All Outputs (1568)

Identification of parameters for a prospect theory model for travel choice analysis (2008)
Journal Article

Travelers' responses to the risk and the uncertainty involved in their travel choices have been argued to be a research area that can be better addressed by use of a descriptive approach rather than a normative one. Prospect theory, a descriptive mod... Read More about Identification of parameters for a prospect theory model for travel choice analysis.

Social marketing and the meaning of cool (2008)
Journal Article

Commercial marketers have long understood the value of cool in designing and selling their products, and have invested heavily in keeping in touch with the latest trends among their consumers. In this article, we contend that social marketers could u... Read More about Social marketing and the meaning of cool.

Children and young people's preference of thematic design and colour for their hospital environment (2008)
Journal Article

In this innovative project, the views of children and young people were explored regarding their preference of thematic design and colour for their hospital environment in a new children's unit. The novelty of the approach was that it was driven by t... Read More about Children and young people's preference of thematic design and colour for their hospital environment.

Single women and philanthropy: A case study of women's associational life in Bristol, 1880-1914 (2008)
Journal Article

This article examines the philanthropic and local government work undertaken by single women in Bristol in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing in particular on the life and work of one woman, Mary Clifford, the article conside... Read More about Single women and philanthropy: A case study of women's associational life in Bristol, 1880-1914.

The new architectures of intimacy? Social networking sites and genders (2008)
Journal Article

Between March and December 2008 Jane Arthurs was co-editor, with Usha Zacharias, of the Commentary and Criticism Section of this journal, which included topical short essays themed around issues of significance to feminist media studies either from a... Read More about The new architectures of intimacy? Social networking sites and genders.

Women's History Review: Introduction (2008)
Journal Article

This article is an introduction to a special issue on the history of single women based on papers given at conference held in June 2006 at the University of the West of England, entitled ‘Single Women in History 1000–2000’. The analysis is based on o... Read More about Women's History Review: Introduction.

Lick Bush in '92 (selections) (2008)
Exhibition / Performance

Performance and screening of documentary material relating to drag queen political activism in New York.

Media on ice (2008)
Journal Article

Between March and December 2008 Jane Arthurs was co-editor, with Usha Zacharias, of the Commentary and Criticism Section of this journal, which included topical short essays themed around issues of significance to feminist media studies either from a... Read More about Media on ice.

Ontology assisted query reformulation using the semantic and assertion capabilities of OWL-DL ontologies (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

End users of recent biomedical information systems are often unaware of the storage structure and access mechanisms of the underlying data sources and can require simplified mechanisms for writing domain specific complex queries. This research aims t... Read More about Ontology assisted query reformulation using the semantic and assertion capabilities of OWL-DL ontologies.

Life satisfication in Malawi and the importance of relative consumption, polygamy and religion (2008)
Journal Article

Happiness equations for Malawi are estimated using a new household survey. It is apparent that absolute consumption level is strongly associated with satisfaction. Both objective and subjective relative consumption in the neighbourhood is positively... Read More about Life satisfication in Malawi and the importance of relative consumption, polygamy and religion.

Redox regulation and trapping sulphenic acid in the peroxide sensitive human mitochondrial branched chain aminotransferase (2008)
Journal Article

The human branched chain aminotransferase enzymes are key regulators of glutamate metabolism in the brain and are among a growing number of redox-sensitive proteins. Studies that use thiol-specific reagents and electrospray ionization mass spectromet... Read More about Redox regulation and trapping sulphenic acid in the peroxide sensitive human mitochondrial branched chain aminotransferase.

Targeting, television and networking: An interview with Samuel Weber (2008)
Journal Article

In this interview, Samuel Weber discusses two recent books that explore issues of contemporary media and politics, Targets of Opportunity and Theatricality as Medium. Targeting is identified as a modality of conceiving the world that is as old as wes... Read More about Targeting, television and networking: An interview with Samuel Weber.

A hierarchical model-based system for discovering atypical behavior (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper, we describe a model-based system for context discovery and behavior modeling for the purpose of monitoring well-being. In modeling behavior in a smart home, the system must detect atypical (anomalous) patterns of behavior resulting fro... Read More about A hierarchical model-based system for discovering atypical behavior.

Global ethics and the role of academics (2008)
Journal Article

Academics have a social and professional responsibility that stems from their individual duties as global citizens. With their privileged position as lifelong learners they need to assess carefully where they direct their attention for research, thei... Read More about Global ethics and the role of academics.

Rhetorical parallels between the national woman suffrage association and Clinton's campaign (2008)
Journal Article

Between March and December 2008 Jane Arthurs was co-editor, with Usha Zacharias, of the Commentary and Criticism Section of this journal, which included topical short essays themed around issues of significance to feminist media studies either from a... Read More about Rhetorical parallels between the national woman suffrage association and Clinton's campaign.

Perceptions of physiotherapy provision of 2085 patients following primary joint replacement (2008)
Journal Article

Online social networking tools (Web 2.0) and their implications for Health and Social Care (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

OTRI: agenda de investigacion (2008)
Journal Article

The present paper presents different lines of work in order to extend the current empirical research about the role of the technology transfer offices (TTO). Those lines of research come from the new advances in the micro economic analysis of TTOs an... Read More about OTRI: agenda de investigacion.

Book review: Chris Mallin and Kean Ow-Yong, Corporate governance in alternative investment market (AIM) companies x+119pp., £15.00, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (2008) ISBN 978-1-904574-44-6 (2008)
Journal Article

Book review for the British Accounting Review

Multiculturalism without multiple cultures? (2008)
Journal Article