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Exploring magic cottage: a virtual reality environment for stimulating children's imaginative writing (2008)
Journal Article
Patera, M., Draper, S., & Naef, M. (2008). Exploring magic cottage: a virtual reality environment for stimulating children's imaginative writing. Interactive Learning Environments, 16(3), 245-263. https://doi.org/10.1080/10494820802114093

This paper presents an exploratory study that created a Virtual Reality Environment (VRE) to stimulate motivation and creativity in imaginative writing at primary school level. The main aim of the study was to investigate if an interactive, semi-im... Read More about Exploring magic cottage: a virtual reality environment for stimulating children's imaginative writing.

Building assessment during disaster response and recovery (2008)
Journal Article
Peña-Mora, F., Aziz, Z., Chen, A., Plans, A., & Foltz, S. (2008). Building assessment during disaster response and recovery. Proceedings of the ICE - Urban Design and Planning, 161(4), 183-195. https://doi.org/10.1680/udap.2008.161.4.183

During disaster response and recovery operations, civil engineers can be assigned a multitude of tasks including triage of building search priorities, identifi cation and evaluation of structural hazards, as well as the development of appropriate... Read More about Building assessment during disaster response and recovery.

Engineering-centric BIM (2008)
Journal Article
Wilkins, C., & Kiviniemi, A. (2008). Engineering-centric BIM. ASHRAE Journal, 50(12), 44-48

Building information modeling (BIM) is the next generation of computer-automated building design. The theory is that all building data would be maintained in a single data format that allows all applications to share data with all other applications.... Read More about Engineering-centric BIM.

Perceptions of service quality and effects of personality traits of employees in the UAE Islamic banks (2008)
Thesis
Al-Mutawa, S. Perceptions of service quality and effects of personality traits of employees in the UAE Islamic banks. (Thesis). University of Salford

This thesis aimed at investigating the effects of employees" personality traits on customers" perceptions of the UAE Islamic bank service quality using two questionnaires (the Mini- Markers and SERVPERF) and a set of regression models. The sample c... Read More about Perceptions of service quality and effects of personality traits of employees in the UAE Islamic banks.

Modulating protein-protein interactions : novel inhibitors of PDZ domains and tubulin dynamics (2008)
Thesis
Bennett, E. Modulating protein-protein interactions : novel inhibitors of PDZ domains and tubulin dynamics. (Thesis). University of Salford

Protein-protein interactions are essential for all living systems. The interactions between tubulin dimers is already a broadly studied area, whereas the PDZ domain interactions is a relatively recent area of study. The literature in these areas is... Read More about Modulating protein-protein interactions : novel inhibitors of PDZ domains and tubulin dynamics.

Mechanical strain of alveolar type II cells in culture: changes in the transcellular cytokeratin network and adaptations (2008)
Journal Article
Felder, E., Siebenbrunner, M., Busch, T., Fois, G., Miklavc, P., Walther, P., & Dietl, P. (2008). Mechanical strain of alveolar type II cells in culture: changes in the transcellular cytokeratin network and adaptations. American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology, 295(5), L849-L857. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajplung.00503.2007

Mechanical forces exert multiple effects in cells, ranging from altered protein expression patterns to cell damage and death. Despite undisputable biological importance, little is known about structural changes in cells subjected to strain ex vivo. H... Read More about Mechanical strain of alveolar type II cells in culture: changes in the transcellular cytokeratin network and adaptations.

Concluding summary (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Marvin, S. (2008, November). Concluding summary. Presented at Changing Behaviour International Research Workshop, Tallinn, Estonia

Counselling in primary care : a systematic review of the evidence (2008)
Journal Article
Brettle, A., Hill, A., & Jenkins, P. (2008). Counselling in primary care : a systematic review of the evidence. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 8(4), 207-214. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733140802453794

Primary objective: To undertake a systematic review which aimed to locate, appraise and synthesise evidence to obtain a reliable overview of the clinical effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and user perspectives regarding counselling in primary care.... Read More about Counselling in primary care : a systematic review of the evidence.

Past of the firm: The source for sustainable competitive advantage and survival? (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Aaltonen, S., Heinze, A., Ielpa, G., Klosova, A., Papadopoulou, T., De Tommaso, D., …Zygiaris, S. (2008, November). Past of the firm: The source for sustainable competitive advantage and survival?. Presented at RENT XXV Conference - Entrepreneurial, Business and Society, Bodo, University of Nordland - Norway

Small craft sector firms are struggling to survive in an environment where large multinational companies produce similar kinds of products in higher volumes and cheaper prices. The surviving of small firms calls for creative thinking. There are man... Read More about Past of the firm: The source for sustainable competitive advantage and survival?.

A dynamic policy model to manage temporal performance amongst contracting firms in a competitive situation (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Dangerfield, B., Quigley, M., & Kearney, J. (2008, November). A dynamic policy model to manage temporal performance amongst contracting firms in a competitive situation. Presented at Transformation through construction-joint 2008 CIB W065/W055 symposium proceedings, Dubai

Studies have been conducted to measure competitiveness in the construction industry. Such research has focused on all levels from the national picture to individual projects. While useful, the results are limited in that they present a snapshot pictu... Read More about A dynamic policy model to manage temporal performance amongst contracting firms in a competitive situation.

Coded signals: a challenge for acoustic wind profiling (2008)
Presentation / Conference
von Hünerbein, S., & Bradley, S. (2008, November). Coded signals: a challenge for acoustic wind profiling. Presented at 156th Meeting: Acoustical Society of America, Miami, FL, USA

Use of coded signals for acoustic wind profiling presents special challenges because the scattering mechanism is highly bandwidth sensitive. We outline the physical principles involved and show that the signal coding methods commonly used for underwa... Read More about Coded signals: a challenge for acoustic wind profiling.

The parties of opposition in the aftermath of the election (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Newell, J. (2008, November). The parties of opposition in the aftermath of the election. Presented at Politica in Italia, Bologna, Italy

‘The parties of opposition in the aftermath of the election’, paper presented to the seminar, ‘Politica in Italia’, of the Istituto Carlo Cattaneo, Bologna, Italy, 8 November 2008.

Estimating missing value in microarray data using fuzzy clustering and gene ontology (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Mohammadi, A., & Saraee, M. (2008, November). Estimating missing value in microarray data using fuzzy clustering and gene ontology. Presented at IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, 2008. BIBM '08., Philadelphia, PA, USA,

Microarray experiments usually generate data sets with multiple missing expression values, due to several problems. In this paper, a new and robust method based on fuzzy clustering and gene ontology is proposed to estimate missing values in microarra... Read More about Estimating missing value in microarray data using fuzzy clustering and gene ontology.