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Publication date: 7 June 2011

Brian T. Johnstone

This paper aims to provide an overview of the Boopsie product for creation of a mobile device application for deployment on all major mobile devices.

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Purpose

This paper aims to provide an overview of the Boopsie product for creation of a mobile device application for deployment on all major mobile devices.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper reviews the experience of implementing this mobile app product at Bucks County Community College Library, including interfacing with the integrated library system and preexisting web‐based services.

Findings

Implementation of this product was done with ease, a minimum of staff time and was affordable. Usage is dispersed across a variety of mobile device networks.

Practical implications

Readers will understand how this product is utilized at Bucks and will see how this fits into an overall strategy of creating a sense of place for the mobile learner.

Originality/value

Libraries will be able to determine whether this service will be of benefit to their users.

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Library Hi Tech News, vol. 28 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0741-9058

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Publication date: 4 October 2013

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The Development of Higher Education in Africa: Prospects and Challenges
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ISBN: 978-1-78190-699-6

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Publication date: 7 October 2024

Robert McLean, Chris Holligan and Michael Pugh

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The Contemporary History of Drug-Based Organised Crime in Scotland
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ISBN: 978-1-83549-652-7

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Publication date: 30 December 2021

Jessica Cartwright, Daniel Lawrence and Christopher Hartwright

This study aimed to explore how forensic mental health service users make sense of their past adverse experiences. Secondly, it aimed to explore whether service users considered…

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Purpose

This study aimed to explore how forensic mental health service users make sense of their past adverse experiences. Secondly, it aimed to explore whether service users considered their adverse experiences to be related to their current stay in a forensic mental health setting.

Design/methodology/approach

Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to analyse interviews with eight service users in low and medium secure care. Six of the participants were male and two were female.

Findings

Four super-ordinate themes emerged from the data: “Living amongst adversity”; “Managing adverse experiences”; “Making sense of going into secure care”; and “Coping with the past in the present”. All participants referred to multiple adverse experiences throughout their lives and used harmful coping strategies to manage these. Individual differences in how they related their past experiences to their detention in secure care were evident.

Practical implications

Author guidelines state that this section is optional. Implications for clinical practice are discussed at length in the discussion section.

Originality/value

This study offers an insight into the way in which forensic mental health service users make sense of their past traumas in relation to their current admission to secure services. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, no research has previously addressed this from the perspective of service users.

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The Journal of Forensic Practice, vol. 24 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2050-8794

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Publication date: 20 January 2023

Brian Harney

There can be little doubt that the risk and fluctuation of demand taken on by employers has been increasingly passed onto employees. We are witnessing a fragmented contract of…

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There can be little doubt that the risk and fluctuation of demand taken on by employers has been increasingly passed onto employees. We are witnessing a fragmented contract of rules largely determined by employers, for employers. Here the conventional form of employment relations is non-unionism and the management of employees through Human Resource Management (HRM). This chapter critically reviews the underlying assumptions underpinning the rise of HRM, not least its unitarist undercurrent, narrow emphasis on performance and limited incorporation of multiple stakeholders. The chapter then uses Amazon as an exemplary case to illuminate these dynamics in practice and to offer a critical review of what constitutes a meaningful and successful organisation in this new era of work. The chapter concludes by detailing prospects for redress and institutional experimentation, including via technological platforms.

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Protecting the Future of Work: New Institutional Arrangements for Safeguarding Labour Standards
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-80071-248-5

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Publication date: 1 May 2001

Shirley Prendergast, Gillian A. Dunne and David Telford

Suggests that research specifically at the homeless lesbian, gay or bisexual person is sparse. Presents some of the stories found from interviewing 19 cases within their category…

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Suggests that research specifically at the homeless lesbian, gay or bisexual person is sparse. Presents some of the stories found from interviewing 19 cases within their category. Shows that whilst the samples share characteristics with other homeless groups that can also be characterised in four distinct ways based on their sexuality. Looks at each group in turn. Highlights that whilst sexuality is often portrayed as one more disadvantage to deal with, it can become a way to inclusion. Cites some examples.

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International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, vol. 21 no. 4/5/6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0144-333X

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Publication date: 20 September 2023

Matthew D. Crook, Tamara A. Lambert, Brian R. Walkup and James D. Whitworth

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact hosting the Super Bowl has on audit completion and financial reporting timeliness for companies headquartered in Super Bowl…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact hosting the Super Bowl has on audit completion and financial reporting timeliness for companies headquartered in Super Bowl hosting cities.

Design/methodology/approach

Using 16 years of financial reporting data, this study uses the Super Bowl and related activities, combined with required filings during “busy season,” as a natural experiment to examine how audit firms navigate short-term, exogenously imposed but anticipated, audit team capacity constraints.

Findings

Companies headquartered in a city hosting the Super Bowl, during busy season, have longer audit report lags (by approximately three days, in comparison to non-hosting busy season audits) and less timely securities and exchange commission (SEC) (10-K) filings. The authors find no evidence that Super Bowl hosting affects audit fees or earnings announcement timeliness.

Practical implications

When confronted with anticipated capacity shocks, audit firms take longer to complete the audit, absorbing the financial costs of the delay and maintaining audit quality, resulting in less timely financial reporting.

Originality/value

This study demonstrates the costs of Super Bowl-related inefficiencies and contributes to our understanding of how auditors navigate capacity shocks. This study provides evidence that auditors can effectively manage business risk and continue to facilitate providing timely and accurate information to financial statement users in the face of a capacity shock.

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Managerial Auditing Journal, vol. 38 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0268-6902

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Publication date: 13 September 2017

Marsha B. Keune, Timothy M. Keune and Linda A. Quick

Voluntary changes in accounting principle represent explicit and fundamental decisions by managers to exercise accounting discretion. This paper develops an organizing framework…

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Voluntary changes in accounting principle represent explicit and fundamental decisions by managers to exercise accounting discretion. This paper develops an organizing framework to review prior literature on voluntary changes, provides descriptive insights on contemporary changes, and identifies opportunities for future research on voluntary changes. The voluntary change literature is robust and has examined many questions using data prior to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX). We find that contemporary voluntary changes often vary across the pre-SOX, post-SOX, and post-SFAS No. 154 periods by the materiality of their income effect, issue type, and justifications provided by managers, suggesting that manager use of voluntary changes has evolved over time. Our future research opportunities consider potential determinants of voluntary changes including strategic incentives, environmental conditions, and manager characteristics, as well as the potential direct or moderating role of corporate governance and auditors on manager use of voluntary changes. They also consider user reactions to voluntary changes. By providing insight into both extant voluntary change research and the contemporary use of voluntary changes, our study informs standards setters who grant managers the ability to exercise this form of accounting discretion, as well as researchers who plan to study accounting choice through voluntary changes.

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Journal of Accounting Literature, vol. 39 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0737-4607

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Publication date: 13 July 2019

Daniel A. Street and Dana R. Hermanson

This paper reviews academic literature related to the consequences that outside directors and boards may face in the wake of earnings restatements and suggests directions for…

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This paper reviews academic literature related to the consequences that outside directors and boards may face in the wake of earnings restatements and suggests directions for future research. We examine loss of board seats; recruitment of new directors; proxy recommendations and shareholder support; pre-emptive director departures; director wealth effects; director reputation, litigation, and sanction risks; international evidence; and legal proposals for reform. The overall picture that emerges from the literature is that directors’ primary risk in the wake of earnings restatements is loss of board seats, in part through adverse proxy advisor recommendations and reduced shareholder support. Directors typically face little risk of legal liability or SEC sanctions, and some directors pre-emptively leave a problem company’s board and reduce their loss of interlocked board seats. Some legal scholars have called for director liability to be increased so as to promote more vigilant board oversight. Companies often focus on increasing the independence of the board in the wake of a restatement in an effort to repair organizational reputation. While researchers have revealed a host of important findings to date, much more can be learned about the effects of restatements on outside directors and boards.

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Journal of Accounting Literature, vol. 43 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0737-4607

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Publication date: 1 January 1973

BRIAN W. CARSS

The application of mathematical model‐building in educational research and planning is a very recent development. Planners have found that their ad hoc trend analysis procedures…

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The application of mathematical model‐building in educational research and planning is a very recent development. Planners have found that their ad hoc trend analysis procedures are not good enough to accommodate a very rapidly changing system. The multiregression model proposed in this paper has been derived from the class of straightforward least‐squares applications of the general linear model, without any built‐in statistical tests. The procedure used is a data search procedure in which the intent is to evaluate a number of variables substantively, rather than in terms of formal statistical procedures. The resulting multiregression model appears to be an excellent predictor of enrolment patterns in that it accounts for 99.49 per cent of the variance of the criterion variable. Its application in this example can be likened to a “moving least squares” model.

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Journal of Educational Administration, vol. 11 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0957-8234

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