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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.

Menu-Safe: a business viewpoint from the hospitality manager at Blackpool’s Pleasure Beach, UK (2008)
Journal Article
Blackpool’s Pleasure Beach, UK. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 20(5), https://doi.org/10.1108/09596110810881481

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the viewpoint of the hospitality manager of a large
amusement park using Menu-Safe, the new method for HACCP for the Hospitality industry. It is the
eighth article in the second Worldwide Hospitalit... Read More about Menu-Safe: a business viewpoint from the hospitality manager at Blackpool’s Pleasure Beach, UK.

Menu-Safe: a business viewpoint from the manager and head chef at the Isis Restaurant, Salford, UK (2008)
Journal Article
at the Isis Restaurant, Salford, UK. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 20(5), https://doi.org/10.1108/09596110810881490

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the viewpoints of a manager and head chef from a
small restaurant using Menu-Safe, a new method of HACCP in the Hospitality industry. It is the
seventh article in the second Worldwide Hospitality an... Read More about Menu-Safe: a business viewpoint from the manager and head chef at the Isis Restaurant, Salford, UK.

Analogies and mental simulations in learning for really new products: The role of visual attention (2008)
Journal Article
products: The role of visual attention

Really new products (RNPs) create new product categories or at least significantly
expand existing ones. The development of RNPs is a strategic priority for most
companies. However, 40% to 90% of new products fail, often due to consumers’
lack of... Read More about Analogies and mental simulations in learning for really new products: The role of visual attention.

Striking the professional pose : professional identity in the development and utilisation of information systems (2008)
Thesis
Burns, B. Striking the professional pose : professional identity in the development and utilisation of information systems. (Thesis). University of Salford

This thesis explores how professional identity figures in the enactment of IS and
focuses on groups of professionals as users and developers of information systems
and investigates how they relay their professional knowledge via the system to retai... Read More about Striking the professional pose : professional identity in the development and utilisation of information systems.

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.