Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (402)

Forecasting exact scores in National Football League games (2012)
Journal Article
Baker, R., & McHale, I. (2013). Forecasting exact scores in National Football League games. International Journal of Forecasting, 29(1), 122-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2012.07.002

The paper presents a point process model for predicting exact end-of-match scores in the premier league of American football, the National Football League. The hazards of scoring are allowed to vary with team statistics from previous games and/or the... Read More about Forecasting exact scores in National Football League games.

Event-based analysis of free-living behaviour (2012)
Journal Article
Granat, M. (2012). Event-based analysis of free-living behaviour. Physiological Measurement, 33(11), 1785-1800. https://doi.org/10.1088/0967-3334/33/11/1785

The quantification of free-living physical activities is important in understanding how physical activity and sedentary behaviour impact on health and also on how interventions might modify free-living behaviour to enhance health. Quantification, and... Read More about Event-based analysis of free-living behaviour.

Shaping the global communications milieu : the EU’s influence on Internet and telecommunications governance (2012)
Journal Article
governance. Comparative European Politics, 12(1), 54-75. https://doi.org/10.1057/cep.2012.33

This article evaluates the European Union’s (EU) influence in shaping the global governance for telecommunications and the Internet. Through analysing EU behaviour within an actorness framework, we demonstrate how the external opportunity structur... Read More about Shaping the global communications milieu : the EU’s influence on Internet and telecommunications governance.

The dynamics of listed SMEs in China (2012)
Journal Article
Liu, J. (2012). The dynamics of listed SMEs in China. International Journal of the Economics of Business, 19(3), 421-450. https://doi.org/10.1080/13571516.2012.715274

We examine the dynamics of Chinese listed SMEs with respect to their post-market viability and growth after going public. The Kaplan–Meier estimation shows that SMEs are more likely to transition to a non-viable state than large firms. Further exa... Read More about The dynamics of listed SMEs in China.

Impact of place upon celebration of birth : experiences of new mothers on a postnatal ward (2012)
Journal Article
Wray, J. (2012). Impact of place upon celebration of birth : experiences of new mothers on a postnatal ward. MIDIRS midwifery digest, 22(3),

Julie Wray highlights the fact that most research into postnatal care focuses on the experiences of first-time mothers with an uncomplicated birth, and is often the result of a brief survey. This, she points out, cannot give us a proper understanding... Read More about Impact of place upon celebration of birth : experiences of new mothers on a postnatal ward.

Helmholtz bright spatial solitons and surface waves at power-law optical interfaces (2012)
Journal Article
Christian, J., McCoy, E., McDonald, G., Sanchez-Curto, J., & Chamorro-Posada, P. (2012). Helmholtz bright spatial solitons and surface waves at power-law optical interfaces. Journal of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 2012, 137967. https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/137967

We consider arbitrary-angle interactions between spatial solitons and the planar boundary between two optical materials with a single power-law nonlinear refractive index. Extensive analysis has uncovered a wide range of new qualitative phenomena in... Read More about Helmholtz bright spatial solitons and surface waves at power-law optical interfaces.

A modified Duckworth–Lewis method for adjusting targets in interrupted limited overs cricket (2012)
Journal Article
McHale, I., & Asif, M. (2012). A modified Duckworth–Lewis method for adjusting targets in interrupted limited overs cricket. European Journal of Operational Research, 225(2), 353-362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2012.09.036

In this paper we present a modified Duckworth/Lewis method. The key modification is an improved functional form for the model describing the runs to be scored in an innings. In the course of our work we compare several alternative methods for resetti... Read More about A modified Duckworth–Lewis method for adjusting targets in interrupted limited overs cricket.

Supporting urban search and rescue with digital assessments of structures and requests of response resources (2012)
Journal Article
Chen, A., Peña-Mora, F., Plans, A., Mehta, S., & Aziz, Z. (2012). Supporting urban search and rescue with digital assessments of structures and requests of response resources. Advanced engineering informatics, 26(4), 833-845. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aei.2012.06.004

First responders, including structural engineers and firefighters, inspect buildings and identify the structural integrity of buildings within a disaster affected area. The performance of their inspection and dissemination of the assessment informati... Read More about Supporting urban search and rescue with digital assessments of structures and requests of response resources.

Humanising values at the heart of nurse education (2012)
Journal Article
Hemingway, A., Scammell, J., & Heaslip, V. (2012). Humanising values at the heart of nurse education. Nursing Times, 108(41), 26-28

This is the second article in a two-part series exploring how nurses can humanise the care patients receive. The first article presented a theoretical framework based on eight dimensions of what it means to be human (Hemingway et al, 2012). This seco... Read More about Humanising values at the heart of nurse education.

A physico-chemical model of the water vapour sorption isotherm of hardened cementitious materials (2012)
Journal Article
Wang, Y., Wang, X., Scholz, M., & Ross, D. (2012). A physico-chemical model of the water vapour sorption isotherm of hardened cementitious materials. Construction and Building Materials, 35, 941-946. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2012.05.021

This paper reports on the recent development of a physico-chemical model for the water retention characteristic of porous media and its application to the prediction of water vapour sorption isotherm of cementitious materials. This research aims to d... Read More about A physico-chemical model of the water vapour sorption isotherm of hardened cementitious materials.

A variable impact neural network analysis of dividend policies and share prices of transportation and related companies (2012)
Journal Article
and related companies. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 22(4), 796-813. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2012.04.008

The purpose of this research is to investigate dividend policy,including its impact on share prices of transportation providers and related service companies, by comparing generalized regression neural networks with conventional regressions. Our resu... Read More about A variable impact neural network analysis of dividend policies and share prices of transportation and related companies.

‘Why is this not social work?’ The contribution of ‘non-traditional’ placements in preparing social work students for practice (2012)
Journal Article
Scholar, H., McCaughan, S., McLaughlin, H., & Coleman, A. (2012). ‘Why is this not social work?’ The contribution of ‘non-traditional’ placements in preparing social work students for practice. Social Work Education, 31(7), 932-950. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2011.608123

This article reports on the findings of two evaluations of a major charity's learning from providing ‘non-traditional’ social work placements with young people at risk of social exclusion. The article challenges the terminology of ‘non-traditional’ a... Read More about ‘Why is this not social work?’ The contribution of ‘non-traditional’ placements in preparing social work students for practice.

Study on the visual performance of a traditional residential neighborhood in old Cairo (2012)
Journal Article
Almaiyah, S., & Elkadi, H. (2012). Study on the visual performance of a traditional residential neighborhood in old Cairo. Journal of Urban Technology, 19(4), 59-86. https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2011.649913

Traditional dwellings located in the hot arid zone in Egypt are well known for their sensitive architectural response to the region's climatic conditions and socio-cultural norms. The majority of these dwellings are well recognized for their courtyar... Read More about Study on the visual performance of a traditional residential neighborhood in old Cairo.

1479 Referral of children from a UK district general hospital emergency department to primary care general practitioners (2012)
Journal Article
Rowland, A., & Isba, R. (2012). 1479 Referral of children from a UK district general hospital emergency department to primary care general practitioners. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 97(Suppl), A419-A420. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2012-302724.1479

Background: This preliminary audit aimed to assess the feasibility of referring children presenting to a UK District General Hospital Emergency Department (ED), seeing 27500 children per year, to their own Primary Care General Practitioner (GP) fo... Read More about 1479 Referral of children from a UK district general hospital emergency department to primary care general practitioners.