Items where Year is 1999

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Abdullah, N.A.H. (1999). An empirical investigation of the effect of rights issue announcements on share returns and the determinants of abnormal returns on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Ali, Hassan (1999). Individual differences in work behaviour of blue-collar workers : a study of rubber tappers in Malaysia. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Alleston, S., Penketh, I., Harper, Paul, Niculae, A., Bennion, Ian and Doran, Nick (1999). 16,000 km, 10 Gbits-1 soliton transmission over standard fibre by reduction of interactions through optimum amplifier positioning. IN: Optical fiber communication conference, 1999, and the international conference on integrated optics and optical fiber communication. OFC/IOOC '99. IEEE.

Alleston, S.B., Harper, Paul, Penketh, Ian S., Bennion, Ian and Doran, Nick (1999). 1220km propagation of 40Gbit/s single channel RZ data over dispersion managed standard (non-dispersion shifted) fibre. IN: Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 1999, and the International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fiber Communication. OFC/IOOC '99. Technical Digest. IEEE.

Ashcroft, Darren M. (1999). Applying quantitative methods in the assessment of outcomes of pharmacotherapy of psoriasis. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Azzouzi, Mehdi (1999). Hidden state models for time series. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Azzouzi, Mehdi and Nabney, Ian T. (1999). Modelling financial time series with switching state space models. IN: Proceedings of the IEEE/IAFE 1999 Conference on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering. Port Jefferson, NY: IEEE.

Azzouzi, Mehdi and Nabney, Ian T. (1999). Time delay estimation with hidden Markov models. IN: Ninth International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, 1999 (ICANN). Edinburgh, UK: IEEE.

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Baines, T.S. (1999). Manufacturing technology sourcing practices in the USA. International Journal of Production Research, 37 (4), pp. 939-956.

Baines, Timothy and Harrison, D.K. (1999). An opportunity for system dynamics in manufacturing system modelling. Production Planning and Control, 10 (6), pp. 542-552.

Bates, Sarah H. (1999). Investigation of potential intervention targets to improve insulin action: a therapeutic approach. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Bedworth, Mark D. (1999). High level data fusion. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Bennett, David, Vaidya, Kirit, Zhao, Hongyu and Brittan, Steve (1999). International technology collaboration for new product development. IN: Civilization, modern technology and sustainable development. Hosni, Yasser and Lefebvre, Khalil T. (eds) EGY: UNSPECIFIED.

Bodman, Steven D. (1999). Novel catalytic methods for the upgrading of coal liquids. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Brough, Peter E. (1999). The synthesis of a ferromagnetic polymer. PHD thesis, Aston University.

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Carnell, John (1999). Calculating the balance between water resources and water demands:an approach using risk analysis. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Charlton, Henry R. (1999). Characterisation of a harvesting step for monoclonal antibodies from mammalian cell culture. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Chattopadhyay, Amit Kr. (1999). Nonlocal Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation with spatially correlated noise. Physical Review E, 60 (1), pp. 293-296.

Chaudary, Shaqil H. (1999). A novel and rational approach towards designing aluminium chelators. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Chipandambira, F.B. (1999). Organisational cultures and management styles in four African countries:a cross-cultural study. Masters thesis, Aston University.

Cooke, Louise A. (1999). The effect of a ZSM-5 containing catalyst on the fluidised bed fast pyrolysis of pine wood. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Cornford, Dan, Nabney, Ian T. and Bishop, Christopher M. (1999). Neural network-based wind vector retrieval from satellite scatterometer data. Technical Report. Aston University, Birmingham.

Cornford, Dan, Nabney, Ian T. and Williams, Christopher K. I. (1999). Adding constrained discontinuities to Gaussian process models of wind fields. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 11 , pp. 861-867.

Crowther, D.E.A. (1999). The dialectics of corporate reporting:a semiotic analysis of corporate financial and environmental reporting. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Cupples, Michelle (1999). The making of an ideology of the third way:the evolution of christian democracy in Germany (with special reference to 1945-49). PHD thesis, Aston University.

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David, C.A. (1999). Humanism and instrumentalism in management ethics across seven countries. Masters thesis, Aston University.

Dey, Subendhu K. (1999). Optimal design and operation of Biopharmaceutical manufacturing facilities using a rule based expert system simulation model. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Dietrich, Rainer, Opper, Manfred and Sompolinsky, Haim (1999). Statistical mechanics of support vector networks. Physical Review Letters, 82 (14), pp. 2975-2978.

Doran, Nicholas J. (1999). Solitons, Dispersion Management and WDM for high speed and long haul transmission. IN: ECOC '99: conference & exhibition : 25th European Conference on Optical Communication. Nice (FR): Société des électriciens et des électroniciens.

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Evans, David J. (1999). First year qualifying report: neural networks for extracting wind vectors from satellite scatterometer data. Project Report. Aston University, Birmingham, UK.

Eydgahi, H.Y. (1999). Perceptions of technological change : the attitude of managers towards group technology in the United States food equipment industry. PHD thesis, Aston University.

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Farrell, Andrew M., Souchon, Anne L. and Durden, Geoffrey R. (1999). A model of transactional and transformational leadership for services personnel. IN: Australia and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference 1999. 1999-11-28 - 1999-12-01.

Fell, Patricia L. (1999). Cellular uptake and biological activity of synthetic hammerhead ribozymes. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Fleming, Melissa C. (1999). Skin adhesive hydrogels for biomedical applications. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Fox, Roy (1999). Investigation of the absorption pathways of some poorly absorbed drugs using human intestinal (CAC0-2) cell monolayers. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Fraser, D.S. (1999). Clustering epileptiform discharges in the interictal electroencephalogram with topography preserving maps. Masters thesis, Aston University.

Fu, Guoqun (1999). Consumer evaluations of brand extensions in emerging economies : evidences from China. PHD thesis, Aston University.

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Gaynor, Colin M. (1999). Biochemical aspects of Tourette's Syndrome. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Gilmour, J.E. (1999). The modelling of energy efficient drying for DSM (BL). PHD thesis, Aston University.

Gopaul, Seewoosunkur (1999). Parasitic infections and storage iron deficiency in children in improverished regions of Mauritius. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Govan, Donald S. (1999). Numerical modelling of dispersion managed soliton transmission. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Grewal, Burrinder S. (1999). Mechanisms of chemical and physical transdermal penetration enhancement. PHD thesis, Aston University.

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Harper, Paul, Alleston, S B, Penketh, I S, Govan, D S, Bennion, I, Ellis, Andrew and Doran, Nick (1999). 40 Gb/s Nonlinear RZ Pulse Propagation Over 900km with a 75KM Standard Fibre Span Using Dispersion Compensation:Optimisation of the Launch Position. IN: Proceedings of 25th European Conference on Optical Communications. TU A3 Paper 5, 1 . UNSPECIFIED.

Harper, Paul, Alleston, S.B., Bennion, Ian and Doran, Nick (1999). 40Gb/s dispersion managed soliton transmission over 1160km in standard fibre with a 75 km span length. Electronics letters, 35 (24), pp. 2128-2130.

Harper, Paul, Penketh, I S, Alleston, S B, Govan, D S, Bennion, I and Doran, Nick (1999). Propagation of 4ps, 10Gbit/s dispersion managed solitons over 200Mm using saturable absorption. IN: IEE Colloquium on Optical Solitons (Ref. No. 1999/016). London, 1999-02-04. (Unpublished)

Harrison, Matthew J.K. (1999). The tribology of laminated magnetic recording heads. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Hassall, John C. (1999). Development of performance models for co-operative information systems in an organisational context. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Hathaway, M.W., Fisher, N.E., Webb, David J., Pannell, C.N., Jackson, David A., Gavrilov, L.R., Hand, J.W., Zhang, Lin and Bennion, Ian (1999). Combined ultrasound and temperature sensor using a fibre Bragg grating. Optics communications, 171 (4-6), pp. 225-232.

Higson, Helen E. (1999). Closing the loop. IN: Student feedback system conference. 1999-06-01 - 1999-06-01. (Unpublished)

Higson, Helen and Robins, Paul C. (1999). Managing students' option choices with technology. IN: Best practice in teaching and learning day. 1999-09-04. (Unpublished)

Hjorth, Lars U. (1999). Regularisation of mixture density networks. Technical Report. Aston University, Birmingham.

Hjorth, Lars U. and Nabney, Ian T. (1999). Regularisation of mixture density networks. IN: Ninth International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, 1999. IET conference publications, 2 . GBR: IET.

Hughes, N.P. (1999). Artefactual structure from topographic mappings. Masters thesis, Aston University.

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Iocco, A., Limberger, H G, Salathe, R P, Everall, L A, Chisholm, K E, Williams, J A R and Bennion, I (1999). Bragg Grating fast Tunable Filter For Wavelength Division Multiplexing. Journal of lightwave technology, 17 (7), pp. 1217-1221.

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Kabashima, Yoshiyuki and Saad, David (1999). Statistical mechanics of error-correcting codes. Europhysics Letters, 45 (1), pp. 97-103.

Kabashima, Yoshiyuki and Saad, David (1999). The belief in TAP. IN: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 11. Kearns, Michael J.; Solla, Sara A. and Cohn, David (eds) Proceeding of the 1998 Conference, 11 . Cambridge MA: MIT.

Kanter, Ido and Saad, David (1999). Error-correcting codes that nearly saturate Shannon's bound. Physical Review Letters, 83 (13), pp. 2660-2663.

Kariyawasam, Sandya H. (1999). Investigation into the biochemical changes in Tourette Syndrome with a potential for pharmacological manipulation. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Katos, Vasilios (1999). Product cipher negotiation with on-line evaluation for private communication over computer networks. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Khan, Alim (1999). The sustained delivery of antisense oligodeoxynucleotides using biodegradable polymer microspheres. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Kirkgöz, Yasemín (1999). Knowledge acquisition from L2 specialist texts. PHD thesis, Aston University.

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Layberry, Russell L. (1999). Computer simulation of radio-frequency methane/hydrogen plasmas and their interaction with GaAs Surfaces. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Lecoeuche, V., Webb, David J., Pannell, C.N. and Jackson, David A. (1999). 25 km Brillouin based single-ended distributed fibre sensor for threshold detection of temperature or strain. Optics communications, 168 (1-4), pp. 95-102.

Loak, Kylie M. (1999). Design, synthesis and evaluation of cyclothialidine analogues as DNA gyrase inhibitors. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Lowe, David and Zapart, Krzysztof (1999). Point-wise confidence interval estimation by neural networks: A comparative study based on automotive engine calibration. Neural Computing and Applications, 8 (1), pp. 77-85.

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Maissa, Cecile A. (1999). Biochemical markers and contact lens wear. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Majeed, Zulfiqar (1999). Reactions of directly related tellurium and selenium heterocycic compunds with triiron dodecacarbonyl. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Marzio, P.A. (1999). Complexity measures of electroencephalographic data. Masters thesis, Aston University.

McCabe, Anne M. (1999). Theme and thematic patterns in Spanish and English history texts. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Mertzweiller, F. (1999). Combining deformable templates and neural networks for HCR. Masters thesis, Aston University.

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Nabney, Ian T. (1999). Efficient training of RBF networks for classification. IN: 9th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks. 1999-09-07 - 1999-09-07.

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O'Keeffe, Roderic S. (1999). The production, harvest and adsorptive recovery of an infectious herpes simplex virus vaccine. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Opper, Manfred and Vivarelli, Francesco (1999). General bounds on Bayes errors for regression with Gaussian processes. IN: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 1999. GBR: Neural information processing systems foundation.

Opper, Manfred and Winther, Ole (1999). A Bayesian approach to on-line learning. IN: On-line learning in neural networks. Saad, David (ed.) Publications of the Newton Institute . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Opper, Manfred and Winther, Ole (1999). Mean field methods for classification with Gaussian processes. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 11 , pp. 309-315.

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Pedersen, Henrik C., Johansen, Per M., Webb, David J. and Podivilov, Evgenii V. (1999). Longitudinal parametric oscillation in photorefractive sillenites: comparison between theory and experiment. Applied physics B, 68 (5), pp. 967-970.

Penketh, I S, Harper, Paul, Alleston, S B, Bennion, I and Doran, Nick (1999). 10Gbit/s dispersion managed soliton transmission over 16,500km in standard fibre by reduction of soliton interactions. Optics letters, 24 (12), pp. 802-804.

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Quaife, Peter (1999). Linkages between ecocentric values and action in expert discourse: the case of genetically modified food in the UK. PHD thesis, Aston University.

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Rattray, M. and Saad, D. (1999). Analysis of natural gradient descent for multilayer neural networks. Physical Review E, 59 (4), pp. 4523-4532.

Rattray, Magnus and Saad, David (1999). Incorporating curvature information into on-line learning. IN: On-line learning in neural networks. Saad, David (ed.) Publications of the Newton Institute . Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Roff, Emma J. (1999). Topographic, haemodynamic and psychophysical investigation of glaucomatous optic neuropathy. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Ryan, D.M. and Doran, Nick (1999). 10 Gbit/s OTDM to 4 x 2.5 Gbit/s WDM Optical Interface. IN: 14th Quantum Electronics Conference. Manchester, 1999-09-06 - 1999-09-09. (Unpublished)

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Saad, David (1999). Final report on EPSRC research grant GR/L19232. Project Report. Aston University, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK.

Sahibuddin, Shamsul B. (1999). FlexSIG-Flexible software inspection groupware. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Sallah, David K. (1999). A study of outcomes measures in forensic mental health. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Scarpetta, Silvia, Rattray, Magnus and Saad, David (1999). Natural gradient matrix momentum. IN: Ninth International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 99. Conference Publication, 1 . Edinburgh UK: IEEE.

Scarpetta, Silvia and Saad, David (1999). On-line learning of unrealizable tasks. Physical Review E, 60 (5), pp. 5902-5911.

Seltsikas, Philip (1999). Information management and the holistic, process-oriented enterprise. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Shannak, Rifat O. (1999). An interpretive approach to analysing the role and value of information systems in Jordanian financial organisations. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Soulier, Laurent A.B. (1999). Business strategy and the environment in a traditional manufacturing sector. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Stagg, Christopher D. (1999). New product screening in fast moving consumer goods. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Sutton, Julia K. (1999). An investigation into the synaptic conditions and celluar mechanisms underlying cerebellar synaptic plasticity. PHD thesis, Aston University.

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Tapper, Tristan T. (1999). Living cationic polymerization of isobutene. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Toyooka, Takaaki (1999). Computer simulation for tube-making by the cold roll-forming process. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Tran, Christine D.H. (1999). Intestinal absorption barriers as modelled by p-glycoprotein and cytochrome p450 a34 in caco2 cells. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Tremblin, C. (1999). Automatic applications of diagnostic conditionaing monitoring. Masters thesis, Aston University.

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Valynseele, Martin (1999). Strategy making process, its content and context in small professional football clubs. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Vicente, Renato, Saad, David and Kabashima, Yoshiyuki (1999). Finite connectivity systems as error-correcting codes. Physical Review E, 60 (5), pp. 5352-5366.

Vincent, B. (1999). Survival prognosis in ovarian cancer. Masters thesis, Aston University.

Viot, F. (1999). Condition monitoring of pipelines. Masters thesis, Aston University.

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Walsh, Andrew J. (1999). Synthesis of triplex-forming oligonucleotide conjugates of the anticancer drug temodal. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Webb, David J., Rao, Yun-Jiang, Hathaway, M.W., Jackson, David A., Zhang, Lin and Bennion, Ian (1999). Medical temperature profile monitoring using multiplexed fiber Bragg gratings. IN: Fiber Optic and Laser Sensors and Applications; Including Distributed and Multiplexed Fiber Optic Sensors VII. Darkin, John P.; Kersey, Alan D. and Paul, Dilip K. (eds) SPIE proceedings . USA: SPIE.

Wei, Yingqi (1999). Modelling foreign direct investment in China. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Wharton, Susan M. (1999). From postgraduate student to published writer:discourse variation and development in TESOL. PHD thesis, Aston University.

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Zand, Sohrab (1999). Profit sharing in a manufacturing plant in a developing country : communication and organisational dynamics. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Zhao, Hongyu (1999). Technology valuation within the context of transfer collaborations with Chinese machine tool companies. PHD thesis, Aston University.

Zhao, Hongyu, Bennett, David and Vaidya, Kirit (1999). Technology transfer through international manufacturing networks:valuing technology from an owner’s perspective. IN: Annual Conference of European Operations Management Association. 1999-06-07 - 1999-06-08. (Unpublished)