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Generic skills development and satisfaction with groupwork among business students: Effect of country of permanent residency

Teo Stephen; Segal Naomi; Morgan Adam; Kandlbinder Peter; Wang Karen; Hingorani Anurag (Emerald Group Publishing, 2012)

The purpose of this study is to examine variables explaining students' positive and negative experiences of groupwork and connect country of residence with the perception of generic skills development and self-reported ...
Group cognitive behaviour therapy program with troubled adolescents: a learning experience

Edelman Sarah; Remond Louise (Springer-Verlag, 2001)

Group CBT programs are widely used for assisting teenagers with anxiety. depression and other psychological problems. The majority of reported programs have targeted school or clinical populations. however. few have ...
H1N1 Pandemic Planning In A Mental Health Residential Facility

Hughes Frances (Slack Inc, 2010)

It is only in the past few years that the mental health impact of disasters has gained attention in research and planning. This article provides a perspective of the experience of the H1N1 outbreak in New Zealand and the ...
Heterogeneous networks and resource acquisition of SMEs in emerging economies

Wang Karen; Wang Yue; Huang Kai; Deng Jingsong (Springer, 2012)

It is acknowledged that social capital plays an important role in the growth of entrepreneurial firms. However, few studies have examined the contribution and function of social capital networks that contain structural ...
How Homo Became Sapiens: On the Evolution of Thinking

Gardenfors Peter (Oxford University Press, 2004)

Our ability to 'think' is really one of our most puzzling characteristics. What it would be like to be unable to think? What would it be like to lack self-awareness? The complexity of this activity is striking. 'Thinking' ...
A Hybrid Nonlinear-Discriminant Analysis Feature Projection Technique

Nguyen Hung; Khushaba Rami N; Al-Jumaily Adel; Al-Ani Ahmed (Springer, 2008)

Feature set dimensionality reduction via Discriminant Analysis (DA) is one of the most sought after approaches in many applications. In this paper, a novel nonlinear DA technique is presented based on a hybrid of Artificial ...
I Feel Like A Foreign Agent': Ngos And Corporate Social Responsibility Interventions Into Third World Child Labor

Khan Fr; Westwood Robert; Boje David (Sage Publications Ltd, 2010)

A field study focused on a Western-led Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) intervention into Pakistan's soccer ball industry is used to explore the dynamics surrounding local Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) staff ...
Ikaros: Building Cognitive Models for Robots

Balkenius Christian; Moren Jan; Johansson Birger; Johnsson Magnus (Pergamon, 2010)

The Ikaros project started in 2001 with the aim of developing an open infrastructure for system-level brain modeling. The system has developed into a general tool for cognitive modeling as well as robot control. Here we ...
Improved Head Direction Command Classification Using An Optimized Bayesian Neural Network

Nguyen Thanh Son; Nguyen Hung; Taylor Philip; Middleton James (The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Inc (IEEE), 2006)

Assistive technologies have recently emerged to improve the quality of life of severely disabled people by enhancing their independence in daily activities. Since many of those individuals have limited or non-existing ...
Independence properties vis-a-vis several utility representations.

Marley Anthony; Luce R (Springer, 2005)

A detailed theoretical analysis is presented of what five utility representations - subjective expected utility (SEU), rank-dependent (cumulative or Choquet) utility (RDU), gains decomposition utility (GDU), rank weighted ...
An integrated approach of particle swarm optimization and support vector machine for gene signature selection and cancer prediction

Yeung Chun; Leung Frank; Chan Kit; Ling Steve (IEEE, 2009)

To improve cancer diagnosis and drug development, the classification of tumor types based on genomic information is important. As DNA microarray studies produce a large amount of data, expression data are highly redundant ...
An integrated model of choices and response times in absolute identification

Brown S; Marley Anthony; Donkin C; Heathcote A (American Psychological Association, 2008)

Recent theoretical developments in the field of absolute identification have stressed differences between relative and absolute processes, that is, whether stimulus magnitudes are judged relative to a shorter term context ...
An Interactive Augmented Max-Min Mcs-Rsm Method For The Multi-Objective Network Reliability Problem

Yeh Wei-Chang (Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2007)

Evaluating the network reliability is an important topic in the planning, designing, and control of systems. It is always desirable simultaneously to maximize network reliability and minimize resource consumption, e.g., ...
Inter-hemispheric electroencephalography coherence analysid: assessing brain activity during monotonous driving

Jap Budi Thomas; Lal Saroj; Fischer Peter (Elsevier, 2010)

The current study investigated the effect of monotonous driving on inter-hemispheric electroencephalography (EEG) coherence. Twenty-four non-professional drivers were recruited to perform a fatigue instigating monotonous ...
Inverted-U Effects generalize to the judgment of subjective properties of faces

Mignault Alain; Marley Anthony; Chaudhuri Avi (Psychonomic Society, 2008)

Researchers studying absolute identification have long known that it takes more time to identify a stimulus in the middle of a range than one at the extremes. That is, there is an inverted-U relation between mean response ...
Investigating motivation in context: developing sociocultural perspectives

Pressick-Kilborn Kimberley; Arnold Lynette; Walker Richard; Sainsbury Erica (Human Kinetics Publ Inc, 2005)

Motivation is increasingly recognized as contextually situated, and this recognition has led to considerable research into motivation in authentic learning environments such as classrooms. Developing sociocultural ...
Is absolute identification always relative? Comment on Stewart, Brown, and Chater (2005)

Brown S; Marley Anthony; Lacouture Y (American Psychological Association, 2007)

N. Stewart, G. D. A. Brown, and N. Chater's (2005) relative judgment model includes three core assumptions that enable it to predict accurately the vast majority of ¿classical¿ phenomena in absolute identification choices, ...
It's a Child's Game: Investigating Cognitive Development with Playing Robots

Johansson Birger; Balkenius Christian (IEEE, 2005)

To study and simulate cognitive development, it is useful to find a natural domain where many cognitive functions are needed and, but where the complexity of the environment and task is reasonable. We suggest that childrens ...
'It's a personal thing' volunteer motivation across two generations in a Sydney area health service - implications for management

Green Jennifer; Blackett Denise (Blackwell Publishing, 2003)

This paper reports on a small qualitative study conducted with 30 volunteers from an Area Health Service in the northern suburbs of Sydney. The study was designed to ascertain the ways in which the motivation of hospital ...
It's beyond water: Stories of women's experience of using water for labour and birth

Maude R; Foureur Maralyn (Elsevier, 2005)

Purpose: This study aimed to give ‘voice’ to women’s experiences of using water for labour and birth. Participants: Five women from a large urban region in New Zealand, who used water for labour and birth, at home and ...

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