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Women’s Jujutsu and Judo in the Early Twentieth-Century: The Cases of Phoebe Roberts, Edith Garrud and Sarah Mayer
(2019-02-18)Studies relating to female participation in sport are increasing, and there is an emerging body of work regarding women in the martial arts. Seeking to continue the work of Emelyne Godfrey, Wendy Rouse, and others, this ... -
Women’s spending behaviour is menstrual-cycle sensitive
(2011)When considering why women are more prone to money pathologies than men the influence of ovarian hormones cannot be ruled out. The phases of the menstrual-cycle are known to have a range of behavioural, psychological and ... -
Women’s views on partnership working with midwives during pregnancy and childbirth
(2015-09-09)Objective: To explore whether the UK Government agenda for partnership working and choice was realised or desired for women during pregnancy and childbirth. Design: A qualitative study was used to explore women’s experience ... -
“Wonderfully Cruel Proceedings”: The Murderous Case of James Yates
(2008)In 1781, James Yates, a farmer in upstate New York, brutally murdered his family while suffering from a “religious delusion.” Fifteen years later, in 1796, The New York Weekly Magazine published an anonymously authored ... -
Wood decomposition model for boreal forests
(2011-02-10)The decomposition of woody litter is a biochemical process, controlled by physical, chemical and biological environmental conditions. To develop a practicable model of this complex process, it is necessary to identify the ... -
Woody biomass energy crops : possibilities for physical and biological carbon sequestration
(2008)Bioenergy through short rotation forestry could hold potential for fossil fuel displacement mitigating enhanced climate change by using various combustion, carbon capture technologies, and sequestration technologies. Two ... -
Wooing a Star : Danny Kaye and Israel
(2021-03-04)The American comedian Danny Kaye was an international star on stage and screen for more than three decades, beginning in World War II. During his career, Kaye visited the state of Israel more often than any other Hollywood ... -
Word and image: Burgess, Zefirelli and Jesus the Man of Nazareth
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Word of Mouth, the Importance of Reviews and Ratings in Tourism Marketing
(IGI Global Publishing, 2018-08-28)The Internet and social media have given place to what is commonly known as the democratization of content and this phenomenon is changing the way that consumers and companies interact. Business strategies are shifting ... -
Word Play Across Languages and Cultures
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The word-length effect and disyllabic words
(2000-02)Three experiments compared immediate serial recall of disyllabic words that differed on spoken duration. Two sets of long- and short-duration words were selected, in each case maximizing duration differences bur matching ... -
" A word-web woven": autobiography in old English poetry
(2007)Today Philippe Lejeune's concise definition of “autobiography” raises many problems of ontology, psychology and gender. Terms such as “real person”, “own existence”, “development of (…) personality” could no longer be so ... -
Wordless intervention for epilepsy in learning disabilities (WIELD) : study protocol for a randomized controlled feasibility trial
(2014-11-20)Epilepsy is the most common neurological problem that affects people with learning disabilities. The high seizure frequency, resistance to treatments, associated skills deficit and co-morbidities make the management of ... -
Wordless intervention for people with epilepsy and learning disabilities (WIELD): A randomised controlled feasibility trial
(2016-11-10)Objective To investigate the feasibility of a full-scale randomised controlled trial of a picture booklet to improve quality of life for people with epilepsy and learning disabilities. Trial design A randomised controlled ... -
Words and turns : bilingual and monolingual children construct a story
(2001)This paper reports on a small-scale investigation into story-telling performance in bilingual and monolingual children. Working with a familiar adult (a teacher), these two groups of children were exposed individually to ... -
Words as deeds: Wittgenstein's ''spontaneous utterances'' and the dissolution of the explanatory gap
(2000)Wittgenstein demystified the notion of ''observational self-knowledge''. He dislodged the long-standing conception that we have privileged access to our impressions, sensations and feelings through introspection, and more ...