The Computer Misuse Act 1990: lessons from its past and predictions for its future (2008)
Journal Article
Macewan, N. (2008). The Computer Misuse Act 1990: lessons from its past and predictions for its future. Criminal law review, 12, 955-967

The age of the internet has thrown down some real challenges to the Computer Misuse Act 1990. Recently, the Government made changes to this piece of legislation, in an attempt to meet two of those challenges--the proliferation of “ Denial of Service”... Read More about The Computer Misuse Act 1990: lessons from its past and predictions for its future.

Scholarly collaboration across time zones (2008)
Book Chapter
Lynch, K., Heinze, A., & Scott, E. (2008). Scholarly collaboration across time zones. In J. Salmons, & L. Wilson (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy (237-249). London: Information Science Reference

The barriers to global collaboration of yesteryear were, for example, country boundaries and time zones. Today however, in a world where communication is thriving on new technologies, these barriers have been overcome, not only by the technology itse... Read More about Scholarly collaboration across time zones.

Breaking the MBA delivery mould: A multi-group international MBA / practitioner virtual collaborative project (2008)
Journal Article
Newman, A., & Hermans, C. (2008). Breaking the MBA delivery mould: A multi-group international MBA / practitioner virtual collaborative project. Marketing Education Review, 18(1), 9-14

The marketing education project presented here brings together a major UK financial institution in the banking sector and a selection of its high value clients (B-to-B) via e-mail, telephone, video conferencing and other web-based technologies, with... Read More about Breaking the MBA delivery mould: A multi-group international MBA / practitioner virtual collaborative project.

The importance of a match in a tournament (2008)
Journal Article
Scarf, P., & SHI, X. (2008). The importance of a match in a tournament. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2006.11.005

A quantitative measure of “match importance” is useful in a number of decision problems, for example: as a metric in tournament design; for selecting matches for broadcasting; for scheduling matches in a tournament; and for assigning referees. To dat... Read More about The importance of a match in a tournament.

The customer rules and other e-shopping myths (2008)
Book Chapter
McLean, R., & Richardson, H. (2008). The customer rules and other e-shopping myths. In D. Oliver, C. Romm, & F. Sudweeks (Eds.), Self Service in the Internet Age. Springer

This chapter discusses self-service and the Internet in the context of two studies, based in the UK, and undertaken during 1998-2005. They are united by a common framework of critically analyzing discourses of e-shopping in the ‘digital age’. Firstl... Read More about The customer rules and other e-shopping myths.

Empirical evidence on individual, group and shrinkage seasonal indices (2008)
Journal Article
Chen, H., & Boylan, J. (2008). Empirical evidence on individual, group and shrinkage seasonal indices. International Journal of Forecasting, 24, 525-534. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2008.02.005

This paper provides empirical evidence on forecasting seasonal demand using both individual and group seasonal indices methods. The findings show that the group seasonal indices methods outperform the individual seasonal indices method. This paper al... Read More about Empirical evidence on individual, group and shrinkage seasonal indices.

Preventive maintenance models for complex systems (2008)
Book Chapter
Percy, D. (2008). Preventive maintenance models for complex systems. In K. Kobbacy, & D. Murthy (Eds.), Complex Systems Maintenance Handbook (179-207). London: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-011-7_8

Preventive maintenance (PM) of repairable systems can be very beneficial in reducing repair and replacement costs, and in improving system availability, by reducing the need for corrective maintenance (CM). Strategies for scheduling PM are often base... Read More about Preventive maintenance models for complex systems.

Maintenance based on limited data (2008)
Book Chapter
Percy, D. (2008). Maintenance based on limited data. In K. Kobbacy, & D. Murthy (Eds.), Complex System Maintenance Handbook (133-154). London: Springer

On the development of decision rules for bar quiz handicapping (2008)
Journal Article
Percy, D., & Scarf, P. (2008). On the development of decision rules for bar quiz handicapping. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 59(10), 1406-1414. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602487

Purpose - To present decision rules for 'pub quiz' handicapping where teams comprise different numbers of players. Design/methodology/approach - Discusses handicapping in several sports. Argues that 'pub quiz' teams with fewer players are disadvan... Read More about On the development of decision rules for bar quiz handicapping.

Menstrual variation of breast volume and T2 relaxation times in cyclical mastalgia (2008)
Journal Article
Hussain, Z., Brooks, J., & Percy, D. (2008). Menstrual variation of breast volume and T2 relaxation times in cyclical mastalgia. Radiography, 14(1), 8-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2006.07.003

Purpose Hormonal activity causes breast volume to change during the menstrual cycle. One possible cause of this volume change is thought to be due to water retention or oedema within the tissues. We used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study t... Read More about Menstrual variation of breast volume and T2 relaxation times in cyclical mastalgia.

The issues of the passing-on defence and indirect purchasers' standing in European competition law (2008)
Journal Article
Petrucci, C. (2008). The issues of the passing-on defence and indirect purchasers' standing in European competition law. ECLR, 29, 33-42

The article deals with the redress of final consumers harmed by anti-competitive practices occurring in upstream markets.

Enabling healthy choices: Is ICT the highway to health improvement? (2008)
Journal Article
Lindsay, S., Bellaby, P., Smith, S., & Baker, R. (2008). Enabling healthy choices: Is ICT the highway to health improvement?. Health, 12(3), 313-331. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459308090051

The White Paper Choosing health acknowledges that there is no lack of information in the system about healthy lifestyles, but the manner of communication of risk and the level of support for lifestyle change need improvement. Action also has to be ta... Read More about Enabling healthy choices: Is ICT the highway to health improvement?.

A new approach to outliers in meta-analysis (2008)
Journal Article
Baker, R., & Jackson, D. (2008). A new approach to outliers in meta-analysis. Health Care Management Science, 11(2), 121-131. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10729-007-9041-8

The synthesis of evidence from trials and medical studies using meta-analysis is essential for Evidence Based Medicine. However, problematical outlying results often occur even under the random-effects model. We propose a model that allows a long-tai... Read More about A new approach to outliers in meta-analysis.

Probabilistic applications of the Schlomilch transformation (2008)
Journal Article
Baker, R. (2008). Probabilistic applications of the Schlomilch transformation. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 37(14), 2162-2176. https://doi.org/10.1080/03610920801892014

The Schlömilch transformation, long used by mathematicians for integral evaluation, allows probability mass to be redistributed, thus transforming old distributions to new ones. The transformation is used to introduce some new families of distributio... Read More about Probabilistic applications of the Schlomilch transformation.

An order-statistics-based method for constructing multivariate distributions with fixed marginals (2008)
Journal Article
Baker, R. (2008). An order-statistics-based method for constructing multivariate distributions with fixed marginals. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 99(10), 2312-2327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2008.02.019

A new system of multivariate distributions with fixed marginal distributions is introduced via the consideration of random variates that are randomly chosen pairs of order statistics of the marginal distributions. The distributions allow arbitrary po... Read More about An order-statistics-based method for constructing multivariate distributions with fixed marginals.

An exploratory analysis of low-income women consumers and their consumption of 'low involvement' grocery products (2008)
Thesis
Gbadamosi, A. An exploratory analysis of low-income women consumers and their consumption of 'low involvement' grocery products. (Thesis). Salford : University of Salford

In view of the diversity that exists among consumers, this study argues the importance of focusing on just one sub-group of consumers. Therefore, the study aims to explore the attitudes, motivations, and purchase behaviour of low-income women consu... Read More about An exploratory analysis of low-income women consumers and their consumption of 'low involvement' grocery products.

Cycle of conflict: A decade of strife in English professional rugby (2008)
Journal Article
Williams, P. (2008). Cycle of conflict: A decade of strife in English professional rugby. International Journal of the History of Sport, 25(4), 65-81. https://doi.org/10.1080/09523360701701689

Rugby union was the last major international sport to embrace open professionalism. In the years leading up to the abandonment of the amateur principle by the sport’s world governing body, the (English) Rugby Football Union’s rearguard action on both... Read More about Cycle of conflict: A decade of strife in English professional rugby.

A framework for understanding Information Technology as ecology (2008)
Book Chapter
Basden, A. (2008). A framework for understanding Information Technology as ecology. In A. Basden (Ed.), Philosophical Frameworks for Understanding Information Systems (309-337). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-036-3.ch008

Information technology (IT) deeply influences the way we live, our assumptions, aspirations, expectations, habits -- our very life-and-world-views (LWVs). It has become an environment in which we live and work, a kind of ecology in which modern life... Read More about A framework for understanding Information Technology as ecology.

Some portions of Dooyeweerd's positive philosophy (2008)
Book Chapter
Basden, A. (2008). Some portions of Dooyeweerd's positive philosophy. In A. Basden (Ed.), Philosophical Frameworks for Understanding Information Systems (62-118). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-036-3.ch003

Chapter 3: This chapter explains some portions of Dooyeweerd’s positive philosophy which author has found useful in understanding IS. It covers Dooyeweerd’s theory of modal spheres (aspects), his theory of things, his theory of knowing, experience an... Read More about Some portions of Dooyeweerd's positive philosophy.

A framework for understanding human use of computers (2008)
Book Chapter
Basden, A. (2008). A framework for understanding human use of computers. In A. Basden (Ed.), Philosophical Frameworks for Understanding Information Systems (120-173). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-036-3.ch004

Chapter 4: This chapter seeks to open it up further and explore how Dooyeweerd’s philosophy can be used to understand human use of computers (HUC) by exposing some of the challenges and issues therein and enable us to formulate a framework for unders... Read More about A framework for understanding human use of computers.