Robert Huber, professor, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

CARDIFF UNIVERSITY Attention in the Pigeon

Cardiff Univeristy

Ghent and Cardiff University at the 2012 Placing Task

We present the results of our submission to the MediaEval 2012 Placing Task. We used a framework that combines language models and similarity search, which improves our system from last year by using a different feature selection technique, extending our similarity search, tapping into new types of information for videos without any tags and including the use of SIFT features.

CARDIFF BUSINESS SCHOOL WORKING PAPER SERIES Cardiff Working Papers in Accounting and Finance

This paper draws on the work of Streeck and Schmitter (1985) and its subsequent use by Puxty, et al (1987) to analyse the development of accounting regulation in the U.K. public sector. It provides an extension to prior literature through the application of a framework, based on modes of social order, to investigate divergence in the approaches to accounting regulation between the public and pr...

Cardiff Working Papers in Accounting and Finance

This study investigates the association between the ownership structure of a firm and the accuracy of individual one-year-ahead earnings forecasts made by UK analysts. The relationship is explored in the presence of individual analyst and firm-specific characteristics using a research-tailored dataset comprising 11,659 individual analysts’ forecasts made over the period, 1996 to 2001. To addres...