This study explores a reactor model designed to describe the decomposition, ignition and combustion of energetic materials in combination with real experimental data for these…
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This study explores a reactor model designed to describe the decomposition, ignition and combustion of energetic materials in combination with real experimental data for these energetic materials. Spatial uniformity is initially assumed which reduces the system of partial‐differential‐equations to a system of ordinary‐differential‐equations that can be easily solved numerically. The phase‐plane is explicitly presented and examined to illustrate how chemistry and temperature evolve in time. The computations provide an understanding of the vast different timescales that exist and illustrate the singularity structure. Following this the effect of including this chemical regime in an environment typically induced by the combustion of these materials, that is within a compressible fluid flow, is pursued.
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The text of the Dame Caroline Haslett Memorial Lecture for 1984 given to the Royal Arts Society, covering recent developments in science and engineering education and training…
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The text of the Dame Caroline Haslett Memorial Lecture for 1984 given to the Royal Arts Society, covering recent developments in science and engineering education and training opportunities for women, with particular emphasis on the achievements of 1984, the year designated Women Into Science and Engineering (WISE).
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Caroline Jennifer Mills, Christine Chapparo and Joanne Hinitt
Sensory processing difficulties can negatively affect children with autism at school. There is limited evidence to guide practice in this area. The purpose of this study is to…
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Purpose
Sensory processing difficulties can negatively affect children with autism at school. There is limited evidence to guide practice in this area. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of a sensory activity schedule (SAS) used in a school setting on task mastery and occupational performance in the classroom.
Design/methodology/approach
A randomised control trial (RCT) was conducted with 30 children to evaluate the efficacy of a school-based SAS. Children in the intervention group received SAS intervention and usual teaching. Children in the control group received only usual teaching. Outcome measures were the perceive, recall, plan and perform stage one procedural task analysis and goal attainment scaling.
Findings
Children in the intervention group demonstrated statistically significant improvements in school performance when compared with the control group in both outcome measures.
Research limitations/implications
This was a pilot study with small sample size, so results should be interpreted with caution. Further research is needed to replicate these findings.
Practical implications
A classroom-based SAS may have a positive effect on classroom performance for children with autism. This has implications for professionals who support children with autism and sensory processing difficulties in a school setting.
Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study was the first of its kind in evaluating SAS intervention in a school setting using RCT methodology.
Caroline Hollins Martin and Valerie Fleming
The purpose of this paper is to develop a psychometric scale – the birth satisfaction scale (BSS) – for assessing women's birth perceptions.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to develop a psychometric scale – the birth satisfaction scale (BSS) – for assessing women's birth perceptions.
Design/methodology/approach
Literature review and transcribed research‐based perceived birth satisfaction and dissatisfaction expression statements were converted into a scored questionnaire.
Findings
Three overarching themes were identified: service provision (home assessment, birth environment, support, relationships with health care professionals); personal attributes (ability to cope during labour, feeling in control, childbirth preparation, relationship with baby); and stress experienced during labour (distress, obstetric injuries, receiving sufficient medical care, obstetric intervention, pain, long labour and baby's health).
Research limitations/implications
Women construct their birth experience differently. Views are directed by personal beliefs, reactions, emotions and reflections, which alter in relation to mood, humour, disposition, frame of mind and company kept. Nevertheless, healthcare professionals can use BSS to assess women's birth satisfaction and dissatisfaction. Scores measure their service quality experiences.
Social implications
Scores provide a global measure of care that women perceived they received during labour.
Originality/value
Finding out more about what causes birth satisfaction and dissatisfaction helps maternity care professionals improve intra‐natal care standards and allocate resources effectively. An attempt has been made to capture birth satisfaction's generalised meaning and incorporate it into an evidence‐based measuring tool.
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The purpose of this paper is to focus on the development of FOSTER, its anticipated use and outcomes.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to focus on the development of FOSTER, its anticipated use and outcomes.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper reports on the RUBRIC project and the development of FOSTER.
Findings
The FOSTER toolkit is not a static resource, and accordingly may never reach a fully “completed” state. As the area of institutional repositories continues to develop, and further generations of appropriate solutions emerge, the FOSTER concept and later, Toolkit, will also continue to develop.
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Provides a useful discussion on the development of FOSTER.
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This article explores the little understood practice of school interior design and the manner in which school interiors give form to ideas about what the work of children and…
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This article explores the little understood practice of school interior design and the manner in which school interiors give form to ideas about what the work of children and teachers could and should look like. Its focus is a perceived link between the concepts of school work made material in the design of new twenty‐first century learning environments and those expressed in the design of Modernist progressive schools such as Richard Neutra’s Corona Ave, Elementary School, California. The article’s impetus comes from current interest in the inter‐relationship between the design of physical learning environments and pedagogy reform as governments in Australia and internationally, work to transform teaching and learning practices through innovative school building and refurbishment projects. Government campaigns, for example the UK’s Schools for the Future Program and Australia’s Victorian Schools Plan, use a promotional rhetoric that calls for the final dismantling of the cellular classroom with its industrial model of work so that ‘different pedagogical approaches and the different ways that children learn [can] be represented in the design of new learning environments’, in buildings and interiors designed to support contemporary constructivist‐inspired pedagogies.
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Mohini P. Vidwans and Rosalind H. Whiting
The purpose of this study is to explore the struggle for entry and career success of the early pioneer women accountants in Great Britain and its former colonies the USA, Canada…
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The purpose of this study is to explore the struggle for entry and career success of the early pioneer women accountants in Great Britain and its former colonies the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Design/methodology/approach
A career crafting matrix guides the analysis of historical information available on five pioneer women accountants in order to understand their success in gaining entry into the profession and their subsequent careers.
Findings
Despite an exclusionary environment, career crafting efforts coupled with family and organizational support enabled these women to become one of the first female accountants in their respective countries. Their struggles were not personal but much broader—seeking social, political, economic and professional empowerment for women.
Originality/value
This is the first paper to utilize the career crafting matrix developed from current female accountants' careers to explore careers of pioneering female accountants. It adds to the limited literature on women actors in accounting and may provide insight into approaching current forms of difference and discrimination.
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Ines Branco-Illodo, Teresa Heath and Caroline Tynan
This paper aims to examine coping approaches used by receivers to deal with failed gift experiences, thereby dealing with misperceptions between givers and receivers that could…
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Purpose
This paper aims to examine coping approaches used by receivers to deal with failed gift experiences, thereby dealing with misperceptions between givers and receivers that could affect their relationship.
Design/methodology/approach
This study uses a sequential, multimethod methodology using background questionnaires, online diary method and 27 semi-structured interviews.
Findings
Receivers cope with failed gift experiences through concealing, disclosing or re-evaluating the gift experience. These approaches encompass several coping strategies, allowing receivers to deal with their experiences in ways that help them manage their relationships with givers.
Research limitations/implications
Informants described gift experiences in their own terms without being prompted to talk about coping, thus some insights of coping with failed gifts may have been missed. Multiple data collection methods were used to minimise this limitation, and the research findings suggest new avenues for future research.
Practical implications
The present research helps retailers and brands to minimise gift failure by promoting gifts that emphasise aspects of the giver–receiver relationship, assists givers in their learning from gift failure by making them aware of the receiver’s preferences and reduces the cost of gift failure by offering further opportunities to dispose of unwanted gifts.
Originality/value
This paper contributes to the emerging topic of consumer coping by providing a novel and rounded understanding of coping in the context of failed gift events, identifying new reasons for gift failure, highlighting receivers’ ethical considerations when responding to failed gifts and proposing new insights for the coping literature.