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Knowing through music: Implications for research (2008)
Book Chapter
The structure and implications of children's attitudes to school (2008)
Journal Article
The paper reports a study of children's attitudes to school based on a questionnaire survey of 845 pupils in their first year of secondary school in England, together with interviews with a sample of the children. A clearly structured set of attitude... Read More about The structure and implications of children's attitudes to school.
Evaluating the impact of involving young people in developing children's services in an acute hospital trust (2008)
Journal Article
Aims and objectives. The aim of this paper is to reflect on how an acute hospital trust involved a youth council comprising 17 young people aged 11-18 years to improve children's service delivery in one NHS trust in the UK. Background. Over the last... Read More about Evaluating the impact of involving young people in developing children's services in an acute hospital trust.
The nature, prevalence and correlates of generativity among men in middle career (2008)
Journal Article
Multiple methods were used to explore the character, contexts, and correlates of generativity among 41 men aged 45-55. Generativity in the role of worker was unrelated to generativity in men's roles as father, citizen and 'leisurite'. Individuals who... Read More about The nature, prevalence and correlates of generativity among men in middle career.
The pivotal role of managers in the changing world of work and learning (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Who does what? How staff in England and Denmark perceive roles in the coordination of children's inpatient care: A comparison of questionnaire survey data (2008)
Journal Article
Aims and objectives. To explore and compare staff perceptions of their own and others roles in the coordination of care for children in hospital in Denmark and England. Background. The provision of well-coordinated care is a declared aim of health ca... Read More about Who does what? How staff in England and Denmark perceive roles in the coordination of children's inpatient care: A comparison of questionnaire survey data.
Suitable work for women? Roles, relationships and changing identities of 'other adults' in the early years classroom (2008)
Journal Article
This article explores some of the issues around the agenda for workforce reform as it applies to professionals who work in early years classrooms (4-7 year olds), who work alongside class teachers in supporting learning. Their changing roles, respons... Read More about Suitable work for women? Roles, relationships and changing identities of 'other adults' in the early years classroom.
The effect of management commitment to service quality on frontline employees' job attitudes, turnover intentions and service recovery performance in a new public management context (2008)
Journal Article
We present and test a model of behavioural job outcomes grounded in Bagozzi's (1992) reformulation of attitude theory in the important and novel context of a former public sector government department that has undergone corporatisation. Frontline emp... Read More about The effect of management commitment to service quality on frontline employees' job attitudes, turnover intentions and service recovery performance in a new public management context.
1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina by Chris Rose (2008)
Journal Article
Book review
Real lives 2004: The devil you know (2008)
Journal Article
This paper discusses the educational game software, Real Lives 2004 (Educational Simulations, 2004) as a means of raising and reflecting on the relations between simulational practices and statistics. These relations animate many modes of the framing... Read More about Real lives 2004: The devil you know.
In-reach specialist nursing teams for residential care homes: Uptake of services, impact on care provision and cost-effectiveness (2008)
Journal Article
Background. A joint NHS-Local Authority initiative in England designed to provide a dedicated nursing and physiotherapy in-reach team (IRT) to four residential care homes has been evaluated. The IRT supported 131 residents and maintained 15 'virtual'... Read More about In-reach specialist nursing teams for residential care homes: Uptake of services, impact on care provision and cost-effectiveness.
Miniprint No. 23 (2008)
Exhibition / Performance
Towards a learning curve theory for batch production (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Consumer attitudes and fashion trends often impose severe constraints in manufacturing. When market needs for varied product designs lead to product competition for a place in the production schedule, batch size and available production time are depr... Read More about Towards a learning curve theory for batch production.
A robot manipulator communications and control framework (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The use of industrial scale experimental machinery robot systems such as the Mitsubishi RV-2AJ manipulator in research to experimentally prove new theories is a great opportunity. The robot manipulator communications and control framework written in... Read More about A robot manipulator communications and control framework.
The credibility issue: closing the academic/practitioner gap (2008)
Journal Article
The literature is highly critical of the business–academia relationship and there is a lack of congruence between strategic management research conducted by academics and that used by practitioners. There is also a lack of models of collaborative res... Read More about The credibility issue: closing the academic/practitioner gap.
Deconstructing body weight and weight management (2008)
Book Chapter
Carefully posed thighs: Shame, nudity and film censorship - John Huston's The Bible: In the Beginning (1966) (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
An analysis of the production and reception of the Eden sequences in John Huston’s The Bible: In the Beginning (1966).
A particle swarm optimization algorithm for multiuser scheduling in HSDPA (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This paper briefs the problem of optimal multiuser scheduling in HSDPA. The modulation and coding schemes (MCSs), numbers of multicodes and power levels for all users are jointly optimized at each scheduling period, given that only limited Channel Qu... Read More about A particle swarm optimization algorithm for multiuser scheduling in HSDPA.
An artists’ approach to the interpretation of luminance and reproduction of coloured shadows through pigment colour mixing (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Invited Colorlab Workshop #7/2008: Dynamic range of light, contrast and perception in digital images, organized by the Norwegian Color Research Laboratory, Gjøvik University College. In natural and artificial environments light has an extremely hi... Read More about An artists’ approach to the interpretation of luminance and reproduction of coloured shadows through pigment colour mixing.