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The Science of Complexity : An Alternative Perspective for Strategic Change Processes
(1995-08)The two perspectives of strategy process most firmly established in the literature—strategic choice and ecology—assume the same about system dynamics: negative feedback processes driving successful systems (individual ... -
The science of public health
(Routledge, 2019-04-08)The chapter explores the contribution that play and playfulness can make to the scientific pursuit of public health. It demonstrates how play and playfulness enables engagement and collaboration, promotes innovation and ... -
Science review in research ethics committees: : Double jeopardy?
(2014-12-01)Research ethics committees ‘(RECs) members’ perceptions of their role in regard to the science of research proposals are discussed. Our study, which involved the interviewing of 20 participants from amongst the UK’s ... -
Science with the next generation of radio surveys from LOFAR to the SKA
(Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2007)Over the next few years the new radio telescopes, such as the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) will greatly enhance our knowledge of the active history of the Universe. Large-area surveys with these new telescopes will no longer ... -
Scientific Citizenship and good governance : implications for biotechnology
(2006-02)In the wake of public distrust regarding biotechnology, it has been suggested that the debate should be moved 'upstream', whereby the public help to set research priorities. Although many scientists see this as an illogical ... -
Scientism as a Threat to Science : Wittgenstein on Self-Subverting Methodologies
(Routledge, 2017-06-08)Wittgenstein is typically viewed as concerned with one particular variety of scientism: scientism understood as the threat posed by the application of scientific practices to areas of our lives in which they do not belong ... -
SCOPE : SCUBA-2 Continuum Observations of Pre-protostellar Evolution - Survey Description and Compact Source Catalogue
(2019-05-01)We present the first release of the data and compact-source catalogue for the JCMT Large Program SCUBA-2 Continuum Observations of Pre-protostellar Evolution (SCOPE). SCOPE consists of 850 μm continuum observations of 1235 ... -
The Scope of Radiographic Practice 2008 : A research report compiled by the University of Hertfordshire in collaboration with the Institute for Employment Studies
(University of Hertfordshire, 2009)This report was commissioned by the Society and College of Radiographers (SCoR) at the end of 2007 to identify the current scope of practice for the radiographic workforce across the spectrum of clinical imaging and ... -
Scoping Paper on School Leadership and Equity
(EPNoSL, 2014)This paper offers a review of the literature on school leadership and equity in order to help provide policy with an evidence base on school leadership from the perspective of equity. It does so by: (i) considering how ... -
A scoping review of the complementary feeding practices and early eating experiences of children with Down syndrome.
(2023-11-01)Objective: Children with Down syndrome may experience more challenges in their early feeding and may be introduced to complementary foods comparatively later than typically developing (TD) children. This scoping review ... -
Score And Script
(2012-11)When a cartoonist begins making a comic strip, questions of how to give visual form to narratives expressed in text, or lurking as-yet-unrealised in cognition, form a central part of the decision-making process. What imagery ... -
Score-Level Fusion for Multimodal Biometrics
(2008-01-14)This thesis describes research into the score-level fusion process in multimodal biometrics. The emphasis of the research is on the fusion of face and voice biometrics in the two recognition modes of verification and ... -
Scoring and ranking farmland conservation activities to evaluate environmental performance and encourage sustainable farming
(1997)The University of Hertfordshire, in collaboration with two UK agricultural establishments ADAS and IACR-Rothamsted are developing a computerised decision support system for environmental management of arable agriculture. ... -
The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework : what’s academic practice got to do with it?
(2014-06)National Qualifications Frameworks (NQF) are a globally established and expanding phenomenon. They are increasingly merging and being mapped onto meta-qualifications frameworks. One key NQF in both these roles is the ... -
Scottish Food Practices: Household food practices and the use of dietary information
(University of Hertfordshire, 2020-08-18)This report presents findings from The Scottish Food Practices study, designed to investigate what and how households across Scotland use dietary information (if at all) when cooking/eating at home, shopping for food and ... -
Scratching the Surface : The Ethics of Mining Helium-3
(International Academy of Astronautics, 2013)Terrestrial mining is ethically problematic by virtue of its directly destructive impact and by virtue of its contribution to both the depletion of fossil fuels and (through the use of the latter) to the raising of C02 ... -
Screening and assessment tools for gaming disorder: A comprehensive systematic review
(2020-04-01)The inclusion of gaming disorder (GD) as an official diagnosis in the ICD-11 was a significant milestone for the field. However, the optimal measurement approaches for GD are currently unclear. This comprehensive systematic ...