This research project will present a qualitative and quantitative account of how Lloyds Bank emerged as the strongest UK bank in the 1990s -after being the weakest ten years earlier. Through a case study approach the research presents the genesis and performance of Lloyds Bank’s response to new growth opportunities. Through econometric analysis (i.e. an event study) the research evaluates the s...

The purpose of the paper is to examine the relationship between technological diversification and internationalisation of technology for large multinational firms, operating at the world technological frontier. More precisely we address the question as to whether internationalisation determines diversification. The analysis is based on a rich database of the European patenting activity of 345 l...

In this paper we present the results achieved during the 2015 MediaEval Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task, using an approach based on pseudo-relevance feedback, in which human feedback is replaced by an automatic selection of images. The proposed approach is designed to have in priority the diversification of the results, in contrast to most of the existing techniques that address only the ...

In this paper we present the results achieved during the 2016 MediaEval Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task, using an approach based on pseudo-relevance feedback, in which human feedback is replaced by an automatic selection of images. The proposed approach is designed to have in priority the diversification of the results, in contrast to most of the existing techniques that address only the ...

This paper examines livelihood diversification as a survival strategy of rural households in developing countries. Although still of central importance, farming on its own is increasingly unable to provide a sufficient means of survival in rural areas. The paper’s objectives are first, to increase awareness of livelihood diversification in approaches to rural development; second, to consider th...

In this paper we present the results achieved during the 2017 MediaEval Retrieving Diverse Social Images Task, using an approach based on pseudo-relevance feedback (RF), in which human feedback is replaced by an automatic selection of images. The proposed approach is designed to have in priority the diversification of the results, in contrast to most of the existing techniques that address only...

Result diversification is a retrieval strategy for dealing with ambiguous or multi-faceted queries by providing documents that cover as many facets of the query as possible. We propose a result diversification framework based on query-specific clustering and cluster ranking, in which diversification is restricted to documents belonging to clusters that potentially contain a high percentage of r...

Species richness is distributed unevenly across the tree of life and this may be influenced by the evolution of novel phenotypes that promote diversification. Viviparity has originated ∼150 times in vertebrates and is considered to be an adaptation to highly variable environments. Likewise, possessing an annual life cycle is common in plants and insects, where it enables the colonization of sea...

Implementation of Human-centred Design methods in the Fuzzy FrontEnd is not likely to lead to diversification in educational product planning exercises, where time lines are short and executors lack experience. Companies, interested to collaborate with M.Sc. students on strategic design projects, should have realistic ambitions with respect to innovation and value creation. Moreover, diversific...