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The Importance of Neighborhood Context in Arts-Led Development: Community Anchor or Creative Class Magnet? (2016)
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© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. This article contributes to the creative city–community development arts policy debate by examining the association of arts organizations to various neighborhood contexts in New York City. Results from multivariate regre... Read More about The Importance of Neighborhood Context in Arts-Led Development: Community Anchor or Creative Class Magnet?.

Social recognition provision patterns in professional Q&A forums in Healthcare and Construction (2016)
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© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. For some decades, professional Q&A forums have been used as a mainstream way of sharing practices between novices and experts. Several forums have had time to develop their own communities and habits, which m... Read More about Social recognition provision patterns in professional Q&A forums in Healthcare and Construction.

Towards an understanding of contextual features that influence the linguistic formality of British Sign Language users (2015)
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This paper seeks to understand linguistic formality through the identification and measurement of contextual features. Using an adapted sociometric methodology to combine systemic functional linguistics and sign linguistics, a survey identifies the e... Read More about Towards an understanding of contextual features that influence the linguistic formality of British Sign Language users.

EDITORIAL: Ideas in mobile learning (2015)
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The contributions for this Special Collection on ‘Ideas in Mobile Learning’ expand on the trends explored in the successful ‘Bristol Ideas in Mobile Learning Symposium’ which ran on the 6th and 7th March, 2014 (see Cloudworks, 2014; BIML, 2014). Four... Read More about EDITORIAL: Ideas in mobile learning.

Growth of conventions shows geeks have always wanted to meet up IRL (2015)
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A discussion of the rise of fan conventions, and the positive connections these build between fandom, academia and gaming / science fiction and fantasy gaming professionals

Fifty years investigating institutional corruption and organized crime: an interview with Selwyn Raab (2015)
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© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York. This email interview with Selwyn Raab was conducted during 2014. It discusses Raab’s background, influences, career and current thinking and activities from his experiences as a student journalist dur... Read More about Fifty years investigating institutional corruption and organized crime: an interview with Selwyn Raab.

Questioning preconceived notions about organized crime: an interview with Petrus C. van Duyne (2015)
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© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York. This email interview with Petrus C. van Duyne was conducted during 2014. It discusses van Duyne’s background, influences, career and current thinking and activities from his graduate and postgraduate... Read More about Questioning preconceived notions about organized crime: an interview with Petrus C. van Duyne.

The analysis and containment of organized crime in Europe: an interview with Cyrille Fijnaut (2015)
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© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York. This email interview with Cyrille Fijnaut was conducted during 2013 and 2014. It discusses Fijnaut’s background, influences, career and current thinking and activities from his early career in the Dut... Read More about The analysis and containment of organized crime in Europe: an interview with Cyrille Fijnaut.

Enterprise not ethnicity: an interview with Dwight C. Smith Jr (2015)
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© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York. This email interview with Dwight C. Smith Jr. was conducted during 2012 and 2013. It discusses Smith’s background, influences, career and current thinking and activities from his early career in U.S.... Read More about Enterprise not ethnicity: an interview with Dwight C. Smith Jr.

The analysis and containment of organized crime in New York City and beyond: an interview with James B. Jacobs (2015)
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© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York. This email interview with James B. Jacobs was conducted during 2014. As a law student at University of Chicago in the early 1970s, Jacobs conducted a participant observation study at Stateville Penite... Read More about The analysis and containment of organized crime in New York City and beyond: an interview with James B. Jacobs.

Combatting and analysing organized crime: the view from witnesses (2015)
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© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York. This special issue of Trends in Organized Crime begins with a tribute to Joseph Albini who died in 2013 written by his colleague Jeff McIllwain and ends with Matthew G. Yeager’s reexamination of the c... Read More about Combatting and analysing organized crime: the view from witnesses.

Reconceptualizing design research in the age of mobile learning (2015)
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© 2015 Taylor & Francis. The purpose of this paper is to begin to examine how the intersection of mobile learning and design research prompts the reconceptualization of research and design individually as well as their integration appropriate for c... Read More about Reconceptualizing design research in the age of mobile learning.

Magiovinium, Dropshort Farm, near Fenny Stratford, Buckinghamshire (2015)
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An investigation of this Romano-British place-name and possible Germanic analogues.

The medium is the message? (2015)
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Using the Bourdieusian lens of the signalling of distinction through choice of discourse, this paper examines discourses surrounding recent changes in the moving image, specifically the growth of digital technologies of capture, edit and display, and... Read More about The medium is the message?.

Don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it's gone? Skills-led qualifications, secondary school attainment and policy choices (2015)
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© 2015 Taylor & Francis. In the name of curriculum breadth and raising standards, recent government policy in England has removed a large number of non-academic qualifications from the list of those that secondary schools can count in league tables... Read More about Don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it's gone? Skills-led qualifications, secondary school attainment and policy choices.

“Take That, Bitches!” Refiguring Lara Croft in Feminist game narratives (2014)
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Since Lara first “bust” onto our screens in 1996 in Tomb Raider (Edios Interactive), she has been a focal point for critical debate surrounding the representation of the female protagonist and the gendered body in games. Nearly twenty years after her... Read More about “Take That, Bitches!” Refiguring Lara Croft in Feminist game narratives.

Scaling informal learning at the workplace: A model and four designs from a large-scale design-based research effort (2014)
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© 2014 British Educational Research Association. Workplace learning happens in the process and context of work, is multi-episodic, often informal, problem based and takes place on a just-in-time basis. While this is a very effective means of delivery... Read More about Scaling informal learning at the workplace: A model and four designs from a large-scale design-based research effort.

Refugee performance: Practical encounters (2014)
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Augmenting reality and formality of informal and non-formal settings to enhance blended learning (2014)
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Visits to museums and city tours have been part of higher and secondary education curriculum activities for many years. However these activities are typically considered "less formal" when compared to those carried out in the classroom, mainly becaus... Read More about Augmenting reality and formality of informal and non-formal settings to enhance blended learning.

The location patterns of artistic clusters: A metro- and neighborhood-level analysis (2014)
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Analysing census and industry data at the metro and neighbourhood levels, this paper seeks to identify the location characteristics associated with artistic clusters and determine how these characteristics vary across different places. We find that t... Read More about The location patterns of artistic clusters: A metro- and neighborhood-level analysis.