UH Research Archive: Recent submissions
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Using a decision support systems computer simulation model to examine HIV and tuberculosis : the Russian Federation
(2009)The aim of this paper is to describe the development and use of a computer simulation model that can be used as a Decision Support System (DSS) to tackle the critical public health issues of HIV and HIV-related tuberculosis ... -
Effective speaker verification via dynamic mismatch compensation
(2012-06)This paper presents a new approach to Condition-adjusted T-Norm (CT-Norm) for speaker verification under significant mismatched noise conditions. The study is motivated by the fact that, whilst the standard CT-Norm method ... -
Speaker verification under mismatched data conditions
(2009)This study presents investigations into the effectiveness of the state-of-the-art speaker verification techniques (i.e. GMM-UBM and GMM-SVM) in mismatched noise conditions. Based on experiments using white and real world ... -
Nine Lives of William Shakespeare
(Continuum, 2011)Despite remaining a fascinating figure of literature, scholars and historians alike still know few concrete facts about who Shakespeare was and how he lived. By exploring facts, literature tradition and imaginative ... -
Shakespeare and Venice
(Ashgate Publishing, 2010)Shakespeare and Venice is the first book length study to describe and chronicle the mythology of Venice that was formulated in the Middle Ages and has persisted in fiction and film to the present day. It focuses specifically ... -
Gender and Power in Shrew-Taming Narratives, 1500-1700
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)Explores the various dramatic, poetic and narrative versions of the popular 'taming of the shrew' story, from the Middle Ages to the Restoration, in the light of new historical work on the place of early modern women in society. -
The power of myth in impeding service innovation : A perspective gained from analysis of service providers' narratives
(2008-03-01)The author discusses a service innovation that was intended to create "woman-centered" maternity care in U.K. health care. This innovation has now fallen into disuse. The author explores and offers a partial explanation ... -
Marketing/accounting synergy : A discussion of its potential and evidence in e-business
(2008)Advances in technology create opportunities for new forms of arranging work, such as collapsing the boundaries between marketing and accounting. This makes it possible for management to identify the key attributes and ... -
General shame and bodily shame in eating disorders : A 2.5 year longitudinal study
(2012)Studies have established a link between shame and eating disorder symptoms but have generally been cross-sectional or failed to differentiate between general shame and bodily shame. The present study addressed both these issues. -
Poor social comparison and the tendency to submissive behavior in anorexia nervosa
(2007-12)Objective: The aim of this study was to confirm an association between low social rank (SR) and anorexia nervosa (AN), and to test the hypotheses that low SR is (a) present after recovery from the illness, (b) mediates an ... -
Investigating antecedents and consequences of brand identification
(2008)Purpose - This study aims to analyse the influences of prestige, satisfaction, and communication on brand identification and to show how brand identification influences word-of-mouth and brand repurchase. Design/methodol ... -
Dramaturgical analysis of the service encounter in higher education
(2008)This paper explores how dramaturgical metaphors can be translated through images of charismatic leadership to a teaching situation. Viewing the teaching context as a dramaturgical service encounter, we examine the ... -
Enhancing performance : Bringing trust commitment and motivation together in organisations
(2011)This paper analyses the concepts of trust, commitment, motivation and performance. In specific terms, the authors ascertain what are the key components of trust in the workplace. The paper provides a deeper understanding ... -
Radicalizing enactivism : Basic minds without content
(MIT Press, 2013)The vast sea of what humans do and experience is best understood by appeal to nothing more than dynamically unfolding, situated embodied interactions and engagements with worldly offerings. Basic mentality is neither ... -
Triggered in situ drug supersaturation and hydrophilic matrix self-assembly
(2012)To understand in situ drug thermodynamic activity when embedded in a supramolecular structured hydrophilic matrix that simultaneously self-assembled during drug supersaturation. -
Discriminating the molecular identity and function of discrete supramolecular structures in topical pharmaceutical formulations
(2012-09-04)There is a need to understand how solvent structuring influences drug presentation in pharmaceutical preparations, and the aim of this study was to characterize the properties of propylene glycol (PG)/water supramolecular ... -
Manipulation of corticosteroid release from a transiently supersaturated topical metered dose aerosol using a residual miscible co-solvent
(2008-11)Purpose. The creation of supersaturation transiently after application overcomes the issue of drug instability. However, if the solvents used to drive supersaturation evaporate too quickly, drug recrystallisation or rapid ... -
Characterization of latent heat-releasing phase change materials for dermal therapies
(2011-04-28)Phase change materials (PCMs) have been developed as heat storage solutions, particularly for the supply of “green” energy. One interesting use of PCMs is long-term energy storage, in which a phase transition is triggered ... -
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 ... -
Experimental evaluation of pulse electric current effect on residual stresses in composite-to-copper joints
(2008)Experimental method for evaluation of residual stress distribution in carbon fiber reinforced carbon composite jointed to copper is presented. Pulse electric current passed through composite-to-copper joint essentially ...