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Towards Harmonic Extensions Of Pulsed Melodic Affective Processing Further Musical Structures For Increasing Transparency In Emotional Computation, Aj Kirke, Er Miranda Jan 2014

Towards Harmonic Extensions Of Pulsed Melodic Affective Processing Further Musical Structures For Increasing Transparency In Emotional Computation, Aj Kirke, Er Miranda

School of Art, Design and Architecture

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Pulsed Melodic Affective Processing: Musical Structures For Increasing Transparency In Emotional Computation, Alexis Kirke, Eduardo Miranda Jan 2014

Pulsed Melodic Affective Processing: Musical Structures For Increasing Transparency In Emotional Computation, Alexis Kirke, Eduardo Miranda

School of Art, Design and Architecture

No abstract provided.


Is Neolithic Land Use Correlated With Demography? An Evaluation Of Pollen-Derived Land Cover And Radiocarbon-Inferred Demographic Change From Central Europe, Jutta Lechterbeck, Kevan Edinborough, Tim Kerig, Ralph Fyfe, Neil Roberts, Stephen Shennan Jan 2014

Is Neolithic Land Use Correlated With Demography? An Evaluation Of Pollen-Derived Land Cover And Radiocarbon-Inferred Demographic Change From Central Europe, Jutta Lechterbeck, Kevan Edinborough, Tim Kerig, Ralph Fyfe, Neil Roberts, Stephen Shennan

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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Creative Music Neurotechnology With Symphony Of Minds Listening, E Miranda, D Lloyd, Z Josipovic, D Williams Jan 2014

Creative Music Neurotechnology With Symphony Of Minds Listening, E Miranda, D Lloyd, Z Josipovic, D Williams

School of Art, Design and Architecture

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'It's All A Question Of Business': Investment Identities, Networks And Decision-Making In The Cleantech Economy, Lucien Georgeson, Federico Caprotti, Ian Bailey Jan 2014

'It's All A Question Of Business': Investment Identities, Networks And Decision-Making In The Cleantech Economy, Lucien Georgeson, Federico Caprotti, Ian Bailey

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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Antecedents Of Business-To-Business E-Commerce Adoption And Its Effect On Competitive Advantage In Manufacturing Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises: A Comparative Study Of United States Of America And Egypt, Haseba Hamad Jan 2014

Antecedents Of Business-To-Business E-Commerce Adoption And Its Effect On Competitive Advantage In Manufacturing Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises: A Comparative Study Of United States Of America And Egypt, Haseba Hamad

Plymouth Business School Theses

Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce adoption has become a necessity for most small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), allowing them to gain and sustain competitive advantage in a dynamic competitive environment. Accepting the fact that B2B is adopted at different levels based on different resources leads to the acceptance that competitive advantage is gained and sustained on a level consistent with the level of adoption. This study employs quantitative method based on the positivism philosophy and deductive approach. A questionnaire survey technique was used to collect the data from the American and Egyptian manufacturing SMEs. Moreover, it used structural equation modelling with a …


An Investigation Of The Effects Of Intellectual Capital On Innovations In The Egyptian Banks: The Mediating Role Of Organisational Capital, Ahmed Elsetouhi Jan 2014

An Investigation Of The Effects Of Intellectual Capital On Innovations In The Egyptian Banks: The Mediating Role Of Organisational Capital, Ahmed Elsetouhi

Plymouth Business School Theses

This research aims to analyse the direct and indirect effects of human capital, social capital and customer capital on the different types of innovations via organisational capital in the service sector. It also examines the interaction among the different types of innovations including product, process and organisational innovations and tests the role of human capital, social capital and customer capital in supporting organisational capital. This research employs the first stage of Actor Network Theory named problematisation to justify the research model. This study adopts a positivism philosophy, a deduction approach and a quantitative method as the research methodology. Hence, a …


From Principles To Practice: Sustainable Supply Chain Management In Smes, Alison Louise Ashby Jan 2014

From Principles To Practice: Sustainable Supply Chain Management In Smes, Alison Louise Ashby

Plymouth Business School Theses

Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) is an evolving discipline, and incorporates the environmental and social performance dimensions of sustainability with the traditional measure of economic performance; current SSCM research indicates a skew towards economic performance and its interaction with environmental performance, while social performance is underrepresented (Pagell and Wu, 2009, Schaefer, 2004, Sharma and Ruud, 2003). The UK clothing industry represents a relevant research focus due to its supply chain complexity, and scale and scope of its environmental and social impacts; this thesis further recognises the tendency for academic research to focus on Large Enterprises (LE) (Curran and Blackburn, 2001) …


Risk Management In Liquefied Natural Gas Ports And Marine Terminals Supply Chains, Mohamed Briouig Jan 2014

Risk Management In Liquefied Natural Gas Ports And Marine Terminals Supply Chains, Mohamed Briouig

Plymouth Business School Theses

Due to its environmental attributes, Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) as a clean fossil fuel source of energy has witnessed a steady increase in demand worldwide over the last decade. This increase is mainly attributed to higher demand from the power generation sector as well as from domestic and industrial usages .This growing role of LNG among competing energy sources has raised concerns over the safety and security of the LNG chain of production, transport and distribution and its related infrastructure. Within this context, LNG ports and marine terminals, being strategically located at the midstream of the LNG Supply Chain (SC), …


Developing A Methodical Approach For The Systematic Identification Of Innovative Technological Applications – Based On Mixed Reality In Manual Order Picking, Markus Friedrich Ehmann Jan 2014

Developing A Methodical Approach For The Systematic Identification Of Innovative Technological Applications – Based On Mixed Reality In Manual Order Picking, Markus Friedrich Ehmann

Plymouth Business School Theses

The need to be economically successful is the key driver for companies to be innovative and implement new technologies with increasing efficiency and effectiveness. Uncertainty about whether to use new technologies and missing knowledge about their advantages lead to staggering and withholding from fast diffusion of innovations. Focusing on the industry of logistics and the technology Mixed Reality, this research project developed a methodical approach for evaluating the fitness of an innovative technology and a specific process of application. A mixed methods approach was derived, based on interviews and experiments. The main methodologies used, were semi-structured interviews with decision makers …


Factors External To The Individual Encouraging Idea Generation In Sme Contexts, Graham Michael Perkins Jan 2014

Factors External To The Individual Encouraging Idea Generation In Sme Contexts, Graham Michael Perkins

Plymouth Business School Theses

This thesis sets out to explore factors external to the individual that encourage creative idea generation in SME environments, understanding their importance in a variety of organisational contexts. The original contribution to knowledge made by this thesis is the creation of a framework which aids understanding by splitting the various factors into those responsible for initiating and sustaining idea generation. Literature concerning creative idea generation is continuously developing and contains a broad spectrum of topics and understandings. Key amongst these are leadership, the nature of creative idea generation, theories such as the ‘strength of weak ties’, collective creativity and the …


The Role Of Underlying Mechanisms In Achieving Consistent Hybrid Combinations Of Competitive Advantages, Michael Zellner Jan 2014

The Role Of Underlying Mechanisms In Achieving Consistent Hybrid Combinations Of Competitive Advantages, Michael Zellner

Plymouth Business School Theses

This thesis takes a step beyond the current discussion on hybrid competitive strategies (HS) by identifying the underlying mechanisms and common elements of successful hybrid strategies. Reviewing empirical and theoretical literature revealed a significant gap in this respect. Therefore, the activity-based view of strategy is introduced to the discussion on HS. In a first step, four consistent and sustainable HS concepts are developed providing the basis for deriving specific HS models. A second step identifies commonalities among these HS types and theoretically derives a synthesized, common HS model. Thirdly, the critical realist stance was selected for answering this thesis’ research …