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Institutional legacies and HRM: : similarities and differences in HRM practices in Portugal and Mozambique
(2017-10-11)This is a study of institutional change and continuity, comparing the trajectories followed by Mozambique and its formal colonial power Portugal in HRM, based on two surveys of firm level practices. The colonial power ... -
Institutional spaces and sociable eating: young people, food, and expressions of care
(2020-04-07)Young people’s social relationships are fostered, enacted, and complicated by the discursive and constitutive spatial contexts in which they occur. The focus of our study was the ways the spaces of the school canteen - and ... -
An Institutional wide project-using Electronic voting Systems for assessments- the story so far.
(2012)This paper will consider an institutional perspective of the role-out of an Electronic Voting System (EVS) across a number of schools, with an overarching view that it will enhance the assessment experience for both students ... -
The Institutional, Structural and Agential Embeddedness of Precarity: an Engagement with Guy Standing
(2015-01-15)Guy Standing’s book The Precariat has had a significant impact in stimulating a debate about the changing nature of work across the broad sweep of the global economy. He advances the notion of precarious workers, originally ... -
Institutionalism versus Marxism : Perspectives for Social Science - A Debate Between Geoffrey Hodgson and Alex Callinicos
(University of Hertfordshire, 2005)On 30 April 2001 a public debate was held in the Fielder Centre at the University of Hertfordshire, between Alex Callinicos of the University of York and Geoffrey Hodgson of the University of Hertfordshire, on the theme ... -
Institutions and Economic Change
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Institutions and economic change : A critical survey of the new institutional approaches and empirical evidence
(2008)The purpose of this paper is to review the main literature that has analyzed the channels through which institutions influence economic change, hence development. The interest for this topic arises from the relatively ... -
Institutions and Financial System Development in Africa
(University of Hertfordshire, 2014-08-27)Recent research suggests that financial system development is important for economic development and for reducing financing constraints of firms (Levine, 2005). Consequently, researchers started investigating the factors ... -
Institutions and individuals : Interaction and evolution
(2007)The conceptualization of the relation between individual and structure is central to social science. After making some key definitions, this paper overviews some recent developments in the social theory of structure and ... -
Instruction cache tuning for embedded multitasking applications
(2010)With the advent of mobile and handheld devices, power consumption in embedded systems has become a key design issue. Recently, it has been shown that cache requirements of the applications vary widely and a significant ... -
Instruction scheduling for a superscalar architecture
(University of Hertfordshire, 1996)It is increasingly accepted that superscalar processors can only achieve their full performance potential through compile-time instruction scheduling. This paper presents preliminary performance results using a Conditional ... -
Instructors’ emotional intelligence and learning engagement of online students
(2023-07-12)This study explored how online students perceived their instructors’ emotional intelligence (EI) and its impact on their learning engagement. Using eight EI behaviours of online instructors and a learning engagement ... -
An instrument for monitoring number and mass of ambient particles in coarse, fine and ultrafine size ranges
(University of Hertfordshire, 2003)Airborne particulate matter is today recognized as an important category of air pollutants. Current air quality standards, and hence most particle instruments, are based on particle mass concentration-the European standard, ... -
An instrument for the simultaneous acquisition of size, shape, and spectral fluorescence data from single aerosol particles.
(SPIE, 2004)We describe the construction of a bio-aerosol monitor designed to capture and record intrinsic fluorescence spectra from individual aerosol particles carried in a sample airflow and to simultaneously capture data relating ... -
Instrumentational operation and analytical methodology for the reconciliation of aerosol water uptake under sub- and supersaturated conditions
(2010)The methodology for the operation and calibration of a hygroscopicity tandem differential mobility analyser (HTDMA) and cloud condensation nuclei counter (CCNc) for size-resolved measurements of aerosol water uptake are ... -
Instumentation of Ultrasonic High-Frequency Machine to Estimate Applied Stress in Middle Section of Specimen
(2012-07)The objective of this paper is to describe the instrumentation of a new developed ultrasonic fatigue testing machine at 20 kHz working frequency and compare the possible solutions to estimate the stress applied in the ...