Using pre-arrival shared reading to promote a sense of community: A case study across two institutions
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Baverstock, A., Steinitz, J., Webster-Henderson, B., Bryars, L., Cairncross, S., Ennis, L., …McLuckie, C. (2018)
Using pre-arrival shared reading to promote a sense of community: A case study across two institutions. Logos, 29(4), https://doi.org/10.1163/18784712-02904005
Seeking to improve student enrolment, engagement, and retention, Kingston University began a pre-arrival shared reading scheme in 2014–2015, sending a free book to every stude...
Gross National Happiness and the Heavenly Stream of Justice: Modernization and Dispute Resolution in the Kingdom of Bhutan
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Simoni, A., & Whitecross, R. W. (2007)
Gross National Happiness and the Heavenly Stream of Justice: Modernization and Dispute Resolution in the Kingdom of Bhutan. American Journal of Comparative Law, 55(1), 165-195. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/55.1.165
The authors, reflecting on the paradigm of globalization, provide a case study that focuses on the modernization of the Bhutanese legal system. Historically isolated and never...
Belonging: Blurring the Boundaries
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Meharg, D., Craighill, S., Varey, A., & Cairncross, S. (2017)
Belonging: Blurring the Boundaries. Scottish Educational Review, 49(1), 89-103
This paper applies Whitchurch’s (2008) concept of the ‘third space’ to the emergent territory occupied by further education college students as they ‘cross the boundary’ to co...
Effects of installing a marked crosswalk on road crossing behaviour and perceptions of the environment.
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Havard, C., & Willis, A. (2012)
Effects of installing a marked crosswalk on road crossing behaviour and perceptions of the environment. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 15, 249-260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2011.12.007
A two-pronged study was conducted to investigate (a) pedestrians’ road-crossing behaviour and (b) perceptions of the walking environment, both before and after the installatio...
Do High Visibility Crosswalks Improve Pedestrian Safety? A Correlated Grouped Random Parameters Approach Using Naturalistic Driving Study Data
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Sonduru Pantangi, S., Shahriar Ahmed, S., Fountas, G., Majka, K., & Ch. Anastasopoulos, P. (2021)
Do High Visibility Crosswalks Improve Pedestrian Safety? A Correlated Grouped Random Parameters Approach Using Naturalistic Driving Study Data. Analytic Methods in Accident Research, 30, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amar.2020.100155
In this study, the effectiveness of High-Visibility Crosswalks (HVCs) in improving pedestrian safety at urban settings is assessed using SHRP2 (Second Strategic Highway Resear...
Rationing of nursing care in Internal Medicine Departments—a cross-sectional study
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Jędrzejczyk, M., Guzak, B., Czapla, M., Ross, C., Vellone, E., Juzwiszyn, J., …Uchmanowicz, I. (2023)
Rationing of nursing care in Internal Medicine Departments—a cross-sectional study. BMC Nursing, 22(1), Article 455. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-023-01617-x
Background: Implicit rationing of nursing care refers to a situation in which necessary nursing care is not performed to meet all of the patients’ needs. Purpose: To examine t...
Cross-border insolvency and rescue law theory: moving away from the traditional debate on universalism and territorialism
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Ghio, E. (2018)
Cross-border insolvency and rescue law theory: moving away from the traditional debate on universalism and territorialism. International Company and Commercial Law Review, 29(12), 713-724
Suggests why the EU framework for cross-border insolvency and rescue law, based on territorialism or universalism, should be replaced by a structure reflecting current realiti...
Capturing the role of societal affinity in cross-border mergers with the Eurovision Song Contest
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Siganos, A., & Tabner, I. T. (2020)
Capturing the role of societal affinity in cross-border mergers with the Eurovision Song Contest. Journal of International Business Studies, 51(2), 263-273. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-019-00271-3
This paper demonstrates the effectiveness of voting bias in the Eurovision Song Contest as a means of capturing societal affinity. More than 180 million viewers from more than...
A new biclustering technique based on crossing minimization
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Abdullah, A., & Hussain, A. (2006)
A new biclustering technique based on crossing minimization. Neurocomputing, 69(16-18), 1882-1896. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2006.02.018
Clustering only the records in a database (or data matrix) gives a global view of the data. For a detailed analysis or a local view, biclustering or co-clustering is required,...
Online video in clinical skills education of oral medication administration for undergraduate student nurses: A mixed methods, prospective cohort study
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Holland, A., Smith, F. C., McCrossan, G., Adamson, E., Watt, S., & Penny, K. I. (2013)
Online video in clinical skills education of oral medication administration for undergraduate student nurses: A mixed methods, prospective cohort study. Nurse Education Today, 33(6), 663-670. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2012.01.006
Background
Improvements in the safety of the prescribing, dispensing and administration of medicines are identified as a priority across international healthcare systems. It i...