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Accounting perspectives on the business value of big data during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic
(Article)Research Question: How can business organizations develop accounting practices to use big data to create competitive intelligence advantages to survive during and beyond the COVID19 conditions? Motivation: We aim to provide ... -
‘What is a Work of Art?’
(Book chapter)This is chapter from Vino, V., ed. (2022) Introduction to Philosophy: Aesthetic Theory and Practice. The chapter introduces readers to six ways that the philosophical aesthetics has tried to figure the specificity of works ... -
What Artists Want, What Artists Need: A Critical History of Feral Art School, Hull, UK
(Article)The article contextualises the emergence of the Feral Art School, established in Hull in 2018 by artist-educators following the winding down of Hull School of Art and Design. This alternative art school is the most recent ... -
Experiments in Autonomous Art Education in the UK, 2010-Present
(Article)This paper critically surveys and contextualises the recent wave of autonomous art schools established in the UK since the Independent Review of Higher Education Funding & Student Finance, or Browne Review. It argues that ... -
Explaining and Evaluating Transnational Tortious Actions against Parent Companies: Lessons from Shell and Nigeria
(Article)In recent years, some of the most interesting and challenging corporate litigation has involved transnational tortious claims against parent companies. Such transnational cases raise a number of important issues which are ... -
A multiobjective evolutionary algorithm based on decision variable classification for many-objective optimization
(Article)Multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) have faced the challenge of balancing diversity and convergence in dealing with many-objective optimization problems (MaOPs). Most of them use a series of strategies to increase ... -
A New Framework for Sustainable Resilient Houses on the Coastal Areas of Khanh Hoa, Vietnam
(Article)With the impacts of tropical storms on Vietnam’s residences, the aim of the study is to produce a new framework for designing sustainable resilient houses in Vietnam’s coastal areas. This study was based on the community’s ... -
Developing the use of formulaic language for study abroad: a targeted instructional intervention
(Article)This study investigates the immediate and sustained effects of a pre-departure study abroad training on the oral production of L2 Chinese formulaic language across a range of social and transactional interactions. Eighteen ... -
The Mobile Audience as a Digital Musical Persona in Telematic Performance
(Conference)One of the consequences of the pandemic has been the potential to embrace hybrid support for different human group activities, including music performance, resulting in accommodating a wider range of situations. We believe ... -
Decolonising DMU: Developing an anti-racist pedagogy of tomorrow
(Conference)This session will provide an update of the work of Decolonising DMU which, at its heart, adopts a ‘whole systems’ approach to the entrenched inequalities prevalent in higher education institutions. Although a lot of work ... -
“Addressing differential degree awarding through critical-race methodologies”
(Conference)In UK Universities, white students are 13.6% more likely to be awarded a good honours degree than students of colour . Historically, a deficit perspective has been used across the sector to counter this reality, rooted in ... -
Presentation of Evaluation Report Findings “Place to Call Home”
(Conference)A presentation of the evaluation findings for the “Place to Call Home” East Midlands Regional Fostering and Supported Lodgings Recruitment Project -
Sexual Violence: Challenges in Changing Campus Culture
(Book chapter)This chapter provides an overview of our research which focuses on tackling sexual violence within UK Universities. In this research, we consider sexual violence and misconduct as involving any unwanted conduct of a sexual ... -
Dual graph characteristics of water distribution networks – how optimal are design solutions?
(Article)Urban water infrastructures are an essential part of urban areas. For their construction and maintenance, major investments are required to ensure an efficient and reliable function. Vital parts of the urban water ... -
CEO Overconfidence and IRS Attention
(Article)We examine the likelihood that the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS), in its enforcement role, will accord particular attention to firms that are managed by CEOs who exhibit over-confidence, given that such CEOs may be ... -
Analysis of Trajectories towards Pareto-Optimal Water Distribution Networks: A Dual Graph Approach
(Conference)The multi-objective design of water distribution networks (WDNs) is a very challenging task and can be addressed with evolutionary algorithms. Especially for large WDNs, such a process is very computationally demanding, ... -
Relationship between Big Five personality traits and knowledge sharing behavior: moderating role of Islamic work ethics
(Article)Purpose The existence of intense competition in turbulent markets confirms the importance of using ethical employee practices in knowledge sharing behaviour (KSB) to ensure organisational growth. This is especially ...