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The ethnic question in an environment of insecurity: the Kurds in Turkey (2010)
Journal Article
Icduygu, A., Romano, D., & Sirkeci, I. (2010). The ethnic question in an environment of insecurity: the Kurds in Turkey. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 22(6), 991-1010. https://doi.org/10.1080/014198799329215

This article examines the effect that a poor structural context, what we term an "environment of insecurity", has on the Kurdish ethnic nationalist mobilization in Turkey. The empirical evidence for this analysis is based on data from the 1993 Turkis... Read More about The ethnic question in an environment of insecurity: the Kurds in Turkey.

Law and the built environment (2010)
Book
Wood, D., Chynoweth, P., Adshead, J., & Mason, J. (2010). Law and the built environment. London, UK: Wiley-Blackwell

Introducing digital literacy skills through IBL: A comparative study of UG and PG business information systems students (2010)
Journal Article
Griffiths, M., Kutar, M., & Wood, J. (2010). Introducing digital literacy skills through IBL: A comparative study of UG and PG business information systems students. ITALICS, 9(2),

This paper reports a comparative study of Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) at Undergraduate (UG) and Postgraduate (PG) levels at a university in the north west of England. Both student cohorts undertook a professional, legal and ethical module centre... Read More about Introducing digital literacy skills through IBL: A comparative study of UG and PG business information systems students.

#uksnow: webscience weather watch (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Kreps, D., & Fletcher, G. (2010, October). #uksnow: webscience weather watch. Presented at Internet Research 11.0, Gothenburg, Sweden

Mechanical law enforcement: speeding and camera technology (2010)
Journal Article
Cooper, S. (2010). Mechanical law enforcement: speeding and camera technology. Journal of Criminal Law, 74(5), 409-414. https://doi.org/10.1350/jcla.2010.74.5.656

Excessive and inappropriate speeding is--according to the ACPO2 Road Policing Strategy--one of the four key behaviours which contribute to avoidable deaths and injury by making collisions more likely, and by making the resultant injuries worse.3 Alth... Read More about Mechanical law enforcement: speeding and camera technology.

The appeal of a town’s separately-branded environments to market segments and the segmented appeal of digital signage (2010)
Journal Article
Dennis, C., Michon, R., & Newman, A. (2010). The appeal of a town’s separately-branded environments to market segments and the segmented appeal of digital signage. Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, 6(2), 156-175. https://doi.org/10.1057/pb.2010.14

The purpose of this article is to evaluate (i) the segmented appeal of a town centre's separately branded environments; (ii) the role of digital signage in contributing to the atmospherics of a town, building on environmental psychology theory, drawi... Read More about The appeal of a town’s separately-branded environments to market segments and the segmented appeal of digital signage.

Introducing eco-masculinities: How a masculine discursive subject approach to the individual differences theory of gender and IT impacts an environmental informatics project (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Kreps, D. (2010, August). Introducing eco-masculinities: How a masculine discursive subject approach to the individual differences theory of gender and IT impacts an environmental informatics project. Presented at Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2010, Lima, Peru

In this paper I introduce the concept of eco-masculinities as a philosophical and critical project to understand the links between gendered and pro-environmental behaviour. The background of the feminist project, the sociology of masculinity, and the... Read More about Introducing eco-masculinities: How a masculine discursive subject approach to the individual differences theory of gender and IT impacts an environmental informatics project.

Project financing versus corporate financing under asymmetric information (2010)
Journal Article
Miglo, A. (2010). Project financing versus corporate financing under asymmetric information. Journal of Business and Economics Research, 8(8), 27-42. https://doi.org/10.19030/jber.v8i8.749

In recent years, financing through the creation of an independent project company or financing by non-recourse debt has become an important part of corporate decisions. Shah and Thakor (JET, 1987) argue that project financing can be optimal when asym... Read More about Project financing versus corporate financing under asymmetric information.

Towards a model-based tool for evaluating population-level interventions against childhood obesity (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Dangerfield, B., & Zainal Abidin, N. (2010, July). Towards a model-based tool for evaluating population-level interventions against childhood obesity. Presented at International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, Seoul, Korea

The prevalence of obesity in the UK is mirroring trends in the USA. There is a need for research to provide public health agencies with advice as to the most effective means of securing behavioural change. The work reported here is in its very early... Read More about Towards a model-based tool for evaluating population-level interventions against childhood obesity.

Spare parts management : a review of forecasting research and extensions (2010)
Journal Article
Boylan, J., & Syntetos, A. (2010). Spare parts management : a review of forecasting research and extensions. IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, 21(3), 227-237. https://doi.org/10.1093/imaman/dpp016

Spare parts are very common in many industries and forecasting their requirements is an important operational issue. In recent years, there have been advances in forecasting methods for spare parts, demand information sharing strategies and the desi... Read More about Spare parts management : a review of forecasting research and extensions.

Capital structure and earnings manipulation (2010)
Journal Article
Miglo, A. (2010). Capital structure and earnings manipulation. Journal of Economics and Business, 62(5), 367-382. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconbus.2010.05.001

We consider an optimal contract between an entrepreneur and an investor, where the entrepreneur is subject to a double-moral hazard problem (one being the choice of production effort and the other being earnings manipulation). Since the entrepreneur... Read More about Capital structure and earnings manipulation.

Can corporate taxation be explained by limited liability? (2010)
Book Chapter
Miglo, A. (2010). Can corporate taxation be explained by limited liability?. In W. Berube, & C. Pinto (Eds.), Taxation, tax policies and income taxes (201-205). Nova Science

We consider a model where wealth-constrained entrepreneurs have private information about the qualities of available investment projects. We show that some "high risk-high return" projects will receive external financing even if they are not socially... Read More about Can corporate taxation be explained by limited liability?.

Forecasting and stock control : a study in a wholesaling context (2010)
Journal Article
Syntetos, A., Babai, M., Davies, J., & Stephenson, D. (2010). Forecasting and stock control : a study in a wholesaling context. International Journal of Production Economics, 127(1), 103-111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2010.05.001

Wholesalers add value to the products they deal with by essentially bringing them closer to the end consumers. In that respect, the effective control of stock levels becomes an important measure of operational performance especially in the context of... Read More about Forecasting and stock control : a study in a wholesaling context.

Network theories for technology-enabled learning and social change: Connectivism and actor network theory (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Bell, F. (2010, May). Network theories for technology-enabled learning and social change: Connectivism and actor network theory. Presented at Networked Learning Conference 2010: Seventh International Conference on Networked Learning, Aalborg, Denmark

Learning never was confined to classrooms. We all learn in, out of, before, during and after episodes of formal education. The changing sociotechnical context offers a promise of new opportunities, and the sense that somehow things may be different.... Read More about Network theories for technology-enabled learning and social change: Connectivism and actor network theory.

ABC inventory classification : service levels and inventory costs (2010)
Journal Article
Teunter, R., Babai, M., & Syntetos, A. (2010). ABC inventory classification : service levels and inventory costs. Production and Operations Management, 19(3), 343-352. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1937-5956.2009.01098.x

ABC inventory classifications are widely used in practice, with demand value and demand volume as the most common ranking criteria. The standard approach in ABC applications is to set the same service level for all stock keeping units (SKUs) in a c... Read More about ABC inventory classification : service levels and inventory costs.