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Conference Paper (published)

A Targeted Estimation of Distribution Algorithm Compared to Traditional Methods in Feature Selection

Neumann G & Cairns D (2016) A Targeted Estimation of Distribution Algorithm Compared to Traditional Methods in Feature Selection. In: Madani K, Dourado A, Rosa A, Filipe J & Kacprzyk J (eds.) Computational Intelligence: Revised and Selected Papers of the International Joint Conference, IJCCI 2013, Vilamoura, Portugal, September 20-22, 2013. Studies in Computational Intelligence, 613. 5th International Joint Conference on Computational Intellegience, IJCCI 2013, Vilamoura, Portugal, 20.09.2013-22.09.2013. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 83-103. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-23392-5_5; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23392-5_5

Book Chapter

Does Firm Size Influence Sustainable Performance in Food Supply Chains: Insights from Greek SMEs

Bourlakis M, Maglaras G, Aktas E, Gallear D & Fotopoulos C (2016) Does Firm Size Influence Sustainable Performance in Food Supply Chains: Insights from Greek SMEs. In: Pawar K, Rogers H, Potter A & Naim M (eds.) Developments in Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Past, Present and Future. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 253-265. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137541253

Book Chapter

Diversity in mating and parental sex roles

Herridge EJ, Murray RL, Gwynne DT & Bussiere L (2016) Diversity in mating and parental sex roles. In: Kliman R (ed.) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology. Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 453-458. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-800049-6.00154-2

Book Review

Katherine Spring, Saying it with Songs: Popular Music and the Coming of Sound to Hollywood Cinema and Michael Slowik, After the Silents: Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934

Izod J (2016) Katherine Spring, Saying it with Songs: Popular Music and the Coming of Sound to Hollywood Cinema and Michael Slowik, After the Silents: Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934. Review of: Saying it with Songs: popular music and the coming of sound to Hollywood cinema by Katherine Spring (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, 229 pages). ISBN 978-0199842223; and After the Silents: Hollywood film music in the early sound era, 1926-1934 by Michael Slowik (New York, NY: Columbia UP, 2014, 384 pages). ISBN 9780231165822. Screen, 57 (3), pp. 379-383. https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjw035

Conference Paper (published)

TCP Goes to Hollywood

McQuistin S, Perkins C & Fayed M (2016) TCP Goes to Hollywood. In: NOSSDAV '16 Proceedings of the 26th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video. 26th ACM Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video, NOSSDAV 2016, Klagenfurt, Austria, 10.05.2016-13.05.2016. New York: ACM, pp. 25-30. https://doi.org/10.1145/2910642.2910648

Book Chapter

Contexts and Complexities

Malloch M & Rigby P (2016) Contexts and Complexities. In: Malloch M & Rigby P (eds.) Human Trafficking: The Complexities of Exploitation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-16. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-human-trafficking.html

Conference Paper (published)

Opening the Black Box: Analysing MLP Functionality Using Walsh Functions

Swingler K (2016) Opening the Black Box: Analysing MLP Functionality Using Walsh Functions. In: Merelo J, Rosa A, Cadenas J, Dourado A, Madani K & Filipe J (eds.) Computational Intelligence. Studies in Computational Intelligence, 620. International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI) 2014, Rome, Italy, 22.10.2014-24.10.2014. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 303-323. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26393-9_18

Book Chapter

A Bad Compromise Is Better Than a Good Lawsuit: Mutual Influence Between the East and the West on Mediation

Yu H (2016) A Bad Compromise Is Better Than a Good Lawsuit: Mutual Influence Between the East and the West on Mediation. In: Lo C, Li N & Lin T (eds.) Legal Thoughts between the East and the West in the Multilevel Legal Order: A Liber Amicorum in Honour of Professor Herbert Han-Pao Ma. Economics, Law, and Institutions in Asia Pacific. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 555-573. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-10-1995-1_32; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1995-1_32

Book Chapter

Geoarchaeology and Landscape Reconstruction

Innes J & Tipping R (2016) Geoarchaeology and Landscape Reconstruction. In: Waddington C & Bonsall C (eds.) Archaeology and Environment on the North Sea Littoral. A Case Study from Low Hauxley. Bakewell and Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Archaeological Research Services Ltd and Northumberland Wildlife Trust Ltd, pp. 214-252. https://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/archaeology-and-environment-on-the-north-sea-littoral.html

Book Chapter

A brief mindfulness-based meditation intervention in nursing students: Report on a mixed methodology feasibility study

Jones J, Schoultz M, Watson A & Leslie S (2016) A brief mindfulness-based meditation intervention in nursing students: Report on a mixed methodology feasibility study. In: Cherniack E & Holmes T (eds.) Alternative Medicine: Perceptions, Uses and Benefits and Clinical Implications. Alternative Medicine, Health and Wellness. New York: Nova Publishers, pp. 79-104. https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=57730

Book Review

Americomania and the French revolution debate in Britain, 1789-1802

Macleod E (2016) Americomania and the French revolution debate in Britain, 1789-1802. Review of: Americomania and the French Revolution debate in Britain, 1789-1802, by Wil Verhoeven, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013, 387pp., ISBN 978-1-107-04019-9 (hardback). Global Discourse, 6 (1-2), pp. 165-168. https://doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2015.1053249

Book Chapter

Changing Aspirations, Education, and Migration: Young People’s Declining Agroecological Knowledge in Rural Asia

Sugden F & Punch S (2016) Changing Aspirations, Education, and Migration: Young People’s Declining Agroecological Knowledge in Rural Asia. In: Ansell N, Klocker N & Skelton T (eds.) Geographies of Global Issues: Change and Threat. Geographies of Children and Young People, 8. Singapore: Springer, pp. 483-499. http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-981-4585-95-8_1-1

Conference Paper (published)

Profiling vs. time vs. content: What does matter for top-k publication recommendation based on Twitter profiles?

Nishioka C & Scherp A (2016) Profiling vs. time vs. content: What does matter for top-k publication recommendation based on Twitter profiles?. In: Proceedings of the 16th ACM/IEEE-CS on Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '16), volume 2016-September. 16th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Newark, NJ, USA, 19.06.2016-23.06.2016. Piscataway, NJ, USA: ACM, pp. 171-180. https://doi.org/10.1145/2910896.2910898

Conference Paper (published)

Information-theoretic analysis of entity dynamics on the linked open data cloud

Nishioka C & Scherp A (2016) Information-theoretic analysis of entity dynamics on the linked open data cloud. In: Demidova E, Dietze S, Szymański J & Breslin J (eds.) Dataset Profiling and Federated Search for Linked Data: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Dataset PROFIling and fEderated Search for Linked Data (PROFILES '16) co-located with the 13th ESWC 2016 Conference, volume 1597. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 1597. PROFILES 2016: 3rd International Workshop on Dataset Profiling and Federated Search for Linked Data, Anissaras, Greece, 30.05.2016-30.05.2016. Aachen, Germany: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1597/

Book Chapter

Reflexivity in team ethnography: Using researcher vignettes

Creese A, Takhi JK & Blackledge A (2016) Reflexivity in team ethnography: Using researcher vignettes. In: Martin-Jones M & Martin D (eds.) Researching Multilingualism: Critical and ethnographic perspectives. London: Taylor & Francis, pp. 203-214. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315405346

Conference Abstract

Protection of rainbow trout (Onchorynchus mykiss L.) against Flavobacterium psychrophilum by immersion and injection vaccination using a novel polyvalent vaccine

Hoare R, Jung S, Ngo TPH, Bartie K & Adams A (2016) Protection of rainbow trout (Onchorynchus mykiss L.) against Flavobacterium psychrophilum by immersion and injection vaccination using a novel polyvalent vaccine. Langston A (Editor) & Bowden T (Editor) 2nd International Conference on Fish and Shellfish Immunology, Portland, Maine, USA, 26/06/2016 - 30/06/2016. Fish and Shellfish Immunology, 53 (Special Issue: ISFSI 2016), p. 66. http://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1117&context=isfsi; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsi.2016.03.067

Book Chapter

A Tale of Two Referendums: Scotland, the UK and Europe

Boyle K & Tierney S (2016) A Tale of Two Referendums: Scotland, the UK and Europe. In: Birkinshaw P & Biondi A (eds.) Britain Alone: The Implications and Consequences of United Kingdom Exit from the EU. European Monographs, 96. Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International. https://lrus.wolterskluwer.com/store/product/britain-alone-the-implications-and-consequences-of-united-kingdom-exit-from-the-eu/

Book Review

Human Rights Film Festivals: Activism in Context

Velez-Serna MA (2016) Human Rights Film Festivals: Activism in Context. Review of: Human rights film festivals: activism in context, by Sonia M. Tascón, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 248 pp., ISBN: 978-1-137-45423-2. Studies in Documentary Film, 10 (1), pp. 87-88. https://doi.org/10.1080/17503280.2016.1186350

Article

Midlife changes: the Sopot burial ground at Alsónyék

Oross K, Osztás A, Marton T, Köhler K, Gábor Ódor J, Szécsényi-Nagy A, Bánffy E, Alt KW, Bronk Ramsey C, Kromer B, Bayliss A, Hamilton D & Whittle A (2016) Midlife changes: the Sopot burial ground at Alsónyék. Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, 94, pp. 151-178.

Article

Peopling the past: creating a site biography in the Hungarian Neolithic

Bayliss A, Beavan N, Hamilton D, Köhler K, Nyerges ÉÁ, Bronk Ramsey C, Dunbar E, Fecher M, Goslar T, Kromer B, Reimer PJ, Bánffy E, Marton T, Oross K, Osztás A, Zalai-Gaál I & Whittle A (2016) Peopling the past: creating a site biography in the Hungarian Neolithic. Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, 94, pp. 23-91.

Working Paper

Investor Attention to Stock Recommendations

Gavriilidis K, Herbst P & Kagkadis A (2016) Investor Attention to Stock Recommendations. University of Stirling Management School Working Papers. https://efmaefm.org/0EFMAMEETINGS/EFMA%20ANNUAL%20MEETINGS/2017-Athens/papers/EFMA2017_0425_fullpaper.pdf

Book Chapter

Empirical Study on the Early Operation of the EU Maintenance Regulation

Beaumont P & Walker L (2016) Empirical Study on the Early Operation of the EU Maintenance Regulation. In: Beaumont P, Hess B, Walker L & Spancken S (eds.) The Recovery of Maintenance in the EU and Worldwide. First ed. Studies in Private International Law, 15. Oxford: Hart, pp. 337-383. https://www.bloomsburyprofessional.com/uk/the-recovery-of-maintenance-in-the-eu-and-worldwide-9781509909285/

Conference Paper (published)

Complexity of Dyadic Gift-Giving Forms: A New Framework

Branco-Illodo I, Heath T & Tynan C (2016) Complexity of Dyadic Gift-Giving Forms: A New Framework. In: Petruzelli L & Winer R (eds.) Rediscovering the Essentiality of Marketing: Proceedings of the 2015 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) World Marketing Congress. Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science. 2015 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) World Marketing Congress, Bari, Italy, 14.07.2015-18.07.2015. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 157-158. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29877-1_32

Book Chapter

Olympic legacy

MacRury I (2016) Olympic legacy. In: Viehoff V & Poynter G (eds.) Mega-event cities: Urban legacies of global sports events. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 23-32. https://www.routledge.com/Mega-event-Cities-Urban-Legacies-of-Global-Sports-Events-1st-Edition/Viehoff-Poynter/p/book/9781472440174

Book Chapter

Against the Social Pattern: New Zealand Fiction 1950-1970

Jones T (2016) Against the Social Pattern: New Zealand Fiction 1950-1970. In: Williams M (ed.) A History of New Zealand Literature. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 153-166. http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/literature/english-literature-general-interest/history-new-zealand-literature?format=HB

Conference Paper (published)

Automatically Designing More General Mutation Operators of Evolutionary Programming for Groups of Function Classes Using a Hyper-Heuristic

Hong L, Drake J, Woodward J & Ozcan E (2016) Automatically Designing More General Mutation Operators of Evolutionary Programming for Groups of Function Classes Using a Hyper-Heuristic. In: GECCO '16 Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2016. GECCO '16: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2016, Denver, CO, USA, 20.07.2016-24.07.2016. New York: ACM, pp. 725-732. https://doi.org/10.1145/2908812.2908958

Book Chapter

'Hung round with the Helmets, Breast-Plates, and Swords of our Ancestors’: Allusions to Chivalry in Eighteenth-Century Gothicism?

Lindfield P (2016) 'Hung round with the Helmets, Breast-Plates, and Swords of our Ancestors’: Allusions to Chivalry in Eighteenth-Century Gothicism?. In: Stevenson K & Gribling B (eds.) Chivalry and the Vision of the Medieval Past. Medievalism. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, p. 61–98. https://boydellandbrewer.com/chivalry-and-the-medieval-past-hb.html

Article

Lipid Composition of Oil Extracted from Wasted Norway Lobster (Nephrops norvegicus) Heads and Comparison with Oil Extracted from Antarctic Krill (Euphasia superba)

Albalat A, Nadler LE, Foo N, Dick JR, Watts AJR, Philp H, Neil DM & Monroig O (2016) Lipid Composition of Oil Extracted from Wasted Norway Lobster (Nephrops norvegicus) Heads and Comparison with Oil Extracted from Antarctic Krill (Euphasia superba). Marine Drugs, 14 (12), Art. No.: 219. https://doi.org/10.3390/md14120219

Conference Paper (published)

Adult literacies in Scotland: is social practice being buried alive?

Galloway S (2016) Adult literacies in Scotland: is social practice being buried alive?. In: James N (ed.) Adult Education in Austere Times: SCUTREA Conference Proceedings 2016. SCUTREA, 45th Annual Conference, July 2016, Leicester, UK. Leicester: Vaughan Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Leicester, pp. 95-101. http://cradall.org/sites/default/files/Final%20SCUTREA%20Proceedings%20July%202016_0.pdf

Article

Achieving Good Outcomes for Asthma Living (GOAL): mixed methods feasibility and pilot cluster randomised controlled trial of a practical intervention for eliciting, setting and achieving goals for adults with asthma

Hoskins G, Williams B, Abhyankar P, Donnan P, Duncan E, Pinnock H, van der Pol M, Rauchhaus P, Taylor A & Sheikh A (2016) Achieving Good Outcomes for Asthma Living (GOAL): mixed methods feasibility and pilot cluster randomised controlled trial of a practical intervention for eliciting, setting and achieving goals for adults with asthma. Trials, 17 (1), Art. No.: 584. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-016-1684-7

Book Chapter

Human colour discrimination based on a non-parvocellular pathway

Troscianko T, Davidoff J, Humphreys G, Landis T, Fahle M, Greenlee M, Brugger P & Phillips W (2016) Human colour discrimination based on a non-parvocellular pathway. In: Humphreys G & Riddoch J (eds.) A Reader in Visual Agnosia. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 277-293. https://www.routledge.com/A-Reader-in-Visual-Agnosia/Humphreys-Riddoch/p/book/9781138951006; https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315668444

Research Report

Leadership in Social Work Qualifying Education

Westwood J, Pemble C & Patterson F (2016) Leadership in Social Work Qualifying Education. Scottish Social Services Council. University of Stirling. http://www.sssc.uk.com/about-the-sssc/multimedia-library/publications?task=document.viewdoc&id=3200

Book Chapter

A systemic approach to renewable electricity technology deployment: The 'missing link' in optimising policy delivery in the UK?

Wood G (2016) A systemic approach to renewable electricity technology deployment: The 'missing link' in optimising policy delivery in the UK?. In: Heffron R & Little G (eds.) Delivering Energy Law and Policy in the EU and the US: A Reader. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 515-519. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-delivering-energy-law-and-policy-in-the-eu-and-the-us.html

Article

What are the combined effects of negative emotions and illness cognitions on self-care in people with type 2 diabetes? A longitudinal structural equation model

Hudson JL, Bundy C, Coventry P, Dickens C, Wood AM & Reeves D (2016) What are the combined effects of negative emotions and illness cognitions on self-care in people with type 2 diabetes? A longitudinal structural equation model. Psychology and Health, 31 (7), pp. 873-890. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2016.1156113

Book Chapter

The Royal Navy and Grand Strategy, 1937-1941

Peden G (2016) The Royal Navy and Grand Strategy, 1937-1941. In: Rodger N, Dancy J, Darnell B & Wilson E (eds.) Strategy and the Sea: Essays in Honour of John B. Hattendorf. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, pp. 138-158. https://boydellandbrewer.com/strategy-and-the-sea-hb.html

Conference Paper (published)

Evals is not enough: why we should report wall-clock time

Woodward J, Brownlee A & Johnson C (2016) Evals is not enough: why we should report wall-clock time. In: Friedrich T (ed.) GECCO '16 Companion Proceedings of the 2016 on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion. GECCO 2016: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Denver, CO, USA, 20.07.2016-24.07.2016. New York: ACM, pp. 1157-1158. https://doi.org/10.1145/2908961.2931695

Book Chapter

An academic debate and practice

Randall J & Burnes B (2016) An academic debate and practice. In: Burnes B & Randall J (eds.) Perspectives on Change: What Academics, Consultants and Managers Really Think about Change. Routledge Studies in Organizational Change and Development, 13. London: Routledge, pp. 1-4. https://www.routledge.com/Perspectives-on-Change-What-Academics-Consultants-and-Managers-Really/Burnes-Randall/p/book/9781138930124

Book Chapter

Human Trafficking: Capital Exploitation and the Accursed Share

Munro W (2016) Human Trafficking: Capital Exploitation and the Accursed Share. In: Malloch M & Rigby P (eds.) Human Trafficking: The Complexities of Exploitation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-human-trafficking.html

Conference Paper (published)

Building a Better Mouse Maze

Enright J & Faben JD (2016) Building a Better Mouse Maze. In: Demaine ED E & Grandoni F (eds.) 8th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms, FUN 2016, June 8–10, 2016, La Maddalena, Italy. LIPIcs: Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics. 8th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms, La Maddalena, Italy, 08.06.2016-10.06.2016. Saarbrucken/Wadern, Germany: Dagstuhl Publishing, pp. 15:1-15:12. http://www2.idsia.ch/cms/fun16/; https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.FUN.2016.15

Book Chapter

Retail Branding

Burt S & Sparks L (2016) Retail Branding. In: Dall'Olmo Riley F, Singh J & Blankson C (eds.) Routledge Companion to Contemporary Brand Management. Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Marketing. London: Routledge, pp. 492-508. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Contemporary-Brand-Management/Riley-Singh-Blankson/p/book/9780415747905

Technical Report

The implications of Brexit for environmental law in Scotland

(2016) The implications of Brexit for environmental law in Scotland. Cardesa-Salzmann A (Editor) & Savaresi A (Editor) Scottish Universities Legal Network on Europe (SULNE). Scottish Universities Legal Network on Europe (SULNE). https://sulne.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/environment-paper-sulne-20161214.pdf

Conference Paper (published)

Modified cat swarm optimization for clustering

Razzaq S, Maqbool F & Hussain A (2016) Modified cat swarm optimization for clustering. In: Liu C, Hussain A, Luo B, Tan K, Zeng Y & Zhang Z (eds.) Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems. BICS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 10023. BICS 2016: 8th International Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems, Beijing, China, 28.11.2016-30.11.2016. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 161-170. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49685-6_15