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"Virtuous Beings"; The concept of tha damtshig and being a moral person in contemporary Bhutanese society

Journal Article
Whitecross, R. W. (2010)
"Virtuous Beings"; The concept of tha damtshig and being a moral person in contemporary Bhutanese society. Himalaya, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 28, 71-82
This paper sets out a preliminary investigation of tha damtshig. In particular, it examines the concept of tha damtshig, and its role in the creation of a sense of moral ident...

Transnational network formation through sports related regional development projects in the Arabian Peninsula

Journal Article
Amara, M., & Theodoraki, E. (2010)
Transnational network formation through sports related regional development projects in the Arabian Peninsula. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 2, 135-158. https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2010.488060
The exploration of the phenomenon of regional development through sports related projects in the Arabian Peninsula shows ways in which urban regeneration investment projects a...

Not what you know, nor who you know, but who you know already: Examining Online Information Sharing Behaviours in a Blogging Environment through the Lens of Social Exchange Theory

Journal Article
Hall, H., Widen, G., & Paterson, L. (2010)
Not what you know, nor who you know, but who you know already: Examining Online Information Sharing Behaviours in a Blogging Environment through the Lens of Social Exchange Theory. Libri, 60(2), 117-128. https://doi.org/10.1515/libr.2010.011
This paper focuses on the extent to which online information sharing practice is socially motivated. A key interest is how knowledge of the existing social connections between...

Erfolgreiches Risikomanagement im Mittelstand

Book
Henschel, T. (2010)
Erfolgreiches Risikomanagement im Mittelstand. Erich Schmidt
Für mittelständische Unternehmen ist ein funktionierendes Risikomanagement unerlässlich: Es zählt zu den wichtigen Kriterien im Ratingverfahren der Banken und ist somit ein en...

Financial Capability: Evidence Review - Report of the Scottish Government Social Inclusion Division

Report
McQuaid, R. W. & Egdell, V. (2010)
Financial Capability: Evidence Review - Report of the Scottish Government Social Inclusion Division
This report provides a brief overview of current evidence on financial capability as it relates to disadvantage in Scotland.

Evaluating the experience of children with cerebral palsy and their parents in the transition from primary school to secondary school

Thesis
Noble, A. M. Evaluating the experience of children with cerebral palsy and their parents in the transition from primary school to secondary school. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3742
The transition from primary to secondary school has been identified as a time that requires further investigation. In particular there is a need to include the experiences of ...

An appetite for learning: increasing employee demand for skills development, Praxis report for UK Commission for Employment and Skills

Report
McQuaid, R. W., Lindsay, C., & Johnson, S. (2010)
An appetite for learning: increasing employee demand for skills development, Praxis report for UK Commission for Employment and Skills
This paper presents a policy framework for describing the various factors that influence the success (or otherwise) of policy interventions designed to increase individual par...

‘New’ technologies and journalism practice in Africa: Towards a critical sociological approach.

Book
Mabweazara, H. (2009)
‘New’ technologies and journalism practice in Africa: Towards a critical sociological approach. In N. Hyde-Clarke (Ed.), Citizen Journalism and Alternative Avenues of Communication, 11-30. Juta & Co
This chapter suggests a critical sociological approach in terms of which we can closely examine the use of ‘new’ technologies by journalists in Africa. It argues that to under...

Auto-ethnography: problems, pitfalls and promise

Presentation / Conference
Sobolewska, E., Smith, C. F., & Turner, P. (2009, April)
Auto-ethnography: problems, pitfalls and promise. Paper presented at HCI Educators 2009, University of Abertay, Dundee
The teaching and perhaps more importantly the practice of ethnographic techniques has become increasing important within Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). But ethnography is a...

Breaking the Rules: writing reflectively for yourself.

Book
Cowan, J. (2008)
Breaking the Rules: writing reflectively for yourself. In N. L. Mertens (Ed.), Writing, Processes, Tools and Techniques, 109-113. Nova Science Publishers
The rules which epitomise good writing may on occasions be broken, deliberately and with what the writers judge to be good purpose. This can well occur when students or staff ...