Browsing by Title
Now showing items 11477-11496 of 24089
-
Insights into Study Strategies and Habits: A Study with Undergraduate Students in Spain and the U.K.
(2021-10-12)The approach that students take in their studies at university is critical not only for their academic success but is equally important in life-long learning for their career and professional development. Cognitive science ... -
Insights into the delivery of personalised nutrition: evidence from face-to-face and web-based dietary interventions
(2021-01-27)Prevention strategies for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a global priority as it has been estimated that NCDs will account for around 73% of worldwide mortality by the year 2020. The adoption of diets that are low ... -
Insights Into the Delivery of Personalized Nutrition: Evidence From Face-To-Face and Web-Based Dietary Interventions
(2021-01-27)Prevention strategies for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a global priority as it has been estimated that NCDs will account for around 73% of worldwide mortality by the year 2020. The adoption of diets that are low ... -
Insights into the deterministic skill of air quality ensembles from the analysis of AQMEII data
(2016-12-20)Simulations from chemical weather models are subject to uncertainties in the input data (e.g. emission inventory, initial and boundary conditions) as well as those intrinsic to the model (e.g. physical parameterization, ... -
Insights into the experiences of patients with cancer in London : framework analysis of free-text data from the National Cancer Patient Experience Survey 2012/2013 from the two London Integrated Cancer Systems
(2015-10-19)OBJECTIVE: To shed light on experiences of patients with cancer in London National Health Service (NHS) trusts that may not be fully captured in national survey data, to inform improvement action plans by these trusts. ... -
The insignificance of major mergers in driving star formation at z ≃ 2
(2013-02-01)We study the significance of major-merger-driven star formation in the early Universe, by quantifying the contribution of this process to the total star formation budget in 80 massive (M* > 1010 M) galaxies at z ≃ 2. ... -
Inspection and efficiency at the eighteenth-century Bank of England
(2015)This article explores the impact of the reforming zeal that emerged during the 1780s on British public finances, in particular, the Bank of England. Although a private company and, therefore, exempt from examination by a ... -
Inspiring school design: an architect's perspective
(2016-10-24) -
Instance Weighted Clustering: Local Outlier Factor and K-Means
(Springer Nature, 2020-05-28)Clustering is an established unsupervised learning method. Substantial research has been carried out in the area of feature weighting, as well instance selection for clustering. Some work has paid attention to instance ... -
Instinct and habit before reason: comparing the views of John Dewey, Friedrich Hayek and Thorstein Veblen
(Elsevier, 2006)This article compares the views of Veblen, Dewey and Hayek on the roles and relations between instinct, habit and reason. From a Darwinian perspective, it is shown that Veblen had a more consistent and developed position ... -
An institutional and evolutionary perspective on health economics
(2008)Neoclassical theoretical approaches dominate modern health economics. However, the peculiarities of healthcare provision are so unusual that neoclassical theory is especially unsuited to the area. Even mainstream health ... -
The institutional antecedents of the assignment of HRM responsibilities to line managers
(2015-07-15)This article uses large-scale international data to examine how much autonomy organizations have to assign human resource management responsibilities to line managers, as indicated in the prescriptions of the literature. ... -
Institutional Complementarities in Comparative Capitalism: A Bibliometric Account
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2021-02-14)Institutional complementarities help to explain how interdependent institutions not only account for the institutional diversity that can be observed across and within socio-economic systems, but also affect economic ... -
Institutional Complementarities in the Performance of UK and French Cooperative Firms: a Comparative Analysis
(2020-04-05)This thesis attempts to identify institutional arrangements that allow cooperative firms to overcome the underinvestment problem identified in the theoretical literature. The comparative institutional analysis focuses on ... -
An Institutional Economic Analysis of Labor Unions
(2012-04)This paper uses institutional economic theory in the line of Commons and Coase to examine the purposes, economic effects, and social welfare consequences of labor unions. Cross-discipline and cross-national principles of ... -
Institutional Factors and High-Performance Work Organisations (HPWOs) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
(Springer Nature, 2019-03-02)This chapter focuses on the institutional factors that facilitate or impede the development of high-performance work organisations (HPWOs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It is based on the premise that the adoption of ... -
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 ...