Special issue: Nanotechnology in Scotland

International Journal of Nanotechnology 9(1/2) 2012

• Optical in situ characterisation of carbon nanotube growth
• High pressure studies of metal organic framework materials
• Growth and characterisation of titanium sulphide nanostructures by surface-assisted vapour transport methods; from trisulphide ribbons to disulphide nanosheets
• Colloidal syntheses of FePt nanoparticles
• Ten years of electron microscopy of nanomaterials in St. Andrews
• Gold nano-particles supported on hematite and magnetite as highly selective catalysts for the hydrogenation of nitro-aromatics
• Ethanol photoreaction to hydrogen over Au/TiO2 catalysts. Investigating the synergistic effect of nanoparticles
• The photoreaction of TiO2 and Au/TiO2 single crystal and powder with organic adsorbates

Special issue: Sport marketing and emerging technology

International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing 10(3/4) 2011

• 'It's incredible – trust me': exploring the role of celebrity athletes as marketers in online social networks
• Set the agenda like Beckham: a professional sports league's use of YouTube to disseminate messages to its users
• Opportunity or obstacle? A preliminary study of professional sport organisations in the age of social media
• Agenda-setting and La Copa Mundial: marketing through agenda-setting on soccer blogs during the 2010 World Cup
• Beyond touchdowns, homeruns, and three-pointers: an examination of fantasy sport participation motivation
• Understanding website useability: an eye-tracking study of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games website
• New media and technology use in corporate sport sponsorship: performing activational leverage from an exchange perspective
• A content analysis of sponsor representation across professional sport websites: extension of attribute typology

First issue: International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering

Providing a forum for researchers in the field of computational algorithms, intelligent information systems, computer applications and other related areas of science and engineering, International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering focuses on the state-of-the-art of aspects of theoretical analysis and practical application with emphasis on computational methods and systems engineering.

There is a free download of the papers from this first issue.

Special issue: Context-awareness and self-managing systems

International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems 5(1) 2012

Papers from  the 3rd ACM International Workshop on Context-Awareness for Self-Managing Systems (CASEMANS2009) held in Nara, Japan, 11 May 2009.

    •    Building an intelligent sensing system: a case study
    •    Anthropomorphic awareness of partner robot to user's situation based on gaze and speech detection
    •    Dynamic scheduling-based inpatient nursing support: applicability evaluation by laboratory experiments
    •    The context aware workflow execution framework

Additional Papers

    •    Improving antijamming characteristics of spread spectrum communication systems
    •    Wireless network simulators relevance compared to a real testbed in outdoor and indoor environments

Special issue: Discrete-event simulation in production management

International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling 6(3) 2011

Papers from the 12th and 13th IFACSymposiums ‘Information Control Problems inManufacturing’ (INCOM'06 and INCOM'09) held in Saint-Etienne, France, 17-19 May 2006 and Moscow, Russia, 3-5 June 2009.

• Proactive production activity control by online simulation
• An emulation-based execution control system evaluation tool: application to a furniture manufacturing group
• A simulation-based equipment environment for flexible manufacturing systems
• Feasibility evaluation of multi-site scheduling by distributed simulation of workshops
• Risk analysis for cooperation policies benefits in reducing the bullwhip effect in a telecom supply chain
• Manufacturing network simulation using a data-driven model
• A genetic algorithm with tournament selection for optimising inspection allocation in multiproduct multistage production systems

Special issue: Knowledge flows, learning and development in an international context

European Journal of International Management 6(1) 2012

• Editorial: Knowledge flows, learning and development in an international context
• Cross-cultural training for Dutch expatriates going to India
• Inpatriation in a globalising MNC: knowledge exchange and translation of corporate culture
• The e-mentoring of expatriates: mapping existing research domains and new opportunities
• Expatriate categorisation and evaluation: an empirical investigation in Poland and India
• The relationship between transformational leadership and innovative behaviour in a healthcare context: a team learning versus a cohesion perspective
• Devolvement of HRM and perceived performance within multinational corporations (MNCs)

Special issue: Research and advances in vehicle body engineering

International Journal of Vehicle Design 57(2/3) 2011

• A new approach to improve the vehicle ride comfort by electroencephalogram data
• Lightweight design of vehicle front-end structure: contributions of multiple surrogates
• Optimisation-based approach for determining driver seat adjustment range for vehicles
• Development of a ride comfort evaluation method with a laboratory testing system
• Multi-disciplinary optimisation for front auto body based on multiple optimisation methods
• Three-phase optimisation design of an electric car body at conceptual design stage
• Structure and transformation of the Italian car styling supply chain
• Automotive body inspection uncertainty associated with computational processes
• Rapid structural property evaluation system for car body advanced design
• Development and validation of a finite element model of a dummy for design of pedestrian-friendly vehicles
• The influence of wheel-housing shape on vehicle aerodynamic performance
• Optimal mounting design for cab vibration isolation