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Ex ante governance controls on non-executive director self-interest: empirical evidence on multiple directorships 2006-2010 in the UK
(2016-09-01)Formal independence of non-executive directors should not be used as a mask for a potential problem of self-interest, as it can occur in many forms. While laws regulate more severe forms of self-interest, little attention ... -
Exact and near backscattering measurements of the linear depolarisation ratio of various ice crystal habits generated in a laboratory cloud chamber
(2016-07-01)Ice clouds were generated in the Manchester Ice Cloud Chamber (MICC), and the backscattering linear depolarisation ratio, δ, was measured for a variety of habits. To create an assortment of particle morphologies, the ... -
Exact and Soft Successive Refinement of the Information Bottleneck
(2023-09-19)The information bottleneck (IB) framework formalises the essential requirement for efficient information processing systems to achieve an optimal balance between the complexity of their representation and the amount of ... -
Examination of a physically based, high-resolution, distributed Arctic temperature-index melt model, on Midtre Lovénbreen, Svalbard
(2014-01-01)Improvements in our ability to model runoff from glaciers remain an important scientific goal. This paper describes a new temperature-radiation-index glacier melt model specifically enhanced for use in High-Arctic environments, ... -
An examination of interprofessional education in a pre‑registration children’s nursing course
(2016-07-08)Aim: This study set out to gain insight into views held by children's nursing students, lecturers and clinically based nurse mentors about interprofessional education (IPE). Method: A qualitative research design was ... -
An examination of interprofessional education within the pre-registration Bachelor of Science Honours Nursing (Children’s) programme
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An Examination of Pay Satisfaction in the Nigerian Retail Bank Sector: A Gender Analysis
(2015-05-29)The focus of this study is the assessment of the performance of the Nigerian retail banks on pay satisfaction through an examination of the sector’s pay satisfaction levels. This has formed the basis of the literature ... -
An Examination of the Application of Problem Based Learning: A Valuable Tool to Improve Student Learning or a Challenging Teaching Adjustment?
(2018-12-01)Pedagogic transitions towards constructivist, student-centred learning models have increased applications of active teaching methods such as problem-based learning (PBL), but little research has explored student perceptions ... -
Examination of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model performance over the North American and European domains
(2012)The CMAQ modeling system has been used to simulate the air quality for North America and Europe for the entire year of 2006 as part of the Air Quality Model Evaluation International Initiative (AQMEII). The operational ... -
An Examination of the Hidden Judging Criteria in the Generative Design in Minecraft Competition
(2023-11-07)Game content has long been created using procedural generation. However, many of these systems are currently designed in an ad-hoc manner, and there is a lack of knowledge around the design criteria that lead to generators ... -
An Examination of the Static to Dynamic Imitation Spectrum
(2005)We consider the issues that arise from an examination of the continuum between two social learning paradigms that are widely used in robotics research: (i) following or matched-dependent behaviour and (ii) static observational ... -
An Examination of University Paramedic Students' Enculturation into the Ambulance Service
(2021-05-06)This study explores student paramedics’ enculturation into a traditional NHS ambulance service trust. The research illustrates the many challenges and dichotomies which face neophyte paramedics as they go from a University ... -
Examining Clinical Supervison with Palliative Care Nurses
(2009-03-19)This study focuses on the current issues regarding the provision of clinical supervision for palliative care nurses. NICE (2004) recommendations stated that the task of supervision should be undertaken by „Level 4‟ ... -
Examining experience economy approaches to tourists' anticipated experiences : Mainland Chinese travellers consider Australia
(2015)The present study seeks to explore and compare the perceived importance of Pine and Gilmore’s experience realms and Schmitt’s categorisations of experience in a tourism context. These approaches to experiences are chosen ... -
Examining Pay Level Satisfaction in the UK Grocery Retail Sector: a Focus on Supermarket Employees
(2005)There have been various investigations carried out by researchers on pay level comparisons and pay level satisfactions based on employees from both private and public sectors, but little is known about pay level satisfaction ... -
Examining the academic/commercial divide in marketing research
(2009)Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to comment on the differences in perceptions that exist between academic and professional marketing researchers, as creators of new marketing knowledge, and explore how academics and ... -
Examining the Adoption, Use and Diffusion of Tablet and Mobile Devices by Older Adults in Hertfordshire County, UK
(2019-02-04)Ubiquitous or mobile computing is the new trend of this modern era whereby information can be accessed anytime and anywhere. It is anticipated that this form of computing will be more effective than the Internet because ... -
Examining the Frankenstein Syndrome : An open-ended cross-cultural survey
(2011)This paper reports findings from an open-ended survey on attitudes towards humanoid robots collected from samples in the United Kingdom and Japan. 335 participants were asked how they felt about humanoid robots becoming ...