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Money Down the (Brand) Drain : An exploration of the constraints of the adoption of brand strategies and the adversity facing investment in brands by Chinese suppliers
(2014-04)
This paper explores the perception by Chinese marketing academics and consultants of benefits and constraints of the adoption of branding techniques. We explore the lived experience of Chinese branding experts to capture ...
A Political Economy of Privatization Contracts : The Case of Water and Sanitation in Ghana and Argentina
(2014-04-01)
In general, the process and outcomes of privatization have been studied from the point of view of efficiency. In this article, we consider issues in the course of contract design, implementation, management and enforcement ...
Auditory processing and sensory behaviours in children with autism spectrum disorders as revealed by mismatch negativity
(2014-04-01)
Sensory dysfunctions may underlie key characteristics in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The current study aimed to investigate auditory change detection in children with ASD in order to determine event-related ...
KASPAR in the wild - Initial findings from a pilot study
(Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour, 2014-04)
This extended abstract describes the initial pilot work when evaluating the use of the UH Humanoid Robot KASPAR in a specialist nursery for children with social and communication disorders. Staff and volunteers at the ...
Quasi-orthogonal space-frequency coding in non-coherent cooperative broadband networks
(2014-04-01)
So far, complex valued orthogonal codes have been used differentially in cooperative broadband networks. These codes however achieve less than unitary code rate when utilized in cooperative networks with more than two ...
Social rank and symptom change in eating disorders : A 6-month longitudinal study
(2014-04-01)
Background: Following previous cross-sectional research adopting an evolutionary approach to social rank and eating disorders, the present study explored the predictive value of social rank for changes in eating disorder ...
Complex, but not quite complex enough : The turn to the complexity sciences in evaluation scholarship
(2014-04-01)
This article offers a critical review of the way in which some scholars have taken up the complexity sciences in evaluation scholarship. I argue that there is a tendency either to over-claim or under-claim their importance ...
Reducing emergency bed-days for older people? : Network governance lessons from the 'Improving the Future for Older People' programme
(2014-04)
In 2007, the UK government set performance targets and public service agreements to control the escalation of emergency bed-days. Some years earlier, nine English local authorities had each created local networks with their ...
The star formation history of mass-selected galaxies from the VIDEO survey
(2014-04-01)
We measure star formation rates (SFRs) and specific SFRs (SSFRs) of Ks-selected galaxies from the VISTA Deep Extragalactic Observations survey by stacking 1.4 GHz Very Large Array data.We split the sample, which spans 0 < ...