All Outputs (1423)

Crime in the era of COVID‐19: Evidence from England (2023)
Journal Article
Neanidis, K. C., & Rana, M. P. (in press). Crime in the era of COVID‐19: Evidence from England. Journal of Regional Science, https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12656

AbstractThis paper examines the effects of COVID‐19‐induced lockdowns on recorded crime in England. The enforcement of lockdowns at both the national and local levels allows unveiling the impact on criminal activities by type of shutdown policy. Usin... Read More about Crime in the era of COVID‐19: Evidence from England.

Complexities in the student experience (2023)
Journal Article
Caldwell, J., & Verney, C. (2023). Complexities in the student experience. Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 27(3), 95-95. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603108.2023.2214471

DEFEG: Deep Ensemble with Weighted Feature Generation (2023)
Journal Article
Vu Luong, A., Tien Nguyen, T., Han, K., Hieu Vu, T., McCall, J., & Wee-Chung Liew, A. (2023). DEFEG: Deep Ensemble with Weighted Feature Generation. Knowledge-Based Systems, 275, Article 110691. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2023.110691

With the significant breakthrough of Deep Neural Networks in recent years, multi-layer architecture has influenced other sub-fields of machine learning including ensemble learning. In 2017, Zhou and Feng introduced a deep random forest called gcFores... Read More about DEFEG: Deep Ensemble with Weighted Feature Generation.

Corporate governance and bank financial sustainability: Empirical evidence from the G7 countries (2023)
Journal Article

The increased interdependence of the world’s economies made corporate governance a crucial tool to achieve global sustainability. Although there has been considerable research on the impact of corporate governance mechanisms on corporate performance,... Read More about Corporate governance and bank financial sustainability: Empirical evidence from the G7 countries.

Bank failure prediction: corporate governance and financial indicators (2023)
Journal Article
Alzayed, N., Eskandari, R., & Yazdifar, H. (2023). Bank failure prediction: corporate governance and financial indicators. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 61(2), 601-631. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11156-023-01158-z

This paper reiterates the importance of corporate governance in banks. Failure prediction studies have mainly relied on using financial ratios as predictors. The most suitable financial predictors for banks are financial ratios following the CAMEL ra... Read More about Bank failure prediction: corporate governance and financial indicators.

The relation between innovation and earnings management : evidence for the UK (2023)
Journal Article

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the executives of innovative firms in the UK economy prefer to support innovation over earnings. This study uses discretionary accruals and abnormal activities as proxies for earnings management and... Read More about The relation between innovation and earnings management : evidence for the UK.

Cryptocurrencies in accounting schools? (2023)
Journal Article
Marei, Y., Almasarwah, A., Al Bahloul, M., & Abu Afifa, M. (2023). Cryptocurrencies in accounting schools?. Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 13(6), 1158-1173. https://doi.org/10.1108/heswbl-12-2022-0284

Purpose

This study aims to investigate the extent to which newly certified public accountants (CPAs) and accounting graduate students possess a comprehensive understanding of cryptocurrencies and the skills they have acquired throughout their educ... Read More about Cryptocurrencies in accounting schools?.

Decomposition-Based Stacked Bagging Boosting Ensemble for Dynamic Line Rating Forecasting (2023)
Journal Article

Effective exploitation of overhead transmission lines needs reliable and precise dynamic line rating forecasting. High-accuracy dynamic line rating forecasting, in particular, is an important short-term method for coping with grid congestion, enhanci... Read More about Decomposition-Based Stacked Bagging Boosting Ensemble for Dynamic Line Rating Forecasting.

A scientometric analysis of global scientific literature on learning resources in higher education (2023)
Journal Article

There is a significant increase in the literature on learning resources in Higher Education (HE) but
very limited evidence of studies that have taken a global overview of the context, range, and
emerging trends from the previous research. This stud... Read More about A scientometric analysis of global scientific literature on learning resources in higher education.

Are returnships the answer to the current skills shortage? What are they and why are they popular? (2023)
Journal Article
Lord, J. (2023). Are returnships the answer to the current skills shortage? What are they and why are they popular?

Businesses have noticed a huge change in labour trends over the last couple of years with the ‘Great Resignation’ and Great Reshuffle.
Businesses have noticed a huge change in labour trends over the last couple of years with the ‘Great Resignation’... Read More about Are returnships the answer to the current skills shortage? What are they and why are they popular?.

How HR can survive the tribunal jungle (2023)
Journal Article
Lord, J. (2023). How HR can survive the tribunal jungle

Employment tribunals invoke trepidation throughout the HR profession due to the sometimes-unpredictable outcome of the judgment, where employers would often settle a case to bypass the costly nature and ambiguity of defending cases, even when the cla... Read More about How HR can survive the tribunal jungle.

Working in higher education; recognition, communication and change (2023)
Journal Article
Caldwell, J., & Verney, C. Working in higher education; recognition, communication and change. Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 27(2), 39-40. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603108.2023.2183647

Editorial

Anaerobic digestion of recycled paper crumb and effects of digestate on concrete performance (2023)
Journal Article
Hurst, G., Ahmed, A., Taylor, S., & Tedesco, S. (2023). Anaerobic digestion of recycled paper crumb and effects of digestate on concrete performance. Renewable Energy, 208, 577-582. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2023.03.061

Paper crumb (PC) is a type of paper sludge residue from the wastepaper recycling industry. It is a by-product from the various fiber purification stages that is particularly composed of short cellulose fibers, lignin, organic compounds and inorganic... Read More about Anaerobic digestion of recycled paper crumb and effects of digestate on concrete performance.

Understanding the technical and social paradoxes of learning management systems usage in Higher Education: a sociotechnical perspective (2023)
Journal Article

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedentedly complex situation and wicked problem in the education domain. This has forced educators and learners to study from home using unfamiliar pedagogical typologies and technologies in order to a... Read More about Understanding the technical and social paradoxes of learning management systems usage in Higher Education: a sociotechnical perspective.

Sustaining Solidarity through Social Media? Employee Social-Media Groups as an Emerging Platform for Collectivism in Pakistan (2023)
Journal Article

Forging solidarity among seemingly privileged white-collar professionals has been seen as a challenging process. However, many banking employees in Pakistan feel marginalized and lack formal collective mechanisms to voice their concerns, leading some... Read More about Sustaining Solidarity through Social Media? Employee Social-Media Groups as an Emerging Platform for Collectivism in Pakistan.

‘Enough to be Seen to be Onside but Hardly Substantial?’: RAF Bomber Command and Operation Husky (2023)
Journal Article
Worrall, R. J. (2023). ‘Enough to be Seen to be Onside but Hardly Substantial?’: RAF Bomber Command and Operation Husky. War in History, 30(4), 427-446. https://doi.org/10.1177/09683445221149679

This article considers the operations of RAF Bomber Command in support of Operation Husky. Earmarked to play a considerable supporting role, the piece goes on to examine how valid operational difficulties, rather than the usual supposed notion of Sir... Read More about ‘Enough to be Seen to be Onside but Hardly Substantial?’: RAF Bomber Command and Operation Husky.

Continuous-time optimization of integrated networks of electricity and district heating under wind power uncertainty (2023)
Journal Article

The integrated operation of the electricity and district heating systems (EDHS) attracted lots of attention in recent years due to considerable impacts on the power system’s flexibility. The time intervals and mathematical methods used in the optimiz... Read More about Continuous-time optimization of integrated networks of electricity and district heating under wind power uncertainty.

A survey of environmental performance enhancement strategies and building data capturing techniques in the Nigerian context (2023)
Journal Article
Omoragbon, O., Al-Maiyah, S., & Coates, P. (2023). A survey of environmental performance enhancement strategies and building data capturing techniques in the Nigerian context. Buildings, 13(2), 452

The need to improve the performance of Nigeria’s office buildings is due to, energy challenges, increasing population, changing user needs, and climate change. With the expansion of several Nigerian cities, existing buildings constitute a significant... Read More about A survey of environmental performance enhancement strategies and building data capturing techniques in the Nigerian context.

Is the maternal health voucher scheme associated with increasing routine immunization coverage? Experience from Bangladesh (2023)
Journal Article

Bangladesh initiated the Maternal Health Voucher Scheme (MHVS) in 2007 to improve maternal and child health practices and bring equity to the mainstream of health systems by reducing financial and institutional barriers. In this study, we investigate... Read More about Is the maternal health voucher scheme associated with increasing routine immunization coverage? Experience from Bangladesh.

A New False Data Injection Attack Detection Model for Cyberattack Resilient Energy Forecasting (2023)
Journal Article

As power systems are gradually evolving into more efficient and intelligent cyber–physical energy systems with the large-scale penetration of renewable energies and information technology, they become increasingly reliant upon more accurate and compl... Read More about A New False Data Injection Attack Detection Model for Cyberattack Resilient Energy Forecasting.