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Don't Believe Everything You Hear : Preserving Relevant Information by Discarding Social Information
(MIT Press, 2014)
Integrating information gained by observing others via Social Bayesian Learning can be beneficial for an agent’s performance, but can also enable population wide information cascades that perpetuate false beliefs through ...
Weighted Marking, Clique Structure and Node- Weighted Centrality to Predict Distribution Centre’s Location in a Supply Chain Management
(2014)
Despite the importance attached to the weights or strengths on the edges of a graph, a graph is only complete if it has both the combinations of nodes and edges. As such, this paper brings to bare the fact that the node-weight ...
Developing a model of the behavioural intentions of older adults towards internet service providers : a UK perspective
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014)
Countries around the globe have an ageing population that faces problems such as cognition, memory and visual difficulties. Mobile devices and products are part of daily life and to utilise them the role of internet service ...
Marketing Factors Influencing Fairtrade Food Buying Behaviour in the UK
(2014)
The phenomenal growth of the fairtrade industry has attracted increased research interest but little is known as to what marketing factors drive fairtrade retail sales. This gap has profound implications for fairtrade ...
An Informational Study of the Evolution of Codes in Different Population Structures
(MIT Press, 2014)
We consider the problem of the evolution of a code within a structured population of agents. The agents try to maximise their information about their environment by acquiring information from the outputs of other agents ...
How do older adults communicate with the UK public sector? : Comparing online communication channels
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014)
Governments around the world are moving away from conventional ways of face to face communication to a more digital approach when delivering services to their citizens. This includes using the internet as both a communication ...
Sports in Society: Issues and Controversies
(McGraw-Hill, 2014)
Structural characterisation and mechanical FE analysis of conventional and M-Wire Ni-Ti alloys used in endodontic rotary instruments
(2014)
The purpose of this study is to understand how the M-WireTM alloy, a material used in many endodontic rotary files nowadays, conditions the mechanical flexibility of these instruments at body temperature. The alloys are ...
Selective inhibition of NADPH Oxidase reverses the over contraction of diabetic rat aorta
(2014)
Abnormal vascular responsiveness in diabetes has been attributed to a number of changes in contractile pathways, affected in part by the overproduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS). It has been reported that NADPH ...