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From Fictions and Aggregates to Real Entities in the Theory of the Firm
(2009-04-01)According to the dominant ‘nexus of contracts’ and ‘collection of assets’ views of the firm, the firm is a either a fiction or an aggregate. Although legal personality is important in both accounts, everything is said to ... -
From Future Orientation to Readiness for Reentry: An Exploratory Study of Prelease Cognitions of Incarcerated Men
(2021-11-30)The literature suggests that individual characteristics of offenders are related to cognitive patterns before their release from prison. Empirical evidence shows that such cognitions can influence the extent to which ... -
From Gas to Starburst and AGN
(Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2004)Although it is clear that the circumnuclear regions of galaxies are intimately related to their host galaxies, most directly through their bars, it remains unclear what exactly initiates and fuels nuclear stellar (starburst) ... -
From Giants to Dwarfs: Probing the Edges of Galaxies
(2010-11-19)In this thesis we address fundamental questions about what constitutes and limits an HI disc, probing the distribution of neutral gas in the outer parts of galaxies. We use a subsample of galaxies observed as part of the ... -
From Globalisation to Internationalisation : Stepping Back to Move Forwards in Progressing Higher Education in Overseas Markets
(2009)By using the MBA as an example, this paper questions whether we should be globalising education on economic grounds, or inter-nationalising to promote learning. With regard to education, globalisation has already begun. ... -
From gloom to doom: Financial loss and negative affect prime risk averse preferences
(2019-11-12)Previous research has shown that risk preferences are sensitive to the financial domain in which they are framed. In the present study we explore whether the effect of valence priming on risk taking is moderated by the ... -
'From Ham House to the Pineapples of Groombridge Place: Locating The Draughtsman’s Contract'
(2010-05-18)Much has been written about Peter Greenaway’s The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982), but the film’s garden mise-en-scène has not been analysed in detail. My paper will trace its development from script to screen and discuss ... -
From Hell to Utopia: How Clinical Psychologists Who Don't Believe in Free Will Experience Delivering Therapy
(2016-06-30)Background: Both Freud (1921) and Skinner (1971) were regarded as 'hard determinists' who saw human thought and action as determined by prior events, and the idea of free will as simply an illusion. While this belief system ... -
From Here to here : the Geographical Self
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From Here to Maternity : Motherhood in the Media
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From Hollywood to Borehamwood- Exploring nepotism and networking in US and UK freelance film careers
(University of Hertfordshire, 2001)This paper considers whether the differences in the national institutional contexts in which US and UK freelance film workers operate result in different job search strategies and career building patterns. In particular ... -
From hospital admission to discharge : An exploratory study to evaluate seamless care
(2001-11-03)Aim. To evaluate the effect of pharmaceutical care from admission, through a hospital stay and following discharge. Design. The study design was descriptive, using qualitative methods to compare intensive pharmaceutical ... -
From Images to Features: Unbiased Morphology Classification via Variational Auto-Encoders and Domain Adaptation
(2023-10-17)We present a novel approach for the dimensionality reduction of galaxy images by leveraging a combination of variational auto-encoders (VAE) and domain adaptation (DA). We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach ... -
From Imprinting to Adaptation : Building a History of Affective Interaction
(Lund University, 2005)We present a Perception-Action architecture and experiments to simulate imprinting the establishment of strong attachment links with a “caregiver”—in a robot. Following recent theories, we do not consider imprinting as ... -
From Isolation to Communication : A Case Study Evaluation of Robot Assisted Play for Children with Autism with a Minimally Expressive Humanoid Robot
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2009)The general context of the work presented in this paper is assistive robotics with our long-term aim to support children with autism. This paper is part of the Aurora project that studies ways in which robotic systems can ... -
From Liverpool to Russia, With Love: A Letter to Brezhnev and Cold War Cinematic Dissent in 1980s Britain
(2005-06-01)This article examines British Cold War cinematic output of the 1980s. It first presents an overview of how British-made films covered Cold War issues and events during the decade. Thereafter it concentrates on one particular ... -
From London to Los Angeles: a comparison of local labour market processes in the US and UK film industries
(2004)Addressing the issue of the embeddedness of labour markets, this paper compares the processes of finding employment in the film industry within two local labour markets. Drawing on studies of freelance film crews in London ...