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Publication date: 1 August 1996

Ros Weston

Summarizes the author’s view that the pressures of our culture serve to make us suppress our feelings, sometimes to the point of numbness. Describes the cultural changes that the…

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Summarizes the author’s view that the pressures of our culture serve to make us suppress our feelings, sometimes to the point of numbness. Describes the cultural changes that the author believes need to come about before schools can become truly “health promoting”. Provides an exercise for use with children or adults to help them get in touch with their feelings. Lists children’s books recommended for use in schools which will help teachers tackle these issues.

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Health Education, vol. 96 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0965-4283

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Publication date: 1 April 1996

Thelma Dines, Rosemary Cornish and Ros Weston

Examines what is known about the health education needs of young men and reports on two small qualitative studies which explored young men’s perceptions of their health education…

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Examines what is known about the health education needs of young men and reports on two small qualitative studies which explored young men’s perceptions of their health education needs. Suggests that because health education is often designed and delivered by women, it may not take account of those issues that young men deem to be important. In the studies described, the young men interviewed expressed as needs topics which should have been delivered within the school curriculum. Concludes that young men need some guidance on what their health education needs are; otherwise important topics will be omitted. Recommends that in‐service training should be offered to those teaching health education and that this should include skills in working with young men. Calls for more research into this area of education.

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Health Education, vol. 96 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0965-4283

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Publication date: 1 February 1997

Ros Weston

Highlights student teachers’ fears concerning maintenance of control in the classroom and relates these to the disciplinary problems experienced by some parents with young…

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Highlights student teachers’ fears concerning maintenance of control in the classroom and relates these to the disciplinary problems experienced by some parents with young children. Urges teachers to overcome these problems by believing in children as people in their own right, by respecting children and their views and helping children to become assertive. Describes an exercise using the technique of “positive self‐talk” to address problems with discipline in the classroom.

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Health Education, vol. 97 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0965-4283

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Publication date: 1 May 1994

Jenny McWhirter and Ros Weston

Describes initial results from a study by researchers at the HealthEducation Unit at the University of Southampton to find out whatchildren aged 4 to 13 understand by “risk” and…

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Describes initial results from a study by researchers at the Health Education Unit at the University of Southampton to find out what children aged 4 to 13 understand by “risk” and “risky behaviour”. Suggests that the concept of risk as something that is positive or exciting first appears at the age of about nine – the same time at which children are perhaps most vulnerable to peer pressure and are most likely to experience their first encounters with alcohol, cigarettes and other harmful substances. Concludes that health educators need to take risk into account through practical classroom activities at the same time as imparting health knowledge and skills.

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Health Education, vol. 94 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0965-4283

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Publication date: 1 January 1994

George K. Kanaan, Kelly F. Gheyara, Jeong B. Kim and Mohamed Ibrahim

This study examines whether non‐historic income measures disclosed by a sample of Canadian firms convey information that is relevant to the evaluation of their performance. The…

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This study examines whether non‐historic income measures disclosed by a sample of Canadian firms convey information that is relevant to the evaluation of their performance. The sample firms were partitioned into several portfolios based on two firm‐specific measures which are assumed to capture input cost increases and the firm's ability to pass these increases on to its customers via higher output prices. Several groupings of the firms were performed based on various measures of non‐historic income. In general, the results of this study provide support for an association between market returns on common stock and non‐historic income measures.

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International Journal of Commerce and Management, vol. 4 no. 1/2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1056-9219

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Publication date: 18 January 2021

Cheron H. Davis, Novell E. Tani and Arie Christon

This chapter outlines the efforts of two tenure-earning faculty members in distinctly different disciplines. Those navigating through a Historically Black College and University…

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This chapter outlines the efforts of two tenure-earning faculty members in distinctly different disciplines. Those navigating through a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) context face a unique set of challenges relative to institutional infrastructure that lends support for teaching, student development, research implementation, and scholastic activities. To address these shortfalls, the authors took action by implementing a novel and collaborative course redesign. While these efforts aimed to enrich existing course instruction, develop undergraduate students' research and teaching pedagogy, and provide culturally relevant teaching services to a partnering primary education institution, early incidents that emerged from the redesign revealed the utility of affording students such as innovative research experience (RE). The authors developed the novel assignment in accordance with Florida A&M University's Quality Enhancement Program, #WriteOnFAMU, which seeks to create a culture in which students become actively engaged in their learning through writing proficiency. Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) supports high-impact practices, undergirded by multiple opportunities for students to participate in cocurricular writing opportunities.

Moreover, the cross-curricular integrative writing approach implemented by the instructors of these courses (the authors) provided students enrolled in the Colleges of Education and the College of Social Sciences, Arts, & Humanities a unique opportunity to become actively engaged in a multidisciplinary approach to learning. The assignment not only enhanced students' writing proficiency but also broadened their exposure to content area knowledge, afforded students an opportunity to synthesis materials across disciplines, and allowed for critical analysis relative to an action-based, translational RE. The collaborative research assignment entailed two major objectives: the developed project was to (1) improve elementary education preservice students' lesson plan writing and implementation proficiency and (2) develop emerging psychology students' ability to produce and implement an action-based research project within the realm of Social Psychology. Students enrolled in RED3013 (Teaching Reading and Diagnosing its Growth) and SOP3003 (Social Psychology) worked collaboratively to complete the course requirements. Throughout the chapter, the authors describe how this teaching approach aided in faculty and student development. The narrative elaborates on tenure-earning elements of teaching and service via peer collaboration. Additionally, the authors highlight the scanty resources that create pitfalls for affording students opportunities to develop as researchers.

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The Beauty and the Burden of Being a Black Professor
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-83867-267-6

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Publication date: 28 January 2014

Yung-Hsin Lee, Lily Shui-Lien Chen, I Fei Chen and Bing-Huei Lin

– The purpose of this paper is to use the Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model to evaluate the incremental performance of an eChannel addition.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to use the Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model to evaluate the incremental performance of an eChannel addition.

Design/methodology/approach

Data were collected from 53 Taiwan financial services firms. In total, 33 of them introduced their online services, whereas the other 20 firms did not introduce their online services during the period under examination.

Findings

The research findings show that firm asset values increase following eChannel additions. Thus, eChannel additions enhance firm financial performance. A further analysis comparing the performance between firms with and without eChannel additions also shows that firms with eChannel additions have higher asset value growth rates, which further validates the capacity of eChannel additions to enhance financial performance.

Practical implications

Managers and shareholders in firms making eChannel additions are not required to be concerned regarding stock price volatility, and managers in firms without any eChannel investment could use eChannels to enhance their stock price and seize future opportunities. Using eChannel is a valid approach for firms to provide enhanced services to current customers, access new markets, and extend market coverage, thus enhancing overall financial performance. Investors could confide those firms implementing eChannel additions.

Originality/value

Studies investigating whether eChannel additions enhance firm financial performance are scant. No study has evaluated performance from a long-term perspective or from a volatility aspect (both are important considerations in eChannel performance evaluation). The research represents a pioneering work that empirically investigates these issues.

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Internet Research, vol. 24 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1066-2243

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Publication date: 11 August 2023

Sami R.M. Musallam

This study aims to investigate the effect of the board of directors on financial performance, either directly or indirectly through the existence of risk management after the…

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Purpose

This study aims to investigate the effect of the board of directors on financial performance, either directly or indirectly through the existence of risk management after the issuance of the Palestinian Code on Corporate Governance (PCCG) in Palestine.

Design/methodology/approach

This study presents an empirical investigation of 31 nonfinancial Palestinian-listed companies from 2010 to 2016. This study utilizes the structural equation modeling (SEM) model.

Findings

The results of the SEM model find that there is a significant positive effect of the existence of risk management and the tenure-Chief Executive Officer (CEO) on financial performance. However, CEO duality has a significant negative effect on financial performance. The results also find that the effect of CEO duality and board size are significantly positive on financial performance through the existence of risk management.

Research limitations/implications

This study adds to the existing literature by investigating the effect of the board of directors on financial performance, either directly or indirectly through the existence of risk management in Palestine as one of the youngest stock exchanges in the region that assists in testing the validity of agency theory in a young and small emerging Islamic market context.

Practical implications

The results of this paper are significant to shareholders and managers of companies to make proper choices in order to secure the interests of stakeholders and increase the flow of capital and foreign investment.

Originality/value

To the best of the authors’ knowledge, it is one of the first papers to investigate the effect of the board of directors and financial performance, either directly or indirectly through the existence of risk management in Palestine.

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Management & Sustainability: An Arab Review, vol. 4 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2752-9819

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Publication date: 3 April 2017

Heather M. Meyer and Nacasius U. Ujah

The decisions marketing managers make on advertising expenditures are vital to maintaining the sales and profitability of a firm. However, these decisions have not been taken into…

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Purpose

The decisions marketing managers make on advertising expenditures are vital to maintaining the sales and profitability of a firm. However, these decisions have not been taken into account to a great enough extent when determining a firm’s performance. The purpose of this paper is to better understand the marketing-finance interface and to reveal the effect marketers’ discretionary advertising expenditures can have on firm performance. In particular, the real activities method of managed earnings (ME) will be used to study this phenomenon.

Design/methodology/approach

The initial sample consisted of all the companies that appear in the North American COMPUSTAT files over the period 1970-2014. Since the focus here is on the effect of discretionary advertising expenses on firm performance, the authors restricted the samples to only include observations with advertising expenses. Therefore, the sample included 14,732 firms.

Findings

OLS regressions revealed a negative relationship between marketers’ discretionary advertising expenditures and firm performance using return on assets as a proxy for firm performance. Additional regressions displayed similar results for return on sale and return on cash adjusted asset proxies. Fixed effect and Tobit regressions also confirmed these findings. Finally, this effect was especially true for low performing firms. The economic significance of these findings on firm performance is also discussed.

Originality/value

The decisions made by marketing managers on advertising promotional efforts impact sales directly and brand equity indirectly, but they can also have an impact on firm performance. Therefore, it is important for investors to understand the level of ME in relation to marketing and advertising decisions that are taking place at their firm.

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Marketing Intelligence & Planning, vol. 35 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0263-4503

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Publication date: 8 September 2021

Francesca Loia, Nunzia Capobianco and Roberto Vona

This study aims to investigate the collective perception regarding the future of offshore platforms and frame the main categories of meanings associated by the community with the…

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Purpose

This study aims to investigate the collective perception regarding the future of offshore platforms and frame the main categories of meanings associated by the community with the investigated phenomenon.

Design/methodology/approach

A data driven approach has been conducted. The collection of the peoples’ opinions has been realized on two specific social network communities as follows: Twitter and Instagram. The text mining processes carried out a sentiment and a cluster analysis.

Findings

The sentiment analysis of the most frequent words has been shown. The following four main homogeneous categories of words are emerged in relation to the decommissioning of offshore platforms: technological areas, green governance (GG), circular economy and socio-economic sphere.

Research limitations/implications

The alternative use of the offshore platforms, including tourism initiatives, aquaculture, alternative energy generation, hydrogen storage and environmental research, could improve the resilience of communities by offering the development of new jobs and the growth of local and innovative green businesses.

Practical implications

The adoption of a circular model and GG initiatives aims to limit the input of resources and energy, minimize waste and losses, adopt a sustainable approach and realize new social and territorial value.

Originality/value

The analysis underlines the importance to adopt a systems perspective, which takes into account the social, economic and environmental system as a whole, the different phenomena that occur and the variety of categories of stakeholders, from users to local governments that participate in the territorial development.

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Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, vol. 16 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1750-6166

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