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Assuring quality in transnational higher education : a matter of collaboration or control?
(2010)
As transnational education collaborations increase so too do concerns about the quality of provision. To address these concerns, national codes of good practice have been written to guide exporting institutions on how to ...
Academies : Diversity, economism and contending forces for change
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
The focus of this chapter is the UK government’s academies programme in England and the contending forces that characterise this key policy aimed at bringing about transformational change in education. First, a brief outline ...
The bank directors' duties : time for the new enlightenment?
(2010)
In the aftermath of the recent banking crisis, much of the debate on how to secure future financial stability has focused on forms of bespoke banking regulation and corporate governance. This article, however, considers ...
Nowy Polski Kapitalizm
(Le Monde Diplomatique, 2010)
A model for unsteady sediment transport in degrading alluvial channels
(2010)
The collection of data for unsteady/non-uniform sediment transport rates in a river below a reservoir, which arrests sediment from upstream, is very difficult. The establishment of a model for the determination of these ...
Structure-activity relationships of monomeric C2-aryl pyrrolo[2,1-c][1,4]benzodiazepine (PBD) antitumor agents
(2010)
A comprehensive SAR investigation of the C2-position of pyrrolo[2,1-c][1,4]benzodiazepine (PBD) monomer antitumor agents is reported, establishing the molecular requirements for optimal in vitro cytotoxicity and DNA-binding ...
As time goes by: representing and reasoning about timing in human-robot interaction studies
(AAAI, 2010)
We summarise the experimental design issues related to timing in several human-robot interaction scenarios investigating turn-taking or synchronization between child-sized humanoid robots and human participants. Our aim1 ...