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'The importance of teamwork to organizational success in today's economy has been emphasized in literature for well over a decade. Effective teamwork can only be sustained, however, if it is [...]

'In on-demand education, students often experience problems with directing their own learning processes. A Structured Task Evaluation and Planning Portfolio (STEPP) was designed to help students develop 3 basic self-directed [...]

'In recent years, a culture of blame has arisen in certain economically advanced societies that rules out the unexpected mishap. Its nature is theorized with reference to Mary Douglas's blame [...]

'In the UK, the attainment of White graduates (as measured by the class of honours that they have been awarded) tends to be higher than that of graduates from other [...]

'This experimental study was designed to investigate whether supervision meetings, in which students receive specific advice on how to use a development portfolio to monitor their progress and plan their [...]

According to a study from Netherlands, 'The paper contributes to the understanding of the nature of local knowledge spillovers and their importance for innovation in clusters in developing countries. Using […]

'This article argues that the notion of the 'sexualization of culture' is too general to be a useful conceptual tool. The article has two main objectives,' scientists in Milton Keynes, [...]

'This article explores the political dynamics that have led to the adoption of inflation targeting in Israel, within the context of a broader process of policy paradigm shift. We consider [...]

'Third sector, or not-for-profit, organizations have been viewed in many parts of Europe as agencies that can be harnessed by public policy programmes to support the socially excluded. Within the [...]

According to a study from Milton Keynes, the United Kingdom, 'Recent academic and policy debate on innovation indicates that there has been some shift from a more traditional systems approach [...]

According to a study from Milton Keynes, the United Kingdom, 'Endothelium differentiates in response to tissue-specific signals; brain endothelium expresses tight junctions and transporters which are absent from other endothelia. [...]

According to a study from Milton Keynes, the United Kingdom, 'Within contemporary social theory and social science, urban and media studies are seen as zones of speciality, with distinctive theoretical [...]

According to a study from Milton Keynes, the United Kingdom, 'Leukocyte migration into the central nervous system (CNS) is mediated by chemokines expressed oil CNS endothelial cell surfaces. This study [...]

'The ecosystem approach and evaluation of ecosystem services is gaining increasing attention from scientists, practitioners and policy makers. An important part of this process is to establish the 'value' of [...]

'The ability to argue is an important academic goal in secondary education. This paper reports on an exploratory study which investigated how asynchronous text-based conferencing provides a new site for […]

'This article raises serious questions about the relativist approach to assessing qualitative research that has been championed by John K. Smith and various colleagues,' scientists writing in the journal Qualitative [...]

'The ''war on terror'' has triggered intense debates about the role of security and liberty, the trade-off between security and liberty, the meaning of security and the power of civil [...]

'This article analyses how the British political elite has securitised migration and asylum since 9/11 by looking at when and how parliamentary debates linked counter-terrorism to immigration and/or asylum,' researchers [...]

According to recent research from Netherlands, 'Tutors have only limited time to support students. In this paper, we discuss a model that addresses the question of how to help students [...]

According to recent research published in the journal Critical Social Policy, 'This paper reflects on one example of knowledge transfer conducted by the ESRC Identities and Social Action Programme which [...]

'Serious games open up many new opportunities for complex skills learning in higher education. The inherent complexity of such games, though, requires large efforts for their development,' researchers in Netherlands [...]

'There has been increasing interest in informal learning in recent years alongside interest in how such learning can be supported by technology. However, relatively little is known about the extent [...]

'Undergraduate students access the Internet for a range of purposes, many unrelated to their studies. Increasingly, learners are using the Internet to find information and resources for coursework, whether or [...]

'Identification of the stem cell niche is crucial for understanding the factors that regulate these cells. Rodent enteric neural crest-derived stem cells have previously been isolated by flow cytometry and [...]

'Cross-sectional study. To analyze the psychometric properties of the neck disability index ( NDI), with a special emphasis in its factor structure, and its usefulness, in a sample of patients [...]

'In this paper we review recent social science work on the issue of biosecurity and suggest ways in which geographers and social scientists can approach and intervene in current biosecurity [...]

'Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia is still influential today among right-wing (neo-) libertarian thinkers. The latter are engaged in the current debate on distributive justice, insistently defending the minimal state [...]

According to a study from Netherlands, 'Whereas product-oriented worked examples only present a problem solution, process-oriented worked examples additionally explain the rationale behind the presented solution. Given the importance of [...]

According to a study from Milton Keynes, the United Kingdom, 'This article explores an under-researched form of commercial hospitality provision by analysing the gender dynamics in the distinctive occupational setting [...]

'Examining the conception and legitimization of systems for the Prevention of crime in eighteenth-century Britain, particularly in the work of Henry Fielding and Patrick Colquhoun, I argue that the conceptualization [...]

Research findings, 'Differential expression of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor family receptor alpha-2 isoforms in rat urinary bladder and intestine,' are discussed in a new report. 'Neurturin (NTN) is a [...]

New research, 'Catecholaminergic neurons in medullary nuclei are among the post-synaptic targets of descending projections from infralimbic area 25 of the rat medial prefrontal cortex,' is the subject of a [...]

Current study results from the report, 'Action of transcription factors in the control of transferrin receptor expression in human brain endothelium,' have been published. According to a study from Milton [...]

Research findings, 'The origin and emergence of life under impact bombardment,' are discussed in a new report. 'Craters formed by asteroids and comets offer a number of possibilities as sites [...]