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Blogging: self presentation and privacy (2008)
Journal Article
Mccullagh, K. (2008). Blogging: self presentation and privacy. Information and Communications Technology Law, 17(1), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600830801886984

Blogs are permeating most niches of social life, and addressing a wide range of topics from scholarly and political issues1 to family and children’s daily lives. By their very nature, blogs raise a number of privacy issues as they are easy to produce... Read More about Blogging: self presentation and privacy.

An asset residual life prediction model based on expert judgments (2008)
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on expert judgments. European Journal of Operational Research, 188, 496-505. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2007.03.044

An appropriate and accurate residual life prediction for an asset is essential for cost effective and timely maintenance planning and scheduling. The paper reports the use of expert judgments as the additional information to predict a regularly monit... Read More about An asset residual life prediction model based on expert judgments.

A case comparison of a proportional hazards model and a stochastic filter for condition-based maintenance applications using oil-based condition monitoring information (2008)
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condition monitoring information. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability, 222, 47-55. https://doi.org/10.1243/1748006XJRR76

The ability to predict the expected time remaining before a component fails is
crucial when scheduling maintenance activities and component replacements. The current
paper presents a comparison of the proportional hazards model and a probabilistic... Read More about A case comparison of a proportional hazards model and a stochastic filter for condition-based maintenance applications using oil-based condition monitoring information.

Using plenary focus groups in information systems research: More than a collection of interviews (2008)
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Sobreperez, P. (2008). Using plenary focus groups in information systems research: More than a collection of interviews. Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods, 6(2), 181-188

Standard data collection techniques in qualitative research have included surveys, interviews and observations. The Focus group technique is a more recent addition to the empirical researcher's repertoire and is highly appropriate to Information Syst... Read More about Using plenary focus groups in information systems research: More than a collection of interviews.

Gendered futures? Women, the ICT workplace and stories of the future (2008)
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Moore, K., Griffiths, M., Richardson, H., & Adam, A. (2008). Gendered futures? Women, the ICT workplace and stories of the future. Gender, Work and Organization, 15(5), 523. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0432.2008.00416.x

This article investigates stories of the future in relation to women in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector through the development of a theoretical and methodological stance towards the future. Given concerns about the future... Read More about Gendered futures? Women, the ICT workplace and stories of the future.

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

Menu-Safe: a business viewpoint from the manager and head chef at the Isis Restaurant, Salford, UK (2008)
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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.

Menu-Safe: a business viewpoint from the hospitality manager at Blackpool’s Pleasure Beach, UK (2008)
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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.

Breaking the MBA delivery mould: A multi-group international MBA / practitioner virtual collaborative project (2008)
Journal Article

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.

Metacognition and lifelong e-learning: a contextual and cyclical process (2007)
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Worrall, L., & Bell, F. (2007). Metacognition and lifelong e-learning: a contextual and cyclical process. E-learning (Oxford), 4(2), 161-171. https://doi.org/10.2304/elea.2007.4.2.161

Metacognition is arguably an important conceptualisation within the area of lifelong e- learning, with many theorists and practitioners claiming that it enhances the learning process. However, the lifelong, cyclical and flexible aspects of 'before',... Read More about Metacognition and lifelong e-learning: a contextual and cyclical process.

A two-stage prognosis model in condition based maintenance (2007)
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Wang, W. (2007). A two-stage prognosis model in condition based maintenance. European Journal of Operational Research, 182(3), 1177-1187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2006.08.047

We often observe in practice that the life of a piece of production equipment can be divided into two stages. The first stage is referred to as the normal working stage where no significant deviation from the normal operating state is observed. The s... Read More about A two-stage prognosis model in condition based maintenance.

Modelling soccer matches using bivariate discrete distributions with general dependence structure (2007)
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McHale, I., & Scarf, P. (2007). Modelling soccer matches using bivariate discrete distributions with general dependence structure. Statistica Neerlandica, 61(4), 432-445. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9574.2007.00368.x

In this paper copulas are used to generate novel bivariate discrete distributions. These distributions are fitted to soccer data from the English Premier League. An interesting aspect of these data is that the primary variable of interest, the discre... Read More about Modelling soccer matches using bivariate discrete distributions with general dependence structure.

Visitor motivation, satisfaction and behavioural intention : the 2005 Naadam Festival, Ulaanbaatar (2007)
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Schofield, P., & Thompson, K. (2007). Visitor motivation, satisfaction and behavioural intention : the 2005 Naadam Festival, Ulaanbaatar. International Journal of Tourism Research, 9(5), 329-344. https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.638

The study investigates visitor motivation for attending the 2005 Naadam Festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. It identifies motivation variance on the basis of socio-demographic variables and examines the factors of significance with regard to visitor s... Read More about Visitor motivation, satisfaction and behavioural intention : the 2005 Naadam Festival, Ulaanbaatar.

Internet crisis potential: the importance of a strategic approach to marketing communications (2007)
Journal Article
Conway, A., Ward, M., Lewis, G., & Bernhardt, A. (2007). Internet crisis potential: the importance of a strategic approach to marketing communications. Journal of Marketing Communications, 13(3), 213-228. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527260601086462

The Internet as a communications medium has the ability to instantaneously distribute information to a mass audience at low-cost and provides a powerful basis for Internet Crisis Potential (ICP) when stakeholders negatively affect the reputation of a... Read More about Internet crisis potential: the importance of a strategic approach to marketing communications.