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Choice, habit and evolution
(2010)
Several leading mainstream economists including Gary Becker have treated habit as serially correlated behaviour resulting from deliberate choices. This approach puts choice before habit but involves assumptions of extensive ...
Lithium abundances of halo dwarfs based on excitation temperatures. II : Non-local thermodynamic equilibrium
(2010)
Context. The plateau in the abundance of 7Li in metal-poor stars was initially interpreted as an observational indicator of the primordial lithium abundance. However, this observational value is in disagreement with that ...
Tackling obesity : promoting physical activity and healthy eating in schools
(Routledge, 2010)
Since the 1970s, rates of obesity amongst school-aged children have doubled or tripled in economically developed countries such as the UK, USA, Canada and Australia (Wang and Lobstein 2006). Obesity is defined as excess ...
Undertaking and building a culture of child/youth involvement in a context of Children's Trust Partnerships
(2010)
This viewpoint discusses some theoretical and practical issues which deserve consideration in the drive to build a culture of children and young people’s involvement in decision-making, when staff work in partnership with ...
A Chandra observation of 3C 288 - reheating the cool core of a 3 keV cluster from a nuclear outburst at z=0.246
(2010)
We present results from a 42 ks Chandra/ACIS-S observation of the transitional FR I/FR II radio galaxy 3C 288 at z = 0.246. We detect ~3 keV gas extending to a radius of ~0.5 Mpc with a 0.5-2.0 keV luminosity of 6.6 × 1043 ...
Educating the critical urban planner and designer: a didactical experience in an area of practice
(International Association of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), 2010)
The stretched scope of urbanism, with its large range of inputs drawn from various disciplines, seems to create confusion about the nature and the form of an education in urbanism at university level. We verify the existence ...
Intelligent co-operative PIM architecture for image analysis and pattern recognition
(IAENG, International Association of Engineers, 2010)
Computer memory systems are increasingly a bottleneck limiting application performance. Processor-In-Memory (PIM) architectures, which capitalize on merging the processing unit with its memory unit on the same chip [1], ...
The semantic specificity hypothesis : when gestures do not depend upon the presence of a listener
(2010)
Humans gesture even when their gestures can serve no communicative function (e.g., when the listener cannot see them). This study explores the intrapersonal function of gestures, and the semantic content of the speech they ...
Quantitative helical dynamic contrast enhanced computed tomography assessment of the spatial variation in whole tumour blood volume with radiotherapy in lung cancer
(2010)
We aim to assess the spatial distribution of blood volume (BV) in whole lung tumours in patients undergoing radiotherapy using helical dynamic contrast enhanced computed tomography (DCE-CT), and to determine whether ...
Food, eating and taste : parents' perspectives on the making of the middle class teenager
(2010)
This paper reports findings from a qualitative study of views and understandings of dietary practices in middle class families. Thirty five parents/main food providers of boys and girls aged 13/14 years, living in Eastern ...