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Electrochemical investigation of doped titanium dioxide. (2008)
Journal Article
HAMILTON, J.W.J., BYRNE, J.A., MCCULLAGH, C. and DUNLOP, P.S.M. 2008. Electrochemical investigation of doped titanium dioxide. International journal of photoenergy [online], 2008, article ID 631597. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1155/2008/631597

Thin films of transition-metal doped (0.2, 1.0, and 5.0 atom%) TiO2 were prepared on titanium foil using a sol-gel route catalyzed by ammonium acetate. Dopants investigated were the fourth-period transition metals. The prepared films were characteris... Read More about Electrochemical investigation of doped titanium dioxide..

Role typologies for enterprising education: the professional artisan? (2008)
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ANDERSON, A.R. and JACK, S.L. 2008. Role typologies for enterprising education: the professional artisan? Journal of small business and enterprise development [online], 15(2), pages 259-273. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/14626000810871664

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine how the context, approach and teaching techniques used for entrepreneurship education need to reflect the different roles that encompass enterprise. Design/methodology/approach - The authors analyse a... Read More about Role typologies for enterprising education: the professional artisan?.

Means-end theory in tourism research. (2008)
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MCDONALD. S., THYNE, M. and MCMORLAND, L.-A. 2008. Means-end theory in tourism research. Annals of tourism research [online], 35(2), pages 596-599. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2007.09.006

Means-end theory has been widely used in marketing to identify values-based motivations behind consumption (Reynolds and Olson 2001). It has also been adopted by researchers arguing that it deepens understanding of tourist behavior by linking specifi... Read More about Means-end theory in tourism research..

Civil liability for illegal file-sharing: who faces the music? (2008)
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LAUTERBACH, T. 2008. Civil liability for illegal file-sharing: who faces the music? Scottish law gazette, 76(2), pages 46-47.

For some time music copyright owners and their representatives, e.g. the BPI in the UK, have been pursuing copyright pirates, be they operative in the physical or virtual worlds, through the criminal courts. If successful, these actions usually resul... Read More about Civil liability for illegal file-sharing: who faces the music?.

Excellence: capturing Aristotelian notions of meaning and purpose. (2008)
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ANDERSON, A.R. and CROCKETT, C. 2008. Excellence: capturing Aristotelian notions of meaning and purpose. International journal of business excellence [online], 1(3), pages 262-281. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBEX.2008.017883

In this paper, we argue that conventional models for excellence are too narrow, too internally focused, too instrumental and too functionalist to achieve excellence in dealing with emerging broad socioeconomic concerns. We try to show that Aristotle’... Read More about Excellence: capturing Aristotelian notions of meaning and purpose..

The people behind the philanthropy: an investigation into the lives and motivations of library philanthropists in Scotland between 1800 and 1914. (2008)
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SKED, K.M.L. and REID, P.H. 2008. The people behind the philanthropy: an investigation into the lives and motivations of library philanthropists in Scotland between 1800 and 1914. Library history [online], 24(1), pages 48-63. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1179/174581608X295284

Examines Scottish library philanthropists in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a key period in the development of the public library service. Utilizing the technique of prosopography, which goes beyond recounting basic biographical detail... Read More about The people behind the philanthropy: an investigation into the lives and motivations of library philanthropists in Scotland between 1800 and 1914..

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..

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..