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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. -
Ice particle inter-arrival times measured with a fast FSSP
(2003)Ice particle interarrival times have been measured with a fast forward scattering spectrometer probe (FSSP). The distribution of interarrival times is bimodal instead of the exponential distribution expected for a Poisson ... -
Investigating university students' prior experiences of technology and their expectations of using technology in their studies
(Association for Learning Technology, 2007)Who are the university students of the 21st Century and what characteristics do they have in terms of their interest in using technology for learning? They have been called, for instance, 'the iPOD generation' from the ... -
Haptic virtual reality for blind computer users
(ACM Press, 1998)This paper describes a series of studies involving a haptic device which can display virtual textures and 3-D objects. The device has potential for simulating real world objects and assisting in the navigation of virtual ... -
Creative mathematics: Do SAT-M sex effects matter?
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ARTIST : a computer system for creating and running psychology experiments
(1981)A flexible computer system for research and teaching experiments in psychology is described. Special features of the system include {1} separate phases for the generation and running of experiments, !2} facilities to control ... -
Degree performance as a function of discipline studied, parental occupation and gender
(1987)Degree performance in England and Wales was investigated as a function of social class and gender for several disciplines of study. Three performance criteria were considered: FIRST class; GOOD, and COMPETENT. The findings ... -
Attention bands: Some implications for categorical judgement
(1980-05-01)It is shown that results of categorical judgement experiments cannot simultaneously conform to a single process signal detectability model and to the recently proposed two process attention band model. Since there is ... -
Depressive realism and outcome density bias in contingency judgements : the effect of the context and inter-trial interval
(2005)The perception of the effectiveness of instrumental actions is influenced by depressed mood. Depressive realism (DR) is the claim that depressed people are particularly accurate in evaluating instrumentality. In two ... -
Resources, dimorphism, sexual selection and mathematics achievement
(1996)Geary's model is a worthy effort, but ambiguous on important issues. It ignores differential resource allocation, although this follows directly from sexual selection via differential parental investment. Dimorphism in ... -
Random walk models of binary choice : the effect of deadlines in the presence of assymetric payoffs
(1988)Random walk models of binary choice were evaluated using line length discrimination tasks of varying difficulty. Subjects' gained monetary payoffs when their responses were correct and lost when their responses were ... -
Comparing flashbulb memories of September 11 and the death of Princess Diana : effects of time delays and nationality
(2003)This study examines flashbulb memories of a salient recent and a distant public event to assess patterns of forgetting in the formal characteristics of these memories. Memories of a recent event (September 11) were compared ... -
Saying “welcome” is not enough : women, information systems and equity in work
(2000)The rise of all forms of information systems has been one of the major factors affecting the nature of work over the last decade. This article reports on research that suggests that whilst females may now gain more experience ...