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Knowing and doing vocational education and training reform: evidence, learning and the policy process (2012)
Journal Article
McGrath, S., & Lugg, R. (2012). Knowing and doing vocational education and training reform: evidence, learning and the policy process. International Journal of Educational Development, 32(5), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2012.02.004

Much of VET policy internationally draws on a toolkit that has been seriously questioned for its logic, international relevance and effectiveness by considerable amounts of academic research. Reflecting primarily on our experiences of leading a compl... Read More about Knowing and doing vocational education and training reform: evidence, learning and the policy process.

Vocational education and training for development: a policy in need of a theory? (2012)
Journal Article
McGrath, S. (2012). Vocational education and training for development: a policy in need of a theory?. International Journal of Educational Development, 32(5), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2011.12.001

The current decade has seen a significant return of interest in vocational education and training (VET) amongst the international policy community. This rise in policy and programmatic interest in VET's role in development, however, stands in contras... Read More about Vocational education and training for development: a policy in need of a theory?.

Robust learning from normals for 3D face recognition (2012)
Journal Article
Marras, I., Zafeiriou, S., & Tzimiropoulos, G. (2012). Robust learning from normals for 3D face recognition. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 7584, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33868-7_23

We introduce novel subspace-based methods for learning from the azimuth angle of surface normals for 3D face recognition. We show that the normal azimuth angles combined with Principal Component Analysis (PCA) using a cosine-based distance measure ca... Read More about Robust learning from normals for 3D face recognition.

Sustainable collaborative supply networks in the international clothing industry: a comparative analysis of two retailers (2012)
Journal Article
MacCarthy, B. L., & Jayarathne, P. (2012). Sustainable collaborative supply networks in the international clothing industry: a comparative analysis of two retailers. Production Planning and Control, 23(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2011.627655

Collaborative supply networks in the international clothing industry are of major economic significance in many countries, particularly in developing economies. The sector has gone through substantial changes in the last decade with the abolition of... Read More about Sustainable collaborative supply networks in the international clothing industry: a comparative analysis of two retailers.

Can health economics aid decision making in healthcare innovation in academia? (2012)
Journal Article
Lu, B., Martin, J. L., Craven, M. P., & Morgan, S. P. (2012). Can health economics aid decision making in healthcare innovation in academia?. International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation, 11(1/2), https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTTC.2012.043911

Health economics is extensively used by reimbursement agencies to make decisions on whether to adopt new medical technologies. It is also used by the healthcare industry as an aid to decision making during product development. This paper proposes tha... Read More about Can health economics aid decision making in healthcare innovation in academia?.

Professional skills development in a resource-poor setting: the case of pharmacy in Malawi (2012)
Journal Article
Lim, Z., Anderson, C., & McGrath, S. (2012). Professional skills development in a resource-poor setting: the case of pharmacy in Malawi. International Journal of Educational Development, 32(5), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2012.01.004

The dominance of the human capital approach in vocational skills development has been increasingly questioned for being de-humanised and de-contextualised. Contrary to this trend, the discourse in health professional skills development has shown incr... Read More about Professional skills development in a resource-poor setting: the case of pharmacy in Malawi.

Balzac’s Honorine, or, The Rape of the Independent Woman (2012)
Book Chapter
Knight, D. (2012). Balzac’s Honorine, or, The Rape of the Independent Woman. In M. Atack, D. Holmes, D. Knight, & J. Still (Eds.), Women, genre and circumstance: essays in memory of Elizabeth Fallaize. Legenda

The use of vignettes for conducting healthcare research (2012)
Book Chapter
Keane, D., Lang, A. R., Craven, M. P., & Sharples, S. (2012). The use of vignettes for conducting healthcare research. In V. G. Duffy (Ed.), Advances in human aspects of healthcare. San Franciso, USA: CRC Press

Improving healthcare requires engaging with clinicians and patients in order to better understand their needs and expectations. Research methods that are used to conduct healthcare research are selected on the basis of study objectives and practicali... Read More about The use of vignettes for conducting healthcare research.

Intraoperative portable ultrasonography localization of clinically impalpable soft-tissue tumors (2012)
Journal Article
Jagadeesan, J., Davies, J. A., Raurell, A., & Ashford, R. U. (2012). Intraoperative portable ultrasonography localization of clinically impalpable soft-tissue tumors. World Journal of Surgical Oncology, 10, Article 243. https://doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-10-243

Background: Most soft-tissue tumors are clinically palpable; however, some can be impalpable to clinical examination making it difficult to plan surgical management. Methods: We present a simple method of perioperative tumor localization using a p... Read More about Intraoperative portable ultrasonography localization of clinically impalpable soft-tissue tumors.

Psychophysical correlates of global motion processing in the aging visual system: a critical review (2012)
Journal Article
Hutchinson, C. V., Arena, A., Allen, H. A., & Ledgeway, T. (2012). Psychophysical correlates of global motion processing in the aging visual system: a critical review. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 36(4), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2012.02.009

The consequences of visual decline in aging have a fundamental and wide-reaching impact on age-related quality of life. It is of concern therefore that evidence suggests that normal aging is accompanied by impairments in the ability to effectively en... Read More about Psychophysical correlates of global motion processing in the aging visual system: a critical review.

Jurisdiction in employment matters under Brussels I: a reassessment (2012)
Journal Article
Grušic, U. (2012). Jurisdiction in employment matters under Brussels I: a reassessment. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 61(1), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020589311000583

This article examines the rules of jurisdiction in employment matters of Brussels I. It focuses on a paradox in that these rules aim to protect employees jurisdictionally, but in fact fail to accord employees a more favourable treatment when they nee... Read More about Jurisdiction in employment matters under Brussels I: a reassessment.

Error control for hp-adaptive approximations of semi-definite eigenvalue problems (2012)
Journal Article
Giani, S., Grubišić, L., & Ovall, J. Error control for hp-adaptive approximations of semi-definite eigenvalue problems. Manuscript submitted for publication

We present reliable a-posteriori error estimates for hp-adaptive finite element approximations of semi-definite eigenvalue/eigenvector problems. Our model problems are motivated by the applications in photonic crystal eigenvalue computations. We pres... Read More about Error control for hp-adaptive approximations of semi-definite eigenvalue problems.

A beginner's guide to systems simulation in immunology (2012)
Book Chapter
Figueredo, G. P., Siebers, P., Aickelin, U., & Foan, S. (2012). A beginner's guide to systems simulation in immunology. In C. A. Coello Coello, J. Greensmith, N. Krasnogor, P. Liò, G. Nicosia, & M. Pavone (Eds.), Artificial immune systems: 11th International Conference, ICARIS 2012, Taormina, Italy, August 28-31, 2012: proceedings. Springer

Some common systems modelling and simulation approaches for immune problems are Monte Carlo simulations, system dynamics, discrete-event simulation and agent-based simulation. These methods, however, are still not widely adopted in immunology researc... Read More about A beginner's guide to systems simulation in immunology.

Privileged information for data clustering (2012)
Journal Article
Feyereisl, J., & Aickelin, U. (2012). Privileged information for data clustering. Information Sciences, 194, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2011.04.025

Many machine learning algorithms assume that all input samples are independently and identically distributed from some common distribution on either the input space X, in the case of unsupervised learning, or the input and output space X Y in the... Read More about Privileged information for data clustering.

Similarities in contexts and theorizing: professionalism and inequality (2012)
Journal Article
Evetts, J. (2012). Similarities in contexts and theorizing: professionalism and inequality. Professions and Professionalism, 2(2), https://doi.org/10.7577/pp.322

For a long time sociologists of professions have differentiated Anglo-American and European contexts for professional work. The presentation will address this distinction and argue that processes of convergence now render such differences somewhat ob... Read More about Similarities in contexts and theorizing: professionalism and inequality.

The European Union and copyright (2012)
Book Chapter
Derclaye, E., Smulders, B., & Cohen Jehoram, H. (2012). The European Union and copyright. In P. Geller (Ed.), International copyright law and practice. LexisNexis

Le droit d'auteur et le droit sui generis sur les bases de données: quinze ans plus tard: un succès ou un échec? (2012)
Journal Article
Derclaye, E. (2012). Le droit d'auteur et le droit sui generis sur les bases de données: quinze ans plus tard: un succès ou un échec?

La directive harmonisant le droit d’auteur sur les bases de données et créant un nouveau droit (le droit sui generis) fut adoptée en 1996 et transposée dans les Etats Membres de l’Union Européenne en 1998. Cet article évalue quinze plus tard si elle... Read More about Le droit d'auteur et le droit sui generis sur les bases de données: quinze ans plus tard: un succès ou un échec?.

Eudemonic intellectual property: patents and related rights as engines of happiness, peace, and sustainability (2012)
Journal Article
Derclaye, E. (2012). Eudemonic intellectual property: patents and related rights as engines of happiness, peace, and sustainability

The predominant justification for most intellectual property rights is the incentive theory or utilitarian rationale. Behind this justification lies the Western idea of progress and its derivatives: liberalism, capitalism, and consumerism. After havi... Read More about Eudemonic intellectual property: patents and related rights as engines of happiness, peace, and sustainability.