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Motherhood and Myth-making : Despatches from the front-line of the US mommy wars
(2012-03)Commentary and Criticism Section -
Motherhood and the media under the Microscope : The backlash against feminism and the Mommy Wars
(2013-11)Despite the passing of sexual discrimination legislation, the difficulty of combining work and motherhood repeatedly hits the headlines. This paper looks at the American media phenomenon known as the ‘mommy wars’ and asks ... -
Mothering at a distance and disclosure of maternal HIV to children in Kingston, Jamaica
(2018-07-12)Existing guidelines (WHO, 2011) advise caretakers and professionals to disclose children’s and their caretakers’ HIV status to children, despite a lack of evidence concerning the potential implications in resource-constrained ... -
Mothers with Learning Disabilities' Experience of Relationships with their Parents, Partners and Friends: An IPA study
(2009-03-05)Many mothers with learning disabilities experience social isolation (McGaw, 1998; Booth & Booth, 1996) despite current research clearly delineating the importance of supportive relationships for mothers with learning ... -
Mothers' Decision-Making About Medication for Mental Health Difficulties: a Grounded Theory Study
(2019-12-13)Aims: This Grounded Theory study aimed to capture the social processes involved in mothers’ decision-making around psychotropic medication. Method: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 participants who were ... -
Mothers' Experiences of their Child: the Validation of a Self-Report Antenatal and Postnatal Questionnaire
(2014-12-05)The concept of Mind-Mindedness has important implications for the parenting relationship and infant outcomes (McMahon & Meins, 2012; Meins, Centifanti, Fernyhough, & Fishburn, 2013; Meins et al., 2012). Recent research has ... -
Mothers’ accounts of mealtime and feeding challenges for children with Tourette Syndrome or Persistent Tic Disorders
(2022-08-01)Parenting a young person with a tic disorder can present daily challenges to families struggling to manage their child’s tics and establish routines. Research recognises that tics can be problematic to everyday activities, ... -
Mothers’ Experiences of Accessing Mental Health Care for their Child with an Autism Spectrum Disorder
(2020-02-01)Objectives: Despite the recognition that a high proportion of individuals with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) will also reach the diagnostic threshold for at least one other mental health condition, many families struggle ... -
Mothers’ Perspectives of Co-occurring Fatigue in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
(2021-11-29)Background: Fatigue seems deeply associated with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) as reflected by the preferred terms ‘autistic fatigue’ and ‘autistic burnout’. In ASD there is also a greater prevalence of sensory and ... -
Mothers’ Reflections on Cat Ownership for a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder During COVID-19
(2022-07-05)Animal-assisted interventions are increasingly used as a complementary therapy in clinical practice to support people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), with promising outcomes compared to traditional therapies. Less is ... -
Motion Hub, the implementation of an integrated end-to-end journey planner
(2018-10-10)The term “eMobility” and been brought into use partly to encourage use of electric vehicles but more especially to focus on the transformation from electric vehicles as products to electrified personal transport as a ... -
Motivated by the Gods: : Compartmentalized Agency & Responsibility
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Motivating developer performance to improve project outcomes in a high maturity organization
(2007-12)In this paper we discuss the impact software developer performance has on project outcomes. Project performance remains unreliable in the software industry with many compromised software systems reported in the press. We ... -
Motivating software engineers : A Theoretically Reflective Model
(INSTICC-INST SYST TECHNOLOGIES INFORMATION CONTROL & COMMUNICATION, 2008)We present a model of motivation for software engineers. Our model suggests that software engineers are motivated by two sets of factors, intrinsic and extrinsic motivators, where a subset of intrinsic motivators are aspects ... -
Motivation Driven Learning of Action Affordances
(The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB), 2005)Survival in the animal realm often depends on the ability to elucidate the potentialities for action offered by every situation. This paper argues that affordance learning is a powerful ability for adaptive, embodied, ... -
Motivation for change and the pros and cons of smoking in a Spanish population
(2007-01)Decisional balance and the stage of change have been used to understand the motivation for giving up the habit of smoking. The objective of this study was to find out whether the associations between the pros and the cons ... -
Motivation in software engineering: a systematic literature review
(2008-08)Objective: In this paper, we present a systematic literature review of motivation in Software Engineering. The objective of this review is to plot the landscape of current reported knowledge in terms of what motivates ... -
Motivation in Software Engineering: A Systematic--Literature Review
(University of Hertfordshire, 2007)This research presents a systematic literature review of motivation in Software Engineering. The objective is to report on what motivates and de-motivates developers, and how existing models address motivation. The majority ... -
The Motivation of Software Engineers : Developing a Rigorous and Usable Model
(University of Hertfordshire, 2007)This report presents a summary of the work undertaken in the one year EPSRC “Modelling Motivation in Software Engineering” (MoMSE) project (2005). The aim of this work is to produce a model of motivation in software ... -
Motivation to change in recent onset and long-standing bulimia nervosa : are there differences?
(2007)Little is known about how motivation to change evolves over the course of an eating disorder. The present study compared 'stage of change' and motivation, confidence and readiness to change in two groups of patients with ...