Verdiana Giannetti and Jieke Chen from the LUBS marketing department, along with Xingjie Wei have a new paper that sheds light on how the facial similarity of actors in Hollywood movies can significantly affect box office performance in East and South-East Asian (ESEA) countries. The research, published in the International Marketing Review, suggests that casting...
Andrea Taylor presented the interim results from the project funded by Lloyd’s Register Foundation “Analysing risk perception and preparedness to develop effective disaster risk communication strategies” at the WMO/WWRP Weather & Society Conference on 29th February. This conference covered a number of themes linked to the UN initiative Early Warnings for All, with Andrea’s presentation...
A new Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) has been awarded to a company Katchr and our academic team, Drs. Richard Hodgett (lead, CDR), Nabi Omidvar (School of Computing and LUBS), and Xingjie Wei (CDR). Katchr is a leader in software-based technology within the legal sector, has developed software that has significantly optimised data analytical capabilities for...
Junhao Liang, a PhD student at the Centre for Decision Research, made a presentation at the 18th meeting of the Credit Scoring and Credit Control conference at the University of Edinburgh held from August 30 to September 1, 2023. Junhao’s presentation, titled "Tabular Image: A Method to Convert Tabular Data to Images for Convolutional Neural...
Edika Quispe-Torreblanca & colleagues have a paper accepted in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin entitled "Political Attitudes and Disease Threat: Regional Pathogen Stress is Associated with Conservative Ideology only for Older Individuals" ABSTRACT What environmental factors are associated with individual differences in political ideology, and do such associations change over time? We examine whether reductions...
Signing new musical talent is a complex decision problem for music labels. This paper proposes and tests a framework for the creation of a decision support system based on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and decision science for the process of signing new musical talent by music labels. In the music industry, the process of signing...
Andrea Taylor, Sarah Jenkins and Barbara Summers, working with Yim Ling Sui and Suraje Dessai (School of Earth and Environment), have been awarded £435K by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation for a 3 year research project to develop and test risk communication and reduction strategies for severe weather events. The funds were awarded by Lloyds Register...
This paper look at citizens’ preferences for reducing the use of glyphosate (a controversial herbicide) by the means of taxation and /or regulation instruments has been accepted for publication in PLoS One. In 2023, the European Union will vote on the reauthorization of glyphosate use, renewed in 2017 despite concern on impacts on the environment...
David gave a presentation at the 16th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research entitled "An MDCEV model with unknown budget"and a seminar at the Department of Transport and Logistic from Universidad de Chile’s Engineering School entitled "Comparing MDCEV and eMDC models for time use in the presence of multitasking". Abstracts and links to slides for...
Sarah Jenkins has been awarded funding to work with the Risk Unit at the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS). She will primarily be working on the monitoring, development and evaluation of PRISM – the new product risk assessment tool for supporting product safety practitioners. She will also be conducting research on hazard predictors...
