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Off-shoring in the contact centre industry and employment in the North West of England (2009)
Journal Article
Peck, F., & Cabras, I. (2009). Off-shoring in the contact centre industry and employment in the North West of England. Service Industries Journal, 29, 173-184. https://doi.org/10.1080/02642060802294920

The significance of contact centre employment has recently been the subject of renewed debate in regional policy-making of late, driven by media comment on the threat of off-shoring. Despite these concerns, empirical research on the scale of such act... Read More about Off-shoring in the contact centre industry and employment in the North West of England.

Impacts of agglomeration on call centre operations: evidence from North West England (2009)
Journal Article
Peck, F., & Cabras, I. (2009). Impacts of agglomeration on call centre operations: evidence from North West England. Regional Studies, 43, 923-934. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343400801968387

Impacts of agglomeration on call centre operations: evidence from North West England, Regional Studies. Call centres have until fairly recently provided a significant source of employment growth in the peripheral regions of the UK. Despite the potent... Read More about Impacts of agglomeration on call centre operations: evidence from North West England.

Port integration in global supply chains: measures and implications for maritime logistics (2009)
Journal Article
Panayides, P., & Song, D. (2009). Port integration in global supply chains: measures and implications for maritime logistics. International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 12, 133-145. https://doi.org/10.1080/13675560902749407

The aim of this article is to define and empirically develop measures of seaport integration in global supply chains and to infer implications for maritime logistics. A literature review identified four key parameters hypothesised to be part of the h... Read More about Port integration in global supply chains: measures and implications for maritime logistics.

Marketing to the bottom of the pyramid: opportunities in emerging markets (2009)
Journal Article
Omar, M., & Williams, J. (2009). Marketing to the bottom of the pyramid: opportunities in emerging markets. International Journal of Services, Economics and Management, 1, 427-446. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSEM.2009.024845

The significance of emerging economies to global marketing within the context of a paradigm shift of international business is enormous. The purpose of this paper is to show that emerging markets have two separate areas of opportunity for multination... Read More about Marketing to the bottom of the pyramid: opportunities in emerging markets.

The semantic structure of Roget’s Thesaurus cross-references. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Old, L. J. (2009). The semantic structure of Roget’s Thesaurus cross-references. In U. Priss, & G. Angelova (Eds.), Conceptual Structures for Extracting Natural Language Semantics

This study analyzed a database version of Roget’s Thesaurus (Roget’s International Thesaurus, 3rd Edition, 1962) for connectivity patterns among cross-references in order to identify the implicit conceptual structure. Semantic patterns implicit in th... Read More about The semantic structure of Roget’s Thesaurus cross-references..

Activity patterns, feeding and burrowing behaviour of the crab Ucides cordatus (Ucididae) in a high intertidal mangrove forest in North Brazil (2009)
Journal Article
Nordhaus, I., Diele, K., & Wolff, M. (2009). Activity patterns, feeding and burrowing behaviour of the crab Ucides cordatus (Ucididae) in a high intertidal mangrove forest in North Brazil. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 374, 104-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2009.04.002

Activity patterns, feeding and burrowing behaviour of the economically important semi-terrestrial mangrove crab Ucides cordatus (Ucididae, L. 1763) was studied in a high intertidal Rhizophora mangle forest stand in Bragança, North Brazil. Video obser... Read More about Activity patterns, feeding and burrowing behaviour of the crab Ucides cordatus (Ucididae) in a high intertidal mangrove forest in North Brazil.

Who wants to be in rational love? (2009)
Journal Article
Neill, C. (2009). Who wants to be in rational love?. Annual review of critical psychology : action research, 7, 140-150

Like an open book? Accessibility of e-book content for academic study in a diverse student population (2009)
Journal Article
Muir, L. J., Veale, T., & Nichol, A. (2009). Like an open book? Accessibility of e-book content for academic study in a diverse student population. Library and information research, 33, 90-109

This paper reviews previous research on e-books and the information seeking behaviour of scholars. It presents the initial findings from an in-depth study of the behaviour and experiences of seven students (including students with dyslexia and visual... Read More about Like an open book? Accessibility of e-book content for academic study in a diverse student population.

Effects of genetics on the wood properties of Sitka spruce growing in the UK: bending strength and stiffness of structural timber. (2009)
Journal Article
Moore, J. R., Mochan, S. J., Brüchert, F., Hapca, A. I., Ridley-Ellis, D., Gardiner, B. A., & Lee, S. . J. (2009). Effects of genetics on the wood properties of Sitka spruce growing in the UK: bending strength and stiffness of structural timber. Forestry, 82, 491-501. https://doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpp018

Mechanical tests were conducted on structural timber from a 37-year-old Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr), progeny trial located in Kershope Forest, Cumbria, UK. Values of modulus of rupture (MOR) and global modulus of elasticity (MOEG) in... Read More about Effects of genetics on the wood properties of Sitka spruce growing in the UK: bending strength and stiffness of structural timber..

Companions and new forms of interaction design. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mival, O., & Bradley, J. (2009). Companions and new forms of interaction design. In Proceedings The European Future Technologies Conference, FET09, Prague, April 2009

The Independent Midwife. (2009)
Book Chapter
McHugh, N. (2008). The Independent Midwife. In R. Mander, & V. Fleming (Eds.), Becoming a Midwife, 154-166. Routledge

An account of independent midwifery practice

Play up, play up and play the game. (2009)
Journal Article
McEwan, T. (2009). Play up, play up and play the game. Interfaces / the British HCI Group newsletter, 7

The rules of the game are changing – we now have rules! In many walks of life, competency frameworks are emerging to define and compare roles (meeting legal requirements such as gender pay equality), and individuals are to be benchmarked against role... Read More about Play up, play up and play the game..