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Commoditising Learning: Cultural Economy and the Growth of for-Profit Business Education Service Firms in London (2011)
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Hall, S., & Appleyard, L. (2011). Commoditising Learning: Cultural Economy and the Growth of for-Profit Business Education Service Firms in London. Environment and Planning A, 43(1), 10-27. https://doi.org/10.1068/a42488

ndividuals working in graduate labour markets are increasingly expected to enhance their employability and career progression by undertaking lifelong education and learning within the workplace. Research has examined how graduates navigate this dynam... Read More about Commoditising Learning: Cultural Economy and the Growth of for-Profit Business Education Service Firms in London.

An overview of recent remote sensing and GIS based research in ecological informatics (2011)
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Boyd, D. S., & Foody, G. M. (2011). An overview of recent remote sensing and GIS based research in ecological informatics. Ecological Informatics, 6(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2010.07.007

This article provides an overview of some of the recent research in ecological informatics involving remote sensing and GIS. Attention focuses on a selected range of issues including topics such as the nature of remote sensing data sets, issues of ac... Read More about An overview of recent remote sensing and GIS based research in ecological informatics.

Application of Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) for assessing biogenic silica sample purity in geochemical analyses and palaeoenvironmental research (2011)
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Swann, G. E., & Patwardhan, S. V. (2011). Application of Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) for assessing biogenic silica sample purity in geochemical analyses and palaeoenvironmental research. Climate of the Past, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-7-65-2011

The development of a rapid and non-destructive method to assess purity levels in samples of biogenic silica prior to geochemical/isotope analysis remains a key objective in improving both the quality and use of such data in environmental and palaeocl... Read More about Application of Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) for assessing biogenic silica sample purity in geochemical analyses and palaeoenvironmental research.

Educational ties, social capital and the translocal (re)production of MBA alumni networks (2010)
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Hall, S. (2011). Educational ties, social capital and the translocal (re)production of MBA alumni networks. Global Networks, 11(1), 118-138. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-0374.2011.00310.x

Research on elite, transnational networks has identified social and cultural capital associated with particular academic credentials as being an important element in network formation. How and why such networks are reproduced after graduation, howeve... Read More about Educational ties, social capital and the translocal (re)production of MBA alumni networks.

Professionalization, legitimization and the creation of executive search markets in Europe (2010)
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Beaverstock, J. V., Faulconbridge, J. R., & Hall, S. J. (2010). Professionalization, legitimization and the creation of executive search markets in Europe. Journal of Economic Geography, 10(6), 825-843. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbp058

There is a longstanding interest in the 'production of markets' and the various political-and cultural-economic strategies associated with demand-creation. This article shows how the professions, because of their central role in contemporary economy,... Read More about Professionalization, legitimization and the creation of executive search markets in Europe.

Geographies of money and finance I: Cultural economy, politics and place (2010)
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Hall, S. (2011). Geographies of money and finance I: Cultural economy, politics and place. Progress in Human Geography, 35(2), 234-245. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132510370277

In this report, I review the intersection between cultural economy and economic geography research on money and finance. To date, economic geographers have engaged most extensively with cultural economy work on the calculative practices that (re)prod... Read More about Geographies of money and finance I: Cultural economy, politics and place.

Palaeoclimate chronology and aridization tendencies in the Transbaikalia for the last 1900 years (2010)
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Ptitsyn, A., Reshetova, S., Babich, V., Daryin, A., Kalugin, I., Ovchinnikov, D., …Myglan, V. (2010). Palaeoclimate chronology and aridization tendencies in the Transbaikalia for the last 1900 years. Geografiya i Prirodnye Resursy / Geography and Natural Resources, 31(2), 144-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gnr.2010.06.009

Within the long-term research program on reconstruction of palaeoclimatic characteristics of Central Asia, we carried out a palaeoreconstructions of climate aridity/humidity in the Transbaikalia, based on investigating layered palynological spectra a... Read More about Palaeoclimate chronology and aridization tendencies in the Transbaikalia for the last 1900 years.

Aerial photosieving of exposed gravel bars for the rapid calibration of airborne grain size maps (2010)
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Dugdale, S. J., Carbonneau, P. E., & Campbell, D. (2010). Aerial photosieving of exposed gravel bars for the rapid calibration of airborne grain size maps. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 35(6), 627-639. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.1936

In recent years, fluvial remote sensing has seen considerable progress in terms of methods capable of system scale characterisation of river catchments. One key development is automated grain size mapping. It has been shown that high resolution aeria... Read More about Aerial photosieving of exposed gravel bars for the rapid calibration of airborne grain size maps.

A combined oxygen and silicon diatom isotope record of Late Quaternary change in Lake El'gygytgyn, North East Siberia (2010)
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Swann, G. E., Leng, M. J., Juschus, O., Melles, M., Brigham-Grette, J., & Sloane, H. J. (2010). A combined oxygen and silicon diatom isotope record of Late Quaternary change in Lake El'gygytgyn, North East Siberia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 29(5-6), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.11.024

Determining the response of sites within the Arctic Circle to long-term climatic change remains an essential pre-requisite for assessing the susceptibility of these regions to future global warming and Arctic amplification. To date, existing records... Read More about A combined oxygen and silicon diatom isotope record of Late Quaternary change in Lake El'gygytgyn, North East Siberia.

Assessing the accuracy of land cover change with imperfect ground reference data (2010)
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Foody, G. M. (2010). Assessing the accuracy of land cover change with imperfect ground reference data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 114(10), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2010.05.003

The ground data used as a reference in the validation of land cover change products are often not an ideal gold standard but degraded by error. The effects of ground reference data error on the accuracy of land cover change detection and the accuracy... Read More about Assessing the accuracy of land cover change with imperfect ground reference data.

Feature selection for classification of hyperspectral data by SVM (2010)
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Pal, M., & Foody, G. M. (2010). Feature selection for classification of hyperspectral data by SVM. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 48(5), https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2009.2039484

SVM are attractive for the classification of remotely sensed data with some claims that the method is insensitive to the dimensionality of the data and so not requiring a dimensionality reduction analysis in pre-processing. Here, a series of classifi... Read More about Feature selection for classification of hyperspectral data by SVM.

A comparison of the Si/Al and Si/time wet-alkaline digestion methods for measurement of biogenic silica in lake sediments (2010)
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Swann, G. E. (2010). A comparison of the Si/Al and Si/time wet-alkaline digestion methods for measurement of biogenic silica in lake sediments. Journal of Paleolimnology, 44(2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-009-9308-9

Existing techniques for measuring sediment Biogenic Silica (BSi) concentrations rely largely on conventional (Si-only) wet-alkaline digestion methods. Although results have provided detailed palaeoenvironmental information, potential errors can arise... Read More about A comparison of the Si/Al and Si/time wet-alkaline digestion methods for measurement of biogenic silica in lake sediments.

Salinity changes in the North West Pacific Ocean during the late Pliocene/early Quaternary from 2.73 Ma to 2.52 Ma (2010)
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Swann, G. E. (2010). Salinity changes in the North West Pacific Ocean during the late Pliocene/early Quaternary from 2.73 Ma to 2.52 Ma. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 297(1-2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2010.06.035

Recent research has increasingly advocated a role for the North Pacific Ocean in modulating global climatic changes over both the last glacial cycle and further back into the geological record. Here a diatom δ18O record is presented from Ocean Drilli... Read More about Salinity changes in the North West Pacific Ocean during the late Pliocene/early Quaternary from 2.73 Ma to 2.52 Ma.

Governing prostitution in colonial Delhi: from cantonment regulations to international hygiene (1864-1939) (2009)
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Legg, S. (in press). Governing prostitution in colonial Delhi: from cantonment regulations to international hygiene (1864-1939). Social History, 34(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/03071020903257018

This article explores the social and governmental geographies of colonial Delhi, India. It seeks contrasts and comparisons between two periods in the city's history. The first period is delimited by the ‘Mutiny’ of 1857 and the transfer of the capita... Read More about Governing prostitution in colonial Delhi: from cantonment regulations to international hygiene (1864-1939).

Organisational geographies of power: Introduction to special issue (2009)
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Faulconbridge, J. R., & Hall, S. (2009). Organisational geographies of power: Introduction to special issue. Geoforum, 40(5), 785-789. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2009.09.003

This paper introduces the special issue 'organisational geographies of power' by examining the theoretical and empirical context for debates. It does this, firstly, with reference to existing theoretical work on what power is and does as well as work... Read More about Organisational geographies of power: Introduction to special issue.

'City of London, City of Learning'? Placing business education within the geographies of finance (2009)
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Hall, S., & Appleyard, L. (2009). 'City of London, City of Learning'? Placing business education within the geographies of finance. Journal of Economic Geography, 9(5), 597-617. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbp026

The role of highly skilled financiers in shaping the spatialities of financial systems has been widely studied by social scientists. However, comparatively less attention has been paid to the growing use of business education to (re)produce 'highly s... Read More about 'City of London, City of Learning'? Placing business education within the geographies of finance.

An automated georeferencing tool for watershed scale fluvial remote sensing (2009)
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Carbonneau, P. E., Dugdale, S. J., & Clough, S. (2011). An automated georeferencing tool for watershed scale fluvial remote sensing. River Research and Applications, 26(5), 650-658. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.1263

In recent years, remotely sensed image datasets with ground resolutions below 10 cm have seen widening applications in fluvial sciences with the development of methods for image based measurements of bathymetry, grain sizes and habitat types. However... Read More about An automated georeferencing tool for watershed scale fluvial remote sensing.

Exploring cultural economies of internationalization: the role of 'iconic individuals' and 'brand leaders' in the globalization of headhunting (2009)
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Hall, S., Beaverstock, J. V., Faulconbridge, J. R., & Hewitson, A. (2009). Exploring cultural economies of internationalization: the role of 'iconic individuals' and 'brand leaders' in the globalization of headhunting. Global Networks, 9(3), 399-419. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-0374.2009.00260.x

Understanding the internationalization of professional services like advertising, architecture, accounting, consulting and legal services continues to attract considerable attention in academic and policy circles. Research in geography and management... Read More about Exploring cultural economies of internationalization: the role of 'iconic individuals' and 'brand leaders' in the globalization of headhunting.