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Publication date: 1 August 1997

Marianne Morgan and Ian Griffiths

Competitive pricing is dominating the commercial aircraft market, and greater cost efficiency is a key demand on designers, providing in particular an emphasis on metal to plastic…

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Competitive pricing is dominating the commercial aircraft market, and greater cost efficiency is a key demand on designers, providing in particular an emphasis on metal to plastic conversion for lost cost assembly. Victrex Peek polymer is one of the first materials to be evaluated for metal to plastic conversion. Describes the product in detail, in particular its high and added value, the design fit and performance contribution, savings made, and utilization in the manufacture of fasteners.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 69 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0002-2667

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Publication date: 1 February 1993

Ian Griffith

Asserts that by marketing quality, organisations can better ensure that their customers get both the product and standard of service they really require. Contends that many…

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Asserts that by marketing quality, organisations can better ensure that their customers get both the product and standard of service they really require. Contends that many organisations are driving quality through a production orientation rather than through the eyes of customers, and that marketing quality is the competitive edge in TQM. Asserts that marketing and sales people need to accept that a systematic and disciplined approach is the right way forward. Concludes that marketing and quality must come together if organisations are to succeed in an increasingly competitive marketplace.

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The TQM Magazine, vol. 5 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0954-478X

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Publication date: 6 May 2014

Dr Ian Davis

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Qualitative Research Journal, vol. 14 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1443-9883

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Publication date: 4 November 2014

Ian Davis

The purpose of this paper is to explore how fictional narratives help us envision ways of constructing the identity as teaching professionals. Furthermore, how encounters with…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to explore how fictional narratives help us envision ways of constructing the identity as teaching professionals. Furthermore, how encounters with fictional narratives and the absorption of their structures and ideologies can dictate how the author perceive ourselves, and others.

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The pedagogy of teacher education relies heavily on narratised models of instruction such as Critical Reflective Practice (CRP). The purposefully traumatic aspects of CRP are designed to trouble the sense of self. I suggest here that this creates a period of subjective vulnerability in the pre-service teacher practitioner.

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This paper examines the response to traumatic learning events focusing on how literary tropes and their encompassing ideologies become a powerful yet regressive force in restabilising the professional identity and galvanising the personal subjectivity.

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Data for this paper has been drawn from the Teaching Men research project that focused on a cohort of male teachers, from Australia and the UK working within TAFE/FE environments all of whom had recently become teachers.

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This paper addresses a parallel concern: at a point of subjective vulnerability, a term coined as part of this analysis, how do fictional representations of male teachers impact on the construction and practice of teachers in the development of their professional identities? And how can the author devise a structure with which to interpret such activity?

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Qualitative Research Journal, vol. 14 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1443-9883

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Publication date: 1 February 1979

M.E. Evans

The library implemented its circulation system, based on a Plessey light pen system Model 1A (SPC) and the university's Decsystem‐10 computer, in the summer of 1977. A hybrid…

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The library implemented its circulation system, based on a Plessey light pen system Model 1A (SPC) and the university's Decsystem‐10 computer, in the summer of 1977. A hybrid system was developed where the library's off‐line package system captured the data onto magnetic tape and this was used to create disc files on the main frame computer, the files then being accessed on‐line in the library. The library's requirements and the system developed are described, and full costs of the project detailed.

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Program, vol. 13 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0033-0337

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Publication date: 1 September 1985

The training division of the Institute of Marketing is being restructured under the title of IM Marketing Training to provide a comprehensive range of training services to meet…

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The training division of the Institute of Marketing is being restructured under the title of IM Marketing Training to provide a comprehensive range of training services to meet the growing demand for marketing training at all levels of management throughout the whole of industry and commerce. Three divisions will operate:

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Education + Training, vol. 27 no. 9
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 22 April 2015

Jessica S. Bean

This paper uses newly compiled data from two surveys of female home workers undertaken by the Women’s Industrial Council in London in 1897 and 1907 to investigate various issues…

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This paper uses newly compiled data from two surveys of female home workers undertaken by the Women’s Industrial Council in London in 1897 and 1907 to investigate various issues related to their work and wages. The reports detail the occupations, average weekly earnings and hours, marital status, and household size, composition, and total income of approximately 850 female home workers, offering a unique, and as yet unused, opportunity to explore the labor market characteristics of the lowest-paid workers in the early twentieth century. Analysis of the data reveals that the female home workers who were surveyed were drawn overwhelmingly from poor households. Home workers were older than female factory workers, most were married or widowed, and the majority of married workers reported that their husbands were out of work, sick, disabled, or in casual or irregular work. Weekly wages and hours of work varied considerably by industry, but averaged about 7–9s. and 40–45 hours per week, with many workers reporting the desire for more work. The relationship between hours of work (daily and weekly) and hourly wages was negative, and the wives and daughters of men who were out of the labor force due to unemployment or illness tended to work longer hours at lower wages, as did women who lived in households where some health issue was present. These findings lend support to contemporary perceptions that women driven into the labor force by immediate household need were forced to take the lowest-paid work, whether because they lacked skill and experience or bargaining power in the labor market.

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Research in Economic History
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ISBN: 978-1-78441-782-6

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Publication date: 30 December 2004

William MacNeil

This article1 is offered up in the spirit of what the High Kings of Gondor might call a weregild.2 That is, I hope, in this article, to clear a debt: a debt, long overdue, much…

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This article1 is offered up in the spirit of what the High Kings of Gondor might call a weregild.2 That is, I hope, in this article, to clear a debt: a debt, long overdue, much like that owed by the Armies of the Dead to Isildur’s heir, Aragorn son of Arathorn. I reference The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Tolkien, 1994) because this article is, in the main, about Tolkien and his oeuvre as an astonishing instance of what might be called lex populi. But this article attempts more than just another cultural legal reading of a popular literary and cinematic phenomenon.3 What, in fact, it proposes is nothing less than a practical demonstration of what it means to read jurisprudentially. In so doing, I hope to repay some of the theoretical debt that jurisprudence (and law-and-literature) has incurred, and owes so clearly to literary criticism, cultural studies and Continental philosophy. For far too long jurisprudence has been content to absorb the lessons of these other disciplines’ versions of textual theory – of the play of the sign, the dissemination of meaning, the deconstruction of logos – without propounding its own topoi let alone interpretive paradigms. Such topoi, of course, jurisprudence has in abundance: in notions of a “higher justice”; in concepts of law’s connection with morality; and, especially, the law’s role in inaugurating “the social.”

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Aesthetics of Law and Culture: Texts, Images, Screens
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-84950-304-4

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Publication date: 22 June 2023

Ian Steel and Allan Discua Cruz

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Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Responsible Consumption and Production
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-80455-843-0

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Publication date: 5 June 2019

Patricia David, Sharyn Rundle-Thiele and Jason Ian Pallant

Behavioural change practice has focussed attention on understanding behaviour; failing to apply dynamic approaches that capture the underlying determinants of behavioural change…

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Purpose

Behavioural change practice has focussed attention on understanding behaviour; failing to apply dynamic approaches that capture the underlying determinants of behavioural change. Following recommendations to direct analytical focus towards understanding both the causal factors of behaviour and behavioural change to enhance intervention practice, this paper aims to apply a hidden Markov model (HMM) approach to understand why people transition from one state to another (e.g. reporting changes from wasting food to not wasting food or vice versa).

Design/methodology/approach

Data were drawn from a 2017 food waste programme that aimed to reduce waste of fruit and vegetables by increasing self-efficacy through a two-week pilot, featuring recipes and in-store cooking demonstrations. A repeated measure longitudinal research design was used. In total, 314 households completed a phone survey prior to the two-week pilot and 244 completed the survey in the weeks following the intervention (77% retention in the evaluation study).

Findings

Two behavioural states were identified, namely, fruit and vegetable (FV) wasters and non-FV wasters. Age was identified as a causal factor for FV food wasting prior to the campaign (45-54 years were most likely to waste FV). Following the intervention, a total of 43.8% transitioned away from FV wasters to non-wasters, and attitudes and self-efficacy were indicated as potential causal factors of this change in FV waste behaviour.

Originality/value

Through this application, it is demonstrated how HMM can identify behavioural states, rates of behaviour change and importantly how HMM can identify both causal determinants of behaviour and behavioural change. Implications, limitations and future research directions are outlined.

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Journal of Social Marketing, vol. 9 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2042-6763

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