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A theory of the firm's demand for HRM practices
(2010)Empirical data are presented that reveal a large variation in the pattern of HRM practice adoption across firms. The paper then develops an economics-based theory that explains this pattern. The model broadens the HRM ... -
Damaged by Democracy : The National Union of Mineworkers and the 1984-85 Strike
(2011-06-01)This paper explores the democratic tensions within the National Union of Mineworkers that split the union during the 1984-85 strike over mine closures. In seeking to understand the conflict over the failure to hold a ... -
Evolving Sims's creatures for bipedal gait
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011-01-01)In this paper we describe the design of an approach to evolve Sims's creatures with morphology and behaviour similar to biped animals. Our hypothesis is that biases in morphology that encourage limb specialisation, combined ... -
Evolving robot controllers in PDL using genetic programming
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011)We demonstrate how autonomous agents can be evolved whose controllers are programs in the dynamical systems-oriented, behaviour-based PDL language introduced by Luc Steels. Controllers evolved using a physics simulator ... -
Aberrant driving behaviours amongst New Zealand truck drivers
(2002-01-01)Research using the driver behaviour questionnaire (DBQ) has found that aberrant driving behaviours can be categorised into: errors, lapses and violations (and aggressive violations, depending on the version of the DBQ ... -
Spanish drivers and their aberrant driving behaviours
(2006-03)One of the most commonly used frameworks for investigating the relationship between self-reported driving behaviour and crash involvement is the Manchester Driver Behaviour Questionnaire (DBQ). However, in spite of the ... -
Driving anger in Spain
(2007-03)The present study examined the types of situations that cause Spanish drivers to become angry. The 33-item version of the Driver Anger Scale (Deffenbacher, Oetting, & Lynch, 1994) was used to investigate driver anger amongst ... -
Anger amongst New Zealand drivers
(2006-05)This research investigated the types of situations that cause drivers to become angry while driving. The Driver Anger Scale [Deffenbacher, J. L., Oetting, E. R., & Lynch, R. S. (1994). Development of a driver anger scale. ... -
Mobile phone use while driving in a sample of Spanish university workers
(2007-03)A number of epidemiological studies have reported drivers who use a mobile phone while driving have an elevated risk of being involved in a crash. This is particularly concerning as a survey of drivers in the Spanish region ... -
Motivation for change and the pros and cons of smoking in a Spanish population
(2007-01)Decisional balance and the stage of change have been used to understand the motivation for giving up the habit of smoking. The objective of this study was to find out whether the associations between the pros and the cons ... -
An investigation of factors reducing seat belt use amongst Spanish drivers and passengers on urban roads
(2004-05)Seat belt use on Spain's highways is more than 80%, while on the urban roads this figure is around 50%. As there was little information available to explain the difference in seat belt use rates, the main aim of this study ... -
Predictors of seat belt use amongst Spanish drivers
(2007-05)Seat belt use on Spanish urban roads is very low. Surprisingly, there is very little information to explain this low level. A number of perceptions and expectancies about seat belt use were investigated to identify factors ... -
Increasing safety-belt use in Spanish drivers a field test of personal prompts
(2003)A variation of the ABAB experimental design was used to assess the impact of a verbal prompt on safety-belt use for those traveling by urban roads and highways in Spain. The personal prompt resulted in an increase (29.6%) ... -
Mobile phone use amongst New Zealand drivers
(2004-03)Research has shown that using a mobile phone whilst driving may increase the risk of being crash involved by as much as nine times. As around 65% of New Zealand's population own mobile phones, this represents a potentially ... -
A flexible VLSI parallel processing system for block-matching motion estimation in low bit-rate video coding applications
(Springer Nature, 1999)In this paper, we design a flexible VLSI-based parallel processing system for an improved three-step search (ITSS) motion estimation algorithm that is superior to the existing three-step search (TSS) algorithm in all cases ... -
Alignment of atmospheric dust observed by high-sensitivity optical polarimetry
(Springer Nature, 2007)Optical polarimetry observations on La Palma, Canary Islands, during a Saharan dust episode showed dichroic extinction, indicating the presence of vertically aligned particles in the atmosphere. It is postulated that the ... -
Application of global optimisation to particle identification using light scattering
(1998)Numerical methods of solving the inverse light scattering problem for spheres are presented. The methods are based on two stochastic global optimization techniques: Deep's random search and the multilevel single-linkage ... -
Hypermobility and the hypermobility syndrome
(2007-11)Hypermobile joints by definition display a range of movement that is considered excessive, taking into consideration the age, gender and ethnic background of the individual. Joint hypermobility, when associated with symptoms ... -
Osteoporosis : A teenage perspective
(2007-12)Objectives: To assess the knowledge and health beliefs, on osteoporosis, of 16-18 year olds in full-time education in the UK. This is believed to be an age where peak bone mass, a significant factor in osteoporosis and ... -
The effects of client violence on child protection networks
(2002)This article examines the literature and research evidence concerning the impact of threatened and actual violence on social workers' well-being, assessments, and interventions in child-protection work. It is proposed that ...