Spare parts management: Linking distributional assumptions to demand classification

Lengu, D; Syntetos, A; Babai, MZ

doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2013.12.043

Vine copulas and applications to the European Union sovereign debt analysis (2014)
Journal Article
Zhang, D. (2014). Vine copulas and applications to the European Union sovereign debt analysis. International Review of Financial Analysis, 36, 46-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2014.02.011

European sovereign debt crisis has become a very popular topic since late 2009. In this paper, sovereign debt crisis is investigated by calculating the probabilities of the potential future crisis of 11 countries in the European Union. We use soverei... Read More about Vine copulas and applications to the European Union sovereign debt analysis.

Examining Chinese consumers’ luxury hotel staying behavior (2014)
Journal Article
Chen, A., & Peng, N. (2014). Examining Chinese consumers’ luxury hotel staying behavior. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 39, 53-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2014.01.002

The value of the luxury goods market is about to exceed US$302 billion worldwide in 2012. In addition, the top 3% of travelers in the world represent 20% of the total tourism expenditure. Although the growth has been significant, few studies have exa... Read More about Examining Chinese consumers’ luxury hotel staying behavior.

Clarifying the law for breach of commercial trusts : AIB Group (UK) plc v Mark Redler & Co Solicitors (2014)
Journal Article
Carn, M. (2014). Clarifying the law for breach of commercial trusts : AIB Group (UK) plc v Mark Redler & Co Solicitors. Trust law international, 28(4), 226-236

Discusses the Supreme Court ruling in AIB Group (UK) Plc v Mark Redler & Co Solicitors on the compensation payable to a bank by solicitors who had acted in breach of trust in relation to the payment of a mortgage advance to discharge an existing mort... Read More about Clarifying the law for breach of commercial trusts : AIB Group (UK) plc v Mark Redler & Co Solicitors.

An alterfactual methodological approach to labour history : the case of the British miners' strike 1984-5 (2014)
Journal Article
Darlington, R. (2014). An alterfactual methodological approach to labour history : the case of the British miners' strike 1984-5. Labor History, 55(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2014.884862

In recent years, a small number of the so-called ‘counterfactual’ or ‘what-if’ historical books, which ask us to imagine what would have happened if events in the past had turned out differently than they did, have been published. They have stimulate... Read More about An alterfactual methodological approach to labour history : the case of the British miners' strike 1984-5.

How can philosophical analysis help you with business decision making? (2014)
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Basden, A. (2014). How can philosophical analysis help you with business decision making?. Business School Blog

We all know it's easy to overlook important aspects that we take for granted, and overplay the importance of others. Doing this distorts analysis, generates 'Groupthink', makes plans irrelevant, and leads to failure in many projects, especially large... Read More about How can philosophical analysis help you with business decision making?.

Estimating the average treatment effect of social safety net programmes in Bangladesh (2014)
Journal Article
Rahman, M. (in press). Estimating the average treatment effect of social safety net programmes in Bangladesh. Journal of Development Studies, 50(11), 1550-1569. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2014.887688

Since the famine in 1974, the Bangladesh government and some national and international agencies have been providing food, or cash, or both, to poor households through the Social Safety Net programmes. I seek to estimate how much these programmes aff... Read More about Estimating the average treatment effect of social safety net programmes in Bangladesh.

The influence of bait presentation on bait uptake by mice (Mus domesticus) in infested urban domestic dwellings (2014)
Journal Article
Murphy, G., Baker, R., Felix-Thomas, A., & Fowler, M. (2014). The influence of bait presentation on bait uptake by mice (Mus domesticus) in infested urban domestic dwellings. International Journal of Pest Management, 60(1), 22-32. https://doi.org/10.1080/09670874.2014.885613

Several researchers have established a link between the presence of house mouse (Mus domesticus) infestations and detrimental effects on human health. Controlling mouse infestations therefore requires methods that are quick, safe and effective. A tam... Read More about The influence of bait presentation on bait uptake by mice (Mus domesticus) in infested urban domestic dwellings.

Statistical application of barycentric rational interpolants : an alternative to splines (2014)
Journal Article
interpolants : an alternative to splines. Computational Statistics, 29(5), 1065-1081. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00180-014-0480-7

Spline curves, originally developed by numerical analysts for interpolation, are widely used in statistical work, mainly as regression splines and smoothing splines. Barycentric rational interpolants have recently been developed by numerical analy... Read More about Statistical application of barycentric rational interpolants : an alternative to splines.

Williams v Central Bank of Nigeria : constructive trusts and the law of limitation (2014)
Journal Article
Carn, M. (2014). Williams v Central Bank of Nigeria : constructive trusts and the law of limitation. Trust law international, 28(1), 3-17

Discusses the Supreme Court ruling in Williams v Central Bank of Nigeria on the classification of constructive trusts and the applicability of the Limitation Act 1980 s.21 to claims brought by beneficiaries against third parties who held trust funds... Read More about Williams v Central Bank of Nigeria : constructive trusts and the law of limitation.

Virtuality and humanity (2014)
Book Chapter
Kreps, D. (2014). Virtuality and humanity. In M. Grimshaw (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Virtuality. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199826162.013.023

This chapter discusses the key questions raised by its title—what should we understand by the terms virtuality, humanity, and, thereby, by the term reality? These questions are explored with reference to the work of philosophers such as Henri Bergson... Read More about Virtuality and humanity.

Florence Duomo project (1420–1436): Learning best project management practice from history (2014)
Journal Article
Kozak-Holland, M., & Procter, C. (2014). Florence Duomo project (1420–1436): Learning best project management practice from history. International Journal of Project Management, 32(2), 242-255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2013.05.003

This paper narrates the project management of the construction of the Florence Duomo by Filippo Brunelleschi in the fifteenth century. This was the most significant dome project in Europe in 1300 years, and possibly the most significant, innovative a... Read More about Florence Duomo project (1420–1436): Learning best project management practice from history.

Endoscopic balloon dilatation of Crohnʼs Disease strictures (2014)
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Bhalme, M., Sarkar, S., Lal, S., Bodger, K., Baker, R., & Willert, R. (2014). Endoscopic balloon dilatation of Crohnʼs Disease strictures. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, 20(2), 265-270. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.MIB.0000439067.76964.53

Introduction: Stricturing is a common complication of Crohn's disease. Endoscopic balloon dilatation (EBD) offers a valuable alternative to surgical intervention, but there are limited data on factors influencing its safety and efficacy. Methods:... Read More about Endoscopic balloon dilatation of Crohnʼs Disease strictures.

Estimation and inference under economic restrictions (2014)
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Parmeter, C., Sun, K., Henderson, D., & Kumbhakar, S. (2014). Estimation and inference under economic restrictions. Journal of Productivity Analysis, 41(1), 111-129. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11123-013-0339-x

Estimation of economic relationships often requires imposition of constraints such as positivity or monotonicity on each observation. Methods to impose such constraints, however, vary depending upon the estimation technique employed. We describe a ge... Read More about Estimation and inference under economic restrictions.

Remittances, growth and poverty : new evidence from Asian countries (2014)
Journal Article
Imai, K., Gaiha, R., Ali, A., & Kaicker, N. (2014). Remittances, growth and poverty : new evidence from Asian countries. Journal of Policy Modeling, 36(3), 524-538. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2014.01.009

The present study re-examines the effects of remittances on growth of GDP per capita using annual panel data for 24 Asia and Pacific countries. The results generally confirm that remittance flows have been beneficial to economic growth. However, our... Read More about Remittances, growth and poverty : new evidence from Asian countries.

Customer engagement planning emerging from the individualist-collectivist’-framework: An empirical examination in China and UK. (2014)
Journal Article
Nguyen, B., Chang, K., & Simkin, L. (2014). Customer engagement planning emerging from the individualist-collectivist’-framework: An empirical examination in China and UK. Marketing Intelligence and Planning, 21(1), 41-65. https://doi.org/10.1108/MIP-11-2012-0130

Purpose – Today marketers operate in globalised markets, planning new ways to engage with domestic and foreign customers alike. While there is a greater need to understand these two customer groups, few studies examine the impact of customer engage... Read More about Customer engagement planning emerging from the individualist-collectivist’-framework: An empirical examination in China and UK..

The cybersport nexus (2014)
Book Chapter
Miah, A. (2014). The cybersport nexus. In The Routledge Handbook of Sport and New Media (76-86). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203114711.ch7

Exercise machines increasingly incorporate computer-controlled motion and force feedback and will eventually become reactive robotic sports partners.…Today’s rudimentary, narrowband video games will evolve into physically engaging telesports.

Understanding student satisfaction and dissatisfaction : an interpretive study in the UK higher education context (2014)
Journal Article
Douglas, J., Douglas, A., McClelland, R., & Davies, J. (2015). Understanding student satisfaction and dissatisfaction : an interpretive study in the UK higher education context. Studies in Higher Education, 40(2), 329-349. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2013.842217

This article represents a cross-sectional study of undergraduate students across two north-west university business schools in the UK. A purposefully designed questionnaire was collected from 350 students. The student experience was described in the... Read More about Understanding student satisfaction and dissatisfaction : an interpretive study in the UK higher education context.

Strike waves, union growth and the rank-and-file/bureaucracy interplay : Britain 1889-1890, 1910-1913 and 1919-1920 (2014)
Journal Article
Darlington, R. (2014). Strike waves, union growth and the rank-and-file/bureaucracy interplay : Britain 1889-1890, 1910-1913 and 1919-1920. Labor History, 55(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2013.871476

Gerald Friedman's Reigniting the Labor Movement was a highly ambitious, unashamedly partisan, historical and transnational comparative analysis of the rise and demise of the labour movement, which identified the way in which rank-and-file workers' sp... Read More about Strike waves, union growth and the rank-and-file/bureaucracy interplay : Britain 1889-1890, 1910-1913 and 1919-1920.

A dynamic paired comparisons model : who is the greatest tennis player? (2014)
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Baker, R., & McHale, I. (2014). A dynamic paired comparisons model : who is the greatest tennis player?. European Journal of Operational Research, 236(2), 677-684. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2013.12.028

We present a methodology for fitting time-varying paired comparisons models in which the parameters are allowed to vary deterministically, as opposed to stochastically, with time. Our dynamic paired comparisons model is based on a new closed-form for... Read More about A dynamic paired comparisons model : who is the greatest tennis player?.

Spare parts management: Linking distributional assumptions to demand classification (2014)
Journal Article
Lengu, D., Syntetos, A., & Babai, M. (2014). Spare parts management: Linking distributional assumptions to demand classification. European Journal of Operational Research, 235(3), 624-635. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2013.12.043

Spare parts are known to be associated with intermittent demand patterns and such patterns cause considerable problems with regards to forecasting and stock control due to their compound nature that renders the normality assumption invalid. Compound... Read More about Spare parts management: Linking distributional assumptions to demand classification.

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