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Development and testing of a novel instrument to measure health-related quality of life (HRQL) of farmed pigs and promote welfare enhancement (part 2) (2011)
Journal Article
Wiseman-Orr, M. L., Scott, E. M., & Nolan, A. (2011). Development and testing of a novel instrument to measure health-related quality of life (HRQL) of farmed pigs and promote welfare enhancement (part 2). Animal Welfare, 20(4), 549-558

The development of a novel structured questionnaire instrument to measure health-related quality of life (HRQL) in individual farmed pigs was described previously (companion paper). The instrument embraces the measurement of positive welfare, and was... Read More about Development and testing of a novel instrument to measure health-related quality of life (HRQL) of farmed pigs and promote welfare enhancement (part 2).

Development and testing of a novel instrument to measure health-related quality of life (HRQL) of farmed pigs and promote welfare enhancement (Part 1) (2011)
Journal Article
Wiseman-Orr, M. L., Scott, E. M., & Nolan, A. M. (2011). Development and testing of a novel instrument to measure health-related quality of life (HRQL) of farmed pigs and promote welfare enhancement (Part 1). Animal Welfare, 20(4), 535=548

Health-related quality of life (HRQL) was defined for farmed animals and identified as an appropriate focus of integrative welfare measurement for farmed pigs that embraces measurement of positive welfare. The instrument for HRQL measurement was de... Read More about Development and testing of a novel instrument to measure health-related quality of life (HRQL) of farmed pigs and promote welfare enhancement (Part 1).

Creating competitive advantage through the effective experience economy in museums (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Howard, S., & Chiu, S. (2011). Creating competitive advantage through the effective experience economy in museums. In 4th Critical Tourism Studies Conference

The concept of the Experience Economy addresses trends in economic development with the assertion that there is an economic value to experience. The phenomenon of an increasingly experiential value orientation in both consumer behavior and reactiona... Read More about Creating competitive advantage through the effective experience economy in museums.

Beyond the Fringe: Creativity and the City (2011)
Book Chapter
Ind, N., & Todd, L. (2011). Beyond the Fringe: Creativity and the City. In International Place Branding Yearbook 2011, (47-59). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230343320_5

One of the deep-rooted and long-established ideas of brand building is the need for control. The argument is that, for consumers and other stakeholders to have a clear understanding of a brand, there needs to be consistency of communication and actio... Read More about Beyond the Fringe: Creativity and the City.

Light factorization for mixed-frequency shadows in augmented reality (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nowrouzezahrai, D., Geiger, S., Mitchell, K., Sumner, R., Jarosz, W., & Gross, M. (2011, October). Light factorization for mixed-frequency shadows in augmented reality. Presented at IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality 2011

Integrating animated virtual objects with their surroundings for high-quality augmented reality requires both geometric and radio-metric consistency. We focus on the latter of these problems and present an approach that captures and factorizes extern... Read More about Light factorization for mixed-frequency shadows in augmented reality.

Surround Haptics: Sending Shivers Down Your Spine (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Israr, A., Poupyrev, I., Ioffreda, C., Cox, J., Gouveia, N., Bowles, H., …Williams, T. (2011). Surround Haptics: Sending Shivers Down Your Spine. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 Emerging Technologies (14:1-14:1). https://doi.org/10.1145/2048259.2048273

Surround Haptics is a new tactile technology that uses a low-resolution grid of inexpensive vibrating actuators to generate high-resolution, continuous, moving tactile strokes on human skin [1]. The user would not feel the discrete tactile pulses and... Read More about Surround Haptics: Sending Shivers Down Your Spine.

Runtime Implementation of Modular Radiance Transfer. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Loos, B., Antani, L., Mitchell, K., Nowrouzezahrai, D., Jarosz, W., & Sloan, P. (2011). Runtime Implementation of Modular Radiance Transfer. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 Talks (59:1-59:1). https://doi.org/10.1145/2037826.2037905

Real-time rendering of indirect lighting significantly enhances the sense of realism in video games. Unfortunately, previously including such effects often required time consuming scene dependent precomputation and heavy runtime computations unsuitab... Read More about Runtime Implementation of Modular Radiance Transfer..

Herbal medication in the management of non-ulcer dyspepsia (2011)
Journal Article
Smith, G. D. (2011). Herbal medication in the management of non-ulcer dyspepsia. Gastrointestinal Nursing, 9(10), 15-16. https://doi.org/10.12968/gasn.2011.9.10.15

Although not considered part of mainstream medicine, it is estimated that over half of patients with gastrointestinal symptoms have used some form of complementary or alternative medicine (CAM) (Comar and Kirby, 2005). Herbal and non-herbal remedies... Read More about Herbal medication in the management of non-ulcer dyspepsia.

Intermodal freight corridor development in the United States. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Monios, J., & Lambert, B. (2011). Intermodal freight corridor development in the United States. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Shipping, Intermodality and Ports

This paper compares port hinterland access strategies in the form of intermodal freight corridors connecting ports and inland intermodal terminals. Interviews and site visits were conducted at a number of locations in the United States in order to co... Read More about Intermodal freight corridor development in the United States..

A rule based taxonomy of dirty data. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, L., Peng, T., & Kennedy, J. (2011). A rule based taxonomy of dirty data. GSTF journal on computing, 1(2), 140-148

There is a growing awareness that high quality of data is a key to today’s business success and that dirty data existing within data sources is one of the causes of poor data quality. To ensure high quality data, enterprises need to have a process, m... Read More about A rule based taxonomy of dirty data..

A theoretical framework for the evaluation of competition between container terminal operators (2011)
Journal Article
Yao, W. Y., Lam, J. S. L., & Cullinane, K. (2011). A theoretical framework for the evaluation of competition between container terminal operators. Singapore Economic Review, 56, 535-559. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217590811004456

This paper presents a conceptual framework for analyzing the outcomes of potential competitive strategies and their expected payoffs for container terminal operators in the container handling industry. The framework is based on the integration of Bow... Read More about A theoretical framework for the evaluation of competition between container terminal operators.

Determinants of liner shipping network configuration - a two region comparison (2011)
Journal Article
Wilmsmeier, G., & Notteboom, T. (2011). Determinants of liner shipping network configuration - a two region comparison. GeoJournal, 76, 213-228. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-009-9333-2

The worldwide network of container transport services is becoming increasingly diffuse. The different strategies of shipping lines, the balance of power between shipping lines and shippers and constraints related to inland transportation all have a p... Read More about Determinants of liner shipping network configuration - a two region comparison.

"Brand Soul"– The Renaming Principles of a Service Organization. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Williams Jr, R., & Omar, M. (2011, December). "Brand Soul"– The Renaming Principles of a Service Organization. Paper presented at 6th International Business and Social Science Research Conference

This paper investigates the process of renaming, and the impact that changing a service organizations‟ name has on its ability to profitably compete. It analyzes the role of the service brand management process, develops benefit analysis insight in a... Read More about "Brand Soul"– The Renaming Principles of a Service Organization..

The role of contestable processes in advancing sustainability in transport and planning (2011)
Journal Article
Wigan, M. (2011). The role of contestable processes in advancing sustainability in transport and planning. Road and Transport Research Journal, 20, 32-40

Sustainable transport requires not only solid evidence to support policy and practice, but also to allow this to be examined with a high degree of transparency. Not all technical reports have the supporting evidence (or indeed models) made readily av... Read More about The role of contestable processes in advancing sustainability in transport and planning.

Proton Scattering studies at 70-140 MeV: the first known word processed thesis. (2011)
Book
Wigan, M. (2011). Proton Scattering studies at 70-140 MeV: the first known word processed thesis. Oxford Systematics

This book is a 1967 DPhil Thesis at the University of Oxford plus historical commentary. This scanned version was created from the authors’ copy, and the context surrounding it documented. No hardcopy remained at the Bodelian Library at the Univers... Read More about Proton Scattering studies at 70-140 MeV: the first known word processed thesis..