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Heritage Visitor Attractions: An Operations Management Perspective (1999)
Book
Leask, A., & Yeoman, I. (Eds.). (1999). Heritage Visitor Attractions: An Operations Management Perspective. Pearson Education

The first clearly structured textbook to examine Heritage Visitor Attractions from an operations management perspective. The book begins by defining the characteristics of HVAs and the principles of operations management and deals with the design of... Read More about Heritage Visitor Attractions: An Operations Management Perspective.

User modelling and motion-impaired users (1999)
Preprint / Working Paper
Keates, S., Clarkson, P. J., & Robinson, P. (1999). User modelling and motion-impaired users

No abstract available.

The experience of innovative assessment: student perspectives (1999)
Book Chapter
McDowell, L., & Sambell, K. (1999). The experience of innovative assessment: student perspectives. In S. Brown, & A. Glasner (Eds.), Assessment matters in higher education : choosing and using diverse approaches (71-82). Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE)

There has been considerable diversification in the methods of assessing student learning in higher education in recent years. Few courses in the UK now rely solely on the conventional finals examinations supplemented by essays or, in scientific subject... Read More about The experience of innovative assessment: student perspectives.

Analisi Teorica in Acustica Costruttiva. (1999)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, S., Fringuellino, M., & Pontillo, M. (1999, February). Analisi Teorica in Acustica Costruttiva. Paper presented at Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale Galileo Ferraris

Avoiding practical disasters in noise and vibration design for buildings. (1999)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, S. (1999, February). Avoiding practical disasters in noise and vibration design for buildings

Regulation of macrophage IL-12 synthesis byLeishmania phosphoglycans (1999)
Journal Article
Piedrafita, D., Proudfoot, L., Nikolaev, A. V., Xu, D., Sands, W., Feng, G., Thomas, E., Brewer, J., Ferguson, M. A. J., Alexander, J., & Liew, F. Y. (1999). Regulation of macrophage IL-12 synthesis byLeishmania phosphoglycans. European Journal of Immunology, 29(1), 235-244. https://doi.org/10.1002/%28sici%291521-4141%28199901%2929%3A013.0.co%3B2-s

It is now generally accepted that IFN‐γ, secreted by Th1 cells, is the most potent cytokine leading to macrophage activation and host resistance against infection with the intracellular protozoan parasite Leishmania. It is also established that IL‐12... Read More about Regulation of macrophage IL-12 synthesis byLeishmania phosphoglycans.

The development of core concepts of yield management (1999)
Journal Article
Leask, A. E., & Yeoman, I. (1999). The development of core concepts of yield management. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 5(2), 96-110. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527259908722254

Abstract Yield management offers an Operations Manager a decision support framework for examining the revenue and conservation decision variables that integrate the characteristics of the Heritage Visitor Attraction (HVA) experience. The principles... Read More about The development of core concepts of yield management.

The making of the UK Sports Institute (1999)
Journal Article
Theodoraki, E. (1999). The making of the UK Sports Institute. Managing Leisure, 4(4), 187-200. https://doi.org/10.1080/136067199375742

The paper explores decision-making related to the UK Sports Institute (UKSI) which was envisaged by ex-prime minister John Major as an agency that would co-ordinate elite sport development in the UK. Conceptual frameworks of organizational decision-m... Read More about The making of the UK Sports Institute.

Travel-to-work and unemployed job seekers (1999)
Journal Article
McQuaid, R. W., Charlesworth-May, A. C., & Adams, J. (1999). Travel-to-work and unemployed job seekers

A theoretical model of factors influencing the maximum time unemployed job seekers would be willing to commute to a new job is presented and tested using an ordered probit model. Significant effects are found for a range of personal and demographic c... Read More about Travel-to-work and unemployed job seekers.

A reassessment of the alternative press (1999)
Journal Article
Atton, C. (1999). A reassessment of the alternative press. Media, Culture and Society, 21(1), 51-76. https://doi.org/10.1177/016344399021001003

This article revisits the Comedia group's assessment of the alternative press as one of commercial failure. It examines the British alternative press of the 1990s and finds that, while financial exigency and anti-commercialism are still prevalent, ne... Read More about A reassessment of the alternative press.

An Integrated charge amplifier for a pyroelectric sensor array. (1999)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Binnie, D., & Weller, H. (1999, January). An Integrated charge amplifier for a pyroelectric sensor array. Paper presented at PREP '99

Scanned layer silicon retina. (1999)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Binnie, D., & Moorhead, B. (1999, January). Scanned layer silicon retina. Paper presented at PREP '99

Marketing small hotels on the World Wide Web (1999)
Journal Article
Morrison, A. M., Taylor, S., Morrison, A. J., & Morrison, A. D. (1999). Marketing small hotels on the World Wide Web. Information Technology and Tourism, 2(2), 97-113

Small hotels face an uphill battle, as the larger hotel companies become more dominant in die marketplace. The Internet and World Wide Web may offer the small hotelier a lifeline for business survival. Through a study of a group of small hotels in Sc... Read More about Marketing small hotels on the World Wide Web.

The continuous equilibrium optimal network design problem: a genetic approach. (1999)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cree, N. D., Maher, M., & Paechter, B. (1999). The continuous equilibrium optimal network design problem: a genetic approach. In M. G. H. Bell (Ed.), Transportation Networks: Recent Methodological advances (163-174)

A genetic algorithm (GA) program for providing a solution to the Continuous Equilibrium Network Design Problem (NDP) is introduced following a general discussion of the network design problem and genetic algorithms. A description of the current GA op... Read More about The continuous equilibrium optimal network design problem: a genetic approach..

‘Alive’ on the internet: A user‐centred evaluation of BIS‐online (1999)
Journal Article
Gillham, M., & Hall, H. (1999). ‘Alive’ on the internet: A user‐centred evaluation of BIS‐online. New Review of Academic Librarianship, 5(1), 61-79. https://doi.org/10.1080/13614539909516790

Recent UK government initiatives have encouraged academic staff to consider using IT to enhance students' experience of higher education in terms of its quality, flexibility and effectiveness. In 1999 second year undergraduate students studying Infor... Read More about ‘Alive’ on the internet: A user‐centred evaluation of BIS‐online.

Partner Lens, a tool for social browsing. (1999)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E. (1999, January). Partner Lens, a tool for social browsing. Paper presented at National Research Council of Canada

L'Intelligence sociale at l'intelligence concurrentielle. Est-ce qu'elles convergent dans l'organisation virtuelle? (1999)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E. (1999, January). L'Intelligence sociale at l'intelligence concurrentielle. Est-ce qu'elles convergent dans l'organisation virtuelle?. Paper presented at 67 Congrès de L'Acfas