebook. Journal of Mass Media Ethics, 28(3),

This is a book review on Trottier, D. (2012). Social media as surveillance: Rethinking visibility in a converging world. Surrey, England: Ashgate. 213 pp.

The influence of F-doping in SnO2 thin films (2013)
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Yates, H., Evans, P., & Sheel, D. (2013). The influence of F-doping in SnO2 thin films. Physics Procedia, 46, 159-166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phpro.2013.07.062

Transparent conductive oxide (TCO) films are widely used in many consumer products. The properties of the TCO can critically affect the efficiency of the application. With this in mind the surface morphological, optical and electrical properties ha... Read More about The influence of F-doping in SnO2 thin films.

The real SAP® Business one cost : a case study of ERP adoption in an SME (2013)
Journal Article
Griffiths, M., Heinze, A., & Ofoegbu, A. (2013). The real SAP® Business one cost : a case study of ERP adoption in an SME. International Journal of Management Practice, 6(2), 199-215. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMP.2013.055831

This paper reports on a UK based service management Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) that invested into SAP® Business One. The action research case study highlights the real cost and difficulties faced in moving to the one single SAP system an... Read More about The real SAP® Business one cost : a case study of ERP adoption in an SME.

The interpretation of polycrystalline coherent inelastic neutron scattering from aluminium (2013)
Journal Article
Roach, D., Ross, D., Gale, J., & Taylor, J. (2013). The interpretation of polycrystalline coherent inelastic neutron scattering from aluminium. Journal of Applied Crystallography, 46, 1755-1770. https://doi.org/10.1107/S0021889813023728

A new approach to the interpretation and analysis of coherent inelastic neutron scattering from polycrystals (poly-CINS) is presented. Here we describe a simulation of the one-phonon coherent inelastic scattering from a lattice model of an arbitrary... Read More about The interpretation of polycrystalline coherent inelastic neutron scattering from aluminium.

An unsupervised aspect detection model for sentiment analysis of reviews (2013)
Journal Article
Bagheri, A., Saraee, M., & Jong, F. (2013). An unsupervised aspect detection model for sentiment analysis of reviews. Lecture notes in computer science, 7934, 140-151. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38824-8_12

With the rapid growth of user-generated content on the internet, sentiment analysis of online reviews has become a hot research topic recently, but due to variety and wide range of products and services, the supervised and domain-specific models are... Read More about An unsupervised aspect detection model for sentiment analysis of reviews.

Feature selection methods in Persian sentiment analysis (2013)
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Saraee, M., & Bagheri, A. (2013). Feature selection methods in Persian sentiment analysis. Lecture notes in computer science, 7934, 303-308. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38824-8_29

With the enormous growth of digital content in internet, various types of online reviews such as product and movie reviews present a wealth of subjective information that can be very helpful for potential users. Sentiment analysis aims to use automat... Read More about Feature selection methods in Persian sentiment analysis.

Imperfect inspection and replacement of a system with a defective state: A cost and reliability analysis (2013)
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Berrade, M., Scarf, P., Cavalcante, C., & Dwight, R. (2013). Imperfect inspection and replacement of a system with a defective state: A cost and reliability analysis. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 120, 80-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2013.02.024

We consider a system with three possible states, good, defective and failed. Failures are detected as soon as they occur; the defective state, which is only revealed by inspection, does not prevent the system from fulfilling the function for which it... Read More about Imperfect inspection and replacement of a system with a defective state: A cost and reliability analysis.

Pressure and breast thickness in mammography : an exploratory calibration study (2013)
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Hogg, P., Taylor, M., Szczepura, K., Mercer, C., & Denton, E. (2013). Pressure and breast thickness in mammography : an exploratory calibration study. British Journal of Radiology, 86(1021), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1259/bjr.20120222

Objective To perform a calibration study to provide data to help improve consistency in the pressure that is applied during mammography. Methods Automatic readouts of breast thickness accuracy vary between mammography machines; therefore, one m... Read More about Pressure and breast thickness in mammography : an exploratory calibration study.

Strategic issues for LIS practitioner-researcher journals (2013)
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Grant, M., & Walton, G. (2013). Strategic issues for LIS practitioner-researcher journals. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 19(3), 221-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/13614533.2013.826140

Our intention in this Editorial is to explore some of the key issues being faced by library and information science (LIS) research based journals. We are, respectively, Editor of Health Information and Libraries Journal(HILJ) (Grant) and Editor of N... Read More about Strategic issues for LIS practitioner-researcher journals.

Practice-informed research: An alternative paradigm for scholastic enquiry in the built environment (2013)
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Chynoweth, P. (2013). Practice-informed research: An alternative paradigm for scholastic enquiry in the built environment. Property Management, 31(5), 435-452. https://doi.org/10.1108/PM-04-2013-0028

This paper introduces the concept of practice-informed research. It offers this as an alternative approach to scholarship that has the potential to increase the relevance of research within universities, and to generate an increased level of dialogue... Read More about Practice-informed research: An alternative paradigm for scholastic enquiry in the built environment.