The relationship between children's learning through music and the use of...
This paper explores the themes of early childhood music and the use of technology. In this research the researchers observed that technology played an important role in many of the events recorded....
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This study investigated whether age and its associated implicit memory deficits influences responses to contextual television advertising. Prior exposure to the advertised product or brand during a...
View ArticleConsequences of inconsistently classifying woodland birds
There is a longstanding debate regarding the need for ecology to develop consistent terminology. On one hand, consistent terminology would aid in synthesizing results between studies and ease...
View ArticleProbabilistic models for curvature ductility and moment redistribution of RC...
It is generally accepted that, in the interest of safety, it is essential to provide a minimum level of flexural ductility, which will allow energy dissipation and moment redistribution as required. If...
View ArticleTweeting, friending, reporting: Social media use among journalism academics,...
This reflective article describes and analyses the use of Facebook and Twitter over a five-year timeframe by two journalism academics in Australia, whose industry and research expertise are in the...
View ArticleImpression management through minimal narrative disclosure in annual reports
The literature on the impression management of discretionary narrative disclosures has largely focused on selectivity in the presentation and content of information. We argue that selectivity involves...
View ArticleReference points as information frames
In order to study the idea of a context provided by an informed principal I propose the idea of an information frame. An information frame controls the nature of information that the agent has access...
View ArticleIn Press - Chronotopes and timespace contexts: academic identity work...
In this paper, academic identity work is explored through an examination of its portrayal in a work of narrative fiction using a conceptual tool from literary studies. It is found that such an approach...
View ArticleReconciling the tension between consistency and relevance: design thinking as...
In order to sustain and grow brand equity, brand managers are faced with balancing the preservation of existing brand identity through consistency with the need to maintain relevance, which requires...
View ArticleWomen's relationships with their own mothers in the early motherhood period
The aim of this paper is to explore women's experiences of their relationship with their own mother in the early motherhood period. Method: van Manen's phenomenological approach was used for this...
View ArticleHow in-store educational and entertaining events influence shopper satisfaction
While recent years have seen an increased use of educational and entertaining events within the store environment, little seems known about how consumers value such events. This study investigates how...
View Article(In Press) Beyond advocacy: making space for conservation scientists in...
The topic of advocacy by scientists has been debated for decades, yet there islittle agreement about whether scientists can or should be advocates. The fearof crossing a line into advocacy continues to...
View Article(In Press) Diet, behavior and immunity across the lifespan
It is increasingly appreciated that perinatal events can set an organism on a life-long trajectory for either health or disease, resilience or risk. One early life variable that has proven critical for...
View ArticleRandom weighting estimation of kinematic model error for dynamic navigation
This paper presents a new random weighting method to deal with the systematic error of the kinematic model for dynamic navigation. This method incorporates random weights in the kinematic model to...
View Article(In Press) A reliability-augmented particle filter for magnetic...
Using magnetic field data as fingerprints for smartphone indoor positioning has become popular in recent years. Particle filter is often used to improve accuracy. However, most of existing particle...
View ArticleDetection of opinion spam based on anomalous rating deviation
The publication of fake reviews by parties with vested interests has become a severe problem for consumers who use online product reviews in their decision making. To counter this problem a number of...
View ArticleInvestment planning in the petroleum downstream infrastructure
The Brazilian oil industry has gained new momentum after the discovery of large oil reserves in deep under-water. Numerous investments in the oil production chain are expected to support the scale of...
View Article(In Press) Why do firms pay stock dividends: Is it just a stock split
This paper examines why firms choose to pay stock dividends. Using a sample of listed Chinese firms we find that older, more profitable firms with lower leverage, higher levels of retained earnings,...
View ArticleInvestor heterogeneity and commonality in stock return and liquidity
This paper examines how the trading activities of different investor types are related to common return and liquidity movements. Using a unique dataset, we decompose the daily return and liquidity of...
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