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The optimal dartboard? (2012)
Journal Article
Percy, D. (2012). The optimal dartboard?. Mathematics today, 48, 268-270

Our challenge is to determine the best arrangement of the numbers 1,2,...,20 on a dartboard. This problem has been tackled before but we consider a new constraint and a different optimality criterion that lead to an original solution.

Re-evaluating syndicalist opposition to the First World War (2012)
Journal Article
Darlington, R. (2012). Re-evaluating syndicalist opposition to the First World War. Labor History, 53(4), 517-539. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2012.731834

It has been argued that support for the First World War by the important French syndicalist organisation, the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) has tended to obscure the fact that other national syndicalist organisations remained faithful to th... Read More about Re-evaluating syndicalist opposition to the First World War.

The contract, accounting and trust : a case study of an international joint venture (IJV) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) (2012)
Journal Article
Tsamenyi, M., Qureshi, A., & Yazdifar, H. (2012). The contract, accounting and trust : a case study of an international joint venture (IJV) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Accounting forum, 37(3), 182-195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accfor.2012.09.004

This paper reports on the results of a case study that examines the effect of the contract and accounting on inter-organisational trust in an international joint venture (IJV). The empirical setting of the research was an IJV relation between a Unite... Read More about The contract, accounting and trust : a case study of an international joint venture (IJV) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Forecasting exact scores in National Football League games (2012)
Journal Article
Baker, R., & McHale, I. (2013). Forecasting exact scores in National Football League games. International Journal of Forecasting, 29(1), 122-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2012.07.002

The paper presents a point process model for predicting exact end-of-match scores in the premier league of American football, the National Football League. The hazards of scoring are allowed to vary with team statistics from previous games and/or the... Read More about Forecasting exact scores in National Football League games.

The dynamics of listed SMEs in China (2012)
Journal Article
Liu, J. (2012). The dynamics of listed SMEs in China. International Journal of the Economics of Business, 19(3), 421-450. https://doi.org/10.1080/13571516.2012.715274

We examine the dynamics of Chinese listed SMEs with respect to their post-market viability and growth after going public. The Kaplan–Meier estimation shows that SMEs are more likely to transition to a non-viable state than large firms. Further exa... Read More about The dynamics of listed SMEs in China.

A modified Duckworth–Lewis method for adjusting targets in interrupted limited overs cricket (2012)
Journal Article
McHale, I., & Asif, M. (2012). A modified Duckworth–Lewis method for adjusting targets in interrupted limited overs cricket. European Journal of Operational Research, 225(2), 353-362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2012.09.036

In this paper we present a modified Duckworth/Lewis method. The key modification is an improved functional form for the model describing the runs to be scored in an innings. In the course of our work we compare several alternative methods for resetti... Read More about A modified Duckworth–Lewis method for adjusting targets in interrupted limited overs cricket.

A variable impact neural network analysis of dividend policies and share prices of transportation and related companies (2012)
Journal Article
and related companies. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 22(4), 796-813. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2012.04.008

The purpose of this research is to investigate dividend policy,including its impact on share prices of transportation providers and related service companies, by comparing generalized regression neural networks with conventional regressions. Our resu... Read More about A variable impact neural network analysis of dividend policies and share prices of transportation and related companies.

Strategic planning and performance : The moderating effect of structure (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Nandakumar, M., Ghobadian, A., & O'Regan, N. (2012, September). Strategic planning and performance : The moderating effect of structure. Presented at British Academy of Management Conference : Management Research Revisited: Prospects for Theory and Practice, Cardiff, UK

Radical political unionism in France and Britain : a comparative study of SUD-Rail and the RMT (2012)
Journal Article
Connolly, H., & Darlington, R. (2012). Radical political unionism in France and Britain : a comparative study of SUD-Rail and the RMT. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 18(3), 235-250. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959680112452693

Arguably the problem with many recent pessimistic academic assessments of the fortunes of, and prospects for, the revival of European trade unionism is that they fail to adequately capture evidence of continuing union resilience and combativity in ce... Read More about Radical political unionism in France and Britain : a comparative study of SUD-Rail and the RMT.

Estimation of TFP growth : a semiparametric smooth coefficient approach (2012)
Journal Article
Kumbhakar, S., & Sun, K. (2012). Estimation of TFP growth : a semiparametric smooth coefficient approach. Empirical Economics, 43(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-011-0468-x

This article uses a semiparametric smooth coefficient model (SPSCM) to estimate TFP growth and its components (scale and technical change). The SPSCM is derived from a nonparametric specification of the production technology represented by an input d... Read More about Estimation of TFP growth : a semiparametric smooth coefficient approach.

Generic handicapping for paralympic sports (2012)
Journal Article
Percy, D. (2012). Generic handicapping for paralympic sports. IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 24(3), 349-361. https://doi.org/10.1093/imaman/dps013

Class handicapping methods enable different classes of athletes to compete on equal terms. Different sports use a variety of algorithms, which are usually based on historical data and subjective opinions. A recent proposal is to use an interactive sh... Read More about Generic handicapping for paralympic sports.

Performing the discourse of sexuality online (2012)
Book Chapter
Kreps, D. (2012). Performing the discourse of sexuality online. In S. Warburton, & S. Hatzipanagos (Eds.), Digital Identity and Social Media. London: Information Science Reference, IGI Global

This chapter focusses on Foucault, Butler, and video-sharing on sexual social networking sites. It argues that the use and prevalence of video-sharing technologies on sexual social networking websites, has a direct impact on our notions of sexual ide... Read More about Performing the discourse of sexuality online.

The gender pay gap in the ICT labour market : comparative experiences from the UK and New Zealand (2012)
Journal Article
Belgorodskiy, A., Crump, B., Griffiths, M., Logan, K., Peter, R., & Richardson, H. (2012). The gender pay gap in the ICT labour market : comparative experiences from the UK and New Zealand. New Technology, Work and Employment, 27(2), 106-119. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-005X.2012.00281.x

This paper addresses the issues surrounding gender pay gaps focussing on the Information Communication Technology (ICT) sector of the labour market. We adopted a mixed method approach to investigate pay issues among women working in ICT in the United... Read More about The gender pay gap in the ICT labour market : comparative experiences from the UK and New Zealand.

Vector borne infectious disease mapping with stochastic difference equations : an analysis of dengue disease in Malaysia (2012)
Journal Article
Samat, N., & Percy, D. (2012). Vector borne infectious disease mapping with stochastic difference equations : an analysis of dengue disease in Malaysia. Journal of Applied Statistics, 39(9), 2029-2046. https://doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2012.700450

Few publications consider the estimation of relative risk for vector borne infectious diseases. Most of these articles involve exploratory analysis that includes the study of covariates and their effects on disease distribution and the study of geogr... Read More about Vector borne infectious disease mapping with stochastic difference equations : an analysis of dengue disease in Malaysia.

In/visibility of LGBTQ people in the Arab Spring (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Kreps, D. (2012, June). In/visibility of LGBTQ people in the Arab Spring. Presented at Cultural attitudes towards technology and communication, Aarhus, Denmark

LGBTQ use of the internet is a growing area of study. However most studies focus mainly on the US and the UK, and none pays much (if any) attention to the experience of LGBTQ people in countries where it is illegal to be LGBTQ. The events of the Arab... Read More about In/visibility of LGBTQ people in the Arab Spring.

How good is Tiger Woods? (2012)
Journal Article
Baker, R., & McHale, I. (2012). How good is Tiger Woods?. Mathematics today, 48(3), 124-126

A major objective of professional sport is to find out which player or team is the best. Unfortunately the structure of some sports means that this is often a difficult question to answer. For example, there may be too many competitors to run a rou... Read More about How good is Tiger Woods?.

A socio-technical framework for assessing the viability of carbon capture and storage technology (2012)
Journal Article
Markusson, N., Kern, F., Watson, J., Arapostathis, S., Chalmers, H., Ghaleigh, N., …Russel, S. (2012). A socio-technical framework for assessing the viability of carbon capture and storage technology. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 79(5), 903-918. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2011.12.001

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is seen as a key technology to tackle climate change. The principal idea of CCS is to remove carbon from the flue gases arising from burning fuels for electricity generation or industrial applications and to store the... Read More about A socio-technical framework for assessing the viability of carbon capture and storage technology.