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Low mislabeling rates indicate marked improvements in European seafood market operations (2015)
Journal Article
operations. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 13(10), 536-540. https://doi.org/10.1890/150119

Over the span of a decade, genetic identification methods have progressively exposed the inadequacies of the seafood supply chain, revealing previously unrecognized levels of seafood fraud, raising awareness among the public, and serving as a warni... Read More about Low mislabeling rates indicate marked improvements in European seafood market operations.

The key factors affecting B2C acceptance in Egypt : an empirical investigation (2015)
Journal Article
Al-Sahouly, I., & Rashid, T. (2015). The key factors affecting B2C acceptance in Egypt : an empirical investigation. International journal of research in management & technology (Print), 5(6), 385-399

This research aims at investigating the effect of interrelated micro-variables (level of trust, perceived security and perceived self-efficacy) and macro-variables (availability of active legislations and technological level) on the acceptance of E-c... Read More about The key factors affecting B2C acceptance in Egypt : an empirical investigation.

Resurrecting information technology adoption models : a theoretic foundation (2015)
Journal Article
a theoretic foundation. International journal of research in management & technology (Print), 5(6), 400-408

The Information Technology (IT) has generated competing models, each of which has a different set of adoption and acceptance determinants. This paper includes an overview of the models and theories of predicting, explaining and understanding the hu... Read More about Resurrecting information technology adoption models : a theoretic foundation.

Youth resettlement in North Wales, and the Resettlement Broker Project (2015)
Other
Hazel, N., & Hampson, K. (2015). Youth resettlement in North Wales, and the Resettlement Broker Project. Cardiff

The research informing this report included quantitative analysis of the experiences of children from North Wales leaving custody (on licence from a detention and training order) between October 2012 and September 2014, 11 qualitative interviews and... Read More about Youth resettlement in North Wales, and the Resettlement Broker Project.

Antecedents of employee engagement : an examination of the banking sector of Nigeria (2015)
Thesis
Egwuonwu, I. Antecedents of employee engagement : an examination of the banking sector of Nigeria. (Thesis). University of Salford

The meaning of employee engagement is ambiguous among both academic researchers and practit ioners. The term has been used differently ; either a psycho logical state or a state of mind. This research aims to study employee engagement antecede... Read More about Antecedents of employee engagement : an examination of the banking sector of Nigeria.

Does traditional advertising theory apply to the digital world? (2015)
Journal Article
Kerr, G., Schultz, D., Kitchen, P., Mulhern, F., & Beede, P. (2015). Does traditional advertising theory apply to the digital world?. Journal of Advertising Research, 55(4), 390-400. https://doi.org/10.2501/JAR-2015-001

All theory is based on a set of seminal concepts and empirical research that are assumed to be replicable and inviolate over time. Recent changes in technology, consumer habits, demographics, and marketplaces, however, have raised questions about the... Read More about Does traditional advertising theory apply to the digital world?.

A novel neural computing model for fast predicting network traffic (2015)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Cai, W., Shen, J., Fu, Z., & Linge, N. (2015). A novel neural computing model for fast predicting network traffic. Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, 12(12), 6056-6062. https://doi.org/10.1166/jctn.2015.5076

Currently existing web traffic prediction models have the shortages of low accuracy, low stability and slow training speed. Aiming at such problems, this paper proposes a new model to predict the network traffic called MRERPM (MapReduce-based ELM Reg... Read More about A novel neural computing model for fast predicting network traffic.

A battle of wit: applying computational humour to game design (2015)
Journal Article
Dormann, C. (2015). A battle of wit: applying computational humour to game design. Lecture notes in computer science, 9353, 72-85. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24589-8_6

There is still a dearth of humour in computer games. To spur the use of humour in games and overcome some of the difficultiesin producing humour, we advance that game design can benefit from research in computational humour. The focus of this paper i... Read More about A battle of wit: applying computational humour to game design.

Connectivity and dispersal patterns of protected biogenic reefs : implications for the conservation of Modiolus modiolus (L.) in the Irish Sea (2015)
Journal Article
Gormley, K., Mackenzie, C., Robins, P., Coscia, I., Cassidy, A., James, J., …Porter, J. (2015). Connectivity and dispersal patterns of protected biogenic reefs : implications for the conservation of Modiolus modiolus (L.) in the Irish Sea. PLoS ONE, 10(12), e0143337. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0143337

Biogenic reefs created by Modiolus modiolus (Linnaeus, 1758) (horse mussel reefs) are marine habitats which support high levels of species biodiversity and provide valuable ecosystem services. Currently, M. modiolus reefs are listed as a threatened a... Read More about Connectivity and dispersal patterns of protected biogenic reefs : implications for the conservation of Modiolus modiolus (L.) in the Irish Sea.

Beyond black and green : children visioneering the future (2015)
Book Chapter
Whitaker, E. (2015). Beyond black and green : children visioneering the future. In J. Collier (Ed.), The Future of Social Epistemology : A Collective Vision (247-256). London: Rowman & Littlefield International

Editorial – Blurred Lines : the Contested Nature of Sex Work in a Changing Social Landscape (2015)
Journal Article
Work in a Changing Social Landscape. Graduate Journal of Social Science, 11(2), 4-20

This special edition of the Graduate Journal of Social Science explores the contested nature of the sex industry, a global industry operating within socio-political contexts that have witnessed an array of changes in recent years. The papers in this... Read More about Editorial – Blurred Lines : the Contested Nature of Sex Work in a Changing Social Landscape.

What factors influence Fair Access students to consider university and what do they look for (2015)
Journal Article
Heaslip, V., Hewitt-Taylor, J., Alexander, P., Ellis-Hill, C., & Seibert-Santos, C. (2015). What factors influence Fair Access students to consider university and what do they look for. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 17(4), 67-88. https://doi.org/10.5456/WPLL.17.4.67

This paper reports the findings of a participatory mixed methods study into the perceptions of Fair Access students on the factors which led them to consider accessing Higher Education. The study consisted of focus groups with thirteen first year Fai... Read More about What factors influence Fair Access students to consider university and what do they look for.

The Impact of Refurbishment on Thermal Comfort in Post-war Office Buildings (2015)
Journal Article
Duran, Ö., Taylor, S., & Lomas, K. (2015). The Impact of Refurbishment on Thermal Comfort in Post-war Office Buildings. Energy Procedia, 78, 877-882. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2015.11.011

Post-war office buildings have been modelled using EnergyPlus to determine the effect on thermal comfort of a range of energy- saving refurbishment measures. The native buildings were found to be thermally uncomfortable in the winter due to low opera... Read More about The Impact of Refurbishment on Thermal Comfort in Post-war Office Buildings.

Derives (2015)
Other
Davismoon, S. (2015). Derives. [Score]

A work composed for Piano Duo marking the 90th birthday of Pierre Boulez. The work is a computer assisted composition, which, by way of Markovian techniques, re-models the series that lies at the heart of Boulez' 2nd Piano Sonata creating textures... Read More about Derives.

Sustainability and differentiation : understanding materiality from the context of Indian firms (2015)
Journal Article
Nishant, R., Goh, M., & Kitchen, P. (2016). Sustainability and differentiation : understanding materiality from the context of Indian firms. Journal of Business Research, 69(5), 1892-1897. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2015.10.075

Managers do not see all environmental sustainability practices as equally important. Thus, this study seeks to integrate the natural resource based view (NRBV) and materiality perspective to explore environmental sustainability practices that firms... Read More about Sustainability and differentiation : understanding materiality from the context of Indian firms.

Adaptive learning with covariate shift-detection for motor imagery-based brain–computer interface (2015)
Journal Article
Raza, H., Cecotti, H., Li, Y., & Prasad, G. (2016). Adaptive learning with covariate shift-detection for motor imagery-based brain–computer interface. Soft Computing, 20(8), 3085-3096. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-015-1937-5

A common assumption in traditional supervised learning is the similar probability distribution of data between the training phase and the testing/operating phase. When transitioning from the training to testing phase, a shift in the probability distr... Read More about Adaptive learning with covariate shift-detection for motor imagery-based brain–computer interface.

Resilience building in students : the role of academic self-efficacy (2015)
Journal Article
Cassidy, S. (2015). Resilience building in students : the role of academic self-efficacy. Frontiers in Psychology, 6(1781), https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01781

Self-efficacy relates to an individual’s perception of their capabilities. It has a clear self-evaluative dimension leading to high or low perceived self-efficacy. Individual differences in perceived self-efficacy have been shown to be better predict... Read More about Resilience building in students : the role of academic self-efficacy.