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Shareholder Value and Financialization : Consultancy Promises, Management Moves
(Routledge, 2005)Although shareholder value is the mantra that jumps out from the pages of the daily financial press, it is often a loosely defined and rhetorical concept, subject to little empirical study. It is also a powerful concept, ... -
Sharia Law and Digital Forensics in Saudi Arabia
(2018-12-19)These days, digital crime is one of the main challenges for law enforcement and the judicial system. Many of the laws which are used to protect the users of current technologies were derived from legislation and laws that ... -
Sharing memories: an experimental investigation with multiple autonomous autobiographic agents
(IOS Press, 2004)The overall aim of our work is to develop a generic adaptive control architecture for autonomous intelligent agents. In our previous work we showed how a single agent's survival can benefit from autobiographic memory. In ... -
Sharing spaces with robots in a home scenario - anthropomorphic attributions and their effect on proxemic expectations and evaluations in a live HRI trial
(AAAI, 2008)This paper presents results from an HRI study that involved participants interacting with robots of different appearances. The particular focus of this paper is how anthropomorphic attributions impacted the proxemic ... -
Sharing spaces, sharing lives - The impact of robot mobility on user perception of a home companion robot
(Springer Nature, 2013-12)This paper examines the role of spatial behaviours in building human-robot relationships. A group of 8 participants, involved in a long-term HRI study, interacted with an artificial agent using different embodiments over ... -
Sharing storage using dirty vectors
(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM Press), 1996)Consider a computation F with n inputs (independent variables) and m outputs (dependent variables) and suppose that we wish to evaluate the Jacobian of F. Automatic differentiation commonly performs this evaluation by ... -
Shattered Narratives and the Search for Meaning: The Experiences of Parents Whose Child Sustains Traumatic Brain Injury
(2009-08-05)This study looked in detail at the parental experience of having a child sustain traumatic brain injury (TBI); beginning with the child sustaining the injury, through the acute and chronic stages of rehabilitation, to the ... -
Shear strength recovery of sand with self-healing polymeric capsules
(2024-03-23)Self-healing approaches are increasingly being explored in various fields as a potential method to recover damaged material properties. By self-recovering without external intervention, self-healing techniques emerge as a ... -
Shear-induced global thrombosis test of native blood: Pivotal role of ADP allows monitoring of P2Y12 antagonist therapy
(2009)Background: It is claimed that in shear-induced platelet function tests, shear-stress is the sole agonist causing platelet activation and resultant thrombosis. However, the fact that red blood cells (RBC) are essential to ... -
Sheath Brown Rot Disease of Rice Caused by Pseudomonas fuscovaginae in the Peninsular Malaysia
(2009)Relative to the established and well known rice diseases, sheath brown rot caused by Pseudomonas fuscovaginae can be considered new but getting widespread and serious all over the world. Our research was aimed to monitor ... -
Sheathed fixation improves BASHTI technique in an anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
(2023-03-30)Bone and Site Hold Tendon Inside (BASHTI) technique is an implant-less surgical methodology used for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. It has some clinical advantages, such as speeding up the healing process. ... -
Sheconomics : why more women on boards boosts company performance
(2011)How many women does it take to make a company more profitable? Just three. Karen Pine finds a remarkable statistic that is being ignored in city boardrooms worldwide. -
Shell effects in neutron capture on Pb
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Shells, Bubbles and Holes: the Porosity of the Interstellar Medium in Galaxies
(2012-10-08)We present an analysis of the properties of HI holes detected in 20 galaxies that are part of “The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey” (THINGS). We detected more than 1000 holes in total in the sampled galaxies. Where they can be ... -
A Shift in Teaching Architectural Design Studio: Adaptative Reuse and Retrofit as the Main Focus to Prepare Students for Complex Challenges of a Changing Profession
(2023-04-28)“The greenest building is the one that already exists”, Carl Elefante stated in 2007). In the last few years, this statement has been strengthened and the approach to sustainability in architecture has been focused more ... -
Shift length and working practices in UK hospital settings: an online survey of Heads of Midwifery
(2020-08)Objective: There is currently a lack of data that records how midwives are expected to work in hospital settings. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of 12-hour shifts and current working practices of ... -
Shifting boundaries : gender, labor, and new information and communication technology
(Routledge, 2013-12)This contribution will attempt to tease out the complex and shifting inter-relationship between, on the one hand, the gender division of labour in unpaid work and paid work and, on the other hand, transformations in the ... -
Shifting narratives of the Self – students’ experiences of chronicity and multiplicity in the management of chronic illness at university
(2023-09-30)Drawing on the chronic illness scholarship and identity theories, this paper aims to deepen the understanding of the biographical disruptions experienced by undergraduate students living with a long-term health condition. ...