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Demographic change and labour markets.

Journal Article
Lisenkova, K., McQuaid, R. W., & Wright, R. E. (2010)
Demographic change and labour markets. Contemporary Social Science, 5, 243-259. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450144.2010.480828
Two processes are expected to increasingly characterise demographic change in the 21st century in many countries: population ageing and potential population decline. Although ...

Modelling the Influence of Communication on Fertility Behaviour of Women in Rural Bangladesh.

Thesis
Gayen, K. Fertility Behaviour of Women in Rural Bangladesh. (Thesis)
Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/2783
The total fertility rate in Bangladesh declined from 6.3 children per women in 1975 to 3.3 in 1997-1999. This decline of 48 per cent over a 25-year period occurred without a s...

Factors affecting the most recent fertility rates in urban-rural Bangladesh

Journal Article
Khan, H., & Raeside, R. (1997)
Factors affecting the most recent fertility rates in urban-rural Bangladesh. Social science & medicine, 44(3), 279-289. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0277-9536%2896%2900076-7
This paper reports on a study which has been undertaken using data from the 1989 Bangladesh Fertility Survey (BFS) to determine the significance of influences on the probabili...

Evaluation and legacy of the ECoC: event owners and event hosts perspectives.

Journal Article
Theodoraki, E. (2014)
Evaluation and legacy of the ECoC: event owners and event hosts perspectives. Economia della cultura, XXIV, 183-193. https://doi.org/10.1446/78865
This paper focusses on the institution of the European Capital of Culture (ECoC) and its evaluation as documented to have emerged in official European Commission (EC) publicat...

Climate Change: The Role of the Individual

Report
Kerr, G. (2012)
Climate Change: The Role of the Individual. The Scottish Parliament
The Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 sets targets for Scotland to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 42% by 2020 and 80% by 2050, based on 1990 levels. In order to achie...

Structural barriers to implementing open innovation in healthcare

Journal Article
Fascia, M., & Brodie, J. (2017)
Structural barriers to implementing open innovation in healthcare. British Journal of Healthcare Management, 23(7), 338-343. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjhc.2017.23.7.338
For many decades, the pursuit of practicable service provision has been the fundamental goal of the NHS. This article explores ‘open innovation’ as an existing force within th...

Heritage interpretation challenges and management issues at film-induced tourism heritage attractions: Case studies of Rosslyn Chapel and Alnwick Castle

Thesis
Bakiewicz, J. Heritage interpretation challenges and management issues at film-induced tourism heritage attractions: Case studies of Rosslyn Chapel and Alnwick Castle. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/9161
Although previous research has widely acknowledged the phenomenon of film-induced tourism, there is a paucity of research in relation to management of film-induced tourism at ...

‘Don’t be serious, sabai-sabai สบายสบาย’: How Members of an English Conversation Club at a Thai University do Interculturality

Book Chapter
Victoria, M. (in press)
‘Don’t be serious, sabai-sabai สบายสบาย’: How Members of an English Conversation Club at a Thai University do Interculturality. In Discourse and Interculturality
The current investigation explores interculturality by looking at the language practices of a culturally and linguistically diverse group of postgraduate students from China, ...

Gender identity and Scottish law: the legal response to transsexuality

Journal Article
Macfarlane, L. B. (2007)
Gender identity and Scottish law: the legal response to transsexuality. Edinburgh Law Review, 11, 162-187
The relatively recent emergence of transsexuality into the public forum has generated a diverse legal response worldwide. This article argues that evolving medical opinion and...

Designing for mobility, collaboration and information use by blue-collar workers

Journal Article
Brodie, J., & Perry, M. (2001)
Designing for mobility, collaboration and information use by blue-collar workers. SIGGROUP bulletin : a publication of the Special Interest Group on Supporting Group Work, 22(3), 22-27. https://doi.org/10.1145/567352.567356
The uptake of mobile phones in the UK has increased exponentially in the past two years, indicating that a wider range of users are now utilising mobile technologies in differ...