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Publication date: 1 March 2014

Rebecca Stobaugh and S. Kay Gandy

A significant number of inventions and innovations appeared during the time known as the Industrial Revolution. Changes in technology quickly transformed American life in the past…

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A significant number of inventions and innovations appeared during the time known as the Industrial Revolution. Changes in technology quickly transformed American life in the past and continue to impact businesses, communities, and schools today. Technologies like Skype™, Prezi®, and Poll Everywhere™ provide new methods for engaging students in learning and assess their understanding of content. Each of these technologies is free and can be used in one-computer classrooms or computer labs. These technologies can enhance the learning experience by engaging students in critical thinking and collaboration, allowing real-world applications of the content, and profiling various perspectives while utilizing digital tools that captivate students’ interests. We showcase a myriad of ways that these technologies can be seamlessly integrated into a social studies unit on Industrialization.

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Social Studies Research and Practice, vol. 9 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1933-5415

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Publication date: 1 December 2005

Vladimir Stevanovic, Colin Feek and Rebecca Kay

The paper aims to outline benchmarking and performance monitoring practice developed by the New Zealand Health Information Service at a diagnosis‐related group (DRG) level.

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Purpose

The paper aims to outline benchmarking and performance monitoring practice developed by the New Zealand Health Information Service at a diagnosis‐related group (DRG) level.

Design/methodology/approach

The indicators are calculated from the routine hospital discharge data in the National Minimum Dataset. The benchmarks are set at either the 20th or 80th centile as a cut‐point that can alert to possible issues or a target for which to aim. Benchmarks can be used to highlight variations by making comparisons with other health‐care providers or the same provider over time.

Findings

This approach provides an indication of which DRGs and outcome variables may be worth looking at in more detail. Using comparative measures across providers allows the identification of areas of health care with the most potential for gain.

Practical implications

There is strong evidence of changed clinical practice and improved health outcomes following systematic evaluation of some patient management practices.

Originality/value

This overview of benchmarking practice using routine data with some distinctive features would be of interest to those with similar undertakings.

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Benchmarking: An International Journal, vol. 12 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1463-5771

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Publication date: 1 June 2012

Heidi Hanson

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Library Hi Tech News, vol. 29 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0741-9058

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Publication date: 9 June 2023

Susan Kay-Flowers

Using Lundy's model (2007), this chapter adopts a child-centred approach to discuss decision-making in relation to designing a study which aimed to amplify childhood voices of…

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Using Lundy's model (2007), this chapter adopts a child-centred approach to discuss decision-making in relation to designing a study which aimed to amplify childhood voices of parental separation (Kay-Flowers, 2019). It examines the role of young people in designing and co-producing the research tools, specifically designed to give voice to childhood experiences of parental separation and divorce. It explains how the research findings were shared with different audiences and reflects on the effectiveness of the approaches taken.

The chapter starts by outlining the four elements of ‘space’, ‘voice’, ‘audience’ and ‘influence’ in Lundy's model (2007) before going on to identify the gap in existing research on children's experience of parental separation and divorce, explaining why their voices need to be heard.

A focus group of young people were involved in designing the study. Finding current methods unsuitable for addressing the research question, they co-produced new research tools specifically designed for the study, alongside the researcher, in a process known as bricolage. The chapter explains the processes involved in creating the bricolage and describes the newly created research tools which were an online questionnaire and Prompt Simulation Video (PSV).

The last part of the chapter explains how ‘audience’ and ‘influence’ informed decision-making about how the study's findings could be presented to amplify childhood voices of parental separation and divorce, to ensure they were heard by different audiences of academics, practitioners, parents, public and children. It concludes with consideration of the effectiveness of this approach.

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Establishing Child Centred Practice in a Changing World, Part B
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-80455-941-3

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Publication date: 17 January 2025

Russell Nelson, Jack Werner, Rebecca Daniels, Michael G. Kay, Russell E. King, Brandon M. McConnell and Kristin Thoney-Barletta

The purpose of this paper is to improve the air movement operations planning heuristic in the literature to generate better solutions in a shorter time period.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to improve the air movement operations planning heuristic in the literature to generate better solutions in a shorter time period.

Design/methodology/approach

Through a rigorous design of experiments (DOEs), we make significant heuristic improvements by evaluating alternative modular methodologies and tuning heuristic parameters for two scenarios. This includes a new approach to considering refueling operations.

Findings

We find the fine-tuned heuristic averages a 33% objective improvement and 70% reduction in computation time over the heuristic with original parameters for one of the scenarios. Additionally, we analyze the heuristic's quality of solution over time.

Research limitations/implications

Further analysis is required to generalize heuristic settings, which would require significant access to operational data or a portfolio of scenarios of interest.

Practical implications

Tuned heuristic parameters reduce the computation time from hours to minutes. This also makes it practically feasible to adjust parameters in the objective function to generate multiple courses of action (COAs) for a given instance.

Originality/value

This research provides novel vehicle assignment and routing heuristic improvement alternatives and demonstrates a DOEs-based heuristic tuning procedure.

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Journal of Defense Analytics and Logistics, vol. ahead-of-print no. ahead-of-print
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2399-6439

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Publication date: 1 January 1999

William Griffiths and Ma. Rebecca Valenzuela

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Messy Data
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-0-76230-303-8

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Publication date: 28 June 2019

Rebecca Rose Conway, Bhathika Perera, Ken Courtenay, Spyros Tsolakidis and Sheetal Gopal

Research highlights that antipsychotic medications are prescribed more in people with Intellectual Disability (ID) without a diagnosis of severe mental illness. Despite…

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Research highlights that antipsychotic medications are prescribed more in people with Intellectual Disability (ID) without a diagnosis of severe mental illness. Despite non-pharmacological interventions recommended as alternatives, their application can be challenging due to heterogeneity of the patient group. The purpose of this paper is to discuss application of quality improvement (QI) methodology in adapting interventions, aiming to reduce challenging behaviour of people with ID, thereby reducing use of antipsychotic medication.

Design/methodology/approach

Two interventions were introduced as “tests of change”; an “Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) clinic” and “Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) clinic”. Process (Clinical Global Impression (CGI) and Modified Overt Aggression Scale (MOAS)) and outcome measures (total antipsychotic use) were used to assess the interventions, with each being reviewed as per QI methodology guidelines.

Findings

There was an improvement in CGI scores for both interventions. MOAS scores reduced for those attending the ADHD clinic, resulting in reductions of antipsychotic medication. MOAS scores did not reduce for the PBS clinic, so there was no reduction in medication for this group.

Originality/value

Based on the introduction of pilot clinics, this paper provides a commentary on how QI interventions can be used to evaluate and adapt evidence-based interventions, in managing the needs of patients with ID. It further highlights the importance of the diagnosis of ADHD in patients with ID and challenging behaviour. Although PBS is recommended to manage challenging behaviour, this paper demonstrates the importance of continuous evaluation of behavioural interventions. There is currently no existing literature investigating use of QI methodology to reduce challenging behaviour in ID populations, emphasising scope for future research and service evaluation.

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Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, vol. 13 no. 3/4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2044-1282

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Publication date: 30 July 2019

Renata Moreno, Leonardo Marques and Rebecca Arkader

In recent years, “servitization” has been studied extensively; however, as studies of the impact of servitization on firm performance offer mixed results, the conditions under…

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In recent years, “servitization” has been studied extensively; however, as studies of the impact of servitization on firm performance offer mixed results, the conditions under which the relationship between servitization and performance becomes more significant are contested in the literature. These mixed results have led to the term “service paradox.” The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach

This study investigates servitization in the assembly industry based on a multi-country survey covering 539 industry plants in 22 countries.

Findings

The study contributes to the research on servitization by adding a contextual perspective to this relationship, taking into account level of development of the country in which a firm is located. Besides confirming the correlation between the servitization and performance, our study unveils a counter-intuitive result: a medium level of development of the country in which a firm is based corresponds to a stronger relationship between servitization and firm performance, whereas higher levels of development seem to diminish the increase in performance.

Social implications

This study balances out the focus in servitization on advanced economies and help to unveil its benefits in developing countries. Fostering servitization in developing economies can lead to social impact resulting from job shifts from manufacturing to service and the correlated implications for workers’ training and higher motivation experienced in service-based jobs.

Originality/value

Our study unpacks the “service paradox” and indicates that industry plants in developing countries can still harness the benefits of being first-movers, whereas, in developed countries, servitization may have become an order qualifier rather than a factor of differentiation.

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Benchmarking: An International Journal, vol. 27 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1463-5771

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Publication date: 1 February 2001

Kay Covert

Powerful results can be achieved when librarians combine their knowledge access skills with the OCLC (Online Computer Library Centre) CORC (Cooperative Online Resource Catalogue…

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Powerful results can be achieved when librarians combine their knowledge access skills with the OCLC (Online Computer Library Centre) CORC (Cooperative Online Resource Catalogue) service. As a state‐of‐the‐art Web‐based metadata creation system, CORC is optimised for creating bibliographic records and pathfinders (subject bibliographies) for electronic resources. CORC has evolved from an idea in OCLC’s Office of Research through system development, to a core OCLC product offering in less than two years. As CORC use steadily increases worldwide, librarians continually find innovative ways to incorporate the service into their library workflow. Details about the OCLC CORC service, and examples of how three libraries are using CORC, are given. This is just the beginning for this cornerstone of OCLC’s strategic plan.

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Online Information Review, vol. 25 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1468-4527

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Publication date: 24 November 2022

Rebecca Feasey

Although there are a number of hybrid tropes and cross-over conventions that relate to contemporary action cinema, broken down to its most rudimentary components, the genre places…

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Although there are a number of hybrid tropes and cross-over conventions that relate to contemporary action cinema, broken down to its most rudimentary components, the genre places its cinematic hero in scenes of ritualised violence or conflict, with the intent of showcasing both athletic mastery and aesthetically pleasing physiques for interested and invested audiences. In as much as it is difficult to define the contemporary genre, the role of the action hero is clear in all permutations. Indeed, there is little question or query about who or what makes for a popular and long-standing action star. After all, names such as Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Statham have become inextricably linked to the genre in question. While there is much to consider here in relation to the muscles and power of these hard-bodied heroes in sweaty vests or form fitting t-shirts, there is another iteration of masculinity, a different and more agile physique, a more refined sartorial code, that has quietly overtaken these macho figures as the site of contemporary action, and that figure is Keanu Reeves. With this in mind, this chapter will examine the ways in which popular media reviewers foreground star image, acting, movement, the body and performance in order to position Reeves as an action star removed from the physical excesses of bulkier, slower and less agile men who continue to perform in the genre around him.

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Gender and Action Films 1980-2000
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-80117-506-7

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