a Loughborough University, UK b Institute of Work Psychology, Sheffield University Management School, University of Sheffield, Conduit Road, Sheffield S10 1FL, United Kingdom c Centre for Organizational Health and Well Being, Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YD, United Kingdom d Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia, East Anglia NR4 7TJ, United K...

Article history: Received 27 February 2014 Received in revised form 13 April 2015 Accepted 14 April 2015 Available online xxxx

Hydraulic pipes and cable bundles attached to host structures are widely found in engineering. This paper explores how variability in the connection points between structures affects the coupled dynamics. One at a time, two different one-dimensional waveguides are attached to a thin plate through a different set of point connections. Measurements considering randomly spaced connections were mad...

The alternative soil tillage technology plays an important role in the development of a sustainable agriculture. The use of traditional technology gives the farmers a positive expected income. With the use of an alternative soil tillage technology, the expected income considerably rises together with the income risk. Combinations of income and risk revealed that the use of traditional technolog...

The finance literature documents the relation between labor income and the crosssection of stock returns. A possible explanation is the hedging of investors with relative wealth concerns who pay a premium for securities that help them to keep up with their peers. Relative wealth concerns imply a local effect and a negative risk premium associated with the risk factor, since investors are willin...

We have developed a trainable method of shape representation which can automatically capture the invariant properties of a class of shapes and provide a compact parametric description of variability. We have applied the method to a family of flexible ribbons (worms) and to heart shapes in echocardiograms. We show that in both cases a natural parameterisation of shape results.