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Parallel processes and situation awareness display design
In recent years there has been trend away from single sensor/single (SS/SI) indicator boards as the means by which overall understanding of current work-flow is expressed. Rather, computer screen based Supervisory Control ... -
Parental \ household norms: Do they influence adolescent consumption - A study of milk selection and consumption among 11-13 year olds
There are many factors that influence food selection and consumption. The two broad categories are household influences and external influences. Such influences have a significant bearing on the choice of food products ... -
Part-time policing
The Equal Pay Act 1972, Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987, Human Rights Act 1993 and associated legislation to protect the rights of working women, combined with social pressures, encourage the women of ... -
Partial ownership and cross-border mergers
Partial ownership can be used as a screening device by a foreign firm which wants to merge with a local firm whose productivity is private information. As partial ownership is confined to sharing future merger profits, it ... -
Partial ownership and cross-border mergers
Partial ownership can be used as a screening device by a foreign firm which wants to merge with a local firm whose productivity is private information. As partial ownership is confined to sharing future merger profits, it ... -
Partner selection mechanisms for agent cooperation
In a multi-agent system, a single agent may not be capable of completing complex tasks. Therefore agents are required to form a team to fulfill the task requirements. In this paper an agent model is introduced that ... -
Passenger Perceptions of Depersonalisation of the Airport Experience
The airport environment has been changing drastically in recent years, brought about by economic and technological reforms considered necessary by airports due to rising fuel prices and the global recession experienced in ... -
Pay-Performance Sensitivity and Firm Risk: The New Zealand Evidence
The study finds evidence that CEO pay-performance sensitivity decreases in the variance of stock returns for NZ publicly listed firms during 1997 to 2005. Furthermore, CEOs in firms with more volatile stock prices have ... -
People, Rivers and Recreation: Fluid Relationships of Place and Experience on the Clutha River, Otago, New Zealand
The relationships between people and their outdoor environments are understood as diverse, complex and often contested with the result that examining the meanings people have for places such as rivers and placing value on ... -
Perceptions of myths and brand identity in advertising : exploring the role of archetypes and national symbolism in advertising
Similar myths emerge all over the world at the same time, in cultures that have had no contact with each other. Myths include the symbols and roles that define the identity of a group of people. Carl Gustav Jung proposes ... -
Perceptions of myths and brand identity in advertising: Exploring the role of archetypes and national symbolism in advertising
And if it is true that we acquired our knowledge before our birth, and lost it at the moment of birth, but afterward, by the exercise of our senses upon sensible objects, recover the knowledge which we had once before, I ... -
Perceptions of political marketing in Sweden: a comparative perspective
The political marketing academic literature is largely an Anglo-Saxon one, with the main European contributions coming from Ireland and the UK. Comparatively little has been written explicitly about political marketing in ... -
Perceptions of the Otago Central Rail Trail
Even though the name has changed, the concept of greenways/rail-trails and their benefits to the communities through which they pass have existed for many years. Early City planners proposed the idea of greenbelts and ... -
Performance and risk aversion of funds with benchmarks: A large deviations approach
Mutual fund performance is often measured relative to a designated benchmark portfolio. This paper provides a simple method of ranking portfolios' probabilities of outperforming a benchmark portfolio. Ranking fund performance ... -
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
Performance evaluations systems are a critical part of overall performance management systems. This intensive case study provides insights into how the use of subjective performance evaluations in a complex organisational ... -
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
Performance evaluations systems are a critical part of overall performance management systems. This intensive case study provides insights into how the use of subjective performance evaluations in a complex organisational ... -
Performance management: observations from empirical work
A review of field studies in Accounting, Organizations and Society and Management Accounting Research from 1990-2003 (in press) finds that there are few field studies that examine overall performance management processes ... -
Performance of relational databases versus native XML databases
The popularity of Extensible Markup Language (x.mii) has grown with the rise in use of the World Wide Web and it has become a standard means of data exchange. This development has created the need to store and manage XML ... -
Permanent and Transitory Shocks among Pacific Island Economies - Prospects for a Pacific Islands Currency Union
This paper re-kindles the debate on the feasibility of a Pacific Islands currency union in view of the recent expansion and consolidation of regional strategies and agreements such as the ‘Pacific Plan’ and the Pacific ... -
Persistence in unit trust performance in New Zealand
The efficient market hypothesis states that past performance should be no predictor of future performance. I test this using free from survivorship bias, a sample of all New Zealand unit trusts in existence from 1987-1998. ...