17 research outputs found
New Models for Data Envelopment Analysis. Measuring Efficiency Outwith the VRS Frontier
No full textSome models are presented in this paper which extend the concept of measuring superefficiency to the useful case of variable returns-to-scales (VRS), thus enabling the ranking of efficient as well as inefficient units. Two models, namely the Universal Radial Model and the Universal Additive Model, are presented that also have strong invariance properties (units and translation invariance). For both of these models a method for normalising the efficiency scores on a (0-1+) scale is presented. These models have been implemented in a software package and applied to the ranking of units in an industrial context.Data envelopment analysis (DEA), Superefficiency, Universal models
Correction to: The U&I study: study protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial of a pre-cognitive behavioural therapy digital ‘informed choice’ intervention to improve attitudes towards uptake and implementation of CBT for psychosis
No full textFollowing publication of the original article [1], the authors reported a typing mistake in the spelling of author Iain O’Leary. The original article has been corrected
Save Now [Y/N]? Machine Memory at War in Iain Banks’ <i>Look to Windward</i>
No full text Creating memory during and after wartime trauma is vexed by state attempts to control public and private discourse. Science fiction author Iain Banks’ novel Look to Windward proposes different ways of preserving memory and culture, from posthuman memory devices, to artwork, to architecture, to personal, local ways of remembering. </jats:p
Dams burst: devolving gender in Iain Banks's "The Wasp Factory"
No full textScottish author Iain Banks examines the destructiveness of patriarchy in his novel 'The Wasp Factory.' Banks believes an authoritarian regime stifles the citizens within it, and the only way to create a humanistic existence is to overthrow the old order, basing the new one on a productive interaction of differences
Business of portfolio management
No full textThe Business of Portfolio Management offers keys to adopting a new approach to portfolio management that boosts organizational value. A veteran in the field, author Iain Fraser proposes a solution that lies in using the value management framework to link organizational strategy to portfolio content and to delivery mechanisms. In this expansive guide, case study examples illuminate in-depth discussions explaining the value management framework, implementation and delivery techniques, portfolio leadership qualities, key roles and professional development, and change management. Also included is an overview of organizational maturity models to evaluate project, program, and portfolio performance as well as tools and techniques to implement, execute, and measure their benefits and value contribution
A unique and conflicted enlightener: Adam Ferguson’s political thought
No full textAdam Ferguson (1723–1816) was a leading figure of the Scottish Enlightenment but his fame has long been eclipsed by those of his contemporaries, David Hume and Adam Smith. As Lisa Hill discusses in her review article on Iain McDaniel\u27s book Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe’s Future, attempts to recover Ferguson from obscurity are wise: he was interested in a central question of our times: how to prevent large, prosperous and competitive commercial states from degenerating into counter-democratic militarism.
Book title: Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe’s Future
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date published: 2013
Author: Iain McDanie
Three Towers Golden Ale - A Refreshing Take on \u27Foe\u27 by Iain Reid
No full textThe Feed Mill Brewery and Three Towers Golden Ale brand was inspired and interconnected with motifs, characters, and settings seen in Foe written by author Iain Reid. The packaging for this new age beer company has an overall aesthetic that aligns perfectly with the book itself and could easily be imagined as a product between the pages or promoting them. Three Towers Golden Ale is believably Junior\u27s drink of preference, which is a refined taste that could not be easily replaced.
Department: Design Studies
Faculty Mentor: Constanza Pache
Edith: a performance
No full textAndrew Kötting and author Iain Sinclair take another epic journey through England's buried history in EDITH. Following on from Swandown and By Our Selves (both screened by EEFF) Kötting and Sinclair embarked on a 108 mile walk from Waltham Abbey to St Leonards-on-Sea in memory of Edith Swan Neck, the mistress of King Harold.
Reconnecting and consoling historic lovers after nearly 1,000 years, the experience has inspired a film (Edith Walks), bookwork and this special live film-music-performance event, incorporating spoken word from Iain Sinclair, with music and soundscapes by David Aylward, Claudia Barton, Jem Finer and Andrew Kötting, set to the spectral images of Kötting’s film. A chance to experience an extraordinary project in the atmosphere of St. Johns on Bethnal Green, with EDITH as their hallucination
Loch Striven and its Secret Weapons
No full textDuring the Second World War, Loch Striven in western Scotland was used for testing several of Britain’s secret weapons, the most notable of them being the X-craft midget submarines and the Highball ‘bouncing bomb’, the latter being the smaller version of the Upkeep mine used against the Ruhr dams in the famous Dambuster raid of May 1943. Whereas several specimens of the Upkeep have been recovered since the war, over the years only one complete Highball was recovered. However, although the latter was earmarked to go to a museum, this did not happen and therefore there was no complete Highball on permanent display anywhere. Also, no Highball had ever been raised from Loch Striven, the site of its main trials ... that is not until our author Iain Murray initiated an undertaking to do so. In July 2017, after much planning and preparation, two Highballs were successfully lifted off the bottom of the loch
