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Towards a belief-revision-based adaptive and context-sensitive information retrieval system. (2008)
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LAU, R.Y.K., BRUZA, P. and SONG, D. 2008. Towards a belief-revision-based adaptive and context-sensitive information retrieval system. ACM transactions on information systems [online], 26(2), article number 8. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/1344411.1344414

In an adaptive information retrieval (IR) setting, the information seekers' beliefs about which terms are relevant, or non-relevant, will naturally fluctuate. This article investigates how the theory of belief revision can be used to model adaptive I... Read More about Towards a belief-revision-based adaptive and context-sensitive information retrieval system..

From 'business culture' to 'brand state': conceptions of nation and culture in business literature on cultural difference. (2008)
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HALSALL, R. 2008. From 'business culture' to 'brand state': conceptions of nation and culture in business literature on cultural difference. Culture and organization [online], 14(1), pages 15-30. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/14759550701863290

This article examines changing conceptions of culture and nation in business literature from the early 1990s to the present. In the early 1990s the growth of literature concerned with depicting the cultural differences between national varieties of c... Read More about From 'business culture' to 'brand state': conceptions of nation and culture in business literature on cultural difference..

A simulation model for the dynamic analysis of a stand-alone PEM fuel cell. (2008)
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ALI, D.M. 2008. A simulation model for the dynamic analysis of a stand-alone PEM fuel cell. Alexandria engineering journal, 47(2), pages 163-174.

The ever increasing demand for electrical energy and the rise in the electricity prices due to the recent instability of the oil prices in addition to the degrading of the air quality resulting from the emissions of the existing energy conversion dev... Read More about A simulation model for the dynamic analysis of a stand-alone PEM fuel cell..

The value of information in electricity investment games. (2008)
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OLIVEIRA, F. 2008. The value of information in electricity investment games. Energy policy [online], 36(7), pages 2364-2375. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2008.01.005

In this paper we look at the assumptions behind a Cournot model of investment in electricity markets. We analyze how information influences investment, looking at the way common knowledge of marginal costs, expectations on the competitors' marginal c... Read More about The value of information in electricity investment games..

Agency costs, corporate governance mechanisms and ownership structure in large UK publicly quoted companies: a panel data analysis. (2008)
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MCKNIGHT, P.J. and WEIR, C. 2009. Agency costs, corporate governance mechanisms and ownership structure in large UK publicly quoted companies: a panel data analysis. Quarterly review of economics and finance [online], 49(2), pages 139-158. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2007.09.008

This paper examines the impact of governance and ownership variables on agency costs for a panel of large UK quoted companies. We use three measures of agency costs: the ratio of sales-to-total assets, the interaction of free cash flows and growth pr... Read More about Agency costs, corporate governance mechanisms and ownership structure in large UK publicly quoted companies: a panel data analysis..

A constraint logic programming algorithm for modeling dynamic pricing. (2008)
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OLIVEIRA, F.S. 2008. A constraint logic programming algorithm for modeling dynamic pricing. INFORMS journal on computing [online], 20(1), pages 69-77. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1287/ijoc.1060.0218

We extend Lemke's algorithm to solve a dynamic pricing problem. We identify an instance in which Lemke's algorithm fails to converge to an optimal solution (when an optimum does exist) and propose a constraint logic programming solution to this probl... Read More about A constraint logic programming algorithm for modeling dynamic pricing..

Between a rock and a hard place: gauging the public interest in confidential financial information. (2008)
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LAUTERBACH, T. 2008. Between a rock and a hard place: gauging the public interest in financial information. Scottish law gazette, 76(1), pages 15-17.

The financial difficulties Northern Rock has found itself in over the past few months have been hitting the headlines on a regular basis. Who can forget the queues of customers outside the bank's many premises patiently awaiting their turn to clear o... Read More about Between a rock and a hard place: gauging the public interest in confidential financial information..

Students' attitudes towards web search engines: increasing appreciation of sophisticated search strategies. (2008)
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MARTZOUKOU, K. 2008. Students' attitudes towards web search engines: increasing appreciation of sophisticated search strategies. Libri [online], 58(3), pages 182-201. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1515/libr.2008.019

Web search engines have developed into widely used services and essential tools for finding Web-based information. Research has found that although users typically follow unsophisticated information-seeking patterns, they appear to be satisfied with... Read More about Students' attitudes towards web search engines: increasing appreciation of sophisticated search strategies..

Introducing militant Islam: peoples, places and policing. (2008)
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VERTIGANS, S. 2008. Introducing militant Islam: peoples, places and policing. Policing [online], 2(4), pages 400-401. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/police/pan067

Widespread public, policing and academic interest about militant Islam can be traced to the 2001 attacks on America. Subsequent plots and acts of terrorism have ensured that interest has remained. Throughout this period, a plethora of academic articl... Read More about Introducing militant Islam: peoples, places and policing..

The role of guanxi in Chinese entrepreneurship. (2007)
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LEE, E.Y.-C. and ANDERSON, A.R. 2007. The role of guanxi in Chinese entrepreneurship. Journal of Asia entrepreneurship and sustainability [online], 3(3), pages 38-51. Available from: http://www.asiaentrepreneurshipjournal.com/AJESIII3All.pdf

Although networks are widely recognised as improving entrepreneurial performance, China which is seen as a traditional Confucian society, has a unique form of networking, guanxi - special relationships. These guanxi networks were seen as a social mea... Read More about The role of guanxi in Chinese entrepreneurship..

Automated software quality visualisation using fuzzy logic techniques. (2007)
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SENIOR, J., ALLISON, I. and TEPPER, J.A. 2007. Automated software quality visualisation using fuzzy logic techniques. Communications of the IIMA [online], 7(1), article number 3. Available from: https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/ciima/vol7/iss1/3/

In the past decade there has been a concerted effort by the software industry to improve the quality of its products. This has led to the inception of various techniques with which to control and measure the process involved in software development.... Read More about Automated software quality visualisation using fuzzy logic techniques..

Relation discovery from web data for competency management. (2007)
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ZHU, J., GONCALVES, A.L., UREN, V.S., MOTTA, E., PACHECO, R., EISENSTADT, M. and SONG, D. 2007. Relation discovery from web data for competency management. Web intelligence and agent systems [online], 5(4), pages 405-417. Available from: https://content.iospress.com/articles/web-intelligence-and-agent-systems-an-international-journal/wia00124

In current organizations, valuable enterprise knowledge is often buried under rapidly expanding huge amount of unstructured information in the form of web pages, blogs, and other forms of human text communications. We present a novel unsupervised mac... Read More about Relation discovery from web data for competency management..

Reflecting on the relationship between standardized admissions, academic expectations and diverse student cohorts in postgraduate taught business and management programmes. (2007)
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TURNER, Y. 2007. Reflecting on the relationship between standardized admissions, academic expectations and diverse student cohorts in postgraduate taught business and management programmes. International journal of management education, 6(1), pages 7-13.

This paper discusses the relationship between admissions approaches which rely exclusively upon standard academic criteria to select students for Business and Management programmes and classroom diversity. It draws on a small-scale research project c... Read More about Reflecting on the relationship between standardized admissions, academic expectations and diverse student cohorts in postgraduate taught business and management programmes..

Human rights abroad. (2007)
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ARNELL, P. 2007. Human rights abroad. Nottingham law journal [online], 16(2), pages 1-28. Available from: http://www.ntu.ac.uk/nls/document_uploads/notnghmlj0016.pdf

The human rights obligations imposed by the Human Rights Act 1998 increasingly relate to territory, persons and events outwith the United Kingdom.

Speaking the same language? (2007)
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PEDERSEN, S. 2007. Speaking the same language? Differences and similarities between US and UK bloggers. International journal of the book [online], 5(1), pages 33-40. Available at: http://ijb.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.27/prod.197

While blogging as a form of computer-mediated communication has attracted a growing amount of academic investigation in recent years, the majority of such research has so far focused on the North American experience. 120 UK and US bloggers (equal num... Read More about Speaking the same language?.

Readers' use of news blogs. (2007)
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PEDERSEN, S. and CHIVERS, A. 2007. Readers' use of news blogs. International journal of technology, knowledge and society, 3(1), pages 15-24.

Appearing at the end of the 1990s, the phenomenon of ‘blogging’ or weblogging is now attracting serious academic research. However, the majority of this research has so far focussed on the ‘bloggers’ themselves – who they are; their motivations for b... Read More about Readers' use of news blogs..

Women users' motivations for establishing and interacting with blogs (web logs). (2007)
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PEDERSEN, S. 2007. Women users' motivations for establishing and interacting with blogs (web logs). International journal of the book [online], 3(2), pages 85-90. Available from: https://doi.org/10.18848/1447-9516/CGP/v03i02/36502

An investigation into the motivations of women who write blogs (web logs) and the audience for whom they consider themselves to be writing. From the outset of blogging, journal blogs have been associated with women. They offer them a safe place to ex... Read More about Women users' motivations for establishing and interacting with blogs (web logs)..

Removal of nucleus pulposus from the intervertebral disc - the use of chymopapain enhances mechanical removal with rongeurs: a laboratory study. (2007)
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DANG, L., WARDLAW, D. and HUKINS, D.W.L. 2007. Removal of nucleus pulposus from the intervertebral disc - the use of chymopapain enhances mechanical removal with rongeurs: a laboratory study. BMC musculoskeletal disorders [online], 8, article 122. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-8-122

Background. A laboratory study was conducted, on cadaveric sheep spines to develop an effective procedure for removing as much nucleus as possible from an intervertebral disc with minimal disruption to the annulus. The results of many studies involvi... Read More about Removal of nucleus pulposus from the intervertebral disc - the use of chymopapain enhances mechanical removal with rongeurs: a laboratory study..

Shareholder wealth gains through better corporate governance: the case of European LBO transactions. (2007)
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ANDRES, C., BETZER, A. and WEIR, C. 2007. Shareholder wealth gains through better corporate governance: the case of European LBO transactions. Financial markets and portfolio management [online], 21(4), pages 403-424. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11408-007-0061-7

We examine shareholder wealth effects in a heterogeneous sample of 115 European leveraged going private transactions from 1997 to 2005. Average abnormal returns as reaction to the LBO announcement amount to 24.20%. In cross-sectional regressions, we... Read More about Shareholder wealth gains through better corporate governance: the case of European LBO transactions..

The moral space in entrepreneurship: an exploration of ethical imperatives and the moral legitimacy of being enterprising. (2007)
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ANDERSON, A.R. and SMITH, R. 2007. The moral space in entrepreneurship: an exploration of ethical imperatives and the moral legitimacy of being enterprising. Entrepreneurship and regional development [online], 19(6), pages 479-497. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/08985620701672377

This paper explores the morality associated with entrepreneurship. It has been argued that there is no moral space in entrepreneurship, but such instrumental views may miss out much of the nature of enterprise and how it is understood. Consequently w... Read More about The moral space in entrepreneurship: an exploration of ethical imperatives and the moral legitimacy of being enterprising..